Rolling Metal Thread 2014

new Mastodon rips, I must say

i'm loving it so far. but the real highlight of my night is gonna be when I get to the new Incantation

i heard that, i dunno, it seemed a bit more engaging than the last one, but a little too monotonously doomy?

no such thing in my eyes!

lol at one of the riffs borrowing the melody from "The Godfather" theme on the second track

it's a fine line but I'm personally v into how doomy the new incantation is. the slower parts stand out as some of the more memorable moments on the lp, and as usual, the contrast gives the fast stuff some extra punch too. nice record.

checked out a couple tracks from the new boris record. haven't followed em for a couple years but was taken back by how pop punk/emo the first few tracks were. yikes. was kinda horrified and turned it off p quick.

Is that "Noise?"

yeah

its a pretty incongruous record imo? like it goes from that poppier stuff to a "heavy rain" or "angel" that are pretty coated in sludge

well, didn't get that far but that's encouraging at least

Pretty late to the party I guess, but I just got the 2011 remix/remaster of Death's Individual Thought Patterns, and it's a very interesting listen back-to-back with my original 1993 CD. This is much more than a simple remaster, it's almost a whole different album. I realise that any comparison is coloured by the original version being etched into my brain, it would be interesting to hear the opinions of people who weren't around when it first hit, but I feel it loses a bit of its unique feel with the punchier overall sound and the crunchier guitars. The new drum sound is much appreciated though.

honestly I got the reissue and it was hard for me to tell as the last time I'd heard it was on a cassette in a shitty Geo Metro years earlier. I did, however, think the recent Leprosy remaster was awesome.

so who's ordering themselves a pair of the Black Sabbath Converse?

Oh my god, Teitanblood. Just what I'm in the mood for right now, that grindy, detuned guitar sound and some weird interludes, mostly just chaotic crazed death metal. "Sleeping Throats of the Antichrist" manages an opening riff not a million miles from Godflesh, then just shifts gears and blastbeats it to death.

Another year, another Burzum record - and again everyone's favourite arsonist-murderer-turned-subsistence-farmer is changing things up a bit. After the first track I thought this might be a lot like Wardruna but the acoustic guitars/ritualistic drumming combo only appears sporadically on the rest of the album. There's occasional low-key folky clean singing/chanting/talking, lots of spacy synth that sound straight off a 1980s Tangerine Dream album, and although most tracks are short, overall it feels very repetitive (or transcendent, if you're in the right state of mind) as usual. Nothing metal, nothing essential but it's a pleasant, relaxing listen. He seems happy on his farm.

Although, that might not last long.

SO Burzum is okay but Lord Mantis is not? (I say in general to the fine folks at ilm)..

Personally I don't give a rats ass usually about a bands politics, or at least not enough to see what they are about. I listen to the music and the vibe and never read a lyric sheet. But there is that weird line that if you're supporting the art of a fucking douchebag, then you're supporting the doughebag.. thankfully there's torrents?

Thoughts?

fuck them all.

xp You know that this thread isn't just a hive mind talking to itself, right? People have different opinions about things.

SeanWayne I think we've been over this ground a great deal, many times. This thread is mainly "new stuff in metal, what do we think."

I thought it was for heated debates on Lividity LPs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Coi87Siunvw

guys this has horse noises

just so you know

I guess the sarcasm in "everyone's favourite arsonist-murderer-turned-subsistence-farmer" wasn't clear enough.

touche

Never understood not listening to an artist's music for personal 'moral purposes'

if I find someone abhorrent enough that I desire not to contribute towards his activities, I most certainly will do it. There's a fine line between requiring that one 'likes' the artists they listen to and, say, not wanting to buy a cd with a swastika on it or recorded by a neo-Nazi.

(I realize Burzum blurs the lines since this content isn't part of his music/lyrics, but personally...anybody can decide who they will or won't support with their hard-earned cash).

Well we can all be comforted with the thought that he could've used all the money he made off his criminal past and musical legend to build a headphones business and sold it to Apple for billions, but instead he got sued his ass off by the church and now grows his own potatoes somewhere in rural France.

White potatoes?

In other (actually metal) news, the Heresiarch "Wærwuld" EP is monstrously heavy, in a Bolt Thrower/Incantation/Blasphemy way.

"Wærwulf", acually.

Looks like it's Wælwulf? Whatever that means.

Hmm yeah. Anyway, get it.

Yeah, it was pretty messed up when Jimmy Iovine stabbed that dude to death.

I believe he is wanted by the International Criminal Court for his complicity in the atrocities carried out on Bat Out Of Hell.

(that said, Dr. Dre doesn't HAVE a criminal past, so you could've probably used a better example)

http://www.contactmusic.com/pics/lb/flaunt_your_taste_301008/dee_barnes_2146253.jpg

http://www.contactmusic.com/pics/le/la_lakers_celebs_150311/damon-thomas_3250348.jpg

tho those were p small potatoes in comparison obv

Meanwhile, while we're awaiting Dark Space III I, someone has made this, which I can't imagine will be online for a long time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-3pKaGhkpI

I don't think there's an awful lot of moral high ground to win in a "Taking Sides: Stabbing a man in his underwear a couple dozen times versus Kicking a woman half your size in the ribs and slamming her head repeatedly against a wall".

being dead does have a bit of finality to it

BTW I'll go on record that I own an exact equal amount Dr Dre (produced) and Burzum CDs (five), and I'm proud to have financially contributed to a better world enriched with designer headphones and rebuilt stave churches.

I don't think there's an awful lot of moral high ground to win in a "Taking Sides: Stabbing a man in his underwear a couple dozen times versus Kicking a woman half your size in the ribs and slamming her head repeatedly against a wall".

― Siegbran, Sunday, June 29, 2014 5:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

being dead does have a bit of finality to it

― Neanderthal, Sunday, June 29, 2014 5:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

BTW I'll go on record that I own an exact equal amount Dr Dre (produced) and Burzum CDs (five), and I'm proud to have financially contributed to a better world enriched with designer headphones and rebuilt stave churches.

― Siegbran, Sunday, June 29, 2014 5:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this leaves aside Burzum actually esposes a noxious and damaging ideology as well

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/death-metal-band-to-play-in-soundproof-airtight-box-in-london-9572606.html

keep going back to the new mayhem, really like this record. the guitars sound great, love all the slashing and ringing noises. and I dig the jammy, loose feel on a lot of it, sorta like deathspell omega if they were a little less uptight and had a way more fun frontman. it's certainly not as memorable as ordo ad chao but... the production is cleaner!

Fuck, Teitanblood rules. Why didn't I know this before now? Both Death and Woven Black Arteries are kicking my ass.

oh man, thanks for reminding me there's a new teitanblood. seven chalices is killer too btw.

I love the new Tombs.

Haven't gotten to that one, it's in the pile at home.

Alan - I'm definitely going back to track down the old Teitanblood stuff.

i can't get into the tombs yet, it seems so unlikeable : /

and i really loved the last one