Rolling Metal Thread 2009

over/under on number of times "brutal" is used....i'm setting at 3.5

HOOS just out of curiosity how big was the venue where you saw wittr? i saw them just a few days ago in a v. small club and thought they legit killed.

― Is because I think a lot of the music you like is flowery? (call all destroyer), Tuesday, May 26, 2009 3

kinda like a large club

place i'll be in a week or so will be smaller

Am I just late to the party, or have we talked about how great this Helms Alee album on Hydrahead is yet? Stoner with folk and country influences, and intertwined male/female vox.

It's great, I have the vinyl.

The new Darkest Hour album sounds as if In Flames reverted from Clayman back to Whoracle. Not a bad thing.

New Goatwhore's the best new record I've heard in a while, though.

OK, now I've heard the Tyr album. Whee! 100% predictable, and I do not mean that as a criticism in any way.

Also, I'm so into this Funeral Mist album. More after each listen. The cover needs to be cropped, however. Logo to the bottom left, angel in the top right, make it square. Much better.

New Pelican EP is pretty solid. Much heavier than the other stuff I've heard by them. Unfortunately, it's also a little more traditional instrumental hard rock... of course, it is only two songs and an Earth cover, so it's hardly as expansive.

Chickenfoot is surprisingly fun! Bluesy hard rock with no real pretensions or expectations, just four pros jamming in the studio. Plus, the heat sensitive packaging blows my mind.

The new YOB is in the process of killing me right now. Yikes, it's good.

As is the proggy new Drudkh album. Things are really starting to pick up, there are tons of killer metal releases this summer.

i just wanted to stop by and thank Scott for convincing me to buy the annihilator album - Criteria for a Black Widow is maybe my favorite "new" thing i've heard this year. so fucking thrash awesome.

ysi?

jk

um give me a moment and check your email

this Helms Alee album on Hydrahead

this is ridiculously fucking dope btw

Finally got my hands on a copy of the now-mastered unreleased Bloody Panda album. It definitely delivers on the promise of the first, featuring further realization, better production, and more tuneful singing (betwixt plenty of gut-wrenching screams).

Would be the Doom album of the year hands down if not for YOB.

it's unrelease as-of-yet, right? and not going to be unreleased forever? right? because i want to hear it.

Meanwhile, at the lighter end of things ... I've been given the debut album by a Glasgow band called You Already Know to review. It's kind of "we like Mogwai" mixed with "we also really, really like old-fashioned metal", recorded in a sock. I have reasonably high hopes for them. Any of the Scots on here know them?

onion avclub got a metal column

i need to hear that yob album more than any other album thats due

take off that Bon Iver CD, turn your speakers up to 11, and let’s get started.

Jackie Harvey's branching out

That Leonard Pierce guy is a jerk, always disagreeing with me...

I think it's great they got a metal column.

Disappointed with that Sunn O))) album review. Not a good start to the column.

it's kind of silly to have a metal column, isn't it? they can't just, you know, review metal albums alongside their regular reviews of indie dreck and electronic stuffs? sure, they reviewed an album here or there in the past (less than a dozen, i'd guess) but why does THE ONION need a metal column? pitchforkism!

"hey, here's a genre we've kept at arms length for our entire existence, let's give it its own column!"

i need someone smart like adrien to explain to me what the hell drudkh are up to on their new album. ??????????????

xpost - the Bloody Panda is coming out on Profound Lore. As is the YOB. Both coasts win.

i need someone smart like adrien to explain to me what the hell drudkh are up to on their new album. ??????????????

Ha, I was as just as baffled as you. But a few spins had me liking this album a lot...it feels a little like Enslaved at times. At any rate, it's better than Estrangement, but not as great as Blood in Our Wells.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/june-2009,29007/

Copycats!

Nah, seriously, this is pretty cool, I always liked Leonard's stuff.

wow, what a response to that onion column! i'm jealous. i need to pitch a column to some metal-less web-site. does Business Week.com have a metal column?

profound lore have a track from the new yob up here:
http://www.profoundlorerecords.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=14&Itemid=33

love it.

Thanks for the heads-up on that Yob stream Alan. Fantastic.

yeah, this album went from something I had no idea was coming out from a band I hadn't followed in years to one of my most anticipated releases of the year. thanks nate/rolling metal!

