Comments on METAL INQUISITION: Portal Just Released the Best Metal Album of 2009

If you like Portal, check out Impetuous Ritual. I...

2009-11-11T08:20:14.769-05:00

If you like Portal, check out Impetuous Ritual. Its a couple dude from Portal. Theres a free MP3 on Profund Lore Records website...Almost as twisted!

To me the mixing/mastering on swarth is terrible.....

2009-11-07T04:15:58.430-05:00

To me the mixing/mastering on swarth
is terrible...

what a waste..

or not... the music is ok i guess..

Did I land on Metalsucks by mistake????

2009-10-28T13:59:05.371-04:00

Did I land on Metalsucks by mistake????

I like Chiswick era Skrewdriver as well, they were...

2009-10-28T12:09:36.566-04:00

I like Chiswick era Skrewdriver as well, they were a really good band for the time.

Has anyone here heard the Blut Aus Nord record? T...

2009-10-27T21:59:08.518-04:00

Has anyone here heard the Blut Aus Nord record? To me, that's the record of the year.

barfly - Actually, yes. I don't get laughed at, a...

2009-10-27T19:04:59.902-04:00

barfly -

Actually, yes. I don't get laughed at, and I know I'm not retarded.

I reiterate my question - if posing is pretending a commitment to metal that one does not actually feel, if posing is being insincerely metal for the sake of obtaining acceptance, approval, or status...then seriously, you're doing it wrong. There's no acceptance, approval, or status to be had. Nobody's getting rich or famous off this. They're working crappy jobs between tours and getting shit for having long hair and weird tattoos. There are far better things to pretend to be if you're some kind of social climber.

cliff.. are you sure you're not just using metal a...

2009-10-27T01:31:32.812-04:00

cliff.. are you sure you're not just using metal as an excuse for being laughed at and actually béing retarded? the assumption that there is no such thing as posers in metal may be the most ridiculous i've read on MI. get a life; don't blame metal.

GH ball's: you're absolutely right about skrewdriver; my bad.

barfly, are you talking to me? yes, i know skrewdr...

2009-10-26T19:08:29.843-04:00

barfly, are you talking to me? yes, i know skrewdriver released one album before becoming a nazi skinhead band, but they also released three 7" singles and my personal favorite skrewdriver record, the "back with a bang" 12."

liturgy sucks dick.

Did someone actually just use the word "poser" ser...

2009-10-26T18:54:01.756-04:00

Did someone actually just use the word "poser" seriously? What's it like to live in a world where people actually pretend to like metal in order to become cooler, more desirable, and more successful? Because I can guarantee you that in this one, people laugh at you and assume that you're retarded.

Okay maybe I was too harsh on the Portal. Their n...

2009-10-26T17:28:43.533-04:00

Okay maybe I was too harsh on the Portal. Their not that bad, and I don't have a big problem with the coo coo clock schtick. But the box of bees riffs is the next thing for hipster to mine. Don't believe me? See for yourself:

http://www.metalsucks.net/2009/10/16/liturgys-hunter-hunt-hendrix-discusses-burst-beats-apophasis-and-the-process-of-ecstatic-annihilation/

Anyways, too much box of bees riffs like Nile.

i do like Portal, but they're not amazing enough t...

2009-10-26T17:23:37.068-04:00

i do like Portal, but they're not amazing enough to dissuade me from backing away before the beardos descend. death metal is the new black metal, right?

thing is, Portal is SO fucked - to me it's a structured AxCx with monstrous riffs weaved in, plus vocals piped in from your grandad's grave - it may be unavailable for hipster misappropriation. probably not. that live show tho...

stick to metal dude.. skrewdriver released only on...

2009-10-26T14:17:56.190-04:00

stick to metal dude.. skrewdriver released only one album (all skrewed up; 1978) before ian stuart ressurected the band with an all new line up of nazi dorks and released 'hail the new dawn' in 1984. btw; best metal album of 2009? WORLD PAINTED BLOOD.

My enjoyment of Pulp was always on a more song by ...

2009-10-26T11:08:00.806-04:00

My enjoyment of Pulp was always on a more song by song basis ("Do You Remember The First Time" and "Common People" being the two that most readily spring to mind).

Last thoughts on Oasis: I'd read some articles about them before I'd ever heard them and thought they'd come across as totally moronic pricks. I too heard them for the first time via video (in my case the afor-commented "Supersonic") and, having been told they were the second coming of All That Is Great About Rock And Roll, was extremely underwhelmed. My lack of "getting it" may also have been affected by the fact that their song followed the mind blowing perfection that is Elastica's "Stutter" but who's to say at this late date?

So glad to hear that you dig the guitar pop!

I don't know if Portal is hipster metal or not, bu...

2009-10-26T11:00:59.451-04:00

I don't know if Portal is hipster metal or not, but this post reminded me of when you meet some guy that's just been to a Sunn show and claims it was a "religious experience"..

i love early/mid 90s britpop.i still vividly remem...

