Rolling 2005 Metal Thread

Yeah, I agree, Phil. It's just damn foolish. Since audiences are more fickle now and have a lot more to divert them, you just kill yourself by not keeping in front of people -- good, bad or indifferent. It's no more hard now to produce a hard rock album than it was in 1975. Technology and experience has actually made it magnitudes easier.

I fail to understand the artificial barriers to publishing combined with the let's-sit-on-our-asses-for-a-good-long-while practice of The Darkness. Without a substantial miraculous hit, they're in for a rude months-long shock when they get back here to tour. Keep it up, and in another year, they'll be lucky to be booked in the standard metro-dives in ten of the biggest cities.

In other matters, Saxon had been skedded to play an Allentown metro-dive and the show fell through. Struck down by US policy in the war on terror and inability to get past the border for unspecified flimsy reasons. Or maybe they just didn't really want to come. Anyway, Exodus and Three Inches of Blood had been there a week or so prior, my colleague tells me, and that show was a good one.

I'm starting to have the same worries w/r/t Rammstein. I got their new album last week, and it's fantastic, stronger than its predecessor which had two or three videos that got brief MTV attention (on Headbangers' Ball anyway), but it doesn't have a US release date yet as far as I know, and they haven't toured the US since about 2001 or 2002, when they were supporting Korn and Limp Bizkit on one of the early Anger Management runs. I wonder if their label has decided not to bother trying to get them any bigger in America than they were a few years ago. If so, that'd be a damn shame.

I like the album quite a bit. I was one of the few who liked Soundtrack in 2004, but the new one sounds considerably better, more dual guitar stuff, which I'm always a sucker for.

Now, amazingly, I've had an opp to listen to The Darkness. The mark
of Roy Thomas Baker is strong upon it. They or someone must've dragged him out of retirement with the promise that he could go to town. Anyway, I'm still with the conviction they've waited too long but the title cut and "Knockers" right off the bat give the label things to work. The title cut is slightly better -- it has a wonderful chorus hook -- and a sitar break in it not played by a sitar, but probably by a Variax guitar. It's a guitar with a computer in it that emulates vintage instruments, and it works, and it has sitar algorithms in it, that sound just like what is on the Darkenss LP. I know 'cuz I have one. For the Darkness, it sounds like a sitar but played like a metal guitarist would play, which is what you get when a guitarist does that with a Variax. Trivial, but it made me laugh.

Also the "Knockers" refrain, "I like what you've done with your hair" and rhyming "busty" with "I'm rusty." I suspect the humor will be lost on most of the potential US audience.

So there's a chance.

Speaking of dance-industrial, can anybody explain by what logic Nine Inch Nails get classified as "hard rock" but Rammstein and Ministry get nominated as "metal" by the Grammy nominees? ....Well, I guess Ministry and Rammstein *are* more metal; I never gave a shit about NIN and never will, and I haven't made it through a Ministry album in at least a decade, and never even knew Rammstein (who I like) put out a new album this year, so big whoop. But all three of those bands, I'd think, have more in common with *each other* than with the other respective bands in their categories (Audioslave, Queens of the Stone Age, System of a Down, Robert Plant in hard rock; Mudvayne, Shadows Fall, Slipknot in metal). Seems almost arbitrary. Which maybe it is. (I'd never call System of a Down "hard rock" either, but whatever. By now, they probably belong in the world music category. Just kidding.)

The way the Grammys work, aren't they nominated for something off Reise, Reise anyway?

http://www.decibelmagazine.com/features/jan2006/twilight.aspx

plus, one cool thing about the newly revamped decibel site is you get a full archive of old reviews. read all about how much i liked that Ed Gein album for free!

http://www.decibelmagazine.com/reviews.aspx

I finally broke down and bought that double vinyl Xasthur album that has been staring at me at the record store. That and a Frost 7 inch on Southern Lord. Nekro, Tru, whatever, I am a sucker for that shoegazer BM. The record store dudes are heading up to Boston to see Malefic perform with SUNN(((((())))))))))))****&&, but I am not cuz i am lame(((())))))

EZO, as far as I knew them, had been a Gene Simmons import job. Saw them live wherein they dressed up as weird combo of Kabuki and geishas. They were a little arty and totally hookless but very rhythmic and pounding and the audience, average metal fans in some dirtbag venue in the Lehigh Valley, were left silent. My drummer liked them because they invited him backstage after the set and turned out to be hard to understand but warmly hospitable for a place that had been totally inhospitable to them.

