the occasional thread for mean, nasty, ugly, evil metal that doesn't smell good and that takes itself way too seriously

s/be/by

got an awesome care package from Jerusalem yesterday. really cool stuff on Heart & Crossbone Records:

http://hcbrecords.com/

*Grave In The Sky - Cutlery Hits China: English For The Hearing Impaired*

awesome bass/drum/vocals sludge/doom (very psychedelic)

http://www.myspace.com/graveinthesky

*Lietterschpich - I Cum Blood In The Think Tank!!!!!!!!!!!*

totally fucked noise/weirdness

http://www.myspace.com/doomdub

*Barbera - Peger*

more bass/drums dementia (love this stuff!)

http://www.myspace.com/barbara666

this is exciting music to me. go israel!

other cool stuff on the label:

http://www.myspace.com/poochlatz

http://www.myspace.com/mildew666

http://www.myspace.com/cadavereyes

(and the three albums i got are guitar-free! of the six-string variety anyway.)

is there any point to providing myspace links to stuff? i'm just curious. is it helpful? do people actually check stuff out? i do if it really seems like something i would like. i just wonder if its a waste of time.

These are the kind of people one might see at the guitar store, the music store or anywhere else for that matter and think to oneself, "Man, what a dipshit! Grow up, retard."

Then, one might go home and put on their album and say, "Damn, these guys ROCK!"

xp

i check them out if the description sounds interesting. like later i intend to dig graves in the sky cause that sounds like my bag.

anyway... does kreator count for this thread circa "coma of souls?" i just rebought it on cd and it's pretty killer. but around this point they're starting to look less like guys who'd get arrest for breaking beer bottles in a cemetary and more like guys who paint houses for a living and get arrested for having one spindly weed plant in their back window.

the grave in the sky album is soooooooooooooooo good.

you can certainly talk about kreator here. and sodom and destruction if you'd like.

I don't listen to myspace stuff no, and it's not 'cause I'm a snob - it's 'cause the player doesn't feed to my speakers, and that's how I wanna hear stuff

i just wish everyone could hear how friggin' massive the actual grave in the sky cd is. so loud. seriously, i can't even put the volume up halfway, i'd break my speakers. i love how they get the psychedelic element right in their doom. so hypnotic. and so fierce.

Sometimes it appears as if everyone who likes evil etc metal in the world (and even some who don't) must be in evil etc metal bands. Except for Scott.

should i start one?

It's all up to you. Since you can work alone on computer, it has to be doable.

You'd have to be better than Striborg and Zweiz. People probably even know you better than them, anyway.

if cadaver eyes can do it, why not me?

CADAVER EYES IS A ONE-MAN-GRIND-BAND, THIS IS THE SETUP;

1. OLD SLINGERLAND DRUM SET [3 TOMS, 2 SNARE, DBL BASS PEDAL, A FEW CYMBALS AND BELLS].

2. 3 TRIGGERS [TRIGGER PERFECT], 2 ON THE SNARES AND ANOTHER ON THE BASS DRUM
+2 CYMBAL TRIGGER [VISU LITE BLACK].

3. DMPRO [THE TRIGGERS ARE CONNECTED TO THIS BOX].

4. ENSONIQ ASR 10R SAMPLER [CONNECTED TO THE DM PRO].

5. DIGI-TECH WHAMMY PEDAL [CONNECTED TO ONE OF THE OUTS OF THE SAMPLER].

6. COMPRESSOR [ALESIS SHYTE].

why do people hate on striborg so much, I kinda dig it

i like striborg. i haven't heard nefaria but i like the other one southern lord did, i dig his defiant use of as few notes as possible. like he's so into the first one he doesn't really want to get off it but knows technically it isn't a riff otherwise.

Defiant use of as few notes as possible. Almost makes it sound like he's just playing "Louie Louie" instead of the trash that's on the CD. I bet Striborg can't actually play "Louie Louie." He would self-destruct.

http://warehouse.carlh.com/article_141/lolmetal_03.jpg

http://warehouse.carlh.com/article_141/lolmetal_01.jpg

http://warehouse.carlh.com/article_141/lolmetal_celticfrost.jpg

http://warehouse.carlh.com/article_141/metalgoat.jpg

http://www.myspace.com/bolznmusic

http://warehouse.carlh.com/article_141/shahram_immortal.jpg

i dig that bolz'n noize. cheers!

ok, scott, i am with you on grave in the sky. pretty killer stuff. reminded me of sword heaven for a minute, strangely the only slow/crush/bang/BRRRR band NOT listed under "SOUNDS LIKE."

also, i am listening to tank. tank rules.

feel bad that i haven't been feeling the last round of willowtip releases. i swear i am not a part of the tech-death backlash.

the grave in the sky album is just wonderful and definitely the best of the three that i got from those dudes. but i do like the other two as well. it's just that the grave in the sky is just TOTAL, you know. one of those albums that seems like some sort of definitive statement.

got an order from Gorgiastic. Guttural Secrete is a fucking brutal, ugly, hard to defend but pretty fuckin' great band.

i like their latest album as well. never heard their earlier stuff.

if this thread has been dormant it's because after writing about 12 or 13 blackmetal.com albums, three other metal albums, three stoner rock classics, and a list of 50 forgotten hard rock/proto-metal albums in a three day stretch i decided that i needed to hear some lighter fare. well, not completely light, but i raided our school bus and i've been revisiting vinyl i haven't listened to in a long time. some metal vinyl too.

