I'm impressed by the Author & Punisher too, and love the Corsair.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 29 November 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
I think you're absolutely right SeanWayne. Metal is no longer a young man (or even a man's) game. I can testify.
― Nate Carson, Friday, 30 November 2012 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
Oh I just set myself up for a barrage of tranny jokes, didn't I?
Metal is now the Crying Game.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 30 November 2012 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
Hasn't it always been, though?
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Friday, 30 November 2012 01:32 (eleven years ago) link
So...who's buying the 15-CD Blind Guardian box that's coming out in February?
― 誤訳侮辱, Sunday, 2 December 2012 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
J3ff?
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 2 December 2012 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
That's a lot of Blind Guardian.
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Sunday, 2 December 2012 01:13 (eleven years ago) link
Apparently it's their whole discography, studio and live albums, plus a couple of discs' worth of rarities.
Blabbermouth rundown
― 誤訳侮辱, Sunday, 2 December 2012 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
Here's the list that was linked above.
Mixtarum Metallum IV: The 20 Best of 2012
Neurosis - Honor Found in DecayLiberteer - Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your KneesPallbearer - Sorrow and ExtinctionBlack Breath - Sentenced to LifeGod Seed - I BeginRoyal Thunder - CVIThe Secret - Agnus DeiHigh on Fire - De Vermis MysteriisEvoken - Atra MorsMartyrdöd - ParanoiaConan - MonnosTitan - BurnNapalm Death - UtilitarianDordeduh - Dar de DuhWitch Mountain - Cauldron of the WildNachtmystium - Silencing MachineNihill - VerdonkermaanGaza - No Absolutes in Human SufferingUfomammut - Oro: Opus Primum & Opus AlterAMENRA - Mass V
I'm listening to Liberteer, Gaza and God Seed for the first time, still processing.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 2 December 2012 05:37 (eleven years ago) link
I hope that The latest Grand Magus record, The Hunt, gets some recognition from people. I hadn't listened to it in a while but it is a rifftastic monster. Such a great driving album, all forward motion with big old sing-along choruses. It deserves a wider audience.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 2 December 2012 06:04 (eleven years ago) link
I don't like that Liberteer album at all. I love grind and I get the concept and all, but those synthy horns make me cringe so much.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Sunday, 2 December 2012 09:02 (eleven years ago) link
Horny synths would be better.
― endless budgie (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 2 December 2012 10:04 (eleven years ago) link
I liked The Hunt so much I went back to their previous albums to re-listen, and bought a couple on CD.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 2 December 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
way late but the new converge is great, man they are making some excellent records these days
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 2 December 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
I do need to track down that Grand Magus. I've really liked their last couple and I kept waiting for the new one to show up in shops, when it didn't, I kinda forgot all about it.
kinda half-jokingly lol @ Converge making excellent records "these days", imho, they've been making excellent records for about a decade now
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 2 December 2012 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
I don't find Converge in the least appealing. One of the many where I accept they're good at their thing but their thing has the appeal of a bag of shit.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 2 December 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, December 2, 2012 4:54 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's prob true, i took a break after jane doe because i didn't really dig that album but now i'm back
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 2 December 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, December 2, 2012 5:32 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
also i appreciate this, they're an occasional thing for me
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 2 December 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sure I'd like them live, but the rest of the bill would have to be stellar for that to happen because I'm not buying a ticket with the hope that I won't hate it.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 2 December 2012 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
I would have liked to see Kvelertak on their latest tour but I was out of town when they came through.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 2 December 2012 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
that was the wrong show to be scheduled for a tuesday night here but i did in theory want to see it
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 2 December 2012 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
It was a Thursday here, but I was heading out of town at 5 the next morning. I couldn't do what you did for the Agalloch show a few years ago. Thanks again for that sacrifice!
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 2 December 2012 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
I have it on good authority that Kvelertak will be doing a much more substantial US tour in 2013.
Re Converge live: When I saw them on tour with Dethklok, Mastodon and High On Fire, they were pretty good, musically speaking, except that Bannon sounded even more like a relentlessly barking Rottweiler than usual and he was running back and forth onstage doing what looked a lot like a Nazi salute. It was a little off-putting. Also, they were the only band that looked dwarfed by the stage, somehow. I haven't made it all the way through the new album.
