whats everyone currently listening to????

[badcarburetor]

Scissor Sisters? Really?

Yes. Really. I like what I like.


Acephalix - S/T
Really solid crust from SF.

Cauldron - Burning Fortune
I need to give this a few more spins, but right out of the gate it's much better than the first one. I really wanted to like the first album, but couldn't. Then, seeing them live, they came across much better. So I went home, spun the debut again and still thought it was limp. I hope this one grows on me.

[spice]

necrophagia- deathtrip 69 (on the decibel site)
sunn 0)))- oracle
twilight- monument to time end

[badcarburetor]

Scissor Sisters? Really?

Yes. Really. I like what I like.


Acephalix - S/T
Really solid crust from SF.

Cauldron - Burning Fortune
I need to give this a few more spins, but right out of the gate it's much better than the first one. I really wanted to like the first album, but couldn't. Then, seeing them live, they came across much better. So I went home, spun the debut again and still thought it was limp. I hope this one grows on me.

This Acephalix is really, really good shit. I can't get enough of it.

The Cauldron, though...after a few spins I think it's made it's maximum impression. The songs are catchy and stay with me, but more like a bad cold than a recent Darkthrone chorus. Ultimately, I think the band is just cut too much from the Dokken cloth to every really do it for me. I'd be into seeing them live again after how much they more they impressed me that way than on their first album. Maybe they just get too sterile in the studio and they lose some much needed edge.

The Scissor Sisters I never get sick of. Great tunes, high energy, makes me wanna move. Just like killer metal.

[MS_39455]

Locrian - The Crystal World (endless repeat at work this morning)

[aaron]

Locrian - The Crystal World (endless repeat at work this morning)

The album doesn't quite live up to the epic album art

[Peanut Caravan]

Trouble - Plastic Green Head
Trouble - s/t
Black Sabbath - s/t
Godflesh - Selfless
Graveyard - Hisingen Blues

[MS_39455]

Locrian - The Crystal World (endless repeat at work this morning)

The album doesn't quite live up to the epic album art

I think it's the art that doesn't quite live up to the album. I actually got Drenched Lands not knowing who Locrian was mainly becuase of the album art. That one looked like it sounded. I can't get enough of this sound lately. I've had Blood of the Black Owl, Lustmord, Ea, TenHornedBeast, even Neptune Towers and the like playing almost every day for better part of a year. It's the first few feet of the blunt subteranian plow edge of the doom glacier that only exists to abrade you into a three mile long paper thin stratum of human dust over countless listenings. I'm always looking for more.

[BlackRoija]

/me NP: Fatal Morgana - (Access: Quietus) - "In Speechless Words" [04:34/08:26]

[stewvee]

Locrian - The Crystal World (endless repeat at work this morning)

The album doesn't quite live up to the epic album art

I think it's the art that doesn't quite live up to the album. I actually got Drenched Lands not knowing who Locrian was mainly becuase of the album art. That one looked like it sounded. I can't get enough of this sound lately. I've had Blood of the Black Owl, Lustmord, Ea, TenHornedBeast, even Neptune Towers and the like playing almost every day for better part of a year. It's the first few feet of the blunt subteranian plow edge of the doom glacier that only exists to abrade you into a three mile long paper thin stratum of human dust over countless listenings. I'm always looking for more.

These guys send me six of whatever they record. Don't spend your dough on them; I'll give you the promos. I owe you for countless beerz anyhow.

[MS_39455]

Locrian - The Crystal World (endless repeat at work this morning)

The album doesn't quite live up to the epic album art

I think it's the art that doesn't quite live up to the album. I actually got Drenched Lands not knowing who Locrian was mainly becuase of the album art. That one looked like it sounded. I can't get enough of this sound lately. I've had Blood of the Black Owl, Lustmord, Ea, TenHornedBeast, even Neptune Towers and the like playing almost every day for better part of a year. It's the first few feet of the blunt subteranian plow edge of the doom glacier that only exists to abrade you into a three mile long paper thin stratum of human dust over countless listenings. I'm always looking for more.

These guys send me six of whatever they record. Don't spend your dough on them; I'll give you the promos. I owe you for countless beerz anyhow.

You don't owe me shit, but thanks a million dude. They have so many releases and they're not always easy to find.

