Rolling Metal Thread 2012

I didn't mean to stir shit up... I always seem to do that on here.

rofl ez

Why does this stuff go down whenever I go away for the weekend? Like, seriously, every single time.

the power is a great manowar song but there's
no doubt they're very silly. Can we work Pantera
and Burzum into this too?

hahaha, goalkeeper otm.

Honestly it was worth it for this by doran

That said I'm fucking mortified when I say I like metal and people presume that means fucking end of the pier, Dame Twanky bullshit like Manowar or WASP

Latest New Metal Album Roundup: 11 mini-reviewed by me, 4 by other people; at least 6 I would actually recommend; 1 or 2 that aren't technically metal but they made sense to include anyway.

http://www.rhapsody.com/blog/2012/06/top-15-metal-albums-june-2012

As always, nice round-up.

I am LOVING this new Grand Magus record. Big sing-along choruses and huge riffs, and a swinging rhythm section are getting me nodding as I type. I wish I had a big fuck you gas guzzling muscle car to drive around in and blast this through the posh neighborhoods of Dallas. It'd be worth sweating in the heat to fist pump out the window.

yeha, its good, man. i want to climb a mountain to it.

Some newish records I'm into at the moment:

- Unisonic's self-titled debut album, which is pretty much exactly what I could have hoped for from a Helloween reunion: lots of melody plus a little more maturity to mute the silliness that sometimes carried both Helloween and Gamma Ray over the top and off a waiting cliff.

- Canary Islands band Jotnar's short but surging introductory EP, which is the kind of thing you might like if you still remember the time when nobody was embarrassed about liking In Flames.

- HIGH AND MIGHTY COLOR's 2009 album Swamp Man, which is the thing you've been looking for if you thought the J-Pop/Metal fusion of Blood Stain Child sounded intriguing in principle, but ended up having too much international trance sheen and not enough J-Pop chirp.

- Azoic's Gateways, which sounds to me a lot like a version of Mitochondrion or DSO with a slightly shorter attention span.

- Maglor's Call of the Forest, which has some of the old Bathory charm of a guy in his garage channeling primeval wildernesses.

Still making up my mind on the ambient-metal-ish records from Desiderii Marginis, Les Fleurs Du Mal, Cold Womb Descent and the shoe gauzy Marriages. And have only listened to the new Ihsahn and Rush once through each, but am looking forward to the second times.

That Unisonic album is great fun. Better than anything Helloween and Gamma Ray have put out in ages.

Heard that Azoic for the 1st time a few weeks ago, good stuff. Grabbed the released version last night (the band have it for free download).

Here's the band-condoned link to the Azoic record: http://www.mediafire.com/?l3zazic2kiolf5c

Manilla Road has just been confirmed for the Noctis Fest in Calgary in September, to go along with Agalloch, Pig Destroyer, Grand Magus, Midnight, Nunslaughter, Black Witchery, and more. I don't believe the headliner's even been announced yet. Amazing.

Swedish redneck stoner metal! http://www.decibelmagazine.com/featured/the-lazarus-pit-roachpowders-viejo-diablo/

Note to promoters who book metal shows, tours and the like.. DO NOT book a metal show in a high end club in San Francisco... It completely ruins the vibe of a show, and it keeps people from the show, more than it invites..

The current Southern Lord tour stopped in SF last night to a lack luster, slimmer than should've been crowd at the Mezzanine; a pretty swanky place, with blazer and ear piece wearing security guards, expensive drinks and an up coming shows calender of hip-hop, reggae and adult contempos that no one has heard of..

But nonetheless, the bands killed it! I missed Enabler, who I really wanted to see cuz its the Fall Out Boy drummer (morbid curiosity), But Burning Love was great, despite the crowd being uninterested..
Martyrdod steam rolled through a blistering set of unrelentless d-beat.. They have no time to talk or even sing songs in English... the Swedes just don't care! and we love em for it!!
Black Breath finally got the crowd going, with a 5-6 man pit in small flurries, fists and horns held high while a small few sang along. They were in top form, though I've seen em do a better song selection. But they still killed it..
Noothgrush headlined this SF stop (I think they do the Santa Cruz stop as well) and our local sludge heros crushed it, and the crowd actually stuck around to soak in their brand of doom!

We like to go to our metal in the bay area in crusty places; if we touch something we are not gonna feel uncomfortable about it getting it dirty. It was like going to your aunts house, that married the rich guy with the big house, and you can't touch ANYTHING without the riot act..

Kinda late on this, but I finally got my copy of Cauldron of the Wild and they are absolutely killing it. What a superb album. And I would even say that if a certain somebody wasn't reading this thread. :)

Ha ha! I have been name checked once more in Decibel for my love of the girly medal (this time in the Call & Response section).

Girly METAL.

Speaking of basically the opposite of that, new Master record is fun in the exact same way that the new Black Breath and Asphyx records are.

That Noctis Fest lineup is rather good. Wish there were cheap flights.

Another fun lazarus pit J3ff. And I have definitely never heard of Roachpowder before.

Also, Scorpions tonight! Playing the Staples Center, which is a way bigger venue than the one in which I saw them 10 years ago.

Nice! I looked at going but tickets were way more than I wanted to spend on Scorpions, as much as I love them.

glad Jeff is being awarded the Girly Medal as he deserves it

Friend offered me a free ticket, not going to turn that down.

