Rolling 2004 Metal Thread

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?

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I feel you on the LGS/Gold Standard thing, and yeah, there's some of the Yow affectation, but Yow didn't exactly cut that from whole cloth...I just like 'em a whole lot, thing there's a sort of blender ethos goin' on, but yeah I can see where my blender is your derivative - all's cool - meanwhile, I must here boast for the first time in a while that I MET THOR when he played at Yo Yo a Go Go a couple years back, and it RULED

The new Susperia is also sounding great these days. Very Testament-ish.

What was Thor like, John?

I think "Bad Hobbits Die Hard" is funny!

(Chuck, those Nektar reissues sound rad! Thanks for sending them my way. Lemme know if you need anything on them.)

The THOR - Mutant demos LP pressed last year in edition of 3-500 vinyls is mighty good. "Sweat Love" grinds.

Heard Vince Neil's cover of "I Fought the Law" yesterday -- it was no fun.