Rolling Metal Thread 2012

No Burgerkill for me. Any good?

And though this isn't a 2012 thing, with Mark Reale's passing mentioned upthread, I figure this is as good a place as any to point out there is an entire 1981 Riot show up on youtube. It's pretty magnificent so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTAo2dZ9OPc

They're really good. And apparently as famous as Metallica there.

Huh. What do they sound like?

Never mind - I'll just hit up youtube!

Hey, all. Engaging discussion you have here. Over the last few days I've been reading -- sometimes effortlessly, sometimes ... less effortlessly -- through not only this metal thread but the one from 2010 (I'm sure soon enough I'll stumble across last year's), and I have to say, on balance I've been enjoying myself. Not much of the music mentioned has been new to me, but a) that's because I spend as much time as you guys do panning for gold, and b) I like reading these exchanges among the council of elders as much for the impressions of the music as for discovering the music itself. Hopefully, though, I'll be nudging myself from voyeur to contributor. Ya seem like a friendly bunch, and the message board is a depressingly fading phenomenon.

Having said that, I'm wondering if the American band Bound By Entrails has been overlooked or not deemed up to the level of the rest of the year's end lists. (I have no affiliation with them.) There was some minor but concentrated excitement over at metal-archives, and Decibel featured them (someone here writes for dB, correct?) Their album The Stars Bode You Farewell came out of nowhere -- well, Alaska -- and had no trouble sweeping away whatever my #1 2012 pick would've been. It's a little latter day Emperor, a little early Agalloch, some potluck Opeth, all submersed in an atmosphere that reminds me of Aspera Hiems Symfonia. I'll hold off on the impassioned evangelism, but I felt compelled at the least to ask if you guys were familiar with them.

Anyway, nice to meet everyone, and hopefully my future posts will not feature multiple paragraphs.

Oh, either this rolling thread or the 2010 iteration did get me to check out Killing Joke of all bands, so I have to say thanks for that! (I had Pandemonium in the 90s but never ventured earlier into their catalog. Whoops.)

welcome!

Never heard of Bound By Entrails, but I have a general distaste for black metal, so I'm likely to avoid them in any case. I do like the Scandinavian band Entrails, for whatever that's worth.

Welcome!

Anyway, nice to meet everyone, and hopefully my future posts will not feature multiple paragraphs.

― Devilock, Sunday, October 21, 2012 8:29 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sounds like you already have an excellent grasp on how to post here! welcome.

Thanks to you both! (Ah, three now -- and here I go, not living up to either of our expectations re: wordiness)

Well, Entrails, yeah, obviously they're great. BBE, however, I'm not sure could be described as black. They came from that, sure, but like most of the comparison band I listed, they're more into branches than roots now. "Progressive extreme metal" is how metal-archives stamps them, and that's about as specific as I could be.

Despite my disappointment that they're not from India, I'm checking out the aforementioned Burgerkill. A bit too corey for my tastes, though they seem to have adopted some of the flourishes, harmonics, and grooves of something like Gojira. The soloing sounds like the guitarist actually has a point, however, and that's a rarity.

FRESH MEAT

I mean, welcome

I mean, welcome

― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Monday, October 22, 2012 2:14 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thanks as well. Aaaaaand OH! Whoever dropped a link, way back in the hoary annals of the thread, to that metal block that comes on WKNC radio Friday nights, thank you too. That show was pretty amazing. Problem is, it airs simultaneously with one of our Georgia institutions, WREKage, on the Georgia Tech radio station. The good news is that you (or I) can listen to WREKage at any time throughout the week because they save each show until the airing of the next. Have a gander, and click "Listen" if you're moved to do so: http://wrekage.org/playlists.php

Welcome! I'm intrigued enough by your Bound By Entrails description that I'll hunt down a track or two to sample.

boundbyentrails.bandcamp.com

No Hunting Required!

Quick report back: they're good at what they do, but what they do is not for me.

