Rolling Metal Thread 2009

It's 2009 in Japan! So, let's ring in the new year with METAL.

in before the supervolcano under yellowstone explodes.

murkrat are interesting. i don't know if great applies, but weird female duo-doom from australia. it's interesting.

INTERESTING INTERESTING INTERESTING there got my quota filled

So I can talk about the new Scale the Summit album now? Pretty impressed with this after the first listen, hits all my prog-metal, Rush-inspired buttons in the right way without sinking into (what I consider) the abyss of rote Dream Theater worship. My favorite instrumental metal album of 2009 so far!

Okay, I'll bite. Here are the metal/hard rock albums from 2009 I've heard that I like so far. (Two came out really late in 2008, one of those in Australia, so I'll let them carry over to next year.) List is more or less in order of preference so far, but will be in serious flux for the next 12 months, obviously. Seriously doubt the Whore Moans will last in my apartment more than a month or two at most, but we'll see. Noticed somebody on the '08 thread already dissing the new Edguy album, but I like it. (Never heard any of their previous stuff, and really know nothing about them, so not sure what anybody else was expecting.) Sigh, Billy Thorpe, Zero Boys, and Wicked Witch are sort of "reissues," in vaguely different ways. Zero Boys (tuneful and rocking early '80s Bloomington, Indiana hardcore punks) also have a History Of CD that sounds promising, but I haven't much gotten to the bottom of it yet. Also still haven't decided what I think about the new album on Ipecac by Zu, but I liked the last couple I heard by them, and the new one at least sounds interesting (albiet "difficut") in the background so far. Interesting side note: All the records below are on different labels! Here goes.

Sigh – Imaginary Soundscape (The End)
Sinner – Crash And Burn (Candlelight USA)
Billy Thorpe And The Aztecs – Long Live Rock and Roll (Aztec Music ’08)
Diagonal – Diagonal (Rise Above)
Zero Boys – Vicious Circle (Secretly Canadian)
Edguy – Tinnitus Sanctus (Nuclear Blast)
Saxon – Into The Labyrinth (SPV)
Elder – Elder (Meteor City ’08)
Steadlür – Everything Is Nothing (Roadrunner)
Dead Man – Euphoria (Crusher)
Fires Of Rome – You Kingdom You (The Hours)
Living Things – Habeas Corpus (Jive/Zomba)
Wicked Witch – Chaos 1978-86 (EM)
Dalek – Gutter Tactics (Ipecac)
The Whore Moans – Hello From The Radio Wasteland! (Mt. Fuji)

Sigh – Imaginary Soundscape (The End)

what the

The End Records is to reissue this album on January 20th 2009. Featuring cover art by Stephen O'Malley (SUNN O))), Southern Lord Records), this reissue is Imaginary Soniscape as it was originally conceived by the band, introducing two songs cut from the original release. Remastered by James Murphy!

well, i'll be...

Welcome back, Chuck! Did you like the Ross the Boss record?

Nah, not much, at least the part of it I got through. But I was never a huge Manowar fan either, to be honest, so maybe I'm not the one to ask. (You know me, I still miss the Dictators.)

I like the Sinner record, although the Blink 182 cover confused the hell out of me.

Meanwhile, I get the feeling Tombs' Winter Hours (Relapse) is pretty good, but it keeps going through one ear and out the other. Not to say that it won't grow on me, but so far nothing has stuck. Noisy post-black metal stuff never really does, though.

Blink 182 cover confused the hell out of me

??? Which song is this?? (I love the Sinner album, either way.)

I suppose I should bump Nominate Albums For ILM's Metal Albums Of The Year 2008 (closes Jan 1st ) to remind you all incase you've left anything out.

Hope you all have a good new year when it comes.

Oops, my mistake. It was a Marvelous 3 cover ("Little Head"). Surprisingly faithful, too. That's embarrassing, I actually like M3!

I don't know beans about Marvelous 3, but that's a pretty decent song (apparently about, you know, the singer's little head, and what happens to it backstage, which apparently involves getting a little head), though not nearly the catchiest or most hilarious song on the Sinner album. (The ones that sound like Thin Lizzy and 38 Special, and the ones about how "love is back in the jailhouse" and "like a rock, I'll never give in" are probably my favorites, though the sad ballad about the boy who always misses the train home and the two really over-the-top fast ones are definitely up there in the running, too.)

wtf @ that Sigh thing

The last Sigh album got remastered and reissued less than a year after it originally came out. Some people acted wtf about James Murphy then, until it was pointed out that it was a different James Murphy.

Marvelous 3 were super producer Butch Walker's power pop band in the late 90s. Really catchy, poppy stuff, which is maybe why I was surprised to hear them covered by a metal band. Although Firewind did cover "Maniac" last year...