So Loudness transforms into this relentless and merciless pounding act with a raw screaming singer. The change in style accidentally (or maybe not) takes them into rhythmic grind. The main man remains the guitarist, Takasaki, who destroys, which sets them apart from everyone else since he has a tendency to go between Yngwie Euro-shred to bluesy fills and nasty standard hard rock comping. A lot of the operatic style they were known for early on is also subdued and these albums -- Heavy Metal Hippies and Loudness -- are uniformly good, even excellent in some parts.

"...went to Philly for the show at the church. It was CRAZY. We got in and these two monk-looking duded opened the door and the entire church was filled with smoke and there was just this incredible DRONE vibrating throughout the whole place. Malefic sang...he's a strange dude. It was cool."

My mission at the roadrunner office party at nokia the other night was to school europeans that SUNN does not rhyme with SANYO. "Oh, it's like an emoticon" said the German. Yes.

The roadrunner party was a hell of a good party, and a fun show. Glen Benton wore his full iron face mask, and two of the best speed metal guitarists ever created, Andreas Kisser and Jeff Waters, dueled on "Curse of the Pharoahs." And the Trivium guys shredded impressively in unison on two of Dimebag's guitars on loan. Greatest office party ever.

Is there already a Loudness - Disillusion Japanese vocals version vs. English vocals version thread?

Brazil's Marquee Records has just re-released the second album from legendary Canadian thrashers SACRIFICE, entitled "Forward to Termination". It comes as a double CD in a limited-edition hand-numbered slipcase and contains a massive booklet with liner notes by Laurent Ramadier, live pictures and personal comments by Joe Rico (guitar), Rob Urbinati (guitar, vocals), Scott Watts (bass) and Gus Pynn (drums). The reissue features 42 songs in total, all remastered from the originals by Sidney Sohn (NASTY SAVAGE, IRON ANGEL). The complete track listing is as follows:

Disc 1:

"Forward to Termination"

01. Forward to Termination
02. Terror Strikes
03. Re-Animation
04. Afterlife
05. Flames of Armageddon
06. The Entity
07. Forever Enslaved
08. Cyanide
09. Light of the End
10. Pyrokinesis

"FTT" Demo

11. Forward to Termination
12. Pyrokinesis
13. Cyanide
14. Forever Enslaved
15. Afterlife
16. Possession

Live Tracks (Various '87/'89)

17. The Exorcism
18. In Defiance
19. Afterlife
20. Flames of Armageddon
21. Pyrokinesis

Disc 2:

Live In Kitchener, Ontario, Canada (July 25, 1986)

01. Forward to Termination
02. Sacrifice
03. Homicidal Breath
04. Infernal Visions
05. Decapitation
06. Cyanide
07. Afterlife
08. Possession
09. Pyrokinesis
10. Necronomicon
11. Beyond Death

Live In Rochester, NY (December 11, 1988)

12. Pyrokinesis
13. Sacrifice
14. Flames of Armageddon
15. Lost through Time
16. Storm in the Silence
17. The Entity
18. Re-animation

Live at Iloiko’s in Toronto, Canada (January 29, 1987)

19. Terror Strikes
20. Forever Enslaved
21. Re-animation

Through a distortion pedal.

greatness!!! they did a really nice job on the torment in fire reissue.

Kayo Dot reminds me of a cool, underloved mid-90s Cargo Records band called Creedle.

The Scum supergroup record is a near-miss, but I'm glad I have it.

eMusic has some of the Ted Nugent catalog, the stuff not owned by the big label which made him a star. And I'd go into a lot of it but Nugent from the 80's was definitely worth the download and burn. St. Holmes came back to the fold and Nuge promised a returned to the sound of Ted Nugent but he did the production himself which pretty much ensured it wouldn't quite get there. But some of it does and the last two numbers, "Let's Rock Tonight" and "Tailgunner" which make up about ten minutes, are excellent recreations of the style and vibe, pretty much ignored by everyone when the record came out.

I was suprised because I'd ignored it in favor of Little Miss Dangerous which was Ted thinking he was going to be a Tv or movie star and up there with the Miami Vicers. I still like that, it's the oddest and most experimental (if Ted could ever be said to be "experimenting") sounding record in his catalog. But I recommend Nugent to longtime fans.

i got that mail too and really, that's a strange deal. They're not metal at all, maybe they've changed there style to meth-rock (as in metal combined with mathrock hah)

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drg700/g773/g77390thctt.jpg

http://www.popmatters.com/columns/begrand/051219.shtml

AS LONG AS THIS AND MORTENSENS HAVE NOT BEEN HANDLED TORE TOIVICCO ASKS UN SEND UN PEACE CORPS TO DENMARK:
I ASK UNITED NATIONS TO SEND UN PEACE CORPS TO DENMARK TO QUARANTEE HUMAN RIGHTS AND EQUALITY FOR IMMIGRANTS AND MAKE LIFE SAFE HERE FOR IMMIGRANTS AND MUSLIMS.

