Rolling Metal Thread 2009

I lol'ed.

heheh

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f253/Klawful-image/COVER-1.jpg
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Posted by the artist himself on dffd http://www.foreverdoomed.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=159&start=990

i hope the next cover is done by the penny arcade dudes

hahahaha.

i wish i had the skills to do a pic of Fonzi jumping the shark in that same style.

from what I've heard of the new Blut Aus Nord, I am going to love this album for a long time.

yeah, that's my fave of the year so far.

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i hope the next cover is done by the penny arcade dudes

― WEREWOLF CONGRESS (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:13 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I like Nadja a bunch but this is basically the first thing I thought of when I saw the first pic the guy did, and not at all in a good way. I actually have the album on now and the MBV cover sounds exactly how you'd expect, which I'm OK with. It came in the post with the Karl Sanders solo album, which sounds quite intriuging if not really at all metal

not heard it, but id like to

It's cheesier than dark, but I'm surprised how much I'm enjoying the gothic-industrial-metal-album The Only Salvation, by the Norwegian band Artifact. Kind of like an amped up version of (later) Gary Numan, with the occasional death-metal blurt.

Also, both the new Kreator and Sirenia albums, which I've had around since before the new year, continue to impress me anew every time something from them comes up on my Shuffle.

And yeah, Blut Aus Nord. And Nightbringer. And Absu. Already another really good year...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Music-instruments/Music-memorabilia/Other/auction-207392280.htm

digging the dragon painting to the right of the cabinet of deth.

If I had $10,000, I would totally get that.

http://www.exclaim.ca/images/up-7dead.jpg
http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/generalarticlesynopsfullart.aspx?csid1=130&csid2=804&fid1=37081

In which our intrepid, forest-dwelling hipsters absolutely fucking brutalize the Slayer classic.

This album's going to be incredible.

The Gathering new singer is... Silje Wergeland from Octavia Sperati
http://bit.ly/4hnAO

The Gathering on myspace
http://www.myspace.com/gatheringofficial

The new songs are good, and I was a fan of Octavia Sperati, but I was expecting something a little bolder. Instead the new stuff, while lovely, sounds a bit pedestrian.

no anneke no credibility

i'll tell you one thing about nadja's slayer cover, it's long.

It might be long, but it's far from tedious.

"forest-dwelling hipsters absolutely fucking brutalize the Slayer classic"

There is something very wrong with this sentence. Please tell me "absolutely brutalize" doesn't mean marimba and a flute solo.

I meant brutalize in the positive sense.

It's a boring version of my absolute least favorite Slayer song (and yes, that includes the stuff on Undisputed Attitude). Nadja are now and forever in my "I don't get it" pile.

I thought it was great, probably the best thing on the album going on initial spin

I think they make the song a lot creepier and heavier than the original. And I've always liked Slayer's version. No question, going in, you know exactly what Nadja's going to do with these cover songs, just draw them out as long as possible, but with these songs especially, the shtick works really well.

i don't agree. but i love you anyway.

i mean, it's not creepier and it's not heavier. it's just not. and i think it is a little tedious. and putting stuff through the nadja machine can probably work fine in some instances, but i don't think it does the trick in this case. different strokes and all that.

and i got no problem with shtick either. speaking as someone who loved all the songs that mark k. put through the red house painters machine to make them red house painters songs. (post-RHP though, i don't have a lot of time for john denver and modest mouse covers.)

I get the impression listening to Nadja's cover of Dead Skin Mask, that if you were in the same room with them while they were recording the track, you would barely hear them playing. It doesn't sound to me like they are playing their instruments vigorously at all.

I would bet good money that their whole process with the exception of their vocals (and maybe drums on certain records) are all internal using VST distortion on guitars and synths (to create that fake feedback/drone sound they bury all of their songs with). It's a sound I used to find really compelling, but now that I've had six or seven of their samey albums to deconstruct their sound, it sounds kind of dull and flat and doesn't really fit my personal definition of metal at all.

Oh no! False Metal Alert!

What will people who like it ever do?

Discuss them on the indie rock thread. (I kid)

You take Mastadon into some sort of prog hell thread and I'll take Nadja off too. I kid, only kinda.

You won't catch me talking about Mastodon on any thread, so it's a deal.

Cool.

So, uh...

Amoseurs? Or does the Joy Division & Swans influence make them verboten too?

Amesoeurs will definitely have some of the purists hollering 'false!', but the new album's not without some vicious moments, including one track of full-on, stripped down black metal.

There was some pretty traditional black metal stuff on the EP, IIRC. Really excited about the upcoming full length. Have they set a hard date yet, or still just sometime this spring?

i thought this dude's version of slayer's reign in blood album was really great and quite lovely, by the way:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/erikhinds3/

I have new Static-X! Uh...

There was some pretty traditional black metal stuff on the EP, IIRC. Really excited about the upcoming full length. Have they set a hard date yet, or still just sometime this spring?

Yeah, 90% of the album follows where the last track on the Ruines Humaines EP left off. So much so, that the raw BM track kind of sticks out...it's still a good track though. There's a European date, I just don't know when it is. March something? For North America, yeah, it's apparently April-ish.

Thanks Adrien.

What do you guys think of Impending Doom?

What do you guys think of Impending Doom?

Well, I try to have a generally positive outlook and not dwell on it too much.

Seriously, though, I'm not too familiar.

No idea, but Monstrosity's Imperial Doom was a load of fun, as I recall it. I kinda miss brutal death metal, no one really seems to do it properly anymore. Everyone who might have it in them are putting on their dad's shoes and playing at techdeath now, it seems.
Hell, has anyone got any tips on good recent death metal in the Suffocation vein?

Amoseurs? Or does the Joy Division & Swans influence make them verboten too?

It's not that it makes them verboten. It's that it makes them boring. We already have four four-band bills a week of metal bands who wanna make sure you know how much they dig Joy Division and how they're not meatheads at all. UOIP (use other influences please). Trying to remember which Albini essay or interview it was that said "how come nobody wants to be influenced by MX-80 Sound?" or something along those lines - i.e., yeah, everybody knows Joy Division was great and we already had a Joy Division so it's actually more interesting to reject that sound/mood, try to consider it off limits, work within restrictions. Which is what makes great black metal bands in my opinion, an acceptance that restriction is actually liberation - that the "we do what sounds good, we're not interested in labels" philosophy of music-making just renders everything faceless.

screw JD & Swans (ptui!). use an Ubu/PiL (w/Wobble) template instead, metalheadz!

YES, THAT! ravenstines for all.

and a Crocus Behemoth or two wouldn't hurt neither.

I agree that working within constraints is a generally productive artistic tactic, but I spend a lot of time listening to new metal bands, too, and I don't actually feel oppressed by the number who sound like Joy Division, or even the number whose failure to abide by genre boundaries render them faceless. Whereas I hear a lot of bands who sound to me like they've spent so little effort pushing their genre's boundaries that maybe they don't even know that there's anything beyond them. At which point they're not productive constraints, they're just failures of imagination. And I guess I'd rather hear failures of discipline than failures of imagination.

Liked the Amesoeurs EP, looking forward the album.