Rolling Metal Thread 2012

I thought it was funny.. Weedeater the band.. as oppose to Weedeater the carpenter, or Weedeater the Ice Dancer..

Shit, what happened to stonerobixxx? Sad if they got shut down, he'd recently shifted the focus to just unsigned bands and I enjoyed a lot of what they'd been featuring lately. Hope it comes back.

http://www.stonerobixxx.net/

In truth, Weedeater the band is only the second most metal thing named ”Weedeater”

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How about that Venomous Maximus?

The Obsessed again!!

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THE OBSESSED - Live in Köln
collectors vinyl release out now on Outer Battery Records/Roadburn

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 (Brattleboro, VT) -- Outer Battery Records announces The Obsessed Live In Köln collectable vinyl LP is out now. In collaboration with Roadburn, a limited pressing of 800 pieces on grey vinyl (artwork directed by Guy Pinhas), is out now. An additional run of 200 copies pressed on blood red vinyl is exclusively available from the Outer Battery website. Outer Battery Records is distributed by The Orchard. Sub distributors include CTD, Revolver and Cobraside.

Recorded in 1992 the album features the band's line-up from The Church Within-era (Scott ‘Wino’ Weinrich on guitar and vocals; Greg Rogers on drums; Guy Pinhas on bass). The concert took place at Live Music Hall in Cologne, Germany on December 29, 1992. The recording is being released now to celebrate the band's live performance earlier this year at Roadburn Festival. Wino has been active with St. Vitus, Conny Ochs, his solo material and now performing again with Greg Rogers (Goatsnake, Sonic Medusa) and Guy Pinhas (Goatsnake, Acid King and Beaver). Mastered by James Plotkin (ISIS, Pelican and Earth) this record features nine tracks 1. "Mourning," 2. "Hiding Mask," 3. "The Way She Fly," 4. "Forever Midnight," 5. "Streamlined," 6. "Brother Blue Steel," 7. "Blind Lightning," 8. "Neatz Brigade," and 9. "River Of Soul."

I don't think ANYONE in here would confuse Weedeater the band with landscaping equipment

Anyone here know why Metal Archives still won't add Yakuza to the site? Not about to scroll through that 166 page thread on their forum of rejected bands, but that seems like such a weird band to draw a line around. Anyway, just thinking about it because I got my latest package from Profound Lore in the mail the other day. I'm liking the new Yakuza, though it isn't striking me as my favorite of theirs. The Ash Borer though, holy shit. I didn't hear their last one, but this new one is slaying me. They are really hitting on what I like about the whole "Cascadian black metal" thing, although I think these dudes are a lot more "menacing" than WiTTR or whoever.

Yeah, I don't love the new Yakuza record either; the last one was a lot better. Considering a fuller review for Burning Ambulance.

xp it always kinda surprises what Encyclopaedia Metallum doesn't consider metal.

ash borer sound 1000x more evil than wittr

Wouldn't it be more apropos to say that they sound 666x more evil?

wittr aren't supposed to be evil though

supposed by whom

lol

If they aren't supposed to come across as evil, they sure do a bad job!

box from hydrahead finally showed up, looking forward to sifting through it over the next few days

Did Aaron walk it there from LA?

Today only – entire Tankcrimes catalog up for "pay what you want!" http://downloads.tankcrimes.com/

wittr aren't supposed to be evil though

that would explain a lot

hey hey tell my ears what to do: Hey I just got a crap-ton of stuff from hydrahead records. What's the best? Tell me where to start! LOL at anything where it is obvious that I got the dregs of the pile!

Mitch Lucker of Suicide Silence has died:

http://propertyofzack.com/post/34769574244/suicide-silence-frontman-dies-in-motorcycle-crash

Glad you got your Hydra Head box jjjusten, some really decent stuff in there too, judging by your other thread. Almost three months in and I'm STILL waiting for the Krallice album I ordered. They've ignored all four emails I've sent too. I'm all for bands releasing stuff themselves, but it doesn't work if your going to be that lazy about it.

AGH! forty lashes for your/you're misuse.

ok, i've liked this mutilation rites album ok, not a super lot, it's opening up for me though.

