Rolling Metal Thread 2014

I guess I should probably just hear it already, but I know I will immediately regret not playing it A.) in my car with the windows down, and/or B.) burning one with friends

I prefer Torche. But it's interesting how Brooks brought a real Torche influence to the new Floor stuff, which of course heavily informed Torche from the start. Bit of a stonier rock ouroboros thing happening there.

yeah the clips I heard made it hard to shake the feeling that it was just, like, a slower Torche record. I think I might prefer the production on the Floor s/t, but only time will tell

my first thought upon hearing it was it sounds like a Torche record playing too slow, so...

Brooks has an oddly distinctive voice for a guy whose voice isn't terribly distinctive...don't be fooled, that totally make sense.

http://i.imgur.com/jZNazSI.png

Oh wow. The randomized imgur link I just got for that image:
i.imgur.com / jZNazSI. png

emphasis mine, needless to say

So Inquisition are Nazis too, huh?

Supposedly Dagon, or someone on his behalf, is going to put out a statement. He mentioned that in a FB post after complaining about strict border security, which for some reason I found funny.

As is usually the case, I'm more entertained by the carousel of willful ignorance-infused denials that metal fans crank up when these things happen. "But metal is supposed to be offensive!" "It's a generalized hatred, it isn't focused on one group!" "SLAYER!" "The swastika was around before the Nazis!"

I really like Naer Mataron and their bassist is literally the Golden Dawn representative in Greek Parliament so I guess I've already bought the ticket for this ride.

Unrelated, I don't know what a Plebeian Grandstand is, but it makes good music. I'll just say it's "dissonant" because that's the quickest, easiest, and laziest way to present you with an accurate idea of what it sounds like. I know there are others here who dig this style. I'd never heard of this band before yesterday.
http://plebeiangrandstand.bandcamp.com/album/lowgazers

New Floor is most definitely Florche, which is totally fine with me. Brooks is a damn good songwriter and master of de hook.

ooh looks like they just kicked off a tour.... they'll be in Charlotte this Saturday, but I'm pretty sure I work till midnight v_v

― endzone selfie (bernard snowy), Tuesday, April 29, 2014 4:24 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they're playing DC sunday night! i'm stoked.

http://www.decibelmagazine.com/featured/inquisition-frontman-dagon-im-not-a-nazi/

this guy is....not that great at expressing himself, but i guess i take him at his word on his response to the first question. also this is interesting imo:

Yes. Yeah. I’ve always had the assumption that, within the extreme music scene, that there were no rules, per se. That, you know, I know within heavy metal or noise or whatever, we have people of different races. We have people… I mean, look: My mother’s Colombian, okay? I have half-Latino blood. I have half-German blood. I mean, if that makes me bad, I don’t know. But I view the world sometimes the way I view myself, and sometimes we make those mistakes. We think, like, you know, “Well, this doesn’t offend me. It has some edge.” Of course, there have been things that have offended me. There’s noise music that talks about things that I won’t even bring up here that can be offensive to me. But I get it. I get it and, within the art itself, I’m not offended. I accept it. And that’s where I stand. And this is what happens, I mean, when you do this stuff.
And you’re right, you know? Bottom line, I’m thinking, “Yeah, I’m gonna spark some feelings here. This stuff has some edge. Some people might get offended, or will get offended.” So, did I expect it? Yes. But not within the scene itself. You know, I forget that. It’s like, within black metal, I always assumed—and, you know, I’m not a stupid guy, but I do forget sometimes that not everybody in black metal has this spirit of “the more extreme, the better,” or “the faster the song, the better.” The more this or the more that, the better. I’m not saying the more Nazi, the better. I’m just saying, when people push the limits, even if they’re getting to a fine line or something, I get it. People feed off of that stuff, regardless of what the scene is. But you’re not really targeting people within your own scene. OK? See, that’s the thing: I mean, like extreme death metal, extreme black metal, extreme noise, it’s extreme because some things are sugar-coated. There’s sugarless, diet, light everything.
But, here’s the thing: I guess on the side, I can say, you know, Inquisition has grown now, and we’re more exposed now to the mainstream, obviously. It’s no secret. And so now you start realizing that not everybody in heavy metal per se is in it for the same reason. Not everybody is an adrenaline junkie.

rocky showed me this
http://www.metalsucks.net/2014/05/02/best-subgenre-metal-please-read/

"DINOSAUR “METAL”/CLASSIC ROCK
IMO u cannot even consider this metal, but I am including it here bc many ppl simply do not know any better and this is an opportunity for us expert metalheads to set the record straight. It is pretty simple: rule no 1 of metal is that it has to be HEAVY and there is nothing heavy at all about IRON MAIDEN, SAXON, TANKARD, etc. It sounds like stuff my unemployed uncle listens to while he paints his D&D figures lol.
FINAL GRADE: F"

click the link for the rest

People still read that shit? The central joke of that site wore out years ago.

wow the new lord mantis the guy uses the n word in the first song on the album, v edgy

that inquisition interview was so hysterical i was doubled over in laughter after the first page or so of his lengthy story about taking a "bath" in the lake in Canada in response to the question "ARE YOU A NAZI"

any of y;all listen into Hell Militia (FR)? theyre touring the US this year, but I don't think they've released anything new in the last few years, so that's sorta weird. unless there's something new im not hip to

holy fuck this Triptykon album

is it in stores yet? didn't see it on the racks yesterday when I picked up the Autopsy vinyl

i saw it the other day on cd

umm holy fuck this Autopsy record btw

not breakin down any doors, if you like Autopsy & Abscess then you already know what it is, but it's very very very fucking high-quality Reifert/Corrales

It's their best post-reunion album, easily.

oh, neat. didn't realize there was a new one.

