Rolling Metal Thread 2012

Most people at those "Faires" don't want to hear screaming guitar.

It's a nice idea but metal is still a scary ghetto. Even to LARPers.

But you should definitely go see the Primordial / While Heaven Wept / Cormorant tour! ;)

Oh, good. Neurosis are gonna release another morose, overlong, boring-ass album every metal mag/site will jizz in their pants over.

Shouldn't you include some derogatory clarifying adjective about the pants?

I dunno... I saw a lot of folk wearing metal bands. I cannot help but think a lot of them would dig the Pagan Metal stuff if they just got exposed to it... Also, RenFaires are fucking huge. It wouldn't be difficult to put the bands in a place that other attendees could escape if they were so inclined. (Maybe some of them are small; the ones I have attended in Pennsylvania and Maryland are huge.)

Despite Evoken and Ea both having new albums, my favorite funeral doom records of the year so far are Ankhagram's Thoughts and now Tempestuous Fall's The Stars Would Not Awake You.

I was also just listening to the new Thormesis album again, and whatever you call this Germanic anthemic/cathartic pagan/black metal thing, like Agrypnie does, Thormesis also do it really, really well.

Just downloaded new Cryptopsy self-titled. According to the press release, "The band has said that Cryptopsy will be their most brutal, technical and dynamic offering as of yet." I am skeptical.

Yeah, they've always been good for the first two of those adjectives, the third one not so much.

Gonna download the new Witchcraft and Bullet albums tonight.

I like the Cryptopsy album. It's not a classic, but it's a huge improvement over The Unspoken King. Having Levasseur back on guitar has clearly made a big difference.

The Witchcraft is great, but despite a few good tracks the Bullet album feels a little tepid in places.

Oh, good. Neurosis are gonna release another morose, overlong, boring-ass album every metal mag/site will jizz in their pants over.

There are a shit tone of bands that wouldn't exist without Neurosis.. I, for one. are fucking stoked for a new record from them.. There is nothing boring about them. It took 15 years or so for bands to catch up to what they've been doing for almost 30...

In fact, I think you might be the first person I ever read not like them... Whats wrong with you?

its like not liking breathing.. Their integrity alone is that of legendary prowess. Not too many bands are daring enough to push themselves into genre defying waters over and over again. No two records are alike, minus the first two. And the song writing is very smart, both musically and lyrically.. The only people I've ran into that don't like em are usually the ones thatwere with wem in the very very early years, and are crusty hardcore punks that couldn't change with the band as they grew and morphed..

They are my all-time favorite band, and really can do no wrong in my eyes..

A metal band would have to have a very very heavy Hobbit sound to do the Renn Faires

I saw Neurosis in '89 on the Pain of Mind tour. And I've seen them pretty much every tour since. But I haven't gotten excited about any of their new albums since Times of Grace.

Well I'm very much looking forward to a new Neurosis.. Given to the Rising came out in '07.. its been too long!!

Yeah I guess you can hold Neurosis directly responsible for even more mind-numbingly tedious bands like Tool, Mastodon, Isis, Jesu, Boris, Meshuggah etc - these guys sure have a lot more to answer for than just their own records.

I'm not a much of a fan, really.

They always fucking bring it live though. Though sustaining a whole performance generally requires a brownie or other tranquilizer.

In fact, I think you might be the first person I ever read not like them

plenty of people don't like Neurosis dude. not everyone is as desperate to let you know about it though

Siegbran I was more or less with you until you went in on Meshuggah

I agree that Neurosis are important and influential, but I don't actually like listening to them, either.

I'm on a minor quest for a band that combines metal and dubstep well. Anybody got any suggestions? The closest I've come so far is The Algorithm.