Gotta reiterate what I said in the 08 thread, the new Satyricon is really, really good. Joe Barresi's really doing wonders with Norwegian black metal these days, with his work on this CD and the new Enslaved.

Re-ditto the new Satyricon. Songs from it keep popping up on my Shuffle and I'm pleased all over again each time. Very much looking forward to seeing them with Septicflesh and Cradle of Filth in a couple weeks.

This was posted on another thread

Terrorizer's top 20

01. ENSLAVED - Vertebrae (Indie Recordings)
02. CYNIC - Traced In Air (Season Of Mist)
03. NACHTMYSTIUM - Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1 (Candlelight)
04. GOJIRA - The Way Of All Flesh (Listenable)
05. TORCHE - Meanderthal (Hydra Head)
06. MESHUGGAH - ObZen (Nuclear Blast)
07. OPETH - Watershed (Roadrunner)
08. METALLICA - Death Magnetic (Warner)
09. BLOODBATH - The Fathomless Mastery (Peaceville)
10. ESOTERIC - The Maniacal Vale (Season Of Mist)
11. EARTH - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull (Southern Lord)
12. AC/DC - Black Ice (Sony)
13. ASVA - What You Don't Know Is Frontier (Southern Lord)
14. HAIL OF BULLETS - ...Of Frost And War (Metal Blade)
15. SEPTICFLESH - Communion (Season Of Mist)
16. DARKTHRONE - Dark Thrones And Black Flags (Peaceville)
17. LEVIATHAN - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life (Moribund)
18. GRAND MAGUS - Iron Will (Rise Above)
19. HARVEY MILK - Life... The Best Game In Town (Hydra Head)
20. SATYRICON - The Age Of Nero (Roadrunner)

Why are Metallica doing so well in these lists? It's not that great people. Just because it's better than St Anger does not make it a great album.

I'm impressed. Of those 20 I have four on my top 10 (Enslaved, Cynic, Septicflesh, Leviathan), and would have 5 if I were considering Satyricon in 2008. Weirder, given that, is that of the other 15 I actively dislike 12 (Grand Magus I like, Bloodbath and Asva I don't know).

But it's an extreme genre, after all...

Asva album is really great

Did you hear Esoteric? Brilliant album. I think it will be my no 1 for the ilx metal poll of 2008. Just beating Torche.

Yeah, I was all set to love Esoteric from the things people have said about it, but it didn't do anything for me. Came back to it again a couple months later, because it kept cropping up in my path, but no, still nothing. I'm missing some sync-point with it; I can't find its internal logic, and so it just goes by me without taking me anywhere. I had a similar experience (including trying twice) with Origin's Antithesis. My loss, I'm sure.

I'll investigate Asva, which seems to have slipped by me while I was busy listening to the Crippled Lucifer reissue...

Usually Terrorizer has one or two European releases that I've never heard of before, but not this year.

And Death Magnetic still holds up very well.

One title I'm surprised at seeing on all the polls is Bloodbath. Not that it's bad, anything but, it's very enjoyable, but I could name five or six death metal albums that top that one. Besides, I'd much rather listen to Katatonia, to be honest.

Some people acted wtf about James Murphy then, until it was pointed out that it was a different James Murphy.

there's a james murphy other than the guy who was in death and cancer and disincarnate?

lol. Yes, the one LJ thought it was.

Voting has now opened in the ILX METAL ALBUMS OF 2008 Poll
If you want to vote please go to
VOTE In ILX's BEST METAL ALBUMS Of 2008 POLL (Voting Ends Jan 15th)

any discussions on that poll should be kept there (so that I don't have to keep bumping it obviously)

Please everyone vote if you can.

So, I don't know if this is just me, but I think every issue of Metal Edge should be a cartoon. It certainly helps the new issue stand out! Or maybe that's because it has a rabbit humping Maria Brink's leg. Either way, good job, Phil!

Hey, don't blame me - blame occasional ILM poster Oilyrags, who painted it.

I'm totally serious! Cartoon animals + sweaty metal dudes = awesome.

Wow, Oilyrags painted that!

Yeah, it's cool. Manga Axl is also pretty funny.

I'd forgotten that! I need to buy Oily a beer!

I hope all you regulars will vote in the metal poll btw.

Thanks to those who have already btw

ok btw

Got this via email, from somebody named Moogle:

your post in the 2009 metal thread got me really intrigued about this band Zu... I can't find any links to any of their albums anywhere on the web (unless I'm blind!), can I ask where you found their new one and if you could PM me a link?

