Rolling Metal Thread 2010

It's the new year in Japan -- into the pit once more!

you're always in a rush to start this

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VOTE HERE for ILX METAL ALBUMS OF 2009 !!!!!!!!!!!!! (non-metal thread regulars welcome. Everyones welcome to vote, please join in!) Voting Ends Jan 17.
YOUTUBE companion thread to the Metal Albums of 2009 Poll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=selfqEH-JnY

is there some sort of metal poll going on?

Ha ha. Awesome. There are some amazing fan videos of the 'Child song, with horses, that like actually change colour and shit.

I have heard fleeting whispers of one in the dark and eldritch passages that man has forgotten, but those who have attempted to explore the arcane mysteries of the poll have all been driven mad... those who made it back at all, that is.

well you didn't like the "british" talk in the other thread.

that song is kinda kickass, makes me wanna ride a motorbike -_-

New Mnemic album, Sons of the System, is vastly superior than the abortion that was their last record. Still sub-Fear Factory rhythmic industrial, but they ditched the nu-metal this time around. Speaking of, has anyone heard the new Fear Factory yet? I'm pretty psyched for that one.

I have the new Fear Factory and new Mnemic albums, but it's hard to get excited about either, their last ones were such colossal disappointments.

Two that I'm really into right now are the new ones by Ihsahn and Shining. Norwegian prog/jazz Shining, not Swedish suicidal black metal Shining. Coincidentally, Jorgen from said Shining plays a very prominent role on the Ihsahn record with some terrific sax solos.

Yeah, that new Ihsahn record is great. Here's my AMG review. I liked the Shining disc okay, but didn't love it.

wow, sax solos. does ihsahn cover "baker street"? or maybe "harden my heart". that would be way cool.

whoa wait the new Shining is nearly out? STOKED! opening track of 'Grindstone' made my top 23 songs of the decade! hopefully this one lives up to it. not sure it's metal tho

Their cover of "20th Century Schizoid Man" is something this band was born to do, I just love it.

And yeah, Ihsahn's record is is strongest to date. Talked to him a couple weeks ago, he's an interesting fella. Nice guy.

Phil, your review makes me wanna hear that Isahn disc.

And now back to 2010--the year of Ludicra!

I'm excited for the Fear Factory because they now have Dino back along with Strapping Young Lad's rhythm section.

I didn't know Hoglan's on the new one...nice!

Hoglan's always looking for the next paycheck, eh?

ian christe has put out a big fat hellhammer/celtic frost book you can buy me:

http://www.bazillionpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/onlydeathisreal.jpg

me wants

Will be buying this to go on my shelf next to his other books.

oh yeah!

holy shit, where can i get that immediately

also AYO NEW YORK DUDES come see me play doom/black metal tomorrow night?? will buy 1 beer for yuns. 2010 is gonna kick so much ass. i just quit my job for the sake of metal btw

oh woops i mean day after tomorrow - that is the 4th. at a place called Lit in downtown manhattan iirc

I'll book your Portland show ;)

ok, when?

Well, if you're going to play in Portland, you have to do an LA date.

none of us do jobs or anything normal anymore so i mean

ma i met "grim kim" of terrorizer and general awesomeness last night, and she was like "oh u know c0smo l33?" and i was like "yeah" and she was like "you know all these critics -- do you know KSP????" it made me lol

lol @ "ma", i was not referring to yall as maternal figures, i meant to say "man", fwiw

For a Portland gig I need 3-5 months notice and a link to your myspace tunes. And if you have an EPK with Sonicbids I will automatically take you less seriously ;)

lol, not in this band

http://www.myspace.com/argentinumastrum

consider this your 3-5 months notice

Man this Ihsahn record is amazing. Hell of a way to kick off 2010.

The guy who did the Axxis album cover from last year strikes again!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6IxeL1PRYH4/SuumiBSEYiI/AAAAAAAABSs/Gdk6SpGINEc/s400/Heavenly+-+Carpe+Diem+by+Eneas.jpg

I wonder if that chick on the right is the same one that was wielding the flame whip?

xpost - Nice southern sludge Roxy. Pick a date, I'll hold it.

You're playing bass?

