The Ghost track sounds fine to me, not my favorite of theirs, but its still pretty fun.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
Hello you have until 7pm EST on Friday, December 21st 2012 (that's midnight for the Britishes and 4pm for our friends on the left coast of the US) to nominate in !!! Under New Management !!! It's The ILM NON-ELITIST METAL ALBUMS POLL 2012 NOMINATIONS THREAD
― ILM METAL POLL 2012 (New Management), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 01:54 (eleven years ago) link
Man, already have high expectations for new Clutch, but the cover art has raised 'em a smidge higher even:
http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/clutch-earth-rocker.jpg
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 04:53 (eleven years ago) link
It's definitely a kickass cover.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 04:56 (eleven years ago) link
And title!
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 05:03 (eleven years ago) link
Devin Townsend is a funny guy, and his favourite records are good!
I find with Tom Waits that there is such a level of reverence around him that the things that I like about Tom Waits I fucking hate in Jack White – I can’t stand that guy, y’know what I mean? Every time I see him or hear him talking it just makes my bum shrivel up and I can’t quite understand why – it’s that kind of like, scorning convention, "here’s me in my old time-y, whiskey soaked bowler hat" thing – I’m just like, "fuck you man!"
http://thequietus.com/articles/11006-devin-townsend-strapping-young-lad-favourite-albums?page=11
― Neil S, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
Man, huge props to the PopMatters metal crew for digging real deep for this feature. They are really stepping up their metal coverage game in a big way.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
That was a really solid piece. P4k has their metal best up now too - Pallbearer at 1 and personal favorites Pinkish Black at 6.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
Just read the long PopMatters piece on the train on mah kindle. I'm dreamin' of a Black Christmas!
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
Fester’s Lucky 13http://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-12/
I have separate stoner and doom lists on my site and posted in Rolling Stoner/Psych/Doom/Sludge/Retro/Drone/Space Thread 2012.
Metal1. Ufomammut – Oro: Opus Primum & Opus Alter (Neurot)2. Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage (Roadrunner)3. Christian Mistress – Possession (Relapse)4. Venomous Maximus – Beg Upon The Light (Cutthroat)5. Owl – First Album (Magick Hermit/Lummox)6. Dawnbringer – Into The Lair Of The Sun God (Profound Lore)7. The Sword – Apocryphon (Razor & Tie)8. High On Fire – De Vermis Mysteriis (eOne)9. Grand Magus – The Hunt (Nuclear Blast)10. Orange Goblin – A Eulogy For The Damned (Candlelight)11. Dragged Into Sunlight – Widowmaker (Prosthetic)12. Pharaoh – Bury The Light (Cruz Del Sur)13. Neurosis – Honor Found In Decay (Neurot)14. Amenra – Mass V (Neurot)15. Car Bomb – w^w^^w^w (Solid Grey)16. Black Breath – Sentenced To Life (Relapse)17. Yakuza – Beyul (Profound Lore)18. Ne Obliviscaris – Portal Of I (Aural Music/Code 666)19. Bible of the Devil – For the Love of Thugs and Fools (Cruz Del Sur)20. The Faceless – Autotheism (Sumerian)21. Meshuggah – Koloss (Nuclear Blast)22. Ihsahn – Eremita (Candlelight)23. Dødsengel Imperator (Terratur Possessions)-24. Hooded Menace – Effigies Of Evil (Relapse)25. Lord Mantis – Pervertor (Candlelight)26. Eagle Twin – The Feather Tipped the Serpent?s Scale (Southern Lord)27. Krallice – Years Past Matter (Krallice)28. Norska – Norska (Brutal Panda)29. Periphery – Periphery II: This Time It’s Personal (Sumerian)30. Grave – Endless Procession Of Souls (Century Media)31. Demonic Death Judge – Skygods (Inverse)32. Satan’s Wrath – Galloping Blasphomy (Metal Blade)33. Dopethrone – III (Dopethrone)34. Crystal Viper – Crimen Excepta (AFM)35. Tenacious D – Rize Of The Fenix (Sony)36. Bison B.C. – Lovelessness (Metal Blade)37. Sigh – In Somniphobia (Candlelight)38. Anaal Nathrakh – Vanitas (Candlelight)39. Mgla – With Hearts Toward None (Northern Heritage)40. Nachtmystium – Silencing Machine (Century Media)41. God Seed – I Begin (12th Street)42. Enslaved – RIITIIR (Nuclear Blast)43. RAM – Death (Metal Blade)44. Superchrist – Holy Shit (Hella Headbangers)45. The Howling Wind – Of Babalon (Profound Lore)46. Furze – Psych Minus Space Control (Fysisk Format)47. Dethklok – Dethalbum III (Williams Street)48. Troglodyte – Don’t Go In The Woods (noMore Tomorrow)49. Horesback – Half Blood (Relapse)50. Inverloch – Dark | Subside (Relapse)51. Cauldron – Tomorrow’s Lost (Earache)52. Necrovation – Necrovation (Red General)53. Gaza – No Absolutes In Human Suffering (Black Market)54. Wizard Rifle – Speak Loud Say Nothing (Seventh Rule)55. Sabaton – Carolus Rex (Nuclear Blast)56. Accept – Stalingrad (Nuclear Blast)57. 3 Inches Of Blood – Long Live Heavy Metal (Century Media)58. Jeff Loomis – Plains Of Oblivion (Century Media)59. Prong – Carved Into Stone (PID)60. Angel Witch – As Above So Below (Metal Blade)
http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/iron-maiden-xmas.jpg
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
god, do yall seriously like that clutch cover??
― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Thursday, 20 December 2012 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
"native stuff"
i don't remember being there any native american characters in tron
― j., Thursday, 20 December 2012 02:45 (eleven years ago) link
how about a tiny lil headstock
― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Thursday, 20 December 2012 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
"earth rocker"?!?!
― flag this post and die (roxymuzak), Thursday, 20 December 2012 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
Finally finished my top 50 at MSN...here's the top 10:
http://social.entertainment.msn.com/music/blogs/headbang-blogpost.aspx?post=54a87a00-ffda-419b-b417-f096ee4cc1dd
― A. Begrand, Friday, 21 December 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
you know i think at least three people told me to check out the mares of thrace album this year
they were right
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 21 December 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
it's a good record. I like it much more than their prior stuff.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 22 December 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
All the Live at Roadburn downloads have been dropped to "name your price" here: http://burningworldrecords.bandcamp.com/ . I assume this is going to be a limited time thing, but a lot of ILM faves on there.
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Sunday, 23 December 2012 03:14 (eleven years ago) link
Mike Scaccia of Rigor Mortis died onstage last night:
http://centraltrack.com/Music/3040/Rest-in-Peace/Rigor-Mortis-and-Ministry-Guitarist-Mike-Scaccia-Died-After-Falling-Onstage-on-Saturday-He-Was-47
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 23 December 2012 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
Just saw that on Blabbermouth. He was an amazing guitarist - one of the fastest players in thrash. Here's a live video of Rigor Mortis from 2007-8 with guest vocals from Phil Anselmo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf132ENHmKw
― 誤訳侮辱, Sunday, 23 December 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
Unsurprisingly, it's totally shaking up the local metal scene.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 23 December 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
Sucks so hard. I loved Rigor Mortis. Got to see him live twice - with the Revolting Cocks on the Beers, Steers & Queers tour in 1990, and with Ministry on the Animositisomina tour in 2005.
― 誤訳侮辱, Sunday, 23 December 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
I never got to see Rigor Mortis, but did see him with Ministry in the early 90s. I almost went to the show last night but didn't want to drag myself through 40 miles of highway construction the weekend before Christmas. It's a hard loss.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 23 December 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
pretty interesting label spread on the pitchfork list: 40 albums - eight are from Relapse, eight are from Profound Lore, if I'm counting right.
― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 23 December 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
are you saying that dilettantes be dilettantin
― j., Monday, 24 December 2012 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
don't really think brandon is a dilettante
― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Monday, 24 December 2012 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
i wouldn't say so either, but it wouldn't be surprising if there were a kind of house effect, given that the choices are (?) things that ran in pitchfork
― j., Monday, 24 December 2012 01:59 (eleven years ago) link
I sort of assumed that was because he chose them to cover?
― Simon H., Monday, 24 December 2012 02:03 (eleven years ago) link
man ... i dig this Dawnbringer album overall, but "V" damn near ruins it for me. i am ok with ballads and "softer" stuff; i adore "Yellow & Green." but i don't know about this song. this is some serious cheese.