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

extreme volume may play a role

If you miss 80s glam metal, you might already know that the Swedes, for reasons of their own, have revived it. I like the new Sister Sin album, and there's an even more reverent period recreation in Mia Klose's debut. We're going to need some dry ice, and some people who know how to mend fishnet so it still looks torn.

this cover screams "jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeffffffffffffffffffffffffffff buy me"
Japanese power metal

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I had such high hopes for that Cyntia album, too. Garnet Crow as power metal?! Maybe?

Eh. Adept, but charmless. I gave up after a few songs and listened to the last album by the beautiful green again instead.

Just saw Mutilation Rites on Friday night w/ Skeleton Witch, Havok and Early Graves... Early Graves crushed it-I can't understand why people are not that into em.. Mutilation Rites were pretty cool, I'd never really checked em out before.. The drummer is a beast, literally! hits so hard!.. Havok is pretty poser-ish and Skeleton Witch was great!

the drummer is literally a beast?!

http://www.osirisguitar.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/muppet-animal.jpg

he's a beast not an animal.

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hahahah where did you find that

tumblr, via a google search for beast marvel drums.

as usual beast is overcomplicating things

He has horrible form, and that foot stick is freakin' useless unless he's stabbing someone hiding behind the snare.

Mutilation Rites were pretty cool, I'd never really checked em out before.. The drummer is a beast, literally! hits so hard!

i think this is one of the things i started picking up on more. the drum production on the album seems a little boomy to me, it took a while to hear more of the beastiness

Total beast.. He's got long prematuring grey hair, a big beard, plays with his shirt off and is hairy all over... all beasty qualities, no?

AND.. he does the right thing and beats the shit out of his drums like they owe him money.. which I complimented him on and he responded, "THEY DO!!"

On the very much non-girly-metal front, I'm enjoying the new Varg album, innocuously titled Guten Tag. Melodic German death metal with traces of pagan folk-melody lilt. Like, maybe, Wolfchant without the goofiness. Or Kreator if they'd spent a little more time listening to Big Country.

bagpipes then?

Sadly no, not that much time. But a little of that emotional epicness instead of pure thrash.

On the experimental front, I didn't find the new Cloak of Altering that interesting (and I didn't like the last Gnaw Their Tongues that much, either), but I'm liking this extremely bracing and spastic self-titled debut album by Stagnant Waters. Even the parts that sound like saxophones getting run over by tanks, and the parts that kind of sound like Xasthur doing Philip Glass.

Sigh. http://www.thegauntlet.com/article/485/26617/SIX-FEET-UNDERs-Chris-Barnes-Punches-CATTLE-DECAPITATIONs-Travis-Ryan

Given ILM's strong affinity for doom, I'm surprised I haven't seen any chat about Pale Divine. It took hearing them in my favorite liquor store (West Lakeview Liquors in Chicago) while picking up some Founders Backwoods Bastard to remind me to dig into 'em. I've been enjoying all four albums, the most recent of which, Painted Windows Black, came out in March:

http://shadowkingdomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/painted-windows-black

I saw that Entombed is working on a new album and realized I never listened to Serpent Saints: The Ten Amendments (2007). It's not bad, but hopefully the new one will see them rejuvenated. Also exhumed some old Grave and Dismember. Is there any Dismember from recent years worth hearing? I like Like An Everflowing Stream (1991) and to some extent Massive Killing Capacity (1995).

I don't think there are any bad Grave or Dismember albums. They're Motorhead-esque in that regard: Every album has at least four or five great songs. (Weirdly, I don't feel the same way about Unleashed - their stuff always bores me.)

I'm liking this trend, reissues on Bandcamp!

http://earache.bandcamp.com/album/scum-full-dynamic-range-2012-edition-3
http://earache.bandcamp.com/album/from-enslavement-to-obliteration-full-dynamic-range-2012-edition
http://earache.bandcamp.com/album/slaughter-of-the-soul
http://shadowkingdomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/judgement-of-the-dead
http://shadowkingdomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lords-of-hypocrisy
http://shadowkingdomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mythical-magical

yesss

Yeah, it's a really cool idea, although I'm still not to the point where I'm willing to shell out more than $10 for a digital copy of anything. I know I'm in the minority on that point though. But, hell, a digital copy is preferrable to getting fucked over on ordering a physical album through bandcamp. Won't be making that mistake again.