Rolling Metal Thread 2012

Oooh!! Now that's interesting. Thanks for the alert!

Yesssssss

https://twitter.com/BillCompton10/status/275823621522460673/photo/1

Noooo

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_meingdq0qi1r9a32bo1_500.jpg

Hopefully that worked.

I now have a weekly column on the Decibel blog to spam you guys with! For my debut, I talk about things that aren't metal, because it's me: http://t.co/0sdyP0Vj

Nice one J

Good start J3ff

Nice work! Glad you have a new wheel to spin around on.

Does this mean Lazarus is dead again? Has the Pit been filled in?

Eh, I'll probably still be knocking out the occasional one as part of the weekly thing – but it was starting to become stressful finding albums to talk about, and the formula that I found myself stuck in was starting to get old.

Randy Blythe finally formally charged with Manslaughter. I didn't realise the guy had died, I just thought he ended up in hospital.

So that's why his name was popping up on Twitter again last night.

http://www.hailsandhorns.com/reviews/record-review-hatebreed-the-divinity-of-purpose/

My first record review...

Man, rough day. Dave Brubek, Oscar Niemeyer, and Harvey Milk?

SeanWayne - solid first review. I'm not a Hatebreed dude, but you do a good job capturing the appeal and expectations of the new record.

xp oh no! Never managed to see them live either.

In other splitting up news, the UFOMammut merch guy told me at Supersonic that Zurich have called it quits. Apparently the drummer went off to Japan and came back obsessed by techno and now only wants to be in a band like Scooter.

never let your bandmates go to Japan unaccompanied...

lol

noooooo to harvey milk hanging it up

Haha, I just got an email from N1ck Mc@st3r, the Krallice CD I ordered on August 26th just got shipped yesterday. Now, if only I could get my Thrill Jockey order settled, I'll be happy.

Did he at least apologize or give you a back rub or something?

Lol, yeah, he actually apologized a couple times for it getting lost in the shuffle, seemed pretty sincere. Glad I finally heard SOMETHING though.

Brain stopped being good for anything useful last 30 min of work so I tallied albums of what musicians are voting for so far in 'The Best Metal Albums of 2012, As Chosen by Metal Musicians Themselves' on Metal Sucks, up through Part VI (using points PazzJop style).

251 Gojira — Elephant Sausage
237 Meshuggah – Koloss
125 Deftones — Diamond Eyes
120 Devin Townsend – Epicloud
115 The Faceless – Autotheism
134 Testament – Dark Roots of Earth
107 Neurosis – Honor Found in Decay
104 Katatonia – Dead End Kings
103 Swans — Seer
97 Dying Fetus — Reign Supreme
93 Pallbearer — Sorrow & Extinction
93 Kreator – Phantom Antichrist
92 Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
86 Spawn of Possession – Incurso
84 Lamb of God – Resolution
84 Periphery – Periphery II
83 Napalm Death – Utilitarian
82 Enslaved – Riitiir
82 Cannibal Corpse -– Torture
79 Killing Joke – MMXI
74 Rush — Clockwork Angels
73 Aborted – Global Flatline
69 Cattle Decapitation – Monolith of Inhumanity
66 High on Fire — De Vermiis Mysteriis
66 Accept – Stalingrad
62 Jeff Loomis – Plains of Oblivion
61 Psycroptic – The Inherited Repression
58 Baroness – Yellow & Green

Heh, there's no alternate mix of L’Enfant Sauvage, just Fetus Stench being cheeky.

Haha, I just got an email from N1ck Mc@st3r, the Krallice CD I ordered on August 26th just got shipped yesterday. Now, if only I could get my Thrill Jockey order settled, I'll be happy.

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good news!

Thanks EZ!

This is a band I haven't heard anyone talking about. We played with them in Montreal and they blew me away.

Imagine if Atriarch had Kat Bjelland on vocals. Great death-rock/doom hybrid and catchy songs.

http://showofbedlam.bandcamp.com/

Wow, that's pretty nice! I like the feedbacky, kinda fried guitar tone.

Lol, yeah, he actually apologized a couple times for it getting lost in the shuffle, seemed pretty sincere. Glad I finally heard SOMETHING though.

That's how I felt when my Decibel subscription stopped arriving in the post randomly. I cancelled it and never resubbed; a shame as I really dig the magazine, content and design. If they did a digital edition I'd be all over it.

they do a digital edition now! you can get it on the ipad, at least.

