oh i would've voted for that but i only voted for one ep. it's great
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:01 (seven years ago) link
this was cute! didn't vote for it but did enjoy it :)
bring on the other part of the tie, yes
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:03 (seven years ago) link
Metallica?
― Devilock, Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:03 (seven years ago) link
It's one of the best reviewed albums of the year high in the rym list too
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:05 (seven years ago) link
ulcerate
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:06 (seven years ago) link
is my guess
63 Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us 164 Points, 5 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/ZEVuCxf.jpghttps://open.spotify.com/album/1Wk98w43t7axsezT1GAgR6spotify:album:1Wk98w43t7axsezT1GAgR6
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21982-you-will-never-be-one-of-us/7.8
Nails make music for when you look at life and see little of value, for when you're feeling bitter and alone. On their latest, they make a little room for others to stare at the void with them.
Over the course of their seven years in action, Nails have dedicated themselves to exploring the isolating nature of existential malaise. They’ve called their two full length LPs Unsilent Death and Abandon All Life, and on those two records, the Oxnard, California trio have perfected their defiant approach to the yawning void. They preach fatalist atheism or enact brutal masochism while diving headfirst into hardcore's darkest corners (grindcore, powerviolence, and d-beat just to name a few), and that’s all in the course of just a minute or two. It's music for when you look at life and see little of value, for when you're feeling bitter and alone in the face of chaos. Vocalist Todd Jones made his intentions clear at the peak of the 2012’s “No Surrender”: “My goal/Cause you pain.”
To that end, You Will Never Be One of Us will live up to the expectations of anyone who’s experienced a Nails album before. Eight of the record’s ten tracks are under two minutes long, and each is built around monochromatic blasts of distortion, double kick drums, Jones’ paper-shredder growls, and depressing track titles to match (see: “Life Is a Death Sentence,” “Violence Is Forever”) . The high-speed anxiety of tracks like “Made to Make You Fail” are as volatile and propulsive as jetfuel. It’s as hard as ever to make out Jones’ lyrics, but producer Kurt Ballou (of Converge, who also produced the band’s other two efforts) has gotten better at shaping his guttural abstractions. Even if it’s unclear exactly what he’s saying, the effect is crystal: he hurts and so will you.
Even in the record’s title, however, Nails have made it clear that their darkness is now just a little more complicated than the music they’ve made in the past. The video for the record’s title track opens with a host of friends (including Baroness’ John Baizley) uttering the ominous phrase, but it sounds natural regardless of who says it, as if anyone is capable of owning the sentiment as long as they’re willing to get in the right mindset. Though it’s a negative statement, defined in opposition, Jones has said in an interview that he intends it as “inclusive.” Each track on the record can be read as an invitation to join him in his unsettled meditations.
Knowing that you’re welcomed in, some of the differences between this record and those that preceded it become apparent. You Will Never Be One of Us feels less like a brick wall. This is most evident in the eight-minute closer “They Come Crawling Back,” which experiments with al sorts of unfamiliar sounds for Nails: There's frosty tremolo picking, bleak doom riffs, and siren-like leads before building into the sort of off-to-the-races hardcore they’re known for. It’s all of metal’s most downcast corners shoved together into a single eight minutes that fades slowly to nothingness. It’s a little something for anyone included in the “us” in the title, for everyone who’s ever found meaning in a flurry of fists in a mosh pit.
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:09 (seven years ago) link
sorta glad it placed this low. this record sounds great but there's not v much to it
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:13 (seven years ago) link
glad you said it tbh
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:14 (seven years ago) link
from the rolling metal thread reaction i assumed it would be top 10
did everyone just forget about it in the end?
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:15 (seven years ago) link
#10 in Terrorizer
think it made the Kerrang top 20 too
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:16 (seven years ago) link
#20 in Kerrang
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:17 (seven years ago) link
#2 in Decibel
The other night I watched the yearly embarrassment that is the Revolver Metal Awards and Nails was up for best new band. They didn't win. (I'd never even heard of the one that did: Avatar). But then no one watches the Revolver Metal Awards for the metal; we watch for the utter lack of direction, the nonfunctioning teleprompters, the soundchecks simultaneous to the reading of nominations, and the production staff constantly scrambling around and whispering into the ears of presenters and performers because SOMETHING HAS GONE WRONG.
