Rate Your Music list just informed me that there's a new Candlemass album? And that apparently people are not rating our music ;)
― Nate Carson, Friday, 6 July 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
Well, of course they aren't – Witch Mountain aren't European power metal.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Friday, 6 July 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
Or weird Europrog or folk/pagan metal…
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
so j3ff, where's your list of best metal albums so far this year?
― Mordy, Friday, 6 July 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
This year I was totally going to write down which albums I loved to make it easier to compile a list at the end of the year… And then I didn't.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
so do it now!
― Mordy, Friday, 6 July 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
In no particular order (also, I love the Baroness and Torche records, but I'm not sure they are metal any longer):
Paradise Lost - Tragic IdolDawnbringer - Into the Lair of the Sun GodMeshuggah - KolossGrand Magus - The HuntGojira - L'enfant sauvageChristian Mistress - PossessionIhsahn - EremitaBarren Earth - The Devil's ResolveWitch Mountain - Cauldron of the WildPallbearer - Sorrow and ExtinctionRoyal Thunder - CVILiberteer - Better to Die on Your Feet Than Live on Your KneesWorm Ouroboros - Come The ThawAlcest - Les Voyages De L'ÂmeLes Discrets - Ariettes oubliées...Asphyx - DeathhammerCannibal Corpse - TortureKatatonia - Dead End KingsJeff Loomis - Plains of OblivionHorisont - Second AssaultOccultation - Three and SevenNachtmystium - Silencing MachineTestament - Dark Roots of Earth
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
But what the hell, let's include these:
The Devils Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre (by US release date)Baroness - Yellow and GreenTorche - Harmonicraft
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
Metall is the most honest genre
― calstars, Friday, 6 July 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
My top 12 of 2012, so far:
Baroness, Yellow & GreenCannibal Corpse, TortureEmmure, Slave to the GameGojira, L'Enfant SauvageGrand Magus, The HuntJob for a Cowboy, DemonocracyKreator, Phantom AntichristManowar, The Lord of SteelNapalm Death, UtilitarianSteelwing, Zone of AlienationWhitechapel, s/tWhourkr, 4247 Snare Drums
― 誤訳侮辱, Friday, 6 July 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
Manowar certainly are no more silly than Alice Cooper, who opened for Iron Maiden and was well received. I could see them opening for Maiden.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 6 July 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
How was the show?
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 6 July 2012 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
Solid lists, Jeff and Phil. Though I'm still not feeling the Paradise Lost album much, and Emmure, well, their gimmick is smarter than people give them credit for, but I still find them unbearable. Katatonia is growing on me, but I still think it's their least consistent album in a very long time, perhaps ever.
I posted my own January-June highlights at MSN earlier this week:http://social.entertainment.msn.com/music/blogs/headbang-blogpost.aspx?post=2ed01d65-6407-462b-b3be-19923c4ac2ca
― A. Begrand, Friday, 6 July 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I saw that – I was considering putting Accept on my list, but I'm not sure how often I'm going to revisit that one. And as my Decibel review indicated, I still don't understand the appeal of Lamb of God's pure American mediocrity.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Friday, 6 July 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
First time I saw Iron Maiden. Great to see them play plenty of songs from 80-84 era that I grew up with. Sound could have been better -- loud but muddy, hard to discern which of the three (!) guitarists were playing what. Bruce D jumps around like he's frickin' 25. I'm not too into these big venues though, I much preferred the Elder show in a small room with 35 people.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 6 July 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
Bruce jumps around a little too much for his own good – he fell off the drum riser onto his head at the Dance of Death show I saw.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Friday, 6 July 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sorry the sound was muddy. I wonder how much was venue or band. I'm seeing Maiden in August for the first time in 25 or so years, and am really excited by the setlists that have been making the rounds.
I'm a small room show guy too. This will be my first thousands and thousands of people show in 15 or 20 years.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 6 July 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
listening to new baroness for the first time right now. just finishing yellow but WOW.
― Mordy, Friday, 6 July 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
The new Lamb of God goes on some interesting tangents, and I don't consider them mediocre, but I just don't need anything beyond Palaces and Ashes, you know what I mean?
