Rolling Metal Thread 2012

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

http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/1466/acovtid186208.jpg

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.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcn3j8H4Og1re1x6xo1_500.jpg

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.

I have no idea what's different/better about the "full dynamic range" versions of the first two Napalm Death records. They sound exactly the same - and honestly, those songs are best heard on a third-generation cassette dub anyway.

Scum (180 gram 45 rpm half speed masters by Stan Ricker)

I've ordered CDs through Bandcamp without any problem. Just like Amazon resellers, it just depends on who you're dealing with. Maybe Bandcamp needs to have an Amazon like feedback rating system.

I do hesitate to pay more than $10 too, especially when a hard copy of a reissue might have interesting packaging and liner notes. But it's a positive step to at least have the lossless files available.

Yeah, I can see it being hit and miss. I'm just mostly annoyed because I ordered the new Krallice directly from the band and never got it. Nor have they answered my five emails asking what happened. I'm going to have to pony up another $15-18 to buy it AGAIN. But at this point, I'm pretty much tempted to say "fuck Krallice" and give up on 'em. I'm sure the logistics of releasing your own records can be a pain in the ass, but I'm pissed that they took my money and won't even offer a half-assed excuse.

those songs are best heard on a third-generation cassette dub anyway

That's how I heard Scum for the first time!

I'm sure the logistics of releasing your own records can be a pain in the ass, but I'm pissed that they took my money and won't even offer a half-assed excuse.

Maybe they got overwhelmed and never put the mechanisms in place to handle the volume of orders. Not the first time for musicians to crumble after soliciting their fans' direct involvement in projects - didn't that Animal Collective guy make a mess of his Kickstarter recently?

But on Krallice specifically: it's not as if they're a mega-selling band, but they spread themselves very thin, don't they? How many bands is Colin Marston either in or producing? I'm sure Mick Barr et al are similarly prolific. Maybe take a break from that and fill some orders for a while, yeah?

Go w/ God and torrent at will, jvc

http://www.metalstorm.net/bands/albums_top.php?album_style=Thrash

I was poking around for thrash metal lists and this one had some interesting entries I hadn't heard:
Paradox - Heresy (1989)
Toxik - Think This (1989) & World Circus (1987)
Kat - Oddech Wymarlych Swiatów (1987)
Forbidden - Twisted Into Form (1990)
Annihilator - Never, Neverland (1990)
Sabbat - Dreamweaver (1989)
Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare (1988)

Will start listening on the way to work.

Speaking of great obscure thrash, here's my Lazarus Pit on Believer's Sanity Obscure: http://t.co/9r1oJNhZ