DANISH PEOPLE DOESN´T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND THAT IMMIGRANTS SHOULD HAVE SAME RIGHTS AS ANYONE ELSE.I CALL THIS DANSKCRIMINATION-IF IMMIGRANT COMPLAINS ABOUT CRIMES DONE TO HIM, DANISH PEOPLE MAY LAUGH, OR ONLY STATE THAT THATS NOT A CRIME,OR WE CAN´T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

ONE EXAMPLE OF THIS IS HOW DANISH PEOPLE HAVE PROVOKED MUSLIMS BY USING PICTURES OF MOHAMMED(=BLASHEMY OF ISLAM).

I HAVE IN MY OPEN LETTER TO SVALI WRITTEN ABOUT MY SITUATION IN DENMARK,AND IT´S BASICLY THAT OFFICIALS ARE NOT INTERESTED TO HANDLE MATTERS THEY SHOULD,SO I DON´T GET ANY SERVICE FROM DANISH OFFICIALS, EXCEPT THOSE THINGS THEY CANNOT DENY FROM ME (BEING TO OBVIOUS RACISM).I HOPE THAT JESUS HELPS ME TO LIVE IN THIS COUNTRY AND GIVES ME CHANCE TO GET MY LOVED ONES IN DENMARK BACK TO ME.AND STOP THIS POSSIBLE CRIME OF "ILLUMINATI"-PEOPLE AGAINST ME,IN WHICH THEY HAVE STOPPED ME TO MEET OR SEE PEOPLE WHO ARE VERY CLOSE TO ME,OR WOULD HAVE BEEN UNLESS SEPARATED FROM ME,WITH THE HELP OF OFFICIALS/THEIR CONNECTIONS.BECAUSE OF CRAZY "ILLUMINATI"-CONNECTED PEOPLE(BRØNDBY?)?JESUS LET IT BE CLEARED WHAT IS SITUATION REGARDING MY CHILD AND PERSONS WHOM I LOVE,LET ME GET JUSTICE HAPPEN IN DENMARK,AND LET ME BECOME FREE TO TALK TO THEM AND MEET THEM FREELY.

IMMIGRANTS REPLIES ARE MOSTLY REMOVED FROM DANISH DEBATES(IMMIGRANTS ARE UNDER SURVEILLANCE IN DENMARK?)THESE KIND OF THINGS I HAVE EXPERIENCED IN SOL.DK,JUBII.DK AND LIBERATOR.DK -DEBATES.THIS WOULD BE RACISM OR NAZISM- DANSKCRIMINATION?MY MYMUSIC.DK MESSAGE HAS PROPABLY DISAPPEARED ALSO, IMMEDIATELY AFTER I HAD FINALLY GOTTEN IT ALMOST PERFECT.

Here is part of my letter to SVALI(EX-ILLUMINATI-MEMBER)
YESTERDAY 18.2.I GOT FOLLOWED BY 2 MEMBERS FROM PLACE WHERE I USE COMPUTER,AND DSB(DANISH RAILWAYS)INSPECTOR WHOM I COMPLAINED WHEMN I WAS THREATENED BY VIOLENCE,JUST LAUGHED AND ASKED TO CALL POLICE,INSTEAD OF DOING IT HIMSELF.THOUGH SITUATION GOT HANDLED,BUT NOW THOSE PEOPLE,GANGMEMBERS?- ARE AFTER ME?I CANNOT USE INTERNET FREELY,OR BE FREELY IN COPENHAGEN.TODAY ONE OMEMBER FROM INTERNET-PLACE WAS AT STATION WHICH I USE WHEN I GO TO COPENHAGEN.HE HAS EARLIER DISTURBED ME IN THAT INTERNET CAFE.ONE OF THOSE EPOPLE IS PROPABLE PET,OR SOMEKIND OF OFIICIAL CONECTED PERSON(DANISH).I GUESS I AM UNDER CONTROL, OR ALSO MY INTERNET -USE.SOMEOONE WAS STANDING SECRETLY BEHINSD ME YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS USING COMPUTER.
THIS IS ONLY ONE DAYS HAPPENINGS, BUT THIS KIND OF THINGS HAPPENS ALMOST EVERYDAY, EXCEPT THAT THERE IS NO VIOLENCE(ESPECIALLY IF I ALWAYS AVOI! D it="GO" ÁWAY).I GUESS IT´S POSSIBLE THEY TRY TO MAKE ME SOMETHING STUPID,GET ANGRY,VIOLENT,ETC.SO THAT THEY CAN JUST DESTROY ME.
THIS MAY BE ALSO A WAY TO STOP ME SEEING PEOPLE IN COPENHAGEN,BECAUSE THIS WEEK WAS A WINTER-HOLIDAY IN DENMARK, AND THEREFORE I COULD HAVE MET SOME PEOPLE I CANNOT NORMALLY EVER MEET IN COPENHAGEN, SO NOW I AM STOPPED TO GO TO COPENHAGEN CITY.THIS WOULD FIT ILLUMINATI-THEORY,ILLUMINATI BEING BEHIND THIS DISCRIMINATION AND CONTROL OF MY LIFE HERE.
I GUESS THIS CAN BE DANISH OR EVEN INTERNATIONAL ILLUMINATI/FREEMASON-MAFIA.IN DENMARK IS PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?INSPECTOR YESTERDAY DIDN´T GAVE HIS NAME.

