Rolling Metal Thread 2014

Fittingly enough I was handed my first issue of LotFP in the parking lot after my first Opeth show, by JR himself. That would've been the Blackwater Park tour, Opeth's ATL debut, back before the demystification began. They did play "Advent," though; I think I may have been levitating during that one.

The tour also featured Angel Dust, who on the marquee were known as Angel Lust.

Last, this Artificial Brain thing on Profound Lore is lining up nicely along the Demilich-Gorguts-Mitochondrion axis of weird: http://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/labyrinth-constellation

a lot riff-groovier tho, and very loose guy-in-a-room feel on the drums

― j., Wednesday, 19 February 2014 23:24 (5 days ago) Permalink

vocals on track 2 sound like sméagol/gollum for a few seconds.

sounds pretty good. will give it a proper listen later.

Where my band rehearses in Oakalnd, Neurosis and Sleep share the room next to us... (they share a drummer, so why not?)
I heard Sleep in there today, which was rad cuz we don't hear much from that room that often. I go to the restroom and Pike comes in to use the sink.. I say, "you guys rehearsing, cuz if you guys get going, we'll have to stop recording this acoustic thing we're trying to do.." We both laugh, cuz lets face it, next to Jucifer they are the loudest thing doing.. He says, "naw, Its just me and Jason, we're writing some new stuff..."

Let me repeat... Sleep is writing new stuff!!! you didn't hear it from me....

In an ongoing series where I alienate former musical heroes, I got former Anthrax guitarist Dan Spitz angry at me because I called him out on his anti-vaxxer bullshit. His evidence that he was right about the link between autism and vaccines was Alex Jones, which is sad.

Supposedly I will be attending a Scott Ian spoken word performance with VIP passes. If I get to reconnect with Scott, I have an amusing story to share. Scott ain't perfect but he's not certifiably insane either.

Meanwhile guess who pled guilty...

Lambesis explained he wanted his wife dead because she was going to get up to 60-percent of his income and would not allow their children – ages 4, 8, and 10 – to go on tour with him, the deputy testified.

That monster. How dare she not want a 4 year-old going on tour with a rock band (even a "Christian" one)?

Jesus loves me, does he though?
Nine year sentence tells me "no"

This has been pressing my post-metal buttons, although I wish Mark's strings were more prominent/integral: alaskan.bandcamp.com/album/despair-erosion-loss

"Submerged" is probably my favourite.

just watched that one man metal thing. malefic loving his cat (and seemingly nothing else) won me over completely <3 I hope he finds happiness one day.

Yes... that Alaskan is rad!

xp after watching it i was poking around a bit and malefic is pretty active on the facebook page for his new project, nocturnal poisoning. he's prob not happy but it's good to see him chatting w/people.

taking a look now and he's posting clips from groundhog day!

I mean, he still sounds pretty misanthropic and depressed, but yeah, nice to see some communication happening

My cousin had to bail on Metal Church tonight at Reggies, Chicago. I'm not getting response about the VIP meet n greet tix (they were sposed to be for his b-day) on CL so if I don't get an offer by 3:30 I'll give them to the first person who responds to the ad for free.

i heard the saxophones on 'the satanist'

why didn't you guys just say 'baker street'??

THANTIFAXATH.

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/thanifaxath-song-stream

Pardon me for not providing the allure of a good description because I have no idea how to categorize these guys. "Canadian black metal" does not in any way do the job. They sound like 5 different bands, none of which sounds like the others. Somehow they make it work. Like, really well.

wow.. trippy stuff. i kinda dug it.

Thanks, antifaxath. Thantifaxath.

I like that track but I feel like the guitar sound is a little weak compared to how rough the vocals are.

Dread Sovereign, the doom band with the Primordial vocalist, can remedy all your complaints of weak guitars, then -- assuming you like crushing doom from out of the Lovecraftian abyss! I actually hadn't been expecting to like this, even more so when I saw that track length, but good googly moogly the guitar atmospherics and Nemtheanga's totally ripped voice won me over.
http://youtu.be/OUsRxh043LU

So much good stuff has come out and it's only February. By the time Vesania, Lost Soul, Triptykon, and Mayhem get here I'll be punch drunk.

I don't know if one can "more so not expect to like" something but that's 3 AM syntax fer ya. I meant the massive song length filled me with the wrong kind of dread. The, uh, non-Lovecraftian kind.

