Rolling Metal Thread 2008

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

Rarely have I been a parent and a metal fan so simultaneously!

Today's new love for something (slightly) old: Down, by Sentenced. I missed this the first time, as I had written them off pre-Ville and not gotten around to reconsidering (lured back by HIM comparisons) until about when they disbanded. But ahh. Churning and overblown and majestic.

dude Down rule.

He's talking about Down the album not Down the band.

The Sentenced reissues are really good. Down just has one bonus track, and Crimson doesn't really have anything, but those are still pretty killer albums, especially Down. Frozen has the real good stuff, though: four pretty entertaining covers as bonus tracks. I also have the Moonspell and Samael reissues, but I haven't gotten around to listening to them yet. The Moonspell reissues have a second disc that's basically the albums performed live, and the Samael reissues have an EP at the end of Passage, and a bunch of alternative mixes at the end of Paternal. I have the original issues of the Moonspell albums, and they're both great already. Interested to hear the live versions.

In high school I was into Amok (the album).

The new In Flames album: pretty good. Comfortable, which isn't a bad thing.

The new Arsis: astounding. I've been listening to Neuraxis so much lately, that I forgot just how much better at combining tech death with hooky melodies Arsis is. I mean, underneath all the death noodling and drum fills, this is one wickedly catchy album. There are those who are still gonig to cling to A Diamond For Disease (awesome as it is), but I think in embracing melodiy like they have here, Arsis is doing something considerably more interesting.

Down still rule

did anyone else get the nadja reissue from The End? and did you listen to the bonus track? which is, like, 25 minutes of minimal ambience until around the 26th minute when it turns into a blast of friggin' nadja death metal. pretty cool.

love the three proper songs too. pretty massive.

I'm getting the Nadja disc right away. The online stream doesn't have the bonus track, which is annoying because I've heard on a couple of occasions just how incredible it is.

Their upcoming release for Crucial Blast looks really cool, they have a live drummer for the first time and the songs have a bit more groove to them apparently.

I can't wait to see Nadja live.

Which Nadja? One of the old tracks remade again that adn mentioned on dffd?
I cant keep up with him hehe

which Nadja was reissued on The End? I can't seem to find it on their site. Is it not out yet?

also wtf.. they are only coming to Aquarius Records.. my living room is bigger than that place (slight exaggeration)

Skin Turns to Glass is the release on The End.

Got Nadja, In Flames and Arsis all in today's mail, along with the new Sahg and a few other things I can't remember now.

This is kind of awesome, a band called Powerglove that does heavy metal versions of videogame themes: http://www.myspace.com/vgmetal

Ha, I like that Powerglove. They should tour with Graf Orlock.

How's that new Sahg? Are they any good live? I didn't mind their last album, and I'm considering going to see them next week.

The In Flames has grown on me nicely, it's a good, consistent album. "The Chosen Pessimist" has them going all Radiohead, but in a tasteful, effective way.

That Arsis, though, I just love it.

I hd a very metal Valentine's Day. This was my gift: http://fici.bira.gen.tr/06.04.2007DVDVILE7_Misanthrope260.jpg, and we watched this: http://www.merchdirect.net/x/detail_image.php?imageid=16621

(In lieu of actually going to see them, which was my fault.)