I just wanted to mention that, just a couple years ago, people would give me hell on ILM's rolling metal thread whenever I complained that such and such band (or metal in general, then) "wasn't catchy enough,"
I think "people" in this phrase is really just ornery old me
thinking really hard lately about the latest retro wave in metal, which I think much of this stuff counts as - Ghost, Devil's Blood, my own favorite In Solitude, and also the new one by RAM which is excellent Hall of the Mountain Grill x Sad Wings of Destiny stuff: I think there's a fair amount of good songwriting in it, and generally less of the nostalgia-retro impulse that makes me dislike neo-thrash as much as I do. Feel like some of this stuff - especially Ghost and In Solitude - manage to sound sort of of-another-time without coming off irritating and romantic about it, which is a hard trick
naturally me being me I hope no crossover at all occurs & no new converts are gained
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 3 February 2012 13:35 (twelve years ago) link
Are there many good metal vids out there? I stopped following just as web2.0 was kicking off so I have no idea. Is it literally just goths in churches or do they have better stuff than that?
I don't know if Red Fang's video's are "good" but they are certainly "fun" (in a very beery way):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQPfQvLIseA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VufilzHKTqk
― Phibes Kartel (NickB), Friday, 3 February 2012 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
i hear whiney's working on something abt this tbh http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif
― dave cool, Friday, 3 February 2012 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
I actually had somebody else in mind, believe it or not. (And I had my ornery moments, now and then.)
Are there many good metal vids out there?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GadSyHS6ow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8-zehtCs7U
― xhuxk, Friday, 3 February 2012 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know if Red Fang's video's are "good" but they are certainly "fun" (in a very beery we receive money from pabst way)
― adolf jingle balls (contenderizer), Friday, 3 February 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
i hear whiney's working on something abt this tbh
― dave cool, Friday, February 3, 2012 9:18 AM (2 hours ago)
some of the coolest news I've heard yet! Thanks!
― Today is Cocaine's Birthday! (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 3 February 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
in solitude are great too
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Friday, 3 February 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
chuck have you heard the jpop metal that j3ff t is a big fan of?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 3 February 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not sure what J-Pop Metal that would be. I saw the Babymetal video that got passed around on Facebook last year, if that counts, but otherwise I've heard way more K-Pop than J-Pop, and what I've heard hasn't been very metal.
― xhuxk, Friday, 3 February 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
i suppose its a bit more computer game/anime metal but jeff can tell you more(i cant stand it)
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 3 February 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
I believe pfunkboy is asking about a band called Blood Stained Child. They're definitely different - a sort of anime death metal combo? Not easily described.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 3 February 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
i was more thinking of the stuff i alerted jeff to via a blog i read. I think that stuff is even cheesier than blood stained child. some of its instrumental anime power metal (with anime artwork) i call it lolita cosplay metal to annoy jeff (and he cant really argue with those descriptions!)
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 3 February 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
like this kind of thinghttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pK7junLlELE/TyG6dM3R-VI/AAAAAAAAHHE/o4qm-FDNXGM/s512/acov_tid164522.png
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 3 February 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
yes that's the album cover for Ryu-5150 – Symphonic Touhou V
god only knows what it sounds like.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 3 February 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
I saw Blood Stain Child (who I kept getting mixed up with Old Man's Child, who I always used to mix up with Old Man Gloom, who I actually liked an album by once) on Rhapsody last year; either never got around to it or heard a couple tracks then decided it wasn't worth the trouble -- Not sure which. Are they considered "Visual Kei" (which I'm only vaguely familiar with because I edited a global Billboard story about it once)?
― xhuxk, Friday, 3 February 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
Never heard of that other one.
― xhuxk, Friday, 3 February 2012 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
oh i love Old Man Gloom (isis/converge spin off) bizarrely i got into Isis and Converge via them about a decade ago. They definitely don't fit the premise of this thread!
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 3 February 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-YB4BZ1biNq0/Twx_-RqHUjI/AAAAAAAAG2o/P8J3saSb-vk/s576/acov_tid163074.png
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-I55czN4zKlk/TwduZS_4n8I/AAAAAAAAGyo/l7_Rfbpubb8/s600/acov_tid162627.png
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-B3zIhXzuG-M/TwdUe6S3fwI/AAAAAAAAGyA/t9MyvlIjv9o/s503/acov_tid162752.png
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Oexs7mO6UTA/TwTKcotf3PI/AAAAAAAAGwQ/0UGhQ139WTI/s420/acov_tid162570.png
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 3 February 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
I'm pretty sure Chuck wouldn't be into any of those. Ryu-5150, Iron Attack, and Kissing the Mirror are all Touhou metal, which basically means instrumental shred covers of songs from this one videogame series. Dragon Guardian is basically insane power metal. And Undead Corporation are melodic death metal in the vein of In Flames. None of which really tracks with Chuck's taste.
