Rolling Metal Thread 2008

I think chaki was touched inappropriately by an In Flames album when he was young.

Oh yeah!? Well why don't you eat shit!!!

Me?!

yah you

This discussion has devolved rather quickly.

says who

Um, me?

this is pretty brutal
http://a120.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/73/l_5b34e35c4af4223794e0bcb1d4db1ad7.jpg

Haw, I was joking Jeff!

I know, I was just... playing along. Yeah! Playing along...

Anyone know much about this Vancouver band Bison? Anyone got the album?

http://www.thrashermagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34&Itemid=41

Friend sent me two tracks and they're really great mid-to-fast tempo grinding thrash.

I didn't know anything about Bison, but I'm intrigued by the MySpace tracks. Half thrash, half early Mastodon...not too shabby at all. "Dark Skies Above" especially.

Spent the day spinnnig Saviours and Warbringer again, two strong albums that just keep getting better the more I play them...it's not quite the blazing start to 2008 like 2007 was, but still a strong first quarter so far.

I'm waiting eagerly to hear that new Sword album...

re bison////
i have their only release so far and play it alot. it is pretty short at about 33 minutes but definitely worth seeking out. a few members from former skatekids the s.t.r.e.e.t.s.

favourite track "stokasaurus"

ok im totally feeling this new Decrepit Birth. recommended!

Anybody heard Pig Iron?

anyone else see this/mention this:

"16.01.2008 12:43:50 Metal Mind Productions signs a deal with Nuclear Blast!!!

Metal Mind Productions is very proud to announce a multi licensing deal signed with Nuclear Blast Records for their interesting, valuable back-catalogue.

In the first half of 2008 Metal Mind Productions will re-issue nearly 70 albums from their deep archives. The selection of bands includes Brutallity, Control Denied, Darkseed, Disharmonic Orchestra, Gardenian, Horde, Hypocrisy, Impulse Manslaughter, Macabre, Mortification, Night In Gales, Slaughter, Warhammer or Winter to name a few. This is a must-have offer for fans of good music - re-issues of classic material in new digipak editions, each title limited to 2000 copies, digitally remastered using 24-Bit process. The albums will include additional features like bonus audio or video material, biography, liner notes from Artists etc.

Tomasz Dziubinski, the President of Metal Mind Productions: “We are very proud to have finalized the deal with Nuclear Blast. It is a huge distinction for Metal Mind Productions that such a fantastic label wanted to start co-operating with us. We expect that we will achieve great sales results as we want to make re-releases of the highest quality: classic albums in new, improved editions. We want to achieve the best results possible. We do hope that our cooperation with Nuclear Blast will develop very well and fans can expect more and more interesting albums to be re-released”

Among first titles to be re-issued as part of this deal are 8 Mortification albums, Control Denied and Macabre!"

http://www.metalmind.com.pl/index.php?dzial=newsy&more=1039

breaking news: BLABBERMOUTH.NET - Reunited CYNIC To Record New Album

In the mail today: The Gathering Live DVD, new (!) Bauhaus, Hermano, and Donita Sparks. Some/all of these might belong on the hard rock thread, though...

I should be listening to the Opeth back catalog, for professional reasons, but instead I'm listening to Fudge Tunnel's Hate Songs In E Minor. Their half-speed demolition run through "Sunshine Of Your Love" is one of the great cover versions of all time.

That Gathering DVD is really, really well done.

I'm currently listening to an incredibly dumb CD by a band called Chingalera. Sounds great, mixed by Albini and all, but damn, if this isn't the stupidest, most pointless Tool imitation I've heard in a long while. Zero depth, all just surface wank. I'm turning this off right away. Ugh.

Today while wandering on campus I saw a fellow in a Rhapsody T-shirt. Haircut wise he was rocking the Jeff Treppel (short hair, short beard) rather than the old school Skot (hair for MILES!).

Jeff just keeps influencing everything he touches

I've got the touch! I've got the power!

The Hermano album is really, really good. Only listened to it once, though, will have specifics later.