J3ff -- I think those are both the same chick, right? I wonder if he's doing a blue-skinned Avatar version of that cover for Japan?

I think they are supposed to be different, but I don't think he's very good at making the faces look different. It's possible that it's the same model. In which case, she's about to make out with herself... which is just kind of weird.

maybe each is a different aspect of the same person and they are reconciling by making lusty tongue faces at each other

Man this Ihsahn record is amazing. Hell of a way to kick off 2010.

― Sonic Bum, Monday, January 4, 2010 8:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah I'm feeling this a lot - he has turned into, idk, a metal version of Barry Adamson or something. Walks a v v corny tightrope but is fully upright as far as my ears can tell me

Was there any discussion of the Nokturnal Mortum record "The Voice of Steel" in the '09 thread? (I think it came out late '09; I still can't find a version of the album with English-translated titles, so it may not have worldwide distro yet.) If so, I apologize for bringing it up here, and for any redundancy, but man it is a MONSTER. I resist even using the words "folk-metal" because they totally destroy any of my old associations with that term, but yes, there are strings and synths and Ukranian folk elements. But it's insanely brutal and epic and expansive and even catchy. Can't say enough. Thing absolutely destroys.

whoa, will check that one out. sounds good.

pulled out my copy of DHG supervillian outcast the other night. the rob zombies of black metal. fun!

nate -

yes, bass

ill be in touch

Was just doing some quick research for a preview of the upcoming Behemoth tour and found this hilarious Nergal stalker video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k4wBw9pVBo

hahahahaha!!!

also, I guess metal guys have it easier in every conceivable way in europe, huh? not too many metal dudes in the USA w/model gf's I imagine.

I love how the song really kicks in to photos of them running on a beach

Ha, someone at MSN Music must have linked my blog post on the Soundgarden reunion to the main page, because folks were just lining up to call me a dick: Check it out. I love the Internet.

Listening to the new Through The Eyes Of The Dead right now and just not hearing anything new. Borrowed riffs, standard-issue attitude, the same ol' typewriter drums...how is anyone supposed to be excited about this album, this band, this genre? Even when I try to take the standard metal-fan approach of appreciating tiny incremental change within an overall landscape of structural sameness, there's just nothing here for me to grab onto and say, "Okay, this is Through The Eyes Of The Dead's unique little patch of ground that enables me to tell them apart from their peers and appreciate their contribution to the metal gestalt in 2010."

..she wouldn't exist.

celebrating Xmas with some Deathspell Omega iirc

Darkblack still have a dumb name and a crappy singer. My impressions from two-three years ago were correct. Pretty tasty classic metal riffs, though.

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

looks over-roasted to me

Has anybody else heard Hour of 13's The Ritualist? As retro-minded doom goes, I think I like it better than Ghost. The songs are pretty fucking catchy, in a Roky Erickson and the Aliens sort of way, especially "Demons All Around Me."

yeah, I have. it's pretty good but I liked the s/t one from a few years ago a bit better. could just be the extra time I've spent with it, tho.

Yeah, pretty good traditionalist doom. Didn't really do much to grab my ears outside of some decent tunes, though. I just love the harmonies and atmosphere of the Ghost record the more I listen to it.

Yeah, the Hour of 13 album is terrific. Old fashioned doom that's not afraid to employ good melodic vocals.

By the way, over at Hellbound we've put up our critics' poll of the best Canadian metal albums of 2010:

http://www.hellbound.ca/2010/12/hellbounds-top-10-canadian-metal-albums-of-2010/

Have you heard the new Cauldron, Adrien? I love it.

I'm nuts about it. The cover of Halloween's "I Confess" is brilliant. And I had a blast talking to Jason about obscure Canadian 80s metal bands. They used Scorpions' Blackout as the template for this album, and they really pull it off, it's got more of a German metal feel than the NWOBHM comparison that people keep tossing out.

Yeah, I can totally hear the Scorpions in "Frozen in Fire" and stuff like that.

