Rolling 2004 Metal Thread

If I were Slipknot, I'd be rushing to admit I was kidding the whole time, due to just how bad most of their shit is.

Ha, I usually stand in the back by the bar, and say stuff like "wow, look at all those goofy people in the mosh pit." unless opeth is playing, when it's more like, "ha, all those silly people up there in the mosh pot don't know what to do to music this slow and sad. how come clubs don't provide folding chairs at concerts like this?"

Me, too, except I'm saying "Wow, metal chicks are even hotter now than they were when I was in high school."

The Opeth show at Irving Plaza was great; all those dudes standing zombified, staring at Mike Akerfeldt's fingers the whole time.

They're from my hometown.

I agree. I never listen to "Seasons..." as much as I do Reign in Blood or South of Heaven.

Of course, my total lack of money and album purchasing has a lot to do with this. My to-buy list still has a bunch of early-2003 releases like Spawn Of Possession's Cabinet.

That being said, the new My Dying Bride sounds really good... They've really managed to pick up the steam again (so to speak), as I felt everything between Turn Loose The Swans and The Dreadful Hours was a bit pedestrian.

Re: Kataklysm (welcome to usenet!)
That band is a really sad chapter, to me. Their first couple of releases are really amazing, particularly Sorcery! I've still not heard any other bands approach that sound. Sadly Kataklysm seemed to get more and more streamlined for each release, and now they sound half an Afflicted-riff away from moving to Stockholm.

There's a leak of the new Darkthrone floating around -- a couple new twists, a more necro sound than Hate Them. Or you can wait six months for the official release, the poor bastards.

Just went to a Fantomas/Melt-Banana show and watching idiots try and mosh to the 5-15 seconds of appropriate stuff Fantomas played was fun. The songs would get all heavy, guys would start flailing around, then the band would start breaking down the riffs, getting all choppy and these guys would start getting confused trying to keep their flailing in step... and looking really goofy in the process. Finally, they'd just look mad when then band would inevitably go off on something completely different... that you can't punch people to.

But even though these guys could only mosh in 15 second intervals, some jerk still ripped my friend's jacket!

xpost - hi scott! and bye! i'm going home now!

I'm sure I'm gonna get shit for this...does anybody on this thread besides me like Atreyu? I dig 'em; their songs are straight metalcore, but then they've got this lead guitarist who's in a total Iron Maiden power-metal fantasy world. It's a great combination. I just got their new album in this morning's mail (street date: June 29).

I've been listening to that CD off and on for a couple of weeks. I guess I just don't like them as much as you do. I wrote this small preview to their show here tomorrow:
http://cityguide.entertainmentidaho.com/fe/Calendar/standalonehotticket.asp
I may go see Atreyu, anyway, for the hell of it. As a nice, sissy-boy warm-up to Kataklysm Sunday. Heh.

They've put one song on their website, which sounds pretty intriguing to me. Although the first time I played it, I thought someone was breaking into the garage because of that odd percussive bit that pops by a few times.
Neurosis - Eye Burn.mp3

The best metal albums I've heard so far this year have been the new Mayhem and My Dying Bride. Somewhat surprising really, but then I'm one of the few who also really liked the last Mayhem. MDB have proved that the last album wasn't a fluke as far as being able to make me exclaim "what the hell? They're GOOD again!?"

Oh, and I'll also like to plug one of the few good demo bands I know of these days, the Lotus Project. Very fancy musicianship, with some seriously cronkly rhythms abound, but not falling into the traps that those bands that tend to be called "prog metal" are usually stuck in. I'm sure these guys have listened to Cynic and Atheist quite a bit in their life.
Closets comparison point I can come up with is Italian death metallers Karnak.
[Lotus Project] This site has the "Echo" demo for download. I see they have a 'Maiden cover too now that wasn't there last I looked...

that loincloth band is related to confessor, right? the music is totally in line with "condemned." which is a great album.

GRAVES AT SEA

and leave it at that

Oh, the new Today Is The Day, "Kiss The Pig", is sounding really good too, but then I'm a big fan of that band. I think the new drummer is Rosswog from Circle Of Dead Children, who's really good, despite supposedly only starting drumming like a year before joining CODC?

Is the Loincloth demo still available? I emailed them to order a copy back when it came out, got a reply where they said something about them contacting me in a couple of days, and then I never heard from them again. Guess I should try again, as I've only heard positive things about it.

I think they played a memorial show when Ivan Colon died, and that night flames were rekindled and soon after practice spaces rented.

Yep, Loincloth is Confessor's rhythm section with Pen Rollings and another bloke on guitars.

I'm fairly sure Watchtower is back together, and I'm certain their second career will be cut short by the Dangerous Toys reunion. That's just how things go.

I wonder why there aren't more "Old boys teams" in death metal (aka supergroups! Except more fun!)
I'd like to hear more one-off projects between those guys... Luc Lemay and Flo Mounier (sp?) playing with Immolation would be something something something. But that's a different thread alltogether.