Rolling Metal Thread 2012

Don't sleep on the Oak Pantheon record either. Really good.

I wish I liked the Hellwell album more. And the Oak Pantheon album is very good.

Indesinence is really miserable, and they do a good job at it, but I have zero recollection of it even after listening to it a bunch to review it.

huh oak pantheon is from mpls!

New Kowloon Walled City..... CRUCHING!!!!
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/11/07/164604989/song-premiere-kowloon-walled-city-cornerstone

Is that like a mix between crushing and crunching?

I haven't listened to any music for over a week. Not bought anything for like a month either. Have I missed anything good?

Yes.

new soundgarden is ok! some horrible lyrics and some bad songs

i forgot what a bad motherfucker kim thaiyl is

Couldn't have put that better myself. Gonna listen to King Animal again tomorrow.

In honor of that Neurosis review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heg8l0zspSg

i mean, the new soundgarden is about as good as you could have possibly expected a new soundgarden album to be...but i'd say half of this is pretty ace

oh man, that rules (xpost)

It was nice to meet EZ Snappin as well -- and yep, that Cathedral (who I'd never heard before)/Witch Mountain show was a lot of fun.

I do not like the new Soundgarden album much:

http://www.rhapsody.com/artist/soundgarden/album/king-animal-seven-four-entertainment-republic-2012

I liked that self-titled Voivod album back in 2003; wrote this when it came out (scroll down):

http://www.villagevoice.com/2003-09-02/music/music/

Finally, another monthly roundup: I wrote 600-character reviews of 17 of these 20 new albums (though now you have to click on their covers individually to read the reviews. And to figure out which ones I like most and least, you need to read the intro.)

http://www.rhapsody.com/blog/post/top-20-metal-albums-november-2012

Albums I've liked a lot since I wrote that roundup: Venomous Maximus, Spiders.

Undecided about: Bison BC, Abiotic. (Though suprisingly, I think I like the latter more so far).

That Bison BC was surprisingly good; don't really go for that sort of thing, personally, but they sell it well.

Er, I obviously meant CASTLE opening for Witch Mountain, not Cathedral (who I have, in fact, heard of before.) My wife liked them so much she bought their CD at the merch table. (Also meant "surprisingly," not however I spelled it.)

Bison BC album sounded better to me second time through this morning. (They sure do hide the "B.C." on the cover, though -- not on the spine at all, I don't think.)

I beleive the BC was added later, I'm thinking for legal issues.. The logo is probably pre BC.

Yeah, they're still known around these parts simply as Bison. They indeed added the BC for legal reasons when they signed with Metal Blade.

Finally, another monthly roundup: I wrote 600-character reviews of 17 of these 20 new albums (though now you have to click on their covers individually to read the reviews. And to figure out which ones I like most and least, you need to read the intro.)

Dude, I know it's not your fault, but that is a new low bar for a click-whore gallery UI. Whoever decided to stripe the text down a thin left column like that should have to actually read text in that format, like, forever.

Nice to see New Castle's Tygers getting some respect, and a not-half-bad album after all these years.

Not remotely metal, but the thing I can't stop listening to lately is Chris Lawhorn's Fugazi Edits. Kev Eddy's review nails, it, I think: http://drownedinsound.com/releases/17299/reviews/4145697

Is Fugazi Edits for Fugazi for Fugazi fans who don't like Fugazi's singers/songs or the Wu-Tang Clan?

Is Fugazi Edits for Fugazi for Fugazi fans who don't like Fugazi's singers/songs or the Wu-Tang Clan?

I'll let you know when my copy arrives in the mail. (I liked Fugazi a lot early on, but stopped paying attention after Steady Diet of Nothing and don't think I've ever heard anything after that.)

You missed out

apart from a few v fleeting moments when it sounded like some Mego Records ish or something, I thought the Fugazi Edits thing was really pedestrian and messy

It sounds really boring.

I listened to a track on soundcloud. Meh.

I liked Fugazi a lot early on, but stopped paying attention after Steady Diet of Nothing and don't think I've ever heard anything after that

that includes the best two albums!

I've got all their albums on the big hard drive; maybe I'll load them into my iPod one of these days.

in on the killtaker is p heavy

as long as we're not on a kult metal tip (or, er, any kind of metal, for some reason), the new Defontes might be the best since White Pony.

ah cool, i really love white pony

agreed about the new deftones

Disagree on Deftones. I think it's boring, and basically a clone of every album they've released post-White Pony. I'm basically willing to give up on them at this point.

i kinda dug the one w/the skull on it, can't remember the title

title was deftones

*raises hand* What if we were never really into Deftones in the first place?

Disagree on Deftones. I think it's boring, and basically a clone of every album they've released post-White Pony. I'm basically willing to give up on them at this point.

those are pretty distinct records you're calling it a clone of? idk dude.

nm i guess it can seem all homogenous to someone who wasn't into them

listening to the new deftones

i don't know how long i can listen to this, like the songs but goddamn this is compressed to fuck

Deftones have a consistent sound that they've carved out for themselves, but I would not go as far as to say its a clone of there past post White Pony albums... But, you're same person that doesn't like Neurosis and thinks they are boring as well.

誤訳侮辱 has some very idiosyncratic tastes that you cannot say aren't his own.

I don't think 誤訳侮辱 actually pays attention to the stuff when listening to it.. its on while doing other tasks, and it doesn't perk any interest, so its past on as boring. The new Deftones is a great record, and not a copy of past efforts. In fact, there is plenty of parts, textures, arrangements and vocal things on it that I've not heard them do before..

Plus doesn't 誤訳侮辱 work for Road Runner, where their top brass seem to be fleeing.. Maybe the underlings over there don't have a clue as to wants going on in heavy music anymore.

Two heart felt, emotionally charged efforts by two greatly influential bands, (Deftones and Neurosis) passed off as boring.

Or maybe, he just has different taste and that post makes you look a bit like a dick.

Trust me, I've done it before (sorry Doran, wherever you are).

Its fine to have different tastes, but to say something is boring and sounds like everything else they've done, its a little off-putting. When in fact the record is in fact got more shit going on than the last couple.

Saying your opinion of music is kind of the thing for which ILM exists. Insulting someone, in bad spelling, because you don't like that they don't like the music you like, is kind of the thing that drives people away and makes ILM suck. More of the former, less of the latter, please.

I think you are both right.

word... Opinions are based on fact. the fact that the record is different, and its described as the same, bugs. Say its boring, fine. Saying its the same, wrong.

I'm not trying to flam on anyone. Sorry I was dick-ish

First post: Ha ha, fuck you, you insignificant shit-pebble. I don't like the bands you like, so you impugn the company I work for? Lick the bag.

Second post: A detailed rebuttal, dealing strictly with music, coming soon. But it's time to begin a one-hour commute to work, so...

Wasn't someone saying the metal thread wasn't filled with drama?