Heavy Metal!!

[Ruckus]

Whippy took me to my first real metal show last night at Hopscotch Fest. I liked it more than I thought I would. I would definitely go again, although I have to say that Whippy helped with all his knowledge of what we watched. We saw Inter Arma, Evoken, and Sleep. I enjoyed the first two enough that I would go to another show. Sleep, however, blew me away!! It was just fucking awesome! Granted I've listened to them some before and thanks to Ruckus, I've been interested in Om-Al Cisneros' band. It was interesting to see how different what he does with Sleep although there is a little overlap. He does stuff with a bass that I've not seen before.

Awesome!  Metal professor Whippy is my favorite teacher. 

[MrWhippy]

Whippy took me to my first real metal show last night at Hopscotch Fest. I liked it more than I thought I would. I would definitely go again, although I have to say that Whippy helped with all his knowledge of what we watched. We saw Inter Arma, Evoken, and Sleep. I enjoyed the first two enough that I would go to another show. Sleep, however, blew me away!! It was just fucking awesome! Granted I've listened to them some before and thanks to Ruckus, I've been interested in Om-Al Cisneros' band. It was interesting to see how different what he does with Sleep although there is a little overlap. He does stuff with a bass that I've not seen before.

Awesome!  Metal professor Whippy is my favorite teacher.

Aw, thanks you guys.  Getting all choked up at the moment reading this.

Was great to get some Fully time last night, and to see some great music together in Raleigh.  For me, though, The Breeders were just north of meh, but they were not the main draw at all.  The stuff we really came for (Spiritualized plus the metal bands) were great

[manonthemoon]

Whippy took me to my first real metal show last night at Hopscotch Fest. I liked it more than I thought I would. I would definitely go again, although I have to say that Whippy helped with all his knowledge of what we watched. We saw Inter Arma, Evoken, and Sleep. I enjoyed the first two enough that I would go to another show. Sleep, however, blew me away!! It was just fucking awesome! Granted I've listened to them some before and thanks to Ruckus, I've been interested in Om-Al Cisneros' band. It was interesting to see how different what he does with Sleep although there is a little overlap. He does stuff with a bass that I've not seen before.

Awesome!  Metal professor Whippy is my favorite teacher.

Aw, thanks you guys.  Getting all choked up at the moment reading this.

Was great to get some Fully time last night, and to see some great music together in Raleigh.  For me, though, The Breeders were just north of meh, but they were not the main draw at all.  The stuff we really came for (Spiritualized plus the metal bands) were great

Glad to hear you guys enjoyed yourselves and that Sleep killed it, wish I could of made it down for it. 

[Fully]

Whippy took me to my first real metal show last night at Hopscotch Fest. I liked it more than I thought I would. I would definitely go again, although I have to say that Whippy helped with all his knowledge of what we watched. We saw Inter Arma, Evoken, and Sleep. I enjoyed the first two enough that I would go to another show. Sleep, however, blew me away!! It was just fucking awesome! Granted I've listened to them some before and thanks to Ruckus, I've been interested in Om-Al Cisneros' band. It was interesting to see how different what he does with Sleep although there is a little overlap. He does stuff with a bass that I've not seen before.

Awesome!  Metal professor Whippy is my favorite teacher.

Aw, thanks you guys.  Getting all choked up at the moment reading this.

Was great to get some Fully time last night, and to see some great music together in Raleigh.  For me, though, The Breeders were just north of meh, but they were not the main draw at all.  The stuff we really came for (Spiritualized plus the metal bands) were great

Glad to hear you guys enjoyed yourselves and that Sleep killed it, wish I could of made it down for it.

Would have loved to have seen you, Bret. I may see you at a metal show in the future. Whippy, my dark overlord, still has much more to show me about this world of music. Plus there was the funniest guy beside us who got his hair caught in his tiny battery operated fan that he graciously shared with us before he started RAWR-ing along to the music. He was an excellent at the rawr, but I started getting really anxious that he was going to fall off the balcony because he kept leaning over it so far. I really enjoyed watching the crowd. It was awesome even though I was really sleepy and napped a little during Inter Arma and Evoken. I hadn't slept much this week and 24 hrs straight awake don't make me completely concious.

