Rolling Metal Thread 2012

Yeah, the Graveyard record is a big step forward – it's their darkest album to date, musically, and it's really nice to see that they actually had a place to go with their sound instead of just mining the same retro rock territory.

hooded menace is such a deep fucking doom record

I didn't like the Hooded Menace; the Serpentine Path record is way more my thing, like if treacle was music.

Jon look what got a BNM
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17132-all-we-love-we-leave-behind/

I'm no writer (nor a Converge fan) but that's a shockingly badly written review, for a high-profile site like Pitchfork.

Just finished a review of the new Malignancy album Eugenics for Burning Ambulance; it'll be up tomorrow.

I'm not a Converge fan, either, but I don't see anything "shockingly" bad about the writing in that piece.

Its not terrible, but its not written very well. It was a little hard to read for some reason.

I listened to the new Converge, and I felt that it was on par with the last one, to the point where its almost a carbon copy... Which kinda let me down in a way, cuz I wanted to be blown away. But, when a song from the new record came up while the ipod was on shuffle it had an different life! holy shit!

You ever do that? You hear an album, and it doesn't hit you until you hear it out of context? its as if the rest of the songs are all on the same level of awesome, so nothing sticks out. But if you hear it against other stuff, its awesomeness shines more..

Am I explaining this right? lol!

like a third of that review is quotes from Bannon which strikes me as a little cheap, especially as they didn't exactly contain much searing insight

'Coral Blue' makes me think of Alice Cooper's 'Poison'.

Which is cool as both songs are awesome.

I think both cheese and chocolate are awesome, but I don't want them both on the same piece of bread.

I hope by "carbon copy" you don't mean that it SOUNDS exactly like the last record – because it doesn't at all!

Mmm, very much enjoying the crazed demonic roar of De Magia Veterum's The Deification so far. Seriious monster music in the vein of Dodecahedron or Gnaw Their Tongues. Reminds me that I haven't listened to that Aluk Todolo album yet...

"Seriious" was a typo, but I think I'm going to adopt it for this sense of taking a set of aesthetic premises seriously for artist purposes, whether you take them seriously in any non-artistic sense or not.

hooded menace is such a deep fucking doom record

holy shit i love this

their last album was awesome too

So this is odd but potentially cool, apparently Ireland's number one underground metal record store is opening a location in...St.Paul, MN!

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d106/gojohnnygojohnny/456252_422680184460538_725034555_o.jpg

Anyone know the place?

Wow, that's very unexpected! I still haven't been into the original Dublin store (it's hidden on a side street away from the heart of town, though close to a college) but it seems to have its fans.

that dog in the window is sporting a not particularly metal body warmer.

Liturgy fan

Having heard Occult Rock a half dozen times and while it's good (often in a very Daydream Nation way) I can now say re-listening to Finsternis that the latter is far better (it's like a black metal Harmonia).

why is converge dude singing like guy picciotto now?

2400 or so words I wrote on Royal Thunder, Christian Mistress, Witch Mountain, etc. -- finally on line, 2 months or so after they ran in print.

http://www.spin.com/articles/strange-brew-metals-new-obsession-with-witchcraft-biker-blues-and-tina-turner

As usual, a solid piece of writing xhuxk. Any chance you'll be at the Witch Mountain show in Austin next month?

I should probably go to that, huh? (I better look up where & when it is first, though.)

Saturday, Nov 10th at Red 7.

OK. It is now officially marked on my wall calendar.

Cool. See you there.

hopefully.

yeah i heard about into the void opening up here, and as a dude that mourns the loss of Root of all Evil (RIP Earl) on like a weekly basis, i am super fucking excited about it - I think I know a dude involved in the deal, but I have to yknow bother to call him and stuff

I don't know how many LA people lurk on this thread, but Earthless, Enslaved, Astra, Scott Kelly, AND White Hills November 10 at the Roxy for FREE – RSVP now, it's going to fill up fast. http://www.scionav.com/event/463/Enslaved,-White-Hills,-Scott-Kelly,-Earthless,-Astra# …

My review of Nazoranai (Keiji Haino/Stephen O'Malley/Oren Amarchi) is up now on Burning Ambulance, if ye are interested.

Xhuxk I read that piece in the print Spin, & really liked it

Also, assuming that's a certain ilxor in WM?

yup.

Speaking of, I don't think this free EP by them has been linked to on here yet: http://www.scionav.com/collection/1146/Witch-Mountain-EP

hey M@tt, do you know what the address for that record shop in saint paul is?

666 Number of the Beast Way

you're not selling bad moon rising jjj!

jjj - not sure, & not sure when it's opening, will keep you posted!

no worries AG, no self-respecting metal shop would buy it anyway

jjj -

http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&pc=FACEBK&mid=8100&where1=461+Temperance+St.%2C+Saint+Paul%2C+Minnesota&FORM=FBKPL0&name=Into+The+Void+Records+USA&mkt=en-US

http://www.facebook.com/intothevoidrecordsusa

that seems like a terrible place to open a metal shop.

are they counting on lots of mcnally traffic?

I am listening to a band called Salem's Pot. It's exactly what you'd expect -- sub-Electric Wizard epic stoner doom -- but that name is amazing. Salem's Pot. Crazy Swedes.

Xpost, don't know the neighborhood too well, is there a lot of walk in extreme metal traffic anyway?

Obviously there is an extreme amount.

i think its around the corner from capitol guitars, which is a metal shop, so maybe thats part of the plan?

heavy mpls/stpl representation on the metal thread today apparently - are you new j., or am i just sorta innattentive?

the latter, but i've never said where i'm from. (we've met in person, tho, through goole.)