Rolling Metal Thread 2010

xpost Hmm well maybe I can do it as a series of uploads then and share the links privately with those interested. Probably about 600 MB of stuff I am thinking.

Phil, it was interesting, the more recent the material the less recitalish it got and the more on fire with r&r.

Also the performances of tracks off the earliest albums were pretty fierce, it felt like they were excited to revisit that stuff.

Nate: I couldn't not love anything that had The Fall Of Because, Madness, Tension and Follow The Leader on it but Revelations is good.

In fact I only actively dislike Outside The Gate and am not fussed about Brighter...

my webmail works if you decide to share...
i'm mostly a lurker here but i pop up now and then, i swear
so excited about new nachtmystium but have no idea when it's going to be available?

these guys do Killing Joke better than Killing Joke do nowadays

I'll see you in Hell.

june
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NACHTMYSTIUM Announce Track Listing, Guest Musicians and Bonus Tracks For The Much Anticipated Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. II

Few bands today embrace their own individualism to ultimately craft something truly unique and genre defying regardless of the sales potential. Enter the Chicago-based NACHTMYSTIUM who embrace the true spirit of individuality and intolerance forming solely as an outlet to express the extreme musical visions and dark invocations of all those involved.

This vicious, uncompromising group’s (led by mastermind Blake Judd) much anticipated new full-length offering, Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. II, is set for a June 8th, 2010 release. As with 2007's critically praised Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. I, the album was recorded once again with Sanford Parker (Minsk) at Volume Studios. They have enlisted the talents of Wrest (Leviathan, Lurker of Chalice, Twilight) to record all drum tracks as well as Will Lindsay (Wolves in the Throne Room, Middian) on bass for this new album, which was hailed by Decibel Magazine as “One of the 25 most anticipated albums of 2010.”

Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. II track listing:
1. Cry For Help
2. High on Hate
3. Nightfall
4. No Funeral
5. Then Fires
6. Addicts
7. The End Is Eternal
8. Blood Trance Fusion
9. Ruined Life Continuum
10. Every Last Drop

There will also be a limited edition, double gatefold vinyl featuring the bonus track “Macrocosmic” and an iTunes exclusive bonus track featuring “Every Last Drop” remixed by James Plotkin (Khanate, Phantomsmasher). The album's artwork was done by Jimmy Hubbard and Seldon Hunt, and the album features guest vocals by Bruce Lamont (Yakuza) and guitar solos by Russ Strahan (Pentagram) and Matt Johnson (Pharoh).

Judd further describes his excitement over this upcoming album: “Our love for post rock and industrial (a la Ministry, Killing Joke, etc) is even more present this time around. We feel that we made a record that will continue to push extreme music into uncharted territories. We hope to see you all soon.”

NACHTMYSTIUM kicked off their 2010 touring cycle by joining up with Kreator and Voivod, are currently embarked on their European with Jarboe, and will be touring the U.S. with EyeHateGod this June. Check out the band's full routing on their official Myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/nachtmystium
http://centurymedia.com

ok so june 8

this is my favorite kind of painfully overzealous music writing ...who embrace the true spirit of individuality and intolerance forming solely as an outlet to express the extreme musical visions and dark invocations of all those involved.

why because it sound intersting

new screenname
chose dark invocations because i have more of those than extreme musical visions tbh

"Yeah, this is actually why I skipped the show - I don't think they are very good live. Impeccable performances of music I enjoy, yeah, but it just feels more like a recital than a rock show."

This describes the first 5 Opeth shows that I saw. But last year, something changed. Of late, seeing Opeth live has become more similar to seeing Rush or (I imagine) Led Zeppelin. They've really become hair-raising on stage. And I'm saying this as a guy that sees a hundred shows a year...

I'd like to offer a balanced opinion of the new Howl and Misery Index albums, but Relapse has polluted the promos with the most obtrusive beeps I've ever heard. Every 30 seconds. I'm not reviewing these until they leak now.

But Adrien them beeps are the post-rock influence don't ya know!

Ha. If it was an Oren Ambarchi album it probably wouldn't be so bad.

