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Topic: 2012-A Year of Good Shite
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Luna
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posted December 26, 2012 12:21
    
For some reason, what with paying more $$ for rent than year's past, I've been fortunate to purchase LOTS of new & old discs. Here's a list of 2012 releases that stood out for me, or have been played an awful lot:Royal Thunder - CVI
Ufomammut - ORO
Evoken - Atra Mors
Nachtmystium - Silencing Machine
Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
Baroness - Yellow & Green
Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud
Ihsahn - Eremita
Deftones - Koi No Yokan Sadly, I wasn't terribly awed by the new Gojira or Katatonia and rarely listen to those or the new Enslaved. Was pleasantly surprised by the new Deftones...fuckin' A. Wasn't expecting much from these Sacramento boys when my cool volunteer lent me his copy - I've not been able to stop playing this one on repeat. This is the beautiful beast I'd hoped Katatonia would create, since Night is the New Day was pretty damn spectacular. Also have a tough time pressing stop when Baroness gets played...just wish this was on one disc so's I wouldn't have to switch from Yellow to Green. Other than that, I've spent lots of hours with all of the above. And, there are still others I need to purchase but that'll have to wait until 2013. -------------------- What the fuck is wrong with drinking tea?
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Mezcalhead
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Member # 26
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posted January 23, 2013 05:49
ENSLAVED-RIITR
Probably number one for me although I will say the last song I don't get. Suprised you didn't like it Luna. They managed to blend the darkness with the light rather perfectly on this one in my opinion. Seems to me like they'd been trying to do this for the last couple of albums but none came really close to actually working until this one(again with the exception of the last song, which just doesn't go anywhere imo)....BLOTTED SCIENCE-Animation of Entomology
Jarzombek and crew at their best....liked this way better than their debut which to my ears was just shredfesting. Ihsahn- Eremita
This album was huge for me. I have to be in the right mood for it but when I am....wow...There are some great songs on it.
I also love the inclusion of the saxophone. Funny but the new Baroness didn't move me at all. Yellow & Sheen wasn't bad....its just too rock for my tastes. And a double album?? Give me a break. I can't think of anything else. 2012 was really the year of 2nd & Charles for me.
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X-D
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posted January 23, 2013 13:47
2012 was just an OK year for stuff. Some dependable releases, but not a lot came out that changed my worldview or anything.Favs:
- Enslaved: RIITIIR
The new Enslaved was one of the only standouts for me this year, though I have to admit that I am not spinning it as much as I would expected. - Storm Corrosion: s/t
This album was a nice accompanyment to Opeth's 2011 Heritage record, which also continued to grow on me in 2012. - Can: The Lost Tapes
Old ass recordings from the late 60s and early 70s, better than what most bands are putting out these days. Serious innovators, these krautrock legends were. - Corrosion Of Conformity: s/t album
Had low expectations for this album, but it delivered! Almost makes the list just for Reed returning to the band, but also great to see these guys carrying on. - Candlemass: Psalms For The Dead
I dunno, I find this record to be somewhat interesting... almost more prog than what I expected as the Candlemass machine winds down with their career.
I enjoyed these releases, but they did not blow my mind or anything
- Testament: Dark Roots Of The Earth
- Destruction: Spiritual Genocide
- Graveyard: Lights Out
- Soundgarden: King Animal
- Saint Vitus: Lillie F-65
- Mekong Delta: Intersections [would have rather heard new material...]
- The Sword: Apocryphon [not bad, but these guys have been spinning in circles since their debut - cool concepts, but not really evolving musically]
The bottom three... most disapointing releases
- Kreator: Phantom Antichrist
Really having a hard time enjoying this one at all - not even sure what it is that I dislike about it. Listened to this like twice and was done with it - Witchcraft: Legend
Lineup changes appear to have hurt these guys quite a bit... Really not connecting to this record. - Melvins: Freak Puke
The Melvins have been a staple in my musical diet since I can remember, but 2-drummer lineup has been getting less and less interesting with each album... Was thinking that scaling back to a trio with Trevor Dunn on bass would be a good thing, but this one doesn't seems to go anywhere. Some of the best stuff I bought in 2012 was old shit... Manilla Road reissues, the entire Sacrifice discography on CD, the release of the Portal demos (Cynic), etc. There's a lot out there I haven't heard yet too, but not really feeling in a hurry to catch up either. Sean - your list is insane! You sir, are a madman! -------------------- I am a robot... bleep blop bloop
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schroeder
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posted January 23, 2013 17:51
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Originally posted by Cthon:
Luna, i wonder if i should just pare my list down to metal releases, haha?
