Rolling Metal Thread 2009

The new YOB is really monumental. I'm going to try and sit down and blog about it soon.

i've only listened once so far, but the new coalesce is kicking my ass.

The new Voivod is killer. Much heavier than Katorz, more lurching cadences, loads of great riffs from the immortal Piggy, and some really cool vocal work from Snake, a little more aggression and malevolence from the guy. "Destroy After Reading" is my early fave so far.

'Cauldron' the second album by Tasmanian Black Metal sorts Ruins is getting a European release soon. The drumming is fierce for people who like that kind of thing.

Apparently they are only sending out advances for the new Sunn O))) in vinyl. Keeping it real, for sure.

New Devin Townsend record is... weird. Very understated.

And if Ian Christe is still reading this, I read through Sound of the Beast on the (never-Goddamn-ending)plane ride back from France, and I enjoyed it. Filled in some gaps in my knowledge. For future reference, though, "The Music of Erich Zahn" is a Lovecraft reference, so while it isn't a great album title, it's not that strange in that context.

you could actually listen to that devin townsend thing? how long did you last?

I'm on track four right now. Reviewing it for Decibel, so I have to listen through the whole thing. I mean, it's Devin Townsend, I was expecting weird, I just wasn't expecting this particular brand of weird.

Apparently they are only sending out advances for the new Sunn O))) in vinyl.

weird considering that theres no plans for vinyl initially(SL use the horrible ploy of bringing vinyl out much much later so that everyone who wants vinyl but cant wait a year to hear the album will buy the cd then the vinyl when it comes out)

No doubt they will all end up on ebay to gouge the fans, (jeff, i'll have yours :) )

New Voivod is still awesome.

The new album by that Suicide Silence band is a festering pile of suck. Century Media's throwing their biggest amount of hype behind this?

Townsend's solo stuff is getting a little too loopy lately. I miss SYL.

And at the risk of obliterating any semblance of cred I might have had, I may be the only one here who will admit to liking Iwrestledabearonce. But I am enjoying the new album, I won't deny that.

Unfortunately, it seems like Townsend has left the metal realm for good and struck out for parts unknown.

Yeah, that Suicide Silence thing isn't doing much for me. The new Hacride is pretty swell, though. And the new Funeral Mist disc is great. First black metal record I've really liked in what feels like forever. The new Blood Tsunami is a disappointment; the short songs are okay, in a blatant Slayer- and Destruction-ripoff kinda way, but there's an eight-minute one, a ten-minute one, and a twelve-minute one, and that's just absurd.

Absolutely, that Funeral Mist album is incredible. The artwork on that thing is something else, too.

hey, we all like the new hacride album, let's hug!

Hugging isn't very metal.

Hacride aren't very metal <winking thing> they recommended me some goats cheese last week.

i'm actually digging the hatebreed covers album. i don't usually have much time for covers albums. you had to figure that they were gonna pick songs with cool intros or good beefy riffs or massive breakdowns or songs with all three and they did. and then made them even beefier.

Beef, however, is undeniably metal.

plus, i am xCTxHCx 4 life.

I think that there should be a new genre called meatcore, where the lyrical content revolves entirely around meat. And not in the Carcass, disgusting way, but about how awesome beef is to eat and possibly bathe in.

Beef: how low end can you go?

Black Pudding Sabbath

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The greatest album ever and the inspiration for Lighting Bolt.

Primus Rib

Lamb of God

Meatallica. *hides*

Ha ha.

Codflesh

But not Quorn.

Been looking at the Utech Records catalog lately: http://www.utechrecords.com/Releases.html

Thinking about ordering the Plotkin, Nadja and Final releases. Has anyone here heard them? Thoughts, comments? A bit pricy at $14 apiece, are they worth it?

Buy them all. Then buy the William Fowler Collins album - Perdition Hill Radio - that I can't stop playing (on Type Records). Deep dark one man guitar drone that even a troo black metal warrior could love.

