Rolling Metal Thread 2009

http://www.terrorizer.com/content/grand-magus-sign-roadrunner

^quite unexpected, no?

Part Two of my troll through Decibel's best-of-the-decade list is up, covering #s 80-61: http://bit.ly/7IW1iy

http://www.terrorizer.com/content/grand-magus-sign-roadrunner

ewww... what will roadrunner do with a metal band?!

Maybe someone there found some Mercyful Fate in the warehouse and got thinkin'

man, the intro to "the gnashing" (blue record) gives me serious neu!/michael rother vibes. and now that I think about it, the fuzz guitar that pops up from time-to-time definitely has shades of the classic rother sound too...

really love this record. deserves the praise its been getting.

yet some people think its not as good as Red, yet those who loved the ep's but were disappointed by Red love this one.

yeah, I'm in that boat. I never warmed to red completely but I think they've really come into their sound with this new one. really focused.

Too prog for me, unfortunately. I like the idea of Baroness, and their sound, just not their songs.

the father befouled/helcaraxe split on enucleation is fucking incredible. finding more information about it I was sad to learn that the drummer from father befouled had killed himself last month - it's weird to find a band, go digging for further information on them because they kind of rule, and learn that tragedy has only recently struck them. if you like good black metal anyway the split is top shelf; I just ordered most of helcaraxe's catalog because they're really good & interesting, a little throwback but not in an annoying way. or maybe I'm softening toward stuff that's a little throwback.

Alan, im in that boat with you too, tho i do love Red now.

reading Phil's Decibel list dissection - didn't realize Phil & I shared purist tendencies/sympathies! (although Siegbran's right: "purist" is an easy way of dismissing valid criticisms, and most "purists" don't hate experimentalism; speaking as a po-faced purist type, what I hate is boring stuff being touted as forward-looking because it has a fucking sitar or super-exciting analog synths!! or sounds like eighties shoegaze only louder or whatever "chocolate in my peanut butter" variant you wanna call "experimental")

...having said that, I think Hymns is a tremendous, tremendous record, outlying what I'd call metal but deserving of a place on the list. (I didn't submit a ballot, I kinda hate ballot-lists/polls as I've said 10000 times)

OTOH Phil Phantom Limb rules over Terrifyer any day & is more metal besides

i like all kinds of things. i like things that adhere strictly to a formula/genre constrictions and stuff that doesn't. if my orphaned land review was unfair to strawmen its only because i am often unfair and often feel the need to blame someone for something that doesn't actually exist. i'm pathological like that.

Ugh, what is Hatebreed doing on the Decibel list?

And am I the only person who thinks Meshuggah's Nothing blows Catch 33 out of the water?

is it wrong to laugh when you see this?
http://i48.tinypic.com/2ni7i8n.jpg

oh man
http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/85/l_51e2f0bf1cc25db9b774305a7f16b6cc.jpg
http://b5.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00636/55/17/636927155_l.jpg

It would be cool to hear some words from ILM legend 'animal' on a day such as this, imo

the inscription and design on that grave is kinda touching, really.

god, now I'm remembering the pantera behind the music. the part where a friend of dimebag's that was onstage during the shooting recalls yelling, "stop killing my friends" is the saddest thing.

tho I did chuckle a bit at the wtc/weed pic

I posted the Photoshop thing on MSN... http://bit.ly/7eCys2

I really do like Reinventing the Steel as an album best out of their whole catalog. Each disc before that had a bunch of solid songs, but that one really works for me as a cohesive unit.

Where did you see the pic first, Phil? I found that one on VLV. Wouldn't be surprised if it was 1st done there as there is a habit of that kinda thing on that forum. No doubt it's been posted on every metal/music board by now.

I grabbed it here, just now.

oh hahaha. I thought you had posted it earlier today.

Objectively I should thing that Dimebag/WTC picture is horribly offensive, but I gotta say its pretty cool. As is the man's grave: outstanding.

RIP to a guy who i truly think was fucking great.

substitute "think" for "thing"

I've browsed through the thread, but any recommendations this year for a metal dilettante who likes stuff like Gojira's The Way Of All Flesh (technical/progressive death metal, I guess)? I see the Mothra and Ulcerate being compared to Gojira. Any others?

If you like Gojira, you'll really enjoy France's Hacride. Their last two albums are superb.

Thanks - I will check them out.

i would heartily recommend the ulcerate album. to me, it shares elements with (bits of) blut aus nord, deathspell omega, gorguts and even, in the klangy, chimey interludes, early sonic youth. it SEETHES, furiously trying to suffocate or strangulate itself, then tolls. i think it's great.

(i am from nz and love heaps of music that's come from there, but i never woulda thought it likely a band from nz would produce a great dm album. i think this one is.)

sounds like something lj would love then

i reckon he should give it a go, yes. and other people too.

i wasnt impressed when i heard it but i do have pretty much zero tolerance for death metal

it is not gonna win anyone over who doesn't like death metal. the vocals are standard low bark, lyrics whatever. it's all about the writhing, claustrophobic instrumental density juxtaposed with the perfectly judged space and pace of the squamous slow breathers

(er. yeah, 'breather' as 'interval, interlude'; i shoulda just said that)

i have that record. i respect it tho it's a little tech-y for me to listen to for long stretches.

Song title of the day, from the new Arsis record: "Half Past Corpse O'Clock"

"arsis uh huh uhuh huh uhuh"
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IiAFcfNAJmA/SqkOCljhPLI/AAAAAAAAA14/wyvsXZBLiHk/s320/bandb.jpg

Ulcerate is definitely working for me on a first listen. And I generally lean heavily towards early 90s DM.

hey writers/reviewers of ilx you might like this
http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/withoutmercy-withoutmercy/

djmartian should read the middle bit especially :)

That was shit

If this dude has been writing about metal for 15 years how has he not noticed that like 80% of press releases are exactly like that one

Dude shouldn't talk about his girlfriend like that in a review. That's no way to maintain a relationship.

Here's a link to part three of my trawl through the Decibel Top 100 list... http://bit.ly/787X19

sound advice

I must say that i am enjoying the hell out of unperson's daily dissection of the Decibel list.

That review posted above is painful, not to mention atrociously written.

And Phil, you really should hear Ludicra...they're good!

They are, but I was a bit disappointed by the new song. Another Weakling throwback was not what I was expecting from these guys (and girls), hopefully the album will have more John Cobbett rifftasticness than this preview.

Listening to three songs from the Charred Walls of the Damned disc - Ripper Owens on vocals, Jason Suecof on guitar, James DiGiorgio on bass and Richard Christy (it's his band) on drums. Power metal, flamboyant and unashamed. Not my thing, but whatever.

xpost - I'm not sure which track Ludicra posted but I've had the new album for many months and it's fantastic. There is one song that is a bit more in the Weakling/WITTR vein so I'm assuming that's the one that you heard? Trust me, there's Cobbett all over this thing. And there's more big news ahead :)