― alpine static, Monday, 24 December 2012 07:16 (eleven years ago) link
No way, it feels like those great ballads Alice Cooper used to write with Dick Wagner. Only the true metal dudes can write a good power ballad and pull it off.
― A. Begrand, Monday, 24 December 2012 08:32 (eleven years ago) link
Brandon is an IRL metal dude, his dues are all paid up and his membership's current and I dig him, but I think he's taken in right now by 1) Profound Lore's "aura" for lack of a better term - v. image-heavy label and 2) "USBM" about which interest/boosterism I have much to say, none of it good, even though one of the best black metal bands (Ares Kingdom) is from Kansas City
― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 24 December 2012 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
but I think he's taken in right now by 1) Profound Lore's "aura" for lack of a better term - v. image-heavy label
I think it's easy for anyone to be taken in by that kind of thing, and it's always happened. Ten years ago we would have said the same thing about Hydra Head.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Monday, 24 December 2012 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it does certainly some like profound lore 1) puts out a ton of records and 2) knows how to promote those records.
but i only see like 3 usbm records in the top 25, maybe 3 more in the top 40? it doesn't strike me as a list that's heavy on that stuff. i'd have to go back and check but it seems to include more diversity (and esp. more death metal) than previous years.
― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Monday, 24 December 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
Bandcamp Christmas deals continue: http://beastwars.bandcamp.com/album/beastwars just dropped to "name your price."
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Monday, 24 December 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
Another Summoning update:
27.12.2012Last month we recorded all the guitar riffs for the new album, and Protector recorded already his vocal lines. Silenius will do his vocal parts in the next weeks. We replaced the original intro with a new one (which has a stronger intro feeling), the old one will be transformed into an instrumental track, which maybe will be used as a bonustrack together with the missing song from the othbound session. The new albums will be entitled "Old Mornings Dawn". A one minute teaser is in progress and will be available on the Napalm Records homepage soon.
We replaced the original intro with a new one (which has a stronger intro feeling), the old one will be transformed into an instrumental track, which maybe will be used as a bonustrack together with the missing song from the othbound session.
The new albums will be entitled "Old Mornings Dawn". A one minute teaser is in progress and will be available on the Napalm Records homepage soon.
― Siegbran, Friday, 28 December 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
Man, South Pole Dispatch is always one of the first things I read when I get my new issue of Decibel in the mail, but goddamn the man deserves some kind of award for the 100th issue 2-pager.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 28 December 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
Orphaned LandThe recordings of the new Orphaned Land album have started NOW in Istanbul!Like · · Share · 5103419 · 4 hours ago ·
― Mordy, Saturday, 29 December 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
An Italian reader reminded me to check out Sweden's Left Hand Solution for another doom band with great female vocals. I'd heard of them but never got around to hearing them until today. Fevered (1997) is pretty great! Haven't started on Light Shines Back (2001) yet. They've been on extended hiatus, but have performed a couple times in recent years.
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 29 December 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
Really enjoying the Grand Supreme Blood Court album that came out last month. Four (ex-)Asphyx members + one Hail Of Bullets guy playing...exactly what you'd expect.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 30 December 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
In fact, now that the nominations for the EoY poll are closed I'm suddenly finding shitloads of great records:Melankoli - WindLustre - They Awoke to the Scent of SpringDark Forest - Land Of The Evening StarAn Autumn for Crippled Children - Only the Ocean KnowsBorgne - Royaume Des OmbresLocus Neminis - Weltenwanderung
― Siegbran, Sunday, 30 December 2012 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
Also, more Lustre to come in January:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejEkMC17VX4
― Siegbran, Sunday, 30 December 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
Happy New Year, you bastards!!
― SeanWayne, Monday, 31 December 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
Really enjoying Beneath's Enslaved by Fear. They're Icelandic death metal ,and to me sound kind of like Behemoth without the black metal influence, catchy songwriting, well-played death metal.
Also digging Malignancy's Eugenics, although being that my first experience with them (and only) was Intrauterine Cannibalism, I barely recognized them.
― NINO CARTER, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
Rolling Metal Thread 2013
Lock thread!
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
isnt it like 5pm your time? a little overanxious dude.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 00:55 (eleven years ago) link
It was midnight GMT. LOCK EZ.
― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
I! AM! THE THREAD-KILLER!
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 02:31 (eleven years ago) link