Metal Thread VII: The Mosh Pit Don't Start 'Til We Walk In

[grimbold]

thats because you've never seen Tsar Bomba live yet

they are one of the greatest live acts that i have ever seen

[Feytalist]

Originally Posted by Faulty

[*]Panopticon - Kentucky

holy what

New Panopticon? Why didn't I know about this? This has made my day. Week. Hell, month.

Originally Posted by WhamBamSam

So I went to see Iron Maiden last night and it was magical.

Maiden is one of the bands I'd give a significant body part for to see live. Here's to hoping they tour over here soon.

Originally Posted by Faulty

Today is neofolk day, but as far as stoner, nothing surpasses Church of Misery for me.

Neofolk? Do give some recommendations. I'm always on the lookout for more.


As for metal releases so far, off the top of my head:

Borknagar's Urd is my clear favourite so far. Delivered everything I wanted AND managed to surprise me as well. Awesome stuff.
Candlemass' Psalms For The Dead was a nice surprise.
Alcest's Les Voyages de L'ame was pretty excellent.
Oh, and Sabaton's Carolus Rex. Almost not a single boring song on the entire album.

[grimbold]

i had forgotten how wonderful Urd was!

Also
new most hotly anticipated release (Asides from Ensiferum, and Black Sabbath) the new Tsar Bomba, the bassist told me yesterday that it would be done by september
w0000000t

[Feytalist]

Originally Posted by grimbold

i had forgotten how wonderful Urd was!

Also
new most hotly anticipated release (Asides from Ensiferum, and Black Sabbath) the new Tsar Bomba, the bassist told me yesterday that it would be done by september
w0000000t

I'm pretty stoked for the new Ensiferum, too.

And isn't Wintersun also finally releasing a new album soon?

[Killer Angel]

I'm also moderately curious for Steve Harris' British Lion.

[grimbold]

Originally Posted by Feytalist

And isn't Wintersun also finally releasing a new album soon?

YES! THEY ARE

*folkgasm*

[WhamBamSam]

Originally Posted by Killer Angel

I'm also moderately curious for Steve Harris' British Lion.

Yeah, that seemed like it could potentially end up being pretty good.

I'd say the albums I'm most looking forward to are the new ones from Holy Grail and Seven Kingdoms. I'd heard rumors a while back about Priest releasing a new album this year as well, though I haven't heard anything more recently.

Originally Posted by Feytalist

Maiden is one of the bands I'd give a significant body part for to see live. Here's to hoping they tour over here soon.

I imagine they'll make it over in a year or so when they've finished up the European and North American legs of their tour and start flying off to the rest of the world. Did they make it there on the Final Frontier tour?

[Faulty]

Originally Posted by Feytalist

holy what

New Panopticon? Why didn't I know about this? This has made my day. Week. Hell, month.

It's either his best or close to, as well. It's on vinyl now and will be coming out on CD later this summer.

[Feytalist]

Originally Posted by WhamBamSam

I imagine they'll make it over in a year or so when they've finished up the European and North American legs of their tour and start flying off to the rest of the world. Did they make it there on the Final Frontier tour?

Haha, no. They've only been over here once, and that was in 1995. Maybe they don't like Africa.

[grimbold]

so

ensiferum is coming to paris in september
alcest is coming to paris in november
meshuggah is coming to paris in december

:D

for all of those bands i WOULD give a significant body part

and in the case of meshuggah, i probably will LOSE one :P

also
sunday night, i smashed some guys face in in a pit, but he's ok now

nameless informs me that that is the quote of the year

[Yora]

While I was watching when the new AMV Hell will be out (probably September), I remembered checking if "I hate doing laundry!", "My car is a piece of ****!", and "I'm using a GPS!" are from the same guys.

Which they are. And turns out that Psychostick really is very entertaining.
Reminds me a lot of Knorkator, with just a different type of metal and in English. But the over the top rage about mundane things is the same.
I really wonder if any of them know Knorkator, since the similarities are so striking. But you can't have too many bands with albums like "Space Zombies vs Zombie Dinosaurs in 3D".

[grimbold]

i just foud This

it is awesome

also i did an interview with ray riendeau.

asides from his prog thing star monarchy he also has played with HALFORD and JAMES LABRIE :D

apparently both of them are really into the project and just might check out the interview

rob
motherhugging
Halford

on my
blog
:O

[thorgrim29]

So, I'll be seing that, http://lineup.heavymtl.com/events/2012/08/11

Anyone interested in helping me make a schedule?

[aethernox]

Agalloch, Dallas, the 4th of August.

This has been a long time coming.

[grimbold]

Originally Posted by thorgrim29

So, I'll be seing that, http://lineup.heavymtl.com/events/2012/08/11

Anyone interested in helping me make a schedule?

alright

for me i would do
Job for a cowboy
Veil of maya
Periphery
BTBM
kataklysm for a bit and then off to fleshgod apocalypse
then break and then goatwhore
the ORIGIN (who i love)
then just stay at that stage for the rest of the night..

[thorgrim29]

there's also a second day of shows BTW, thanks

[godspit]

Originally Posted by aethernox

Agalloch, Dallas, the 4th of August.

This has been a long time coming.

Yeah, they're coming to San Francisco on the 11th. It will be awesome.

[Killer Angel]

Originally Posted by Yora

But you can't have too many bands with albums like "Space Zombies vs Zombie Dinosaurs in 3D".

