Rolling Metal Thread 2012

Lick the bag

Still trying to pull my thoughts together as regards Voivod, but pretty sure it's their best since Nothingface (and definitely their best since The Outer Limits).

"alex who are you to decide who should post on this thread?"

If someone is coming off badly I think telling them to step away is basically good etiquette.

On "this thread" or any thread really.

i'm really going to regret this but: what?

whatevs.. its really not that a big a deal to me.

To be be painfully clear (even for AG):

"Now you're saying Deftones have done different things since White Pony. But before you said they've put out the same record every time since." is a pretty dick-ish (not to mention a complete misread of what Phil'd actually just posted) thing to type especially after specifically apologizing for coming across dick-ish. My "stop typing" was simply trying to save SW from future (accidental?) dick-ishness and half-hearted apologies.

whatevs.. its really not that a big a deal to me.

You say that, but it's hard to hear because you're stamping your feet so loudly.

Maybe there's some context to this discussion that I'm missing. SeanWayne, are you fourteen years old?

now who is being insulting

I'm over it..

thats why I don't come on here too often. too many people who thing their words are more important than us shit-pepples

I've been very tame on here. I could easily talk loads of shit about tons of music you guys like on here. but I don't out of respect to those opinions.
I spoke on a mere fact that I thought there were some inconsistencies on a thought process. Nothing more. You guys are turning it into I shit in someones mom's purse. I didn't feel like I was being over bearing about it.

I apologized pretty straight away, but you're kinda egging it on now.

Relax, dude. I've had a smile on my face the entire time. Your opinions are as valid as anyone else's. The only thing that tripped my trigger was when you started talking shit about Roadrunner, because I've been seeing that in a lot of quarters the last few months, and it always comes from a perspective of total ignorance about what's actually going on here.

I think the worst thing here is someone being dissed for bad typing/spelling. Seriously that is nagl.

word.. its all good, dude.

I think the worst thing here is someone being dissed for bad typing/spelling. Seriously that is nagl.

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, November 16, 2012 4:43 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Typing vs. Spelling: the Poll

now who is being insulting

Kerr does like his polls...lol!

I prefer the new Cauldron album

Anyone heard the Dordeduh album? Feat ex-members of Negură Bunget

I've heard that Dordeduh album once. I don't remember a thing about it. That's not necessarily a criticism; I hear a lot of records. I'll get back to it again soon.

But at the moment the two things I'm totally loving are:

- last year's massive beauty-and-the-beast-style gothmetalcore album Sweet Relief by the Swedish band One Without, who have apparently already broken up since

- new massive shriekberzerker-pagan-black-thrash-metal Ekte Westfäölske Svatte Metal by German band Heimdalls Wacht

Preferably at crushing volume.

I think I wrote about One Without last year, wasn't overly impressed. That reminds me, though – haven't done my girly metal column in a while.

I found more lukewarm reviews of One Without than you probably wrote personally, and their we-quit note sounded pretty beaten down, so obviously there's something not-quite-universal to my response, but yow, I think they're fantastic. Listening to the first album now, and liking that too.

Apparently I did like them. Here's what I said three years ago about their debut: "One Without win the Amy Lee Smeared Makeup Award for Angstiest New Female-fronted Metal Band (not a real award, by the way). Some derivative alt-rock influence, but Catrin Feymark’s emotive singing and the band’s Swedish-born ability to write memorable songs helps Thoughts of a Secluded Mind (Lifeforce) stand out. Plenty of room for improvement, but the potential is there. Watch your back, Lullacry!"

Well worth checking out the second album. I'm enjoying Thoughts of a Secluded Mind plenty, but the second one takes the male/female vocal thing way, way over the top.

And on the poppier end of the German goth/rock/metal spectrum, I'm also liking Eisblume's new album Ewig. Arguably more rock than metal, and more pop than either, but their most metal songs are more metal than Xandria or Flowing Tears' least-metal ones, so I say them qualify.

Wait, no, I was mixing up two different bands and albums above. The one with the really wildly crazed male roaring over pretty female singing is Pleasures and Fear by Regardless of Me. They are Italian, and have not broken up (that I can tell). One Without does the same vocal thing, but not nearly to the same extreme as Regardless of Me, and have a slightly proggier feel to the music. Had. They're the ones who broke up. So that's three albums I'm loving, not two.

At least I didn't confuse any of those with the also-promising 2009 album Don't Fear the Revenge by the synthier, dreamier Alight (also Italian), or either of the more darkwavey albums by Sengir (Belgian, defunct).

Or any of the 100s of other bands on this: http://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/1s6DGJAFH8vA1LHFkQnrTU

So I've joined your dirty journo ranks, loosely, very, very loosely.... lol!

http://www.hailsandhorns.com/featuresandinterviews/soldiering-on-an-interview-with-early-graves-by-sean-boyles/

Feedback welcomed but not required.. I won't wave this flag too often if at all. Note, this is my first time ever doing anything like this, but whatevs..

traitor!

lol!

And just to prove that I don't automatically like all gothic metal, I enthusiastically do not recommend Nova Vita, by Aevum. They are Italian. I will not be listening to this album. In fact, I'm not listening to it already.

that was a solid piece Sean

oh, word, thanks!

yeah nice one (you traitor)

I just had two extremes pop up in my facebook feed.. couldn't be more opposite really..

First this, and band called The Algorithm (wasn't someone asking about dubstep metal? This sounds pretty close..)

http://basickrecords.bandcamp.com/album/polymorphic-code

then this behemoth from Thou

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjGCVOX6tOA

I just thought it funny these two extremes in metal popping up back to back in my feed..

I got to see Rush and Voivod in a 48 hour period. Life is grand!

Tempted to post a picture of Nate in that 'pictures of people who have figured out how to live' thread, tbh.

Twitter just blew up with this, if anyone is curious what the Decibel top 40 list is this year before receiving the magazine, here you go. SPOILERS: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2012/11/decibel_magazin_2.html

I'll wait until I get my copy. Hey bloggers, just because you CAN print something, doesn't mean you SHOULD. Let me climb on my grumpy old man horse here, but does everything have to be instant gratification anymore? Fuck. I like some anticipation in my life.

Yeah, me too, but like 18 people already spoiled the winner for me. Super lame.

Anyway, Jon, we both know that that's antithetical to the blogging philosophy: if they don't publish it, somebody else will, so they may as well be first.

The band who got the top placement put it on their facebook page before the whole list made it out there.

sweet, that was gonna be my #1 record this year too. i don't read decibel, so i don't know - is that gonna help make me seem more kvlt and less false?

yes.

whew! safe to look for a spot for taylor swift downlist then

print media is dead. deal with it losers.

your FACE is dead

Man, Viceroy is wrong on this count. And I'm not just saying this because of all the posters here that write for it, but Decibel is one of the only mags out there keeping my hopes alive for print media as a viable thing.

Tangentially related, I picked up the Cryptopsy comp today. Nice liner notes Adrien, congrats! And I like how you, erm, let's say "delicately" handled covering their last album.

it's so weird to me that graveyard's singer can actually sing

Best Black Friday sale EVER – entire Seventh Rule catalog going up for free download at midnight tomorrow: releases.seventhrule.com

so many good things on there, too.

wait whoa seriously