Rolling Metal Thread 2010

and i think she had a valid point or two but the whole time i was just like "i would hate you if i met you"

but also insulting to their inevitable brilliance.

Seriously, fuck you. I hope your theoretical daughters grow up to be dumb sluts.

I'm really biased and pro-swift/anti-gaga anyway but I just felt like the one or two valid points in there are just absolutely buried under the many, many desperate leaps she's taking to prop up gaga.

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it's an awful, terrible, nonsensical false dichotomy that would only be raised by someone who essentially doesn't understand pop music

totally.

plus, I just hate this clever but not really "bloggy" type of writing that just comes across as someone completely in love with the sound of their own voice blabbing on and on.

and I ESPECIALLY hate people that write this way in office emails, let me tell you what!

not slandering all blogs btw. just ones that are written like... that.

lol i work with software engineers and can barely get a complete sentence out of 'em which is annoying, but yeah emails in the self-regarding blog voice would be much worse

lolz I am familiar with that as well

I'm gonna watch some homicide episodes and pass out. sorry about bringing swift vs. gaga into this metal dudes

I am anti-swift and pro-gaga. I am also anti-Perry and pro-Allen.

On a more metal note, complaining about the prominent vocals on hof seems crazy to me.

If you hate on this HOF album, you deserve to have the motorhead back-patch torn from your denim jacket and burned before you.

btw (and this is my measure for great rocking party time awesome metal) this cd makes my dog flip out and run around and want to play tug of war. last time he got this nutzoid was for slough feg, so its obvious that the animal has great taste.

I am also anti-Perry

oh oh, what did Dan do to you now?

xp

HOF rules (vox-mix sounds fine to me)! fuck the haterz!

Yeah I'm really confused by the haters on this. I guess I can hear that the vocals are high in the mix, but to me thats part of why its so fucking great. His vocals sound just right to me. I just unequivocally loved it from first listen and am surprised that this would be the album to really split opinion on them.

i might give it the nod over blessed black wings also o_O

― THEY HAVE CREATED ANOTHER (jjjusten), Wednesday, February 24, 2010 9:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oh man if this is true. I havent heard it yet, cant wait.

ok so I guess I have to listen to the new HOF when I'm not working and doin thangs

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/42/107031291_c015acf0ee_o.jpg

^^^thangs I was doin during my first listen to the new HOF

Got my copy of the Best Buy version w/three bonus tracks (two live ones, but one extra new studio song) in today's mail.

This might be obscure for many of you but Tommy Atkins from incredible prog/doomsters The Great Tyrant (formerly Yeti) died yesterday. RIP :(

Did he die fighting in the first world war?

I don't know how many ILMers are gonna be at SXSW, but I'm gonna be attending for the first time ever, because my friend Wes Orshoski, who directed the documentary Lemmy, has asked me to come down and interview Lemmy for an hour, live on stage. So if you're gonna be in town anyway, stop on by.

that's awesome phil!

btw i went to the store yesterday to pick up the high on fire and some other stuff and spent a minute looking around for the more expensive super-special edition with a dvd or a 5.1 mix or whatever. only this morning did i realize they're no longer on relapse!

This might be obscure for many of you but Tommy Atkins from incredible prog/doomsters The Great Tyrant (formerly Yeti) died yesterday. RIP :(

awww, man. bummer news. yeti were a totally cool band but I never checked out the great tyrant. probably should.

I love the single-sided 12" with the yes-styled logo. and didn't someone in yeti die at an early age too? :-/

Oh happy day:

The Eve Of UFOMAMMUT's Finest Day...

Eve - the eagerly awaited new studio album from Italy's most cerebral and mammoth doom act UFOMMAMUT - has been completed, and is eagerly awaiting release onto the masses. Appropriately titled, Eve is the fifth official album from the obliterating trio. The album - comprised of one 45-minute atmospheric track, divided into five distinct movements - acts as a living homage to the first woman on Earth, and the rebellion to her creator for bringing knowledge to Mankind.

