Rolling 2004 Metal Thread

I love High Rise, and I've said elsewhere, that they go on my top ten live show list EASY. They are beyond tunes live. They are about god and heaven and the devil and beauty and the sheer exhilaration of volume.

ian! look on soulseek for stuff by marzuraan - it's english stuff in the sunn/khanate/sludge vein played on superdowntuned bass guitars. very noisy, though, i think the cd is called "flayed ice ramparts of mammuthusis." also, boris "absolutego" and esoteric if you can take the "GLRRP GLRRP" vocals.

Thanks guys.

You NEED Esoteric's Metamorphogenesis!!

i think i'm THERE, man.

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I haven't heard the whole thing yet though... Is it out? I only have MP3s, but I need the real thing post-haste! Now that Spiritual Beggars seem to be losing it, I figure Clutch can pick up the torch again...

my parents met at a heart concert, so if it wasn't for them i might not have existed.

Anyhoo, I'll reiterate what I said yesterday... The new Clutch is definitely a big comeback of sorts, and probably either their best or second best album (after Elephant Riders, which a lot of people hated, so maybe my tastes are a bit lopsided)
New TITD sounds really good based on the two songs I've heard... No surprise there though.

"Hopkins" is still a clodhopper genius of a hit single, but at least with the EP version you get their wavy gravy version of Arthur Brown's "Fire."

Then I got sick as hell of them and never could listen to them again.

Isn't that just the most beautiful story in the world?

So, has anyone heard the new Capharnaum album yet? It's [soon?] out on Willowtip records, which to me is possibly the best death metal/grind label around these days (Harakiri's Twilight of the idol incidentally being stiff competition when battling Immolation's Unholy Cult for best death metal album of 2002)
I never did hear their previous albums, though they're often lauded as some of the finer music to come out of the whole tech-death thing.

And on that note, it's bothering me how 90% of death metal albums these days are called technical. Apparently that's a synonym for "sounding like Suffocation" these days. Bleh. We need bands that pick up Atheist's fallen torch already!
In fact, we need more DIFFERENT brutal death metal these days. Seemingly the only different bands in the genre these days are of the overly melodic type, with a few exceptions like Nile.
Blablabla?

Living through another Cuba! Love at first sight! I wonder if any metal bands ever covered XTC.
And on that note, I've always borkeda bout Voivod sounding like they've listened to a lot of Die Kreuzen... Only to find out that they've covered them! Mike Watt and Brutal Truth are on the tribute too... Shame tribute albums are such a waste of money, as that's a kinda neat lineup. Plus tons of bands I've never heard of, naturally. Yay!

Didn't know Cathedral's new album was a best-of. But what the heck, since I can't imagine why anybody would want to own more than one album by those numbskulls, I guess I'll hang on to it then...

Same with Ozric Tentacles.

Go figure.

I don't anymore.

I've never liked Cathedral, either.

Yeah, I just accidentally stumbled upon it when boredly browsing for Die Kreuzen info that day.
Supposed official site: The front page has a full track list.
I don't really care about tribute albums, but they're usually fun to hear once. Which is why Soulseek is such a blessing.

Today I'm rocking the 3-CD Scorpions set (not a box cause it's not in a box). I love the trippy psych-prog song "I'm Going Mad," from Lonesome Crow, that opens the first disc.