Rolling Metal Thread 2009

The new Megadeth album is really quite shockingly good.

It leaked last night, too. I really, really like "Headcrusher".

Meanwhile, that Black Anvil album knocks me out. I don't know what it is with all these Hellhammer/early Celtic frost rip-offs these days, but I'm enjoying it while it lasts.

Mastodon are scoring the Jonah Hex film! Sweet.

Why is everyone flipping out over this? What on earth is Jonah Hex?

The comic character, Jonah Hex? Oh awesome. I didn't even know there was a movie.

Directed by Horton Hears A Who guy though is kind of not-so-awesome.

Got the new Portal today! All writing assignments immediately postponed 40 minutes so I can spin this sucker post-haste.

So far so great, too. Gotta love these furniture-wearing freakazoids.

I'm getting the new Om atm so I will be busy with that.

One of the albums of the year for sure
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JdRrimczveM/SqAbd3WwQEI/AAAAAAAAAJU/rRbkugidBfY/s400/orthodox_sentencia.jpg

Mind you these 2 might be pushing it
http://shop.relapse.com/dbimages/sleeves/7053_cd.jpg

http://www.roadburn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Om-God-is-Good.jpg

Nice Bloody Panda review on popmatters Adrien!

man guys this isn't a new record but i just put on genghis tron's board up the house for the first time in like a year and its fucking awesome

Thanks, Nate! Summon's a real grower.

OK, pfunk, I'll bite: what's that first cover?

I'm listening to the new Orthodox now. I loved Gran Poder but was bored by Amanecer en Puerta Oscura, so I guess my expectations are low. Although it's having some weird Spanish effect on me, because I swear I just looked out my window and for a moment the sight of a construction crane next to the turret of Harvard's Memorial Hall threw me back to looking at the perpetual construction of Sagrada Familia on the skyline of Barcelona.

It's Orthodox, Baroness and Om.

Listened to the new Orthodox last night. It's amazing. They get better every album; Gran Poder bored the shit out of me, but Amanecer showed big improvement, and the new one isn't even a metal record. The first track sounds like an ultra-creepy alternate soundtrack to Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia.

The new Om is no more or less dull than their previous records. Flutes are not metal. Handclaps are not metal.

The new Baroness is awesome. I was getting annoyed with the stream, so I'm glad it leaked today; now I can walk around with it.

I'm singularly unimpressed with Om but Baroness is a corker. Looking forward to Orthodox.

So, I've finally heard Slayer - Oh yes!

I hope they don't clean it up too much . . .

Now playing: Jodis, Secret House. A new group featuring Aaron Turner of Isis on vocals and guitar, with bass and drums from James Plotkin and Tim Wyskida of Khanate. Very spacious, moody, somewhat psychedelic (super-reverbed vocals), not very metal at all. I like it a lot so far. Coming on Hydra Head in October.

Greymachine is the first time I've not been annoyed by Turner so I am cautiously hopeful about a Plotkin-project.

i wish Plotkin would play more guitar. I like greymachine despite Turner, but this could be interesting.

I'm really digging that Greymachine. Harshest stuff Broadrick's done in ages. I listened to a bit of Jodis, but not all...hasn't grabbed me quite as much yet.

The new Megadeth album is really quite shockingly good.

!!!! they had a split 7" with Less Than Jake circa '99 I think (lol memory) and their half was CRUSHING, great stuff, and I was bummed that there wasn't any followup on it...wonder if the new one's gonna be at that level of arty prog-thrashy feel

Do you guys have any recommendations re: free metal podcasts?

Flutes are not metal. Handclaps are not metal.

come on, this is a pretty boring way to criticize a band for being boring.

Do you guys have any recommendations re: free metal podcasts?

The ones at Invisible Oranges are pretty good.

CBC Radio 3 did an awesome all-Canadian metal podcast last year, which was very cool to see. I keep waiting for them to do another one.

http://www.cbc.ca/radio3/podcasts/specialedition/CBCR3Special_2008-04-17.mp3

I'm weirdly disappointed by the new Baroness. Its like a heavy Yes record, but not as cool as I thought that would be.

What are dudes hearing in it that I'm missing?

I really like the progginess (and the rockin'ness) of it. I wasn't expecting it to be super-heavy; I was expecting psychedelia, and that's what I got. I wish the vocals were a little cleaner - the bullgod roaring doesn't always work with the riffs they've written, and a mainstream rock vocal style might really have put them over the top. But other than that, I got no complaints.

bullgod!

bullgod's lament etc

Phil OTM re: new Baroness. i like the anthemic quality of some of the tracks. plus the occasional Frippery guitar parts. more Yes please.

I'm listening again at higher volume and I like it more now. In the context of all the spindly prog lines the actual melodies and grooves stick out that much more.

It's weird: Steel That Sleeps & Swollen and Halo seems like they're of a piece, and Ogeechee Hymnal seems like an extended intro to Horse Called Golgotha (which fucking rocks and is easily the best part of the record imo??). Anybody else hearing that structure?

plus the occasional Frippery guitar parts

read this as flippery and got confused and excited.

btw guys this is a ~jazz album~ but i think it would really appeal to the drone/psych partisans of this thread hey look i made a genre distinction lets all be cool about it

http://www.runegrammofon.com/artists/fire_/rcd-2091---fire_-you-liked-me-five-minutes-ago

can be got in the amazon mp3 store and is super cool, equal parts Om & Alice Coltrane

barrabas

I'm off to see Electric Wizard twice this week. Am stupidly excited.

Yeah, going to the Bristol show on Saturday.

Re Baroness: Yeah, there's definite bleed-through from one track to the next, plus the whole album is kinda linked/looping in structure (first song "Bullhead's Psalm," last song "Bullhead's Lament").

Re Fire! (punctuation in original): I like that one too.

Another thing I like is the new/forthcoming Ancestors album. It's four long songs paired with/separated by four short interlude things, so clearly intended to be owned/heard on double vinyl, but they've really gotten a lot better since the debut. Big Uriah Heep influence, at least to my ear, and that's never a bad thing.

With the Baroness album I love how it straddles metal, prog, and accessible jammy rock so effortlessly. And for all the noodling, there's a sense of restraint there, the hook gets top priority, not the technical flash. Plus these guys have a better sense of groove than a band like Mastodon (great as they are) ever will.

What's really grabbed me as of late is the new Worm Ouroboros record. I've had it for ages it seems, but it's finally settled in this past week. Gorgeous album...at times it sounds like Alison Goldfrapp fronting early Baroness.

these guys have a better sense of groove than a band like Mastodon (great as they are) ever will

As far as Brann Dailor's concerned, time spent establishing a groove is time that could have been spent on manic fills.

Although to Dailor's credit, he does seem to tone down on the fills at times on the new record. But when he does that, his drumming really feels rigid. Not entirely a bad thing, it suits Mastodon fine, but it doesn't exactly swing like, say, Dave Lombardo.

i liked dailor better when he was like pretending to be a jazz drummer. he's kind of boring when he consciously simplifies.

Re Baroness: Yeah, there's definite bleed-through from one track to the next, plus the whole album is kinda linked/looping in structure

Yeah I started to hear a bunch of the repeated themes after another listen this morning.

It's a long-ass suite

Baroness album is fucking awesome. the more Yes and psychedelic the better

also i think this new Om album is by far their most interesting and listenable yet.

two great alt metal albums

xpost - Worm Ouroboros = very good.

I'm trying to figure out what "Steel That Sleeps the Eye" reminds me of. It's like it's beamed in from a Grace Slick record or something, or maybe Hawkwind?

It's pure Hawkwind.

I was thinking Moody Blues, a little bit.