I'm having trouble finding the new Cobalt. Anyone have it handy?

Last time I saw Black Mountain they were so loud those Hawkwind-style synths practically made me dizzy. They are indeed great live.

I'm glad you posted this--I picked up a used copy a week or so back, and it's really good. I guess this means I'm going to have to scarf up the rest of their discog eventually. . .


I took a leap of faith and ordered it, but it hasn't come yet. I'll post it when it comes in if you still haven't found it.

watch this and tell me that the vocal performance is anything other than atrocious.

New album is fantastic on record but they are talentless vocalists, at least when it comes to clean singing.

Feeling a little too guilty to actually post the link, but google cobalt gin blogspot and you'll have it in 2 seconds. Definitely worth buying too.

Man, that video is pretty weak. I've been pretty excited about seeing them with Kylesa in a couple weeks, but seriously........ are they always so sleepy? For all the hoopla about the drummer (although he does play very fast) his stage presence certainly doesn't hold a candle to Allen Bickle from Baroness....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO89YbVd-nA

Pitchfork actually reviewed a metal album today, feels like it's been months.

Not that metal needs any validation from them or anything. But today's piece is well-timed, with a fair rating we can agree with.

I actually have heard this band, I have the album Sackcloth 'n' Ashes on my iPod. Pretty good album and band from what I have heard but I don't know if I really hear the metal appeal.

Download Low Estate or even Secret South. Track 1 on Low Estate, Brimstone Rock, is one of my favorite songs from any genre. Really, it's the deep self loathing and the aggressive use of bass that makes them so damn dark.

In fact, I read a review with the singer from Funeral Mist (black metal) recently who said that 16 HP was darker than most black metal out there. Sackcloth 'n' Ashes, not so metal..... Low Estate, pretty metal-ish (though not really metal).

I'm gonna wait til I get the album before hearing any of these songs. However, the vocals on 'Colony of Birchmen' weren't bad. Not great, but not bad.

Right. Still good to see, I suppose.

It'll be forgotten about by year end time...

Man, I love that Kylesa album.

Throughsilver will almost certaily dig this new Kylesa, comprised as it is of equal parts Kyuss, Torche, Soundgarden and Fu Manchu.

And I like it, but in all honesty, I have to admit a certain weariness of catchy but ultimately somewhat cookie cutter "stoner metal."

Yeah, this is how I feel too. Good but nothing exceptional. I don't see myself buying the album but I'd go see them them live again in a heartbeat.

Who really listens to metal for the vocals? I suspect the mix is just wrong in that video. They sound no worse than Adrian Bellew on a good day.



Few drummers hold a candle to Bickle, stage-presence-wise. Two who do are Dino Campanella (dredg) and Joey Castillo (qotsa).

I implore the regulars in this thread to resist taking the bait in Ace's "Best 5 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time" non-thread.

Ouch. I'm not sure how much the actual sound quality of the video factors in here, but that's pretty atrocious. I haven't heard the new album yet, but I can't say that a move to all clean vocals has me looking forward to it--especially after hearing this.

While velocity's point is reasonable enough, I have to say that I do listen to metal partly for the vocals--not for "singing" that lives up to conventional, melodic standards necessarily, but still. If the vocals don't add anything, they can definitely be very distracting (post-'88 Metallica, anyone?). Otherwise I would probably like Candlemass, just to take one random example, a whole lot more than I do.

Too late

PS Never heard Torche

Hopefully Mastodon mixes those lead vocals well enough on the upcoming tour...they could easily become buried under the band's massive live sound.

Really, though, I think Hinds and Sanders have made tremendous strides vocally on the new record.

I'm such a sucker.

Ha, well played, TS.

I'm seeing dredg and Torche together on April 3rd )

Actually, in the next 3 weeks or so, I've got Tombs (and Pelican if I actually stay), Torche and dredg, Kylesa, and Irepress. Busy couple weeks of...

that maudlin of the Well album is going to be available to d/l for free very soon. Like next week perhaps.

I've been playing the last three Kylesa albums all day, and Static Tensions is so superior to the other two, it's ridiculous. It had been a while since I dug out Time Will Fuse its Worth...it holds up very well, but the new one is so much better, it puts the two drummers to better use, they actually enhance the songs at times.