― 誤訳侮辱, Friday, 6 July 2012 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
Most intriguing new album in a while for me: Arbor's The Plutonian Shore. Black Metal, I guess, but with enthusiasm and real dynamics. Wolves in the Garage?
And Ankhagram are tiding me over on breathy funeral doom until the new Evoken comes out.
And provisional approval for Kråke, Thormesis, Uncertain, Bend the Sky and Natan. And the Agalloch "EP". And old Asrai and Xandria albums.
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 7 July 2012 03:47 (eleven years ago) link
The brothers in metal thing is dumb.. its just dumb.
Trying to be the loudest band in the world. dumb! trying to be the fasted drummer, loudest screamer.. all that shit they tried to do to get notice and in the Guiness book years ago.. fucking lame! Only a pretentious prickface would try to do any of those things. Bands with real heart don't try and do those things, they just are..
Viking songs? from an American Band? lame!!! What the fuck do they know about Vikings?
Manowar to me is the very reason metal gets clowned on for being ridiculous, overly macho, homo-erotic, war-mongering and just not smart.. For some, Metal are burnouts, or dumb jocks that got kicked off the team for bad grades, and they fall into the latter.. They cover all the stereotypes, imo.
And I think Alice Cooper is hella silly, too. His music was never cool to me, certainly nothing heavy, and the theatrics seem to try and make up for lack of musical integrity..
― SeanWayne, Saturday, 7 July 2012 04:04 (eleven years ago) link
back when all i knew about manowar was that they were 'the world's loudest band' (and i didn't really listen to any metal then) i listened to them once to test that claim and it was the most embarrassing thing ever. AND not the loudest.
― j., Saturday, 7 July 2012 04:08 (eleven years ago) link
I'm with you re: Manowar, Sean, but you just might want to reconsider Alice Cooper.
― 'Sit pax in valle tamesis' ('Let there be Peace in the Thames Valley') (Viceroy), Saturday, 7 July 2012 04:13 (eleven years ago) link
I've tried with Alice, it ain't happenin... lol!
― SeanWayne, Saturday, 7 July 2012 04:24 (eleven years ago) link
Mgła With Hearts Toward None is probably my pick of the year so far. Somewhere in between Nachtmystium, Drudkh and Deathspell Omega, very well produced, great songwriting, not a weak riff to be found and all played with max intensity.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 7 July 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
I posted my own January-June highlights at MSN earlier this week
― Siegbran, Saturday, 7 July 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
I like the Asphyx album, for sure, I was singing its praises when it came out. I forgot to include it when singling out the better death metal releases, but in the end it won't make the cut on my EOY list come December anyway. Nile just might, I love the new one.
― A. Begrand, Saturday, 7 July 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
So I was poking around an antique mall in Bay City, Michigan the other day and stumbled across this, for $20:
http://i999.photobucket.com/albums/af118/jon830/IMAG2522.jpg
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, 7 July 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
Also, as we were driving home last night, some mid-Michigan rock station had a "Mandatory Metallica" block. So I thought, hey, at least a stretch of good music to keep me awake. Nope. The "block" consisted of 2 Death Magnetic songs. Come on.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, 7 July 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
Nice find!
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 7 July 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I was super excited!
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, 7 July 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
I had no idea any part of the series was collected like that. Hella cool.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 7 July 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
With the risk of sounding like the boy who cried wolf: apparently Summoning are working on their first album in more than seven years.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 7 July 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
Siegbran you are only saying that to taunt me.
― perry en concrète (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 7 July 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
fucking A this is pretty exciting.
19.02.2012After a longer winter-sleep summoning is back again and ow works constantly for a new release. We promise that in the near future we will regularly update the homepage again, so it will we worth the costs to check the page in regular intervals. The present situation of Summoning: In the past years we have worked on new material just very rarely because of different reasons (partly personal, partly being not motivated enough) but since the last months ,we intensified the work for new material and realised, that the old spirit is back again and we are very motivated for a cool new release and we are very committed in every terms of composing. Meanwhile there are two songs which are fix starters for the album. 4 or 5 songs are in a more advance state and we composed riffs for at least 10 or 15 songs in a very early state. Btw. we still have one finished song from the last oath bound session which also will be in one or another way. so probably this time we are in the luck situation that we have more songs left, so maybe there will be some special limited fan releases beside the normal release, but this is of course just a wish right now. We hope that until the end of this year most of the material for the new album can be finished. In the moment we have no concrete conception about the lyrical concept. All we can say right now is, that Summoning is still alive and middle earth will awake again.
