Rolling Metal Thread 2009

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(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...

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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

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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

only once YOU vote too roxy!

no I am not voting in that poll, the ground rules confused me so I drank a beer

:(

You only have to choose and rank 25 albums from the nominations list and send that to the email provided

and the groundrules are the same ones from the big ilx poll

which I also did not vote in

sorry man not hating or nothing OK just ranking 25 albums - you gotta understand I am not a big fan of ordered music lists anyway (I know this makes me a freak on a music board), I hand 'em in faithfully but I am not really into 'em and when they're aggregate WHO IS THE WINNER I am just...that is not my thing you know?

kerr im gonna let you in on a little secret

when you remind people to do something 900x more often than not they're just gonna say fuck it

No problem. I'd be grateful if you (and others) did vote but if you don't that's fine. No worries.
It's just all designed to make things easier for the results to be tabulated. It's time consuming as it is.
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however here is my list of all the new autopsy 7"s I am gonna buy
1. new autopsy 7"

Pfunk: I'll do album- and voter-similarity analysis if you send me the ballots. And if that gives anybody a non-ranking incentive for voting...

Thanks! (I gave a fuller reply on the other thread)

Great essay, Glenn. I hadn't read any of your music writing up to this point, but I think now I'm going to have to read all of it.

Thanks! Although as you'll discover, "all of it" may be a little more than you want...