New board description.

finally getting around to the new Dysrhythmia

fuck I love this band

I've taken to this Dysrhythmia album more than any of their past work. The songs have clicked more.

Personally I can't wait to hear what the Dysrhythmia guys bring to the new Gorguts album.

I've never been into Dysrhythmia. Always seemed like super talented musicians playing music I have no means of engaging with.

aka, they're good at what they do, but what they do is not for me.

Well played, sir. Well played.

― Bound by Habitrails (J3ff T.)

Perfect. Well, it was perfect til I remembered American Psycho and frankly now I'm kind of shuddering.

Hahaha I just got an email from PayPal that says that hydrahead has just shipped my order. 6 weeks after I paid for it.

I had conversations with 6 other UK people this weekend who would have bought 40cd bundles but didn't because of Hydrahead's ridiculous postage.

Well to be fair it might have also taken 14 years for them to arrive

I have received HH orders within 6 weeks before. Which is still ridiculous.

I had conversations with 6 other UK people this weekend who would have bought 40cd bundles but didn't because of Hydrahead's ridiculous postage.

I'd be very interested to know how much this specific factor - ridiculous overseas postage rates severely limiting their sales beyond the domestic market - played into the label's undoing.

couple things:

saw swans last night. really great show, but i don't know why people so overstate the volume of their live set. it seemed like less than half as loud as sunn, or even dinosaur jr for that matter! not that i'm complaining, they were at a fine volume, just confused by people acting like it was the loudest thing they'd ever heard or w/e.

if anyone has any recommendations re: indonesian metal please send them my way.

lastly, inter arma, who just signed to relapse, are going blow ppl away soon imo & iirc. anyone heard their new record yet?

the band Weedeater that opened for Saint Vitus was one of the loudest bands i've ever seen, way louder than swans who i saw last year

Venue makes a huge difference. YOB is a loud band, but they were ear crushing in Austin last spring and merely loud in Dallas this fall. Saw Swans the next night at a club across the street from where YOB played and my pants were rippling around my ankles from the volume.

HydraHead CD postage was more than the cost of the CDs. From memory, they wanted $70 to post them? The deal that was being offered in the US would have cost UK residents about $200. (It should be pointed out HH were unable to mark the customs label as 'gift' so it was $50 postage penalty to receive.

But to be clear, nobody else in the US, with the exception of Greg Anderson, is within an order of magnitude of the postage.

Yeah, I saw swans in a large performance hall, so I suppose that may have diffused it a bit. Although i saw Sunn in a cavernous Victorian theater, and they deafened me! Weedeater, yes, and p much every other metal band I've seen in similar sized venues seemed a lot louder. Maybe swans fans (overgeneralizing) aren't as accustomed to loud shit as people like you and you and me. Idk, sorry for harping on this so long

Witch Mountain/Castle/Mares of Thrace tonight at Empty Bottle, free woot!

i saw swans in a really long/low-ceilinged room and it was def air-movingly loud, but prob not top 5 loudest for me personally.

Yeah I mean, Swans is probably "loudest band ever" if your usual concert-going consists of Joanna Newsom or whatever.

lol the tracking number for my shipment does not exist in the USPS database

If they just sent it out today, it usually takes a little bit for the tracking number to appear.

no no, i know, it just seemed like a fun fact

its a start at least, i ordered the Krallice CD on August 26th and still haven't heard a peep back about it. last time i order anything physical through bandcamp.

hey jon I am glad to see that you haven't bailed on ilx!

Jon via cheetos keepin' it real with us. Thanks for sticking around.

I'm keepin' it here itt for now.

this thread is 100% good ilx dudes

well, at least Blood Duster are winning the PR game, even if no one gets to actually hear their new album

That's kind of brilliant/insane.

Though I'd be tempted to title a review Dud Bluster.

i want to be charmed, if i could only get past the fact that that is the dumbest thing ever