Rolling Metal Thread [sandbox version]

one of my fave things recently was the single by Four Days To Burn on the Dada Drumming label. they put out that rabies caste album that i dig. anyway, FDTB are great doomsludgescreamo stuff.

1. Sasquatch “Are You Ready”
2. Puny Human “Crazy Horses”
3. Clutch & Five Horse Johnson “Red Hot Mama”
4. Dixie Witch “Rock Candy”
5. The Brought Low “Don’t Lie To Me”
6. Novadriver “Sin City”
7. Colour Haze “One Way Or Another”
8. Alabama Thunderpussy “Man On The Silver Mountain”
9. Dozer “Mongoloid”
10. Acid King “The Stake”
11. Halfway To Gone “Honky Cat”
12. Antler “Those Shoes”
13. Brad Davis (Fu Manchu) “Outlaw Man”
14. Gideon Smith & The Dixie Damned “Season Of The Witch”
15. Whitey Morgan and The Waycross Georgia Farmboys “Running With The Devil”
16. Throttlerod “I Just Wanna Make Love To You”
17. Red Giant “Saturday Night Special”
18. A Thousand Knives Of Fire “Bonie Maronie”
19. The Glasspack “Rock n Roll Singer”
20. Roadsaw “When The Levee Breaks”
21. Greatdayforup “Super Stupid”
22. Fireball Ministry “Turn to Stone”
23. Los Natas “Born To Be Wild”
24. Scott Reeder “Two Of Us”
25. Orange Goblin “New Rose”
26. Mos Generator “Garden Road”
27. Honky “Snortin’ Whiskey”
28. The Muggs “I Don’t Need No Doctor”
29. Amplified Heat “Neighbor, Neighbor”
30. RPG “Parchment Farm”
31. Valis “Dreamweaver”

Structure betrays a craft in tune with the adamantine will. The mordant efflorescence is reset through ambient refrains, suspiring in the aftermath or else opening like a valve between them as toxic pools reflect a fetid attraction to misery and imprisonment of the body—a spiritual negative condensed in the title track’s provocation to prove we’re “more than flesh.” As the tone of each album becomes increasingly sexualized, the lyrics yield to instinct while rejecting all sentimental justification. Antaeus, following Sade and Lautreamont, replace procreation with pestilence, self-gratification at the expense of spiritual fruit [...]

the next time i suggest that french black metal is following a decadent tradition in french art, please slap me in the mouth until it stops moving.

just thought I'd bump this thread to advertise the WORST REVIEW I'VE SEEN IN A FUCKING LONG TIME. Unfunny, idiotic, self-indulgent to the point of absurdity, and almost entirely unconcerned with the music:

http://www.cokemachineglow.com/reviews/isis_intheabsenceoftruth2006.html

i was a little disappointed seeing the sticker on the front ("COMPLETE DISCOGRAPHY AND DEMOS AND COMP TRACKS AND CANDY CANES AND SOCKS RIGHT OUT OF THE DRYER") and the bloody thing was still only twelve minutes. but i guess i was unaware how totally unprolific they were.

maria likes some metal. definitely more than she used to cuzza me. she isn't a big death metal fan. she likes the doomy stuff pretty good. i turned her on to katatonia and she really loves them. they make the girls swoon. and me. they make me swoon. but i'm just a really big girl.

1. Conqueror
2. Old Year
3. Transfigure
4. Weightless & Horizontal
5. Medicine
6. Brighteyes
7. Mother Earth
8. Stanlow

really looking forward to this release though.

anyway, woah, that date is etched in my diary in blood. fucking superb.

8. Stanlow

PLEASE LET THIS BE AN OMD COVER. THEN I WILL DIE HAPPY :)

obligatory "grimly late to the party despite kerr telling him about something ages ago" moment: fucking hell, that agalloch album is bloody genius, isn't it?

OH FOR FUCK'S FUCKING SAKE. FUCK.

in fairness: the name jesu would have meant nothing to me then anyway.

but i'm still a dick.

anyway, agalloch: it's more like prog-folk metal than black metal, TBH, but fuck genre arguments ... what matters is that it rocks like a bastard (with added widdling, noodling and acoustic breaks), and that's good enough for me.

