Rolling Metal 2016

who would you pick?

Probably Repulsion, but I've never seen them. From videos I've seen Helmkamp isn't the most exciting live performer...

BLK OPS is fun live.

xpost I went with Repulsion. after playing Horrified on the way home, easy choice

Yeah I don't think you could go wrong there.

Hey Rolling Metal, how come nobody ever told me about the French band P.H.O.B.O.S. before? Sounds like Jeff Walker fronting an especially pissed off Godflesh circa Slavestate (crunchier percussion, light dub touches, less painfully dissonant than Streetcleaner - I'm thinking like "Perfect Skin" and "Someone Somewhere Scorned"). Sounding pretty good on a quiet night after a long, shitty day.

In addition to the upcoming studio album, Hedvig Mollestad Trio is putting out a double live album, which appears to be a) vinyl-only (though a CD version will be tucked inside; it just won't be sold separately) and b) entirely composed of epic jams.

Side C is on Soundcloud.

new Inquisition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGdbsGFrvbY

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/bell-witch-drummer-adrian-guerra-rip/

goddamnit, RIP

Shit, that's terrible. Four Phantoms is a great album. RIP.

(And I'll have to check that Inquisition out later)

Grave Digger, Helloween, Kamelot, Kreator, Running Wild, Sinner, Skyclad, and Tankard all have new 2CD compilations out called [Title Here]: The Very Best Of The Noise Years.

my Schammasch triple LP arrived :)

is the guy really saying "embrace my creative flow" in that dark suns track"

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sammich sound like sisters of mercy having a drum seizure

Dark Suns guy is a highly creative person.

New Gojira song/video. Can't wait for this album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVvXB-Vwnco

he hollers out "when you change yourself you change yourself you change the world" like an angry office poster. why? why is the poster so angry? plus thanks for gross picture.

thanks ilx. now i hate metal.

destroyer 666 tho

gojira makes you hate metal or something else? I dont get why gojira get so much flak

i don't really have an opinion on gojira. that one line killed my ability to hear the song anymore, and given the chocolate hair face picture, i probably shouldn't have tried in the first place.

lately it has seemed very clear to me upon waking that i hate many things

What do you think of the Schammasch?

Also have you heard the Wrong album? That's right up your alley. I posted about it on FB (that place you never seem to ever be active on)

facebook scares me. i actually think about it sometimes and then get so worried i have to count to certain numbers a lot. mostly because fuck what if they hate me now? i haven't even looked under there in months.

i only listened to a little of the schammasch track. wasn't feeling it, but i'm getting increasingly intolerant of shit without a strong core of thrash, punk, doom &/or classic hard rock. i.e. i'm old.

wrong is badass. plus i mike to pretend they are named after the nomeansno album. only some of their face looks right tho.

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e174/conedust/wrongband.jpg

i also like some of that ketzer album everybody hates

I like the new Gojira song, though it doesn't seem to be breaking any new ground for them. Their lyrics have always been kind of painfully earnest, lots of stuff about saving the environment, etc. The line doesn't sound so bad in the context of the song- but yeah, they'll never win points for subtlety.

Good call on the Wrong. Kinda reminds me of the KEN Mode album I liked from last year, another exercise in '90s sludge revivalism.

Attila from Mayhem, Fred from Dragonforce, Joey Jordison and a couple of other dudes have a new band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI4I68UMaQo

Hard pass on that.

New Inquisition track sounds pretty good. I'm in Inquisition mode right now, though. Dude's kind of a genius guitarist.

hey, i just realized blood ceremony have a new album out. haven't listened to the whole thing yet, but it sounds awesome so far, if not quite of eldritch dark quality. flutes, songs, cool lyrics. fun to pretend she's saying "i am the the devil's weirdo!" on the first track.

ending of "half moon street" could go on another 10 minutes w/o offending mine face

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T2e4vHzhrU&index=1&list=PLH8fFMBt0LQcbHIt2UmMFN753otdQz1yv

Hot take: dude from The Body should stop singing. He's terrible.

Lol Im in love with the font on the Blood Ceremony album

Nick Menza has died. Collapsed on-stage at OHM show due to a heart attack.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/22/nick-menza-megadeth-drummer-dies-collapsing-stage-los-angeles?CMP=fb_gu

jeez

Manowar are breaking up. (Pre-emptive fuck you to all wimps and posers. Leave me alone as I weep into my gloves of metal.)

Wonder how much they'll charge for a farewell tour.
Their last US tour dates had tickets eclipsing $100 a pop if memory serves.

I think the Starland Ballroom tickets were $75, but I couldn't get there, being a non-driver. If they play a NYC venue, I expect it to be over $100. I better start putting money aside.

new kvelertak is growing on me

What's the deal with Arkaik? Just heard them, crazy technical death metal, but I don't think I'd heard them before.

A stream of the new Woman is the Earth album is up over at Invisible Oranges

http://www.invisibleoranges.com/woman-is-the-earth-torch-of-our-final-night-album-premiere/

― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Monday, April 11, 2016 2:36 PM (1 month ago)

I think this is my favorite heavy-ish record of the year so far. Lovely, windswept post/black/rock/metal/whatever. Had never even heard the name before ... thanks, Dinsdale.

Really enjoying Unique Leader's output the last nine months or so. Inherit Disease, Internal Suffering, Katalepsy, and Omnihility albums all kicking my ass today.

I have a thing that generates (and periodically updates) Spotify playlists from releases on a given record label. Here's the one for Unique Leader: https://open.spotify.com/user/thesoundsofspotifylabels/playlist/4q479XKyx8koJhpKYX3ING

new Obsessed song is on youtube and sounds great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx8C0R1HQdk&feature=youtu.be

Yeah that's pretty good!

yeah, is great! "be the night" is so completely dio, tho.

"within the disco world they made"

struggling not to post trailer park boys img

Anyone going to Temples Festival in Bristol?

Roll call. Who is in MDF this weekend?

Just got here. Ready to kill.

hey metal dilettante here

digging Blood Ceremony, though I guess I don't know how metal they are...more hard rock? Dig the flutes...sometimes it's almost just psych-pop not even heavy

it's funny the entry on the drums on this one is SOOOOO Ringo Starr/Day in the Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le09s6FeTuI

anyway really good songs, singing, nice variety a heck of a rock band IMO

glad you dug it! one of my 2016 favorites, and 2013's the eldritch dark is even better. hard rock v metal distinction is contentious & impossibly vague besides. i guess blood ceremony are metal (according to metallum, et al) in that they initially borrowed sufficient from sabbath, pentagram & deep purple to pass muster. these days, those influences aren't quite so dominant.

a favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRJwTS_2M5M