Rolling Metal Thread 2010

eh i just went ahead and sent it to that address (its a h0tm41l one so hope thats right). subject line is danzig photo. let me know if you dont get it.

dear danzig,

smaller stage = bigger looking tiny you, id say go for it next time dude.

yours,
jjjusten

the stage was not large enough to hold his awesomeness
was gonna say was it 2'x2' o que because he is basically same size as me only more beefy

Got it, thanks. It'll be up on MSN Music tomorrow...

PLS post a link to that, gotta see it.

Not enough room for his cat litter pyro.

Funny. I finally "acquired" the new Danzig album this evening. And I actually enjoyed quite a few tunes on it. Will be seeing him next Tuesday as I assume the Roseland is big enough--I've seen him play there twice before. He hasn't been very good live since the early 90s though :(

Ten bucks says someone's going to leave Danzig a bunch of cat litter backstage as though it was part of his rider. Where was the interview where the journalist kept trying to get him to talk about that photo, and he was just desperate to dodge it? That was cracking me up.

Danzig story at MSN: http://bit.ly/d0KVwh

lol

so last night i was thinking 'i wonder if theres such a thing as free improv metal' and i found painkiller. this shit's pretty tite, anyone got any more suggestions?

You should also listen to Last Exit (pre-Painkiller) and you might like Yakuza (thrash w/saxophone) and Ehnahre (weird, atonal death metal w/some horns on the new record).

gorguts, obscura is very much the opposite of improv but the wild, dissonant playing on the record might do the trick anyway.

ehnahre sounds good. will be checking them out.

Something else that definitely fits into this category would be John Zorn's band Moonchild (vocals by Mike Patton, bass by Trevor Dunn, drums by Joey Baron, sax by Zorn sometimes, guitar by Marc Ribot sometimes). Five CDs: Moonchild, Astronome, Six Litanies for Heliogabalus, The Crucible and Ipsissimus. Every bit as intense as Painkiller but more composed - a crushingly heavy mix of hardcore and skronk-jazz. Ipsissimus just came out at the end of September and it's fucking phenomenal. This band is totally being slept on, not only by headbangers who used to worship Naked City and Painkiller but by the Patton cult, too, it seems.

I haven't heard the new one, but the s/t Moonchild album is fantastic.

I'd add Massacre to this list. Their 1981 album Killing Time featured Bill Laswell, Fred Maher and Fred Frith. It's more from the jazz end really but it's improv and has a solid metal aesthetic.

Blood Stereo and Aufgehoben as well. The Thing ft Mats Gustafsson.

And Zu, even though I don't really think it's that 'free', the mix of saxophone and Jesus Lizard style rhythm section is mind blowing.

Oh hell yeah, The Thing is awesome. I literally stumbled across them in Oslo (they were playing at Rockefeller while I was waiting for Sahg to come on at the Annex next door) and they left me absolutely floored.

So is it just me, or have Gwar been on kind of a bizarre creative streak since Violence Has Arrived? I never heard the one where they went to hell and killed Satan, but their last few have been pretty excellent.

the cato salsa experience + the thing is also a good record
sounds like a sandwich, i think it's called?

this shit's pretty tite, anyone got any more suggestions?

GRAVITAR, dude. "Now the Road of Knives."

Oh and I may be the last to know this, but "Hallow's Victim" and "The Walking Dead" by Saint Vitus is available on CD again. And on vinyl, I think. Hooray!

GRAVITAR, dude. "Now the Road of Knives."

this is a cool record that i heard like 5 years ago and had totally forgotten about!

wow these are all really great. im officially obsessed

Oh and I may be the last to know this, but "Hallow's Victim" and "The Walking Dead" by Saint Vitus is available on CD again. And on vinyl, I think. Hooray!

I didn't know either! Man, Greg Ginn doesn't really want anyone to know SST is still a going concern, does he?

Publicists are for posers.

I think he only represses stuff when he needs more money for weed and/or to press copies of his boring vanity project jam bands.

Saw Monarch last night. Good set; one long piece, "Sabbat Noir" (which is also their new CD, which I bought).

glenn macdonald in the house!

The "house" in question here being Scott's excellent record store and Lincoln Log construction studio in Greenfield, MA, where I dropped by with my daughter for a brief visit while her mother and uncle were at a nearby rock show (in this case rock as in geology) on Saturday. Always strange and cool to finally meet somebody in person after years online. And it gave me an opportunity to show off my parenting skills, by which I mean having successfully taught a 3yo to hold the horns high and even wave them a little bit. Admittedly her waving doesn't have a lot of really dark menace to it yet, but give her time.

oops sorry i spelled your name wrong. great to see you!

Awesome!

This review of Electric Wizard's Black Masses claims it's a complete disappointment compared to Bongripper's Satan Worshipping Doom. Say it ain't so! I'll choose to believe Freeman's review and prepare to be pleased when I finally hear it.

Both albums are fantastic. Black Masses is on a par with Witchcult Today. The CD sounds ever so much better than the rips going round on 320bitrate mp3s btw

Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit streaming now on NPR.org.

http://www.npr.org/2010/11/09/131192147/first-listen-agalloch-marrow-of-the-spirit

the last 5 or 6 mins of Black Lake Nidstång are amazing, esp when the scream comes in with a couple of mins left. Awesome track (luckily Nate didn't ruin it ;) )

Sorry but I will never listen to a band called Bongripper so EW wins by default.

Man, I love the new Wolvhammer.
I don't think I was that impressed with the demos they were
giving away, but the new full length is great.

The new Weapon is one of my favorites for the year, too.
Are you reviewing it, Adrien?
I think you're the only one who's mentioned it so far.

Also, has there been any mention of Sigh's Scenes from Hell on this thread?
I think it's the most fully realized album of the 'new sound' they've been toying with.
I thought it was a great album at first listen, but now I'm not so sure. Additional
listens brought diminishing returns, but I really should go back to it and see what
I think now. It's been many months since I've put it on.

Have there ever been any successful, full-blown fusions of metal with salsa or other Latin musics?

I'd love to hear some kind of metal take on the classic New York salsa sound -- Colon and Lavoe, etc.

dang, that i have never heard
i love salsa but salsa and metal?! that could be crazy talk.

you guys are forgetting about Puya!

Yeah, Puya springs immediately to mind. I'm sure there are others; I'll look into it.

Seriously, though, that first Puya record, Fundamental, was actually pretty decent. I believe I even wrote about it for Phil -- Here we go:

PUYA
Fundamental
MCA, 1999
Out of all the bozos that chunky-riffed their way to success in the late 90s, it stands to reason that one of the few bands that did something interesting with the sound would fall to the wayside. Puya had the key distinction of being from Puerto Rico, not the suburbs, and they brought their Latin sense of style and melody to Fundamental. There's still plenty of crunch, don't get me wrong, but the band wasn't afraid to break into funky salsa jams on songs like the title track and "Montate." A melting pot in the best way, this illustrates just how much unrealized potential nu-metal had.

I like to think I've improved as a writer since then. But probably not.

this is really cool:

http://www.metalsucks.net/2010/11/16/decibel-gets-even-awesomer-introduces-monthly-exclusive-flexi-discs-starting-in-2011/

Waiting for Nate to tell me he is coming to Britain with YOB before I commit to a ticket for Minehead.

flexi thing is so friggin' cool! and totally metal fan catnip. a genius move all around.

yeah, getting excited for these!

I imagine their subscriber base will get a nice boost from this...

I imagine their subscriber base will get a nice boost from this...

That's great if you live in the States. But as I've mentioned here before, I just cancelled my subscription because I wasn't getting my issues. I can't be the only one.