Goatwhore was pretty cool; the vocalist put on a good show. I probably wouldn't listen to them unless live. Cattle Decapitation was terrible, though. I guess they're vegetarian grindcore or something, which ain't my bag.
One thing that stood out was when the guy from Goatwhore was talking between songs, very hard to hear of course but it was something about "I think Trivium is a mockery of metal" (crowd cheers) and then a little "Fuck Christian Metal," which I wholeheartedly repeated. A strange culture clash in the audience as well.
-- blastocsyt (lo...), December 1st, 2006."

Oh man, I saw them open up for Venom. I thought they were terrible.

but yeah, OTM, boring.

I think that's their main audience base. Dudes that are really big and kinda scary, but are wearing dripping eyeliner. Hear that, blastocyst?? You wear EYELINER.

Just had a revelation whilst listening to Mastodon's 'Blood Mountain', which went along the following lines: "OMG I only JUST put this on and we're HALFWAY THROUGH TRACK SIX ALREADY".

it FLIES past. absolutely superb record, how on earth can this sort of music be so utterly listenable?

?????

That Neurosis album I bought (A Sun That Never Sets) is also superb, especially 'The Tide' and 'From The Hill'...

A few weeks ago I also bought (on a whim) Devin Townsend's 'Terria', but I really AM struggling with that one. Give it more time, maybe...

I finally got ahold of Meshuggah's Nothing re-relase, and I'm really enjoying it. The guitar tone is much better. I just have to find the time to make a detailed comparison between the two versions.

I'm not sold on the new Mnemic at all. I liked their 2004 disc, for all its Fear factory/Soilwork rip-offs, but this one just falls flat.

And I was so ready to hate the new Fairyland album (the name alone makes me cringe), but I wound up liking it a whole lot more than the recent Angra and rhapsody discs. Napalm Records does that to me nearly every time, 60 seconds in I think each album is going to be the worst thing ever, and 40 minutes later, I'm digging it. The new (and last) Elis album did the same thing.

Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles - Issue #101
http://www.bravewords.com/magazine/

BravePicks 2006 - The Good, Bad & Ugly!

Anyone know what "the good" is?

Anyone know what "the good" is?

It's a weird list...not that any of the albums are awful (well, OSI certainly isn't that great), but it's a bit too stodgy and traditionalist, and as much as I love the Voivod album (#9 on my own list), it's a shamelessly sentimental choice. And come on, Wolf at #4??? I might be a bit biased, but I greatly prefer the Decibel list. Here's the BWBK top 20:

1. Voivod-Katorz
2. Slayer-Christ Illusion
3. I-Between Two Worlds
4. Wolf-The Black Flame
5. Deicide-The Stench of Redemption
6. Satyricon-Now, Diabolical
7. Enslaved-Ruun
8. Motorhead-Kiss of Death
9. Napalm Death-Smear Campaign
10. Iron Maiden-A Matter of Life and Death
11. Blind Guardian-A Twist in the Myth
12. Mastodon-Blood Mountain
13. Hammers of Misfortune-The Locust Years
14. Converge-No Heroes
15. Amon Amarth-With Oden on Our Side
16. Dismember-The God That Never Was
17. Into Eternity-The Scattering of Ashes
18. Cannibal Corpse-Kill
19. Jorn-The Duke
20. OSI-Free

http://www.brainticket.com/shopbt/images/cat/fall%20of%20idols%20-%20womb%20of.jpe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij08S6ww360

The Mastodon album, the Boris album, the new Converge and the Battle of Mice album have me looking for new stuff.

What do I get next?

And FUCK the haters who've only heard 'Music For A Nurse' and think of them as some cheap Mogwai/EITS knock-off, because they're WRONG.

You also get Isis, first rule of metal, more or less.

Where are Chuck N George anyway?

TOTAL ROCK's DJ Maria has just announced her top 20 albums of 2006
http://www.sexto9.com/index.php?item=bestof2006