NO, I want to see the entire list... especially the non-metal stuff. XD, the new Kreator takes a lot of listening to , to even begin to get into it. After the first couple spins, I was like you and didn't like it much, but couldn't really figure out why. The more I've played it the more I get into it. The medieval style orchestration (or whatever you want to call it)kind of throws me, but I also find it interesting. I give them props for changing things up every now and then, and they certainly did that on this album. I glad I didn't blindly buy the last Melvyns cd. I wasn't thrilled by the samples (which usually doesn't keep me from buying from a band like them) and then after hearing your initial review I was happy I hesitated. Earls of Mars released a killer ep in 2012 that I keep playing the shit out of. Didn't we have a thread about our favs of 2012 somewhere. I know I listed a lot of different cds. I thought it was a damn good year for music, and 2013 is certainly starting off great with Target Earth... although that also might mean everything else will be a disappointment by comparing it to Voivod's masterpiece. I'm looking forward to Steven Wilson's new solo album (and all the limited edition versions he's creating to get my $$$).New Saxon,Tomahawk, Sound City (that Dave Grohl project), Puscifer, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Clutch, Death Angel (in the studio now)... -------------------- yawn
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Cthon
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Member # 156
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posted January 23, 2013 21:16
1 Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory (Great indie punk with an abrasive power and overwhelming catchiness. Like Leatherface from a younger and more lo-fi planet.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_zRt_EmqoU
2 Bob Mould - Silver Age (It sounds like Sugar again on Bob's stage. Everything is awesome here.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MdhsCeasBQ
3 Drivin n' Cryin - Songs From the Laundromat EP/ Songs About Cars, Space and the Ramones EP (2 EPs that together make 11 kickass songs. New guitarist and Summerville homeboy Sadler Vaden helps make it happen.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6DBb26BPjk
4 Christian Mistress - Possession (The NWOBHM continues to be a great inspiration for a lot of modern bands like CM. The vocals of Christine Davis are the rugged and dangerous focal point, tho.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYUKgKnoaGo
5 A Place to Bury Strangers - Worship (Hard hitting psychedelic post punk. A nice retro vibe but a huge updated sound.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGeLYSHzGds
6 Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral (Lanegan doesn't really know how to make a bad album. Dark as usual, but also very catchy.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quR5478B4BU
7 APE! - 1991 (Stoner metal, like a more spastic, punky, grungy Fu Manchu.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjMsiQcLwF0
8 Agalloch - Faustian Echoes (One epic twenty minute long track that will drag you down into it's black metal depths. Probably my favorite thing by them and that's saying a lot.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIF0d4PLsjY
9 Van Halen - A Different Kind of Truth (More comeback than all of our little minds can handle. Perfectly Van Halen. And the playing is smoking on fire.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cl1f_6FYQo
10 Hard Girls - Isn't It Worse (Just pure punk attitude and an out-there idea of catchiness. And lots of mean riffs and songs.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI9BSgMVkJI
11 Pleasant Living - Pleasant Living EP (Yeah, I know this is dumb throwback NYHC. Stuck in my head forever, tho.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ld-7sEHrss
12 Prong - Carved Into Stone (A nice menacing return with some classic Victor riffing.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2uW_lg2is0
13 Pussy Riot - Kill the Sexist! (Real rebel stuff.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpc7DLG3K-E
14 Patterson Hood - Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance (For the life of me, I can't make up my mind about who was the best songwriter in DBT history. But every time I listen to this record, the answer is Papa Bear Patterson.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaTPT7nXeJQ
15 OFF! - OFF! (Bunch of old dudes blasting your brain apart.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_uWw7DJsiQ
16 Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos (Fagen is hijacking the mothership nowadays and its awesome.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMLDLRSzip8
17 Baroness - Yellow & Green (Guess what? Some metal bands quit playing metal and they are still badass.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V0N1x675FQ
18 Witch Mountain - Cauldron of the Wild (Uta Plotkin's amazing vocals tower over the pounding doomslaught.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i32nr3ocBk8
19 Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls (Real blues rock without all the ugly connotations.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwF4lwP7__s
20 Venomous Maximus - Beg Upon the Light (Heavy-as-hell old-school metal with a modern edge.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NDXNmqPNGs
White Lung - Sorry
Broken Water - Tempest
The Great Sabatini - Matterhorn