[manonthemoon]

I see Pelican is dropping a new album next month through relapse.  Might have to check that one out.

Also got a few shows comming up that I might hit up with Black Tusk and Inter Arma doing Baltimore, Orange Goblin playing Empire in Springfield, and Royal Thunder hitting the road as well. 

[MrWhippy]

I see Pelican is dropping a new album next month through relapse.  Might have to check that one out.

Also got a few shows comming up that I might hit up with Black Tusk and Inter Arma doing Baltimore, Orange Goblin playing Empire in Springfield, and Royal Thunder hitting the road as well.

Pelican was great at MDF this year, as Ruckus can also attest to.

Some really good metal tours this fall including a couple great pairings, such as Inter Arma and Black Tusk as you mentioned.  Another great pairing is High on Fire with Kvelertak, who are on the road in November (with a DC date on 11/12 for us DC area metal heads).

[manonthemoon]

I see Pelican is dropping a new album next month through relapse.  Might have to check that one out.

Also got a few shows comming up that I might hit up with Black Tusk and Inter Arma doing Baltimore, Orange Goblin playing Empire in Springfield, and Royal Thunder hitting the road as well.

Pelican was great at MDF this year, as Ruckus can also attest to.

Some really good metal tours this fall including a couple great pairings, such as Inter Arma and Black Tusk as you mentioned.  Another great pairing is High on Fire with Kvelertak, who are on the road in November (with a DC date on 11/12 for us DC area metal heads).

That's another good one, glad its starting to pick back up as there was kind of a lull of good metal this summer after MDF.

[Tired Eyes]

I want to recommend a relatively new metal magazine from the UK called Iron Fist.  I just picked up issue 6 yesterday.  It was started by Louise Brown who used to run Terrorizer. 
http://www.ironfistmag.com

I saw that Amon Amarth will be touring the U.S. this winter with Enslaved and Skeletonwitch in support.  That is a good bill and I hope to make it to a show.

[Jeff Murray]

This video is just amazing!  These kids do an amazing job on a song that is not very easy... kudos to the music teacher!  Another reason we cannot allow the arts to be taken out of schools... even if this seems to have been done in a private school...

46 and 2 by Tool / Presented by Aaron O'Keefe

[MrWhippy]

This video is just amazing!  These kids do an amazing job on a song that is not very easy... kudos to the music teacher!  Another reason we cannot allow the arts to be taken out of schools... even if this seems to have been done in a private school...

46 and 2 by Tool / Presented by Aaron O'Keefe

Wow.  Thanks for posting that.  They did a really fantastic job.  Really liked the vocals on it for one.

[MrWhippy]

I'm not much of a Gwar fan, but this video of them covering "Get Out of My Dreams, Get Into My Car" is pretty great, particularly the mash-up they do with Baba O'Rielly at the end of it.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/gwar-covers-billy-ocean,93870/?mobile=true

[manonthemoon]

http://pitchfork.com/advance/250-whales-and-leeches/

Red Fang is streaming the new album on Pitchfork if anyone is interested

[buaawwww]

http://pitchfork.com/advance/250-whales-and-leeches/

Red Fang is streaming the new album on Pitchfork if anyone is interested

Absolutely... awesome!!!!!!!!

[MrWhippy]

Anyone else seeing Slayer on this current tour?

It's a bummer that they are down to two original members, but they are playing an insane setlist.  Also, they have a great opening act, French metal band Gojira.

[Jeff Murray]

A buddy shared this site with me... this link is for the Red Fang HellFest France show, but there are links to other bands you guys talk about... Graveyard, Pallbearer, Orange Goblin...

Enjoy!

http://www.hellfest.fr/hellfest-tv.php?type=l

[MrWhippy]

A buddy shared this site with me... this link is for the Red Fang HellFest France show, but there are links to other bands you guys talk about... Graveyard, Pallbearer, Orange Goblin...