Even I am enjoying the new Kylesa.

It's starting to seem like I should listen to the new Kylesa.

Two drummers, eh? How Melvins of them.

By the way, Big Business has a new album coming out next month and are heading out on the road soon. I saw them last summer and they put on a great show. Should be fun.

New Song
http://www.myspace.com/bigbigbusiness

Did anyone catch this? Torche has a new 12". They have the new song Sugar Glider on myspace. Not particularly heavy, but it's pretty catchy.

http://www.myspace.com/torche

I didn't say a hippie drum circle

You must be thinking of Phish or something. When the Dead had Kreutzmann and Hart together, shit was tight -- these men were not hippies, they were drumming fucking machines. 1968~ live Dead has incredible drumming and they had only been playing for a few years at that point.

And Anthem of the Sun is one of the freakiest free-psych jams I've heard.

Still, post was just in good jest.

I was going to mention AoTS but I think at some points in that album there are two performances playing at once, meaning 4 drummers essentially, which isn't really a fair example I figured the post wasn't totally serious but I'll never give up the chance to defend the Dead.

Haven't Kylesa had two drummers for longer? Or at least the same length of time.

In the gaping absence of a new Mastodon album on my stereo, I decided to listen to this album (my new DAC is so fucking balls to the wall that mp3 files are just about listenable through it. And the vinyl release is going through the usual bullshit). The first songs left me almost entirely unmoved, but it really picks up from track four. 'Unknown Awareness' and 'Running Red' are great.

I'm gonna see how into this album I can get before Crack the Skye comes along and (hopefully) kills it.

hope box-set?

Yeah, Kylesa had the two drummers before the Melvins/Big Business merger.


Really? I think "Scapegoat" is one of the catchiest things they've ever done.

I probably spent three songs lamenting the non-arrival of Mastodon, so pinch of salt I reckon. It also took me about that long to get on board with the style of the album. 'Unknown Awareness' had the weird-but-brilliant hooks though.

Meanwhile, I finally got the new Deathspell Omega EP Chaining the Katechon...it's a very cool follow-up to the last album, which really floored me. Not many black metal bands can make a 22 minute composition as compelling as these guys do.

seems its not black metal already, not only black metal

Are you guys familiar with Lord Mantis? Chicago metal group that's putting out an album soon or maybe it's already out. I dunno.

it is due 28 Abril via Seventh Rule, ex-member Nachtmystium, interesting...
nice bands are based in Chicago, Illinois))

And Kayo Dot are apparently readying another new album. Randall Dunn at the desk (that dude's getting paid these days...), recording this summer.

I'm still not sure what I reckon to their last one.

Did I not post about them here? I guess not, must've been somewhere else. At any rate, I like the new CD quite a lot. Plus the fold-out artwork is nuts.

Holy crap! Made out of Babies and Black Elk are playing together on the 15th of April.

I'm really jealous of anyone in the LA area, though. It's Kylesa, Intronaut, MOOB, and Black Elk on the 17th.....

You guys are spot on about Kylesa. Just downloaded Static Tensions. Good shit.

What an enormous musical transformational bet that Isis made.

Much different band - in a great way. I think it works tremendously.

I owe you!! Turns out they're playing here on 4.18 (sans MOOB) so I can be slightly less bitter about getting shut out of the Mastodon show.

I caught the guys from Anvil on VH1's That Metal Show over the weekend. It was the first time that the show wasn't embarrassing and was actually watchable from what I've seen. Aside from the interview, they showed clips from the Anvil movie which I am dying to see. Apparently, VH1 bought the rights to the film and is gonna be promoting it. The movie gets a limited national release in a few weeks (April 10) and Anvil will be performing at some screenings. Then VH1 broadcasts the film in the summer with a DVD release to follow.



The only Anvil I have is Metal on Metal. Their discography is kind of intimidating. Anyone have recommendations on anything else of theirs that's essential?

I've been waiting so long to see the Anvil movie.

Has anyone else heard the new album by MUMAKIL???

I'm very picky when it comes to grind, but this is really, really good. Nasum good.