Rolling Metal Thread 2010

Huh, well I'm certainly going to move that from my 'totally uninterested' pile to the 'worth a listen' pile.

I'm with Adrien. The new Ratt disc is a really, really pleasant surprise.

Okay, with two of you chiming in I am convinced to give it a shot. Might have to wait til after this Corrupted kick.

So the new Armored Saint album is good fun. There's a lot more groove/funk-fueled stuff than ever before, but the classic heavy metal element that made these guys so great is always there. I haven't decided if it's better than Revelation (it's definitely not as great as Symbol of Salvation, Delirious Nomad, or March of the Saint for that matter), but it has its moments.

I haven't listened to this yet, but I have a feeling regulars of this thread, especially people who lean toward the moodier, more genre-blurring end of black metal, will find something to love in it.

I'm definitely going to check that out, thanks.

Also, I'm surprised it took that long for someone to come up with a black metal version of the Buddha Machine.

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that flingco comp is really good. got it thru the pussygutt dude's blog. i don't know that pussygutt counts as metal but everything they do slays.

FROST HAMMER

FROST HAMMER

FROST HAMMER

FROST HAMMER

also if i may AEALO is dope as shit

So I'm looking through the nominees list for the metal poll, and I see that Antigama's 'Warning' wasn't nominated - if I'd known I would have thrown that name in the hat because I just heard it a week ago and it's fucking insanely good, like Nasum good. Would've been by number 2 pick for sure. Ah well, you always miss something.

In other news, for anyone here who gets BBC Four on their telly, the Iron Maiden doc Flight 666 is on tonight at 11pm. It's part of a short Metal Britannia season that features a whole night of metal tomorrow from 9pm (a 90-minute doc thing along the lines of the Factory Records one last year, some live BBC performances, a Maiden concert vid, and the Rock Family Trees ep on Black Sabbath). About bloody time, too.

Also I'm sure some of these will show up in the usual spots if they aren't already available.

Yeah the Flingco comp is pretty good, although less Metal than I was expecting.

Sob, my copy of the Black Box went missing in the Post somewhere between San Francisco & London. I still hope it may show up one day, but its been something like 6 months now.

Blood of the Black Owl 'A Banishing Ritual (Into White)'

This dude's albums just get better and better. The final few minutes of the new one sounds like Burial Hex mixed with Dark Side of the Moon and Cluster.

And he looks like Asterix The Gaul. Stood in a forest.

"...the new one is going to be better than ten Super Bowls! I don't want to oversell it, judge for yourself."

Yeah, if I was American and watched sport I'd probably get what you're driving at. As it is...

New Exodus is actually... really good? I can never get very far into Atrocity Exhibition, but The Human Condition has some seriously great riffs, and it sounds like Rob Dukes has added an extra dimension to his vocals, so he's now two dimensional. I'm not sure it can maintain the energy for the entire runtime, but I'm halfway through and it's still going strong.

I've really dug the recent incarnation of Exodus, and I expect the new CD to be a strong one (might give it a listen this afternoon). Their recent DVD is also lots of fun. Seeing them on Monday with Megadeth & Testament!

Meanwhile, though it's too early to call, there are some serious album-of-the-year vibes coming from the new Nachtmystium album. I already like it more than Assassins.

Very anxious to hear the Nachtmystium. Glad to hear positive things.

I love the last Exodus quite a bit.

Exodus have never been one of my favorite thrash bands -- they've always struck me as a little too single-minded. Still, they do impress me on occasion, and this is one of those occasions.

Never liked Exodus. Didn't like 'em in 1990, when I saw 'em with Suicidal Tendencies and Pantera, and don't like 'em now.

So who's going to the Iron Maiden/Dream Theater tour? This'll be my fifth time seeing them, my third at Madison Square Garden. I've also seen 'em at Hammerstein Ballroom and at PNC Bank Arts Center in Jersey (part of Ozzfest). I can't wait; they're the best live act in big-time metal. Better than Priest, better than Metallica.

I'll be there June 29! So excited...it'll just be my third. And I agree, easily the best live band in metal.

I'd love to see them but they aren't playing a show in New England. I can't do a ten or twelve hour round trip for a show anymore.

Tried to listen to the new Exodus tonight. Made it one-and-a-half songs in. They really do nothing for me.

Listened to the new Dillinger Escape Plan today too. The electronic stuff I liked from Ire Works is all gone.

Yeah, this is the first tim a Dillinger album hasn't completely floored me. Not that it's a bad album, it's well done, but they're sounding predictable for the first time. I was really hoping for something as daring as Ire Works.

And I like the new Exodus! But like that damn Heathen album it does go on for too long.

