Heh, they should apologize for recording new material.

Yeah, ballsy's the right word. I'm half impressed, half bewildered...they've never done anything like this before. If I was traveling a thousand miles to see them for the first (or in my case second) time, I'd be a little disappointed, but if it was my fourth or fifth time, I think I'd be thrilled.

Setlist aside, folks are saying the stage show is incredible, and the band sounds great.

The new Converge has leaked and my god is it incredible. I just got done listening to it 4 times in a row. "Grim Heart/Black Rose" is maybe their best song ever. This completely stomps all over any other album I've heard this year, I can't imagine it not being my #1 at the end of the year. Also, pre-orders for the vinyl started today at www.deathwishinc.com. First 500 come on metallic gold vinyl!


edit: looks like this is up in the y.s.i. thread.

Oh boy. I'll get to it after hockey tonight.

Wasn't sure if I should put it up in this thread or not. This was pulled from OiNK though (artifacts in trk 2, according to the log), and I haven't had a chance to listen to what I upped here, so can't say what it sounds like.

Here're the Kyuss things I promised Burzum forever ago. Finally found the blog they were from.

Password for all: 2239.blogspot.com

Kyuss - Demon Cleaner pts 1 & 2



Hard to find out of print CD single from Kyuss. It came in two parts with Demon CLeaner on each variation.

CD 01:

101-demon cleaner
102-day one
103-el rodeo-pre-circus
104-hurricane-pre-circus

CD 02:

201-demon cleaner
202-gardenia-live
203-thumb-live
204-conan troutman-live

Kyuss / Wool - Split 7" ep

Out of print. Released in 1996.



01- Kyuss - Shine
02 - Wool - Short Term Memory Loss

Kyuss - 1995-02-03 - Live in London



Good quality bootleg.

01-intro
02-hurricane
03-thumb
04-green machine
06-100 degrees
07-un sandpiper
08-freedom run
09-tangy sizzle
10-conan troutman
11-el rodeo
12-supa scoopa and mighty scoopa
13-odyssey
14-one inch man
15-allens wrench
16-spaceship landing
17-asteroid
18-writhe
19-50 million year trip

Kyuss - Generator Party - Indio Hills - Palm Springs - CA - 1993



Another good bootleg.

Odyssey
Thumb
Green Machine
Gardenia
Whitewater
Writhe
Freedom Run
Allen's Wrench

Kyuss - The Factory, Milan - 20-Feb-1995



Fair to good quality.

Green Machine
Supa Scoop and the Mighty Scoop
100 Degrees
Freedom Run
El Rodeo
Hurricane
Gardenia
N.O.
Allen's Wrench
Odyessey
Size Queen
50 Million Year Trip (Downside Up)
Thumb
* One Inch Man
* Fatso Forgetso
* Whitewater

* - VHS tape died halfway through "one inch man" so the show is cut short. Sorry.

Kyuss - Hot Metal Sampler - 1992



Free tape given to promote "Blues for the red sun".

The songs are “Green machine”, “Thong song”, and “Freedom run”. The sleeve is red, with a picture of the big bass amp! Inside the sleeve, there are some comments on the album...

01-green machine
02-thong song
03-freedom run

Kyuss - Sky Valley pt 2 - promo sampler



Sampler to promote Welcome to Sky Valley release...

01-100 degrees
02-space cadet
03-demon cleaner

Password: ripped_by_bbEZ

Kyuss - Gardenia- CD Single



01-gardenia
02-un sandpiper - unreleased version
03-conan troutman - live

Password: ripped_by_bbEZ

Kyuss - Into the Void - 10'' Sampler



01-into the void
02-fatso forgotso

Password: ripped_by_bbEZ

Kyuss - 1994-05-24 - Live at the Marquee Club - Hamburgh



01-gardenia
02-thumb03-conan_troutman
04-freedom_run

Password: ripped_by_bbEZ

Kyuss - Wretch (320Kbps)

Part 1:
Part 2:

01-beginning of what's about to happen-hwy 74
02-love has passed me by
03-son of a bitch
04-black widow
05-katzenjammer
06-deadly kiss
07-the law
08-isolation
09-i'm not
10-big bikes
11-stage iii

Password: ripped_by_bbEZ

Kyuss - Norfolk - 1992-12-18



01-molten universe
02-green machine
03-gardenia
04-thumb
05-writhe
06-i'm not
07-odyssey
08-allen's wrench
09-freedom run

Password: ripped_by_bbEZ

There you go. Now, I'm off to go catch Art Brut and We Are Scientists.

P.S. The blog has lots of QOTSA and Desert Sessions, too. If you want me to post those, just ask.

Yeah that's right, I bought it today.

The new Converge record, No Heroes, blows You Fail Me out of the water (and this is coming from a guy who loves You Fail Me).

Like the other Converge albums, this one's going to need time to sink in more. But yeah, it's a good one.

