Rolling Metal Thread 2008

maria played you all everybody on her radio show last week.

who wants an autographed copy of Rust in Peace?

Only if it's autographed by Mike Clink.

he wasn't at the in-store. Keith Richards was tho.

I want autographed copy of Rust in peace.

Also, Ned, his disc did find its way into the bargain bin at amoeba, because I found it there when I was there with you, which is what initiated this whole conversation in the first place. Pay attention!

Speak up, son.

All those noise albums have scrambled your brains, man.

I know I'm incredibly late on this one, but I finally got around to hearing the new(ish) Primordial album, and it's great. Better than The Gathering Wilderness, I think.

i'm later than you! i still haven't heard it. but i will. and i will love it. this i know.

Some people on the ex sl board have been raving about that album for ages

Will hopefully be seeing Primordial live in just over a week! Wolves in the Throne Room a week later, February is gonna be good.

It's a really beautiful album, in that rugged Gaelic way of theirs. Not nearly as dark as the last one. Lots of heart-swelling epics, jig-style 6/8 time signatures, and those always fabulous vocals by Nemtheanga. It's a shame this came out after the Decibel voting, because this really deserved to be in that list.

xpost Lucky! I'm going to see Rotting Christ, Immolation and Belphegor on Valentine's Day. Romantic!

Is there a good site for getting info about metal bands on tour? I am always missing good stuff close to me.

I just use last.fm, which might not be very practical unless you use it anyway. Though I imagine you can still search for gigs on it without an account, you just won't get the personalised info. There's probably a better option out there. :)

Haha at the Valentine's Day thing!

i definitely would have had the primordial on my list if i had received it in time. new stuff from them is always a treat.

www.Pollstar.com has pretty much everything on it, but it can be a bit overwhelming. In the SoCal area, there's www.moshKing.com, which might be a good way for you to tell which bands are on tour since everything comes through Los Angeles, but not so good for you in terms of finding out when it's coming by your area.

Ha, in my city it's not very hard to keep track of metal shows. Next one is Gigantour in May...the metal scene is as dead as the prairie winter tundra!

There is a nice little DIY metal/crust venue in a house right down the road from me, but of course nothing big ever comes there. It's always nice to walk through the park and end up at a show with hundreds of kids (real kids!!!) going nuts, though. This week: Kakistocracy.

Catch 33 is my favorite Meshuggah record. Will I like this new one?

As far as the overall direction of obZen goes, I think it most resembles what they did on the I EP.

now i am psyched about the new meshuggah. thank you ab.

i definitely would have had the primordial on my list if i had received it in time. new stuff from them is always a treat.

They're not my cup of tea, but it's always nice to see an Irish band get recognition on the international scene after years of hard work. They're on Metal Blade now, aren't they? Fair play to 'em.

to me, one weird thing about meshuggah is that the real drums on obZen and the Nothing re-release sound more like fake drum samples than the actually fake drum samples on Catch 33...guess home studios aren't always the best way to go..

i like obZen, it's pretty filthy...i still like catch 33 the most (it was so epic...) but maybe this one will grow on me.

This is way late because it won't play in my car, but Ocean's Precambrian is really great. There's something different and cool happening every minute, but it doesn't sound spazzy or disjointed or anything. And you can dance to lots of the riffs. And the packaging is excellent, though the first CD minidisc is part of the reason it won't play in my car.

wait, CHUCK, did you see this thread?

I Can't Stop Watching Footage Of Turisas Doing Their Pagan Folk Metal Version Of Boney M's Rasputin!

i meant to call your attention to it but i forgot. just in case you had never heard this version.

Invisible Oranges just blogged about ME! Sort of.

Heard the new Warrell Dane solo album. Pretty darn good, like the more accessible parts of Dead Heart. No real surprises, except for the occasional Soilwork-sounding riff (their former guitarist produced the album and played on it). He even makes the Sisters of Mercy's "Lucretia My Reflection" sound like Nevermore, which has to kind of be heard to be believed. Still not sure what I think of that particular experiment, but the rest sounded good.

Yeah, that Warrel album sounds impressive the deeper you go. I don't have a tracklisting, so I didn't know there was a SoM cover on there.

The new Firewind is really good, too, better than the last one, which grew on me a couple years ago. They cover Micael Sembello's "Maniac", of all things, and do a passable job. What I like most about these guys is how they balance the Arch Enemy style shredding with a cool early-80s Michael Schenker Group/Rainbow/Graham Bonnett aesthetic.

Invisible Oranges just blogged about ME! Sort of.

You can't do that without providing a link!

http://invisibleoranges.com/2008/01/members-of-carcass-in-order-of-beauty.html !

Nice! The guy also quoted something from Adrien in another post. Secret ILXor?

He writes under the name Cosmo Lee.

A whole hell of a lot of stuff for Stylus.

So all you have to do to write for decibel is run a sarcastic blog?

I don't think he's a bad writer!

Me neither. I just wish I'd thought of that first!

I am really enjoying the new Protest the Hero album. They're kind of like a pop version of Between the Buried and Me at this point.

He writes under the name Cosmo Lee

That's because his name is Cosmo Lee. (Met him at EMP last year -- friendly guy!)

Yeah, I wasn't sure if it was real or not, that's why I worded it that way. EMP?

Electromagnetic Pulse.

Experience Music Project?!

Emergency Medical Products

Engineered Machined Projects

You might find this enlightening, Roxy: EMP 2008 Pop Conference

Ecole des Mines de Paris?!?!

(Thanks)

Ned sure attends a lot of "things"!

Or should I say Emily, 27, from Knoxville, TN.?