Just read your blog entry on Armored Saint, Adrien. I agree with all your praise of Bush and the band, but gotta say I thought he was a much better frontman for Anthrax than Belladonna ever was. I always hated that dude, even back in '88 or whenever, when I first heard Among the Living. I couldn't understand why a band capable of writing such killer thrash riffs had that screeching clown up front.

From the second I heard "Madhouse" in '85, I loved Belladonna as Anthrax's singer. It was such an unusual combination at the time. But like I said, I think Bush's time in Anthrax was marred by the fact that the rest of the band couldn't write many good songs anymore.

Anyway, the dude should stop dicking around with Anthrax Mk XXVIII and stick to Armored Saint. It's clear they're the band with a real good thing going right now.

Anthrax probably pays a heck of a lot better, though.

Plus I had to go back and like a total nerdy idiot explain that there were two parts to this silly power metal thing.

Apparently not everybody knows that. I read a review once (and I can't remember where) that actually claimed Helloween never made a part II to the Keeper saga.

need some 90's metal, and all I have is Eyehategod. any suggestions?

Sepultura

Prong

what kind of 90's metal? death metal acceptable to include (as that is the brunt of my 90's ownership)?

I second Sepultura above, particularly "Arise" and "Beneath the Remains" (not technically 90's but close enough). Below are some 'essential' purchases from various subgenres.

Crowbar (s/t or Time Heals Nothing)
The Haunted--s/t
Cathedral--Forests of Equilibrium
Immolation--Dawn of Possession, Here in After, Failures for Gods
Emperor--Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Death--Symbolic
My Dying Bride--Turn Loose the Swans
Nevermore--Dreaming Neon Black
Slayer--Divine Intervention
Dying Fetus--Destroy the Opposition (ok this was technically 2000 but close enough)
Suffocation--Pierced from Within
Opeth--any of the releases really
Carcass--same except for Swansong

etc etc

OK, so that Alcest album that converted me to liking Alcest was, in fact, a fake leak! Only one of the six songs was Alcest. I've listened to the real leak now, and like it much less than the fake one! So I'm back to not caring much about Alcest, but investigating Pest Productions, the Chinese label whose comps the other five songs came from! Skyy, Soliness, Heretoir and Dopamine!

yah, that's pretty much what I wanted, 90's death and black metal, cause I've only been listening to recent metal, and I hadn't any 90's metal. so ya, thanks.

Hey, did I mention I'm giving shit away on MSN? Enter today!

Phil, is there any way you could get the powers-that-be at MSN to enable an RSS feed for your blog?

best believe i entered that shit....

Weird, I'm not liking the other bands from that Alcest fake nearly as much when they're on their own, either. What a weird testament to the power of (imaginary) context.

Phil, is there any way you could get the powers-that-be at MSN to enable an RSS feed for your blog?

It's a persistent issue. I'm hoping they'll get it resolved soon, 'cause traffic keeps going up, especially when they link posts on the MSN Music homepage, which they're gonna do tomorrow - I'm posting an interview with Marwan Riyadh, the drummer from Acrassicauda.

Awesome! Would love to subscribe to it in Google Reader.

Ah, the irony of complaining about the lack of an RSS feed on RSS-less ILM...

i don't really mind that ILX doesn't have RSS, but i definitely prefer feeds for blogs. :-)

Oh, and that was Shyy, not Skyy, on the fake Alcest leak. My apologies to disco.

Here's a link to my interview with Marwan Riyadh of Acrassicauda.

Has anyone heard the full Triptykon album yet? The myspace tracks sound great. I've grown to love Monotheist and these seem a logical progression from that record. Thoughts?

Haven't heard any of it yet actually, off to check those MySpace tracks. If it does sound like Monotheist, I will be thrilled!

Someone posted that they had the complete Triptykon album and Unleashed's new one, which I'm also curious about. I'm really looking forward to hearing more of the Triptykon album -- the myspace tracks sound promising and the cover art looks really great as well.

"OK, so that Alcest album that converted me to liking Alcest was, in fact, a fake leak!"
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, March 7, 2010 7:48 PM

Interesting. I think I have the fake leak as well, but it wasn't working its magic on me anyway. I noticed the track lengths were different from what's listed on Metallum and was thinking I might not have the right one.

I'm really jealous of all those who have heard the new Cathedral.
They do have one track streaming on their myspace now for anybody who hasn't yet gotten a taste:

http://www.myspace.com/cathedral

I have the Tryptikon and Unleashed albums - and the new Nachtmystium, too. The Tryptikon is very Monotheist-ic, and the Unleashed album is an Unleashed album. I haven't listened to the Nachtmystium disc all the way through yet.