Rolling 2004 Metal Thread

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.
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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.

This band really crashed and burned. A shame too, as that Under The Running Board EP really is something. Hopefully Converge aren't going the same way (admittedly they've so far gotten better with time) as they're the last band along these lines that I can honestly say I like.

Yeah, I like it. This album's a pretty cool combination of screamo and Swedish metal...the riffs and solos make the screamo stuff bearable. Kind of like Hatebreed meets Funeral For a Friend meets In Flames.

yeah, same here. where do you go from doe?

"Dude, I love everything. Except rap and country, which arent valid forms of music, except GARTH BROOKS."

"I fucking hate Metallica-flat out, fuck Metallica, fuck Black Sabbath. I dont give a fuck about the fucking "roots". Those arent my roots, so i don't fucking care. Everyone goes, "Gasp! You don't like Led Zeppelin?" I'm fucking 22 years old! I don't care! Green Day was more important to me, you know?"

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0424/eddy1.php

Anyway, I really like it.

How to put this... there's always a been Re of hope for Mi so Fa? [note to self: fuck off]

The new Carcass best-of is probably more essential than the lackluster Cathedral one described above.

On the metalcore front, Between the Buried and Me is pretty fucking awesome. Fast shredding metalcore with macaroni guitar leads inserted here and there.

Debris Inc is a ruling doom rock / punk band with Dave Chandler of St. Vitus, Ron Holzner of Trouble, and Barry Stern of Zoetrope. Two very different mp3 minutes here: http://www.murdermetal.com/mm/here_are_some_un.htm

I saw a late-hour Bill Monroe show on PBS last night -- that guy was ten times as metal as Nightwish, even way back in the 1930s! God of fancy speed picking and total American doom.

And the full Emperor catalog should be reissued this fall. Yes, it needed to be already.

I'm very disappointed by the new Neurosis. It seems like the further they get from metal, the more people like them. This one is mopey alt-drone-rock with occasional crunching sounds. I'm enjoying the 3-CD Scorpions box much more.

I don't know if C.Aarmé are metal or not (probably not, they sound like a heavier version of early Plugz to me), but I love their album. I sent you a review yesterday, Chuck. You should listen to the record; it's great.

That's certainly a great name for both band and album...

Chuck I think if you side-by-sided them with the Jesus Lizard you'd have to own here that you're mainly just bustin' out the hate stick. When were the Jesus Lizard interested in any kind of production other than the dry, effect-less Albini model?