The Metal Thread Genre • Page 254

yeah but did you see the chicken suit proposal?

 

Yeah, I could neeeeever get into them.

 

getting ready to go get my face punched in at the Power Trip show

 

They don’t sound very metal.

 

Yeah. It was a tender moment amongst the chaos that left beer and trash all over Soundstage. Dude also thought it was a good idea to tackle the drummer of Bandit by diving over him drumkit at the end of their set:

AND they didn't kick him out despite the fact one of the Soundstage managers was cursing him out for his stupidity. It pays to be an MDF celebrity. I'd have been arrested if my anonymous, crowd blending self did that.

Congrats on the fowl proposal tho.

 

how was your time in the city?

 

Pretty good. I like Baltimore a lot (though my experience of Baltimore is confined to the Inner Harbor area during MDF). The food I had was good; the local beer was delicious; and the local metalheads were nice. All in all, it was one of the better MDFs I've had of the five I've been to.

More about the trip tomorrow when I'm killing time at work.

 

folks!

 

I am here for standard tuning Vektor

 

New Mutilation Rites track.

 

It is the most metal

 

Not for a band name.

 

Couple of things I've gotten around to recently:

Finally got around to the Adzalaan album. This is some harrowing black metal and my second foray into the cold and chaotic force that is the Portland based Vrasubatlat label. Pretty much everything they release is top notch, see Dagger Lust, Serum Dreg, Triumvir Foul. Here's the Adzalaan album:

Also finally got to the Alkaloid album. German prog/death reminiscent of Obscura but less tech and more prog, but still plenty of death:

And another sick split, this time with Undergang/Gorephilia. I prefer the latter side but they're both proper filthy:

 

There's a death metal band called Party Cannon with this logo:



You can make anything metal enough if you try!

 

party cannon is legit genius because their name automatically pops out and is actually easy to read on any metal fest poster

 

exhibit a:



edit: though specific font color choices in the graphic design prolly also helped. *shrug*

 

Elder doing a little west coast tour soon

 

Forgot to mention that the Power Trip show was obviously good. Did not care for the openers at all. I missed Red Death and Fury is a shitty hardcore band. I could not for the life of me figure out what Sheer Mag was doing on the bill. Was super not into that. Still, all worth it in the end.

 

I remember dismissing Carbomb's Meta when it came out a couple of years ago. What a foolish thing to have done. I'm going through it now on a whim and it's fantastic so far. Quite a bit more going on than de-tuned chugging which was what I initially thought after listening to a few song clips back then.

 

A full stream of the second EP released in advance of Magus has been released as well...

 

Ok I might be phoning it in a little today because the new Coheed is really distracting me but nothing can stop

THRASH METAL THVRSDAY

Before there was Vektor, there was Voivod:

Deathstorm album came out last week (RIYL Kreator, Morbid Saint):

Speaking of Kreator, there is never a bad time for them:

And I know this is kind of cheating, but I am posting this because I am trying to learn this song on guitar (sans the solo, for now). I've been playing guitar for 13 years but I hardly pick it up anymore. When I first started learning how to play, I pretty much learned every Metallica song that I could manage. They basically taught me how to play guitar. Since I don't play much anymore, I've definitely lost a step and I figured this would be a good place to pick up. The reason I like this song is because it is probably their thrashiest song (if not, it's top 3). Metallica songs are like 90% down-picked and palm muted, but this is one of the rare songs where they implement a fast riff that uses alternate picking, and it's awesome.

 

Random things I've been listening to over the past few days:

Body Void - I Live Inside a Burning House

FFO Primitive Man, Vile Creature, sludge from dope genderqueer individuals

Water Torture/Stimulant split

FFO noise, grind, noisegrind

Confusion Master - Awaken

FFO Electric Wizard, Monolord, Windhand, d00m

 

oh shit new Extremity song + album pre-order!

They definitely released one of my fav death metal albums last year in a year that was stacked with quality death metal. RIYL Bolt Thrower, Vastum, Necrot.

 

new AAFCC track