The present situation of Summoning:
In the past years we have worked on new material just very rarely because of different reasons (partly personal, partly being not motivated enough) but since the last months ,we intensified the work for new material and realised, that the old spirit is back again and we are very motivated for a cool new release and we are very committed in every terms of composing.
Meanwhile there are two songs which are fix starters for the album. 4 or 5 songs are in a more advance state and we composed riffs for at least 10 or 15 songs in a very early state. Btw. we still have one finished song from the last oath bound session which also will be in one or another way. so probably this time we are in the luck situation that we have more songs left, so maybe there will be some special limited fan releases beside the normal release, but this is of course just a wish right now.
We hope that until the end of this year most of the material for the new album can be finished. In the moment we have no concrete conception about the lyrical concept. All we can say right now is, that Summoning is still alive and middle earth will awake again.
― perry en concrète (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 7 July 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
I only have Oath Bound (which is pretty great), what's their classic record?
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Saturday, 7 July 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
Ah so old news - hadn't seen that message yet, I heard it through one of my Austrian contacts.
Classic one...I guess Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame or Minas Morgul...they don't really have one undisputed classic. Oath Bound could've been monumental but it sounds like ass, either they were drunk when mixing it or they only heard the final master over the phone.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 7 July 2012 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
I think Mortal Heroes is probably the one that represents them best but Stronghold has "Long Lost to Where No Pathway Goes" which is an all-time jam for me. But Stronghold also suffers from the vocals of Tania Borsky, who on some lines ("I wait for youuuuuu!") literally does not seem to know where the right note is. I'll rep for getting their whole catalog to be honest - for me they're one of those bands who, when it's what I want to hear, literally nothing else will do.
― perry en concrète (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 7 July 2012 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
Also, as we were driving home last night, some mid-Michigan rock station had a "Mandatory Metallica" block. So I thought, hey, at least a stretch of good music to keep me awake. Nope. The "block" consisted of 2 Death Magnetic songs. Come on.― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, July 7, 2012 8:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Saturday, July 7, 2012 8:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol jvc, there's a real good chance that station was Q106, which was a fixture of my childhood. My band played a battle of the bands they hosted last year...they're totally corrupt.
― t. s. idiot (loves laboured breathing), Sunday, 8 July 2012 12:47 (eleven years ago) link
Now that you mention it, that was definitely it. The only other thing I remember was a bunch of commercials for Pop Evil and Three Days Grace concerts. Sadly, by playing old Tool and Nirvana, it was one of the better stations we came across driving through that part of the state.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 8 July 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
Pop Evil – why
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Sunday, 8 July 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
Who knows? The new band I hear people talk about is the Hollywood Undead. I have no idea whether they get any radioplay or if they have more of a grassroots, word-of-mouth appeal.
I haven't heard much of them but they're p emblematic of why I try to never leave the house anymore.
― t. s. idiot (loves laboured breathing), Sunday, 8 July 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
I think boring radio rock is my least favorite thing ever.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Sunday, 8 July 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone else heard the new Nachtvorst album?
― Siegbran, Monday, 9 July 2012 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
Seriously, modern mainstream radio rock is the worst. Of all the directions heavy rock could have taken over the past 10 years, how did the Creed descendents win out?
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 9 July 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
Laziness.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Monday, 9 July 2012 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
Just gave the Summoning a try. I have a hard time with nature-worshiping bands that use drum machines.
― Nate Carson, Monday, 9 July 2012 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
Like Fear Factory?
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 04:02 (eleven years ago) link
dude there's only a handful of bands ever with guitar lines as stellar as Summoning's
― perry en concrète (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
Dude, why are you guys all not listening to this Ptahil album RIGHT NOW?
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 04:31 (eleven years ago) link