I've listned to a fuck of a lotta goregrind this year

Foetopsy is the most likeable grind band in forever, seriously, see 'em if you get a chance...they're straight-out FUN!

I e-mailed a bunch of those Latino retro-thrash bands Scott listed above (Infantry, Death Hunter, Slaver, Merciless Death and a couple of others); there'll be a decent-sized piece on the "movement" in the Voice in a couple of weeks.

cool! i keep meaning to e-mail the decibel dudes and tell them to do a story. i don't want to do it, but someone could do a cool scene report.

I think Decibel did the story on neo-retro-thrash already didn't they?

did they? i don't remember.

Uh, yeah - I produced Accidental Suicide...must have been in '91 or thereabouts. I don't know whatever happened to them. They were nice guys and were friends with Viogression, I believe. Their album was out on Peaceville/Deaf. I got really busy with Death's Human release & tour and I lost track of AS. I recall that their singer was a nice guy - big as hell but soft spoken. One dude had Satan's bangs, his hair was so unique. We had to play with their guitar actions because they tuned down so low.

ERIC

wait wait Eric Greif posted here and none of us even flinched? wtf to us all

haha... i didn't even notice that. i remember him being like the guru of wisconsin metal or something. i miss morta skuld, at least their demos.

anyone heard the new sodom reunion album? final sign of evil or something like that. angelripper/witchhunter/grave violator line-up, covering the first ep plus songs that were allegedly written at the time and it was recorded/mixed by the band's webmaster for some reason. i haven't heard it - i want to! - but the review on maelstrom said something to the effect that it was "fucking terrible and you'll love it."

it sounds like Sodom! what's not to love?

i even like the new re-recorded moonspell thing of their old satanic stuff. even if i usually think such projects are pretty pointless.

i've been digging the stuff that no colours sent me: satanic warmaster, diabolic force, alastor, those who bring the torture.

also got a buttload of french canuck tech-death that i still need to wade through. got like four CDs by the band Obliveon for some reason. they are pretty good though.

best thing ever though is the defiance box that phil threw my way. just sounds so good to me right now. bay area thrash at its bayareaist.

http://www.defiance1.com/images/Insomnia.jpg

listening to cast in stone by venom, it occurs to me that someone should go back in time and take mantas' fucking pantera and sepultura albums away from him. this shit's kind of embarassing, JUGGA-JUGGA-JUHJUGGA riffs and cronos sounds exhausted. also, WHERE'S THE BASS? i mean, i can HEAR bass but it's coke zero to at war with satan's ginger beer. this is pretty shit, i'm glad i only paid a couple of bucks for it. plus listening to the second disc's "updated" versions of old venom songs is going to be painful and maybe laughable.

i did get messiah's hymns to abramelin used, too, which is pretty killer death/thrash stuff. i want lists of good old death/thrash i might have missed. i'll recommend the r.u. dead? cd here cause it's killer. and they used to be the german band poison, who had one great death/thrash/doom ep and a bunch of subpar demos.

ok, goodnight.

post calm before the storm venom albums are all about mantas proving he can really play the guitar, and thus forsaking the low grade, shittily brilliant riffs and hooks he was good at. "i think more arpeggios here, yeah, conrad?"

i secretly like calm before the storm. don't tell anyone.

Haven't hear the last Alastor album but they're \m/ as fuck.

listening to liers in wait "spiritually uncontrolled." pretty good swede death metal recorded in 1990 or so, yeah dismember and entombed influences with a little bit of grindy american death metal leaking in. they're swedish, so their "mean, nasty, ugly, evil" appearance centers around black jeans, leather jackets, sunglasses and the faintest hint of a beard. maybe that's all they can grow over there, i dunno. but it's a good ep, apparently they later became diabolique who i know nothing about but they're listed as "doom/gothic/rock" or something on metal-archives.

oh, and outside of one track with overblown euro-harmonizing guitars, i really dig the new nifelheim. they're all balding now.

http://i32.tinypic.com/33zfes6.jpg

SKVLLETS!!

http://i37.tinypic.com/29m7o9c.jpg

slaughter's strappado was just reissued again on metal mind. i was gonna post about it on rolling metal but those guys don't know where it's at. they don't know what it's like to have three canadians kick your ass and none of them's gedde lee. all they care about is prog-folk-power-black metal. none of those dudes has a copy of the funeral bitch demo, for instance. this thread is the real.

bonus tracks on this - like four from the album sessions, i think, and a hilarious live show complete with idiotic banter and guys in the crowd screaming "I'M READY TO DIE!!!" and "CELTIC FROST!!!"

i guess this would be the thread where I talk about how much I love Satanic Warmaster. Strength & Honour is one brutal fuckin black metal album. Last one I heard by him though was Carelian Satanist Madness. I've heard that the newer stuff is different, anyone out there a fan? Anyone into real black metal and not fuckin Nachtmystium?!