I wouldn't know how to "PM a link" even if I wanted to, but I got an advance of the new album from their label, to review. Link to their myspace page is below. Previous Zu albums I liked (possibly more than this one since those may have had more of a sense of humor to go with all the undeniably banging and bracing harmelodic fusoid-metal skronk, though I haven't decided for sure yet) were Motorhellington (2001, all-covers Eugene Chadbourne collab) and The Way of Animal Powers (2005). But I get the idea that their apparently recent discovery by Mike Patton and jump up the label ladder to Ipecac will give the new one more visibility. (For sonic reference points, think Blood Ulmer, Last Exit, Gone, Glen Branca, Primus, Lightning Bolt, etc.)

http://www.myspace.com/zuband

Meanwhile, Serpentcult's Weight of Light doesn't quite cut it, I don't think. Gender-inderterminate (though apparently female) and just a little too thin-sounding post-Ozzy/Geddy/Anneke
vocals over consistently/reasonably plowing but never quite transcendent stoner gloom. From Belgium.

That Zu album is fantastic.

"PM me your price, strongohulkington"

I just remembered that the only people who would get that reference don't read this thread.

dude i think you basically just pmed a link in spite of yourself

Plug for a friend- Jeff Heavy Metal Parking Lot Krulik's NYC movie shorts showing:

I'm happy to start the new year with a Brooklyn screening at LIGHT INDUSTRY tomorrow night, January 6, at 7:30PM:
http://www.lightindustry.org/krulik.html
Included in the 90-minute program of new work includes developing projects HEAVY METAL PICNIC and LED ZEPPELIN PLAYED HERE. Author and critic Michael Azerad (Our Band Could Be Your Life) will lead conversation and discussion afterwards.

The full Terrorizer Top 40

01. ENSLAVED - Vertebrae (Indie Recordings)
02. CYNIC - Traced In Air (Season Of Mist)
03. NACHTMYSTIUM - Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1 (Candlelight)
04. GOJIRA - The Way Of All Flesh (Listenable)
05. TORCHE - Meanderthal (Hydra Head)
06. MESHUGGAH - ObZen (Nuclear Blast)
07. OPETH - Watershed (Roadrunner)
08. METALLICA - Death Magnetic (Warner)
09. BLOODBATH - The Fathomless Mastery (Peaceville)
10. ESOTERIC - The Maniacal Vale (Season Of Mist)
11. EARTH - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull (Southern Lord)
12. AC/DC - Black Ice (Sony)
13. ASVA - What You Don't Know Is Frontier (Southern Lord)
14. HAIL OF BULLETS - ...Of Frost And War (Metal Blade)
15. SEPTICFLESH - Communion (Season Of Mist)
16. DARKTHRONE - Dark Thrones And Black Flags (Peaceville)
17. LEVIATHAN - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life (Moribund)
18. GRAND MAGUS - Iron Will (Rise Above)
19. HARVEY MILK - Life... The Best Game In Town (Hydra Head)
20. SATYRICON - The Age Of Nero (Roadrunner)
21. DEICIDE - Til Death Do Us Part
22. TRAP THEM - Seizures in barren praise
23. MOSS - Sub Templum
24. MELVINS - Nude With Boots
25. GENGHIS TRON - board up the house
26. AURA NOIR - Hades Rise
27. VIRUS - The Black Flux
28. BLOOD CEREMONY - Blood Ceremony
29. ORIGIN - Antithesis
30. JEX THOTH - Jex Thoth
31. ENFORCER - Into The Night
32. MOTORHEAD - Motorizer
33. KRALLICE - Krallice
34. TOXIC HOLOCAUST - An Overdose Of Death
35. WITHERED - Folie Circulaire
36. MISERY INDEX - Traitors
37. BURST - Lazarus Bird
38. CAVALERA CONSPIRACY - Inflikted
39. AMON AMARTH - Twilight Of The Thundergod
40. PORTRAIT - Portrait

and you can still VOTE In ILX's BEST METAL ALBUMS Of 2008 POLL (Voting Ends Jan 15th) to see what ILX can come up with.

I just received an email from Metal Blade's Canadian label manager saying the label will no longer be servicing physical promos anymore starting immediately. Advanced music will only be available to Canadian press outlets via iPOOL. Is this happening in the USA as well? Have any of you been notified of this?

I got the same message. This seems to be the trend in metal these days.

Could just be Canada...I got physical MB product not that long ago, I think. I've been downloading their new/upcoming releases for awhile already, though.

Uh, Phil... is this Noism album a joke? It sounds like someone left a Genghis Tron record on fast-forward.

I've been downloading their new/upcoming releases for awhile already, though.

As have I. It's fine for reviewing stuff at home, but as far as the weekly radio show I do with fellow writer K. Stewart-Panko I don't have a CD burner and can't access the files at the station while on-air, so I'm a little bummed about that. He'll probably end up getting all the CDs still though since he's been on their regular list since like 1992, but we'll see.