I'd go for free too!

Death to All show tomorrow night. I'm going, but more for curiosity's sake. How do the big Death fans on here feel about that tour?

Death to it one assumes

I think its a great tour... you get to hear the tunes by some of the guys that played em, and its for charity.. pretty cool.

I haven't heard the new Lita Ford album yet, but I was thrilled to read in her Decibel interview that the utterly miserable "Wicked Wonderland" was basically made without her involvement.

Also, I'm liking the new Deathspell Omega EP, and really liking the funeral/ambient whoosh and wash of Ankhagram, even though it turns out not to be a King Tut-themed side project from HIM...

I think I've got Roachpowder's two albums on my hard drive somewhere. They were pretty good.

Looks like I'm gonna miss Iron Maiden on this tour; deeply bummed.

How good are Death Angel these days? Thinking of going to their london gig next thursday.

This thursda actually. Apparently they're playing The Ultra-Violence in its entirety.

Balls, if I wasn't already doing something else on Thursday I might have gone to that.

I have never regretted seeing Death Angel.

Meanwhile, Death to All was fantastic. If it hasn't sold out near you, I highly recommend going.

I noticed that the band was made up of later-period Death members. Did they play stuff off the early albums too?

They covered the entire history of the band. And let's face it, those later members are generally better musicians than the early members – it's not like Gene Hoglan or Sean Reinert can't nail the drum parts from Scream Bloody Gore. Also, they have Charles Elliott from Abysmal Dawn on vocals/guitars, who opened for Death on the Live in LA show with his previous band and absolutely worships Death, and Matt Harvey from Exhumed stepping in for the dude from Obscura (who couldn't get a visa). Both those guys are consummate professionals and extremely respectful of the material and the legacy.

Oh man, I wish I lived within 100 miles of anywhere where these shows were going down.

Move.

Dallas venue is saying the date here is postponed. :/

Yeah, apparently the show wasn't selling too well. Way to go, Dallas.

it was at House of Blues, which though nice is overpriced and not the usual venue for any of the metal shows (though the Cannibal Corpse show is going to be there). It's mainly crap like midget wrestling, cover bands, and Darius Rucker.

midget wrestling, cover bands, and Darius Rucker

Put all that on one bill and I'm in.

That would be quite the show.

New Baroness is goooooooooood.

I liked the first two songs I heard but "Eula" actively annoyed me. But liking two songs is a huge step forward for me and Baroness.

Death Angel live is better now than they were back in the day, and they were awesome back in the day. I've been watching that band for a looong time, and I'm friends with their singer. Mark's voice sounds stronger and better than ever, and he can out scream anyone.. The white guys that have joined the band are helping that band play very very tight, but mostly I credit this to Will Carrol..

Andy Galeon is a fucking monster drummer.. chops for days, very creative, and always doing new stuff.. With that said, it kept the band on their toes night after night, cuz he would always play it different. Some of that uniqueness is lost now, but its helped the band overall kinda straighten up, and not be so quarky.

However, Will has been playing the songs like he knows em from the recordings.. he plays em the same way, every night. That consistency is helping the band to know exactly what to expect, thus they can play tighter, and put on a better, tighter played show.

Also, eventhough they are an old school band, while the bands back in the day were in their early to late 20s, those fucker were in their late teens!! they are younger than their contempos, thus they go a little harder live cuz they still have some youth on their side; early 40s vs dudes in their late 40s early 50s..

Anyway, thats my Death Angel analysis... Go see em! they're killing it!!

I'm listening to the new Fear Factory, and liking it a lot, but all I've been thinking through the entire record is "thank GOD they didn't go dubstep, because that seems like exactly the sort of thing they would do."

Metallica will probably do that.

glenn said "I haven't heard the new Lita Ford album yet, but I was thrilled to read in her Decibel interview that the utterly miserable "Wicked Wonderland" was basically made without her involvement." and inspired me to see if the interview was online, and Jeebus, what the spammers have done to Decibel's website is terrifying. The content is all like,

I’ve been Premarin shipped by cash on delivery listening to the new album. It feels like a throwback to Premarin shipped by cash on delivery when you were playing back in the ’80s. I felt like I was back in that time. It’s really fun; really good rock.

Lita: I think people miss that Premarin shipped by cash on delivery time, and people miss that era. And I think a lot of artists now are Premarin shipped by cash on delivery trying not to sound like that, when I think people want that. Deep down in their heart, it’s like they want to Premarin shipped by cash on delivery hear those riffs and they want to hear those old leads and Premarin shipped by cash on delivery the arena choruses. It was one of the best times in the Premarin shipped by cash on delivery music industry, to me. I just feel like this album that Premarin shipped by cash on delivery I did, Living Like a Runaway, it’s all real. There’s nothing fabricated about this Premarin shipped by cash on delivery record. We just did what we wanted to do. We didn’t try to sound like anybody or try not to sound like anybody. It’s not like, “We can’t play that, because that’s too ’80s.” I thought, you know what, it’s real; it’s what’s coming out. It’s got to be right.

Wow. I don't see any of that stuff when I look at the site in Safari right now, but I can see it in the Google snippets, and Google has the site marked as "This site may be compromised." Hopefully that means it's already been fixed, and the Google crawlers just haven't come by to pick up the fixed content yet...