Rolling Metal Thread 2012

Here's something for the eurodoom folks: http://www.decibelmagazine.com/featured/the-lazarus-pit-decoryahs-wisdom-floats/

currrrrrse

Almost disappointed to say that 2 Grim Family wrote to make sure I was taking their song as a joke. I was.

Posers. If shit was real, you'd be cursed.

agalloch show was awesome and 2+ hrs long and i also really liked taurus! great screaming, perfect tempo for grading papers (this is a compliment). i also saw ilx user stormy davis there and did not see blackironprison or nate, both of whom i have seen at the previous two chicago agalloch shows. did buy faustian echoes, love it.

the end.

Did they have any good T-shirts?

New Pig Destroyer obliterates much swine.

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Exciting news!

It's weird to me how, like, next level grind doesn't seem that different from regular grind on the surface, but you can totally tell when it is.

Just announced my very limited seven date US run for Primordial, While Heaven Wept, and Cormorant.

If you're lucky enough to make it to the show in Charlotte, NC, this tour cross paths to combine with the Vektor trip.

See some of you on the east coast in September :)

9/7 - Chicago @ Reggie's
9/8 - Cleveland @ Beachland Ballroom
9/9 - Rochester @ Water Street
9/10 - Brooklyn @ Saint Vitus
9/11 - Philadelpia @ Kung Fu Necktie
9/12 - Springfield, VA @ Empire
9/13 - Charlotte, NC @ Tremont Music Hall

Also announced YOB and Vektor tours. But I hate to clog the ILX arteries with long shows lists that can be easily googled or found on www.nanotear.com

ooooh primordial!!

I am probably the only person who is bummed that Primordial is happening the same day Bob Mould is in town doing "Copper Blue."

July metal roundup -- 9 reviews by me, 6 by other folks; hard rock vs. heavy metal B.S. in intro

http://www.rhapsody.com/blog/2012/07/top-15-metal-albums-july-2012

13-15 yikes

Ha ha, well it was a slow month. (And I didn't realize Rhapsody had the Ulver album until after I put that thing together.)

I probably should've just limited it to 10 records, but I kind of liked what I wrote about those P.O.D. and Marilyn Manson things, so what the heck. (Also can't swear I don't personally find those more tolerable than Gojira or Deathspell Omega, to be honest. But at least I didn't put them higher on the list.)

It's all part of the job. And as long as you're honest... ;)

Although Manson's schtick has been tired for years, I actually found that new one to be his most tolerable in a long, long time.

So some of Marty Friedman solo records from Japan that were never released in the US are getting reissued over here. I'm beginning to think that Future Addict, at the very least, was never released because it consists partly of laughably terrible emo-core covers of Megadeth album tracks.

But hey, if you want to hear someone even whinier then Dave Mustaine on a nu-metal cover of "Tornado of Souls," here's your chance.

HI Metal Dudes

2 Things:

1) This documentary on Jason Becker, 80s metal guitar whiz who suffers from ALS/Lou Gehrig's Disease, looks real emotional. I had a friend who died of ALS and it's a heartbreaking disease, I'd imagine doubly so for a musician:

http://www.jasonbeckermovie.com/

2) Um...so anyway I was in some Youtube link hole and uh...so...like there's this band called Nightwish and what in the fuck is this? Could you provide some context? is this a scene? oh lord pac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g8ykQLYnX0

What's with everyone discovering Nightwish in the past couple days? To answer your questions: They are a Finnish opera metal band from the late 90s. They used to have an amazing opera singer on vocals, but then they fired her and got a chicken-dancing pop singer who isn't nearly as good. It is a scene, yes; there's a whole bunch of stuff that sounds like this, some of which I cover in a column for decibel. And it is awesome.

i dunno! i'm totally random i was just looking at a video for the band Nile on youtube and this was one of the sidelinks and i clicked it randomly.

anyway thx for the info :)

false metal poseur out.

If you're interested in exploring their back catalog, I would start with Wishmaster.