Allah-Las - Allah-Las
Corb Lund - Cabin Fever
Millionaires - Your Girl Does Party Mixtape
Colour Haze - She Said
Electric Wizard - Legalize Drugs and Murder EP
Old Man Gloom - No
The Company Band - Pros and Cons
Ufomammut - ORO - Opus Primum
Radar Men from the Moon - Echo Forever
Mama Lenny and the Remedy - Punches and Hugs
Cash Crop - Roar Out the Hiss
Pop.1280 - The Horror
Omotai - Terrestrial Grief
D.O.A. - We Come in Peace
Tim Barry - 40 Miler
Future of the Left - The Plot Against Common Sense
Krallice - Years Past Matter
Shonen Knife - Pop Tune
Mission of Burma - Unsound
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Lost Songs
Kong - Merchants of Air
Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold
Killing Joke - MMXII
Hour of 13 - 333
Wizard Rifle - Speak Loud Say Nothing
Forgetters - Forgetters
Best Coast - The Only Place
Enslaved - RIITIIR
Swearin' - Swearin'
Elder - Spires Burn
L'Viv - Compare and Decide
Fight Amp - Birth Control
Tideland - Lull
Vaste Burai - Almost Home EP
Kohosh - Survival Guide EP
Neon Piss - Neon Piss
Kreayshawn - Somethin' Bout Kreay
Swans - The Seer
Bedemon - Symphony of Shadows
High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
The Stranglers - Giants
Goatwhore - Blood for the Master
Unsane - Wreck
Chris Brokaw - I Ace Sociopathic King
Propagandhi - Failed States
Black Moth - The Killing Jar
Yakuza - Beyul
Ravenous - Splendid
Telestrion - Molecule
Stockholm - Crawl EP
Psychic Blood - Autumn Curses
Ipswich - Baby Factory
Dope Body - Natural History
Split Cranium - Split Cranium
Zebras - Zebras
No - Can You Dig It
Hex Machine - Fixator
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Danko Jones - Rock and Roll is Black and Blue
Burning Love - Rotten Thing to Say
Destruction - Spiritual Genocide
Eric Burdon and the Greenhornes - s/t EP
Corrosion of Conformity - Megalodon EP
Peter Buck - Peter Buck
Bison B.C. - Lovelessness
Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine - Shock-U-Py!
Broncho - Can't Get Past the Lips
Graham Parker and the Rumour - Three Chords Good
Neurosis - Honor Found in Decay
Metz - Metz
A.C. Newman - Shut Down the Streets
Dysrhythmia - Test of Submission
Soul Asylum - Delayed Reaction
Royal Thunder - CVI
Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II
Gaza - No Absolutes in Human Suffering
Modern Man - EYES NO
Honorable Mentions: The Men, Graveyard, Joe 4, Windhand, The Secret, The Kills, Chelsea Wolfe, Kicker, Aura Noir, The Melvins, Spiritualized, Undersmile, Om, WoFat, Redgrave, Whirr, Kreator, Old Ghosts, Moon Duo, Jimmy Cliff, Circle Takes the Square, Satan's Satyrs, Black Country Communion, Dum Dum Girls, Crippled Black Phoneix, Earth, Pallbearer, Slaughtered Priest, The Adicts, Baby Metal, Bell Witch, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Ministry, Municipal Waste, Not on Tour, Woods of Ypres, Okkultokrati, PIL, Jarboe, The Howling Wind, Kitty Pryde, Bruce Springsteen, Sigur Rós, Nada Surf, Black Breath and Ke$ha.-------------------- www.myspace.com/mastersofpunkrock
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schroeder
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Member # 5
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posted January 24, 2013 11:32
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Originally posted by Cthon:
Schroeder, i agree about the Van Halen. not sure if i want to see them live and have my dreams tarnished, haha. i saw them in the 80s and thats good enough, maybe.....
I'm with ya there. They came through the area but after seeing a couple live clips I knew it would ruin it for me seeing them live. I saw DLR during his Eat em & Smile tour and even then he couldn't sing. If it wasn't for Michael Anthony, in VH, and the keyboard player he hid at the back of the stage doing the cool high notes, it would have really sounded like shit vocally live. Say what ya want about Sammy Hagar, but that guy can still sing like like a mutha fuka. Sometimes his party lyrics are a bit stupid for me, but overall he's great and still just having a fucking good time rockin' out. KONG = incredible. one of the best instrumental acts out there. -------------------- yawn
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X-D
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posted January 25, 2013 17:49
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Originally posted by schroeder:
XD, the new Kreator takes a lot of listening to , to even begin to get into it. After the first couple spins, I was like you and didn't like it much, but couldn't really figure out why. The more I've played it the more I get into it. The medieval style orchestration (or whatever you want to call it)kind of throws me, but I also find it interesting. I give them props for changing things up every now and then, and they certainly did that on this album.
Thanks Dave, I'll give this one some more time to sink in. Struggled with Hoards Of Chaos at first too, but it eventually made my brain very happy. Kreator have a way of throwing curve-balls from time to time. Totally forgot about Agalloch's Faustian Echoes EP, which is fantastic! Not sure how this totally fell off my radar. I never even bought it... until today, haha. Just placed an order for this along with the Whitedivisiongrey 2-disc set. Quietly awesome, these guys are. Off topic, but Voivod & Agalloch would be a cool pairing for a tour. -------------------- I am a robot... bleep blop bloop
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posted January 23, 2013 21:38