Plus I love how "Queen of Fire" has a total George Lynch rip-off riff and tosses in the line "under lock and key".

does everyone else who's heard the Cauldron record hear 'Tears Have Come' as "tears of cum"? :/

So I really, really love this one Shadow Theory song ("I Opened up My Eyes") that has some crazy awesome Jethro Tull flutecomment but then the rest of the album is decent but generic Dream Theater/Symphony X worship, which makes me sad.

flute, not flute comment

I love the new track Cauldron is sharing on their myspace.
Are they sharing any others elswhere?

I think that's the only one so far. It's a good indicator of how the entire album is, though.

Rolling Metal Thread 2011

Please lock thread.

no dont. delete new thread. its not new year yet

ilx runs on UK time plus there's no Aussie metallers.

this is still 2010

this is still 2010

― Shakey Moe Szyslak (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 31 December 2010 17:38

Rolling Metal Thread 2011 [Started by Doomsday Derelict (J3ff T.) in December 2010 looks stupid.
No-one else will steal the thread start from you, just start it in 2011 please.

So let's stay here

bitch bitch bitch.

What time is it where you are?

Time for metal.

10am jan 31st?

Has anyone actually got advances of 2011 albums?

Several folks talking about the Cauldron record, so yes.

I have a few 2011 releases already: the new Cauldron, the new Destruction, the new Full Blown Chaos, the new Motörhead, and a double disc by some black metal band called Helrunar.

how is the Motörhead?

New Motorhead's as solid as ever.

Cauldron and Ken Mode are the best 2011s I've heard so far, but there are some biggies I'm hoping to hear next week.

Oh, and Graf Orlock's Doombox is great fun too.

I like Ken Mode. Not familiar with Cauldron at all.

Is the Cauldron release available online in the usual crevices?

You mean journalists who never buy music?

I wish I didn't have to buy as much music as I did this year.

Rolling Metal Thread 2011

Okay, NOW lock thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY

hi metal dudes did any of u hear this album out last year and/or dig it? my drummer showed it to me today and i loved it! not the type of thing i consider my thing at all, i guess it's like... power metal? kinda proggy? rly have no idea how to talk abt this, but it's like, relentless, epic, ongoing soloing (exclusively in triplets), really energetic, kinda posi. gave me a bit of a 70's psych vibe, too

http://www.mindovermetal.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/titan-300x300.jpg

..?

Quite a few people love titan here (myself included) but noone probably responded to you as you revived the 2010 thread! I didn't notice this one had been revived.
their first release on paradigm recordings is still my fave thing they have done

sweet i'm glad u guys dig it, i revived this thred bc i didnt want to be scorned

imagine ppl in this band high five each other on the reg

Titan are okay, but like most of those prog revival bands they leave me kind of cold. I would rather listen to Area.

huge late pass but I'm just now hearing Stargazer and it fucking kicks ASS.

double disc by some black metal band called Helrunar

Haven't heard their new one (iirc their label only deals in digital promos now, fuck that), but I wrote this a few years ago about an earlier album by them and one by their labelmates Noekk, both of which I still pull out and play, three years later -- still like the Prophecy-label Nucleus Torn album from that year, too:

http://blog.rhapsody.com/2008/03/excellent-boring-metal-from-germany.html

Otherwise, people will perhaps be shocked to learn that I actually agree with lots of the people on this thread! Or at least people who say the Cauldron album is their favorite metal album from this year. In fact, as I already mentioned on Past Expiry Hard Rock, it's one of my favorite albums from this year, period, and one of the catchiest metal albums I've heard in years. Also been liking the Holy Grail and Christian Mistress albums from 2010 (hey, I'm slow, sue me), though the latter with reservations; wish it was less thinly and fuzzily produced, so I could hear the singing and songs more. But I do detect real potential in that band.

Thought the new albums by Burzum, Crowbar, and Stryper (all of which I reviewed for Rhapsody) were bearable; will never play them again, though.

And finally, here's something halfway amusing I wrote a couple weeks ago on all-covers albums by metal bands. (Garage Days and the Def Leppard one from a couple years back aren't available on Rhapsody, so those got left out; I'm sure I left out other obvious ones too, but this was still fun to do):

http://blog.rhapsody.com/2011/02/metal.html

I'm slow, sue me

So slow that I probably just posted, for maybe the very first time, on last year's thread! (Didn't notice 'til now, oh well.)

lol