Rolling Metal Thread 2012

you have time to listen to it and vote for it along with lulu and 8 others markers.

as does rockapads if he finds his way here

i listened to so little new metal last year -- i couldn't vote

i thought the same but in the end there were at least 20 metal albums i was able to vote for

they accumulate

and you have til sunday to listen to the spotify playlist and vote

As Adrien mentioned above, the Christian Mistress is great. No curveballs thrown, just more of exactly what they do so well.

Yeah, no real changes, just better produced. "Haunted Hunted" is the one track I keep going back to.

Meanwhile the Wizard Rifle album is a total, indescribable blast.

Wow, the Guardian is embracing metal at the moment:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jan/12/voivod-to-the-death-demo-metal

Quite agree that this group of nobodies has done nothing for contemporary pop music

need to hear the new Christian Mistress

the show I was doing for them in March has apparently been pulled as they're re-routing their tour :(

as no-one's mentioned the awesome Loincloth album yet I hereby break my normal habit and link to my own review of it http://drownedinsound.com/releases/16730/reviews/4144319

Sunday morning new-download audition results: Lyra and I concur that Revilement and Saturnian Mist are, as she put it, "a little bit terrible", although she was into Saturnian Mist until the guy started shouting. Lacuna Coil survived for later listening in its entirety, although "Losing My Religion" didn't impress us much (but it got me trying to explain the concept of losing your religion to a 4.5-year-old when we'd had only half a cup of coffee between us, so that's something). She wasn't much into Syven, but I was. We both provisionally endorse Cardamon, although I'm not as sure as L is that her mother would like them, too.

That concludes the metal portion, as we also have to catch up on the last two Simple Minds albums, as I've discover I forgot about them...

Hey, vote in the damn poll if you haven't already. Phil, Chuck, JD, everybody. What other poll gives you 50 votes?

they didn't but they're all welcome to comment on the albums here
THE ILM METAL POLL 2011 RESULTS (All lurkers/non metalheads welcome to join in!)

hope everyone comes and joins the fun. Everyones welcome to discuss the albums.

only listened to the first first songs in the car so far but on the basis of those first few, fucking A this new one by RAM is tremendous! It sounds kinda like earlier Judas Priest crossed something more proggy - not epic prog just sorta spacey structures - fucking great so far

Okay - immediately on the "Need to listen" list. Thanks!

TRACKLIST
1 Death...
2 ...Comes from the Mouth Beyond

sold!

Hmm, this new Lacuna Coil isn't bad. Some of the songs still have their trademark random-note-progression "melody"-writing style, but at least a few seemed genuinely catchy to me on first listen, like they used to!

But then, you can download the Cardamon album, Sun as Never, from their website for free.

http://www.cardamon.nl/cardamon/Sun_as_Never.html

The Lacuna Coil is better than the last album for sure. But wow, is that Linkin Park-ification of "Losing my Religion" ever awful. It's always neat to see European metal bands unironically cover mainstream pop tunes, something American bands would never do, but they often do it so straight-faced and by the book that they lose all nuance.

This means nothing to me...

aah, vienna!

See, that's a pretty cool cover.

I'm loving the new Woods of Ypres record, and it makes me angry that this is the last work we'll have from David Gold.

Best record out of the four 2012 releases I've heard thus far.

I love the album, it's so much more cohesive than Woods IV, which was pretty great in its own right. David's lyrics could be corny as hell, but they had a way of getting to me, and some of the sadder songs here pack a bigger punch now unfortunately.

I'm trying to see if I can post the full unexpurgated interview I did in December at MSN. It just might have been his last, and it's pretty revealing.

I'd love to read it so I hope you get the right permissions to make it happen.

It'll either go up at MSN or Terrorizer. I'm sort of waiting for the Terrorizer issue to come out, just to be polite.

Saw Thou, The Body and Kowloon Walled City last night... epic heavy destruction.
Still can't figure out what the hell the guitarist/singer from The Body was playing through but it rattled my bowels a bit it was so low and thick...

sean is back! (you didnt vote in the poll you swine!)

xp that's a sweet show man

yeah, I've been out of the loop, yo..I'm weak.. lol!
I would've voted Trap Them, Weekend Nachos, Battalis, Rotten Sound, Will Haven, Rwake, Cave In, Lantlos, Deafheaven, Wolves in the Throne Room for my top 10 of the year..

trap them record is fabulous

Batillus.. I meant.
See, out of it! lol

^ didn't vote either did you?
xp

no i don't listen to enough metal to feel good about submitting a ballot

but i will be watching the results

I'm really dissapointed its so low on the list.. I was litening to other stuff this year and nothing had the fire that that had IMO

oh well make sure you guys post on the thread and give your comments (i think the poll haters on this thread dont want their sanctuary ruined)

xp yeah i'm a sucker for hardcore-influenced metal to begin with and i thought they really nailed the good points of that sound

wrod.. I got a real soft spot for that too, its just a better hybrid of stuff.. you get that raw rooted DIY in your face attitude with good metal riffing and hardcore fury.. its perfect!! lol!

and Chris Maggio from Coliseum joining Trap Them is fucking epic... he definitly breathed new life into that already crushing band

Speaking of hardcore influenced metal, going to be checking out the album from St. Louis' Everything Went Black later tonight. Press says influences like Black Flag and Entombed, which means it could be fantastic or swing very much in the opposite direction.

hmm... sounds good, or maybe not. lol!

Everything Went Black sound fine, pretty much straight down the middle dirty hardcore a la Trap Them or Cursed. I like that sound, but I think it's hitting the point where they need to start doing something new/interesting with it.

oh you just namechecked cursed, now i need to check out e.w.b.

Yeah, EWB's okay. But with a new Black Breath album coming soon, it's going to be overshadowed pretty quickly.

Good news, love Black Breath!

I can't wait for the new Black Breath...

Why did I think Lantlos was Mexican? WHY? LOL!

What do you guys think of Sam Dunn's series, Metal Evolution?

I think it's very well done. Every metal fan will have their own gripes with what was left out, but Dunn's doing a great job offering a good, lucid history of metal for neophytes. Except for the unironic phonetic pronunciation of NWOBHM, his constant "nawobbum"-ing cracked me up.

Hope this comes out on DVD!

I agree.. He's adoing a pretty good job. There is never gonna be an absolute stardard to where bands fit into the different sub genres, and there a few things here and there that made me go, huh?.. but for the most part its done pretty damn well. I've liked all his docs actually..

The only thing that really got me in a twist was in the Thrash episode, he goes to Soundwave Studios where at the time of that taping, Death Angel, Exodus, Testament and Skinlab were all rehearsing there and he talks about how it was a place he wanted to visit cuz of the history of these bands all reheasing there over the years.. When they show the building it has a caption of San Francisco, but Soundwave is in OAkland. For whatever reason I was like, you fucking dumming! lol!

I know in the history of thrash the SF bay are is super important,(I've seen with my own eyes living here all my life) but very few members of any of those bands ever lived in SF.. nit picky on my part, but whatevs! lol!