― 誤訳侮辱, Sunday, 2 December 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, December 2, 2012 5:49 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that was a blast!
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 2 December 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
Next time you come to Dallas for a show I promise you can crash for a night. :)
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 2 December 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
thanks for the Kvelertak upcoming tour insight, 誤訳侮辱. And the Converge live review. That doesn't sound like it would convert me.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 2 December 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I've actually never seen Converge live, but based on what I know of those guys, I can't believe that Bannon's arm thing was anything but pure accident or something.
Would love to see Kvelertak.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 2 December 2012 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
Seen Converge a couple times, never been that impressed. I don't know, they're fine, but not really my thing.
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Sunday, 2 December 2012 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
I think I may have already said that on here… Apparently I'm going senile in my old age.
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Monday, 3 December 2012 00:07 (eleven years ago) link
Converge were pretty great here on Friday night, I have to say. Bannon was darting around too, but no Nazi salutes, just random gestures (nothing like the best on-stage gestures I've seen, from the frontman in Zen Guerrilla).
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Monday, 3 December 2012 09:22 (eleven years ago) link
I saw High on Fire with Goatwhore over the weekend... Really good show, but HoF was mixed so in the red that their sound actually lost a bunch of oomph (drums were totally buried, Pike's guitar was hard to hear beyond just a deep thrum). Goatwhore, on the other hand, totally owned. I'd never heard them before, but I seem to have a really high tolerance for Celtic Frost worship. They were insanely tight, mixed perfectly, and had amazing stage presence.
― Clarke B., Monday, 3 December 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
How's Pike looking these days? When I saw HoF last, back in March, he was looking a little haggard (which makes sense, given what transpired since). Just hoping dude is doing well.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 December 2012 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
Doing some catching up on 2012 releases I missed, really enjoying the Lunar Aurora album, Hoagascht.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 December 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
Pike looked pretty good, I thought. No shortage of energy...
― Clarke B., Monday, 3 December 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
One of my editors wants me to interview Paul Di'Anno for his upcoming show. Anybody got a good PR contact for the man, the myth? Thanks.
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 03:24 (eleven years ago) link
p✧✧✧@battlez✧✧✧.n✧✧
― U.S. State Department, Office of Rare Psych (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
xpost - Thanks for including us in your top 20 Fastnbulbous!
xxpost - I have been seeing Converge live since the 90s. They have been incredible every time I've seen them -- except for on that Dethklok tour. Something wasn't right about that one.
As for the new album, I streamed it, and it sounds great like all their stuff. But I don't know that I need any more music like that in my life. Pretty happy to put on one of their mid-era records to scratch that itch, or more likely a Deadguy album instead.
Either way, I hold them in very high esteem. I just think most of us are too old to be the target audience for Converge in 2012-13. Too bad because they are really fine artists that are aging well. And if they toned it down for our old ears, they'd piss off everyone else.
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 03:34 (eleven years ago) link
Gracias Sh@kedown!
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 03:35 (eleven years ago) link
oh jeez i'm an a-hole that was supposed to be a joek :(
sorry the formatting thing made it look legit
― U.S. State Department, Office of Rare Psych (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 03:40 (eleven years ago) link
Oh whatever, no biggie. Haha!
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
the new Kowloon Walled City is streaming at Lambgoat
― SeanWayne, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 05:15 (eleven years ago) link
also on Spotify here in the UK, sounding good!
― Neil S, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 11:28 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i listened to it yesterday, really excellent
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 12:57 (eleven years ago) link
Also for "name your price" download on Bandcamp: http://kowloonwalledcity.bandcamp.com/album/container-ships
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
Also looks like Ludicra has started tossing stuff up on Bandcamp for name your price: http://ludicraofficial.bandcamp.com/
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
Oooh!! Now that's interesting. Thanks for the alert!
― passion it person (La Lechera), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
Yesssssss
https://twitter.com/BillCompton10/status/275823621522460673/photo/1
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
Noooo
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_meingdq0qi1r9a32bo1_500.jpg
Hopefully that worked.
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link