Although it came out in 2008, I finally found a copy of D.X. Ferris's 33 1/3 book on Reign In Blood this past Saturday. Read it from cover to cover on Sunday and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Also picked up the Masters of Reality book by J. Darnielle but didn't realize it was fiction. Should have read the back before buying it, but I was so excited to finally see these books in a Canadian store that I couldn't help myself. These two books and a few choice used scores (the rare Pentagram comp Human Hurricane and Thin Lizzy's Fighting) made the trip to Toronto worthwhile.

absu have surely have studied with hans GRIM, yes?

http://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=grim+texas&fb=1&gl=us&hq=grim&hnear=texas&cid=0,0,14215893366586610380&ei=0tMvS_OfBc7ElAeWm7WeBw&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQnwIwAA

news...

Stereogum Launches Metal Music Column “Haunting The Chapel” & Releases Top 30 Metal Albums Of 2009
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/12/prweb3373114.htm

Brandon "Show No Mercy" Stosuy defects from Pitchfork to Sterogum for the metal column

“Haunting The Chapel”
http://stereogum.com/archives/cat_haunting_the_chapel.html

Haunting The Chapel: The 30 Best Metal Albums Of 2009 (Plus Dozens Of Guest Lists)
http://stereogum.com/archives/haunting_the_chapel/best_metal_albums_2009_106711.html

30 Weapon - Drakonian Paradigm [Ajna]
29 Asphyx - Death...The Brutal Way [Century Media]
28 Marduk - Wordwood [Regain]
27 The Atlas Moth - A Glorified Piece Of Blue Sky [Candlelight]
26 Merrimack - Grey Rigorism [Moribund/Osmose]
25 Portal - Swarth [Profound Lore]
24 Coalesce - OX [Relapse]
23 Impetuous Ritual - Relentless Execution Of Ceremonial Excrescence [Profound Lore]
22 Tombs - Winter Hours [Relapse]
21 Culted - Below The Thunders Of The Upper Deep [Relapse]
20 Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ [Debemur Morti]
19 Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs [Code 666/Profound Lore]
18 Katharsis - Fourth Reich [Norma Evangelium Diaboli]
17 Ruins Of Beverast - Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite [Ván]
16 Hiems - Worship Or Die [Moribund]
15 Mournful Congregation: The June Frost [Enucleation]
14 Baroness - Blue Album [Relapse]
13 Absu - Absu [Candlelight]
12 Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough [Profound Lore]
11 Katatonia - Night Is The New Day [Peaceville]
10. Beherit - Engram
9. Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us
8. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With The Stars
7. Funeral Mist - Maranatha
6. YOB - The Great Cessation
5. Peste Noire - Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor
4. Kylesa - Static Tensions
3. Drudkh - Microcosmos
2. Cobalt - Gin
1. Converge - Axe To Fall

as good a list as any I've seen. I really don't get why the Converge is so great. need to listen to it more, I guess. I love to see that Drudkh placed so high on a year end list.

still haven't listened to that drudkh. I heard that there's slap bass on it or something... that can't be true, right??

also, w/drudkh and peste noire both in the top 5, stereogum sure are into racist dudes, huh? (low blow)

hahah @ the "slap bass" ... yeah there's a single riff/solo thing that may start out with a slap, but it's not an ongoing theme.

i can't really tell if it's a slap or if the dude just pulled on the strings causing it to hit the frets a little. it's actually one of my favorite little moments on the disc, because i love bass and it doesn't get to shine enough in black metal.

i think the whole Drudkh racist thing is one of those internet rumors gone "where there's smoke there's fire". i haven't seen any evidence of it.

also <3 (and play) bass, so def not a problem with me either. just thought it was funny.

so now I'm trying to think of great bass on black metal records but I'm coming up short. all I can think of is the dubby stuff wrest does on leviathan/lurker of chalice. I'm sure there are others but what am I forgetting?

The bass outro of 'Into Utter Madness' on the new Marduk is kinda cool. But off course bm is basically all about the treble, right?

http://www.bestalbumsof2009.com/2009/12/best-metal-albums-of-2009.html

i like the bass playing on Ludicra's Fex Urbis Lex Orbis. Nachtmystium's bass stands out more on some songs than others, but can be good. i agree w/ you about the dubby bass on Lurker and some Leviathan records.. good stuff.

I was just gonna cite Ross Sewage of Ludicra!

think the whole Drudkh racist thing is one of those internet rumors gone "where there's smoke there's fire". i haven't seen any evidence of it.

main dude was in hate forest, who generally seem to be regarded as NS. and there are tenuous connections to astrofaes and nokturnal mortum, the latter being really try-hard NS dudes (swastikas made of ak-47s in their album art and shit). drudkh does seem to leave it alone, though.

