word!!
― SeanWayne, Sunday, 26 January 2014 15:56 (ten years ago) link
I just got a couple goodies from Malleus Labs in the mail yesterday, patch and shirt from the Magickal Mastery tour. They're supposed to finally play in the U.S. this year, but I didn't expect a new album! What's your source?
I got tickets for the Graveyard show at House of Blues Apr 26. It'll be my third time seeing them, and they are indeed not to be missed.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 26 January 2014 18:03 (ten years ago) link
Grammys last night from a metal perspective
My oppressed metal Facebook contingency is collectively complaining that they neglected to eulogize Jeff Hanneman. A smaller number of people were angry about the omission of Clive Burr.
Black Sabbath winning the metal Grammy was unsurprising.
People seem very torn about the Metallica performance: Some say it sucked, some say it really sucked, a minority liked it (I am in the minority).
And we need some pix to make fun of...
http://metalinjection.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Slipknot-Crown-Grammys.jpg
Wow, do the KSE guys look like douchebags...
http://metalinjection.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Killswitch-Engage-at-the-Grammys-2014.jpg
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 27 January 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
For professional reasons, I'm obviously disappointed that neither Killswitch Engage nor Dream Theater won (especially since I'd spent time on Saturday preparing news stories for each band just in case), but a) if you're gonna lose a Grammy, at least lose it to the band that invented your genre; b) Sabbath's win was honest, given that it was for a new song, rather than a live version of a 30-year-old song or something like that.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 27 January 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
Is that Rockzo the Clown from Metalocalypse?
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 27 January 2014 19:11 (ten years ago) link
Looks like there'll be a new Ufomammut record this year.
Don't see any info on an album on the Ufomammut site. What do you know that we don't?? BTW this is the shirt I got:
http://images.cdn.bigcartel.com/bigcartel/product_images/126329361/max_h-1000+max_w-1000/Layout_Men.jpg
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 14:17 (ten years ago) link
That shirt is sweet.
So this amused me: Metal Albums with Googly Eyes
My personal favorite:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/93a026f49deed23ae1cc57c726099c48/tumblr_n01kypJRnm1trrkjfo1_1280.jpg
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 14:27 (ten years ago) link
Fastnbulbous - There's lots of "we're gearing up to make a record" talk on the Ufomammut social media machine. I don't think it's at the announcement stage but I'd guess by the end of the year there'll be new music released.
― Oblique Strategies, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM Reveal Details On New Recordings
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Following the November release of their BBC Session 2011 Anno Domini two-track live 12" via Southern Lord, new recordings from WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM have been confirmed for a 2014 release. Following several months of anticipation, the Cascadian black metal clan comprised of brothers Aaron and Nathan Weaver now humbly unveil their impending full-length release, Celestite.
Taking a different approach than their previous LPs, Celestite is a completely newly envisioned, parallel-universe version of Celestial Lineage, the beautifully blackened fourth studio full-length epic WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM released via Southern Lord in 2011. Celestite arises with a whole new, ethereal approach. There are no drums and no vocals. Rather, deep, heavy crystalline synthesizer journeying, Eno-inspired analog processing and arcane acoustic instrumentation expand upon dimensions folded within the universe of Celestial Lineage.