I liked it but no-one else seemed to (amongst the slsk stoner crew)

Just wrote a review of Hermano for Alternative Press. As ex-Kyuss member projects go, Hermano is way better than Queens Of The Stone Age (who I fucking hate) but not as good as the Brant Bjork & The Operators album.

Today while wandering on campus I saw a fellow in a Rhapsody T-shirt. Haircut wise he was rocking the Jeff Treppel (short hair, short beard) rather than the old school Skot (hair for MILES!).

omg he's behind the times they're RHAPSODY OF FIRE now!!!!

An update on the upcoming Opeth album - inspired by Scott Walker !

BLABBERMOUTH.NET - OPETH Confirmed For Germany's WACKEN OPEN AIR Festival

OPETH mainman Mikael Åkerfeldt recently spoke to Revolver magazine about the group's forthcoming follow-up to 2005's "Ghost Reveries", tentatively due in the spring via Roadrunner Records.

"The music is much more complex," he said. "The metal parts are even faster and a lot more technical than the last one. It's really hard to play some of this stuff. I mean, I wrote it and even I have trouble playing parts of it. I think it's going to be hard for some people to get into. It's definitely not a commercial-sounding record. The arrangements are exhausting. And it's much darker. Even the major patterns are very dark, while I think 'Ghost Reveries' had some light."

When asked if the songs were influences by anything musical, Mikael replied, I was hugely inspired by Scott Walker, who's an avant-garde artist and crooner. Last year he put out a record called 'The Drift', which is quite extreme and frightening, and it made a huge impact on me. Immediately, I wanted to do something like that. It just felt right. Also, with the situation the band has gone through over the last couple of years with the lineup changes, I just wanted it to be this way. I didn't want it to be a happy-sounding record."

I dont know if it really fits here but im not sure a Rolling Weird Experimental/Avant Garde on Sort of Metal Labels thread 2008 would get many posts, but if people dont think it belongs here maybe we could start one.
Anyway, this could either be great or awful, but hopefully some of you may get promos and can let me know

Paradigms is proud to announce two new special edition releases by Tropes and Somnam. Both are now available via mailorder exclusively from www.paradigms-recordings.com . Audio samples are available on the website. Also, new additions today to the Paradigms webstore from Dead Raven Choir, Aluk Todolo, Jagerblut, Godheadscope and Stroszek.

TROPES "Tropes" CD

A perfect soundtrack for long winter evenings. Tropes is the beautifully haunting work of German ethereal songwriter, Susan Bauszat. Eight celestial works of late night, candlelit songcraft with the shadowy ambience of maybe This Mortal Coil, Anja Garbarek, Susanna And The Magical Orchestra, Dead Can Dance and the output of the Rune Grammofon or 4AD labels. Guitar, flute, and violin shimmer alongside frosted electronica and the angelic tones of chanteuse Bauszat. Magestic. Presented as a limited edition of 750 copies only, in full colour card wallet and hand stamped Paradigms packaging.

SOMNAM "Melancholy's Masquerade" CD

Vast, dark forest ambient electronica filmscapes from Finland's Somnam. Cascading nocturnal melancholy which brings to mind the filmscores of Goblin, David Lynch's Twin Peaks and such, alongside the works of Ulver, Star Of Ash and other sprectral electronic visionaries. Organic, synth driven astral mindfog. Deep, rich, cinematic winter isolationism. Presented as a limited edition of 500 copies with full colour sleeve in white dvd box.

I have quite a few cds on this label and a few things i heard on mp3 and didnt like much so didn't buy. I do find it a good enough label to check out releases tho. Rhem and profoundlore have turned me on to things I may not otherwise have heard.
Hjarnidaudi - Pain-Noise-March and the Titan cds stood out particularly.

The above mentioned Aluk Todolo isn't bad btw. Kinda weird spacey black metal.

Wanted to like Emotional Coma by Lions Share (on Locomotive Records out of Spain, apparently) -- some hot riffs, but the album is dragged down and made unpalatable by, um...the singer? The lack of tunes? Something or other. Anybody think otherwise?