But Scott, I am not a troo black metal warrior, I am a metal crossover fan from the shoegaze/psych/drone school of thought... :(

DEATH TO FALSE METALLERS

last night i discovered that some poor unfortunate metal dude had donated his collection to the salvation army.

there is something totally surreal about buying dodheimsgard, cancer, candlemass, and king diamond cds from the salvation army racks.

uh surreal and AWESOME, esp since in desperation to get the foulness out of the store they 99 cents each.

speaking of which, do I go back for the late period Annihilator stuff they had, or does that stuff suck (the band photos looked dangerously nu-metalish, so i held off)?

buy everything!

The only Utech release I have is the Runhild Gammelsaeter one. It's great. If you know any small children, you should play it for them right before they go to sleep at night.

I am listening to the new Flipper studio album. It's not metal but it's awesome. They've also got a live album coming out the same day (about two weeks from now, I think); I haven't listened to that one yet.

So far the big out of the blue winner out of the bunch is The Pain Tears by Pentacrostic which i had never even heard of. its kind of awesome. xpost

Nice haul jjj, I never find anything but Mantovani and Streisand in my local thrift stores.

yeah this is kind of out of the norm, im normally just in there to keep building my collection of persuasive percussion/faux-ethnic/big new sounds of stereo vinyl.

btw, anyone gone to this years paganfest? show is here tomorrow, wondering if i should continue to be all bent out of shape because of Eluveitie getting pulled, or just shut up and enjoy it.

Wow, what a secondhand score, congrats.

btw, anyone gone to this years paganfest? show is here tomorrow, wondering if i should continue to be all bent out of shape because of Eluveitie getting pulled, or just shut up and enjoy it.

I'm going on Monday. Very excited for this lineup, even though the Eluveitie/Swashbuckle trade-off wasn't exactly the best thing to happen. Still, though, Primordial, Moonsorrow, Korpiklaani...going to be a very fun show, I'm sure.

New Flipper? Cool news, thanks!

I finally heard that Hail of Bullets album. Whoa!!!

whoa - new flipper (!!!)

been meaning to pickup the vinyl reissues too. nice to see their catalog out there.

My post about Stonerrock.coms top 28 albums of 2008 list as voted by members of stonerrock.com (including my list)

ok so capsule review of paganfest:

swashbuckle: not at all what i expected, pretty much straight thrash done by dudes in pirate attire, occasional pirate moments of brilliance, #1 of which was "we are back for attack, we are bringing scurvy back"
blackguard: meh
moonsorrow: so fucking good i cant even put it into words, best of the night for sure
primordial: probably would have been awesome on a different night, kind of a sore thumb within the whole paganfest deal
korpiklaani: pretty great, lots of fun, super nice dudes, def worth seeing - still srsly moonsorrow should have been the long set headliner (tbf violinist and accordian dude were arrgh totally buried in the mix.)

overall: not nearly as good as last year, but still well worth going to.

Gojira is on monday, so the live frenzy continues. hooray for summer (spring)! oh and (soon) mayhem/marduk and wolves in the throne room too. great year for MN metal fun!

crowd for koriklaani was the happiest and cuddliest metal crowd ever, btw, and happy little boozer live singalong was led by the 9 year old kid of the promoter who was throwing horns and totally awesome throughout, which warmed many a black heart in the crowd.

Pagan metal shows are so joyous and nerdy...total, unabashed fun. As much as I love going to other metal shows, I'm so sick of the thugs and idiot kids. At shows like Paganfest and Amon Amarth, even though you get people in the crowd who are really devout in their pagan beliefs, plastic sword-wielding kids who dress like it's a comic book convention, and your average gas jockey metalheads, there's a camaraderie, respect, and sense of jubilance at those shows I just didn't sense at, say, Lamb of God or Mastodon last month.

Needless to say, I can't wait for Monday.

Last night I saw YOB play a secret show for the High School Metal appreciation club at Westview High in Hillsboro, OR; one of the more surreal and gorgeous concert experiences I've had the pleasure to witness. It was me, a couple of teachers, and about a hundred kids with Beaverton school district i.d's witnessing some of the heaviest cosmic doom ever written. At least a few young lives were changed.

wow, that's amazing.