Heavy metal was more of an insult at the time, wasn't it?
― Lawsonomy Domine (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 22 October 2016 18:18 (seven years ago) link
Peste Noire banned from Blastfest because if they were allowed to play, """anti-fascists""" would attack.
― punksishippies, Saturday, 22 October 2016 18:33 (seven years ago) link
It depends on who said it. The first use of it I found was an insult, but then Saunders turned it around. Most examples I saw were positive, but I'm sure it was used negatively too. It still is sometimes.
Mike Saunders who first used it consistently, first in a very derogatory way in a November 12, 1970 Humble Pie review in Rolling Stone.
“Safe As Yesterday Is, their first American release, proved that Humble Pie could be boring in lots of different ways. Here they were a noisy, unmelodic, heavy metal-leaden shit-rock band, with the loud and noisy parts beyond doubt… This album, more of the same 27th-rate heavy metal crap, is worse than the first two put together…”
More positively and appropriately, he used it in his May 1971 review of Sir Lord Baltimore’s Kingdom Come in Creem.
“ALL YOU TRUE blue Heavy fans, take heart. This album is a crusher. Sure enough, Sir Lord Baltimore is none other than a new heavy band discovered by Dee Anthony, Who Should Know (Joe Cocker, Free, Humble Pie); and while SLB’s degree of success hasn’t been determined yet, they’ve certainly got what it takes to rake in a million.
This album is a far cry from the currently prevalent Grand Funk sludge, because Sir Lord Baltimore seems to have down pat most all the best heavy metal tricks in the book. Precisely, they sound like a mix between the uptempo noiseblasts of Led Zeppelin (instrumentally) and singing that’s like an unending Johnny Winter shriek: they have it all down cold, including medium or uptempo blasts a la LZ, a perfect carbon of early cataclysmic MC5 (‘Hard Rain Fallin”), and the one-soft-an-album concept originated by Jimmy Page and his gang.” | More.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 23 October 2016 15:05 (seven years ago) link
Interesting! I always had the impression it became considered "cool" circa late 70s...
Anyways you guys, this Khanus EP is awesome. Little bit of that crazy occult quality Root has with some great guitar work. I like the new guitar trends in black/death stuff, weird, string-y sounds and some twang and discordance but without losing track of legible riff forms.
― Lawsonomy Domine (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 07:29 (seven years ago) link
Thread playlist is updated; 250 tracks and 24 hours plus to wade through.
ILM's Rolling Metal Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Tuesday, 25 October 2016 13:56 (seven years ago) link
BTW, I finally got to the Dark Space III I album on my 2015 listening list and "Dark 4.18" is grrrrrrrrrreat
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 16:30 (seven years ago) link
I saw Satan last night, and they were just as great as last time (a couple years ago). Brian Ross was more talkative this time, telling jokes, partly because he said he was fighting a bug and and his voice was suffering. However he still hit those incredible high notes. Recommended (Detroit tonight, Toronto, Montreal, then Finland). I picked up a long-sleeve tour shirt for the winter. Cauldron's vocalist Jason Decay may not be the strongest singer, but his enthusiasm wins me over, plus I love Ian Jones' guitar playing.
I also bought tickets for Horisont and Electric Citizen next week, Alehorn of Power IX with Thor (yes the same Thor featured in the movie Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare), Professor Black and Argus, and Khemmis in January. All are at Reggie's, just a mile up the street from me.
I'll also be going to this on Nov 19: DOOMED & STONED: BELL WITCH, BRIMSTONE COVEN, DEMON EYE, PALE DIVINE, etc.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 27 October 2016 17:59 (seven years ago) link
Solid Bandcamp Daily piece on "the New Wave of American True Metal." I don't know why, but I always thought Chris Black (Dawnbringer, High Spirits) was Canadian. Anyway, a good piece about good bands, some of which I wish I liked more than I do but any one of which I'll take over this week's "controversial" black metal whatever.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 27 October 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
Eternal Champion sounds promising.
― jmm, Thursday, 27 October 2016 21:19 (seven years ago) link
so relieved to learn your stance about black metal, been wondering for so long
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 27 October 2016 21:19 (seven years ago) link
Man every day, the black metal controversiesIt's llike I can't BREATHE I'm drowning in it
― Lawsonomy Domine (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 27 October 2016 23:59 (seven years ago) link
like the Nightspirit, thus he has spake
― Neanderthal, Friday, 28 October 2016 00:10 (seven years ago) link
the band Wretch is really going all in on the "82 St. Vitus SST glossy promo shot" aesthetic
I like true metal, much better than false metal imho
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 28 October 2016 00:58 (seven years ago) link
Nice! That Bandcamp piece nails most of my favorites from the past year except for Spirit Adrift, Christian Mistress, Castle and Valkyrie. Lucky to have Chris Black in Chicago, I've seen all his bands many times. He's performing at Alehorn in a couple weeks as Professor Black. I'm not sure if that's a new project, or just cherry picking songs from all his bands. I got tired of unwieldy terms like new old wave and retro wave. It's just heavy metal.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 28 October 2016 04:02 (seven years ago) link
new Testament is fun as usual, seems a little more vibrant than the last one, which I also liked.
