The Metal Thread

[Agent of Oblivion]

I saw Rammstein once. If there are other bands on the bill you like, they won't ruin your evening.

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

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.

I'll have to check out the Tarot video. Thanks for the heads up.

As for Rammstein, I saw the on the first Family Values tour. They kicked all kinds of ass.

 

[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.

I'll have to check out the Tarot video. Thanks for the heads up.

As for Rammstein, I saw the on the first Family Values tour. They kicked all kinds of ass.

Here is the new Tarot video. I'll save you from having to search for it.

TAROT - Wings Of Darkness

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

Thanks for that. It was amazing! More people need to listen to them.

 

[Red Baron]

Combichrist is the opening act for Rammstein.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

That's just too fitting.

Fun note: Rammstein are banned from playing indoor shows in Massachusetts due to the pyrotechnics they use. This comes primarily as a repercussion of the Station fire that killed 99 because the building wasn't up to code, was beyond capacity, and pyrotechnics were set off by somebody without experience.

 

[Gary]

Holy shit, the new Ulcerate album

Ulcerate - Dead Oceans

Ulcerate - Cold Becoming

Ulcerate - Burning Skies

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

**adds to list of shit to buy ASAP**

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

Jeff Loomis and Van Williams leave Nevermore. This upsets me as they have been there since the first album and they are one of my favorite bands. Loomis' solo album was fantastic, and I'm sure he'll find something fast. Van Williams was a great drummer and will be missed as well.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

That's it. Nevermore's done. You can't continue the band when the core songwriter (Loomis) leaves. Even Warrel Dane's solo album had Loomis all over it.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

Roy Khan also left Kamelot this afternoon. He's missed most of their Pandemonium tour and has been dealing with "personal problems " with the lead rumor being that he found religon. A HUGE blow to the band who is currently tourig with several temporary frontmen including Fabio Lione from Rhapsody of Fire.

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

That's it. Nevermore's done. You can't continue the band when the core songwriter (Loomis) leaves. Even Warrel Dane's solo album had Loomis all over it.

Yeah, this is not going to end well for them. I don't know if they're going to try to go on, but they shouldn't. I got into Nevermore about 10 years ago and was lucky to meet them one time. It was during Megadeth's festival that they put together a few years back at Jones Beach in NY. I was so excited that Nevermore was on the tour, but they went on a 4 fucking pm and my friends and I didn't get their until about 4:45 and saw the last 15 minutes of their set. When I met them, I told them how pissed I was and they agreed with my anger. Nice guys and I wish everyone the best. I hope we get more solo stuff from Loomis, and I hope he and Dane are on good terms and we get another solo Dane album.

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

NEW ORIGIN NEW ORIGIN NEW ORIGIN NEW ORIGIN NEW ORIGIN!

Origin - Entity [2011] - Expulsion of Fury

Guitars.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

Marco Hietala covering "We Are The Champions". HOLY SHIT!

Marco Hietala - We Are The Champions

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

Good lord was that amazing. Marco can do no wrong, in my opinion. He's one of the greatest people in heavy metal right now. I wish he would get more play here in America.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

The new Leaves Eyes is quite a disappointment. In an effort to distance themselves from the sound of Alexander Krull's other band, Atrocity, it is mainly Liv Kristine providing vocals here with Krull making a couple appearances. The songs are mostly quite slow with many simply being re-recordings of traditional folk songs. Unless you're a diehard fan, you can probably skip this one.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

I picked up two discs last week on a whim because they were on sale, Warmen's Unknown Soldier and Evocation's Apocalyptic. The former is a side project of Children of Bodom keyboardist James Warman and the latter is a Swedish death band that's been around for about 20 years.

Warmen's Unknown Soldier works best as background noise as it's mostly just instrumentals designed to showcase James Warman's wanking ability on the black and white keys. Some of the parts of the songs are solid but it's just lacking anything remotely interesting overall.

Evocation's Apocalyptic fares much better but still lacks that necessary punch in the fucking jugular that really separates the best European death from the rest. I'm not as big a fan of the Swedish take on death that a lot of other metalheads are, but Evocation comes close to making it fully work before just deciding to calm down and go through the motions.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Just picked up last night...

Bolt Thrower - Realm of Chaos
I've only heard a handful of Bolt Thrower tunes but I've been on a massive death metal kick (brutal, tech, gore, classic, etc.) for the last few months and just got paid, so I figured why not grab a highly rec'd album from them? This is the re-mastered version that came out in '05 from Earache.

Hypocrisy - Osculum Obscenum
I listened to this in full last night on the drive from the Newbury Comics in Norwood back home. Oh SHIT is this fantastic. Rarely a dull point on the entire album and each song is just better than the last. Like Bolt Thrower, I've only heard a handful of tunes, so I nabbed this one and was mightily impressed.

Misery Index - Heirs to Thievery
Listened to this one on the way to work this morning. It's pretty decent and shows that this band formed after splitting from Dying Fetus, but I'd take even mediocre DF over MI any day due to MI being a bit too...I dunno...generic. Hints of brilliance with some solid slam riffs, but everything seems so muddled together and each song has issues standing out from one another (a big problem I find with recent death and grind releases, notably with Dismember and Rotten Sound, is that no song really stands out from another beyond one or two parts). Forgettable but decent.

Vital Remains - Dechristianize
I always overlook Vital Remains for one reason or another and I don't know why. I like Deicide (The Stench of Redemption is probably in my top 20 death metal albums), they're relatively local (based out of Providence), and I've seen a lot of good reviews for their stuff...so yeah. I'll be giving this a hard listen tonight while the fiancé is out doing some coursework for her job.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Also, for fun:
History Channel - Suffocation Commercial

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

Hammerfall's new album has leaked. I'm about to give it a listen. Can't wait to pick it up when it hits shelves.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Of the three discs I picked up the other night that I've listed to thus far, Vital Remains - Dechristianize is my favorite. Now I just need to pop in Bolt Thrower.

 

[Wario Lemieux]

Dechristianize and Antichrist by Akercocke always battle in my mind for the title of best death metal album of the 2000s.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Akercocke's not bad. I think an occasional brief foray into brutal death territory when I initially began digging death metal soured me for a while on straight-up DM, but I'm definitely getting back into it.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

Mark Jansen of Epica and some other musicians have formed a side project called Mayan. Their album is pretty good if you're a fan of that style and worth giving a listen.

MaYaN-Symphony Of Aggression [Full Song]

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

I just discovered Hour of Penance. I'm cumming blood so hard right now.

Hour of Penance - Shreds of Martyr

Hour of Penance - Malevolence of the Righteous

 

[Wario Lemieux]

So who's picking up the new KMFDMorbid Angel? Not this guy.

Morbid Angel - Too Extreme! (from Illud Divinum Insanus)

First Job For A Cryptopsy, now this. Thank God Chuck Schuldiner died or we might have had to suffer through something that was basically Death with power metal vocals, and... oh, right, that happened.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Wait...Job For A Cryptopsy? Like, did they blend the Skinless-lite JFAC with Unspoken King or with, you know, any of the good Cryptopsy stuff?

EDIT:
Speaking of which, Skinless has disbanded. Their gig at Maryland Deathfest this past weekend was their final one. That's a major fucking shame.

 

[Wario Lemieux]

I was using Job For A Cryptopsy to refer to The Unspoken King. I have my hopes for the new one now that Jon Levasseur is back, but they may be too far gone.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Ah. The lack of speakers at work led me to believe you were speaking of an awkward mash-up that would actually be interesting to hear.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

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