On the plus side, they let bands play 3 or 4 songs, which is pretty cool for an awards show.
― Devilock, Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:18 (seven years ago) link
did they have a swimsuit section for their chicks in metal 'winners'?
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:20 (seven years ago) link
xpost re: Nails: My reaction to seeing that it existed was basically "oh look, more Nails, ok"I actually listened to it the other day, it was pretty good but that Absolute Power record was probably better.
― Tom Violence, Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:20 (seven years ago) link
There was a "Most Metal Athlete" award. Some WWE dude won. Honestly it should have been the UFC fighter who comes out to Bolt Thrower.
― Devilock, Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:23 (seven years ago) link
62 The Body - No One Deserves Happiness 165 Points, 6 Voteshttp://i.imgur.com/zHvYGGg.jpg
https://open.spotify.com/album/2AZyaHEO6VDLb9NLOkNoz3spotify:album:2AZyaHEO6VDLb9NLOkNoz3
https://thebody.bandcamp.com/album/no-one-deserves-happiness
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:32 (seven years ago) link
RIP Zsa Zsa Gabor
― sushi and the banh mis (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:40 (seven years ago) link
61 Woman is the Earth - Torch of Our Final Night 166 Points, 4 Votes , ONE #1http://i.imgur.com/1c8jYiL.jpghttps://womanistheearth.bandcamp.com/
released April 15, 2016tagstags: metal ambient black metal progressive metal Rapid City
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:50 (seven years ago) link
I wear my No One Deserves Happiness shirt to work w pride
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:54 (seven years ago) link
yet it brings you happiness?
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:57 (seven years ago) link
a true paradox
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 18 December 2016 23:59 (seven years ago) link
enjoying the The Body; yet to see whether it'll stick. it's enjoyably twisted but i do wish there was a bit more to the songs. just a bit.
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 00:00 (seven years ago) link
Recap
101 Khthoniik Cerviiks - SeroLogiikal Scars (Vertex of Dementiia) 108 4 198 Abbath - Abbath 109 3 098 Blood Ceremony - Lord Of Misrule 109 3 098 Lord Vicar - Gates of Flesh 109 3 097 Dawnwalker - In Rooms 109 4 095 Madder Mortem - Red In Tooth and Claw 110 4 095 Wardruna - Runaljod - Ragnarok 110 4 094 Sunwatchers - Sunwatchers 112 3 093 Truckfighters - V 116 4 092 Atomikylä - Keräily 118 3 091 Wo Fat - Midnight Cometh 121 4 0
90 Grand Magus - Sword Songs 122 3 089 Rotting Christ - Rituals 123 4 088 Wrong - Wrong 124 3 087 Melvins - Basses Loaded 126 4 086 Batushka - Litourgiya 127 3 085 Bloodiest - Bloodiest 128 3 084 Wretch - Wretch 128 4 083 Urfaust - Empty Space Meditation 128 4 182 Mare Cognitum - Luminiferous Aether 128 6 081 ColdWorld - Autumn 129 3 0
80 Void Meditation Cult - Utter the Tongue of the Dead 131 4 079 Car Bomb - Meta 134 3 078 Anciients - Voice of the Void 137 4 077 Wormrot - Voices 138 4 076 Saor - Guardians 138 6 075 Asphyx - Incoming Death 139 3 074 The Body, Full of Hell - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache 139 5 073 High Spirits - Motivator 140 4 072 Inverloch - Distance | Collapsed 141 4 0
70 Occult Burial - Hideous Obscure 142 4 070 Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake 142 4 069 Horse Latitudes - Primal Gnosis 143 4 068 Howls of Ebb - Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows 148 5 067 Sumerlands - s/t 154 6 066 Eight Bells - Landless 156 5 065 Anicon - Exegeses 160 4 063 Cadaveric Fumes - Dimensions Obscure EP 164 5 063 Nails - You Will Never Be One of Us 164 5 062 The Body - No One Deserves Happiness 165 6 061 Woman is the Earth - Torch of Our Final Night 166 4 1
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 19 December 2016 00:03 (seven years ago) link
p fucking good so far says I
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 19 December 2016 00:10 (seven years ago) link
No one had said that so i was wondering if people didnt think that this year. Usually people say the just inside the top 100 is their fave part or theyve discovered loads
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 19 December 2016 00:13 (seven years ago) link
and seriously missing dominique leone saying his entire ballot already placed :D
I'm not really bowled over by much of this, but I do know there's loads of truly killer stuff yet to place, so *shrug*
and there are ALWAYS cool things to discover like howls of ebb. it's always worthwhile going through all these albums
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 00:14 (seven years ago) link
Imago killing zsa zsa clearly the big news of the day though
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 19 December 2016 00:15 (seven years ago) link
the Anicon record is great, glad others voted for it
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 19 December 2016 00:17 (seven years ago) link
I voted for The Body, but listening now and it's way better than I even remembered. And I want that t-shirt!
