pretty interesting label spread on the pitchfork list: 40 albums - eight are from Relapse, eight are from Profound Lore, if I'm counting right.
― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 23 December 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
are you saying that dilettantes be dilettantin
― j., Monday, 24 December 2012 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
don't really think brandon is a dilettante
― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Monday, 24 December 2012 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
i wouldn't say so either, but it wouldn't be surprising if there were a kind of house effect, given that the choices are (?) things that ran in pitchfork
― j., Monday, 24 December 2012 01:59 (eleven years ago) link
I sort of assumed that was because he chose them to cover?
― Simon H., Monday, 24 December 2012 02:03 (eleven years ago) link
man ... i dig this Dawnbringer album overall, but "V" damn near ruins it for me. i am ok with ballads and "softer" stuff; i adore "Yellow & Green." but i don't know about this song. this is some serious cheese.
― alpine static, Monday, 24 December 2012 07:16 (eleven years ago) link
No way, it feels like those great ballads Alice Cooper used to write with Dick Wagner. Only the true metal dudes can write a good power ballad and pull it off.
― A. Begrand, Monday, 24 December 2012 08:32 (eleven years ago) link
Brandon is an IRL metal dude, his dues are all paid up and his membership's current and I dig him, but I think he's taken in right now by 1) Profound Lore's "aura" for lack of a better term - v. image-heavy label and 2) "USBM" about which interest/boosterism I have much to say, none of it good, even though one of the best black metal bands (Ares Kingdom) is from Kansas City
― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 24 December 2012 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
but I think he's taken in right now by 1) Profound Lore's "aura" for lack of a better term - v. image-heavy label
I think it's easy for anyone to be taken in by that kind of thing, and it's always happened. Ten years ago we would have said the same thing about Hydra Head.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Monday, 24 December 2012 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it does certainly some like profound lore 1) puts out a ton of records and 2) knows how to promote those records.
but i only see like 3 usbm records in the top 25, maybe 3 more in the top 40? it doesn't strike me as a list that's heavy on that stuff. i'd have to go back and check but it seems to include more diversity (and esp. more death metal) than previous years.
― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Monday, 24 December 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
Bandcamp Christmas deals continue: http://beastwars.bandcamp.com/album/beastwars just dropped to "name your price."
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Monday, 24 December 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
Another Summoning update:
27.12.2012Last month we recorded all the guitar riffs for the new album, and Protector recorded already his vocal lines. Silenius will do his vocal parts in the next weeks. We replaced the original intro with a new one (which has a stronger intro feeling), the old one will be transformed into an instrumental track, which maybe will be used as a bonustrack together with the missing song from the othbound session. The new albums will be entitled "Old Mornings Dawn". A one minute teaser is in progress and will be available on the Napalm Records homepage soon.
We replaced the original intro with a new one (which has a stronger intro feeling), the old one will be transformed into an instrumental track, which maybe will be used as a bonustrack together with the missing song from the othbound session.
The new albums will be entitled "Old Mornings Dawn". A one minute teaser is in progress and will be available on the Napalm Records homepage soon.
― Siegbran, Friday, 28 December 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
Man, South Pole Dispatch is always one of the first things I read when I get my new issue of Decibel in the mail, but goddamn the man deserves some kind of award for the 100th issue 2-pager.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 28 December 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
Orphaned LandThe recordings of the new Orphaned Land album have started NOW in Istanbul!Like · · Share · 5103419 · 4 hours ago ·
― Mordy, Saturday, 29 December 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
An Italian reader reminded me to check out Sweden's Left Hand Solution for another doom band with great female vocals. I'd heard of them but never got around to hearing them until today. Fevered (1997) is pretty great! Haven't started on Light Shines Back (2001) yet. They've been on extended hiatus, but have performed a couple times in recent years.
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 29 December 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
Really enjoying the Grand Supreme Blood Court album that came out last month. Four (ex-)Asphyx members + one Hail Of Bullets guy playing...exactly what you'd expect.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 30 December 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
In fact, now that the nominations for the EoY poll are closed I'm suddenly finding shitloads of great records:Melankoli - WindLustre - They Awoke to the Scent of SpringDark Forest - Land Of The Evening StarAn Autumn for Crippled Children - Only the Ocean KnowsBorgne - Royaume Des OmbresLocus Neminis - Weltenwanderung
― Siegbran, Sunday, 30 December 2012 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
Also, more Lustre to come in January:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejEkMC17VX4
― Siegbran, Sunday, 30 December 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
Happy New Year, you bastards!!
― SeanWayne, Monday, 31 December 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
Really enjoying Beneath's Enslaved by Fear. They're Icelandic death metal ,and to me sound kind of like Behemoth without the black metal influence, catchy songwriting, well-played death metal.
Also digging Malignancy's Eugenics, although being that my first experience with them (and only) was Intrauterine Cannibalism, I barely recognized them.
― NINO CARTER, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
Rolling Metal Thread 2013
Lock thread!
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
isnt it like 5pm your time? a little overanxious dude.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 00:55 (eleven years ago) link
It was midnight GMT. LOCK EZ.
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
I! AM! THE THREAD-KILLER!
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 02:31 (eleven years ago) link