Filed an all-metal P&J ballot this year. Although it's not actually the case that I liked ten metal albums more than any non-metal albums, my metal list is vastly better informed than my non-metal list, so I decided to just go ahead and consider myself a genre specialist for voting purposes. Of the 10 albums I voted for, 7 were by artists I'd never heard of before this year (including 3 debuts), 2 more were by bands I had basically written off before, and exactly one is a repeat inclusion of any kind.

(Whereas on the non-metal side I've got down to 20 albums, of which 18 (!) are artists who have appeared on my lists before...)

Mine was 70% metal and 30% other stuff that I liked, including one bona fide Pitchfork top 10 finisher (Fever Ray). I guess I'm a sellout.

Although most of the stuff I write about now is metal, I still combine all genres for my P&J ballot. Love the metal, but can't live on it alone, I need the variety (it goes both ways, if I only reviewed indie I'd be bored silly)...my metal to non-metal ratio this year is 6:4. After the top 20 I put together for the blog, though, it's a severe drop-off, there were not many more non-metal albums that I found particularly interesting at all this year.

I did a metal top ten list for the Village Voice Media chain, which I'm guessing is gonna run sometime in the next week or so on the blogs of various VVM papers, and I also sent a top ten to the Voice jazz critics' poll. So with two of my primary areas covered, I decided to tick box #3 and submit an all-Latin ballot to P&J. You can read more about that here, and I wholly recommend all those albums. Adrien, I think you'd really like Bebe and Natalia Lafourcade, even with the language barrier.

Also, my #2 non-metal album is Tori Amos' Christmas record, and I had a bad feeling that people seeing that and Funeral Mist on the same list would assume I was joking about one or the other...

Listening to the 2009 Drastus EP Serpent's Chalice - Materia Prima. Never heard this guy's stuff before but I can see why J0hn D. likes him so much. There are these awesome, clean but off-key vocals on the first track that make it sound like a cross between Xasthur and Jandek. Really digging this so far.

this how sexto9 listeners voted on total rock radio

Listeners Top 20 of 2009
http://www.sexto9.com/index.php?item=playlist

Immortal - Arctic Swarm - All Shall Fall - Nuclear Blast No 20

Absu - Amy - Absu - Soulfood No 19

Insomnium - Into The Woods - Across The Dark - Candlelight No 18

Hearse - Sundown - Single Ticket to Paradise - Megaphon No 17

Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us - Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us - Century Media No 16

Behemoth - The Seed Ov I - Evangelion - Nuclear Blast No 15

Kreator - Warcurse - Hordes Of Chaos - SPV No 14

Nile - Utterances Of The Crawling Dead - Those Whom The Gods Detest - Nuclear Blast No 13

Candlemass - If I Ever Die - Death Magic Doom - Nuclear Blast No 12

Epica - Unleashed - Design Your Universe - Nuclear Blast No 11

Delain - Invidia - April Rain - Roadrunner No 10

Sirenia - Led Astray - The 13th Floor - Nuclear Blast No 9

Mnemic - March Of The Tripods - Sons Of The System - Nuclear Blast

Hacride - Act Of God - Lazarus - Listenable No 8

Trail of Tears - The Desperation Corridors - Bloodstained Endurance - Napalm No 7

Scar Symmetry - Ascension Chamber - Dark Matter Dimensions - Nuclear Blast No 6

Fleshgod Apocalypse - In Honour Of Reason - Oracles - Candleight No 5

Amorphis - Sky Is Mine - Skyforger - Nuclear Blast No 4

Megadeth - How The Story Ends - Endgame - Roadrunner No 3

Riverside - Egoist Hedonist - Anno Domini High Definition - InsideOut No 2

Katatonia - Day & Then The Shade - Night Is The New Day - Peaceville No 1 Album of 2009

Katatonia - Onward Into Battle - Night Is The New Day - Peaceville No 1 Album of 2009

It's like a list Jeff chose

YOUTUBE companion thread to the Metal Albums of 2009 Poll for your convenience

oops wrong thread that was meant for the poll thread

list from Portugal similar music coverage to Rock-A-Rolla and Terrorizer

Amplificasom: Depois de amanhã começa 2010
http://amplificasom.blogspot.com/2009/12/depois-de-amanha-comeca-2010.html

Here it is: my Top Fourteen Metal Albums of 2009.

Aesop Dekker's 100-albums-of-the-decade. Great list, though why he would choose Hammers of Misfortune's debut as their best is beyond me.

