The Metal Thread Genre • Page 235

Well yeah lol. Clean head was way better

 

I'm sorry.

 

Carnifex is surprisingly tight as a live band. Hope you enjoyed it.

 

Hey

Next time you go to Iceland

Don't come back

 

My honeymoon didn't make my musical opinions less frigid.

I will give ya this - Hell Chose Me has a decent ending breakdown. It surprised the shit out of me when I was metal director at my college radio station.

 

Damn, Oceana. That is a blast from the past.

I want to hear more about this metal director radio gig

 

I was "loud rock" director at my college radio station for two years aka in charge of the metal and hardcore genres for those related shows (~5 per week at the time). This was from 2008- 2010. Promoters and labels sent me things to play on the air, and I occasionally supplemented them with stuff from my own library. Despite my curmudgeonly ways when it comes to metal, I didn't discriminate with what made it into rotation so the DJs I oversaw could play whatever they wanted. So stuff like Dream Theater and shitty Victory records metalcore still made it. DJs had to play five songs an hour from rotation and then could play whatever they wanted otherwise. It was a pretty sweet gig.

My senior year, I was the programming director who was in charge of FCC compliance, reporting to CMJ and ASCAP, and oversaw all of the genre musical directors. That was a paid gig and required 5x the work...I still enjoyed it a lot though.

Lemme see if I can dig up some of my old playlists...

 

I had actually seen Carnifex maybe 6 months ago, opening for Whitechapel and thought they were pretty good. They were just okay last night, nothing special. Oceano was interesting. I hadn't even thought about that band in nearly a decade. I actually enjoyed them a bit, but the deathcore crowd was atrocious. The worst part about the whole thing was, I was supposed to be seeing Big K.R.I.T (not that the metal thread will care) but it didn't work out.

 

Died 8 years ago today

 

how do we feel about the second half of the Panopticon album? It's got some nice instrumentation but the guy isn't the best singer

 

I don't think I got to it or my focus had shifted by then...I will say that the vocals are something I notice the least in Panopticon's work...not that it's bad it's just that it blends with the overall sound so smoothly it doesn't stand out. I'll give it another listen.

 

The new Our Place Of Worship Is Silence album came out yesterday and is some pretty sick death/black metal. Reminds me of last year's Ominous Circle album, though not as cavernous. Two-man group from LA, their names are Tim and Eric lol.

 

ill probably only be returning to the first half. the second half isnt bad its pretty good but not something that will warrant repeated listens from me

 

The $5 concerts continue tomorrow with Dying Fetus/Enterprise Earth/Thy Art Is Murder/Rivers of Nihil/Sanction

Pretty stoked for Rivers. Would love to see some live sax but I'm doubtful. Sanction should be cool too.

 

I've got Russian circles and king woman tomorrow my first show in months I'm so ready

 

Jealous about that one. Wish it was coming here.

 

I haven't seen RC since 2015 and I saw king woman last year and they were incredible so I'm so hype

 

The new MOL record is fantastic.

 

ok so ya, pretty jealous

 

Russian Circles is massive live.

 

king woman is just the fucking best

 

Damn near the best show I've ever been to. Neither of those bands can be touched live

 

alright havent kept up with new releases in the last week or two whats come out?

 

Møl's album Jord and Palm Reader's album Braille have been my favourites over the last few weeks.

 

There's new Winterfylleth and Carpathian Forest for black metal. I've been jamming Skeletal Remains, Our Place of Worship is Silence, and Scorched on the death metal side of things.

There's a new album from Unravel (death/grind/hardcore), which I figured some in here will like

Eras Of Forfeit LP, by Unravel