Rolling Metal Thread 2012

I'm not sure if I've noticed many of his other reviews before (I tend to head towards the J Bennett and ilxors' reviews first) but I don't think I could disagree with Chr1s D1ck more on his Conan review in the new Decibel.

Negative? That's a mighty fine doom album if you ask me.

Yeah, it was a 5 out of 10. Don't have it in front of me, but complained mostly that it was really boring and doom-by-numbers, iirc.

Alright, which one of you wrote this?

http://www.examiner.com/article/chick-fil-a-faces-nationwide-boycott-for-intolerance-of-black-metal-supergroup

I would wager that it was Prozak

I don't often agree with Chris, but I've come to enjoy his writing.

I don't think anyone will be surprised to hear that the new Grave album sounds like a Grave album. I still think their first comeback record, Back From the Grave, is the best thing they've done since returning, but none of their subsequent releases have been bad, just predictable. Which is fine. They're probably my favorite of that wave of Swedish bands - I listen to them for pleasure much more often than I listen to Entombed or Dismember.

So I just may possibly get to see Sabbath tomorrow night after all. I know, I know. Don't tell me how much they suck now, this is probably my only chance ever to see them life so I want to take it.

THEY SUCK SO HARD

lol

No, I don't know, maybe they're good again.

I mean, I know Ozzy has been a joke live for years, but getting to see Iommi tear through some of those riffs live? Geezer?

bill? oh wait

lol yeah i almost added "whatever schmuck will be playing drums"

Heaven and Hell were great a few years back, which I think speaks well for the power of Tony and Geezer.

Thanks. Peace out metal thread dudes. Its been real. iatee and his troll cronies have won, i'm getting out of this board before i need to take any more of their bullshit. I'd like to keep in touch with some of you guys though, if you are interested send me an ilxmail.

jon you on fb? webmail or email me if you still have my addy

but dont go.Just post on ilm or something

i have your email, i'll hit you up. its more than a) iatee and his buddies are making up fake quotes about me advocating a race war (supposedly in jest, but i think attributing potentially inflammatory shit to another poster is nagl and bullshit) and b) the mods are joining in and piling on instead of doing anything about it. this place is a fucking haven for trolls.

well i for one am sorry to see you go. you are a good presence on the metal thread and you could just post on this thread (get a new username)

Noooooooooooooooooooooo

i say embrace it. start posting exclusively about how varg was right and isn't Umskiptar totally underrated?

like you do oh master mroll?

i'm not a troll. i'm just very confused.

LOL!!! Mordy!!

Jeez Jon, thicken thy skin brother. At least you don't have black metal hip-hop bands writing death threat raps about you.

Jon as a mod I want to make it clear that I was very much not joining in w/ any of that bullshit and I think you should stay.

Stay Jon or at least send me an email or something. Hope to make it to Chicago one day and say hi.

Terrorizer just put up something on their FB page abt Thurston being on the Twilight album and got this comment which is probably the best thing I'm going to read today

wtf???! so what's next? lady gaga to join Morbid Angel?

here's hoping!

Jedward to join Cannibal Corpse?

there should be a name for the thing where ppl respond to something by saying 'what next?' and then giving an example of something bearing no resemblance to the original thing

that's Richard Littlejohn's thing isn't it?

wtf???! so what's next? jandek going to join Bolt Thrower?

lol

What's next, Lou Reed collaborating with Metallica?

I know that's not remotely funny.

No offense, but anyone who was in the area who had the opportunity to see Black Sabbath at Lolla last night and didn't, is a f***ing retarded azzhat. So I hope you made it Jon, ha ha! My review - http://fastnbulbous.com/sabbath-at-lollapalooza-none-more-black/

wouldn't go for free. don't care if I was missing literally the greatest rock performance of all time. Bill Ward's beats are as essential to those songs as the riffs. they can take what they did to him and shoved it up their moneyed asses. nice writeup though!!

Taylor Momsen joins Cannibal Corpse...

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2fej8iz8n1qc3ni5o1_1280.jpg

what next???

who?

^^^

I can't believe Sabbath played "Under the Sun." Jealous.

Ward's absence wasn't the deal breaker for me. Just too far to go for one show (and I've seen the original lineup before anyway). Badass!

^^^ as did I, on one of the Ozzfests that Sabbath headlined.. they sounded great but I couldn't help but notice some weird stuff going on... like guitars playing while Iommi wasn't.. but nonetheless, the song "Black Sabbath" live was erie as all fuck and was the cornerstone to me looking into more "doomy" stuff..

New Early Graves being mixed now!!!

New Kowloon Walled City being recorded now!!

Only just hearing Stielas Storhett "Expulsé" because his shitty debut six years ago didn't really inspire me to get it, but this is an amazing record! This is a completely different band now, somewhere between the atmospheric/jazzy BM of Shining and the melodic earworms of Katatonia.

Have to admit, that sounds great.

I got to see aero's favorite band Agalloch again last night. I saw them a few years ago but they've improved by leaps and bounds as a live band in the intervening years. "Faustian Echoes" was played in it's entirety and was the centerpiece of their 2-hour set. It was also cool to hear their Sol Invictus cover "Kneel To The Cross" live, with the crowd chanting along to the "Summer is a coming in. Arise! Arise!" intro.

I also have to say local openers Pinkish Black were great.Their synth and drums goth doom sound is overwhelming at high volume. Very cool.

The other band on the bill was Taurus. I was not a fan before seeing them and their show didn't change that at all.

Not sure if Jon is still out there, but if so, he might want to check out the argument where I quit posting on Rolling Metal a half decade ago. Involved the same other poster (who I totally get along with now!), and it is somewhat entertaining in retrospect. (I think this point is where it gets really heated, but if you scroll back several posts, you can view the preliminary jousting as well):

Rolling Metal Thread 2007, Part II

New metal albums I've been liking in recent weeks that I haven't seen mentioned here yet (though maybe I just missed them): Abrahma, Altar Of Oblivion, Kadavar, Eye Of Solitude.

And oh yeah, holy shit, those Coven and Pagan Altar "reissues" of music that barely existed in the first place on Shadow Kingdom (my new favorite label -- they're putting out Altar of Oblivion too. That label likes altars!) Still trying to determine whether those two records (and also the Mekong Delta one, which is all re-recorded songs by a new lineup) should be eligible for any year-end lists/voting I might be lured into. Opinions on the matter welcome.

lol i love that exchange and i think it's a great reminder that arguments about what is and isn't metal can be really compelling even (especially) the raw, hurt kind. it's probably inevitable that genre threads will have splits and breaks about what constitutes that genre. i actually think rolling metal is really good about being inclusive. satan knows we discuss plenty of stuff here (sometimes extensively) that is far from purist metal

And oh yeah, holy shit, those Coven and Pagan Altar "reissues" of music that barely existed in the first place on Shadow Kingdom

Yeah, those are great. That guy really has a good eye/ear for stuff that needs to be reissued. Wish he'd do a little more with liner notes and bonus tracks (when possible), but these days Shadow Kingdom is the only metal label I regularly buy.

BTW anyone else got any 80s heavy/doom/whatever metal bands that mixed death rock or gothic with metal back then? Celtic Frost, Coven, Stillborn...