Except for the fact that he listed them chronologically off course... [/d'oh]

Terrorizer Top 40 Albums of 2009

so another Terrorizer album of the year award goes to Converge

1: Converge - Axe To Fall
2: Cobalt - Gin
3: Kylesa - Static Tensions
4: Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars
5: Napalm Death - Time Waits No Slave
6: Mastodon - Crack The Skye
7: Megadeth – Endgame
8: Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse
9: Funeral Mist - Maranatha
10: Immortal - All Shall Fall
11: Drudkh - Microcosmos
12: Beherit - Engram
13: Portal - Swarth
14: Sunn o))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
15: Marduk - Wormwood
16: Absu - Absu
17: Tombs - Winter Hours
18: Burnt By The Sun - Heart Of Darkness
19: Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
20: Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow
21: Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
22: Baroness - Blue Record
23: Madder Mortem - Eight Ways
24: The Devil's Blood - The Time of No Time Evermore
25: Archgoat - the Light Devouring Darkness
26: Shining - VI - Klagopsalmer
27: Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
28: Hacride - Lazarus
29: Fuckpig - Spewings from A Selfish Nation
30: Amorphis - Skyforger
31: Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution
32: Grey Machine - Disconnected
33: Behemoth - Evangelion
34: Unanimated - In the Light of Darkness
35: Obscura - Cosmogenesis
36: Gnaw Their Tongues - All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity
37: Shrinebuilder - S/T
38: Teitanblood - Seven Chalices
39: Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt
40: Evile - Infected Nations

note: albums NOT nominated on ILM metal poll

12: Beherit - Engram - cult black metal band overlooked at the nominations stage

25: Archgoat - the Light Devouring Darkness - obscure black metal band

26: Shining - VI - Klagopsalmer - depressive black metal band ignored at the nominations stage

29: Fuckpig - Spewings from A Selfish Nation - never heard of them, low ratings and rather obscure on rym

http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/fukpig/spewings_from_a_selfish_nation/

32: Grey Machine - Disconnected - more of a Rock-A-Rolla magazine band their label advertises in the Wire magazine

34: Unanimated - In the Light of Darkness - old school DM from Sweden return

38: Teitanblood - Seven Chalices - who? a rather obscure band, although they are rated at 493 for 2009 albums on rym

http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/teitanblood/seven_chalices/

40: Evile - Infected Nations - brit thrash metal band

Teitanblood are awesome my friend

greymachine were nominated djmartian

right there !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VOTE HERE for ILX METAL ALBUMS OF 2009 !!!!!!!!!!!!! (non-metal thread regulars welcome. Everyones welcome to vote, please join in!) Voting Ends Jan 17.

my mistake, i hit grey machine in firefox search find, not greymachine

terrorizer typo stated: grey machine

go stand in the corner djmartian

Nice to see Kylesa that high, i.e. above Baroness and Mastodon. Good list overall, but wtf no Slayer?

Metal Injection - The Top Albums of 2009 as decided by the Metal Injection Junkies
http://www.metalinjection.net/latest-news/top-albums-2009-decided-metal-injection-junkies

