Rolling Metal Thread 2014

at this point, every time there's a new metallica I just want a funny dysfunctional band therapy movie to go along with it

since my first two metallica albums were the black album and load (which was curiously enough sufficient to make me stop buying any later ones), at roughly the customary times in the mid-90s, i have never, ever, ever had any wishes about any new metallica records, it's healthy, i like it

the last album was utter shite yet because it was still better than st minger it shows how bad that album (and reload) really was

at this point it doesnt matter how shite a metallica album is
A)it will still sell more than anything that makes a magazine EOY list
B) fans/rock critic fans will still give it the old ac/dc/rem "return to form" bullshit like with death magnetic because nit even metallica could make another album as bad as St Anger.

I liked Death Magnetic a lot (still do) and can mount a solid defense for St. Anger. I feel like a lot of people have turned hating Metallica into a sport, and the vitriol is largely undeserved. Oh, they don't sound like 1986 anymore? Well, go listen to Fueled By Fire (who are actually really good) or Havok or Violator or Bonded By Blood if that's all you want out of life.

I too am always hopeful for a Metallica returning to former glory... its just not gonna happen.. Hetfield can where a vest with patches all day and try and look like he's getting back to their roots, but money changes you. Unless the go completely broke, and have to really struggle, there is no way they will ever be able to write and put out proper angst filled, pissed off real from the heart music. As you all know, this was a band that was the absolute benchmark for metal. It was always a big deal when a new record would come out.. the Black record was the last record i got excited about, and when the video for Enter Sandcrab premiered on the MTV, me and my friends looked at each other and though, what the fuck happened.. Hetfield is singing?!?!?! fuck this!!

st anger : the dvd version is fucking great ..

just watching them hit the album hard live in a small studio = amazing.

have 'watched' it a lot more than listened to the album proper ..

its not that we want em to sound like '86, thats unrealistic. Its just in their effort to try and be a force musically in heavy music, its a parody of itself. Theres like 3 songs on DM that try and recreate the fire the end of One had... its silly They use to be WAY ahead of the curve, in a brilliant way. Now, they seem to be trying to catch up, and they are old tired and rich.. "I don't need to run anymore, I can have some one drive me..."

Well said.

hey thanks!! lol

It's very rare for a band to stay on top of their game after being that successful. Could probably name a handful of bands like the Rolling Stones that haven't embarrassed themselves too badly compared to dozens of bands like Guns N Roses that have totally self-destructed.

but its the change in their formula that stopped the output of good art, for record sales, we can thank Bob Rock for that, and its been a shit storm ever since, at least for me as a fan.. They can say all day that they do what they want and they do not answer to anybody.. but we know better.

yeah, the "WRITE MASTER OF PUPPETS II" crowd represents only a small faction of old school haters. St Anger sucked because it was tuneless, a sham; they proclaimed going 'back to their roots' and released a jumbled mess of incoherent jamming whose only relation to their roots is that it was 'loud'.

Death Magnetic was a marked improvement, yes, but an overrated one. James's voice is inexcusable, the riffs forgettable, the songs ok but not memorable. I didn't hate it, I didn't love it...it was just there. Also "Unforgiven 3" sounds like STP's "Creep" in the verse.

i hope it sounds like lulu

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllll.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02240/Lulu_2240895b.jpg

so I saw Carcass the other night. they slayed, as usual. the new material sounds fantastic live. and I can't not go nuts when I hear "Reek of Putrefaction" or "Genital Grinder".

but man, the dude I saw it with was such a buzzkill. he's the stereotypical metal scenester - all the 'old' albums are the best, the new stuff sucks...with every band. he espouses such o_O opinions like "old Gorguts = boring generic death" and "Immortal have been a joke since Pure Holocaust". Whines about how he's not seeing "the original" Carcass lineup when just two months ago, he saw a version of Terrorizer with me in which the only real member was Pete Sandoval and didn't whine once.

after the show he whines that they played "Keep on Rotting in the Free World" and said Jeff Walker "screwed up some vocal patterns" on one of the songs. I'm like BRO DO YOU COME TO SHOWS TO HARSH EVERYBODY'S MELLOW? never again.

I've been lucky enough to see Carcass three times since September, and those Surgical Steel songs sound every bit as good as the old stuff. At times better.

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/food-trend-alert-artisanal-black-metal-cuisine

Our first dish, “Cut Their Grain and Place Fire Therein,” named for the Weakling song of the same name, arrived as Darkthrone’s “As Flittermice As Satans Spys” played. Naming the first course after a Weakling song was sort of a way of saying, “We know our shit.” The dish was a smoked farro salad with what I think were dandelion greens and a creamy lemon dressing. The meaty farro gave the dish a heartiness that was accented by the light bitter greens. Did the dish remind me of the frantic and frigid blasting of its namesake, menacing yet at once majestic? Not really, but it was good anyway.

I think I just made the Charlie Brown grimace-face that looks like a sine wave. What sucks is that I'm hungry now so I think I'll go eat my Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk CD booklet. It always smelled better than the others.