Was totally not expecting Witchcraft to a) get super-heavy all of a sudden, and b) get super-political all of a sudden. There are some catchy songs on the new album, but their abandonment of the occult in favor of yammering about leaders deceiving the people is gonna take some getting used to.

first google result for 'the algorithm band' brings up an entry on something called got-djent.com so I suspect we might be singing from different hymn sheets on this one

I was gonna suggest JK Flesh or Necro Deathmort although I don't really think there's a satisfactory answer. the Curse Of The Golden Vampire album that Ipecac put out predates dubstep as a widely-used term (plus I haven't listened to it in years) but might have some of the signifiers you want

The Algorithm: http://soundcloud.com/the-algorithm/. "Isometry 1.1" is the song I mean.

http://www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/image001.jpeg

haha

Baroness in a bus crash. Sounds like everyone's okay.

http://www.itv.com/news/west/update/2012-08-15/american-bands-tour-bus-crashes-in-bath/?post_id=775125456_370378303030284#_=_

Doesn't sound like the driver is okay at all. Looking at the picture on sky news, it looks like the bus landed on its front:

http://news.sky.com/story/972859/coach-falls-from-viaduct-passengers-freed

apparently no life-threatening injuries is prob the major thing to note right now re: this

Baffling why they were coming down there, would make no sense whatsoever from Bristol last night. The only logical explanation is that they'd gone to the American Museum on Claverton Down on the way to Soton?

Oh, I didn't notice the news about the driver. That sucks.

shit neither did I

"life-changing injuries" is... not a turn of phrase I'm familiar with seeing in news reports

Wasn't someone on here looking for dubstep metal recently? Just got a promo for a band called Beyond All Recognition, whose debut album Drop=Dead apparently "creates the perfect fusion between Metalcore and Dub Step with an end result of a sound-landscape that has never been heard before." I suspect there is a reason that said sound-landscape has never been heard before – and it is because that sounds like the worst thing ever – but there you go.

And apparently by "recently" I mean "earlier today."

Brassknocker Hill...

I said "metal" and "well", which I would tend to think excludes metalcore, but I'll check them out.

<blockquote>I'm on a minor quest for a band that combines metal and dubstep well. Anybody got any suggestions? The closest I've come so far is The Algorithm.</blockquote>

This makes me think of Blind Idiot God, although B.I.G. is a band that I think is metal-fan-friendly without really being metal, and the dub tracks are much less metally than the, uh, metally tracks.

I could only find two earlier songs from Beyond All Recognition, but those were terrible and contained no appreciable dubstep.

Re Blind Idiot God: dubstep, not dub. I want metal + Nero, not metal + reggae!

Paging SeanWayne.

http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2012/08/grow-sound-tree/massive-metal-vinyl-collection-acquired-by-amoeba-sf-hits-the-shelves-this-weekend-.html

60s psychedelic Satan worship! Not metal at all, but screw it: http://www.decibelmagazine.com/featured/the-lazarus-pit-covens-witchcraft-destroys-minds-and-reaps-souls/

Also: holy crap, new Devin Townsend Project.

'Epicloud' is fantastic, no?

http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2012/08/grow-sound-tree/massive-metal-vinyl-collection-acquired-by-amoeba-sf-hits-the-shelves-this-weekend-.html

oh my fucking God

Unfreakingreal.

Holy crap, that collection.

Dude, I just want to bask in "Hold on" from Epicloud for, like, hours.

that is really, really cool.

that shit has been making the rounds too around here.. its gonna get picked clean before I can get out there..

Iron Maiden were great last night. Last chance to see them on this tour is tonight in Houston.

I bought the Texas themed tour shirt, because I've never lived anywhere that a band would take the effort to customize merch for, and because I thought it was great:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5fdgnuUn2qw/UCwQ7K4n7II/AAAAAAAAEpo/yem1tLUhoGI/s1600/iron+maiden+texas+tshirt.jpg

wow yeah. if they made a shirt like that for TN i would die

The Canadian shirt was crazy good this time around. It had sold out before I had a chance to get it.

http://i45.tinypic.com/rit9xd.jpg

They did a great job with tour tees this time around, though I like the Canada and Texas ones more than California, New York and Chicago.

OK, I don't know which band I was confusing with Within Temptation, but they weren't this good. Pretty sure if I'd heard The Unforgiving last year it would have made it onto my best-of-the-year list somewhere. Although thematically it kind of fits better with my amazing gothic/symphonic 2012, anyway.