Rolling Metal Thread 2008

Nile are super boring live.

Fixed.

well my friends are opening up so i am excited.

The new Attacker album is so awesome. Im not joking.

Ned OTM. But that's pretty cool that your friends are opening for them.

Walken are a good band, they are. (If it's them who are opening.)

nah its friends from la the faceless. but yes walken are good! zack on drums is a god!

We Canadians can't see Nile, they can't cross the border because of some prior arrest or whatnot, so on Canadian boards you always see people going "OH MAN I'D KILL TO SEE NILE!", which makes all the Nile Are Boring comments on American boards rather funny.

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My list is
Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today
High On Fire - Death Is This Communion
Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
Ghost - In Stormy Nights
Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand
Baroness - Red Album
Neurosis - Given To The Rising
Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun
OM - Pilgrimage
Nadja - Touched
Grails - Burning Off Impurities
Witchcraft - The Alchemist
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
Boris w/ Michio Kurihara - Rainbow
Boris with Merzbow - Rock Dream
Caina - Mourner
Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
Jesu - Conqueror
Sunn o))) - Oracle
Torche - In Return

Normally it would be more diverse but I wanted this type o get more recognition.

"We Canadians can't see Nile, they can't cross the border because of some prior arrest or whatnot"

NILE SONNED ON BORDER-CROSSING ANTIQUITIES BEEF

I have seen Nile a few times. First was in a small club opening for Morbid Angel on the Formulas Fatal to the Flesh tour. Maybe 150 people crammed in there. Still pretty meh.

I have interviewed Karl Sanders though and he was a gentleman.

http://a93.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/14/l_18d1257468dae171d8fd6efc9b61cdf4.jpg

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I like Nile!

maybe you can not like where Nile's ended up but Black Seeds of Vengeance is unfuckwithable

^

Though that guy's signature guitar IS pretty unforgiveable.

ok i don't know if this is like mad old to you metal dudes but i lol'd so hard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7oCDbDebDA

Heh, I hadn't seen that.

The Brain Drill album Apocalyptic Feasting, on Metal Blade, is total tech-death overload. Love it, love it, love it.

But Roadrunner just messengered over my advance of the new Opeth album, so if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna spend the next 55 minutes flipping the fuck out. This record is so fucking great.

^^^ Jealous.

!!! how does it compare to Reveries?

^^^ Jealous.

Seconded.

Adrien, you need to head over to the Best of Canada thread.

>!!! how does it compare to Reveries?

It doesn't. Reveries was Damnation with more keyboard parts, and really felt like they'd pushed that aspect of their sound as far as they could; this one is a mind-blowing work of studio artistry, with sonic tricks and disruptions all over the place and some of their most ambitious songwriting ever. It's a left turn and a natural next step, all at once. I'm telling you, definite Album of the Year contention here.

Nice. Ever since I read the comment about main dude getting on a Scott Walker via The Drift kick I've been wondering what this would be like.

ooooh. I'm extra pumped for this now.

i'm digging the new agalloch EP track on their myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/agalloch

sounds purty.

I'm really enjoying Phil's reactions to the Opeth. Nice little post on his blog today, too. What is it...runningthevoodoodown.blogspot.com

Looking forward to that Agalloch as well. My big arrival is the new one by one-man black metal outfit Wrath of the Weak, the latest bit of avant-metal brilliance from Profound Lore. Very lo-fi and Burzumy, some very nice melodies buried in there. Artwork's by Martin Popoff, interestingly enough.

New Agalloch? Shall listen in!

Popoff is a multi-talented guy!

I need to get on the Profound Lore mailing list. Somebody send me a contact.

That Agollach song, "Sowilo Rune" sounds like a Chicane song without the beats.

I can't help but like it, though.

Todd from God Is Myth Records and Andrew from Caina have a post-rock project called Celestial Sea if anyone is into that kinda thing. They are only gonna put out a super-limited 300 copy CDR of the stuff they have recorded though. So, be on the lookout if that's your bag:

http://www.myspace.com/celestialsea

http://www.god-is-myth.com/images/celestial_sea_Deep_Inside_Cover_BIG.jpg

..sonings.

i mean, that's TWO metally bands now that are easily confused with the name of the same herbal tea company.

There wasn't a single article in the new Decibel that interested me (not professional rivalry, just statin' the facts), but it's worth the purchase price just for Scott's review of the Ayreon CD and John D.'s column on pornogrind on the back page.

It seems to be lavish/grim reissue season. I'm obsessing over Burning Witch's Crippled Lucifer (and download-bonus Demo 1996 & Live) and Xasthur's A Gate Through Bloodstained Mirrors, and looking forward to Hellhammer's Demon Entrails.

And, for variety, the new Gamma Ray.

I think I am buying the Ayreon tomorrow.

Only 2 US Agalloch shows this year:

Seattle fri 3/21 (w/Grayceon, In Memorium)
Portland sat 3/22 (w/Red Sparowes, Grayceon, Russian Circles).

Primordial put on a great live show, though I think their sound could've maybe been a bit better. They were lacking their normal bassist though.

Couldn't help laughing the first time the front-man (this massive bearded half-naked guy covered in war paint) from the supporting band Mael Mórdha pulled out a tiny flute thing in the middle of a song and started playing it into a mic. Guess that's my Irish metal cred gone!

Will have to give the new Agalloch stuff a listen, and looking forward to the new Opeth now.

So did everyone else already know that OM is looking for a new drummer. I'm auditioning. I am drone king! Who gets to keep the O and who gets the M?

I hear Chevy Chase is still free!

Ha ha, Nate Carson to thread!

I pre-ordered that new Agalloch. Should be here later this month. Really looking forward to it.

Wow I hadn't heard this OM news yet. I guess I should have stayed and watched them the other night...

I wonder who will drum in Shrinebuilder now?

I heard Max Weinberg was taking that gig.

So new 5ive album, 1st in 8 years. Who has heard it? I just got a leak..

Best 5ive Album/EP

Ayreon, guys? I mean, seriously?

Just got a package from Galy containing the Neuraxis live CD and the Infected Malignity EP. The former is exactly as awesome as I expected; Neuraxis blew me away when I saw them on a Necrophagist/Arsis/Alarum bill in '05. The IM disc is equally impressive, but very different; melodic tech-death with almost hardcore-ish vocals. Six songs, 21 minutes and change. Came out early last month in the U.S.