Rolling Metal Thread 2014

I think that Max Jury tune sounds even more like something else than it does like "Heavens Door" and the something else has the "Long" in "all day long" a fifth higher (ish, I think. I'm not a perfect pitch guy) . Kinda driving me nuts. Ring any bells?

"Baby I Love Your Way" by Frampton?

Time for my nap.

digging this new Occultation album. that's all. a better historian than me can provide some "sounds like..." action.

If it sounds like the first one, it sounds like awesome.

^^ otm

New Khold album coming out in two weeks. I'm actually excited; I always liked their blend of black metal and groove metal.

I liked the first few Khold albums and kind of lost track of them (I think they went on hiatus maybe?), but the newer stuff I've checked out seemed pretty bland.

Anyone know anything about Chaos Echoes? They just signed to Nuclear War Now. In their pics they've got an analog synth and a guy in an Ash Ra Tempel shirt. Good signs.

They're French. Ex-members of the now-defunct (and very boring) Bloody Sign. They sound like this, more or less: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWdjeb8sbNc&noredirect=1

I'm down, I guess.

Thank you! I think I'm down for this as well. Can't wait to hear their album. That track actually kind of reminds me of very early Cattlepress... Super sludgy guitar tone and discordance.

I am digging the latest October 31 record. No frills, nothing new at all (that would violate King Fowley's sense of purpose) but a solid nod to olden days of denim vests and logos etched into notebooks.

I'm completely new to Sólstafir but, damn, I am digging the hell out of Ótta. This is the kind of atmospheric, yet highly melodic, metal-tinged prog (or prog-tinged metal?) ((trying to avoid the 'post-rock' word here)). Either way, this is gorgeous stuff.

Yeah, I'm really liking that new Solstafir record, too. I liked them already, but this record feels like a big surge of confidence, or maybe competence, or maybe I've just forgotten what the other two sounded like and this one is actually exactly the same.

New Darkspace is great at first listen, not sure if it tops II or last year's PTP record (within the Space Black Metal world) but I'm a sucker for this stuff.

In case anyone was still following the Blake Judd saga but missed out on this, Imperial from Krieg AKA Neill Jameson AKA one of the other dudes in Twilight and longtime friend of Judd offered up a pretty massive, detailed, and unsurprising history:
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/neill-krieg-blake-judd

Never known myself to be dyslexic but I first typed out his name as "Jake Bludd," which tbf would make for a good cinematic action hero/villain.

Still need to hear the new Darkspace. Love em. Also love PTP. Hope they do more things.

have we talked about memoria vetusta iii in october? I find blut aus nord a little spotty overall, but man, memoria vetusta ii was top-notch. I never really stopped listening to it, go back all the time.

Actually was just listening to MV I last night for the first time. MV II is yeah pretty much the best thing BAN has done, one of the best things anyone has ever done for that matter (those guitar leads, whew). TWWTG is right behind it even if it's not something I can break out too often. Now that I've heard MV I, I see it as a MV II, Jr. Nowhere near that level. I heard a really promising sounding track from Pt III so I'm hoping for continued greatness.

MoRT is actually kind of cool in a weird, creepy way. Other than that there were a couple cool songs on the first of that 777 trilogy. That's ... about as far as I've gone with BAN.

One thing I can say about them, however, is that they possess one of my favorite talents: knowing when to take a musical idea and really hammer it home for an extended amount of time, usually in those dreamy guitar passages that go on and on. When I first heard "Our Blessed Frozen Cells" I was like, these guys get me.

I assume everyone heard the Bloodbath announcement (finally). This media strategy worked because I haven't bought or even heard anything after their first full length and now here I am curious how they'll sound with the Paradise Lost guy.

The thing with Bloodbath is, I'm fine with it being a somewhat non-serious retrodeath sideproject with their old buddies, but I'm still frustrated with it. It's nice and all that it is an outlet for Jonas Renske and Anders Blackheim to channel their love for actual METAL, I can fully understand that. But now we're left with an alt-rock Katatonia that has clearly run out of ideas and has been treading the same stale Cure-infested waters for years, and a hobby band that seems content with reshuffling riffs from old Swedeath records into new albums every two years. It just seems like a colossal waste of guys this talented.

yeah, I can't really get excited about bloodbath at all.

as for katatonia, we still have the old records. I'm used to it at this point.

those guitar leads, whew

yes! they're outta this world good

basically with you all the way on their discography too, MVI vs MVII included

I mean, if they're so excited revisiting Lost Paradise, why not try something novel with the loose ends of their own discography - make a new Diabolical Masquerade prog album, do a new doom record taking Dance of December Souls or the October Tide records as a starting point, have another go at the "hypnotic grunge" sound of Discouraged Ones, experiment a bit with faster riffs maybe...I mean, Blackheim is one of my favourite guitarists, but he hasn't done anything challenging in almost ten years, that just makes me mad.

seems worth it to put this here, this album is pretty enjoyable:

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2014/09/mysterious_blac.html

Huh, interesting. I was curious about who she might be. Not a lot of fashion models take up black metal afaik.

