Rolling Metal Thread 2012

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.

The California shirts always suck, at least when I've seen them. That Canada one is awesome, though.

This year's California shirt isn't bad, but it's no Canada:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AdTk41PM7Pk/UCWNvXnpBPI/AAAAAAAAEfc/QFDAQQJLWMY/s1600/iron+maiden+tshirt+california+irvine+golden+gate.jpg

If there's no hamster then Jeff is not interested. You should know that by now.

Ha ha, that California one is WAY better than the last one I saw, which was trying to do a riff on the LA Dodgers logo and ended up just looking kind of bland.

man it would be so cool to do the kind of merch numbers that enabled you to do something this cool, and then to follow through and actually do it

If only every band could be Iron Maiden.

No, seriously. I would be okay with that.

well, at $40 a pop it makes the numbers a little easier to hit.

Yeah, that's why I never buy shirts at big shows. Got a totally rad, Power of the Riff-exclusive Ancestors shirt at said show last week for 12 bucks.

If I'm only gonna see a band every 25 years I don't mind the occasional overpriced bit of kit.

Yeah, Iron Maiden probably won't be as good live in 2037, anyway.

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.

that cover is so bad

well, at $40 a pop it makes the numbers a little easier to hit.

no no - just the volume. to justify the expense of all these diff designs & print runs you have to be sure that you can sell as many as you print & sell through every night. Maiden, having been touring forever, pretty much knows how many they're going to sell in any given city, and evidently somebody did some math and said "if we had a different one for each city here's how much extra that would cost & here's what we'd get total" and they were able to say "that works for us" which means they get to do something different & cool with their merch. Most bands would get this idea and then go "what is the worst-case scenario?" and the math they'd do would be "and then we lose 60k minimum"

ahahaha yes

There are only two bands where I say "the hell with it" and indulge in a little overpriced merch: Maiden, and Rush.

Got the new Nachtmystium in the mail. Anyone heard the new Converge yet? I wanted to pre-order it from Deathwish but it's sold out already. Must've had some fancy versions for pre-order.

even eddie looks bored on that california shirt

After re-listening to the earlier Within Temptation albums, I feel better. I didn't misremember, I just didn't like them very much. But this one is great. According to Wikipedia it got only 1 star from Q, calling WT "the metal T'Pau". But I loved T'Pau, and a metal version seems like a perfectly awesome idea to me,