Rolling Metal Thread 2012

Love a good metal show at Empty Bottle, I'm going to try really hard to get to that one though. And, holy shit, according to the Bottle's website Mares of Thrace are going to be there too! I gotta go, even if it is a Monday night.

Re that Terrorizer special, what's Primordial doing on a cover for 'Extreme Britain'?

what is extreme about maiden

They're extremely great, that's why.

And Extremely British.

otm

Finally got the Jess and the Ancient Ones record, that is really great.

I like The Ancient Ones, but Jess is too Laura Branigan for me.

I can hear that a little, but I still love the album. I don't know how many times I've played "Sulfur Giants" this past summer.

Didn't hear that really, but then I'm also pretty sure I've knowingly heard approximately 1 Laura Branigan song in my life.

Yeah, "Sulfur Giants" is the clear standout. Love it.

I keep going back to the record because so many of you guys love it, but I just can't get past her voice no matter how I try. Passive listening, active listening, it doesn't matter, something just rubs me wrong. But as I said, the songs and the band are great.

Saint Vitus were damned impressive last night! Lots of fire and fury in their playing, and the thrashier stuff live was great. They're a hell of a sight on stage, too--three grizzled dudes with very long, very grey hair and intense stares. Dave Chandler looked like he was about to dive into the crowd and gnaw off some heads at any moment. His guitar work is so awesome that I sometimes almost think of his solos as the choruses of their songs.

Glad you enjoyed the set, sounds awesome.

I like The Ancient Ones, but Jess is too Laura Branigan for me.

― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, September 26, 2012 9:37 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

I was thinking it was a little too country or sthg but yes! I like the Ancient Ones, not sold on Jess. (Sorry Jess). I tried.

"Self Control" is my favorite Laura Branigan song. It has loud guitars and is about nightmare monsters.

I like Laura Branigan, too.

Wait, where am I? I mean, that new Oxygen album is really good in a throwback hard-rock/metal way.

Yeah Laura Branigan was tough, talented, hot, played Italo disco in American in the 80s, and died way too young. \m/

New Bad Brains track:

http://soundcloud.com/transdreamer/bad-brains-into-the-future

It's decent.

POWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAA!!!
http://open.spotify.com/track/2vmoFsUw5jAn5GRZNWtPEj

http://www.metalsucks.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Manowar-The-Beatles.jpeg

cool, a cartoon where a woman gets punched.

hey dude from hydrahead plz get your shit together and send me my stuff that i paid for thx

Dude... back in the day, it seemed as if there were two camps; the bay area Thrash Metal and the Florida Death Metal..

I saw Obituary last night, and was blown away.. I could not believe how awesome they sounded; everything was there-voice, guitar tone, fullness, even the amount of reverb on the snare and toms were spot on-Dude must have been using THEE exact ride cymbal that recorded those 1st few records cuz it perfect.. Gald I checked em out, cuz I didn't back in the day.. The guitar tone was perfect, and they played every "hit" you'd want to hear.. So good. One of the best shows I'd been to in a long time.

hey dude from hydrahead plz get your shit together and send me my stuff that i paid for thx

This is how I'm feeling about the Krallice I ordered through bandcamp a month ago. Not getting any responses to emails either.

New lysergic Lazarus Pit, suggested by our very own keeper of Algerian goals: http://tinyurl.com/99t59mz

There's a new metal magazine out here called Iron Fist.
New UK Music Magazine 'Iron Fist'

Iron Fist is the lovely Louise Brown's new mag.

PS - Obituary has killed every time I've seen them!

xpost - if someone wants me to personally nudge Krallice or Profound Lore, just say the word.

Alert for anybody else who's into female-fronted metal that's kinda maybe really more hard rock than metal, and can get over band-names that you kind of wish didn't refer to gender like the band themselves maybe think it's their only novelty: Black Moon by The Electric Lady. Also you have to get over the name being almost ungoogleable. They're from Finland. They used to be an acoustic duo called Acoustic Lady. They have at least one terrible video on YouTube. That all sounds very unpromising as I write it. But the music is really, really, really good. I mean, really good. Like, "Barracuda"-era Heart crossed with Unleash the Archers.

it's on spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/1IL40yQpwjETzxQ3heVk82

Finally got to see Saint Vitus live last night. Only a 50-minute set, cause they were opening for Down (who I didn't stick around for 'cause I saw them in 2010 and they were just OK), but they killed. Several new songs, and a bunch of classics - "War Is Our Destiny," "Dying Inside," "Born Too Late" of course. See them if they come through your town.

I tried to listen to The Electric Lady record because I like everything mentioned by Glenn in that post but I didn't make it very far. Listened to three songs -- not a big sample, I know -- but nothing grabbed me. A nice voice, okay riffs, decent mix, but none of it was strong enough to hook me.

Glenn - is there a song or two you recommend highly? I'd be willing to give them a bit more time but not an album's worth, at least based on my sampling.

I thought Vitus killed when I saw them this spring, so I second 誤訳侮辱's recommendation. See them if you can, for they are better live than on record. Which is definitely saying something when you consider what they've put on wax.

My favorite Electric Lady song is "Who Cares", but I also like "Secret Love" quite a bit, so if you made it through the first 3, I'd guess it's just not your thing.

I'm liking the new 69 Eyes better than I've liked them before. And the new Eïs might make up for my disappointment with the new Khors in the pagan black metal realm.

And Enslaved and Therion await!

No, wait, I hate Therion. I always forget that. But: new Dalriada!

i loved gothic kabbalah, glenn!

I've lost tack of how many times I've decided that I really must like Therion, and given some new or old album a new listen, only to rediscover that I just don't.

But I'm playing the new Enslaved now, and it's immense and awesome.

Not even Beyond Sanctorum?

No, I've listened to all the Therion albums already. No and no.

Ha ha, that's dedication to wanting to like a band – I usually only make it through a song or two of stuff I don't like.

Oh, I didn't mean that I'd listened to them all all the way through. But at least half, and some of them more than once.

"I Love the Darkness in You" on that new 69 Eyes is great – one of their more Sisters of Mercy songs, which obviously I like, and super catchy. That's a band where I can find at least two or three songs on each album that I love, even though I don't think they're necessarily a great band.

got a free guest list spot to see Saint Vitus tonight! should be fun!

GUYS NIGHTWISH FIRED THEIR SINGER!

Ah, hell, not again.

can only mean one thing.... the big cash in

Explain how it means that?

Actually, it can mean that she's a raging bitch nobody else in the band likes, and the keyboardist and bassist, who run the show, were tired of her.

Yeah, I mean, that's what I figured.

I dunno, this one seems quite a bit less rancorous than the last devocalizing. A less dramatic guess would be that Anette and her two kids now have different priorities than when she first joined.

Also, it's only in reading about this that I realized that one of the two excellent guest vocalists touring with Kamelot was Elize Ryd of the excellent Amaranthe. Hmm. Amaranth, Amaranthe. No, no, nothing to see here.

IT'S A CONSPIRACY

oh let's be honest Nightwish without Tarja was not really Nightwish