New Belphegor is dumb and loud and just what I'm in the mood for. Like that their idea of death metal seems to be stuck in the early 90s, lots of Deicide-ish bits.

http://www.wonderingsound.com/feature/vulvatron-gwar-new-frontwoman-metal/

I am unfamiliar with that site and unsure why the "pull 'quotes'" are quotes of the article writer and not of the article subject.

It's a feature; you can pull quotes from anywhere in that context. But yes, it's odd using quote marks unless quoting a quote, if you get me.

power metal band from minneapolis from friends have endorsed....i don't *love* the guy's voice but music is great and the more i listen to it his voice is fine really

http://noblebeastofman.bandcamp.com/

xposting my last posts:

[EDITOR'S NOTE: The original version of this piece implied that Vulvatron, who debuted at Riot Fest, and on GWAR's Twitter, was GWAR's lead vocalist. While she is a new member of the band, she is one of several vocalists. We have altered the headline from "All Hail Vulvatron, GWAR’s Unlikely New Frontwoman" to "All Hail Vulvatron, GWAR's Unlikely New Vocalist]

I saw Cloud Rat this evening in a West Philly basement and they melted my face.
This band deserves all of the Grindcore love they get and a lot more.

http://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10489623_10154628742190597_9177534967987839162_n.jpg?oh=6db63a2901092404e6a179ad72a6e9ec&oe=5484E832&__gda__=1418032420_f8f6597ee517c8879c504f9903ade00b

Instead of signing fucking wrestlers and indie rock chicks doing black metal, Relapse should be doing Cloud Rat seven inches.

holy shit I just saw them last night in NYC and I totally agree they were an absolute revelation, they deserve to be huge.

I also posted a rad youtube of a show from earlier this year in the grind thread where they close out their set with a pretty sweet cover of Zero; unfortunately that did not happen last night

Wow, they're really good. And name your price downloads on bandcamp btw.

Instead of signing fucking wrestlers

You know I love Cloud Rat and they deserve all the above, but that UltraMantis Black record is pretty good (of course if anything, Relapse is doing it b/c most of the band is Pissed Jeans, not b/c the singer wrestles for CHIKARA).

indie rock chicks doing black metal

C'mon, really? Black metal is hardly in need of protection from girl germs. And any genre that started out in fucking face paint has no "authenticity" to protect.

^So OT fucking M it hurts

Let's not go overboard here, if Relapse had signed the dude from ex-Cops doing layered chanting over unremarkable BM instead, I highly doubt reactions would be much more favourable. And a band like Astarte was pretty widely respected, if the reactions on Tristessa's death are any indication.

but the post in question wasnt dismissive of the music but of the person making it.

well yeah, the idea that someone from any cultural/musical etc background 'shouldn't' make black metal or any other type of music for that matter is fucking stupid.

Full disclosure: I haven't heard Murkyr yet, but I think corpse paint is idiotic

Corpse paint is amazing when it's being worn by Immortal, the black metal tag team that never were.

If Relapse was so proud of the origins of that project, why was it not touted by the label? Why the secret?

Mystery helped pique press interest. Also allowed for people to hear the music before decrying it as "false".

xp omg yes this is the first time a metal act was ever secretive.

Let's not go overboard here, if Relapse had signed the dude from ex-Cops doing layered chanting over unremarkable BM instead, I highly doubt reactions would be much more favourable. And a band like Astarte was pretty widely respected, if the reactions on Tristessa's death are any indication.

If Relapse was as proud of it, why didn't they just say she's from Ex-Cops?

I actually like the Myrkur quite a bit. I don't understand the need to hide who did it (unless the horrible reception that the Vverevvolf Grehv album made them gun-shy about promoting alt-rockers delving into extreme music, but it didn't when it came to releasing it in the first place?); that is the gimmickry that annoys me. And I didn't like the UltraMantis Black to be honest (though I like Pissed Jeans).

Cloud Rat is exactly the kind of band that Relapse should be working with (assuming the band wanted to work with them): prolific and really fucking tight, have done a lot on their own and can use a bigger label to get them to the "next level" (more people to hear their actually pretty thoughtful lyrics).

Meh. It's a gimmick. I appreciate a good back-story, but "Ex-Cops chick makes awesome black metal record" is a fine story on it's own. If someone cries that it's "false," you think they appreciate being led astray to begin with? They're lost causes anyway.

It's marketing, and if you really think that "indie person makes metal" isn't a huge turnoff for a lot of black metal fans you're just plain wrong.

FYI: don't call her a "chick" after saying in the post before that it's funny how someone latched onto your use of "girl" as derisory.

Sorry you're butthurt about "chick." I used it colloquially, not as an insult.

Marketing = "Indie rocker makes black metal record."
Lame = "Let's play a game about who made this black metal record."

You don't get it. That's okay.

And don't be an ass.