Rolling 2004 Metal Thread

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.

Chuck, did you get that Peccatum album from The End? I would think you would like that one.

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

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.

Decapitated's debut = kinda OK
Decapitated's 2nd (Nihility) = pretty damned good with a couple of great songs
new one = really, really good easy-to-get-lost-in death metal

Mercyful Fate's classic Don't Break the Oath, and Dimmu Borgir's Death Cult Armageddon, which is absolutely unreal.

http://www.pandacide.com/iframes/mp3s/ARCH_nrc.mp3

any thoughts?

Yeah, I think the link didn't work, but as a longtime fan of either birds with teeth or reptiles with feathers, I have to say they have an awesome name (which, I think, was previously used by some non-metal band in the late '70s or early '80s, who may or may not have had a song called "Barbarella." I'll check my 45s shelf at home.)