The Metal Thread

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

Don't know if anyone else picked up the new Motorhead album, but it's great. I listened to it again thins morning on my way to work. It's such an awesome album.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

Due to ongoing medical and personal issues, Roy Khan isn't going to be able to perform for the remainder of Kamelot's "Poetry for the Poisoned" tour. The frontman from Rhapsody of Fire is going to fill-in. Ah shit, I'm beatin'!

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Heavy Metal Penguin

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

Heavy Metal Penguin

This was awesome on so many levels. It made me smile.

 

[Jaxxxson Mayhem]

Heavy Metal Penguin

Yesssssss. I love that penguin. When he was wobbling side to side I lost it.

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

Look at him go!

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

In other news, I'm listening to King Diamond again just to make sure me liking the guy now wasn't just a phase. Andy LaRoque is seriously one of the baddest motherfuckers to play heavy metal guitar. Holy shit

King Diamond - Tea

This is probably the most hardcore beverage-based song ever.
Prestodigitation 2 weeks ago 5

Death - Trapped In A Corner

^I'd go as far to say that he played no small part in really pushing Chuck even further, musically, during the writing/recording/touring on this one.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Death Metal Rooster

 

[The Metal Maniac]

This is probably the most hardcore beverage-based song ever.
Prestodigitation 2 weeks ago 5

S.O.D.- Milk

Boosh.

 

[Wario Lemieux]

Andy LaRocque is a beast and a half. He kills it on this At The Gates guest solo, too.

At The Gates - Cold

Anders Bjorler still can't play it right and the motherfucker came out 15 years ago.

 

[luke-o]

I may have misjudged Rob Zombie's "Hellbilly Deluxe 2", it's actually pretty decent.

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

Will Smith dances to grindcore.

 

[Gary]

Slayer told me about this in the Maff chat, but the new Khors is pretty sweet

Khors - Asgard's Shining

Khors - Sacrament Of Buyan

Khors - Song of the Void

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

Rhapsody of Fire has put out a new "album". From what I understand, it's a 35-MINUTE SONG, split into 7 acts. Insane.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

So...favorites of 2010 now that we're a full month detached from it?

Fear Factory - Mechanize
Dying Fetus - Descend Into Depravity
Cephalic Carnage - Miseld by Certainty
Defeated Sanity - Chapters of Repugnance
Exodus - Exhibit B: The Human Condition
Insidious Disease - Shadowstorm

And...that's all I bought that came out in 2010 that I was legitimately impressed with. Gwar's Bloody Pit of Horror was disappointing, as was Nevermore's The Obsidian Conspiracy and Malevolent Creation's Invidious Dominion. 2010 as a year was spent discovering the elder works of bands I either got into in late '09 or heard about in '10.

Apparently, though, The Crown reformed with a new singer, Jonas Stalhammar, and released an album, Doomsday King. If they keep together, I can see Johan Lindstrand quitting the generic One Man Army & The Undead Quartet and returning to the fold. Hey, it happened the last time he left, so one can only hope.

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

My number one was the Daughers! self-titled and it's not close.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

My #1 album was easily Kamelot's "Poetry For The Poisoned". It's a shame their frontman is battling some "personal demons" and has missed their entire tour to promote the album.

 

[Gary]

"Marrow of the Spirit" by Agalloch was my number one.

Also, there's a new one from Earth out now.

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

Been waiting for that one. It's really fucking awesome, of course.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Thoughts on Gorguts, Demilich, and HatePlow?

 

[Gary]

Thoughts on Gorguts, Demilich, and HatePlow?

Gorguts and Demilich are awesome. Never heard HatePlow.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

HatePlow has featured a lot of members of Malevolent Creation (currently features Phil Fasciana and Gio Ceraca, has featured Rob Barrett, Kyle Symons, Jon Rubin, the late Larry Hawke, and Dave Culross). I was perusing M-A (damn you, Slay) yesterday and came across them. They've only released two albums that are both highly rated there, so I'm definitely going to be checking them out ASAP.

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

Awesome as fuck, Awesome as fuck, not so much. In that order.

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

If nothing else, at least get Obscura and Nespithe. Essentials, really.

 

[Gary]

The Fen album "Epoch" is damn fine if I do say so myself

Fen - Of Wilderness and Ruin (Epoch 2011)

Fen - Ghosts of the Flood

Fen - The Gibbet Elms.

Also, the new Lifelover is a letdown, and I'm interested in the new Dornenreich, Falknebach and Mitochondrion albums.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

So, I have a confession to make: I kinda dig Bleeding Through. The "singles" off of This is Love, This is Murderous ("On Wings of Lead" and "Love Lost in a Hail of Gunfire") are solid; their second LP, Portrait of the Goddess, is a pretty decent blend of death metal, hardcore, and ambient goth; and the main riff to "Kill to Believe" (the lead single off of The Truth) has a few killer riffs in it, most notably the main riff that serves as both the intro and the verse riff. It's just too bad that each song not listed above is so generic beyond the inclusion of keyboards that they outweigh their hints of greatness with an admiration for mediocrity, and the vocalist (Brandon Schieppati) tries so hard to do decent clean vocals on The Truth and fails miserably at it when he actually did decent ones on This is Love, This is Murderous.

But that main riff in "Kill to Believe"...well, audio evidence, it's the very first riff of the song:
Bleeding Through - "Kill to Believe"

Trustkill took a decent, promising band that was actually doing something unique in the field metalcore and made them into another generic piece of shit. Apparently, though, their album Declaration is pretty solid since they were able to forego the fashioncore styles that Trustkill adores and return to a more death-oriented view.

 

[Star Ocean 2]

Green Jello "Little Pig, Little Pig"

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Ahem...RECENT PURCHASES...

Dying Fetus - Purification Through Violence

Korpiklaani - Ukon Wacka

Chainsaw Dissection - Eviscerated by a Ravenous Cannibal

Embryonic Devourment - Vivid Interpretations of the Void

Vader - Litany

The Crown - Doomsday King

Assjack - Assjack

Thoughts...
-Chainsaw Dissection is what happens when you play Mortician through the worst stereo system possible, or cover Mortician songs without a sense of why people enjoy that brand of uber-shitty death/grind.
-Embryonic Devourment is a solid, solid tech death outfit, able to combine brutality, technicality, ambience, and melody almost flawlessly.
-Korpiklaani's newest is another dose of the same, but it's still great fun.
-Dying Fetus's debut LP shows the promise of where the band would go with Destroy the Opposition and Stop at Nothing, but also highlights the faults that continue to haunt them, namely very few individual songs standing out.
-Vader is fucking Vader.
-The Crown's newest, their first album in 6 years, is pretty solid, but not their strongest.
-Assjack is more hardcore than metal, but Hank Williams III's involvement makes it interesting at times, to say the least.

 

[Red Baron]

Anyone ever seen Rammstein before? They are playing in Edmonton in May and tickets are still available.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

I haven't seen them in person, just on film, and it looks like the put on a hell of a show.

Tarot (fronted by Nightwish's bass player, Marco) has finished a 25th Anniversary rerecording of "Wings of Darkness" that kicks 12 different kinds of ass. You can find the new video on Youtube.