Things like what happened 10.3.(BROENDBY STRAND) must be stopped.AM I UNDER SURVEILLANCE IN DENMARK?

F.EX. NOW THERE HAS BEEN GANGS IN SAME BUSSES I AM USING,AND THIS IS NOT NORMAL.BY USING MOBILES F.EX. DANISH FREE MASONS AND THEIR CONNECTIONS MAY MOBILIZE 10000-100000 PEOPLE IN COPENHAGEN AREA.IF THEY USE THIS AGAINST ME I BEING ALONE CANNOT DO ANYTHING.THEREFORE I AM AFRAID TO MOVE IN DENMARK.

DANSKCRIMINATION:"LIVING IN DENMARK IS A PARTY FOR DANISH PEOPLE BUT MADE A NIGHTMARE FOR IMMIGRANTS"

Have I been under surveillance IN DENMARK,AND POLICE REFUSED TO HELP ME OR INVESTIGATE IT?IF THIS IS THE CASE,I THEREFORE ASK COMPENSATION OF AT LEAST 14 MILLION US DOLLARS,AND THAT EVERYTHING IS MADE GOOD AGAIN.OTHERWISE I HAVE NO LIFE IN DENMARK,AND WE HAVE DISCRIMINATION OR PERSECUTION HERE?AND UN SHOULD SET SANCTIONS TO CORRECT THIS SITUATION.
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NOTES(DON´TAKE THESE opinions SERIOUSLY if you feel bad about them:)
_I WANT TO STATE THAT MOST OF COLOURED IMMIGRANTS IN DENMARK ARE NOT PROB-LEM AND THEY ARE PART OF NORMAL LIFE IN DENMARK.I THINK MOST PROBLEMS IN DENMARK ARE CAUSED BY DF-PARTYS STATEMENTS AGAINST IMMIGRANTS AND JP-NEWSPAPERS MOHAMMED-DRAWINGS,AND THESE THINGS MAY BE MEANT TO IRRITATE MUSLIMS IN DENMARK ,AND WORLDWIDE?
-I AM A CHRISTIAN AND I ACCEPT ALL MUSLIMS AND RELIGIONS ,UNLESS THEY ACTIVELY DO CRIMES(SATANISM?)AND I THINK THAT MOST CHRISTIANS ACCEPT MUSLIMS IN DENMARK,AND THERE HAVE NOT BEEN ANY PROBLEMS BETWEEN THESE 2 RELIGIONS.
-ALSO IN YUGOSLAVIA MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS HAD LIVED IN PEACE LONG TIME,BUT WHEN RADOVAN KARADZIC CAME IN TO POWER,THERE STARTED TO BE RACE HATE-PROPAGANDA.
-IT´S ALSO SAID THAT THERE WOULDN´T BE ANY RIOTS IN GHETTOS IN USA, UNLESS MEDIA WOULDN´T CREATE THEM.
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THERE HAS BEEN MUSLIM RAGE TOWARDS DENMARK.ANYWAY IT´S STRANGE THAT MUSLIMS HAVE NOT RAGED AGAINST RADOVAN KARADZIC(UNDER HIS REGIME THERE WERE about 100000-200000 MUSLIMS KILLED AND ABOUT 40000 MUSLIM WOMEN RAPED IN SERBIA.)
HAS MEDIA SOMETHING TO DO WITH THIS-IS MEDIA MANIPULATING OPINIONS OF MASSES?
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MOST OF MY WRITINGS MAY FEEL STRANGE TO READERS WHO HAVE NO EXPERIENCE ABOUT OCCULT OR SATANIC GROUPS, BUT THOSE ONES WHO KNOW ABOUT THOSE THINGS MAY KNOW EVERYTHING TO BE TRUE.(OF COURSE I CAN BE WRONG.I HOPE I WE-RE...)OF COURSE IT´S NOT EASY TO KNOW ABOUT THOSE THINGS ,BECAUSE THEY ARE HIDDEN.
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_DANISH ILLUMINATI SYSTEM?:
IMMIGRANT GANGS HANDLE "PROBLEMS",AND POLICE IGNORES?NØRREBRO IS KEPT FREE AREA FOR IMMIGRANT GANGS,CHRISTIANIA FOR DRUG DEALING(HELLS AN-GELS/BANDIDOS?)