(...actually, probably more the melodic clunkiness than the singer, who did seem to at least have some aptitude for Geoff Tateness, amidst metal much heavier than Queensryche's. Not that I care about Geoff Tate-style singers all that much, I guess.)

I hate geoff tates voice and i've always found Queensryche to be a very boring band.

really digging mike hickey's Goatreign album. total low budget demo-sounding headbanging coolness. dude played guitar in Venom and even played guitar on Carcass's Heartwork tour. And he played bass in Cathedral on some of their tours. But he's a Yank. On the mighty Wabana Records in Brattlefuckingboro Vermont!

http://www.mikehickeyguitar.com/images/Goatreign-cargo1.jpg

the actual album sounds like a demo. and then at the end their are bonus demo tracks! they sound like extra demo-y demos!

oh and dude is a BAD-ASS shredder. know what i mean? not all fancy and frilly, just fuckin' wicked.

and i like it more than, like, black label society stuff. which is a fair comparison at times.

So can I sheepishly admit kinda liking the new Mars Volta in here? Also, the new Earth, even tho at this point it's uber-samey [nice keys/organs, but Hex pretty much sealed the deal.]

I don't love the new Volta, but the song "Goliath" is one of the hardest and straightest rock tunes they've ever done; the main riff sounds like a ripoff of Frank Zappa's "Stevie's Spanking," and the percussion/drum line(s), rather than being all hyper-complex like the rest of the album, are straight Santana circa 1970.

The new Opeth album is fucking amazing. I can't even describe how much of a simultaneous leap forward and left turn it is. One thing it's not is More Ghost Reveries. It opens with an acoustic song featuring a female co-vocalist (the new drummer's girlfriend, Natasha something). There's another song (sorry, I don't know titles on any of 'em - don't even know if titles are final yet) that sounds like the Moody Blues with occasional outbursts of loud guitar. And the second track on the disc (there are seven in all, adding up to a 55-minute running time) has possibly the most aggressive death parts they've ever recorded, plus a piano interlude, insane rhythmic shifts and unbelievable drumming from Axenrot - the whole track is like one big "here I am, fuck you" to anybody who's gonna bitch about Lopez's absence. Plus strings. Lots of strings on the album, and oboes, flutes, church organ and various other keyboard sounds. Seriously, it's such a melange of prog and symphonic rock styles and sonic touchstones, but at the same time it's heavy as fuck when it wants to be. Easily one of the albums of the year, already, I guarantee it. Out in June.

I cannot wait to hear that Opeth album! The way you describe it, Phil, it must be their boldest album in ages.

Does it sound anything like 'The Drift'?

noticed this: INVISIBLE ORANGES - Top 10 Most Anticipated Records 2008

Those most anticipated album guides are always so handy...I can never keep track of what's coming out.

I was on the fence with Broadrick/Jarboe's J2 EP, but over the weekend I was completely won over. A couple of the tracks bear a strange similarity to early Goldfrapp, while one in particular ("Magicgrl") is the best Swans song that Swans never recorded.

That Nasum live record could be a good one. I'm still kicking myself for missing them when they supported the DEP at Eamon Doran's back in 2002. I had an exam the next morning, true, but that didn't stop me from going to see Yo La Tengo two years before...

While I'm at it, I have to thank an former work colleague for getting me into Nasum. He was the drummer in a kick-ass grindcore band whose second album was, incidentally, produced by Mieszko.

I'm really pumped for new Arsis and Neuraxis. I saw them on a bill ages ago and was blown away.

Have you heard the recent Neuraxis live album? It's one of the best live discs to come out in quite some time. The new vocalist does a solid job, too.

I am now home from tour and I am dying to hear that new Opeth.

Oh yeah. New Danava video has just been posted.

http://kemado.com/artists.php?req=show&artist=11

Are you the Nate Carson that was in Witch Mountain?

Still am. 10 years!

Ha ha, awesome. I picked up "... Come the Mountain" in the bargain bin at Amoeba when I was there with Ned on a whim, didn't know that a fellow ILXor played on it.

Founding member. Our new trio format and material is heavier and less polished than that record...

Playing with WM is like going fishing with my buddies.