Rolling Metal Thread 2009

great taste in 90s punk in evidence above I gotta say

Keen to see if Hey Colossus can top the Black Velvet Flag versh of 'Institutionalized'

Got the new Hey Colossus split in the mail on saturday actually.

In celebration of its 20th anniversary, FU MANCHU has a number of very special events planned for 2010. The band will unveil a host of plans that include rolling out both one-of-a-kind live events and extra special vinyl releases. Additionally, the VIRULENCE (pre-FU MANCHU) recordings will be remastered and packaged with the band’s “1985-87 demos” and both live songs and video footage from 1987-89 under the title If This Isn`t A Dream…1985-1989. The package will be made available on both CD and LP and is slated for a winter 2009 release via Southern Lord Records.

Man arrested for assault charge

WALTHAM - A 41-year-old Waltham man was arrested at his School Street home at 3 a.m. on Sunday, after Waltham police got a call from Worcester police saying they had probable cause to arrest him, police said.

Seth Putnam, of 157 School St., was arrested on probable cause for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (a microphone), police said.

and now an account of it from another board:

"i was there. seth putnam was making fun of this woman standing on the side of the stage. they go back and forth for a little, she's just kidding around, and seth goes "i really wanna punch you in the face, can i punch you in the face?" and she says yes. so he hits her, really hard too. my friend pat said he saw blood shoot out from her face when he hit her. anyways after that everyone went silent and this one dude started screaming and running towards the stage. apparently this was her husband and he body checked seth putnam across the stage into the wall and started beating the shit out of him. the show got shut down, people complained for their money back. after they refused to refund the money some people decided they would just take beer from behind the bar. that resulted in all the security guards grabbing the dudes and trying to hold them there while everyone else escaped. they got away with the security guards chasing after their car in the middle of the street while a cop car 180'd so fast and chased after them. it was the best 5 dollars i've ever spent."

shadow of the torturer, ahhhh its beautiful!

for roxy
http://www.blinddaterecords.de/typo3temp/pics/ce3d4070b2.jpg

Shadow of the Torturer – marching into chaos LP.....11 EURO
ULTRA DOOM. All star project with members of aldebaran, yob, hc minds etc.
Ltd. 300 copies. 100 in white vinyl

ultra d♥♥m

stay classy, seth putnam.

anyone catch one of the rorschach reunion shows? I found out too late and missed out. :-/

Shadow of the Torturer: I turned those guys onto the Gene Wolfe novel of the same name. Still haven't caught them live though.

Devin Townsend and Anneke: two great tastes that taste great together!

I take back what I said about Anvil upthread, I'll never trust a listen through shitty Borders headphones again.. the record is indeed pretty good. Not great, the lyrics are sometimes painful, but some of the tunes really hit me. "Thumb Hang" was on repeat for a bit last night.

Devin Townsend and Anneke: two great tastes that taste great together!

I just love their new song. Agua de Annique's new album is very nice, though there's not an ounce of 'metal' on there, which makes reviewing it for Decibel kind of strange.

i completely (well, almost completely) take back what i said about The Gates of Slumber above. wasn't really feeling it after the first couple of listens, tbh. but now, i kinda love it...and Conqueror too.

and so you should!

i think i like the Shrinebuilder disc even more tho.

shrinebuilder will depend on how good the missing track no5 is i think

I want to love GoS' Conqueror-- I love the sound of the band and I really love the sound of the dude's voice and I love that it's about goddamn Conan, but there's something too samey about the way the songs are put together, it feels like each one does the same RIFF-five syllables-RIFF-four syllables call and response pattern. Gonna listen a few more times though. Have not heard the new one.

I'm really enjoying Addicted!, the aforementioned Devin Townsend Project. It's definitely his most poppy record in a while, down to the electronic beats. And, of course, Anneke sounds great, especially on the cover of Townsend's transcendent "Hyperdrive" from Ziltoid.

Ah, you're taling about the collaboration on that album...I'd only heard the one on Anneke's album, not the DTP. I'll give it a listen straightaway.

got the secrets of the moon album the other day and loved loved loved it. you can listen to the whole thing here apparently:

http://www.terrorizer.com/radio

very heavy. very groovy.