Here's a rather fascinating account of the swift demise of the Blackened fest:

http://www.metalinjection.net/dispatches-from-the-van/exclusive-demise-blackened-fest

The sun rose and the arguing continued. Robin, Mayhem's bus driver, was prepared to ditch Mayhem and their crew at a truck stop in Denver without any of their gear or belongings. He, within a couple hours, had already changed the trailer lock. I was waiting for that moment, when the Cephalic/Withered bus drove off and Attila and Hellhammer still in their 4 inch soled boots were flipping birds at us because they were stuck in the middle of nowhere with no tour.

Crazy post. I just now texted Mayhem's live sound man (and producer extraordinaire) Billy Anderson. He said he got paid, most of the the internet story is BS, and that there will be an official statement tomorrow.

Finally got my hands on a copy of the now-mastered unreleased Bloody Panda album. It definitely delivers on the promise of the first, featuring further realization, better production, and more tuneful singing (betwixt plenty of gut-wrenching screams).

I loved the first album, and this excerpt sure sounds promising.

http://www.profoundlorerecords.com/mp3/Miserere_Excerpt.mp3

I admit to have given up on Amorphis after Am Universum, and in fact didn't even realize they changed vocalists (three albums ago) until I read somebody's comment about how far the newest record was from their early greatness. That got me to try the new one (Skyforger) out of curious contrarianism, and now I have to go back and get the previous two, too. New voice = new life, at least for me.

Also, I just noticed that Amorphis is band id=1 in Encyclopaedia Metallum. Definitive cred.

Yeah, the new guy really revitalized the band, and plus he looks kind of like a pirate! Eclipse, Silent Waters, and SkyForger not only have some ridiculously catchy songs, but the complexity of the arrangements are pretty stunning.

Meanwhile, I've been listening a lot to the new Novembers Doom. Continues their tradition of excellent death doom, if you can get past the lol-ness of the title, Into Night's Requiem Infernal.

Nightrage's Wearing the Martyr's Crown is a big improvement over the last album, which was really boring generic metalcore. This one is really well done generic melodic death metal, which to some people may not be an improvement, but I like it.

grief of WAR really like mid-90s Century Media metalcore (Shadows Fall and the Haunted), so if you like that stuff, you'll like this.

Pelican EP is pretty gritty and rocking for instrumental post-rock, but only three songs and on vinyl, so I would probably wait for the full length.

Trollfast sound like Finntroll with a shorter attention span. They have a song where the chorus consists of quacking.

Astra's The Weirding, on Metal Blade of all places, play total 70s-style Hongro-prog. Fun stuff, if a bit of a head scratcher. Lots and lots of wanking, but everything old is new again, right?

lso, I just noticed that Amorphis is band id=1 in Encyclopaedia Metallum. Definitive cred.

http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=666

black jester are clearly the evillest metal band ever.

Can't argue with this:

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/6/6/6/666_photo.gif

Also, was listening to the new Ancestors in the background while poking around the Internet just now, and holy crap, it totally just snuck up on me. "Bounty of Age" is pure Mellotron goodness.

uhh... is this the stoner/doom ancestors or the noisy black metal ancestors?

Pelican EP is pretty gritty and rocking

So their drummer remembered how to drum this time?

rude

I finally saw Amorphis last year at Fall Into Darkness fest and really enjoyed a lot of the set. New singer made them sort of like a cover band but they did play some stuff from the first two records which is all I ever cared about...

Stoner/doom Ancestors. The ones on Teepee.

Pelican's drummer still doesn't quite swing, but there are actual drum fills and stuff this time around. He's getting closer!

i figured it was the stoner dudes, but i really really liked the idea of bone awl type BM with mellotron...

"Pelican EP is pretty gritty and rocking"

you know, if you look up the word "gritty" in the dictionary there is a picture of Pelican.

hahahahahahahahahahahaha!

http://www.photoseek.com/04AUS-10746-Pelican-reflect.jpg
"gritty"

I know it's hard to believe! I didn't believe it either. But they use a really heavy, dirty guitar tone this time around. I mean, it still doesn't "rock" in the Chuck sense, but it is the most rocking Pelican thing.

are they channeling their inner seagull? cuz THAT is one gritty bird.