1- Scar Symmetry
"Pitch Black Progress"
Nuclear Blast

2- Mercenary
"The Hours That Remain"
Century Media

3- Moonspell
"Memorial"
SPV

4- Submission
"Failure To Perfection"
Listenable

5- Insomnium
"Above The Weeping World"
Candlelight

6- Amorphis
"Eclipse"
Nuclear Blast

7- All That Remains
"The Fall Of Ideals"
Prosthetic

8- The Arcane Order
"The Machinery Of Oblivion"
Metal Blade

9- Disarmonia Mundi
"Mind Tricks"
Scarlet

10- God Dethroned
"The Toxic Touch"
Metal Blade

11- In Flames
"Come Clarity"
Nuclear Blast

12- Textures
"Drawing Circles"
Listenable

13- Heaven Shall Burn
"Deaf To Our Prayers"
Century Media

14- Keep Of Kalessin
"Armada"
Avantgarde

15- Amon Amarth
"With Oden On Our Side"
Metal Blade

16- Avatar
"Thoughts Of No Tomorrow"
Gain

17- Neglected Fields
"Splentic"
Agast

18- Noumena
"Anatomy Of Life"
Spinefarm

19- Threat Signal
"Under Reprisal"
Nuclear Blast

20- Within Y
"Portraying Dead Dreams"
Gain

it has fucking ruled

Yeah, me too. I saw Botch in 99 or 00, at their first NYC show after We Are The Romans came out - at Brownies, with Isis opening up. Both bands were totally crushing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iLK-gJTJXw

And speaking of Converge, no band, metal hardcore or otherwise, makes the 'slow song' as thrilling as Converge does time and again. Their more intense stuff is incredible of course, but when they downshift, nobody can match it.

Got an advance advance of the new Clutch album today, and am loving it. A little punchier than the last album (crisp, lively drumming by that awesome drummer dude of theirs), but still really heavy on the Southern/soul grooves. Have yet to try to decipher Fallon's lyrics...he's one of the most entertainnig frontmen around. he's in fine vocal form here, too, more range to it.

There were two Sentenced albums I really liked in high school (Amok and Down) but I think they may have gotten kinda corny after that.

Sentenced are one of my favorite bands, easily in the top 50 (which is pretty high up there, all things considered). Down, Frozen, and The Cold White Light are all fantastic, everything else varying degrees of good. It's just as catchy as hell rock-leaning metal, with tongue in cheek suicidal lyrics. Saw them on the In Flames/Kill Switch Engage/Dark Tranquillity tour a couple years back, which I think was their only North American appearance. They were great live, and very nice guys when I hung out with them afterwards. Give it a shot, you'll find yourself humming "I kill myself, blow my brains out on the floor" unconsciously later.

Firewind - Allegiance: Did anyone really want a Rising Force cover band in 2006? It isn't bad, just totally unnecessary. At least the cover doesn't have Gus G. fighting a dragon with his guitar... on second thought, that would be pretty awesome.

Megadeth - That One Night (DVD): Yawn. When even Dave Mustaine seems bored, it's sort of hard to get excited.

Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies: at first, I didn't really like this, but after a couple listenings, it's really grown on me. Not really a step forward for them, but still a damn good record.

Phazm - Antebellum Death and Roll: This is one of the most awesome things I've heard in a while. Whoever thought French death and roll with country swagger could be so good? I highly, highly recommend it for anyone with ears.

Firewind - Allegiance: Did anyone really want a Rising Force cover band in 2006? It isn't bad, just totally unnecessary.

You know, Century Media wants to get a little of that DragonForce love (who can blame them?), but bands like Firewind really show just how good DragonForce is at writing some absolutely contagious melodies. Power metal can wank all it wants, but if the hooks aren't there, I won't be interested.

Adrien - Got that same Nuclear Blast package, haven't had a chance to listen to it yet. I do love the band photo on the back of the Therion CD: Hot chick playing golf with the rest of the band as caddies. Classic!

Firewind has some catchy songs, but I can't quite get into Dragonforce. I think the songs are all speed and riffs, not enough hooks and songwriting. I think they're one of those groups that you either totally dig or totally don't. They are not a casual band.

What I can't fathom about Firewind is why Gus G. would choose them over Dream Evil or Arch freaking Enemy?! I mean, yeah, okay, better to reign in Hell than serve in heaven or something, but when heaven is Dream Evil or Arch Enemy, and hell is Firewind, the choice seems fairly apparent to me.

I tried to listen to that Therion album, mostly because of that golfing photo, but it bored me a lot. So I'm listening to Napalm Death's Smear Campaign again. Napalm is just gonna keep releasing awesome record after awesome record to absolutely no attention from anybody but diehards. They're like Van Morrison or Richard Thompson that way (except that I don't particularly like what VM or RT do, but lots of people swear each new album is a criminally ignored masterpiece, and that's kind of how I feel about Smear Campaign).

