Rolling Metal Thread 2009

I just read that Pentagram have pulled out of Hellfest (big open air metal thing in France) because Bobby Leibling forgot to bring his teeth with him. There wasn't anything that indicated this was a joke

Pentagram pulled out of a gig at the last minute?! Unprecedented!

The new Judas Priest album sounds really good. The set list is drawn from all the album cuts they played on their last two tours - stuff like "Eat Me Alive" and "Between the Hammer and the Anvil." Plus two tracks from Nostradamus - "Death" and "Prophecy." No "Hell Patrol," unfortunately.

Nice! Anxious to hear that, especially since they picked my two favorites off Nostradamus.

xxp sure but if that's a real excuse it's on a Motley Crue snow-on-the-roof level of 'wait what'

Really curious to hear that new Nachtmystium mini-CD, but it looks like the limited run is already sold out. Anywhere to, ahem, "acquire" this yet?

is it this?

http://awkwardmedia.blogspot.com/2009/06/nachmystium-doomsday-derelict-ep-2009.html

It is that. Thanks! I guess my google skills were off last night.

The Eluveitie album is really cool and I dig it, but I'm a bit confused about what makes it metal. Can someone elaborate?

helvetic accordion

Beelzebagpipes?

anyone else hear the hamsoken album? nick forte from rorschach doing black metal? it's taken me a while to get around to it, but the electronics/keyboard stuff is really, really well done and abraded/crunchy enough to fit in with the metal. check out "skull through time," the weird, processed organ rules...

http://www.myspace.com/hamsoken

Mordy: metal isn't entirely a sound; it's also an attitude and state of mind. And Evocation definitely has a metal sensibility to it. Also, their last album was undeniably ferrous. This is just their acoustic record, which Euro metal bands love doing for some reason (that reason being that it usually sounds cool).

So obviously we're cheating here by knowing, for reasons external to this particular album, that Eluveitie "is" a metal band. But if we didn't, I think you still have as prominent clues the more-rock-than-folk drumming style on a bunch of songs (most particularly "Memento"), the growly male vocals on "Brictom" and "The Cauldron Of Renascence", and the thunking cadence of "Omnos" (even the regular version). But probably the more accurate thing I mean to say is that this feels to me like an album from the same band that did Slania, rather than, as the premise might have just as easily lead to, an album of some wholly other music that happens to share personnel with the earlier one.

I agree with Glenn. Metal is like porn: you know when you hear it.

Jeff, is it fair to say that your ideal film would be a metal version of Pirates Of The Caribbean? (with added porn scenes It seems)

Guys that kinda already exists. Pirates, like the most expensive porn ever made. Complete with horrible CGI sequences.

and a drinking mans metal soundtrack?

My idea of hell: metal video + porn soundtrack.

Sounds like a Whitesnake vid for one of their ballads

someone will be along soon with a Hall & Oates song dubbed to a Dragonforce video

Time for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vil-s82_LM0 again

hahaha, wow. that really, really works.

works in that just as you think power metal couldn't possibly be any more shitey...?

not really a power metal fan but that works in that, if I didn't know the kp song already, I may not have guessed it was a mashup.

This show, which I believe is the LAMC (Latin Alternative Music Conference)'s first acknowledgement of metal, could be interesting, but I'm not gonna haul my ass out to Queens to find out. Chuck?

Tuesday, July 7th:
-8:00pm – 11:00pm:
LAMC Heavy Metal night @ La Oveja Negra
34-38 38th Street (bet. 34 y 35 Ave) - 4 Fl – Astoria, NY 11101
Presented by Jack Daniel’s
With performances by M-16, Cojoba, Maladicto, Santuario and Raza Odiada

chuck would have a LONG drive to queens these days!

Oh, yeah? I didn't know he'd relocated, obviously.

My ideal movie already exists. It's called The Dark Knight.

so dudes the fact that Decibel published a letter in the latest issue from i love games legend GZEUS is killing me

former ILG legend i should say

I thought he was a Britisher for some reason...? Which, er, I guess he could be still. lol anyway

no, he is a customer at my guitar shop so he is 100% the USA's fault

got this in today http://www.blinddaterecords.de/index.php?id=38#c100
I got the oak box.

you can check out pics of the whole package there but here is the line-up for the lazy
Line-up for volume I. Out in June 2009

*Salome - blueprint (Fugazi)
*The Austrasian Goat - Mask (Bauhaus)
*Atavist - Mindless (Infest)
*Coffins - Ebony tears (Cathedral)
*Monarch - A look at tomorrow (Discharge)
*La Cuenta - It's in my Blood ! (Bl'ast)
*Fistula - Dead in a ditch ( D.R.I)
*HC Minds - Black Machine (Cirith Ungol)

Total mayhem of 41 minutes.

and this the line up for volume II (out later this year):

*Aguirre - like weeds (His Hero Is Gone)
*Thou - well fed fuck (Born Against)
*Hey Colossus - institutionalized (Suicidal Tendencies)
*Loss - fog (Goatlord)
*Golden Gorilla - absentee debate (Unbroken)
*On Pain Of Death - troops of doom (Sepultura)
*Moloch - lightening strikes twice (Rorschach)

Can't be arsed with the box but fancy getting that - vols 1 and 2 have a quality lineup for my money.

On a related subject, put Thou and Moloch on on Sunday and they were both really good. Thou's guitar tone is like an iceberg, it just keeps going deeper. Pretty lame turnout but them's the breaks I guess

Its a very nice box. Oak box is gone but mahogany is left.

do you happen to own the bank of england?

Listening to Monarch's Dead Men Tell No Tales today for the first time in at least a year, maybe two.

YOB and Xasthur reviews in NYT. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/arts/music/21play.html?_r=2&ref=music

That YOB album just keeps getting better the more I hear it.

Listening to Monarch's Dead Men Tell No Tales today for the first time in at least a year, maybe two.

I remember liking that one quite a bit.

"That YOB album just keeps getting better the more I hear it."

Same for me, and I've had rough mixes, and several different masters. And I get to travel with them to SF this weekend!

Xaspost - nice Xasthur review in the NYT. I've been playing "All reflections drained" again over the last week, and I've convinced myself that there's one track that sounds exactly like Serge Gainsbourg backed by Einsturzende Neubauten. It's definitely not a generic Xasthur record.

I still need to get that new Xasthur record. In the meantime, actually shelled out the cash for the physical copy of new Coalesce. Its still great.

i want the new Ahab album! i didn't even know there was one until i saw an ad for it.

I didn't know there was either!

there is?

the divinity of oceans

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/reviewpics/ahab_cover.jpg

out 7/28/09

scott brightening my day once again