Yea the Topsy is great. Tho i was confused by Decibel's review indicating the previous album was a bedshitting.

Was that really the consensus? Cos i thought it was a fuck ton better than Macabre Eternal and lots of my peers loved it (cept for my dumb "ah only lahk old stuff" friend)

I'm just picturing Harlan Pepper as a death metal fan. "Scream Bloody Gore... Leprosy... Severed Survival... Mental Funeral... Retribution, Retribution for the Dead EP..."

lol

hahaha

o snap Portrait have a new one coming out? loved the last one

I liked it, Adrien didn't, pick your poison.

a Decibel divided....

http://www.dampfzentrale.ch/?title=darkspace

"Record Release Concert" -> Dark Space III I

There's been speculation about a "Dark Space IV" for a couple of years now, but this doesn't seem to be it, or does it?

The working theory is that it's some kind of record release thing. The metal-archives thread, here, has most of the info, if you scroll a little more than 3/4 of the way down (to where the 2014 posts begin). I love when bands do weird shit like this. Geo-coordinates, morse code, "audio transmissions."

Yeah, the new Portrait album is a real downer to me. I can't get into it at all.

Thanks! XP

don't want to get too excited about darksapce iv just in case... but obv
http://www.famouspictures.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/I_want_to_believe5.jpg

I'm at work, so I haven't had a chance to do the requisite Googling that might give me the answer here, but Darkspace totally sounds up my alley. Is there any way to get their music besides the super limited vinyl stuff? Like do they get digital releases?

Also, what's the best enty point? They sound right up my alley.

Their three full albums are back in stock, it says here.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10151943237277260&id=133001527259&refid=17

As their albums only differ in really subtle ways, the only entry point to Darkspace is the answer to the question: "Will you enjoy an hour+ blast of reverberant static seeming to emanate from a black hole at the center of this meaningless universe?" Their music is like the audio equivalent of those Magic Eye things where an actual image is embedded in optical noise so that when you finally see it it's almost breathtaking.

Pathetic stuff from knuckledragging bands & fans
http://www.metalinjection.net/metal-merch/emmure-attila-i-declare-war-complete-to-create-most-derogatory-t-shirt

I was hoping that this was a joke but apparently these are actual band shirts from a trio of mook-core bands:

http://i0.wp.com/www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Emmure-offensive-tshirt.jpg?resize=400%2C482
Emmure

http://i0.wp.com/www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Attila-classy-shirt.jpeg?resize=470%2C470
Attila

http://i2.wp.com/www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/I_Declare_War_tshirt.jpg?resize=470%2C470
I Declare War

I get that bands like to shock people. I had a Marilyn Manson "God Of Fuck" hat once. I grew up on Alice Cooper, Howard Stern and George Carlin. I also get that the envelope is always being pushed as to what is shocking (it used to be just wearing a shirt that said "Please Kill Me" was enough to get attention, even in New York City). And I am no prude.

But the fact is that these shirts don't just marginalize women as fuck toys for the amusement of the band (and I guess whatever fans wear their shirts), they practically dehumanize them completely. I am not offended as much as I am sad that these bands decided that this was a good way to portray how they felt about a good percentage of their audience.

(Since there are many Deci-dudes in this forum) How about the next time that Decibel decides to make a stance against Revolver's "Hottest Chicks In Metal" sexism, how about an article that takes on these lunkheads and their Neanderthal views that seem way too pervasive in some corners of the metal landscape.

Revolver has considerably more traction that these shirts I'd never heard of before this week, I'd say - doing an article about a shirt company no-one will remember by June would be giving them (yet more) free publicity

I wish you hadn't posted the pictures in here.

yeah, gross

aaaanyway, this is my go to 'need a darkspace track right now' track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rwt_UjLPrk&feature=kp

but they're the definition of an album band. imo, you dig that track, all three of their albums are beyond essential and you should buy them immediately.

overdid it a little with the 'tracks' there, one day I'll learn how to proofread >_<

3.12 is my favourite but the whole of III is just fucking unbelievably brilliant & one of the best metal albums ever

"3.13" is like 11mins of the finest black metal minimalism, progressively switching into slower and slower gears until it rides out on this sweet, sweet slayer riff. masterpiece.

gah, love this band

yh they're elemental