Has this record been discussed in this thread? I vaguely remember Sask mentioning it. I really like it. Dare I say, I like it more than the new Mastodon.

(leaves quickly before enduring the verbal wrath of the SOMB Mastodon fans)

It's an awesome album, picks up right where the Null EP left off. I put it at #6 on my Decibel 2006 list last month, and I don't think it'll change when I do my "official" metal list next month.

It's all about the bass on that CD. The guy is incredible. Vocals need a little work, but other than that, definitely deserving of ranking among the year's finest.

Sask- did you review it on popmatters? I went looking for your review and could not find it. I was hoping for your opinion.

I got my Maiden ticks in the mail today. Baby steps for a week to Maiden. I also can't believe people on Blabbermouth are complaining that Maiden .........I guess I should put a spoiler warning here, setlist wise.....


























Maiden doesn't play Number of the Beast! Oh no!!!! My response to that is....finally!!! Even though the last 5 songs are expected.....no Number of the Beast is long overdue.

I reviewed it for Decibel. Here it is.

Personally, I'd rather hear it than "Iron Maiden" or "Fear of The Dark."

I can understand retiring "Number," "The Trooper," or "Run To The Hills" because they've gotten long in the tooth, are way overplayed, whatever, but then explain "Hallowed Be Thy Name" and "Iron Maiden" to me, which one could make the same argument about. Why retire "Number," et al. and KEEP "IM" and "Hallowed?" (Mind you, I LOVE "Hallowed," "IM" not so much, and "Fear" is good live, but you get the drift...if you're retiring the long-in-the-tooth songs, might as well go all the way, right?)

Nice review. It's made me want to check it out. I love me a good bassline.

Cos "Hallowed" kills every single time. There is no better live song in metal. Theatrics, melodrama, starting solemnly but then builds and builds until Bruce has the entire arena going nuts. If there's one live staple I'm not yet sick of, it's this one.

For those who missed out, or just didn't feel like spending $30 on a record, here is the new Boris album, Vein. This is their rawest, noisiest release yet. Boris does hardcore. 12 untitled tracks in 30 minutes, killer stuff.

Fucking hot, man. Can't wait to download that.

In honour of this special occasion, if anyone wants any other Boris upping, let me know.

For any Justin Broadrick/Jesu fans out there (i know there are a few):

Jesu WILL be touring the U.S.A with ISIS beginning late Feb ending early April 2007 in support of the 'Conqueror' album release in mid Feb 2007. The routing and dates are currently being finalised, dates and details soon....

That's quite the double bill!!

Jesu and Isis...

Thanks for the new Boris, Burzum! How many is that now...five Boris releases this year? (Pink, Pink vinyl, Dronevil, Altar, Vein)

If we're counting Japanese releases (i.e. Dronevil -Final-), then I shall have to utter my mantra from earlier in the year:

Pink was 2005!

Sask, any thoughts on the Trivium album? Thinking about picking that up after work tonight. The reviews I've read seem fairly positive, a solid evolution from the last album.

Nah, Helmet, it's all good. Your tastes are impeccable, so I'll file away in the pile of new metal records I need to pick up soon (see also Converge, Jesu's Silver, Agalloch)

We need to post one after the other more often.

I know, right?

BTW- I'm ready for that Hell in a Cell deathmatch Diesel keeps talking up any day of the week. I aint afraid. Albini and Roland eat Elephany 6 weenie chamber trumpet pop for breakfast.

Well yeah, that's not even a fair match at all.

I like it. The lyrics are dopey ("STRESS! BREAKING MY BACK!"), but musically, these guys are all 1985. Like Ride-era Metallica meets Accept. Total geezer pleaser.


I was confused there for a minute, I thought Alky was talking to himself.

See Vivian's Cocteau Twins thread

Yeah, I was about to complain about triple posting...


Also, page 50~!

Alright, so now we have throughsilver and sask with the same avatar, along with Alkaline and Vivian doing the same thing. Cut that shit out.

I can't tell the difference between all of you.

First one of you to bring a kick-ass metal avatar to the table wins. Go.

Got the new deluxe edition of this today. Man, does it take me back...I bought it right after Newsted joined Metallica, and played the hell out of it. First-rate, old school American thrash.

Can you up the debut? I've heard it's amazing. Wasn't Jason Newsted on that, right before he went to Metallica?

And yes, I'd greatly appreciate some Boris. I'm not that familiar with them. The work they did with Sun O))) is great, and the only other track I have is an 11 minute song on a.. Robert Johnson Tribute album, if I remember correctly.

As much as I'd like to post the remixed Doomsday CD, I'm not going to. In the meantime, I did find a blog that has the original version:
http://namskull.multiply.com/music/item/68

You have to download each track, but it's worth it. Tremendous album, and yeah, Newsted is all over the sucker. Huge Steve Harris influence can be heard.