You know, between Yyrkoon, Swad, Gojira, and now Phazm, the French scene looks like it's going to be the one to watch. I'm holding out for the Trust reunion, personally.

This afternoon I dug out Catacombs' In The Depths Of R'lyeh (Moribund Cult). This came out in February, but I didn't pay any attention at the time, for reasons I can’t accurately recall right now. (It might have been because they sent me some goofy solo-black-metal stuff at the same time – Fear Of Eternity, Striborg – and I couldn’t muster the energy to slot one more of their offerings into the player). It's doom metal at its most ponderous - basically, the tempo of early Swans with a lot more sustain in the guitar lines - and the vocals go down into Cookie Monster's sub-basement until they don't even sound like a human voice, let alone discernible words. Six songs in 72 minutes and some change (Track Two, “Dead Dripping City,” runs close to 17 minutes all by itself). It's not as good as Ahab's The Call Of The Wretched Sea, but it’s pretty good, and the title of the last track made me laugh – "Awakening Of The World's Doom (Reprise)."

hey jeff:: check out the amesoeurs who i talked about upthread.

The Mnemic CD, on the other hand, is awful. They've always been blatant Fear Factory/Soilwork rip-offs, but the last album had some cool moments (I loved the Duran Duran cover), but this one just goes through the motions.

Phazm's pretty cool, but the one 2007 release I've been enjoying the most lately has been the debut by Architect. Solid, politically charged crustcore, or whatever you want to call it.

http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000H7JBWE.01._SS400_SCLZZZZZZZ_V35680850_.jpg

(Is there a "worst metal cover art of 2006" thread? There should be. Although Black Label Society - Shot to Hell would probably win hands down.)

Awesome! Now they're the Grammy-award-winning Slayer!

SLB-relatedly, i've been diggin louis dambra's earlier band the koala lately.

"Indeed, Metal Mike Saunders's Creem review of their debut CD,"

fuck a cd!

Metal Storm Awards 2006
http://www.metalstorm.ee/awards/

Best albums by genre

Alternative Metal

Atmospheric/Symphonic Metal

Avantgarde Metal

Black Metal

Death Metal

Doom Metal

Extreme Doom Metal

Folk/Pagan/Viking Metal

Gothic Metal

Grindcore

Heavy Metal

Melodeath/Gothenburg

Post-Metal

Power Metal

Progressive Metal

Suomi Metal

Thrash Metal

Other awards

The Best Cover Song

The Best Debut Album

The Best DVD

The Best EP/MCD

The Best Video

The Biggest Letdown

The Biggest Surprise

Type O Negative

new track streaming at
http://www.typeonegative.net/

You're not kidding. It's been nuts. Glad there's a little lull right now, cos I need some time to take in so many top-notch albums.

Their last one was reasonably heavy. Not Mastodon or Isis heavy, but maybe the last Neurosis heavy.

I was eyeing that boxed set, but since the Gold set was $15 as opposed to 40, I went with the Gold. I feel like I made the right choice. I do, however, need to fill out my BOC collection. I have the Workshop of the Telescopes anthology, which I loved to death, literally, so I need to go out and pick up the reissues of Tyranny and Mutation, Secret Treaties, Agents of Fortune, Specters, and Fire of Unknown Origin.

red line, s/t and surrender to the night are my faves. TA is probably my least fave. Tho I should really play it again.
New one is pretty good.
I saw Trans Am when they played the red line tour. The Fucking Champs were support (and were great too)

haha! x-post

So you would recommend starting with The Red Line if I were to check out Trans Am? You guys name check them enough.

If it wasn't for one of The Fucking Champs being in Weakling , I would never have heard the Weakling album (which is awesome)
x-post

and the other genre *FEATURING FORMER MEMBERS OF RODAN*

Australasia is a lot more metal-ish, though kind of sloppy sounding. I was surprised after hearing The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw first. That was definitely for fans of Mogwai.

My favorite album of this week is Hacride's Amoeba, mostly for track four, "Zambra," which is not a cover of an Ojos De Brujo song like the sleeve says, but is in fact a collaboration with OdB, and it's fucking killer flamenco-metal with a pissed-off woman rapping in Spanish. The rest of the album is proggish artcore, like Gojira but slightly faster. Man this is a good year so far.

Most everthing I've purchased recently has been of '06 vintage (Leviathan, Nachtmystium, Teeth of the Hydra, etc.), and I'm curious...