Oh yeah, that sounds pretty good! Guitar tone is insane.

thantifaxath good stuff

That Thantifaxath track is excellent. By far the most interesting song on the album, too. The rest has its moments, but has yet to grab me like that song does.

cool song

So does anyone like this Babymetal thing?

http://youtu.be/WIKqgE4BwAY

"Graduates" of J-Pop girl group idol band Sakura Gakuin doing some sort of fusion with metal. Barely out of middle school, it's kinda creepy.

I like Babymetal. The songs are catchy, and their performances aren't especially sexualized, so I don't see the creep factor.

That was some kind of Sparkle Motion Godhead right there. Yeesh. Props to the person in comments who said they should tour with Devin Townsend, though. Haha.

And

"Thantifaxath track ... the most interesting song on the album"

Yeah, I really like that Thantifaxath track too. Right up my alley.

So does anyone like this Babymetal thing?

feel like the babymetal album is funny and entertaining also mostly kinda terrible music. starts off with a ripoff of the part in metallica's "one" that everyone in the world remembers and then just kinda goes from there. there's a couple good riffs, big j-rock choruses, and a whole lot of rob zombie industro-metal, crab core breakdowns, nu metal grooves, and a song or two that might do the blood stain child trance metal better than bsc. bunch of weird outliers like reggae parts and rapping in linkin park and trap modes. it's so over the top that I can't say it isn't fun to listen to but I don't really think it's actually that good either.

live show also looks hilarious, I would prob go to this:
http://youtu.be/EKfp9aKu1Mo

Anyone recognize the metal dudes in drag in this non-metal video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfiBjK3K6tU

Mastodon?

Thantifaxath reminds me of Sweet Child O' Mine

and a song or two that might do the blood stain child trance metal better than bsc.

I refuse to be party to this blasphemy.

hahaha maybe I'm stretching, but even if it isn't "stargazer" good, "megitsune" is p damn good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK3NMZAUKGw

what can I say? v conflicted about babymetal, still trying to figure things out here.

Okay.

That's pretty good.

yeah, I'd say that's on par with most of the last BSC album, just maybe some of my standouts like "stargazer" or the opener. could do without the pig squeals... though they are funny.

Biohazard is playing Philly in a bit. Is anyone original in the band anymore?

Babymetal: I'm in.

Also, barely relevantly, the new album Shogunate Macabre by Whispered. Finnish power death metal with some Eastern folk-influences. But no babies or J-pop or dance routines.

After watching that "Death" live clip, I would greatly like to see an incarnation of Baby Metal where they're made up to look like they just crawled out of the Ringu well. Blue zombie skin, swamp hair, black marble eyes. The whole stage turned into something from Silent Hill. That would be fab.

The fact that I'm negotiating means they've already won.

Have you guys seen B.I.S.'s "Stupig"? Babymetal crossed with Atari Teenage Riot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRaMsDyW-XQ

Wow. I remember seeing ATR over 15 yrs ago when they didn't come on until 3 a.m.

Funny Lord Mantis interview. They play Chicago on Monday - http://noisey.vice.com/blog/lord-mantis-stream-body-choke-interview

Saw Madball in SF.. They played at a smaller spot than I would expect for them, but it was sold out. But I walked away from the show thinking, Hardcore is alive and well.. lots of young kids, fist flying and spin kicks, picking up change and stage diving.. It was nice to see..

Is Jute Gyte a band that plays shows, or are they/he/she a 1-member recording project?

Or both?

i thought jute gyte was just a guy but other folks here might know better

Only wonderin cos I wanna see them play live if it's a possibility.

just a guy! no live shows i think, but he does reply (very eloquently & pleasantly) to emails

http://svartidaudi.bandcamp.com/
Huge. I love the more pronounced guitar leads. Doesn't have quite the "fog-enshrouded monolith" sound of Flesh Cathedral, which will be good because I think I want to hear exactly what's going on in this.

Also there seems to be a new Sargeist album coming out on the last day of this month. I can't imagine anything topping Let the Devil In but they're welcome to try!

http://warpstone.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-phantasmancer-celestial-castle
No idea who these guys are, stumbled across their fundraising effort thing the other night and instantly liked (most of) their sound. Somewhere in the Dissection/Sacramentum/(old)Opeth/Vintersorg region. So I guess that region would be "Sweden." Anyway the album reminds me of Visions from the Spiral Generator, my fave of his. The harsh vocals sort of annoy me, though, a little too metalcore at times.

still really digging that coffin dust