1. Mastodon – Crack the Skye 264 votes
2. Between the Buried and Me – The Great Misdirect 188 votes
3. The Black Dahlia Murder – Deflorate 185 votes
4. Lamb of God – Wrath 172 votes
5. Behemoth – Evangelion 167 votes
6. Baroness – The Blue Record 138 votes
7. The Red Chord – Fed Through the Teeth Machine 135 votes
8. Cattle Decapitation – The Harvest Floor 105 votes
9. Converge – Axe To Fall 101 votes
10. Cannibal Corpse – Evisceration Plague 92 votes
11. Obscura – Cosmogenesis 91 votes
12. Nile – Those whom the gods detest 79 votes
13. Dying Fetus – Descend into depravity 64 votes
14. Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Agorapocalypse 61 votes
15. Every Time I Die – New Junk Aesthetic 59 votes
16. Immortal – All Shall Fall 57 votes
17. Dethklok – The Dethalbum II 55 votes
Slayer – World Painted Blood 55 votes
18. Devildriver – Pray For Villains 54 votes
Goatwhore – Carving Out the Eyes Of God 54 votes
Megadeth – Endgame 54 votes
19. Revocation – Existence is Futile 53 votes
20. Alice In Chains – Black Gives Way To Blue 51 votes
21. Suffocation – Blood Oath 49 votes
22. Katatonia – Night Is The New Day 48 votes
23. Kylesa – Static Tension 46 votes
24. Despised Icon – Day of Mourning 45 votes
25. Devin Townsend – Addicted 44 votes
26. Born of Osiris – A Higher Place 43 votes
27. Skeletonwitch – Breathing The Fire 42 votes
28. Daath – The Concealers 34 votes
Magrudergrind – Magrudergrind 34 votes
29. God Forbid – Earthsblood 33 votes
Job For A Cowboy – Ruination 33 votes
Municipal Waste – Massive Agressive 33 votes
30. Hypocrisy – A Taste of Extreme Divinity 32 votes
Suicide Silence – No Time To Bleed 32 votes
31. Augury – Fragmentary Evidence 30 votes
Epica – Design Your Universe 30 votes
Swallow The Sun – New Moon 30 votes
32. Cormorant – Metazoa 29 votes
Ulcerate – Everything Is Fire 29 votes
33. Devin Townsend – KI 28 votes
34. Isis – Wavering Radiant 27 votes
Napalm Death – Time Waits For No Slave 27 votes
Wolves in the Throne Room – Black Cascade 27 votes
35. Gorod – Process of a New Decline 26 votes
36. Ensiferum – From Afar 25 votes
37. Chimaira – The Infection 21 votes
38. Anaal Nathrakh – In the Constellation of the Black Widow 19 votes
Burnt By the Sun – Heart of Darkness 19 votes
39. Darkest Hour – Eternal Return 18 votes
Doomriders – Darkness Come Alive 18 votes
40. Vomitory – Carnage Euphoria 17 votes
41. Coalesce – OX 16 votes
Winds of Plague – The Great Stone War 16 votes
42. Be'lakor – Stone's Reach 15 votes
Impending Doom – Serpent Servant 15 votes
Insomnium – Across The Dark 15 votes
Paria – The Barnacle Cordius 15 votes
Psyopus – Odd Senses 15 votes
Shrinebuilder – Shrinebuilder 15 votes
The Agonist – Lullabies For The Dormant Mind 15 votes
Vader – Necropolis 15 votes
43. Animals As Leaders – Animals As Leaders 13 votes
Architechts – Hollow Crown 13 votes
Ghost Brigade – Isolation songs 13 votes
Kreator – Hordes of Chaos 13 votes
44. Austrian Death Machine – Double Brutal 12 votes
Dream Theater – Black Clouds & Silver Linings 12 votes
maudlin of the Well – Part the Second 12 votes
45. Brand New – Daisy 11 votes
46. Absu – Absu 10 votes
After the Burial – Rareform 10 votes
GWAR – Lust In Space 10 votes
Lazarus A.D. – The Onslaught 10 votes
Obituary – Darkest Day 10 votes
Paradise Lost – Faith Divides Us Death Unites Us 10 votes
Sybreed – The Pulse of Awakening 10 votes
The Number Twelve Looks Like You – Worse Than Alone 10 votes
47. Ancestors – Of Sound Mind 9 votes
Assjack – Assjack 9 votes
Blood Red Throne – Souls of Damnation 9 votes
Enfold Darkness – Our Cursed Rapture 9 votes
HORSE the Band – Desperate Living 9 votes
Keelhaul – Triumphant Return to Obscurity 9 votes
Miss May I – Apologies Are for the Weak 9 votes
Pestilence – Resurrection Macabre 9 votes
Worm Ouroboros – Worm Ouroboros 9 votes
48. Black Cobra – Chronomega 8 votes
Blood Tsunami – Grand feast for vultures 8 votes
Fondlecorpse – Creaturegore 8 votes
Giant Squid – The Ichthyologist 8 votes
Infernal Revulsion – Dead But Breathing 8 votes
Malefice – Dawn of Reprisal 8 votes
Pelican – What We All Come to Need 8 votes
Portal – Swarth 8 votes
Punch – Punch 8 votes
Tenet – Sovereign 8 votes
The Lonely Island – Incredibad 8 votes
Insect Warfare – Noise Grind Power Death 8 votes
Soulfallen – Grave New World 8 votes
49. Alexisonfire – Old Crows Young Cardinals 7 votes
Horrific -Your Worst Nightmare 7 votes
The Crimson Armada – Gaurdians 7 votes
The Empire Shall Fall – Awaken 7 votes
Vomit the Soul – Apostles of Inexpression 7 votes
Old Man's Child – Slaves of the World 7 votes
Impetuous Ritual – Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence 7 votes
50. Eternal Tears Of Sorrow – Children Of The Dark Waters 6 votes
Man Must Die – No Tolerance For Imperfection 6 votes
Mournful Congregation – The June Frost 6 votes
Nashville Pussy – From Hell To Texas 6 votes
Revolting – Dreadful Pleasures 6 votes
Scar Symmetry – Dark Matter Dimensions 6 votes
SWWATTS – The Grand Partition and the Abrogation of Idolatry 6 votes
Viatrophy – Viatrophy 6 votes
Suidakra – Crógacht 6 votes
51. 3 Inches Of Blood – Here Waits Thy Doom 5 votes
August Burns Red – Constellations 5 votes
Believer – Gabriel 5 votes
Belphegor – Walpurgis Rites – Hexenwahn 5 votes
Ingested – Surpassing the Boundaries of Human Suffering 5 votes
Iron Age – The Sleeping Eye 5 votes
Loan – Gontziria 5 votes
Rammstien – Liebe ist Für Alle Da 5 votes
Rose Funeral – The Resting Sonata 5 votes
Samael – Above 5 votes
Sanctification – Black Reign 5 votes
YOB – The Great Cessation 5 votes
Zoroaster – Voice of Saturn 5 votes
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone 5 votes
52. Azarath – Praise the Beast 4 votes
Gaza – He Is Never Coming Back 4 votes
Insidious Decrepancy – Extirpating Omnicient Certitude 4 votes
Lay Down Rotten – Gospel Of The Wretched 4 votes
Warbringer – Waking Into Nightmares 4 votes
Weekend Nachos – Unforgivable 4 votes
Altar of Plagues – White Tomb 4 votes
God Dethroned – Passiondale 4 votes
53. Beherit – Engram 3 votes
Candlemass – Death Magic Doom 3 votes
Chthonic – Mirror Of Retribution 3 votes
Hellwitch – Omnipotent Convocation 3 votes
KISS – Sonic Boom 3 votes
Lye by Mistake – Fea Jur 3 votes
Muse – The Resistance 3 votes
Steel Panther – Feel the Steel 3 votes
Struck by Lightning – Serpents 3 votes
Threat Signal – Vigilance 3 votes
Within The Ruins – Creature 3 votes
Pussygutt – Gathering Strengths 3 votes
Neaera – Omnicide 3 votes
54. Devourment – Unleash the Carnivore 2 votes
Gorgoroth – Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt 2 votes
Hatebreed – For The Lions 2 votes
Skyfire – Esoteric 2 votes
The Burning – Rewakening 2 votes
War From A Harlots Mouth – In Shoals 2 votes
Darzamat – Sulfernu's Path 2 votes
55. A Hill To Die Upon – Infinite Titanic Immortal 1 vote
Blackguard – Profugus Mortis 1 vote
Brutal Truth – Evolution through Revolution 1 vote
Goes Cube – Another Day Has Passed 1 vote
Gory Blister – Graveyard Of Angels 1 vote
Killswitch Engage – Killswitch Engage 1 vote
Septycal Gorge – Erase the Insignificant 1 vote
Squash Bowels – Grindvirus 1 votes
The Binary Code – The Binary Code 1 vote
Throwdown – Deathless 1 vote
Ignivomous – Death Transmutation 1 vote
Antigama – Warning 1 vote