The Secrets of the Moon album is occasionally really good, but it's also really long and the songs are very samey to me - they blur into one another.

it is long. i mean, most albums are too long. but i had it on in the store while i was doing stuff and it sounded really good. the guitar sound they get is just one of those immediate pleasures for me. i have a pretty high capacity for things that sound like that, but i can see some people thinking some of it is kinda tedious or whatever.

I have exactly the same thing with Dismember. Got all choked up during their guitar sound check once.

The three-CD Swedish Death Metal compilation Prophecy is putting out is awesome. A fit companion to the book, which everyone here should own.

i would like that comp. yes i would.

this is the comp i'm listening to right now:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-LvJQKf6B5U/SAEEL8OUUfI/AAAAAAAAAuo/bL6c29WgSEY/s1600/comps_easternfront3.jpg

Vol. 1-

1) DRI "Yes Mamma"
2) DRI "Soup Kitchen"
3) Stone Vengeance "Malice"
4) Violence "Gutter Slut"
5) Hexx "Edge Of Death"
6) Sentinel Beast "Dogs Of War"
7) Raw Power "Fuck Authority"
8) Laaz Rockit "Awesome"
9) Fuhrer "War"
10) Tyrannacide "Unknown Soldier"
11) Forbidden Evil "March Into Fire"
12) Morally Bankrupt "Malinger With The Devil

Vol. 2-

1) Sacrilege "Skinned Alive"
2) Anti-Momb "So What's Up"
3) Ruffians "Run For Cover"
4) Heathen "Goblin's Blade"
5) Death Angel "Mistress Of Pain"
6) Chronic Plague "The Inquistition"
7) Legacy "Reign Of Terror"
8) Blood Bath "Blood Bath"
9) Messiah "The Temper"
10) Blind Illusion "Smash The Crystal"
11) Aftermath "Win Lose Or Draw"

but it came out in 1986, so don't look for it at Best Buy.

Album cover of the year:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vhciIJDhDL8/SmXNuzznEjI/AAAAAAAAA2Y/nqHIKBVv4zQ/s400/axxis_utopia.jpg

And, link to a huge version: http://91.103.160.40/admin2/public/hudba/hardandheavy/Axxis-Utopia-610455.jpg

that combines two very personal images for me--the dragon/water-serpent is reminiscent of the creature on the cover of "TRUE GHOST STORIES & LEGENDS" i had as a kid (scared the shit out of me camping in the woods in new hampshire tbh) and the glass-dome enclosed aquatic city obviously resonates with aquaman etc.

but which i mean.. i would buy a record that looks like that.

What about the leather-clad woman with the flame whip?

added bonus, but less enthusiastically. still guilt-ridden over adolescent attraction to women on the covers of "Conan The Barbarian" anthologies.

^^^ maybe tmi

I feel bad criticizing, because I'm sure the artist spent, like, a whole semester's worth of geometry classes sketching that, but there are so many bad angles and perspectival errors...ugh. Oh, well.

What's killing me is that the little girl riding tag-along, like WTF is she doing there?

Also grammar. Apparently grammar is killing me now too.

I feel like you have unrealistic expectations for your German power metal covers, Phil... although, considering their country of origin, their moniker may be a little ill-advised...

i think the narrative is something like--
whip girl is trying to rein in the sea monsters so that it does not destroy the city.
little girl was the prisoner of the sea monster, but has been rescued & is now holding on for dear life.

i think.

We should expect better from Dodge Gores, Riff Raff Rock next time.

It is also possible that the little girl is an Atlantean princess that has been captured by the whip girl, who is now trying to destroy Atlantis via dragon while forcing the girl to watch.

totally possible!!!

that's clearly Jörmungandr, the World Serpent, dudes. what in hell it's doing attacking that domed Atlantean(?) city is beyond me, tho. and where the flying fuck is Thōrr, gott of thonar!!??

the swedish death metal comp is really, really good.

Bodom was fun tonight, but Skeletonwitch was better. Way, way better.

(I have to grab that DM comp)

it's like the pebbles of swedish dm, full of garagey gems.
the notes for each band are pretty much just variations on "they don't make 'em like this anymore"
but ekelof's enthusiasm is infectious.

xpost-If Axxis girl is not the sex-slave of the flaming whip woman, I am not buying.

the notes for each band are pretty much just variations on "they don't make 'em like this anymore" but ekeroth's enthusiasm is infectious.

Same goes for the book actually.

(yeah, ekeroth, i meant)

(not 'ekelof')