Thanks for that EZ, I see it's in the Newsstand store now. I have an iPhone, no iPad - if I could read it on the desktop too, I'll seriously consider a re-sub. Funny, there's zilch about digital subscriptions on the Decibel website...

I thought they already did this but I guess the previous was just the two guys' column.

Pop Matters The Best Metal of 2012

20 Sigh - In Somniphobia
19 Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora’s Piñata
18 Ahab - The Giant
17 Gojira - L’Enfant Sauvage
16 Blut Aus Nord - 777—Cosmosophy
15 Rush - Clockwork Angels
14 Alcest - Les Voyages de l’Âme
13 Atriarch - Ritual of Passing
12 Meshuggah - Koloss
11 Ihsahn - Eremita
10 Krallice - Years Past Matter
09 Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud
08 Dragged into Sunlight - Widowmaker
07 Enslaved - RIITIIR
06 Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
05 Baroness - Yellow & Green
04 Author & Punisher - Ursus Americanus
03 Panopticon - Kentucky
02 Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
01 Dawnbringer - Into the Lair of the Sun God

I would love it if the new Enslaved was better than the new Rush. But it's not.

You're right, Nate.

Just found out about a Pallbearer/Pinkish Black show happening tonight. Off to Fort Worth I go.

Whoa that Dragged into Sunlight is incredible, thanks for the Popmatters list

Don't think I ever posted the final list I submitted to Decibel – in case anyone is curious, here you go. Probably would be slightly different now that I've heard the stuff that's come out subsequently, but I haven't reformulated yet.

1. Gojira - L'enfant sauvage
2. The Devil’s Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre
3. Killing Joke - MMXII
4. Grand Magus - The Hunt
5. Devin Townsend Project – Epicloud
6. Witch Mountain - Cauldron of the Wild
7. Meshuggah - Koloss
8. Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol
9. Enslaved – Riitiir
10. Torche – Harmonicraft
11. Dawnbringer - Into the Lair of the Sun God
12. Jess and the Ancient Ones - Jess and the Ancient Ones
13. Arkhamin Kirjasto - Torches Ablaze
14. Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
15. Testament - Dark Roots of Earth
16. Christian Mistress - Possession
17. Ihsahn - Eremita
18. Alcest - Les Voyages De L'Âme
19. Venomous Maximus - Venomous Maximus
20. Liberteer - Better to Die on Your Feet Than Live on Your Knees

That's an awesome list. Great minds think alike.

Wow, thanks Jeff!

My top 30 metal albums of the year available on Rhapsody (which omits albums not available on Rhapsody -- Witch Mountain, for instance.)

http://www.rhapsody.com/blog/post/top-30-metal-albums-of-2012

Stereogum’s Top 40 Metal Albums Of 2012
http://stereogum.com/1215082/stereogums-top-40-metal-albums-of-2012/franchises/listomania/

THKD’s Top 20 Metal Albums of 2012
http://thatshowkidsdie.com/2012/12/10/thkds-top-20-metal-albums-of-2012/

The Therion album of french pop songs is er, interesting. I liked "Une Fleur Dans Le Coeur" and "Initials BB".

I've got a list up on Metalsucks that drew the expected amount of ire. Gutted to have to leave off the honorable mentions!

1. Faustcoven - Hellfire and Funeral Bells
2. Svartidauði - Flesh Cathedral
3. Pallbearer – Sorrow and Extinction
4. Revenge - Scum.Collapse.Eradication
5. Hell - III
6. Derketa - In Death We Meet
7. Mgla - With Hearts Toward None
8. Anhedonist – Netherwards
9. Elysian Blaze - Blood Geometry
10. Knelt Rote – Trespass
11. Inverloch – Dusk… Subside
12. The Great Old Ones - Al-Azif
13. Genocide Shrines – Devanation Monumentemples
14. Shever - Rituals
15. Ævangelist – De Masticatione Mortuorum in Tumulis

http://www.metalsucks.net/2012/12/04/grim-kims-top-fifteen-metal-albums-of-2012/

The only album on your list I've heard was Derketa, but I remember liking it - kinda Incantation-y, the way they blended death and doom.

so is this year's krallice record showing up on any lists? it's prob my favorite since the first one but i feel like there's gotta be some effect for very consistent, prolific bands where they drop over time relative to things that are new and interesting.

Hmm. http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/12/10_best_metal_albums.php?print=true

Krallice is on that list!

indeed!

I know nine of Kim's picks, so I'm proud. Plus the Voice list is baffling.