POLICE IS STATISFIED WHEN CRIMINALS KEEP PEOPLE UNDER THEIR COMMAND AND THEY DO NOTHING TO STOP THIS?POLICE STANDS AND ALLOWS ATTACKERS WALK FREE?
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DANSKCRIMINATION:ONE WAY HOW DENMARK STOPS INTEGRATION IS TO STOP IMMIGRANTS FROM CHATTING AND DEBATTING?
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POST DANMARK STOPS LETTERS GOING OUT FROM DENMARK?IT´S NOT POSSIBLE TO GET DATA FREELY OUT FROM DENMARK? Maybe not even e-mails?
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TORE TOIVICCO asks Denmark to apologize :
STASI,hk,
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IF SOMEONE HAD BEEN WITH ME AT LEAST ONE WEEKS TIME IN DENMARK, HE WOULD PROPABLY HAD UNDERSTOOD WHAT MY SITUATION IS.BUT WITHOUT BEING WITH ME,IT´S MAYBE IMPOSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND.
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DANSKCRIMINATION:
DANISH NEWSPAPER TESTED HOW DANISH OFFICES ARE ANSWERING TO IMMIGRANTS WHO CALLED AND WANTED TO RENT AN APARTMENT.ANSWERS PROVED THAT DANISH PEOPLE TOLD IMMIGRANTS MUCH LONGER WAITING TIME THAN TO DANISH CALLERS.
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_Illuminati business denmark?:
I guess it can be that Illuminati-elite in Denmark GETS money FROM INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MADE BY "ILLUMINATI-IMMIGRANTS/ ILLUMINATI ORGANIZATIONS/FIRMS-BUSINESSES".DRUG TRADE?SEX?
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"IMMIGRANTS MAY NOT BE INTEGRATED INTO DANISH SOCIETY.THEY MAY NOT BECOME PART OF DANISH SOCIETY."
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DANISH IMAM AKKARI MADE A JOKE ABOUT KILLING A PRIME MINISTER,WHILE AKKARI WAS TALKING WITH SOME OF HIS MUSLIM FRIENDS.THIS WAS SECRETLY TAPED,AND HE HAD TO MOVE OUT FROM DENMARK.
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DANISH ATTITUDE?:"IT´S A CRIME TO LIVE IN DENMARK IF YOU ARE AN IMMIGRANT."
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SAID BY CIA-AGENT LEE HARVEY OSWALD(USA,1963) and CITIZEN TORE
TOIVICCO(Denmark,2005):
" I do request someone to come forward to give me legal assistance. "
(PÅ DANSK: JEG BEDER OM AT NOGEN KOMMER OG GIVER MIG JURIDISK
BISTAND")
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TORE TOIVICCO IS A CHRISTIAN POLITICIAN,pop-ARTIST AND RESEARCHER OF
SATANISM
AND SATANIC CRIME.(I HAVE USED WORDS SATANISM,NEW WORLD ORDER AND ILLUMINATI/-MANAGEMENT/ADMINISTRATION TO DESCRIBE THAT PROPABLE ADMINISTRATION WHICH HAS HIDDEN POWER ON EARTH DECIDING ABOVE GOVERNMENTS.I DON´T WANT THESE WORDS TO BE USE! D AGAINST ANY MEMBER OF ANY RELIGION OR ANYONE WHATEVER RELIGIOUS BELIEFS HE HAS,or anything I can be accused.COPYRIGHT TORE TOIVICCO AND OTHER COPYRIGHT OWNERS or copyright holders.
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