Rolling Metal Thread 2009

That Augury album is still my go-to prog metal of the moment...

Yeah, the Augury album is great. So is the new Gorod, which I just got in the mail yesterday from Willowtip. They're Necrophagistical tech-death but with more high-pitched ultra-repetitive arpeggios and fewer wanktastic solos. Sort of like if Steve Reich started a tech-death band. They had a female drummer on their first two albums (also on Willowtip), but she quit before this one.

xp It's... watchable. I was never bored, but I wouldn't exactly recommend it.

Adventure metal sounds stupid to me as a concept. Pirate metal makes sense, because those bands have a pirate theme. Would adventure metal bands have an Indiana Jones theme or something? Scale the Summit are good, but I agree with everyone above.

i've reviewed the last three gorod albums and that band must really hate me by now. but they are so fun to review!

here's my review of the new one:

If there is a theme to the third full-length album by French tech-death masters Gorod it is this: “We hate you and we want to kill you with our virtuoso noodle-bomb guitar solos and we kinda hate the fact that we are French even though France is such a cool country filled with some of the best wine and unpasteurized cheese that the world has ever known, but, let’s face it, despite the best efforts of people like Deathspell Omega and others it’s never going to be thought of as an “evil” country which is totally bogus considering the fact that our form of capital punishment for generations was CHOPPING PEOPLE’S HEADS OFF! Ah, well, what are you going to do? If anything this just makes us hate things even more than we already hate things and fuels our hate-filled metal and makes us despise our students at the guitar clinic who keep bugging us to teach them Gojira songs – AHHHH, nothing makes us hate more than that. Basically, we hate you AND we want you to be dazzled by how speedy and hateful we are and marvel at our hatefully nimble fingers and bow down to us because we are some sort of gods, non? Oui! We are gods. And for some reason we don’t hate Willowtip records. We don’t know why. We hate everything else though! We most certainly hate the most hated of all magazines, this thing you call Decibel, for allowing the SAME cretin to review all three of our masterpieces and EVERY time he makes, how you say, the mock of our hateful art! Bah! We shit on this American and all who read his lying words. We are Gorod! We rule and we hate you so very hard!”

NP: all three Hatebeak singles. The sound of an enraged parrot never gets old, I swear.

actually, this is the best gorod review i ever wrote. again with the wine and cheese! they are my muse, apparently, this band.

Gorod – Neurotripsicks (Willowtip – 2005)

Thomas De Quincey once wrote, “Here, perhaps, the reader will exclaim – ‘Avoid, Satanas!’ to me, falsely supposing that I have some design upon his eyes, and wish to blind them with learned dust. But, if he thinks that, he is in the wrong box; I must and will express scholastic phrases; but, having once done this, I am then ready to descend into the arena with no other weapons than plain English can furnish.” Gallic gore-goons Gorod take this to heart. You may think, upon first listening to their epic assault on the ears, Neurotripsicks, that they are trying to confuse your senses with dizzyingly high-tech noodle-grind guitar solos of a sort that would no doubt incite Yngwie to unleash the fucking fury in a highly pressurized cabin if he ever heard them on his in-flight headphones. You may think that 4000 riffs and shifts in tempo per song is a tactic designed to keep you on edge – a little uneasy - and perhaps make you rethink that whole “college is for sheep” philosophy you’ve been working on at mom’s house for the last ten years. And, by the way, that’s not your bong you are filling, that’s the vacuum cleaner. But, no, Like De Quincey, Gorod put on their fancy duds – those prog-level displays of nimbleness that are every guitar-store cowboy’s dream – only to share simpler reveries in a plain English that anyone can understand. For instance: “Gutted/Minced/Mashed/Soiled/We stay horrified/We must find him/GOROD can release us/Damned as spectrums/Gorod open its stone door/To pillar Neurotripsicks/Easy to smell/Pig’s bloated face/Zero tolerance for uncunt creatures/Pig’s bloated face/Pityless under sauvagery.” An entire worldview as easy as you please. See, the Gorod is the ancient enemy of the Neurotripsick, and…but that’s not important. What IS important is that France is second to no nation when it comes to screwed-up grindcore. And they have 30 hour work-weeks, national health-care, and free wine and cheese for all citizens. So fuck you, Dubya!

haha was that gorod review in decibel? i think i read that and didnt realize it was u

As long as we're discussing cheese, here's a preview I wrote a few months back:

Lacuna Coil, Kill Hannah, Seventh Void, Dommin
[ASIAGO METAL] It’s funny how Europeans ingest music so differently from Americans. Italian symphonic nu-metal act Lacuna Coil overproduces grinding pop hooks as a vehicle for hot babe/siren Cristina Scabbia. Her wild hair and outfits (and bust) are far more alluring than any of the songs. The backing band dress in what I refer to as “Tatooine metal” garb—they look like a band of Jabba’s henchmen that wandered off the set of the Sarlacc pit during a sandstorm. Apparently this much pomp and pap sells out big rooms to kids overseas. I guess when you’ve tried every kind of cheese there is, you end up with a broader palate. NATHAN CARSON.