I'm really enjoying the new Trivium. Man, they sound quite a bit like old Metallica - both the guitar tone and the vocalist recall Ride the Lightning-era Metallica, but with a mix of RtL's commercial sound and MoP's complex thrashiness.

It's nice to find a new metal band with a "middle of the road" vocal style. No death growls or outright screaming, but none of the emo-style stuff either (which I don't mind, but apparently that marks you as a pussy according to the young 'uns).

They're close to going overboard with the Metallica fixation, and they tend to overreach, but damn, if the new cd isn't pleasing. And the title track instrumental is enough to convince folks that they're for real. Trivium is young, too, they're just starting to come into their own. They just need to shed that lingering bit of goofiness..."Unrepentant" could become their "Escape", meaning they're going to regret the day they thought it was good enough to include on the album.

Seriously, how great is the new To-Mera album? The contrasts are incredible, you've got Julie Kiss's goth vocals, a keyboardist who alternates from Debussy to jazz to symphonic, a noodly guitarist who shreds away at math metal passages, and a brutal rhythm section that should be in a death/grind band. Nightwish/Epica/Within Temptation/After Forever, as much as I like all bands, are musical lightweights compared to this.

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Shit! I didn't realize To-Mera had released an album yet! i've had the 2 downloads from their myspace site for months. When did this come out? I must find!

Came out last month. I can post up, if you wish.

Yeah, its definitely a good one. Adds quite a bit of a kick to the "pretty girl/pretty voice" genre of metal, which it probably needed. And no dopey death/throaty vox male counterpart vocals, a real plus. Yeah, its all over the place: goth/thrash/death/prog with heavy jazzy/symphonic elements, but it all comes together rather well. Highly enjoyable, especially if you wished Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, etc. (bands I really like, mind you) had more, well, balls musically.

Yes, please do! I was going to check the newsgroups tonight for it, but if you can up it, that would be even better.

I checked Best Buy's site and they show it coming out tomorrow.

To-Mera - Transcendental
http://www.sendspace.com/file/o1skyf

Thanks!

Can't recommend this highly enough. Definitely year-end list worthy.

Got so much new stuff today (Today is the Day, Incantation, Brutal Truth, and more), but have NO time to listen. No time. Haven't even gotten around to playing the new ones by Boris, Battle of Mice, God Dethroned, Khlyst, and Deftones yet. Argh.

This recent clip of Bruce Dickinson onstage is awesome:

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Bruce is so awesome. Two days for us Chicago Irons.

Anyway, that Trivium album. First rec of theirs I've heard, actually. DEFINITELY early-Metallica derived, with some occassionally howl worthy lyrics, but damned if it isn't a good, old-fashioned throw-fists-in-the-air-and-bang-thy-head metal record, with enough of a modern chaotic metalcore twist to it.
("We Are The Fire" is like my guilty pleasure favorite on the record...its like the bastard child of Metallica and Skid Row or something! Totally goofy, but catchy as hell, and brings a real smile to my face.)

And I finally heard that Wolves In The Throne Room album today. Wow. That's gonna take some absorbtion, but man, is it something else. Still not quite ready to jump on the USBM bandwagon, but these guys bring a lot to the table. I enjoy the ambient/avant garde elements thrown in there...very Celtic Frost.

Yeah, I've been listening to the Wolves in the Throne Room album, too. It didn't really grab me first time through, but I'm liking it more and more.

Also listening the crap out of Agalloch's The Mantle--dunno if where that puts me in relation to the bandwagon (not exactly pure black metal anyway), but, damn, if it's not a great album.


About Celtic Frost--I never was exposed to them back in the day, but I liked Monotheist so much that I ordered most of their catalog. I have to say, the early albums are so different--interesting, but not nearly as powerful. I haven't really been motivated to listen to the older stuff all that much after my first few listens. Into the Pandemonium has a certain goofy charm and Morbid Tales feels comfortably thrashy, but To Mega Therion didn't make that strong of an impression.

From bravewords.com:


!!!

The album has already gone gold in Canada, and is well on its way to hitting platinum. A Canadian tour would be the greatest thing ever. For me, anyway.

So it turns out that there are 2 versions of this album. A hardcore punk version and another version that's just two sidelong tracks of noise. The hardcore version is going to US distributors and the noise one is going to European distributors. Why the band or label never mentioned this, who knows? Anyway, here's the noise version for anyone who's interested. It's pretty good, but I'm glad I got the other one.




Also, this is already selling for $50+ on ebay. Ridiculous.

Hey, there's a new Drudkh album out today! It's called Songs Of Grief and Solitude. Had no idea this was coming.




You can order from Supernal Records. I'm waiting for a leak to see what it sounds like first.

I've read a few reviews that lead me to believe this entire record is acoustic, but i'm still eager to hear it.

Am I right in thinking these are re-issues?

And that Bruce clip was great, though I expect nothing less from the man!