The official metal 2010 thread!

[mutantllama]

Requesting a sticky.

You know the whole drill..
Artist - Album Title (Genre; Label) - Release Date

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Overkill - Ironbound (Thrash/Groove; Nuclear Blast) - January 29th, 2010

1. The Green And Black
2. Ironbound
3. Bring Me The Night
4. The Goal Is Your Soul
5. Give A Little
6. Endless War
7. The Head And Heart
8. In Vain
9. Killing For A Living
10. The SRC

 

[Einherjar86]

Borknagar- Universal (progressive black metal; Indie Recordings)- February 22, 2010

 

[AchrisK]

Damnit Zeph, I was thinking about making a 2009 thread. Then a thread that I made would be stickied.

...

A year later, mutantllama's dreams come true.

 

[Srontgorrth]

^Hahaha

 

[mutantllama]

The last time I wrote something I promised to give the next update around Easter. Well, Easter season is a little late this year, but better late than never is my favorite saying. Here is my long promised message.

To keep this one a short but essential one: we finally have started the production of Blind Guardian studio album number nine. Frederik is literally rushing through the songs already. Who knows, this time we may deliver the finished master prior to the ultimate deadline (set by an about-to-get-insane record company after thousands of broken promises to finally deliver the new record within the next days). Well Frederik isn't Marcus, who isn't André, who most certainly is not Hansi. So there still lies trouble (i.e. delays) ahead.

Back to Frederik, back to the production: We started sometime last week and Frederik accomplished drums for some seriously tricky tracks. If I am correct he has two more tracks to go and should be finished during the next days. Altogether there are 11 songs to work on. As mentioned last time, we do have a strong amount of heavy Guardian hymns, which come along with such a harsh intensity that I am sometimes surprised myself. There is a fine balance of extremely fast songs and ultimate epic stuff. "Wheel of Time" would be one example for the last mentioned. The song contains many surprises - I am deadly honest about that, so mark my words here. Lyrically I am of course tempted to deal with Robert Jordan's great "Wheel of Time" story, one of the best fantasy series ever. If you asked me with which song the number could be compared I most probably would say "The Script for my Requiem" or "And then there was Silence". This tune does really have the potential to mess with these two songs.

As you most probably figure I am really excited about the new stuff and I cannot await to hear the final result somewhere in April 2010, when we will have finished mixing. We are targeting a late summer, early fall release, which means you still have to wait a little bit. To make the long waiting more comfortable we are at least intending to constantly provide you with information about the album's progress and supply you with small samples of noise from time to time. Right at the moment we are working on an accurate set up to make that possible. Expect something before Christmas. As it looks now I will start first vocals next Monday. Therefore I need to do some more research for proper lyrics. G.R.R. Martin, Robert Jordan, Michael Moorcock and so on they all knew how to write a good story or two...

Hansi

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[Vegard Pompey]

Sigh - Scenes From Hell (Experimental metal; The End Records) - January 19, 2010.

Awesome cover.

 

[SweptbackFlame]

Overkill - Ironbound (Thrash/Groove; Nuclear Blast) - January 29th, 2010

1. The Green And Black
2. Ironbound
3. Bring Me The Night
4. The Goal Is Your Soul
5. Give A Little
6. Endless War
7. The Head And Heart
8. In Vain
9. Killing For A Living
10. The SRC

Sigh - Scenes From Hell (Experimental metal; The End Records) - January 19, 2010.

Awesome cover.

Fuck yes for both of those albums!

 

[arg]

Morbid Angel - fuck knows when

 

[The Ozzman]

Corrosion of Conformity plox?

 

[divine_torture]

Corrosion of Conformity plox?

I second this motion.

 

[Eligos]

Ne Obliviscaris is releasing their debut in 2010. There hasn't been an official statement about it yet, though.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Some High on Fire news: http://www.noisecreep.com/2009/11/03/high-on-fire-snakes-for-the-divine/

 

[The Ozzman]

I am hoping Armored Saint releases theirs before 2010, but if not, that will definitely be released next year

 

[ArneZ]

Kalmah - 12 Gauge (Melodic death metal) January 2010

Mnemic - Sons of the System (Industrial Metal,"Future fusion\hybrid metal") January 15, 2010

Fear Factory - Mechanize (Industrial Metal) February 9, 2010

 

[crunchymilk]

Sigh - Scenes From Hell (Experimental metal; The End Records) - January 19, 2010.

Awesome cover.

Holy shit do want, new High on Fire album giving me a hard on also.

 

[Einherjar86]

Kalmah - 12 Gauge (Melodic death metal) January 2010

Psyched about this, but not about the title.

 

[Belligerent]

^Looking forward to it too.

Damn i can't think of anything good coming out.

 

[SweptbackFlame]

Kalmah - 12 Gauge (Melodic death metal) January 2010

So pumped for this...watched some clips from some of the sessions...and does it ever sound good...There reverting to some of there older style sound.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Uh, Burzum?