Rolling Metal Thread 2008

"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.

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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.

Yeah, the Infected Malignity is surprisingly good, especially when compared to the band's rather plain previous full-length.

The Neuraxis, though, as I've said, is as great a live album as I've heard in recent years.

Hey Jordan don't be snobby about German rock operas, because...um.... Well, okay, you're probably right to be hating on Ayreon. But I've never heard them before, and I like them like I used to like Rush back in the day, and the new one is a lot better than you think. Lots of excellently cheesy power-metal vocalizing from Gotthard's Steve Lee!

If you hit the west side Buy & Sell you can probably get the first Ayreon album, I sold a ton of my high school metal cds there last month. :>

Woo hoo! If you go to Strictly Discs or Re-Play you can find a lot of dodgy world music albums...courtesy of me.

Roxor.

Meantime, in the Metal Shirt Watch for today at UCI -- Nile shirt. Wearer's looks -- Kerry King circa 1991. Not bad.

hey metal dudes,

have a quick question, are either of these albums worth a lot of dough or worth keeping in the collection?

i got two recently for free that are sealed copies and i kinda want to listen to them but not if they are super collectible or something? or...if they are rockin' and awesome i'll keep 'em and listen to them...thx!

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http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/les%20goupes/K/Killer%20Dwarfs/Big%20Deal/Big%20Deal.jpg

That Killer Dwarfs must be out of print. But the album itself was a bit of a dud (they were a really annoying band), so I don't know how valuable it really is.

"Heavy Mental Breakdown" was pretty much their greatest moment.

Don't know how many other Maiden geeks are here, but I was a giddy fanboy this afternoon, picking up the looong-awaited DVD release of Live After Death. Looks and sounds great so far, I'm 15 all over again. I can finally retire the VHS...