Rotting Christ
Rwake
Melechesh
Year of Desolation
Laethora

there's lots more but five albums which are all completely solid right there

Failure I was always back and forth on. I think the best thing they did was "The Nurse Who Loved Me," and that was something I realized only in retrospect after A Perfect Circle covered it.

I hear good things of it! Time to pick it up, I suppose.

Agree with all those. Other great 2007's for me include The End (probably my top choice of the moment), Wold, Hacride, November's Doom, Phazm, Minsk, Clutch, Therion, Firewind (yeah, I came around on that one), Architect, Hidden Hand, Year of Desolation, Titan, Lordi (NA release next month), Amber Asylum. The new Naglfar is pretty darn good, too.

Does that Firewind remind anyone else of Assault Attack-era MSG? They have a slightly modernized power metal sound, but it's rooted in classic 1981 metal, with a singer who sounds like a cross between Graham Bonnett and David Coverdale.

Got the new Wuthering Heights album today, which should be loads of fun. I'm a big fan of Nils Patrik Johannson, whether he's singing for WH or Astral Doors.

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m278/BlabberPhotos2/MISC/dimmu.jpg

Oh, and pdf, Hannah at Die Crawling is working the new Hacride album.

Devil Driver are fast becoming the new Chimaira, in that they're an offensively boring band that keeps getting on great bills, and I have to keep going out in the lobby and waiting until they're done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jbNN75zU6k

suffocation doing a commercial for the history channel

Me either. Tried to listen to it yesterday, and the vocals just ruined the whole thing for me.

That new Pelican's not too bad. Folks who thought the last Isis was a bit boring might prefer this, but I dunno, right now, I'm still preferring Isis.

thirded.

the vocals just ruined the whole thing for me.

seconded. too emo for my taste.

(actually I liked the album 'til about the fifth listen and then the vox began to really rankle why because I TOO AM OLD)

not unless they lept 6 days into the future.

having seen isis 3x's already it would have been nice to see the isis/jesu bill flipped.

I saw Isis at a free show they played at MOCA in downtown Los Angeles. The wall of amps were sort of neat, but I didn't find them the most gripping live act.

Destruction, into Eternity, and Hirax tonight! Now that's all sorts of rocking.

Bad news for Priest fans: Nostradamus concept album might be a double record. Final nail, meet coffin.

Bad news for Vinnie Paul fans: Hellyeah.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TviTCFAGr6w

so cute!

hey jeff,sounds like it will only be 1/3rd [Broadrick] of jesu too that plays. guessing it won't be that noticeable

Could be a trainwreck in the making, but I'm kind of interested in this. Stranger things have happened.

Brutal Truth does an absolutely insane version of "Sister Fucker" on the new Eyehategod tribute CD. Brilliant. An enormously enjoyable two-disc set, that one.

Anyway, Wormwood's Starvation is really fucking good, especially towards the end, where it gets all gooey and fucked-up. '06 though, so scratch that.

Oh, and I just got around to Leviathan's "The Speed of Darkness" mini-LP. Supposedly half of a split they/he/Wrest did with somebody or other a few years back (like I'd know). Fucking awesome. Best Leviathan I've heard so far, and my favorite metal record released in '06 that wasn't released in '06. As long as you accept that metal = doleful shoegaze pounding with angry crows circling overhead.

also in stonerville, i'm still digging that giant brain album on small stone records. rightous guitarist from Big Chief + Neu motorik beats.

Came out in October and am just now hearing this. Maybe this is too hardcore for y'all but I am digging it. A friend described it to me as "The first Coalesce album locked in a basement for two weeks without food." They are from SLC, which is appropriate I suppose. Heavy tech/grind and Boris-y thrash give way to some doom drone toward the end. The vocals and drummer (especially his cymbal work) make them stand out to me.

Not exactly revolutionary but satisfying.

the metal equivalent of the tooth fairy :)

Though Jesu isn't metal (IMO), it's been brought up here a few times, and I like it for what it is - a shimmery, crystalline shoegazing bonanza. It was a great accompaniment to my snow-shoeing across the frozen lake this afternoon.

Way more groove. Still some hints of hardcore, but for the most part, those boys have gone all Clutch on us, and they're the better for it. Nothing earth-shattering, but a very respectable, enjoyable 7/10 record.

I ain't grimly but I am listening now and yes, this is quite something.

http://www.threadsoflife2007.com/
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