2009-10-26T10:13:34.901-04:00

i love early/mid 90s britpop.i still vividly remember visiting my family in italy when oasis first burst onto the scene and seeing the video for "live forever" on tv and instantly falling in love. i'm sure there's a good bit of nostalgia clouding my judgement, but i can still enjoy those first two oasis albums at any time. i'm also a HUGE fan of PULP. his 'n hers, different class, and this is hardcore are perfect pop records.

Everybody (who likes mid-ninties britpop that is) ...

2009-10-26T09:18:17.104-04:00

Everybody (who likes mid-ninties britpop that is) loves Oasis except for me. I always felt, from the moment I heard "Supersonic" on, that they were the proverbial Emperor's New Clothes. I'll take Teenage Fanclub's "Howdy", Suede's debut, or even The Bluetones "Learning To Fly" over the entire recorded works of Bloatasis any day.

And once again, kudos on the Portal! I'm spinning it right now!

i am a HUGE oasis fan (totally serious)! their fir...

2009-10-26T08:08:04.385-04:00

i am a HUGE oasis fan (totally serious)! their first two albums are so good!

whoever mentioned ulcerate, yeah, i heard their new album and it's good, but nothing mindblowing.

skrewdriver didn't become a white power band until about 1984. they released a handful of great records before then.

and how the fuck are portal a beardo hipster metal band? wearing a clock on your head is pretty retarded, but at least it's funny!

Weird, I listened to this at a local store yesterd...

2009-10-26T06:46:23.052-04:00

Weird, I listened to this at a local store yesterday and decided to pick it up. I come to M.I. this morning for my daily dose of "harshing my metal" and you guys are digging it! And it's nice to see the love/hate thing going on in the comments. Personally I'd say the most overated metal band of all time is Oasis. Pure total wanna-be Black Crowes shit!

Hate to be that guy, but oddly the best i have hea...

2009-10-26T05:25:40.030-04:00

Hate to be that guy, but oddly the best i have heard of portal was on the 2006 demo production was better suiting. Kind of like the way excruciating terror always sounded better on those shitty 7" I would recommend teitanblood and dead congregation over these guys especially after hearing the atrocious drum sound on swarth.

Well, the death metal corpse has so many bloody or...

2009-10-26T03:03:13.679-04:00

Well, the death metal corpse has so many bloody orifices in it that SOMEBODY had to chop it up, rearrange it and sew it back it up, don't you agree? It definitely is a strange record, and it most definitely perked my ears up. It sounds like the tinnitus in my ears mixed with Nuclear Death (what is it with weird death metal coming from desert locales??) Given the shitty hipster faux metal, black metal retreads and Converge clones I'll chalk it up to more metal growing pains I'm more than happy to live/blast out my neighbors with. As far as the attire goes, at least they don't have corpse paint, right Mr. Booze?

Rabble, rabble! Rabble RABBLE raBBle, Metal, Rabbl...

2009-10-26T00:59:48.770-04:00

Rabble, rabble! Rabble RABBLE raBBle, Metal, Rabble rabble. Blah blah blah, sucks, rabble!Rabble rabble, Hipsters, rabble rabble!!!

Probably the greatest fraud in the underground rig...

2009-10-25T23:41:40.243-04:00

Probably the greatest fraud in the underground right now, besides Averse Sefira (total posers). All this band does is dress up in silly costumes (a clock on his head? really?) and play stupid nonsense riffs and everyone thinks OOOOHH IT'S SCARY. Fucking ridiculous. Believe me, this band is laughing at all of you. The fact that so many people fall over themselves to praise this band is a really sad comment on how little people in the metal scene these days even understand music. Don't believe the hype, idiots.

Oh yeah? Well, I'm so cool and kvlt and grimm that...

2009-10-25T23:36:14.307-04:00

Oh yeah? Well, I'm so cool and kvlt and grimm that I was already bored by Portal before they even formed!

But seriously, somebody on another blog called them "occult mudstorm" and that's perfect. You don't listen to Portal so much as you just sort of sink down into the couch and let their songs ooze into your ears. They're like brutal death metal from another dimension - they sound like fucked-up noise to us, but Quarg from the planet Eebtron has "Swarth" on his record player and he's saying "meh - %ghDD@4 already did it better" with two of his three mouths.

I can deny that musically they are "in their own l...

2009-10-25T23:21:14.482-04:00

I can deny that musically they are "in their own league", unless of course you mean the shit league. This is like all the really shitty Gorguts riffs were put into a blender and regurgitated by coo-coo clock head over there. Boring pretentious hipster crap. Worse than Nile.

Along with the shrinebuilder album this is the mos...

2009-10-25T20:21:06.965-04:00

Along with the shrinebuilder album this is the most anticipated record of 09...for me anyway....nice coverage.