Recorded at Locomotore Studio in Roma, Italy by Lorenzo Stecconi (who also acted as sound lord on the band's 2007 epic Idolum), Eve is a new step in the sonic adventure of UFOMAMMUT; another level in the band's research. Rounding out at an incredibly action-packed 44:44, the album passes through the same massive atmospheres as Idolum, layered with mastodonic riffage as heard on the band's Snailking release, yet also bears some of the apparition-like passages the band displayed so well on their Lucifer Songs LP, while still formulating a forward-thinking approach to the release. Check out a video montage of the making of this monstrosity here: http://www.youtube.com/EarsplitPR#p/f/7/F3vvDBZDyOw.

UFOMAMMUT's status as one of the most potent, powerful and artistic contemporary doom artists in existence continues to captivate the masses, and the band's worldwide grasp grows wider with each release. With continual appearances at Roadburn and other notable Euro fests under their belt, and intermittent regional European touring already something the band is used to, the band are set on more widespread actions in 2010. UFOMAMMUT made their American live debut in 2009, when they undertook a west coast mini-tour, coinciding with an art tour bearing works born of the trio's own world famous Malleus Rock Art Lab. More live plans for both continents are imminent throughout the year.

To be released worldwide on May 5th via Malleus' own Supernatural Cat Records, Eve is an undeniably infectious and utterly devastating piece of doom metal art that shall surely be a major player for the year. Watch for more announcements on the band throughout the year.

finally listened to that new EP by acrassicauda. that iraqi band from the documentary. they really like old metallica albums. which is cool. so do i. gotta give it up to Vice Records. they gave these dudes a handsome package to sell.

I didn't expect the Acrassicauda to be that good, but yeah, Skolnick has molded these guys into a very promising band. A far cry from playing "The Final Countdown" in a hotel in Baghdad.

And congrats on the Lemmy gig, Phil! Wish I was going to sxsw.

How long are the songs on that EP? Just curious because the pre-order on iTunes has it priced as a full-length album.

They're average length; it's about 20 minutes of music all together.

Get it from Amazon; it's $3.96 for MP3s or $6.99 for a physical disc. (The new Hayaino Daisuki is a real ripoff - $9.99 for a 12-minute CD. Maybe it comes in a DVD case like the Discordance Axis albums did, though.)

Thanks for the info. I'd taken to buying most EPs via iTunes lately, just because it usually seems to be the cheaper route - not in this case apparently.

no complaints over the vocals too high in mix?

― Pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, February 24, 2010 9:36 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I just got my copy of the new HOF. Am I missing something on these complaints about the production? This thing sounds awesome to me, no complaints at all. This is a fantastic album, much better than Communion, even though I liked that one.

Holy shit: Fire Flood and Plague.

theyre great songs, i just dislike the vocal mix, but if it sounds better on cd (or in my case vinyl) then that's great to know!

it will prob be my album of 2010 but the mix i heard i didnt like the vocal production, so it couldve been even better.

vocal mix isn't the problem with this (i just got to it today btw)--it's that there's no top end unless a guitar lead is happening and the drums have been COMPLETELY NEUTERED. like the opening to the 7th track should be majestic and awesome but really kinda isn't cause the snare and cymbals are so fuckin weak.

too bad, there's a lot to like: i actually really dig pike playing up the vocal performance, he seems to be having a lot of fun with it. and there's more bass on here than any other hof record. songwriting seems really sharp on once pass; more so than death is this communion which meandered a lot. but i think this is always going to sound a little caged to me.

in other words there's always gonna be a feeling "it could've been even better"

yeah--as of now i mean i like it, i'm gonna listen to it a good amount, but it might well be fatally flawed for me

finally listening to Necrophagist's Onset of Putrefaction after the tool who I bought it from on half.com lost my package....amazon to the rescue....

On first listen, man programmed drums really take away but the guitar makes up for it. still tho drums are a heavy part of what i love about death metal and programmed drums just dont' do it.

ok so the one song on the HOF that isnt doing it for me at all is "How Dark We Pray"

In case you haven't picked up the Best Buy version with the three bonus tracks (which are awesome)...

thx man!

not available in the uk cheers!

um wtf is a .sitx?

You just need a stuffit extracting thing. Like WinRar and all that, easy stuff.

Thanks, by the way! No Best Buy where I am.

nothing i have will extract it argh

got it using stuffit

New Alcest and Apostle Of Solitude albums are very good.