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...

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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