I never said that. Metal should certainly taste delicious!
― Shmutchered at Shmirth (J3ff T.), Saturday, 10 January 2009 01:06 (fifteen years ago) link
then i have lots of complaints
― roxymuzak, Saturday, 10 January 2009 01:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm not saying metal can't be tasteful, but it's a quality one associates more with, say, smooth jazz or soft rock.
― Shmutchered at Shmirth (J3ff T.), Saturday, 10 January 2009 01:19 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah people really associate shit like kenny g and foreigner with "taste"
― roxymuzak, Saturday, 10 January 2009 01:23 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Shmutchered at Shmirth (J3ff T.), Saturday, 10 January 2009 01:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Foreigner are pretty awesome
And also not "soft rock."
― xhuxk, Saturday, 10 January 2009 01:28 (fifteen years ago) link
but dude they aren't
― roxymuzak, Saturday, 10 January 2009 01:28 (fifteen years ago) link
(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?
― roxymuzak, Saturday, 10 January 2009 01:29 (fifteen years ago) link
They certainly show musical restraint.
― Shmutchered at Shmirth (J3ff T.), Saturday, 10 January 2009 01:37 (fifteen years ago) link
tasteful
adjective1. 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]
― Shmutchered at Shmirth (J3ff T.), Saturday, 10 January 2009 01:39 (fifteen years ago) link
a lot of that shit is pretty unbecoming imo
― roxymuzak, Saturday, 10 January 2009 01:43 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― roxymuzak, Saturday, 10 January 2009 01:46 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 10 January 2009 02:39 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― unperson, Saturday, 10 January 2009 02:42 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― A. Begrand, Saturday, 10 January 2009 03:53 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 12 January 2009 00:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Cool read. I haven't heard that Nightwish track you mention...I'll have to track that one down.
― A. Begrand, Monday, 12 January 2009 01:20 (fifteen years ago) link
so there's a new autopsy single coming out? whoa.
wtf
if they fuck this one up I will be pissed off
― J0hn D., Monday, 12 January 2009 01:21 (fifteen years ago) link
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 D., Monday, 12 January 2009 01:23 (fifteen years ago) link
J0hn are you voting in the ilx metal poll? it finishes in a few days
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 12 January 2009 01:27 (fifteen years ago) link
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...
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 12 January 2009 01:32 (fifteen years ago) link
can a dude live xpost
― roxymuzak, Monday, 12 January 2009 01:33 (fifteen years ago) link
only once YOU vote too roxy!
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 12 January 2009 01:40 (fifteen years ago) link
no I am not voting in that poll, the ground rules confused me so I drank a beer
― J0hn D., Monday, 12 January 2009 01:41 (fifteen years ago) link
:(
You only have to choose and rank 25 albums from the nominations list and send that to the email provided
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 12 January 2009 01:42 (fifteen years ago) link
and the groundrules are the same ones from the big ilx poll
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 12 January 2009 01:43 (fifteen years ago) link
which I also did not vote in
― J0hn D., Monday, 12 January 2009 01:44 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― J0hn D., Monday, 12 January 2009 01:47 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― roxymuzak, Monday, 12 January 2009 01:48 (fifteen years ago) link
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.x-posts
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 12 January 2009 01:49 (fifteen years ago) link
however here is my list of all the new autopsy 7"s I am gonna buy1. new autopsy 7"
― J0hn D., Monday, 12 January 2009 01:59 (fifteen years ago) link
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...
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 12 January 2009 02:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks! (I gave a fuller reply on the other thread)
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 12 January 2009 02:12 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Shmutchered at Shmirth (J3ff T.), Monday, 12 January 2009 03:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks! Although as you'll discover, "all of it" may be a little more than you want...
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 12 January 2009 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link
OK, I gave up on the new Saxon before getting through the second listen. Too much of it is half-assed AC/DC, and I'm not a fan of whole-assed AC/DC to begin with.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 12 January 2009 17:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Ha ha, I like it -- better half-assed AC/DC than AC/DC are making now, as far as I can tell. Plus, one of the AC/DC-like songs starts out like "Panama" by Van Halen. And "Slow Lane Blues" and "Protect Yourselves" are more threatening -- three-quarters-assed Rose Tattoo, almost. "Demon Sweeney Todd" is a speedy NWOBHM style rocker, and album ends with a thick and inexorably grooving bottleneck boogie vamp ("Coming Home"). A few clunkified slogs in between, true, but also a couple of plaintive 40-second interludes for the deep-thinkers (i.e., "The Letter" and "Premonition In D Minor"). So I'm on its side.
― xhuxk, Monday, 12 January 2009 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link
George said the new AC/DC was the best album they had made in years
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 12 January 2009 19:16 (fifteen years ago) link
That's not saying a whole lot. (But yeah, I know George likes it. I liked maybe a third of it, but found most of it hard to twiddle my thumbs through.)
― xhuxk, Monday, 12 January 2009 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think its had many votes in the ilx poll so far.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 12 January 2009 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm intrigued by the unusually strong word of mouth the Saxon's been getting. Their last one didn't do anything for me. I haven't liked a new album by them in, well, ever. Remember Rock the Nations?
― A. Begrand, Monday, 12 January 2009 19:32 (fifteen years ago) link
They got a feature in Terrorizer as well as in The Guardian.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 12 January 2009 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Thumbs down from me, and I wanted to like it.
― unperson, Monday, 12 January 2009 20:01 (fifteen years ago) link
This BBC News item is mildly amusing:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7826717.stm
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Thursday, 15 January 2009 14:34 (fifteen years ago) link
aww.
the father/son relationship briefly touched on in that video reminded me of lars and his dad in 'some kind of monster'. kinda lame drummer son outshined by an awesome dad.
― original bgm, Thursday, 15 January 2009 15:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Saxon's album willget a good haiku reviewin new Metal Edge
― Dimension 5ive, Thursday, 15 January 2009 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Re AC/DC
I would be surprised if there were any since it's not in the nominations list!
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 15 January 2009 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link
New Khanate has leaked, for some reason I thought they'd broken up.