Rolling Metal Thread 2012

i'm still waiting for my copy!! i guess i have the download but i prob won't listen to it until i get the cd.

but i was listening to old krallice recently and it ruled

Primordial is one of the best live bands I've had the pleasure to see/work with. Alan is such a commanding front man. I'm on tour with a head cold and still can't take my eyes & ears off these guys. Doesn't hurt one bit that we have Billy Anderson doing live sound on this trip either...

Well, Monte Conner signed Suicide Silence...just not to Roadrunner.

Hey, you guys dodged a bullet there.

I don't know - they could have been a moneymaker for us, I think. They'd never go platinum or anything, but with proper promotion, they could double their current sales.

they would still be shit

Yeah, Suicide Silence will make Nuclear Blast money. They'll be making an ungodly din while doing so, but many units & shirts will be sold.

think of the kids you've saved from hearing such shite by not giving them promotion to double their sales! You saved them!

Just sat in a meeting with Robb Flynn and Machine Head management. Exciting news coming from them - and no, I don't mean the tour that was announced today.

As I Lay Dying: good book.

Oooh, can't wait to hear – love me some Machine Head, even if my interview with Mr. Flynn was one of the more awkward ones I've conducted.

Yeah I'm still waiting for my Krallice CD too. I keep forgetting to dump the digital version on my iPod, so I've still yet to hear it.

You sat with one Joseph Huston? I know that dude very well..

I am sure all of you heard the sad news that Hydrahead Records is closing shop?

I just saw. Terrible.

Anyone else order the Krallice vinyl or CD from their bandcamp? Have you gotten it yet?

i got my cd two days ago actually

ok, they're out there then. just wondered.

yep, straight outta nick mcmaster's apartment

On first listen, that new Krallice sounds pretty great but that singer is still shit and they also seem to still use seemingly randomized songwriting.

which singer?

I did a brief rundown on albums by Castle, Hexvessel, Graviators, Serpentine Path, Svölk and Hooded Menace
http://fastnbulbous.com/this-weeks-album-rundown/

Pop Matters did a nice catchup of 20 releases that they hadn't covered yet, and perked my interest in several things I hadn't heard yet, like Furze, Necrovation and Soen.
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/162655-mixturam-metallum/

Pallbearer and Royal Thunder are tonight at Beat Kitchen, Chicago! Anyone going PM me!

Oh I missed that the Popmatters thing was a list of stuff they missed, I thought I saw that it was a "best of the year so far" and though it was interesting, but incomplete. That makes much more sense now. Absolutely loving the shit out of the Hooded Menace. The Serpentine Path is really good too, but isn't hitting me as hard as Menace. Still need to hear the Castle.

And I thought our own Adrien was the PM metal expert!

I am currently listening to the new Neurosis and...not hating it. This is a big breakthrough for me and them.

Re: PopMatters, they have a couple of really talented writers handling the bulk of metal now. That new column, as well as all their other full-length metal reviews, are well worth reading.

lol @ for me and them

I'm 100% convinced that there were meetings at Neurot House (or whatever) prior to the sessions where the question "How can we get Phil Freeman and The Wire on our side this time out? His repeated assertions that we're boring and overrated are a major chink in our cred-armor" was raised.

Going to Nightwish tonight. Skipping Kamelot, 'cause...well, Kamelot.

I could see Nightwish Sunday but not with that new singer. Plus Firewater is in town too.

Seeing Nightwish Monday. Like the singer. Like Kamelot. Will buy shirts.

Going to Nightwish tonight. Skipping Kamelot, 'cause...well, Kamelot.

ok if you like Nightwish more than Kamelot I call that good taste. But if you dig what Nightwish is puttin' down and have no use at all for Kamelot then I find yr aesthetics p. confused tbh

Also, that last Kamelot album was fantastic.

Actually, I skipped Kamelot because having dinner at home with my wife sounded like more fun. Nightwish were really good, though, and I took one of the best pictures I've ever taken at any show by anybody tonight. Stop by RoadrunnerRecords.com on Monday to see it, and a bunch more.

Really digging the NME Unholy Death 2cd reissue. Always loved these guys and their punkier Venom vibe. Punkier than Warfare even. The demo tracks are kind of reminding me of Amebix actually.

No disrespect to anybody's dinner, but I'm here watching Kamelot, and they're terrific.

This amuses me...

http://a2.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/153/913efcd1a83949e8954cbaa3332fa533/l.jpg

Yeah, that was a very good show. I never saw Nightwish live with Tarja, so I can't do the obvious era comparison, but I thought the whole thing, both Kamelot and Nightwish, was tremendous. Well worth the annoying 1hr drive to Worcester, for which my standards and expectations have definitely risen over the years...

I'm pleasantly excited to hear the new Sabbath Assembly record. They were a late addition to the YOB/Norska bill on Saturday and I was seriously impressed. This new lineup hasn't played out much (if at all - might have been their first gig), but you would bever know. Wonderful harmonies, and I like the more prevalent 60s psych touches in the sound. They didn't have any copies of the new album to sell, unfortunately.

New Sabbath Assembly is rad, a little more low-key than the first one but that's not a bad thing.

Didn't like the first one. Dunno if I'll bother with new one

Really excited for the new Enslaved after hearing "Veilburner" now, even though I liked "Thoughts Like Hammers" more.

I don't know if this has been discussed elsewhere, but it was entertaining:

http://www.maximumfun.org/judge-john-hodgman/judge-john-hodgman-episode-73-gavelbangers-ball

J0hn D is the expert witness.

Hilarious stuff.

As I Lay Dying: good book.

― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Monday, September 10, 2012 4:48 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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Backing up a little bit, I'm relistening to this Huntress album and finding it quite likable. I get why her voice might turn people off and, yeah, she is hella raw (I mean obviously not super-trained or pro or anything) but I really can't let that spoil because, hello, a lot of lauded male metal singers I like are just as raw and untrained. I think it actually adds a roughness to the songs, I wouldn't want to hear a classically trained European power metal diva over this stuff. That said, I can totally see how her screech might be off-putting. SMDH at all the people out there basing their critiques of this band (positive or negative) on Janus' supposed past or looks or w/e.

I put on a show for Huntress on short notice--and way before the hype. They were a solid live band. Nothing new, but nothing to complain about either.

Yeah, I mean they aren't going to make my year-end list or anything, but its a nice album to throw on after 3 Inches of Blood (as Phil mentioned earlier).

Is this a joke I'm missing out on? Jill Janus is a trained opera singer. Not to say she isn't hard to listen to at times, as is some opera!

I began singing opera at the age of 10. I was born with a four-octave coloratura soprano range. Basically, the kind of high pitched voice that breaks glass in cartoons! [My start in opera] lead to rock bands in high school and ultimately metal.

Well I can't go see Neurosis and Godflesh in London, but I'll take Neurosis and Yob in Oakland!!