[V-GER]

DIO: Stand Up and SHout - The Anthology
ABORTED: Strychnine.213
THE ABOMINABLE IRON SLOTH: The Id Will Overcome
SANCTUARY: Refuge Denied
I am still surprised by what I find at FYE...
Tom, have a few of those you mentioned and they are killer which include Blood Of The Black Owl, Ea and Lustmord.

[Matt]

Trouble - Psalm 9
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time / Dance of Death
Dragbody - An Inheritance of Detriment
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

[Ryan]

Nocturnal - Arrival of the Carnivore (LOVE this band, killer "teutonic" thrash or whatever)
Dekapitator - We Will Destroy... You Will Obey!
Judas Priest - Stained Class
No Thought - I'm Done
Quadiliacha - Discography (I'm ready for another reunion show.)
Repulsion - Horrified Disc 2 "Rarities"
Toxik - Think This (I've seen a lot of praise for this band but they fucking suck imo. Bunch of boring, derivitive, wank "thrash", bullshit.)

[Moloc]

My vote goes for Hell Awaits. Remember sitting in my room as a teenager listening to the vinyl at night before bed with headphones. At Dawn They Sleep...what else can I say!

From MetalSucks.com (I think Slayer jumped the shark when they put out a pinball app.)


Am I crazy or does World Painted Blood suck? Is Slayer moving forward or caving to the post-Slipknot shitty production trend? Am I a fossil who can’t deal with a classic band’s evolution? I love serial killers and hate religion, so what’s the deal? Why did critics splooge all over this record, and do fans agree?

During a recent plane trip, I played about four hours of Slayer pinball on my mobile tablet device â€â€￾ to the dismay of my westerly neighbor, who frowned from behind her religious-themed novel presumably at the game’s huge glowing pentagram â€â€￾ and it got me thinking about World Painted Blood. Like 2006′s mehtastic Christ Illusion, the 2009 record arrived amid a rush of acclaim â€â€￾ as though a spiteful metal media corps had a chance to bestow retroactive cheers upon a critically spurned but iconic band. Or maybe the album is awesome, and therefore deserving of warm reception even from fancy music writers at The Onion and All Music Guide. But I don’t think so.

But Slayer rules, so after hearing the pinball game’s loop of the title track riff interspersed with segments of “Beauty Through Orderâ€Â￾ and “Hate Worldwideâ€Â￾ to the point of hypnosis, I took a lot of time to reconsider World Painted Blood and why I don’t give a rat’s ass about it. Back in spring 2009, I was poised to love it â€â€￾ Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman personally promised that I would â€â€￾ but, ugh, aside from “Human Strainâ€Â￾ and “Public Display of Dismemberment,â€Â￾ the shit puts me to sleep.

The problems start with the flat, cold production; but that’s not a deal-breaker, plus I expected to grow accustomed to this big departure from the hot, crackling Rubin/A. Wallace/Hyde treatments that preceded it. But Blood fails elsewhere: Riffs often have a “that’ll doâ€Â￾ quality, Dave Lombardo’s drumming is sapped of groove and impact, and Tom Araya has never sounded so indifferent â€â€￾ though King and Hanneman’s rote, Slayer Mad Libs-style lyrics provide scant excitement. Overall, Blood sounds like Metallica on Death Magnetic (each was helmed by Greg Fidelman and Rick Rubin): all chopped, wonky, and top-heavy. Oh yeah and I hate the guitar solos, which sound like the work of a few drunk guitarists in a garage parodying King’s and Hanneman’s chops. For the first time, there is not a single moment of magic on a Slayer record.

It’s enough to induce an identity panic, my being so at odds with critical perceptions of this record. Worse, I loved Diabolus In Musica, which no critic praised and no fan swears allegiance to, and I regularly groan at the jizzloads lobbed at Reign In Blood (though Sergeant D. has my back on that one). Am I a shitty Slayer fan?

Has anyone here even listened to World Painted Blood? Does it suck as much as he says it does?

[Knucklehead]

I have it and have listened to it, although not lately. I wouldnt say that it is that different than Christ Illusion, really, when compared to the classic material. I'll tap my foot in time and maybe bob my head.

But there are no moments when I want to scream the lyrics. Such as, "on my wall your head!"