NATHAN CARSON!

And as for "Adventure Metal", have y'all heard of the Metal Shakespeare Company (formerly Dagger of the Mind)? It's "bardcore"--power metal with mostly Shakespearian lyrics. They're based in Portland, but they do have some roots in New Mexico so I'm guessing they went to high school with Scale the Summit.

It's a really fun show: myspace.com/bardcore

xp - Roxy that's just how those pieces run in the paper.

I know this, it just provided me with a brief flicker of mirth!

Anything I can do to bright your day. NATHAN CARSON

brighten NATHAN CARSON

haw, you should sign all your posts like that in a similar fashion to classic ilx poster "Old Fart!!!!"

Lacuna Coil have some phenomenal songs, they just seem to have ditched those in favor of nu-metal the last few years.

The new L Coil is horrendous. I mean, wasn't Linda Perry around? Or was this her fault?

As for Italian Surm und Drang metal, why doesn't Novembre get any love here?

fuck Adventure Metal, I want Ducktales Metal

as in Uncle Scrooge & co.

there's a noise dude from NJ works under the name "duck tails"

not metal though

not noise, even. i dunno what you call it. and its ducktails. nevermind.

gonna listen to black witchery in a minute.

Holy crap, the Grind Madness at the BBC box set that Earache is putting out is CRAZY. Prime Napalm Death, Carcass, Bolt Thrower... good stuff.

That looks like a really interesting comp. Is it the complete Earache Peel Sessions?

"Earache has obtained the rights from the BBC to release these groundbreaking radio sessions in their entirety for the first time." I would assume that that's a yes?

Nice, I'll have to hunt that down.

I am anxiously awaiting my copy. Complete track listing (from myspace.com/grindmadness):

DISC 1
1. Napalm Death - The Kill
2. Napalm Death - Prison Without Walls
3. Napalm Death - Dead
4. Napalm Death - Deceiver
5. Napalm Death - Lucid Fairytale
6. Napalm Death - In Extremis
7. Napalm Death - Blind To The Truth
8. Napalm Death - Negative Approach
9. Napalm Death - Common Enemy
10. Napalm Death - Obstinate Direction
11. Napalm Death - Life?
12. Napalm Death - You Suffer Pt.2
13. Napalm Death - Multi National Co-Operations
14. Napalm Death - Instinct Of Survival
15. Napalm Death - Stigmatised
16. Napalm Death - Parasites
17. Napalm Death - Moral Crusade
18. Napalm Death - Worlds Apart
19. Napalm Death - MAD
20. Napalm Death - Divine Death
21. Napalm Death - CS
22. Napalm Death - Control
23. Napalm Death - Walls
24. Napalm Death - Raging In Hell
25. Napalm Death - Conform Or Die
26. Napalm Death - SOB
27. Napalm Death - Unchallenged Hate
28. Napalm Death - Mentally Murdered
29. Napalm Death - From Enslavement To Obliteration
30. Napalm Death - Suffer The Children
31. Napalm Death - Retreat To Nowhere
32. Napalm Death - Scum
33. Napalm Death - Deceiver
34. Napalm Death - Social Sterility
35. Extreme Noise Terror - False Profit
36. Extreme Noise Terror - Another Nail In The Coffin
37. Extreme Noise Terror - Use Your Mind
38. Extreme Noise Terror - Carry On Screaming
39. Extreme Noise Terror - Human Error
40. Extreme Noise Terror - Conned Through Life
41. Extreme Noise Terror - Only In It For The Music Part 2
42. Extreme Noise Terror - Take The Strain
43. Extreme Noise Terror - Murder
44. Extreme Noise Terror - No Threat
45. Extreme Noise Terror - Show Us You Care
46. Extreme Noise Terror - Propaganda
47. Extreme Noise Terror - System Enslavement
48. Extreme Noise Terror - Only In It For The Music Part 3
49. Extreme Noise Terror - Work For Never
50. Extreme Noise Terror - Subliminal Music (Mind Control)
51. Extreme Noise Terror - People Not Profit
52. Extreme Noise Terror - Punk Fact Or Faction
53. Extreme Noise Terror - I Am A Bloody Fool
54. Extreme Noise Terror - In It For Life
55. Extreme Noise Terror - Deceived
56. Extreme Noise Terror - Shock Treatment

DISC 2
57. Carcass - Crepitating Bowel Erosion
58. Carcass - Slash Dementia
59. Carcass - Cadaveric Incubator Of Endo Parasites
60. Carcass - Reek Of Putrefaction
61. Carcass - Empathological Necroticism
62. Carcass - Foeticide
63. Carcass - Fermenting Innards
64. Carcass - Exhume To Consume
65. Bolt Thrower - Forgotten Existence
66. Bolt Thrower - Attack In The Aftermath
67. Bolt Thrower - Psychological Warfare
68. Bolt Thrower - In Battle There Is No Law
69. Bolt Thrower - Drowned In Torment
70. Bolt Thrower - Eternal War
71. Bolt Thrower - Realm Of Chaos
72. Bolt Thrower - Domination
73. Bolt Thrower - Destructive Infinity
74. Bolt Thrower - Warmaster
75. Bolt Thrower - After Life
76. Bolt Thrower - Lost Souls Domain