but i'm only a few songs in, maybe the polka and xylophone songs show up 3 songs in
― Neanderthal, Friday, 28 October 2016 05:02 (seven years ago) link
well. that's a first. something must be wrong with like the mp3s on Amazon as the second halfo f each track just cuts out to silence. tried on multiple devices.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 28 October 2016 05:22 (seven years ago) link
it's only three songs it does it on. having to msg them now.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 28 October 2016 05:26 (seven years ago) link
Drakkar productions has been licensing TONS of recentish French black metal lately, and I'm resolutely trying to audition at least a track each time they send me an email. FOMO is a terrible curse.
Anyway, last year's entry from Malcuidant, "Et la terra brula" is one the keepers that justifies the search. It's more straightforward BM than what I usually go for, but spritely tempos and crisp production make this one stand out for me.
https://drakkar-productions-official.bandcamp.com/album/malcuidant-et-la-terre-br-la
― summervillain, Friday, 28 October 2016 20:10 (seven years ago) link
spinning the new Crowbar. I'd kinda given up on these dudes after the shitty Oddfellow's Rest but I liked the one they did a few years back. a few tracks in, though, this one adheres to the trad Crowbar formula but it seems vibrant as fucking hell. Kirk is roaring his ass off again, there's purpose to the writing that was missing. this is almost making me feel high school aged again.
not gonna top "Broken Glass" but I really like how many metal elder statesmen there are still making good fuckin' shit in addition to the new blood.
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 29 October 2016 03:05 (seven years ago) link
Mr. Amalgamoth if you read this I don't know how to/if I can reply to ilx emails so: I'm glad you're carrying on and I have all your stuff anyway because Ophidian Forest fucking rule. Thanks.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Saturday, 29 October 2016 23:17 (seven years ago) link
Happy Halloween. 2CD out today, other formats in the coming months. Really glad bands can still pull off these sneak attacks nowadays.http://i.imgur.com/op4mxgJ.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTGw5xbhvyI
― Devilock, Monday, 31 October 2016 06:22 (seven years ago) link
ah, correction: the release date was changed for the CD version - Nov 25
― Devilock, Monday, 31 October 2016 06:30 (seven years ago) link
New CdG sounds promising! New Hail Spirit Noir is awesome. This Prostitute Disfigurement (sigh) CD from 2006 I got today? Also awesome.
― Lawsonomy Domine (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 31 October 2016 09:38 (seven years ago) link
Dio fans rejoice(?) - Elf's two albums, Carolina County Ball and Trying to Burn the Sun, are being reissued next month on one of Cherry Red's sub-labels.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 31 October 2016 12:26 (seven years ago) link
Cannot wait for the Cultes des Ghoules. My favorite black metal band going, and the vocalist is amazing.
― Dominique, Monday, 31 October 2016 13:31 (seven years ago) link
the bandcamp article continues to be a great resource
https://highspiritsmetal.bandcamp.com/album/motivator
this is so fucking great, great songwriting and sense of fun. gets at a lot of great stuff about 80s metal w/o feeling like it's just aping it.
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 31 October 2016 19:48 (seven years ago) link
Email I just got: "EARACHE RECORDS ACQUIRES NACHTMYSTIUM BACK-CATALOGUE TITLES"
Wonder if they got a used toaster and car stereo as part of the package.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 31 October 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link
I wonder if they just paid him in drugs or
― Lawsonomy Domine (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 31 October 2016 20:35 (seven years ago) link
new Khanus track here, where they up both the Finnish folk quotient, and general occult vibe. Maybe closer to dark ambient than metal actuallyhttps://khanus.bandcamp.com/album/dance-of-the-shaman
if the Cultes des Ghoules doesn't trump them, 2016 may go down as the year two metal EPs (Khanus & Cadaveric Fumes) topped my best of list.
― Dominique, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 13:15 (seven years ago) link
about to buy the hell outta the new Ulcerate, one of the best death metal bands in the world
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 15:08 (seven years ago) link
It's really dope. Nice Halloween soundtrack
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
hey hey the new DSO is streaming in full
https://deathspellomega.bandcamp.com/album/the-synarchy-of-molten-bones
They have not gone pop metal, in case you were worried.
― summervillain, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 16:34 (seven years ago) link
Oh, the Lifespell Omega conversion album is going to be amazing.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 17:38 (seven years ago) link
Ditto the tropical-metal album from Blut Aus Sud.