Enjoy!

http://www.hellfest.fr/hellfest-tv.php?type=l

Thanks Jeff!  That's a serious gold mine.  In addition to the bands you mentioned, there are also sets on there by Neurosis, Yob, Melvins, Kylesa, Cult of Luna, Church of Misery, KEN Mode, and some other cool stuff as well.  Now I just need to clear a weekend or so on my schedule to watch it all.

Also, I guess by the lack of response no one else is catching the Slayer/Gojira tour.  Y'all are missing out, the sets by both bands I saw in Austin were amazing.  I wish  I could go see them again tonight here in DC, but I don't think it is to be.  Here's one pic from the Slayer set I saw last week.

[MrWhippy]

I don't know if there are other Deafheaven fans on here, but they put out what it is in my opinion one of the best albums of the year with Sunbather. 

Here's a link to a black metal makeout mix put together by Deafheaven's vocalist.  If anyone gives it a try, please report back.

http://www.revolvermag.com/news/playlist-deafheaven-vocalist-george-clarkes-black-metal-make-out-mix.html

[Tired Eyes]

Decibel has released their list of the top 40 albums of 2013. 

1. Carcass - Surgical Steel
2. In Solitude - Sister
3. Gorguts - Colored Sands
4. SubRosa - More Constant Than The Gods
5. Inquisition - Obscure Verses For The Multiverse
6. Cult of Luna - Vertikal
7. Melt Banana - Fetch
8. Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
9. Noisem - Agony Defined
10. Tribulation - The Formulas of Death
11. Deafheaven - Sunbather
12. Toxic Holocaust - Chemistry of Consciousness
13. Nails - Abandon All Life
14. Inter Arma - Sky Burial
15. Autopsy - The Headless Ritual
16. Secrets of the Sky - To Sail Black Waters
17. Purson - The Circle and the Blue Door
18. Lycus - Tempest
19. Ihsahn - Das Seelenbrechen
20. The Ruins of Beverast - Blood Vaults: The Blazing Gospel of Heinrich Kramer
21. Antigama - Meteor
22. Kylesa - Ultraviolet
23. Immolation - Kingdom of Conspiracy
24. Exhumed - Necrocracy
25. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Mind Control
26. Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu
27. Ulcerate - Vermis
28. Anciients - Heart of Oak
29. Craven Idol - Towards Eschaton
30. Iron Reagan - Worse Than Dead
31. Portal - Vexovoid
32. Coliseum - Sister Faith
33. Cathedral - The Last Spire
34. Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed
35. Noctum - Final Sacrifice
36. AEvangelist - Omen Ex Simulacra
37. Watain - The Wild Hunt
38. Corrections House - Last City Zero
39. Dark Tranquility - Construct
40. Batillus - Concrete Sustain

[Tired Eyes]

A buddy shared this site with me... this link is for the Red Fang HellFest France show, but there are links to other bands you guys talk about... Graveyard, Pallbearer, Orange Goblin...

Enjoy!

http://www.hellfest.fr/hellfest-tv.php?type=l

Thanks Jeff!  That's a serious gold mine.  In addition to the bands you mentioned, there are also sets on there by Neurosis, Yob, Melvins, Kylesa, Cult of Luna, Church of Misery, KEN Mode, and some other cool stuff as well.  Now I just need to clear a weekend or so on my schedule to watch it all.

Also, I guess by the lack of response no one else is catching the Slayer/Gojira tour.  Y'all are missing out, the sets by both bands I saw in Austin were amazing.  I wish  I could go see them again tonight here in DC, but I don't think it is to be.  Here's one pic from the Slayer set I saw last week.

I saw the NYC show on November 27.  I thought it was really good.  It was weird to see Slayer without Jeff Hanneman (RIP), but Gary Holt of Exodus fame is excellent and did a great job. 

[MrWhippy]

Thanks Bill for posting that Decibel list.  What a great year 2013 has been for metal releases, and so much I still haven't heard. 

Congrats to Alien Lanes for Anciients ending up on the Decibel list, very cool.

Some good package tours have been announced for 2014 so far, with the Decibel tour featuring Carcass and Gorguts, and tours of Between the Buried and Me/Deafheaven/Intronaut and Russian Circles/KEN Mode/Inter Arma.