― chuck, Tuesday, 4 May 2004 16:27 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago) link
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 21:53 (twenty years ago) link
They're from my hometown.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 22:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 22:33 (twenty years ago) link
I agree. I never listen to "Seasons..." as much as I do Reign in Blood or South of Heaven.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 22:53 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 22:54 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 23:08 (twenty years ago) link
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!
― original bgm, Tuesday, 4 May 2004 23:11 (twenty years ago) link
― original bgm, Tuesday, 4 May 2004 23:15 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 23:42 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Tuesday, 4 May 2004 23:48 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 23:56 (twenty years ago) link
xpost - hi scott! and bye! i'm going home now!
― chuck, Tuesday, 4 May 2004 23:57 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 23:59 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 00:00 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 00:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 00:17 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 00:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 00:43 (twenty years ago) link
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.aspI may go see Atreyu, anyway, for the hell of it. As a nice, sissy-boy warm-up to Kataklysm Sunday. Heh.
― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 00:44 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 01:27 (twenty years ago) link
― original bgm, Wednesday, 5 May 2004 02:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 00:34 (twenty years ago) link
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...
― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 01:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 05:20 (twenty years ago) link
that loincloth band is related to confessor, right? the music is totally in line with "condemned." which is a great album.
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 05:51 (twenty years ago) link
GRAVES AT SEA
and leave it at that
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 08:27 (twenty years ago) link
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 08:54 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:25 (twenty years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:39 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:51 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:44 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:06 (twenty years ago) link
― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago) link
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago) link
― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago) link
Chuck, did you get that Peccatum album from The End? I would think you would like that one.
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:33 (twenty years ago) link
Have taken a liking to that new Suffocation album, but it's still nowhere near as good as Decapitated's latest. And I like the guitar heroics on God Forbid's Gone Forever a whole lot - like the whole album,really, though I feel like I oughta feel guilty about that but fuck it, I liked their last one too
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 22:53 (twenty years ago) link
Katatonia is one of those bands who I've owned almost all albums by, despite never really liking any of them. They have a way of being really likable at first, but have no re-play value for me.
― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 23:04 (twenty years ago) link
Decapitated's debut = kinda OKDecapitated's 2nd (Nihility) = pretty damned good with a couple of great songsnew one = really, really good easy-to-get-lost-in death metal
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 23:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 00:20 (twenty years ago) link
― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 01:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 05:43 (twenty years ago) link
Mercyful Fate's classic Don't Break the Oath, and Dimmu Borgir's Death Cult Armageddon, which is absolutely unreal.
― abegrand, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 06:19 (twenty years ago) link
― chuck, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:13 (twenty years ago) link