Rolling 2006 Metal Thread, Part 2

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Rolling 2006 Metal Thread

Cellador's name reminds me of a line in "Talk Dirty to Me" by Poison!

And speaking of sludge, have i mentioned how much i dig the new Negative Reaction album? It's so very good.

And the new Intronaut album is very, very good. Lives up to the promise that the Null EP showed.

Speaking of short (as in short songs), I swear this might be an even catchier 2006 Voivod album than Voivod's 2006 Voivod album:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/fentanyl

-- Thomas Tallis (tallis4...), May 30th, 2006.

YOU ARE A MAN OF YOUR WORD!!!

it's like changing the font in the bible.

i got the elysium/monarch split on shifty (and a bunch of other labels). elysium does four tracks in five minutes of crusty/grindy shit that didn't really do it for me. monarch does one track in about 58 minutes of corrupted-style crushing sludge-doom. i think they broke up recently, unfortunately.

i'm still listening to monotheist alot, but haven't bought much metal recently.

Crack the Sky Returns for A One Night Only
Reunion Show on Saturday, July 8th, 2006

Leader John Palumbo Plays Classic Crack The Sky Tunes
Plus Songs From His New Solo CD Citizen X
Citizen X out July 25th/ Lifesong Records

The Recher Theatre, Towson, MD
Showtime is 10PM
512 York Road
Towson, MD 21204

haven't heard them but i guess i will now.

that jotunspor is indeed pretty hot, btw.

Polytheist or deist? Such a dilemma. I can understand where it could tear you apart.

So not even if you paid me and delivered a couple cases.

"This band, along with Sir Lord Baltimore, Yesterday's Children et al were among the East Coast's premier heavy blasters of the post-psychedelic era. Check out I Just Don't Know and Evolmia from their amazing first album on Atlantic. The second album has longer, less structured cuts with seemingly endless guitar soloing... nevertheless, both are recommended."

speaking of that kind of thing, i just picked up primevil's smokin' bats at campton's on radioactive - not really evil, more of a good time heavy rock vibe like the first side of bolder damn, and coincidentally the track "high steppin' stomper" sounds like bolder damn's "breakthrough." good stuff. and did anyone other than me buy the mad dog 617 album?

I even sold my Toad CD last week. Vic Vergat, out of my collection for the first time in years!

Heh, I've been listening to a track per day myself. 15 minutes at a time, it's really good, but yeah, it has to be a real slog over 66 minutes. Has its moments...I definitely don't hate it.

Yeah, I read that press release and got all happy...then I pressed play. I also got the new disc by Intronaut, who are apparently touring with MOTA soon and who I therefore infer are probably just as boring. Oh, well. It's a long weekend, maybe I'll get to 'em. Gotta be better than the Japanese Torture Comedy Hour disc I got. If you've got two projects as great as Pig Destroyer and Agoraphobic Nosebleed going already, why waste loyalists' time with a lazy-ass ripoff of what Merzbow was doing a decade ago?

If anybody's curious what other albums I bought (for $50 total), visit the link below; the other most notable metal find is probably the 1984 debut EP by Shrapnel, whose singer is one Dave Wyndorf:

It's A New "Recent Purchases" Thread (aka Why Does Anyone Still Buy CDs?)

Didn't Shrapnel take shit from Christgau because they wore helmets and army uniforms? I seem to recall a GI Joe/Sgt. Rock/Nick Fury army toys and comic book love going on with that band. Speaking of Wyndorf, I almost bought the reissue of Tab today. Then I passed, maybe later.

Gonna release the Storm LP in mid-July and give Ted's Double Live Gonzo the plush treatment. They've actually done Doc Holliday, so - who knows -- maybe someday soon Marcus will be resurrected. They've done Spider and Stampede from their Encyclopedia and Storm is described as "a very wild aggressive hard rock band from Los Angeles who sound like a cross between Queen and Van Halen. Jeannette Chase is almost in the same league as Karen Lawrence!"

I had that record and don't remember quite that fondly but I'm always up for reapproaching/reappraising antiques.

three skinny white guys and two black guys in the marcus band; two of the white guys may or may not be blond, hard to tell; on the album cover, at least, none of 'em seem to be wearing glasses though.

more on that mysterious marcus LP:

http://www.marcusmalone.com/html/'Marcus'%20Album%20UA%20(EMI).htm

http://www.marcusmalone.com/html/'Marcus'%20Album%20UA%20(EMI).htm

also, has this been discussed?

http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/37111/Show_No_Mercy

I HEAR THERE'S SOME GOOD STUFF ON SOUTHERN LORD YUK YUK

http://www.dickdestiny.com/blog/2006/07/every-cheap-trick-in-book-faced-with.html

http://www.dickdestiny.com/blog/2006/07/hard-rock-for-people-who-dont-like.html

I have to agree that the Deep Purple cover isn't anything special, though. It sounds a lot like Jethro Tull, and it isn't that I don't like Jethro Tull, but I feel like when a band covers a song, it should sound like the band that's covering it, and not like another band that isn't even the band they're covering.

