Rolling Metal Thread 2009

yeah but spill beans AB! is it good?

One thing I hate about samplers is how it's impossible to tell what the album's like. But the three tracks are excellent, pretty much what you'd expect. One track's a swift excercise in the usual brootality (with some insane O'Brien leads), another's a fast, groovy two-minute thrasher, and another (my fave of the three, the title track) is a creepy-riffin', four and a half minute slow crawler, total old school CC. Or, I mean SS.

And Rutan's one of the best things to ever happen to these guys.

read that as "the usual botany"

so there's a new autopsy single coming out? whoa.

Interesting line-up for the Scion Rock Fest, Atlanta, Feb. 28 --

Mastodon
Neurosis
High on Fire
Boris
1349
Cryptopsy
Torche
Nachtmystium
Wolves in the Throne Room
Baroness
Harvey Milk
Kylesa
Zoroaster
Withered
Krallice
Toxic Holocaust
Skeletonwitch
Rwake
A Storm of Light
Warbringer
Salome
Suidakra
Tyr
Alestorm

That may be one of the best top to bottom festival lineups I've ever seen. Although Krallice were kind of boring when I saw them.

With apologies to the spectacular Maryland deathfeat lineup, I think I'd rather see this one.

Deathfest. Urps.

Totally approve of this Century Media 2009 "Maidens of Metal" calendar, I have to say, even if I never heard of any of these ladies' bands, and even if a few get repeated on different months. (So...what do Luna Mortis sound like?)

Luna Mortis is sort of Into Eternity meets Symphony X meets the Gathering. Melodic prog stuff, tastefully done, with a singer who goes from Anneke van Giersbergen to Sabine Classen. Some folks here were lukewarm, but I like the new album.

So...what do Luna Mortis sound like?

Boringly competent.

Since when was metal being tasteful a good thing? =p

http://www.metalelegance.com/

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,040,000 for: tasteful metal

(The first result is, of course, about Dragonforce.)

S mortiis hasn't done a genesis p-orridge then?

haha since when could Dragonforce be called anything other than utter shitetasteful?

'So you'd like to...Get into some REALLY brutal metal that's still tasteful?'

I've created this guide, for people who think as I once thought; that death metal was nothing but a bunch of monkey noise. Of course, I had good reason, being that the only band's I'd heard were Cannibal Corpse and Six Feet Under.

I was just about to link to that! Not quite sure I would call Dying Fetus tasteful...

Results 1 - 100 of about 136,000 for monkey noise metal. (0.40 seconds

Atlanta lineup = [scanners.gif]. Wish it were somewhere closer to home.

Anyway, you haven't done much to convince me that tasteful metal is a good thing.

By tasteful, I mean prog metal that's disciplined enough not to fly off into either boring, Dream Theater-style circle-jerking or over-the-top operatic silliness. I tend to prefer a little restraint in my prog metal. BTBAM being one exception...

yeah, do you mean tasteless in subject matter or what jeff?

In whatever. I'm not picky.

so you think any music made in the genre of metal should lack taste in every respect

I never said that. Metal should certainly taste delicious!

then i have lots of complaints

I'm not saying metal can't be tasteful, but it's a quality one associates more with, say, smooth jazz or soft rock.

yeah people really associate shit like kenny g and foreigner with "taste"

I'm not saying that they are enjoyed by people with good taste (although Foreigner are pretty awesome), I'm saying that they are tasteful, both in image and music.

Foreigner are pretty awesome

And also not "soft rock."

but dude they aren't

(xpost)

unless you are just taking "tasteful" to mean "bland"

ok foreigner is a bad example. how about the super-tasteful sounds of air supply then?

They certainly show musical restraint.

tasteful

adjective
1. having or showing or conforming to good taste [ant: tasteless]
2. free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset" [syn: neat]

a lot of that shit is pretty unbecoming imo

anyway big deal if we want different things from metal

but to me something like a blaze in the northern sky is my idea of completely tasteful, musically speaking

My Christ[sic]mas present to myself came in the mail yesterday: one of the last few copies of True Norwegian Black Metal. I've only had time to unwrap it, page through it irreverentially, and then hide it from my one-and-a-half-year-old again, but I'm already totally blown away by it. All photo books should be like this. I mean, with pictures of Gaahl standing around outside his parents' 8'x8' shack in the middle of the winter. And the size of a coffee table.

Got the second album by Resistant Culture in the mail today. It came out back in October, but it's basically self-released (Ever heard of Seventh Generation Records? Me either) so it was only by checking out their website that I knew of its existence. They're really good; a Native American grind/D-beat band from L.A. that throws some Injun chanting and flutes and stuff (and spoken samples from pissed-off AIM types) into the mix. Vocalist Tony Rezhawk was also the frontman on Darker Days Ahead, the Terrorizer reunion/comeback album, and Jesse Pintado (Terrorizer/Napalm Death) played guitar on RC's first album, Welcome To Reality.

Something tells me that the above CD will blow that last Tomahawk abomination out of the proverbial water.

My Christmas present to myself came in the mail yesterday: one of the last few copies of True Norwegian Black Metal.

I ordered it with a gift card last week, but they ran out! So I'm very anxiously awaiting the next shipment.

My 2008 wrap-up: http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=twas&id=twas0510

Feel free to skip the non-metal parts if they're too scary. Or not scary enough, or whatever.

Cool read. I haven't heard that Nightwish track you mention...I'll have to track that one down.

so there's a new autopsy single coming out? whoa.

wtf

if they fuck this one up I will be pissed off

oh ok never mind

In September 2008, members of Autopsy briefly reunited in the studio to record two new tracks for the special edition of their 1989 classic debut Severed Survival, which is due for release on February 23, 2009.[2] The tracks, marking the band's first recording since 1995, will be included on the reissue's second disc.

J0hn are you voting in the ilx metal poll? it finishes in a few days

John D. is directly responsible for the most metal non-metal thing on my list, and indirectly responsible for the metal thing that that's paired with...

can a dude live xpost