Are those the ones from the Haul1x promo e-mail from this afternoon? If so, I won't bother wasting the time or drive space to download them. I hate when they do that.

thanks for the heads up on the beeps, I'll just ignore that email now & probably the albums too - that's a fuckin insulting promotional strategy imo

not a critic so I obv haven't heard any of these promos... but forget whether it's insulting or not. - that just seems like such a self-defeating strategy! I would totally end up hating any album that beeped at me every 30secs like that.

make the whole reviews about the beeping and how shite it is. They will soon stop doing it if everyone did that. They need positive reviews to sell their product.

That sort of review has been written before, and it's always really, really obnoxious because no one besides critics care. At all.

Yeah, I've read a few of those reviews before, and they just come across as kind of petulant. I do wish labels would knock it off though.

just decided to give The Locust another go with their Plague Soundscapes album...so far so good.

Argentinian heavy metal band with Hasidic lead singer -- Atzmus (Atzmus in Hebrew means 'essence')

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKaN82PWkyY

Ironically enough, I read the Decibel review of the Howl record last night -- and the reviewer does mention the beeps. So there you go, Pfunk.

Decibel is sliding toward d-bagdom. I would never have run a review that included bitching about beeps on a promo.

just dont review albums then if they have beeps or voiceovers.

mortal kombat soundtrack an unfortunate victim of new "no beeps/voiceovers" policy.

it explains phils hatred of IDM ;)

I have a hatred of IDM? [Pretty much every Autechre release from LP5 through the new one in my iPod right now.]

curious - are you not into their pre-lp5 stuff? or is the newer material just what happens to be on your ipod right now.

Don't like the early stuff. Owned Tri Repetae (the 2CD US version that came paired with EPs), but it was too crunchy/industrial - not what I come to Autechre for.

interesting. I've never found anyone who only rates the later stuff but have found plenty of folks who feel the opposite way.

not saying this is a negative, btw. I (mostly) love it all.

also, my fave slab of ae probably is the US bonus disc for tri repeatae!

I would never have run a review that included bitching about beeps on a promo.

Yeah, in the end that's just not necessary, everyone forgets about beeps or voice-overs once the actual record's out. If I'm assigned such an album by a magazine, I bite the bullet and work around it, but if it's my decision I don't waste my time, and wait until I can get a proper copy.

Cethkyn rock

Thanks to all the talk about Killing Joke, I now have Night Time spinning around in my head. I know it's more mersh than the first few albums, but it's really fucking good.

Went to see Ludicra last night in Chicago and even down one person and they were so totally great that it was worth spending three hours sitting through two unbelievably dull opening bands.

I would write more but it's 7am and I have to go to day 1 of the world's more boring academic conference and STILL I had to note that this show was TOP FUCKING NOTCH. So very glad I went.

I shot a quick interview with three members of Bison b.c. at the Gramercy Theater in NYC on Friday night. Here 'tis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rMAiJWS9ng

Working my way through the whole Celtic Frost catalog, prompted by recent discussion, and I just got to the end of Vanity/Nemesis. I had forgotten about the amazingly great cover of Bowie's Heroes. Intense.

Maybe we should start a metal listening club. I know I've been listening to a lot of classic stuff lately (mostly Absurd, At the Gates, Atheist, Bathory, Burzum, Carcass, Darkthrone, Emperor, Entombed, Life of Agony, Paradise Lost, Sepultura w/r/t the work I'm doing on death metal growl vocals, and then like Ensiferum, Melechesh, Primordial, Skyclad, Subway to Sally, Ulver + Waylander...)

i would actually be into that

oh, great idea! totally would be into that.

I would be into that too! Might be a good way for me to fill in the gaps in my collection too.

Working my way through the whole Celtic Frost catalog

Me too, just finished my Roadburn build up feature on TGW and the Hellhammer book. Morbid Tales is still my favorite CF album, but really there's so much to love about that band, it's nuts. Tomorrow Triptykon will play its first show ever in Germany, very anxious to see which 1980s CF songs will be included in the setlist ("Mesmerized" has been mentioned).

I'd be up for some sort of listening club. I missed a lot of metal in my decades away - I'd love a guided tour.

How would it work? 3 albums per week of a specific era/scene/aesthetic and then discuss em starting the next monday or something?

I feel I've accidentally wandered into a bizarro world Friends set

I guess listening clubs aren't very kvlt.

more like Fiends.

Fiends is a great name for a listening club!

Question: Is everyone responsible for acquiring the albums or will there be a place they're posted?

I think it would be best if people were responsible for acquiring them themselves, just to keep any taint of the illegal from ILX.