Maybe GWAR...?

[grimbold]

Originally Posted by Killer Angel

Maybe GWAR...?

oh oderus
how i love you

[Faulty]

Spoiler

:3

[grimbold]

YUS!

i just saw until the light takes us...
cool stuff Oo

[Marillion]

Originally Posted by Yora

While I was watching when the new AMV Hell will be out (probably September), I remembered checking if "I hate doing laundry!", "My car is a piece of ****!", and "I'm using a GPS!" are from the same guys.

Which they are. And turns out that Psychostick really is very entertaining.
Reminds me a lot of Knorkator, with just a different type of metal and in English. But the over the top rage about mundane things is the same.
I really wonder if any of them know Knorkator, since the similarities are so striking. But you can't have too many bands with albums like "Space Zombies vs Zombie Dinosaurs in 3D".

Ahh, Psychostick. The Hunger Within saw me through some tough foodless times

[godspit]

Originally Posted by grimbold

i just saw until the light takes us...
cool stuff Oo

I love that documentary. I can never remember the artist's name that they showcase but I love and adore his pieces. The performance art piece with Frost at the end was intense and brilliant in a sick and twisted way.

[Faulty]

Lykathea Aflame's album is getting a 2 CD rerelease with bonus content (shirt, new linear notes, etc.). Figured some of you might like that.

[grimbold]

that is SICK!

[Kane]

Just came back from a concert.

Coheed & Cambria finished, then some classic eighties metal came on while they cleared the stage. Some Judas Priest, some Sabbath, Purple Haze, etc. Eventually they seem to get tired of teasing us, and we are treated to images of glaciers and icebergs, particularly calving ones, up on the projected screen. (Way in the back. Cheap seating. And 'calving' is when parts of the glacier/iceberg melt enough to landslide away into the sea.)

Along with that, we get slowly mounting, incredibly ominous, and totally epic latin-sounding chanting. I'm not strictly clear on whether it qualified as 'Gregorian'.

And as the chanting reached a climax:

Seven deadly sins...
Seven ways to win...
Seven holy paths to hell,
And your trip begins...

Seven downward slopes,
Seven bloody hopes,
Seven are your burning fires...
Seven your desires...


The full playlist was something along the lines of

Spoiler

1. Moonchild
2. Can I Play With Madness?
3. The Prisoner
4. 2 Minutes to Midnight
5. Afraid to Shoot Strangers
6. The Trooper (**** yes!)
7. The Number of the Beast
8. Phantom of the Opera
9. Run to the Hills
10. Wasted Years
11. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son (This was really, really good live.)
12. Clairvoyant
13. Fear Of The Dark
14. Iron Maiden
15. Aces High (Also deserving of a '**** yes!'.)
16. The Evil That Men Do
17. Running Free

Nothing terribly extraordinary happened, and they claimed they were unable to make with their full stage-show because 'this amphiteater was built by a bunch of ****ing hippies, and we can't fit all our gear on stage!', but the show was fantastic beyond all my expectations, and all around totally satisfying for my first Iron Maiden concert.

[grimbold]

that sounds sick!

in the meantime
how have i head call me maybe more than my pop loving cousins?
and moreover
how do i get them to acknowledge the supremacy of Slayer and metal in general?

[Halberd]

Originally Posted by Kane

[snip]

...Yeah, that's pretty much what happened with my concert, too. Except our amphitheater wasn't built by "a bunch of ****ing hippies". There was a lot of fire and a couple of animatronic zombies. 'Twas quite epic, the only flaw being that

Spoiler

they didn't play Hallowed Be Thy Name.

Originally Posted by Grimbold

how can I get them to acknowledge the superiority of Slayer and metal in general?

Forcing someone's tastes in music to change is enormously difficult, if not impossible. Imagine if one of those cousins tried to get you to acknowledge the "superiority" of pop music. They would be unsuccessful, wouldn't they? The only thing you can do is expose them to it (if you haven't already) and hope they like it.
Believe me, I've tried. I've taken my family to two amazing metal concerts (Iced Earth/Symphony X and Iron Maiden) and both of them struck my family as "musically accomplished, but not my cup of tea".

[DeIdeal]

Originally Posted by grimbold

so

ensiferum is coming to paris in september
alcest is coming to paris in november
meshuggah is coming to paris in december

Alcest will come to Finland as well, and I'd love to see them live (I missed a festival gig earlier this summer), but they're "just" supporting Katatonia. I don't really like (new) Katatonia that much, and I'm afraid Alcest will only play a really short set. Still, I'll probably go despite of that.

I'm also starting to consider going to Switzerland in December to see Eluveitie (& Friends), since they seem to be completely neglecting Finland this year -- I think they have played or will play in every single Nordic country apart from here in 2012.

It would be absolutely amazing, but I'd have to go alone, I have pretty much never traveled (I've been to a foreign country like 5 times, three of them to Sweden, which means a 2-day-trip, and never been in a plane in my life) and honestly, the idea of going that far just to see one band seems a bit weird.

[Faulty]

Originally Posted by grimbold

that sounds sick!

in the meantime
how have i head call me maybe more than my pop loving cousins?
and moreover
how do i get them to acknowledge the supremacy of Slayer and metal in general?

Why does it matter what they listen to? Also Slayer sucks lol