Rolling Metal Thread 2008

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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...

Brilliant. Oh man, is it ever brilliant. Best record review I've read in ages.

http://www.decibelmagazine.com/reviews/mar2008/ayreon.aspx

:-D

"Metal Shirt Watch @ Borders: A tiny, 13-yr-old-looking girl in a Nightwish shirt."

I was at Powell's looking at metal magazines a few weeks ago and a woman in her late forties asked my advice on which mag to buy her son who "really likes bands like Finntroll, but isn't into Slayer".

I handed her a copy of the new Terrorizer.

gree hee hee hee @ scott's review

non-shocker @ 13 yr old girl in nightwish shirt, this is the prime (or at least secondary) demographic???

So Phil's blog post yesterday about Braindrill compelled me to finally unearth it and give it a spin, and whaddya know, it's quite the nutty little death metal album. Some wicked playing on it, especially one track during the latter half that goes all Atheist on us. Not as great as the Hate Eternal disc, but definitely a bigger surprise.

whahaaaaahhahahaha awesome review, scott

I completely forgot my own Metal Shirt Moment yesterday -- was wearing my Carcass Heartwork shirt and was initially surprised by some guy who came to the library desk and was all "Dude, Carcass! They rule!"

haha "California state colleges: where you get to wear Carcass shirts at the library desk."

re: Nightwish girl, I almost never see girls of this age in my town into metal. 16+, still rare, but happens enough to not be o_O.

Very true, D5ive!

I want to get the Ayreon record just so I have something to remember Scott's review by.

non-shocker @ 13 yr old girl in nightwish shirt, this is the prime (or at least secondary) demographic???

maybe for nu-Nightwish but their main demo has always been Europa-powermetal doodz

I loved the with Tarja, Wishmaster is one of my favorite power metal albums ever, maybe even my favorite. Haven't heard the new stuff because as I've said elsewhere I WILL REP FOR YOU TARJA even if your pop turn smells like butts.

Metal Shirt Moment: rail-thin art student carrying her huge portfolio rocking a Therion tour shirt.

Only ever see girls with nu-metal shirts or, Metallica or marilyn manson. apart from one girl in a Nightwish tee.
usually its grizzly old dudes in maiden or sacred reich shirts or metallica tour tees. And a couple of idiots in cradle of filth shirts. Im sure they wore them 10 years ago or more too.

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x1/m138jewski/5-2.jpg

damn son

I saw a girl at USC once wearing a Metal Church shirt. She was on a staircase, though, so I didn't get a chance to talk to her.

metal chicks into brutal underground shit are plentiful in the bay area.

Plenty of hot Latin girls wearing brutal DM tees at BB King's every time I've been there.

You will forgive me but I initially interpreted 'DM' as Depeche Mode. I would, though.

according to the official site, the new Opeth record is called Watershed, and one of the album castoffs is an Alice in Chains cover.

Plus a cover of a song by whatshername from Roxette! Can't wait to see the fanboys' reaction to that one.

Ok, I didn't mean that to turn into "lol, I once saw a girl in a metal shirt, too!" but it did anyway.

LOL, I once saw a girl in a metal shirt, too!

And ever since then you've searched in vain. But don't worry Jeff, it'll happen.

metal chicks into brutal underground shit are plentiful in the bay area.

-- chaki, Wednesday, February 6, 2008 7:57 PM

also down south. most of my female coworkers are into mexican death metal. several of my male coworkers are in mexican death metal bands.

I have not heard any of the non-album tracks, which kinda bugs me - when Mikael comes to NYC to do press, I'm gonna pester him for a CD-R, just so I can hear them do "Bridge Of Sighs."

Yeah, ladies with Sodom and Destruction shirts are a dime a dozen in Portland.

But they all have dreds.

:(

Okay, I got the Hermano album, and it's surprisingly good. Like, really good. Much catchier and groovier than QOTSA over the last few years, that's for sure.

I finally listened to Down III and have changed my mind about them. As much as it pains me to praise anything with Anselmo, I have to say it's great.

Just got the Attacker best-of Standing The Test Of Time in the mail, and taking modern remastering technology into account, it absolutely lives up to its title.

Ok, I didn't mean that to turn into "lol, I once saw a girl in a metal shirt, too!" but it did anyway.

It's the rolling thread that needs to be made

Real quick: I definitely like some stuff on the Warbringer CD and the two-disc Hellhammer reissue, though I really wish they were both EPs instead; as is, I'm not sure I'll ever get through them. Pretty sure I like Atrocity's Napalm album full of goth cheeseball '80s synth-pop covers more than either of those. Favorites are probably the rather lovely versions of Alphaville's "Forever Young" and Bronksi Beat's "Smalltown Boy." Not sure whether I had ever heard any version of A-ha's "The Sun Always Shines On TV," Icehouse's "Hey Little Girl," Talk Talk's "Such a Shame," or Herbert Gronemeyer's (whoever he is) "Keine Heimat" (all of which I just now googled to find out who did them) before, or maybe I did and I just wasn't paying attention. My favorite of those, naturally, is the German one.

Not sure whether I had ever heard any version of A-ha's "The Sun Always Shines On TV,"

! Chuck, man, you missed out.

Some other band did a version of "Smalltown Boy" that was much better, a few years ago. I saw them play it live at Irving Plaza and was bemused; can't remember the band's name now, though.

Paradise Lost?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=A2iASJMuUkM

Paradise Lost does an incredible job on "Smalltown Boy". The stuff I've heard from that Atrocity album sounds awful.

Chuck, a good chunk of the Warbringer album was actually on an EP they released in 06 called One By One the Wicked Fall...it's a bit rawer, it's well worth checking out.

On a considerably wussier note, the new Bullet For My Valentine doesn't know what the hell it wants to be, going for Trivium's watered-down thrash and full-on emo/pop metal at the same time, but for all its faults, I kind of like the thing.

used to rep for this album in high school:

http://marknefilim.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/paradise_lost_-_1995_-_draconian_times.jpg

(is that a dave mckean cover?)

Slayer won another Grammy. Take that as you will.

Rawk.

Leave him alone, he's a family man:

http://idolator.com/assets/resources/2008/02/slayerrrrr.jpg

I think the voters are just voting for whoever they've heard of. Next year it will be Metallica, no doubt.

I just love that photo. The girl's (daughter's?) expression is priceless.

She looks like she's about to cry.

I see Araya "outkicked his coverage" with respect to his wife

that photo is A+ all the way.

Apparently the Getty images caption for that picture is: "Heavy Metal nominated artist Slayer and his family."

That's painful to read. Embarrassing. Great pic though.

lol. wife is smokin.

God, the daughter's face! <3