That reads like a computer-generated generic internet headline from... five years ago?

This looks like a fun little fest if anyone is in the area...

http://images.benchmarkemail.com/client67922/image1275023.jpg

why the fuck are Spiral Arms playing that.. they're a rock band.. its a stretch to call a stoner rock band imo

Why the fuck are MY RUIN playing that?!

Anyway, I'm probably going to cover it for a magazine, so if anybody's going, let me know.

This is just over a month away for me:

http://www.thisisnotascene.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/148623_696827717004857_859658027_n.jpg

xp going on the bands on there I'm familiar w/ I don't think it's supposed to be a stoner rock festival?

gift horse in the mouth and that but Temples being like an hour away from me kills any faint chance of the bands on it I really want to see, specifically Beastmilk/Satan's Satyrs/Blood Ceremony, doing their own shows at all nearby. have already pencilled in more full weekends of loud music and expense over the next few months than I'm totally comfortable with

Anyone liking the new Sargeist as much as me?

I've only heard the two released tracks, and while I like the songs, I can't say I'm crazy about the production. Of all the variations of "necro" or whatever production, most of which I really like, that particular "airy treble fog" is the only one that grates on me. Reminds me of IC Rex's first album -- though not to such an extreme, thank god.

Are Sargeist still doggedly pursuing straightforward orthodox black metal or is there anything that makes this one special?

Unless the rest of the album differs vastly from the tracks I've heard, then no, Sargeist are not doing anything today that they weren't doing yesterday. I still love them. And Horna. And Finland.

As long as I'm here, there's this band from Quebec doing both the dissonant death metal thing and the cavernous death metal thing -- but don't let the categorizations chase you off. The only track I've heard from them is kind of galvanizing me. One of those songs that get faster and faster and better and better so that by the end you're no longer touching the floor. Have some Phobocosm.
http://youtu.be/2gSVoTNYRLY

I think I burned out on the Finnish style a while back. I do still love Morko, but they're on some minimal drone shit.

Phobocosm track sounds GREAT. I'm such a sucker for that style right now.

Doom in June in Las Vegas has always been a doom/sludge/stoner fest.. mostly stoner actually.. from what I can remember from past line ups.
Maybe the've opened it up a bit..

Phobocosm track sounds GREAT.

OTM

really liking the Abominant album from last year

I couldn't get pass the 2 minute mark of that new Metallica song demo... DON'T put out out demos, Metallica, just don't

Very, very pleased with the new Shear album, Katharsis. Their last one made my 2012 top-10 list. Finnish gothic/progressive/power metal with more Madder Mortem than Within Temptation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnR6y7MDesY

new gridlink shreds. sounds comparably dense to the earlier material but this one is way more hooky. sick.

also, multiple tracks named after nerdy cave shmup videogames, <3 jon chang

Kim Kelly just tweeted that Dave Brockie, AKA Oderus Urungus, has died. The world's now a far less interesting place.

yeah just saw abt that. leading me to also see this photo, so every cloud etc

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1.0-9/1969244_10152313928655520_1834325333_n.jpg

Yeah, R.I.P. Oderus. This:

The world's now a far less interesting place.

is axactly what popped into my head as well. Though I'll admit that I haven't given GWAR much time since I was in college. The guy in the room next to me was an absolutle GWAR and White Zombie (pre-major label) freak. Spent a lot of time playing Madden '94 and listening to GWAR with him. Good memories.

At The Gates, Triptykon and Morbus Chron in my lil corner of the world (and many others in Europe) in December... I can get w/ that

i really like the new morbus chron ('sweven'); they somehow manage to combine old-school swedish death with pretty, proggy atheist/cynic bits and it works really well...I'm digging this trend for psychedelic DM - tribulation, obliteration, morbus chron, maybe include teitanblood in there too...

http://lastrit.es/articles/759/preview
http://lastrit.es/articles/769/preview

craig hayes on his efforts to write about metal for a mainstream readership at popmatters ('fraudulent', he says, i guess for cherrypicking from the scene/underground?)

It was hardly fraudulent, but it's a valuable commentary on the dangers of reviewing only the music you like.

I think the new Nux Vomica album is absolutely terrific, and it's now streaming in full: http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2014/03/album-debut-nux-vomica-st/

just got round to an album by this Portland band SHROUD OF THE HERETIC which is bandcampable here and am really digging it. super weird Portal/Negative Plane style death metal with Winter-style slow bits and a strong blackened vibe

finally getting around to this and http://forum.grinderscape.org/images/smilies/smiley-headbanging.gif

we don't use that lil guy enough and he def applies to these shroud of the heretic songs

BÖLZER

The release of 'Soma' will unfortunately be delayed by a number of weeks. But fret not, have our assurances that she will sound and look that much better.
An upload of the first song 'Steppes' will also be made for you as soon as we receive the final master.
Godspeed!!!

I can't lie

I am down with the Scrooge McDuck album

This new Black Sabbath box is tempting. Anyone know of reasons not to get it? I only have 5 out of 8 of these albums, all older pre-remastered CD's.