I meant to ask, does Decibel send the special issue with Top 100 Death Metal albums to subscribers or no? If I have to order it, I'll also get their Thrash special and find out what they were thinking in placing Holy Terror - Mind Wars (1988) at #5. Also surprised that Coroner's Punishment For Decadence, Mental Vortex and Grin didn't make the list, and that Seasons In The Abyss was only #44.
I've been listening to Vio-lence and many others, and need more time with them. However I think in both lists there is a tendency to overrate some of the more obscure albums, because it is, at least for a while, more interesting to listen to something that's kind of new to our ears than what we've been familiar with for 22+ years.
Others I'm listening to from the list:#9 Dark Angel - Darkness Descends (1986)#24 Sabbat - History of a Time to Come (1988)#25 Blind Illusion - The Sane Asylum (1988)#26 Exhorder - Slaughter in the Vatican (1990)#30 Anacrusis - Reason (1990)#32 Carnivore - Carnivore (1985)#38 Believer - Sanity Obscure (1990)#39 Sacrifice - Forward to Termination (1987)#41 Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence (1987)#43 Infernäl Mäjesty - None Shall Defy (1987)#45 Sadus - Illusions (1988)
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 10 November 2012 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xnS80YI7MzQ
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Sunday, 11 November 2012 01:48 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnS80YI7MzQ
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Sunday, 11 November 2012 01:49 (eleven years ago) link
Neurosis: Metal for 10-year-olds.
― 誤訳侮辱, Sunday, 11 November 2012 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
Off to see Witch Mountain.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 11 November 2012 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
nice!!
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 11 November 2012 03:14 (eleven years ago) link
have fun, mane
― EZee4snappin (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 11 November 2012 03:40 (eleven years ago) link
Holy shit, this new Voivod song sounds like a leftover from Dimension Hatross.
― Metal Archies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 11 November 2012 10:03 (eleven years ago) link
The new Voivod material is really strong live so I'm glad to hear that. Very much looking forward to that album (even if the cover art is a bit shite; sorry, Away, but it is).
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Sunday, 11 November 2012 11:23 (eleven years ago) link
The last few albums haven't been really strong in the cover art department. But I'm really looking forward to the new one despite the art.
― Metal Archies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 11 November 2012 11:29 (eleven years ago) link
Witch Mountain were absolutely killer last night. Castle was really good, too (as was the first local opener - it was a good night of music), but Nate & company were firing on all cylinders. Definitely helped that the crowd was really into it, hooting and hollering and clapping like mad between songs.
I also got to meet xhuxk for the first time, which was very cool.
All in all a great night, even though my car died and I needed AAA to help me get back to Dallas.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 11 November 2012 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
The local openers that really impressed me were Unmothered. You can check them out here if you're curious: http://unmothered.bandcamp.com/
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 11 November 2012 23:59 (eleven years ago) link
castle were definitely v. good at their thing, couldn't decide how much i was into their thing
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 November 2012 01:54 (eleven years ago) link
That kid is amazing.. he knows his shit!!
― SeanWayne, Monday, 12 November 2012 03:45 (eleven years ago) link
xp I just recently heard Voivod's self-titled from 2003, which is not bad. Have not yet heard Infini (2009) where they assembled guitar parts recorded by Piggy before his death. I was talking about the Decibel thrash list before, which listed Killing Technology (1987) in the top ten and War And Pain (1984) lower down, but no mention of Dimension Hatröss (1988), Nothingface (1989) or Angel Rat (1991). Maybe they were considered too proggy to be thrash?
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 12 November 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, they shed the thrash tag once and for all with Hatross.
― A. Begrand, Monday, 12 November 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
aw that kid is cool
― captain angeroo (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 12 November 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
Another great installment of "Mixtarum Metallum": http://www.popmatters.com/pm/tools/full/164888
Two albums I didn't know about were Hellwell - Beyond The Boundaries Of Sin with Mark Shelton of Manilla Road, and Indesinence — Vessels of Light and Decay, recorded and mixed by Greg Chandler from Esoteric. Also happy to see Ufomammut, Spiders, Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and Blues Pills covered.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 12 November 2012 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
The Indesinence is pretty good, but yeah, that article really made me want to check out that Hellwell.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 12 November 2012 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
Don't sleep on the Oak Pantheon record either. Really good.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 12 November 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
I wish I liked the Hellwell album more. And the Oak Pantheon album is very good.
― A. Begrand, Monday, 12 November 2012 23:37 (eleven years ago) link
Indesinence is really miserable, and they do a good job at it, but I have zero recollection of it even after listening to it a bunch to review it.