What time is it in Japan?

Japanese time <custos>

All the best metal lords everywhere. I'll be playing a segway of Ace Of Spades/Raining Blood/For Whom The Bell Tolls/Snap Your Fingers Snap Your Neck/Breaking the Law/Supernaut/The Four Horsemen (Aphrodite's Child not Metallica) just after midnight and raising the horns to you all wherever you may be. \m/

Awesome Aphrodite's Child song.

There's an argument for it being my favourite rock song of all time, when the wind's blowing in a certain direction and I'm at the right temperature.

I got into it via being a verve fan (who years later after going on about it actually ripped it off for the rolling people)

I don't know those coves, but I have a fair few mutual friends up in Wigan, St Helens, Manchester, Liverpool. It's that North West scallydelia thing. I never got into the Floyd or Genesis or what have you but it was good being played loads of the 'Child, Hawkwind, Beefheart, Cardiacs and that by acid crazed loons in tracksuits when I was a callow youth. Certainly extravagant prog and that kind of thing didn't go out of fashion in the north west like it did elsewhere.

There's an urban myth about house breakers doing over someone's entire flat and stripping out everything including carpets and furniture and the only thing they leave is either a copy of 666 or The Wall.

Interestingly, this is either seen as a kind act or a diss depending on whether it's told in Merseyside or Lancashire.

dare i ask which is which? you're all southerners to me

Rolling Metal Thread 2010

Shall we lock this thread now, or keep it going for totally off-topic Aphrodite's Child/Britisher talk?

Liverpool and places like Wigan, St Helens and Warrington lean more toward psychedelia in rock music and Manchester and Lancs tend to lean away from it.

You can only really make the broadest of generalisations here but bands like the Stone Roses, The Engineers and The Verve, while usually being lumped in as Manc, have this through line to psych and prog that goes with the territory they actually come from (Stone Roses were more of a Warrington band, The Verve, Wigan etc), imho. Even bands like The Coral and Teardrop Explodes kind of fit this theory.

I think Julian Cope has it down as a Catholic Irish/Anglo Protestant split between the two areas; which is partially true and partially over-romanticized.

It falls apart if you examine it too closely.

XP: Sorry Jeff! All done now.

hey, that was really interesting! the merest whiff of 'cardiacs' and i'm in like flynn :D but the psych/non-psych lancashire divide is pretty intriguing. i'll have to try and keep tabs on my favourite north-west bands and see if it holds true!

The Year in Metal (BBG's best of 2009)
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2010/01/the_year_in_met_1.html