― dance band (tangenttangent), Monday, 19 December 2016 00:21 (seven years ago) link
I've had a lot of things place already so I'm inclined to think it's a great roll-out. Favourite find is probably Eight Bells, but I'll need to dedicate time to get into it.
― dance band (tangenttangent), Monday, 19 December 2016 00:23 (seven years ago) link
Their shirts were stupid cheap too, I think 10 bucks CAD each? I also bought one of the Futility and Despair skull/heart shirts xp
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 19 December 2016 00:24 (seven years ago) link
Nails was #14 in my prediction, doh! Like I said, unpredictable. I'd think there would be some gnarly crust punk/post-hard/grindcore option up there. Maybe Trap Them or Zao?
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 19 December 2016 00:30 (seven years ago) link
Nails and/or Wormrot screwed most of us lol
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 19 December 2016 00:31 (seven years ago) link
its that time of the poll where everyone gives up on obscure things placing too as big names start to appear
or is it?
Find out in the next episode of S.O.A.P.
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 19 December 2016 00:41 (seven years ago) link
RIP Sun Worship & Oneida/Chatham
― sushi and the banh mis (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 19 December 2016 00:42 (seven years ago) link
RIP Comet Control, you're not even metal any more but I love you more than ever
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 00:47 (seven years ago) link
Anicon is pleasant. (A state to which every metal aspires, obv.)
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Monday, 19 December 2016 00:59 (seven years ago) link
*metal band
Second side of the latest album is amazing space rock. Shame about the boring ass psych pop tunes on the first side.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 19 December 2016 01:47 (seven years ago) link
aw I like the little psych pop tunes! but I do agree that tracks 5-8 >>>>>>>>> 1-4. closing track is just about my most-played thing this year
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 01:56 (seven years ago) link
i'm the #1 vote for Woman Is The Earth, for the record!
also voted Anicon way up high
― alpine static, Monday, 19 December 2016 01:58 (seven years ago) link
Im gonna have to put Comet Control back on my phone, I guess
― sushi and the banh mis (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 19 December 2016 02:03 (seven years ago) link
LJ - The closing tune will be high on my tracks ballot here. It made my Village Voice (nee Pazz & Jop) ballot.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 19 December 2016 02:04 (seven years ago) link
:) high on mine too!
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Monday, 19 December 2016 02:20 (seven years ago) link
Well I think five of mine have appeared so far, including my numbers 2 (Horse Latitudes) and 5 (Howls of Ebb). Void Meditation Cult was my number 20 but probably should've been top 10, I was just cutting and pasting stuff around in a frenzy to get my ballot done.
― rudy githyanki (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 19 December 2016 04:37 (seven years ago) link
LJ - The closing tune will be high on my tracks ballot here. It made my Village Voice (nee Pazz & Jop) ballot.― EZ Snappin,
― EZ Snappin,
I wish you had voted in this poll
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 19 December 2016 08:19 (seven years ago) link
I couldn't make my mind about No One Deserves Happiness this year. I mostly liked it but it always felt like something was missing. Ended up not voting for it for this reason.
― Dinsdale, Monday, 19 December 2016 08:30 (seven years ago) link