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
huh oak pantheon is from mpls!
― mh (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
New Kowloon Walled City..... CRUCHING!!!!http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/11/07/164604989/song-premiere-kowloon-walled-city-cornerstone
― SeanWayne, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 05:00 (eleven years ago) link
Is that like a mix between crushing and crunching?
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 05:31 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't listened to any music for over a week. Not bought anything for like a month either. Have I missed anything good?
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 12:44 (eleven years ago) link
Yes.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
new soundgarden is ok! some horrible lyrics and some bad songs
i forgot what a bad motherfucker kim thaiyl is
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
Couldn't have put that better myself. Gonna listen to King Animal again tomorrow.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
In honor of that Neurosis review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heg8l0zspSg
― Brakhage, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
i mean, the new soundgarden is about as good as you could have possibly expected a new soundgarden album to be...but i'd say half of this is pretty ace
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
oh man, that rules (xpost)
― original bgm, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
It was nice to meet EZ Snappin as well -- and yep, that Cathedral (who I'd never heard before)/Witch Mountain show was a lot of fun.
I do not like the new Soundgarden album much:
http://www.rhapsody.com/artist/soundgarden/album/king-animal-seven-four-entertainment-republic-2012
I liked that self-titled Voivod album back in 2003; wrote this when it came out (scroll down):
http://www.villagevoice.com/2003-09-02/music/music/
Finally, another monthly roundup: I wrote 600-character reviews of 17 of these 20 new albums (though now you have to click on their covers individually to read the reviews. And to figure out which ones I like most and least, you need to read the intro.)
http://www.rhapsody.com/blog/post/top-20-metal-albums-november-2012
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
Albums I've liked a lot since I wrote that roundup: Venomous Maximus, Spiders.
Undecided about: Bison BC, Abiotic. (Though suprisingly, I think I like the latter more so far).
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
That Bison BC was surprisingly good; don't really go for that sort of thing, personally, but they sell it well.
― KKdomitor, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Er, I obviously meant CASTLE opening for Witch Mountain, not Cathedral (who I have, in fact, heard of before.) My wife liked them so much she bought their CD at the merch table. (Also meant "surprisingly," not however I spelled it.)
Bison BC album sounded better to me second time through this morning. (They sure do hide the "B.C." on the cover, though -- not on the spine at all, I don't think.)
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
I beleive the BC was added later, I'm thinking for legal issues.. The logo is probably pre BC.
― SeanWayne, Thursday, 15 November 2012 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, they're still known around these parts simply as Bison. They indeed added the BC for legal reasons when they signed with Metal Blade.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 15 November 2012 06:20 (eleven years ago) link
Dude, I know it's not your fault, but that is a new low bar for a click-whore gallery UI. Whoever decided to stripe the text down a thin left column like that should have to actually read text in that format, like, forever.
Nice to see New Castle's Tygers getting some respect, and a not-half-bad album after all these years.
Not remotely metal, but the thing I can't stop listening to lately is Chris Lawhorn's Fugazi Edits. Kev Eddy's review nails, it, I think: http://drownedinsound.com/releases/17299/reviews/4145697
― summervillain, Thursday, 15 November 2012 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
Is Fugazi Edits for Fugazi for Fugazi fans who don't like Fugazi's singers/songs or the Wu-Tang Clan?
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Thursday, 15 November 2012 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
I'll let you know when my copy arrives in the mail. (I liked Fugazi a lot early on, but stopped paying attention after Steady Diet of Nothing and don't think I've ever heard anything after that.)
― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, 15 November 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
You missed out
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 15 November 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
apart from a few v fleeting moments when it sounded like some Mego Records ish or something, I thought the Fugazi Edits thing was really pedestrian and messy
― Joanna Motorhead (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 15 November 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
It sounds really boring.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Thursday, 15 November 2012 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
I listened to a track on soundcloud. Meh.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 15 November 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
I liked Fugazi a lot early on, but stopped paying attention after Steady Diet of Nothing and don't think I've ever heard anything after that
that includes the best two albums!
― j., Thursday, 15 November 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
I've got all their albums on the big hard drive; maybe I'll load them into my iPod one of these days.
― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, 15 November 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
in on the killtaker is p heavy
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 15 November 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
as long as we're not on a kult metal tip (or, er, any kind of metal, for some reason), the new Defontes might be the best since White Pony.
― Simon H., Thursday, 15 November 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
ah cool, i really love white pony
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 15 November 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link