Aldious and Asriel, on the other hand, are female-fronted Gothic-ish metal with a heavy dose of pop. I would start there if you are going to start with Japanese stuff. Not the ones that AG is linking to.
― Gamera died for our sins (J3ff T.), Friday, 3 February 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, thanks Jeff -- I might have more use for "insane power metal" than "female-fronted Gothic-ish metal with a heavy dose of pop" these days (couldn't really get into the new Lacuna Coil or Nightwish at all -- though my wife says I should ask you guys where I can get the new Gathering with that Octavia Sperati lady) but I'll keep those in mind.
― xhuxk, Friday, 3 February 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, it's the Japanese version of Gothic, which translates to this:
http://img.karaoke-lyrics.net/img/artists/37316/aldious-225092.jpg
Which I would say sums up what Aldious sound like pretty well.
― Gamera died for our sins (J3ff T.), Friday, 3 February 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
naff?
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 3 February 2012 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
Ryu-5150, Iron Attack, and Kissing the Mirror are all Touhou metal, which basically means instrumental shred covers of songs from this one videogame series.
This broke my brain.
― Clarke B., Friday, 3 February 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
you haven't even been subjected to it!
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 3 February 2012 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
Here's an explanation: http://www.cracked.com/funny-1750-touhou/
Here's a rundown of some of the more notable bands from the genre:http://afsafe.blogspot.com/2011/06/big-four-of-touhou-metalrock.html
Also keep an eye out for an upcoming issue of Decibel where I give my thoughts on the latest releases from some of those bands.
― Gamera died for our sins (J3ff T.), Friday, 3 February 2012 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
scary
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 4 February 2012 01:17 (twelve years ago) link
:-o
― original bgm, Saturday, 4 February 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.lucylearns.com/images/castle-ghost-clipart-scary-ghost-picture-1-small.gif
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, 5 February 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
http://gifs.gifbin.com/6b65e28dbc10e86.gif
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, 5 February 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
Holy SHIT, that Uncle Acid track that kicks off the thread... So good. The last minute or so of unfurling solos... I owe you guys for the tip!
― Clarke B., Monday, 6 February 2012 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
― dave cool, Friday, February 3, 2012 9:18 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
bit.ly/I1uw28
― suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
like that whiney
torche gets better the more pop/90s jawboxy they get
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
i wish the whole world would get more jawboxy tbh
― Rachel Profiling (jjjusten), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
i agree!
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
i met the jawbox dude that was living here several times at parties and got all shoestarey every time to avoid being THAT DUDE and getting all slobbery abt how awesome they were
― Rachel Profiling (jjjusten), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
oh yeah wasn't he in a band here the Millions or something? i sadly never got out to see them
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
he played w/tom in some project as well which would have been fucking rad but i dont think they ever played out
― Rachel Profiling (jjjusten), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
oh shit that would've been some serious chops in the rhythm section
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
that was awesome, whiney!
― the endless white snow has never felt more textile (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 4 May 2012 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
Are Poptimists still into it?
What should a Poptimist check out?
― Odysseus, Thursday, 9 February 2017 22:37 (seven years ago) link
I'm waiting for the day for Lex to embrace a metal band.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 9 February 2017 22:42 (seven years ago) link
Babymetal didn't even tempt him.
― Odysseus, Thursday, 9 February 2017 23:08 (seven years ago) link
I could see him liking Myrkur or Darkher maybe
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 10 February 2017 01:39 (seven years ago) link
Astronoid?
― o. nate, Friday, 10 February 2017 01:42 (seven years ago) link
hell no
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 10 February 2017 01:53 (seven years ago) link
v pompous drumming, for starters
I think there would be more chance of Lex liking a metal band than Tuomas
― Odysseus, Friday, 10 February 2017 08:04 (seven years ago) link
Myrkur's not a bad choice actually. It's like Tori Amos's idea of black metal
― steely dad (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 10 February 2017 09:05 (seven years ago) link
Did Lex like the last Chelsea Wolfe album?
― steely dad (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 10 February 2017 09:09 (seven years ago) link
yup iirc
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 10 February 2017 11:08 (seven years ago) link