I loved metal BECAUSE it was the one escape I saw from the world of midpaced pop music. The idea of playing FAST made the genre for me. It showed me there was music that was not midpaced or slow, it showed me people can love distortion and the effect it caused. The "simple, but not" thing. I have always ignored bands like iron maiden, moterhead, sabbath, the "gods" of metal because to me, they where just making rock music. Thats what I thought we called "hard rock" its not a different thing. Doom metal is the same. It's a worship of the idea of being "heavy" found in hard rock. Hard rock only, its just a distorted guitar and a slow heavy pound. Well fuck that, that is not what heavyness is, thats only what heavy rock is, and rock never became heavy sucessfully without being fast. Slayer is the first metal band.

The argument against a form of music because it is easy is wrong to, thats like pointing to the big bang and sying "god does not exsist" it does not answer the question of why people want this music and as a whole should be ignored.

The "Slayer invented metal" dude sounds completely incoherent, Phil, but I'll check out that link if I have a chance. Won't expect much, though. (Were Slayer really faster than Motorhead, though? If so, I never noticed. Then again, to paraphase George, if you're standing here on earth with human ears, the speed of light and twice the speed of light are going to sound basically the same to you, right?) (Or I'll just concede: So okay, I hate "heavy metal," I guess. So what?) (Though ha, at least we both feel the same about Iron Maiden.)

Nope; it's right here in Elizabeth, NJ, at a nice old theater about four blocks away. They get good shows sometimes - I saw Aterciopelados there a couple of years ago, and Public Enemy (with Stetsasonic, EPMD and Big Daddy Kane) way back in 1988.

I don't know if I'd credit it specifically to Slayer, but I've long been convinced that death metal is a leap forward for electric guitar music because it's almost totally free of blues riffs. Especially the super-dissonant screechcore bands (Ion Dissonance, Dillinger Escape Plan, etc., etc.) - while I may not actually like what they do, they seem like the next step after traditional hard rock/metal.

I think I'm gonna go see this Mago band. I just hope I don't walk out with an armload of expensive import CDs.

hahahaha! DOH!

My general thoughts on the subject are: if you take your music so seriously,, what the hell are you doing listening to a genre where two of the primary lyrical subjects are elves and Satan?

Slayer is the first metal band

You can stop carving the band's name in your arm with an x-acto knife now if you want.

"With their long hair and scruffy jeans, the rock fans queued up outside the Fillmore Auditorium could almost be mistaken for the throngs that floated to this concert palace in the 60's.

"And just like the old days, the bands they've come to see -- a heavy metal triple helping of Goatwhore, High on Fire and Venom -- might trigger a few tsk-tsk's from the over-30 crowd.

"Goatwhore? Whatever happened to bands with class, like Foghat?"

[Answer with rimshot: Two of 'em died.]

-- Urnst Kouch (cryptnew...), November 12th, 2006.

What about a different band?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/forearm20.jpg

Wait until you get that 36 crazy fists CD. It's really shameless how they went from hackneyed nu-metal to hackneyed metalcore.

And Ashes has converted a good dozen in my social circle.

loving the new converge. got it on vinyl yesterday. it's as good as everyone was saying it was. elsewhere anyway. maybe not here. i can't remember. kurt ballou is still my god thanks to this one and the hope conspiracy album.

He quit the band over the summer.

that is all.

No. They suck.

1. Celtic Frost
2. Enslaved
3. Killing Joke
4. Negura Bunget
5. Deicide
6. Iron Maiden
7. Jesu
8. Melechesh
9. Converge
10. Mastodon
11. I
12. Nachtmystium
13. Napalam Death
14. Madder Mortem
15. Anaal Nathrakh
16. Isis
17. Sunn0)))/ Boris
18. Gorgoroth
19. Ministry
20. Antaeus
21. Melvins
22. Blut Aus Nord
23. Indesinence
24. Katatonia
25. Current 93
26. Suffocation
27. Cannibal Corpse
28. The Meads of Asphodel
29. Soltitude Aeturnus
30. Darkthrone
31. Sick of it All
32. Satyricon
33. Whitehouse
34. The Angelic Process
35. Drudkh
36. Skullflower
37. Amon Amarth
38. Shora
39. Ignite
40. Lamb of God

this should have gotten a lot more press......it has had steady play at the igloo here all year.