Rolling Metal Thread 2009

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.

Well, if it's any consolation, the Master Of Reality book is supposed to be amazing.

It's highly entertaining and very well written. But don't expect to learn anything about Black Sabbath from it. Even basic facts are distorted (the narrator assumes Ozzy is the lyricist...).

Well, in the mid-80s, didn't all us metal kids think Ozzy wrote all his lyrics? Of course, we know better now.

Well, if it's any consolation, the Master Of Reality book is supposed to be amazing.

It is!!!!! For goodness sake, get it at once. I like what Matos said, John's book deserves a place alongside The Catcher in the Rye.

The Slayer book delivers what it promises, but parts bugged me. Like how he places more emphasis on the album's hardcore crossover success than the actual impact on the metal community.

It's weird you have trouble finding the 33 1/3series, Sean, we have an oustanding indie bookstore chain out west that is always on top of everythnig Contiuum puts out. And they stock Decibel!

Re: Metal Blade, I think that's only a Canada thing as I haven't received anything today except an offer to download the new Cattle Decapitation record. And Outburn sent me a physical copy of the new Destroy Destroy Destroy for review. Unfortunately the packaging isn't nearly as entertaining as Devour the Power's ( though the album is better).

so uh

GAAHL CAME OUT OF THE CLOSET?!?!?!?!?!!

I think sexual orientation has very little to do with why I do not want to be trapped in a closet with Gaahl.

But, you know, cue the Sodom and Gomorgoroth puns anyway...

it's in the new terrorizer

why must he be paired with dani filth for an interview at this, his most cred time in history

(never mind, we all know why: TERRORIZER-SPONSORED DOUBLE BILL)

Coming out of the closet is pretty black metal!

i think it's pretty tough and awesome of him

he's always been in my top 3 bm dudes

would definitively NOT kick it with, though

There is nothing more satanic than gay sex!

I BROKE THE GAAHL STORY IN ROLLING METAL 2008

nobody ever listens to me, i might as well be leonard cohen record.

no, wait, it was the gorgoroth c or d thread.

yeah, i saw it on there today!

fig'd it wasn't NEWS news as terrorizer were like "so, how are ppl reacting to your gayness"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jan/02/saxon-rock-music

I missed Saxon supporting Motörhead last month, irritatingly -- got there just as they were finishing. No idea whether I'd have enjoyed them, but I think seeing Saxon is something everyone should strive to do at least once in life.

just like everyone needs to vote in the ilx metal poll once in their life ;)

Ah, dude, genre polls: not for me. I'll vote in the main one but that's all. Sorry.

(Also: I didn't listen to nearly enough metal last year anyway, so it'd be a skewed vote.)

heh there's 267 albums nominated. I bet you've heard a good few of them.

Great NWOBHM article. That new (27th?! I make it 20th, but whatever) Saxon album is also pretty good, which I find kind of alarming as I hadn't paid any attention to them since loving Strong Arm of the Law in 1980.

I locked my 2008 lists at the end of the year, but have already found one 2008 metal album since then that probably would have made it: Monuments by Brave. DC indie progressive-metal (in the song-oriented sense, not the 18-minute wank-out sense) band with a very good female singer. It's on the 2008 poll-list, so somebody noticed it while it was still current.

Oh glenn just make an exception for my poll please :) Help me out here. If everyone votes I wont need to bug everyone and roxy will be happier if i stop. :)

You meant "grimly", not "glenn". I already voted!

haha so you did

but yeah the more votes i receive the happier roxy can be. do it for roxy!

One or 2 people couldnt skew the vote anyway simon, so dont worry.

I have a few mates who still go see saxon. I know one guy who even ran the scottish fanclub.

I locked my 2008 lists at the end of the year, but have already found one 2008 metal album since then that probably would have made it: Monuments by Brave. DC indie progressive-metal (in the song-oriented sense, not the 18-minute wank-out sense) band with a very good female singer.

There's an album I didn't investigate soon enough. She's one of the more tasteful female metal singers you'll ever come across, and the songwriting is strong, in a restrained, Mandylion kind of way. Plus the electric violin is kinda cool.

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