Rolling Metal Thread 2009

Nope, not a cover. That track does sound cool, though (listening now).

Got the Woburn House in the mail.

hey metal dudes, question... what is the ~*most beautiful*~ metal ever

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Pentagram had one of the biggest shows Satyricon has ever hosted last night. Way over capacity. Total madness. Bobby Liebling looks like something out the Dark Crystal. Fun time.

he remembered his teeth then?

Downloading the new 3IOB now and it's taking for-fucking-ever. I know they're sending me CD-quality audio cause it's already at 470MB...how fucking long is this album?

Haha, yeah, it took me six hours to get the 3IOB on light DSL. Great quality mp3s, though, and a very fun album.

It's finally finished. I'm reviewing it for AP, along with the new Shadows Fall. Hope that one's better than...oh, anything else they've ever done.

I always like 3IOB, but they're really turning a corner here, the screams are only sporadic, the metal a little truer, so to speak.

Meanwhile, over at Hellbound, my decidedly YOBerrific feature is up:

http://www.hellbound.ca/2009/07/yob-zen-and-the-art-of-crushing-skulls/

Nice piece Adrien. I think this new YOB is my album of the year at this point. I wish they would come eastward on tour, but I am getting a Bloody Panda/Ocean double bill next month so I shouldn't complain too much.

We are in discussions with Planet Caravan fest in Asheville for Sept 18-19 for possible YOB fly-out. Nothing confirmed yet but there is hope...

Yes--Bobby brought his teeth!

I'm gonna be in NYC then, unfortunately. Any chance of a New England tour date?

man, the new coalesce is gooooooooooooood.

never liked the vox too much, but like w/meshuggah, I can forgive the angry dude yelling at me in an intense way because the music is so head nodding and SICKK.

and imo, the ~*most beautiful*~ metal ever is "the secret of the secret" off of this:

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which reminds me, I never really listened to the last esoteric album much at all. I should really do that!

it's just weird because subconscious dissolution was probably my most anticipated metal record the year that it came out. (whatever year that was...) and it was really good too. just never got around to the last one!

gonna check out this 3rd and the mortal record too. never heard of that. sounds like it might be up my alley.

I like the lyrical themes for the band on metal-archives:

Natural Beauty, Sadness

A contender for "most beautiful metal" that still doesn't pull its punches:

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Also, listening to new Coalesce right now. Pretty impressive (especially the interludes) but mostly it just makes me wish I was listening to Deadguy instead.

Ordo Ad Chao is beautiful.

New Dysrhythmia is very good.

Since when did Job For a Cowboy get good??? The new album is shockingly enjoyable, not to mention some pretty catchy death metal. No 'core' in sight on this record.

And the new Behemoth (leaked last night) is ace.

Haven't listened to the new Behemoth front to back yet, but the one song I've had time to check out sounds like a very good Behemoth song, something I can always use more of. And yeah, JFAC have been good for a while. They recorded this one with their live drummer, who's a big improvement over the guy on their last record. The new Born of Osiris is out there too, and I'm enjoying that one quite a bit - it's weirder than their first EP, but not in a trying-to-be-Cephalic-Carnage way or anything; they're just imaginative Sumerian-core. I really like that label's output. Between them and Willowtip, the underground is in really good shape right now.

Dysrhythmia co-signed.

Seriously though. Anyone else heard 'Buster' by Admiral Angry?

Fuck me, it's awesome.

hey thanks for the answers guys

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nate carson what is this and who is it by

Anxious to hear the new Born of Osiris. I've been paying attention to those guys for some time, my younger brother went to school with one of the dudes.

canks that is feedbacker by boris

it is good btw

yes feedbacker is dope as fuck

^^^^^^ Hoos truthbombin'

New Born of Osiris is even better on third and fourth play. Really good stuff. Just downloaded the new Vader, which I'm extremely excited about since they've got the guitar player from Decapitated now. Looking forward to the tour in November.

try Boris - Flood

I like both feedbacker and flood a bunch. kind of a toss-up but the delay pedal looping shennanigans on flood never clicked with me... but when it gets going, yeah, it's great.

Yeah, didn't mean to be so mysterious re: Feedbacker. I've never owned Flood so can't comment there. But if you can handle the slow-build... Feedbacker blooms like a motherfucker. So gorgeous but also just completely on the edge of destruction the whole time. Endlessly rewarding. The best Boris these ears have encountered. I've had the good fortune to see them perform that album live more than once. Wata is such a tone master (and she looks great in a pool of her own blood, eh?)

I love Feedbacker but Flood is better (they played a 40 min version live when I saw them, it was amazing, it pissed all over the Pink material from the rest of the set)

I guess I need it then. I don't care for their rock stuff much... but their heavy psych is sublime.

This Amorphis album is, among other things, shamelessly catering to my love for Big Country-esque guitar hooks.

They were pretty great at Fall Into Darkness festival last year. I don't know that I need to hear new Amorphis but I guess I'd give it a listen...

Yeah, the new Amorphis is very good..."Silver Bride" is as good a hard rock tune as I've heard all year. They're on quite a roll as of late.

The new Priest live album is smokin'. No surprise, I saw the last two tours, but for a somewhat haphazard collection of live lesser tracks recorded in various locales, it's pretty awesome.

Is it wrong to refer to Lacuna Coil in a show preview as "Asiago Metal"?

Made me laugh.

Sweet, thanks. :)

There's a really nice review of my new book on Invisible Oranges today, and you can dowload three chapters (about the Melvins, Mike Patton and Oxbow) free if you want.

A thread some of you guys might be into
LOL Scottish Pirate Metal

Got the Moss 10" on thursday in Glasgow. It's great! Also picked up the Sunn 0))) & Panasonic 12".

I am crushed at the lack of worship here for the new Madder Mortem cd.

Seriously, when it comes to metal bands whose name starts with 'M', MM simply obliterate Mastodon by any criteria one can imagine aside from 'swinging dicks'.

The Madder Mortem is pretty good. Whatshername keeps reminding me of the way less bombastic Hanne Hukkelberg, who I greatly prefer. The heavy guitars actually sound a little intrusive on this album at times.

do mastodon swing their dicks????

have seen this tbh

Name is Agnete M. Kirkevaag but she understandably just goes by Agnate.

The thing is, she doesn't fit any metal femme template. She isn't operatic (Nightwish etc), rockin' (Lacuna), ethereal gothic or misplaced-indie-chick (Serpent Cult).

Sometimes she's almost gospel, but David Lynch gospel.

I think they may be evolving themselves out of metal entirely, which may be why those guitars seem intrusive. And for fear of being first wave feminist, but I think if she were a dude, their profile would be vastly higher. Or if she were anorexic.

I forget which mag it was, but they gave the record raves--except they had a wee problem with Agnate's tendency to scream.

Imagine--someone screaming in a metal band, how tactless.

Another awesome thing about Madder Mortem are the quiet/clean guitars. They way the parts are so perfectly sculptured and play off one another/around each other or answer the vocals. For real, Isis needs to steal some shit from these guys.