Sweet Hollow by Them is pretty fun King Diamond mimicry. The vocals, the horror album concept... they actually pull it off not too badly.
https://them6.bandcamp.com/ (whole album is on Youtube)
― jmm, Thursday, 3 November 2016 02:22 (seven years ago) link
This Bhavachakra album... scrapy, trebled out guitars (with that modern underdriven distortion sound I'm not super fond of), discordant, DsO, probably own "Obscura," yeah yeah. Some of the riffing attempts eloquence successfully but the production's kind of distracting - sounds like the guitars were recorded on a cassette four-track while everything else was done in a pro studio. Especially those drums.
― Lawsonomy Domine (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 3 November 2016 05:28 (seven years ago) link
That's not to say I'm not going to listen to it a lot for a week or so, though.
― Lawsonomy Domine (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 3 November 2016 05:29 (seven years ago) link
xxpostThat's the second mention of Them I've seen in the last day or two and it finally jogged my memory of this bizarro world, Brazilian, Christian KD clone, with pretty much plagiarized music and song titles, and album art that dips far enough below the threshold of embarrassing to flip around and become awesome again. Anyway, turns out that they, like apparently every other band in existence, have a new one out this year. As usual, the music sounds stiff and almost programmed, esp compared to something like the actual KD. And haha those verses of "Silent Tears" are outright stolen from "A Mansion in Darkness." I binged on this band a couple years ago when I first saw them mentioned at metal-archives and I wish I'd remembered in time for Halloween this year.https://visionofgodrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dark-night-day-of-the-dead
but I mean this is really the purpose of this post:http://i.imgur.com/S7koot5.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/W3GyLYm.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/49RQ6rs.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/hVIUJYx.jpg
― Devilock, Thursday, 3 November 2016 07:33 (seven years ago) link
Amazing covers!
― Lawsonomy Domine (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 3 November 2016 10:12 (seven years ago) link
just in case any of you wanted to hear some synth-heavy, dreampop-vocall'd welsh psych-doom then you may wish to get in touch with your inner mammoth weed wizard bastard*. it's really quite something. heads-up courtesy of tt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y2g0g3r6hY
*british humour
― imago, Thursday, 3 November 2016 10:42 (seven years ago) link
I countersign Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard, although it took me some serious psychological effort to get past the name.
The new Madder Mortem is out, and I won't be terribly surprised if it ends up being my album of the year. What a fantastic band. They're like a midpoint between djent and Voivod and Nightwish, which is a pretty good targeting formula for me.
https://open.spotify.com/album/2rXW7pX2XlPi23Gs97rIOI
Also, if you like big happy turbo-melodic power-metal, give the new Theocracy album a listen.
https://open.spotify.com/album/3asAAUyg67JJa8VAvsfmVK
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 3 November 2016 13:54 (seven years ago) link
I think I'm about ready to put this Ysengrin/Sartegos split in my cart
https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/resvrrezionespiritval
2 songs apiece, plus interludesYsengrin offer cavernous doomy BM with lots of textural and dynamic shifts, big spooky choirs, some of the weirdest snare hits this side of the Shaggs, hideous clanky bass, and a dash of rawk swagger.Sartegos are I guess blackened death? (deadened BM?) with refreshingly bright guitar solo breaks -- lots of up/down fast 8ths verging on explosions in the sky-style post rock territory
Both bands are new to me and I'm curious to hear more from both.
― summervillain, Thursday, 3 November 2016 14:22 (seven years ago) link
more metal with crayon covers plz
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Thursday, 3 November 2016 14:46 (seven years ago) link
Great album covers. They do promise some darker-than-average nights.
― jmm, Thursday, 3 November 2016 14:57 (seven years ago) link
MWWB are great
digging the first couple of tracks from this EP by Rivette from Finland - NWOBHM for softies p much. not as good as High Spirits but worth an ear
https://rivette.bandcamp.com/album/in-vertigo
― The Codling Of The London Suede (Legal Warning Across The Atlantic) (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 3 November 2016 15:01 (seven years ago) link
Just booked tickets to see MWWB tomorrow, supporting Ufomammut. I expect to be doomed into space
― imago, Thursday, 3 November 2016 15:18 (seven years ago) link
I was just listening to that Rivette EP today! Not bad. The Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard made our Doom Chart last month - https://doomcharts.com/2016/10/11/the-doom-charts-for-october-2016/. New one should be out by the weekend hopefully.
Glad to hear someone is enthusiastic about Madder Mortem! I reviewed it and raved about it elsewhere and it's been crickets.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 3 November 2016 18:27 (seven years ago) link
Dark Night album art made my day thank you!
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 November 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
Here's another UK stoner doom psych band that has an interesting release: https://spiderkitten.bandcamp.com/album/ark-of-octofelis
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 3 November 2016 18:35 (seven years ago) link
Ya good call on Dark Night. I mentioned them in my Halloween piece where I also offered up Hail Spirit Noir and Slasher Dave as ideal additions to yr Halloween mixes. I guess I should have posted before Halloween.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 3 November 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link