RIYL Nightwish: Epica, Within Temptation, Sirenia, Leaves Eyes, Tarja (their original singer's solo project)

1) Nightwish is one of the best power metal bands ever but that's post-Tarja. Tarja is/was a singer of incredible talent and power; her replacement...is not. Will rep for the guitarists power riffs any day though

2)

If you're lucky enough to make it to the show in Charlotte, NC, this tour cross paths to combine with the Vektor trip.

3) still listening to that Nightwish YouTube (not watching it though), that is still awesome ppl who do not love Nightwish are unkvlt forever

4) but the best metal album I've heard in a LONG time is the Jess & the Ancient Ones album holy FUCK is it awesome

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What's with everyone discovering Nightwish in the past couple days?

Are you touring with them?

Also, new Enslaved is pretty alright.

RIYL Nightwish: Lyriel. I love their new album.

Are you touring with them?

if they get back w/Tarja we can talk otherwise I am #teamEpica

Super excited for new Enslaved. As for now, I'm really loving the new Old Man Gloom. I've always kinda appreciated those dudes more than I loved them, but the new album hits all my sweet spots. Its a nice balance between the chunk hardcore riffs and some more dissonant, noisy bits. Plus there's a ballad!

Nightwish is definitely different without Tarja. Not always worse ("Amaranth" may be my favorite song of theirs), but not always better. Epica, Xandria, Lyriel and Shear all also have worthwhile new albums in some variation on this style.

ok i am scanning through mordys metal spotify list and HOLY SHIT this woods of ypres is the fucking shit

Hope you like it, dude is dead so you aren't getting any more of it. I guess unless you go listen to the previous four albums.

Oh goddamnit I forgot about that. Fuck that sucks.

Well, now you've been reminded in the coldest, most inhumane phrasing I could have possibly come up with. Good job me.

This has been doing the rounds of the Internet, and it's pretty god damn awesome:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7toiemgV71ru05e5o1_500.jpg

long time lurker, first time poster.

Just wanted to say that I'm loving that Maiden pic.

you posted a month ago rocky.

i saw san francisco's PRIZE HOG tonight and they were fucking sick

especially the drummer

oceanborn and wishmaster are totally monumental records

ha umm I had something to do with it but it's a secret more will be revealed!!!1!

i have no idea what this means but i'm psyched anyway!

http://media.classicrockmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/benante.jpg

Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante and his wife spent a night in jail following a violent incident in a hotel, reports say.

The pair were arrested at the Hilton Garden Inn in Elkhart, Indiana, on Friday night, charged with domestic battery in front of a child, reports WSBT.

They were released from Elkhart County Jail last night (Saturday) but no other details have been made available.

The musician, 49, has been forced to miss the current leg of his band’s US tour due to a hand injury. He’s been replaced by Jason Bittner of Shadows Fall.

Classic Rock Magazine

I guess he hurt his hand on his wife's face...

What is this "in front of a child" bullshit? Is that an extra charge now, like the anti-abortion "fetal pain" laws right-wing fucknozzles keep trying to pass?

yes

it's psychologically very very very bad for children to see domestic violence

He always seemed like the classiest member of Anthrax, too – in comparison to Scott Ian, anyway. Shame.

What is this "in front of a child" bullshit? Is that an extra charge now, like the anti-abortion "fetal pain" laws right-wing fucknozzles keep trying to pass?

It's an extra charge, but it's not a bullshit extra charge. Children who witness domestic violence get pretty fucked up & it takes years of work to undo the damage. I understand the reflexive urge to say "oh what is this A CHILD bullshit you fundie fucks," but this is not related to "fetal pain" laws (which are horrendous, and unconstitutional besides). This is a good law; if in the course of fucking up your marriage you go the extra mile and damage your child, society has a vested interest in holding you accountable

imo

well i mean don't those kids have a higher change of going on to become involved in those relationship in the future (either as abused or abuser)

that ends up costing the state a lot of money down the line