The Weavers tell us: "To make Celestite, we delved into the subterranean sonics that are buried in the mix of Celestial Lineage. We isolated them, processed them and took this unearthed soundscape as our starting point. Upon this base we recorded an entirely new album. Some melodies from Celestial Lineage are recognizable, but these familiar sounds appear as ghosts, barely tethered to the original compositions. This new album is an unorthodox foray; a fully instrumental, experimental companion record to Celestial Lineage. We left some work undone with Celestial Lineage. The recording of that album in the Winter of 2011 was a monumental project for us personally, and the creative fire from those recording sessions was still burning. This recording process was an opportunity to journey into our own inner universe to complete that which needed to be completed." Paired once again with producer Randall Dunn (Earth, Sunn O))), Master Musicians Of Bukkake), Celestite came to fruition at Avast Studios and WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM's own Olympia-based studio Owl Lodge. While cloistered during the recording sessions they made use of a mammoth arsenal of crumbling vintage equipment including a Serge Modular System, Korg Poly6, Korg MS20, Korg Mono/Poly, Roland Juno 106, Roland Jupiter 6, Roland Super jx10, Jomox Airbase 99, Access Virus and more. The album also features a guest wind ensemble including friends Josiah Boothby on French Horn, Steve Moore (Earth, Sunn O))), Stebmo) on Trombone, and both Mara Winter and Veronica Dye on flute. The upcoming release of Celestite is doubly exciting for WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM as it will mark another new venture for the duo; the inaugural release on their own new label, Diadem Records. The band states, "Diadem Records is the imprint we created to release Celestite and future albums. Most importantly for us, working on this album has revealed a whole new vein of creative energy for WITTR. Now that the long trip of creating this album is finished, our appetite is whetted for future projects, thus we feel it necessary to pre-empt the inevitable chatter that will accompany the release of this record. WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM has not permanently abandoned the guitar and drums! We sense that one day -- perhaps sooner, perhaps later -- we will be inspired to return to our stacks of amplifiers and cabinets to create new music."
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 21:23 (ten years ago) link
I don't care if the hipsters like 'em, I do too.
fuckin rad.
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 21:25 (ten years ago) link
i wish i could chant something and make it come out today
looking forward to this
― ۩, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 21:35 (ten years ago) link
how is two brothers a clan
― j., Tuesday, 28 January 2014 21:36 (ten years ago) link
So basically they're going to do what Burzum did last year?
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:08 (ten years ago) link
I've always sort of admired them for making music every bit as boring as spending the day wandering around in a forest.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:11 (ten years ago) link
aren't there bears in the forest
― j., Tuesday, 28 January 2014 22:17 (ten years ago) link
I'm sure you're all in mourninghttp://www.musictimes.com/articles/3767/20140128/motley-crue-announce-break-up-extensive-farewell-tour-alice-cooper.htm
― ۩, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 23:16 (ten years ago) link
Last gig is on the date of Mick Mars 100th birthday I believe.
― ۩, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 23:18 (ten years ago) link
INDIAN
― Doran, Thursday, 30 January 2014 18:06 (ten years ago) link
yeah, that album is pretty immense
― original bgm, Thursday, 30 January 2014 18:14 (ten years ago) link
Hey, this is worth listening to, a dude I know turning out some pretty great doom. Also, it's $4, so why not.
http://kultofthewizard.bandcamp.com/album/the-blue-wizard
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:51 (ten years ago) link
Also hi dudes, hope to be more around this year. Babies.
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:52 (ten years ago) link
Not calling you babies, meaning I have one. Sleep deprivation is a hell of a thing.
well, not 2014, but i finally got around to cultes des ghoules' henbane and it is really, really good. that one riff build in the middle of "festival of devotion" is blowing my mind. also enjoying all of the grim cackling.
― original bgm, Friday, 31 January 2014 16:18 (ten years ago) link
The new Hammercult, Steelcrusher, is pretty fun. Recommended for anyone who might have wished 3 Inches of Blood tossed in a little more death metal.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 31 January 2014 16:21 (ten years ago) link
new agalloch in may apparently
― call all destroyer, Friday, 31 January 2014 17:19 (ten years ago) link
This is a couple years old, but I just discovered Djerv, who kind of sound to me like what you might get if you swapped the LA shoutiness out of In This Moment and replaced it with Norwegian Kvelertakian stomp. Bracing, but catchy. Or catchy but bracing.
http://rd.io/x/QUPlByJTr1w/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq3FAy-JTAg
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 31 January 2014 20:45 (ten years ago) link
I wanted to like that band but something about it just left me cold.
― J3ff T., Friday, 31 January 2014 21:18 (ten years ago) link
I like Djerv a lot. They're about due a new record.
