Rolling Metal Thread 2009

i like the vreid album. i actually really like when they stick some mournful 80's thrash solo in the middle of a song for no reason. it sounds cool when they do it.

i don't hate this graveworm album!

weird! my friend mary came in to the store - i sell her handmade art cards - and i was blasting Graveworm and i turned it down when she came in and she said: "oh you don't have to turn it down my son is in a metal band i don't mind this music." turns out her son is the drummer in Tombs! they are touring europe right now. i told her if they ever wanted to play in the store to let me know! hahaha!

man, you know what really made me feel old? the other night i had a show at the store with all these noise people/groups and none of them knew who blixa bargeld was. they were young.

What's wrong with Goatwhore? Good, old-fashioned, Celtic Frost rip-off metal...their past albums were always a bit on the plain side, but the recent one blows them all away. I have them pretty darn high on my list.

Yeah, me too. That all-guns-blazing Rutan production helps a lot.

The addition of the dirty rock 'n roll really made a world of difference, Goatwhore-wise.

I just don't like 'em. I like Celtic Frost just fine. Shit, I like Gallhammer and Crucifist. But something about Goatwhore just doesn't work for me. I can't make it through a whole song, and life is too short to keep trying.

you really like gallhammer? you are a strange old man.

I preferred Goatwhore to Crucifist, good as that record is. Goatwhore's a lot catchier, the riffs are terrific.

this vetus obscurum album is good bm. dude from krohm.

couldn't take the agathodaimon album i had lying around. another blast from the past! their techno beats can't save their tired symphonic bm.

I'd listen to the last Gallhammer thing ten more times before I fancied playing the last Goatwhore thing again

weird! my friend mary came in to the store - i sell her handmade art cards - and i was blasting Graveworm and i turned it down when she came in and she said: "oh you don't have to turn it down my son is in a metal band i don't mind this music." turns out her son is the drummer in Tombs! they are touring europe right now. i told her if they ever wanted to play in the store to let me know! hahaha!

Awesome story! Tombs' album from this year looks like it is positioning itself to finish high on my year end list, I really like it.

In sorta sad news, one of my few connections for metal CDs close to the house is gone. Hot Topic. I know, I know. But the local one actually carried a lot of Nuclear Blast, Relapse and Century Media stuff that for some reason the Best Buys around here never carry. But now their CD section is reduced to like five "albums of the month" that are all shitty mallcore bands. Blah. Plus it was less than a mile from my house.

dude unrelated but did u get my email on solange?

not even close to 2009 but... super underrated gorguts album: from wisdom to hate

this stuff always sounds killer when it comes up on shuffle.

that is all.

love that album. i love all their albums though.

got a cool doom album from australia by atolah. an EP actually. very nice. very heavy.

I did! I thought I sent you an e-mail back of thanks, but I see now I didn't. I appreciate it!!

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no prob dude just wanted to make sure!

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yeah, every gorguts album has its charms, no doubt. anything ever surface from that new lineup?

I can answer that as I just interviewed Luc from Gorguts - new album in late '10, both the Byla guys and the drummer from Origin/Skinless etc on board, mostly written but not recorded, pretty long songs (like 7 min average), bit proggier than Gorguts of old. Sounds good

oh, awesome. am psyched to hear that.

but late '10 - damn!

also, listening to gorguts is always a little bittersweet now. r.i.p. steve mcdonald. god, what an amazing drummer.

Yesterday my brother played me the Black Anvil reissue on Relapse. NYC dudes playing retro Swedish death metal. Really excellent.

Someone recently told me that the next big trend will be kids playing Swedish death metal. I believe this prophecy. Begone retro-thrash!

I don't believe that's a reissue... I'm seeing them in a couple weeks with Nachtmystium and Marduk.

the retro-death train has been chugging along for awhile now. but, like the retro-thrash stuff, hardly any of it is as good or great as the stuff its aping.

Yeah, Decibel's been touting the whole retro-death thing. Personally the thrash revival appealed to me more quite frankly, only because that was my era, right before death metal came along.

But yeah, that Black Anvil album is really good. One of many standouts I couldn't vote for this year! And I do believe it came out in 08 in some capacity.

at best a lot of it is just a carbon copy of the old stuff. which i guess is cool if you need new stuff that sounds exactly like the old stuff.

something else you can blame katatonia for in a way. if you feel like blaming them for something. a lot of younger people got in to the old death stuff via bloodbath. (see, ten years ahead of their time even when it comes to retro fads!)

"I don't believe that's a reissue."

Black Anvil's record came out on Momentum Records. Then Relapse reissued it.

Anyway, that's great news that they're on the Marduk tour. That means I get to see them soon!

Oh nevermind. Not in Portland :(

Yeah, it seems the kids like Bloodbath a helluvalot more than Katatonia.

Speaking of Katatonia, did it even chart in the US? No mention of it at all on this week's Metal Insider's Metal By Numbers column.

Tell you what, they'd have had a hell of a better chance at charting here if they'd have had decent distribution for it. Still haven't seen it in a single store (though I haven't been to any metal specialty shops since it came out), think I'll just order it online.

It debuted at #33 on Canada's metal soundscan chart, which is really friggin' low.

what jon said. i've said enough. it's a shame. what else can you say. i have NO idea where i could find the album around here. and i'd like to buy one! so, it's probably gonna be amazon or wherever for me.

It's available on eMusic now if you roll that way.

I can pretty much guaranty that I could walk down to 2nd Avenue Records in Portland and pick up the new Katatonia.

We are spoiled here with culture.

Oh, I'm sure I could drive down to Metal Haven and pick up a copy, I was just trying to make the point that, like it or not, if you are a metal band trying to break America - you need to get your record in places that aren't metal specialty shops.

I just phoned 2nd Avenue. They thought they might be sold out, but they checked and still have a few copies for sale.

Y'all should move here.

Trust me, the thought of Portland or Seattle has been discussed in our household many a time since our vacation out there a few years ago.

i bought it on amazon cuz i'm lazy like that.

I downloaded it so I can see if I want to order the deluxe LP cuz I'm fickle like that.

even crazier is this: peaceville's catalog is huge and you should really be able to buy darkthrone albums in every mall store in this country.

I want to see Darkthrone play on the ice skating rink in Lloyd Center mall. I mean, Tonya Harding practiced there. It's fucking grimm.

Darkthrone CDs are very plentiful where I am. One mall chain has Transilvanian Hunger and A Blaze in the Northern Sky as part of their 2 for $25 deal, which is nice to see. Maybe "Canadian Metal" won them a bunch of new fans up here.

So Earthless are opening at the Baroness show tonight and I expect to like 'em based on shit you guys've said. If this proves true, what should I buy from their merch table?

all of it

but the live roadburn double lp is a real must have

Yeah I'll probably only have $$ for one thing.

Definitely get Live at Roadburn, but I recommend CD not LP, because it's two long jams, one per disc. Absolutely killer.