DISC 3
77. Godflesh - Tiny Tears
78. Godflesh - Wound (Not Wound)
79. Godflesh - Pulp
80. Godflesh - Like Rats
81. Unseen Terror - Incompatible
82. Unseen Terror - Burned Beyond Recognition
83. Unseen Terror - Oblivion Descends
84. Unseen Terror - Divisions
85. Unseen Terror - Voice Your Opinion
86. Unseen Terror - Strong Enough To Change
87. Unseen Terror - Odie's Revenge
88. Unseen Terror - It's My Life
89. Heresy - Flowers (In Concrete)
90. Heresy - Belief
91. Heresy - Network Of Friends
92. Heresy - Sick Of Stupidity
93. Heresy - Too Slow To Judge
94. Heresy - A Sense Of Freedom
95. Heresy - Consume
96. Heresy - Face Up To It
97. Heresy - Into The Grey
98. Heresy - When Unity Becomes Solidarity
99. Heresy - The Street Enters The House
100. Heresy - Cornered Rat
101. Heresy - Open Up
102. Heresy - Everyday Madness Everyday
103. Heresy - Break The Connection
104. Heresy - Ghettoised
105. Heresy - Network Ends
106. Heresy - Release
107. Heresy - Genocide
108. Intense Degree - Hangin' On
109. Intense Degree - Vagrants
110. Intense Degree - Skate-Bored
111. Intense Degree - Intense Degree
112. Intense Degree - All The Guys
113. Intense Degree - Daydreams
114. Intense Degree - Take No Chances
115. Intense Degree - Future Shock
116. Intense Degree - Politician
117. Intense Degree - Allegiance
118. Intense Degree - Bursting

each cd lasts for 5 mins?

5 AWESOME minutes.

Just finished the Napalm Death and Extreme Noise Terror disc, and it's pretty cool. I can see how this stuff was totally mind blowing back when it first emerged from the sewers.

Mustis (keyboards; real name: Øyvind Mustaparta) and ICS Vortex (clean vocals, bass; real name: Simen Hestnæs) are no longer members of the Norwegian symphonic black metal band DIMMU BORGIR, according to a posting on Mustis' MySpace page...it should be rather telling that Mustis has set the "mood indicator" on his MySpace page to "betrayed."

Priceless.

Rough mix of the new Ludicra is mind-blowingly awesome. Time to recognize this is the best USBM period.

So the new Gates of Slumber album is awfully impressive.

Are the vocals better? I like the music...

wonder how much extortionate prices above will charge for the vinyl.
Probably a diehard version with a shitty patch that's 10 quid more expensive than the standard version (which will prob still be £20 + postage)

I think the vocals are a fair bit stronger than on Conqueror.

The new Megadeth album is really quite shockingly good.

It leaked last night, too. I really, really like "Headcrusher".

Meanwhile, that Black Anvil album knocks me out. I don't know what it is with all these Hellhammer/early Celtic frost rip-offs these days, but I'm enjoying it while it lasts.

Mastodon are scoring the Jonah Hex film! Sweet.

Why is everyone flipping out over this? What on earth is Jonah Hex?

The comic character, Jonah Hex? Oh awesome. I didn't even know there was a movie.

Directed by Horton Hears A Who guy though is kind of not-so-awesome.

Got the new Portal today! All writing assignments immediately postponed 40 minutes so I can spin this sucker post-haste.

So far so great, too. Gotta love these furniture-wearing freakazoids.

I'm getting the new Om atm so I will be busy with that.

One of the albums of the year for sure
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JdRrimczveM/SqAbd3WwQEI/AAAAAAAAAJU/rRbkugidBfY/s400/orthodox_sentencia.jpg

Mind you these 2 might be pushing it
http://shop.relapse.com/dbimages/sleeves/7053_cd.jpg

http://www.roadburn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Om-God-is-Good.jpg

Nice Bloody Panda review on popmatters Adrien!

man guys this isn't a new record but i just put on genghis tron's board up the house for the first time in like a year and its fucking awesome

Thanks, Nate! Summon's a real grower.

OK, pfunk, I'll bite: what's that first cover?

I'm listening to the new Orthodox now. I loved Gran Poder but was bored by Amanecer en Puerta Oscura, so I guess my expectations are low. Although it's having some weird Spanish effect on me, because I swear I just looked out my window and for a moment the sight of a construction crane next to the turret of Harvard's Memorial Hall threw me back to looking at the perpetual construction of Sagrada Familia on the skyline of Barcelona.