― A. Begrand, Friday, 31 January 2014 22:11 (ten years ago) link
How the hell did I miss Gloria Diaboli for so long? It's not as good as Rites of Thy Degringolade (not much is), but still very entertaining in that rabid Canadian black/war/death hybrid way.
― atom bomb, vietnam, missiles on the moon (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 1 February 2014 00:43 (ten years ago) link
A friend turned me onto this.. Kinda post hardcore in a Refused type of way. a little looser and more spastic and/or thrashier.. whatevs.. good stuff, and they are French.. who what've thought! lol
Remote
― SeanWayne, Saturday, 1 February 2014 06:10 (ten years ago) link
Since 2014 seems to have hit a lull, here are bands that really should not have faded into obscurity:
Abdullah, with Iommi riffs and a vocalist that almost reaches the pummeling fragility of Warning/40 Watt Sun's Patrick Walker:http://youtu.be/qZea4deXMDc
Enforsaken, rendering Jesper Stromblad's career of riffs moot, yes seriously (find the album The Forever Endeavor):http://youtu.be/OSGfOlPnJMQ
And Yyrkoon, Gojira's darker, heavier, Lovecraft-addled brother, locked away in an attic:http://youtu.be/zJOpBmW1cV0
― Devilock, Sunday, 2 February 2014 08:44 (ten years ago) link
So this is happening:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1/q71/s720x720/1560674_10202843550001468_1877794796_n.jpg
OhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygodOhmygod!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 2 February 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
holy shit!
― joe perry has been dead for years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 2 February 2014 18:37 (ten years ago) link
Anyone else interested in Gilead Fest? It's a tiny festival in Wisconsin with a great lineup:
http://www.gileadmedia.net/fest/
Weekend passes just went on sale for a paltry $75.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 3 February 2014 01:58 (ten years ago) link
man I'm listening to some of the bands on that list...that sounds like a blast tbh!
― joe perry has been dead for years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 3 February 2014 02:44 (ten years ago) link
You should come. It's going to be something special.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 3 February 2014 02:59 (ten years ago) link
Last time looked pretty kick-ass & I think this one has upped the ante. Shame I'll be in the US a month & a half before it's on.
― Wandering Boy Poet, Monday, 3 February 2014 13:36 (ten years ago) link
Phil Anselmo thinks more metalheads should listen to the Smiths and Morrissey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kTsbuoTOKs
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 3 February 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link
Just downloaded the new/last Twilight release. Looking forward to checking it out!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 3 February 2014 21:15 (ten years ago) link
Gilead looks cool, but they picked a bad date, the same weekend as Pitchfork. I'm probably not going to P-fork, but not sure I'm up for driving to Osh Kosh and spending two nights there on my b-day weekend.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 3 February 2014 21:25 (ten years ago) link
I don't have specific comments yet, but am enjoying the new Slough Feg album a lot!
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 3 February 2014 21:27 (ten years ago) link
the new yautja record is amazing, don't sleep on it until they get signed to relapse like yall did with inter arma
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Monday, 3 February 2014 22:08 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, it's the jam.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 3 February 2014 22:08 (ten years ago) link
this is good. v. pummeling, if i had to choose a word.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 3 February 2014 22:24 (ten years ago) link
the new cynic record is pretty awesome, kind of difficult to get my head around, less accessible than traced in air, only tangentially metal (unfortunate tendency of things lately)
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 02:47 (ten years ago) link
With Behemoth and Sunn putting out records today and gobbling up all the available ink, this digital only live album from Coliseum is likely to slip through the cracks. Which would be a shame because it's great.
https://coliseum.bandcamp.com/album/faith-and-curses-live
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link
The Body have collaborated with Haxan Cloak on a record called I Shall Die Here. I'm sure it will split the vote but personally I love it. It's coming out on RVNG Int.
Loving the Behemoth, Sunn & Ulver, Indians and especially the new Bong - Stoner Rock.
― Doran, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:37 (ten years ago) link
Congratulations jjjusten. Have you seen the Dad Metal clip? You've got it all to come...
― Doran, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link