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Heavy metal is the greatest music on the face of the Earth, Macro. "Traced In Air" was excellent, but I don't think they'll ever top "Focus."
Have you had the chance to listen to the latest from Opeth or Mastodon yet?
Oooh. ITF you coming next week? I would like to discuss this.
Opeth are very entertaining live. Great band!
I was a fan of Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth a ten or so years ago. Still listen to that, but not so often. Dimmu Borgir are definitely worth going to when they are performing live, they do a great show.
Agreed, saw them live and they're one of the few bands that actually sound better live in comparison to their recordings.
I'm yet to check out the new Opeth album but the new Mastodon is just awesome, but I can't say that they topped their previous stuff. Traced in Air is actually one of my favorite albums of all time and I do believe that it exceeded Focus.
The new Animals as Leaders is good but I doubt it can top their previous self-titled album:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bmXGkwNs-k
I fucking love metal. I seen Mastodon live btw, pretty decent. You ever listen to Slipknot? They're the greatest.
Welcome to the thread! I saw Mastodon with Opeth on the Heritage Hunter tour, and yeah, I've dug Slipknot since high school!
check out mushroomhead if you like skipknot
What's happening next week Flake? More Bear Fights? We shall discuss.
You know, it surprises me that there aren't more metalheads working in finance. Hip-hop, Top 40, and 80's music make up the lion's share.
I don't really have favorite metal bands or anything (with the exception of Rammstein which I don't think people consider real metal), but I do enjoy a few specific songs by Mastodon, Sepultura, etc. Recently, I've been into epic/folk/viking metal for some reason, stuff like Ensiferum, Finntroll, Amon Amarth.
No more Bear Fights. Ok maybe just one.
Amon Amarth + Ensiferum are epic. Saw them with Children of Bodom a couple months back. Trivium and Behemoth are still my favs though :)
viking metal FTW
Amon Amarth are an awesome live band. I saw them back in 2007 on Sounds of the Underground.
Flake, have you listened to Bathory? Specifically Blood Fire Death and Hammerheart? Those are pretty.... "epic".. and many argue that they are the definitive albums of that genre. Just wanted to share.
Definitely heard a few Bathory songs but not Hammerheart, will check it out. Thanks for that.
Hammerheart is a masterpiece. Would also recommend the other two albums in the Viking trilogy: Blood Fire Death and Twilight of the Gods. They were planning a four-part Nordland series of albums as well, but only finished two of them before Quorthon died. They're both excellent as well. Shame, really.
Flake after one BF
plus 1 hour and three BFs
(warning: so so raw, yet so so real...recommend proceeding directly to 1:10)
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plus 1 hour and three BFs
(warning: so so raw, yet so so real...recommend proceeding directly to 1:10)
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Hahaha.
@Feeling Mean: YES! Bathory is essential metal listening; they have done more for black and viking metal than any other group.
@Flake: Rammstein is industrial metal. Still counts.
@UFO: No love for Jagermeister? Maybe next time we should try Black-Toothed Grin.
Anybody ever listen to Bloodbath? (Opeth vocalist's other band) They are straight-up old-school death metal along the lines of Morbid Angel.
Great song:
[quote=jon1987]Anybody ever listen to Bloodbath? (Opeth vocalist's other band) They are straight-up old-school death metal along the lines of Morbid Angel.
Great song:
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Yes! Fantastic band.
Considering your name, it doesn't surprise me you're into Viking metal. I've actually been listening to a lot of Enslaved and Thyrfing lately myself.
I thought this post read "meatheads"
\m/ d(-_-)b \m/
Would appreciate some melodic death suggestions along the lines of At the Gates, Amon Amarth, Norther, Dark Tranquility, In Flames (earlier stuff) etc.
One of my favorite songs:
dark tranquility is awesome.
Any mushroomhead fans?
Dark Tranquillity is scary good. Seen them twice--if you get the chance, go see em! The atmosphere is incredible. So underrated.
Happy Metal Day everybody! Check Black Sabbath's official site at 11:11am today for their "special announcement."
@Flake: My voice is pretty raspy...
@Macro: Dark Tranquillity is one of my all-time favorites; those guys are almost in a class all by themselves. Judging by that group you listed, have you sampled Children of Bodom, Whispered, Falkenbach, Thyrfing, Eluveitie, Wintersun? There's a lot of overlap with folk metal.
Those are sick and I'm really digging Whispered and Wintersun (Beyond the dark sun has some really sick riffs). Yeah, Melodic-death does have a lot in common with Folk Metal and they tend to get grouped together. Never really gave Children of Bodom a listen for the past few years since they became a bit too mainstream. Do check out Insonium, Ensifrum and Kalmah as well if you haven't.
Another noteworthy band is sylosis, but they're a bit more thrashy:
Those are sick and I'm really digging Whispered and Wintersun (Beyond the dark sun has some really sick riffs). Yeah, Melodic-death does have a lot in common with Folk Metal and they tend to get grouped together. Never really gave Children of Bodom a listen for the past few years since they became a bit too mainstream. Do check out Insonium, Ensifrum and Kalmah as well if you haven't.
Another noteworthy band is sylosis, but they're a bit more thrashy:
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Hm, I thought Bodom was really only mainstream in Finland and elsewhere. Either way, you can't go wrong with their early stuff (especially "Follow the Reaper"). They slowed down a bit on the "Blooddrunk," but it still sounded like them. Not a big fan of their latest one though.
Grim Reaper - See You In Hell
dont care about which genre of metal but my fav are:
rammstein old metallica drowning pool - sinner album old disturbed old slipknot iron maiden ac/dc
Australia has some sick bands that tend to get overlooked. These guys are undoubtedly one of them:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/IHbu2xKP59A
Macro, that must have been beast. Have you been to Dubai Desert Rock Festival? I always wanted to check that out myself (after Wacken, of course). And speaking of Australia, I assume you're a Belakor fan?
Flake, check me on those recs man!
2012 Metal releases include, but are not limited to: Gorguts, Meshuggah, Alcest, Eluveitie, Napalm Death, and Gojira. Should be interesting!
Black metal turtleneck and chain?
How did I miss this thread?
You didn't, Mr. Hetfield. It missed you.
Woo FUcking Hoo!
Annihilator & Testament are two of my favourite bands! Eternal Tears of Sorrow is a great melodeath band.
Saw Testament on the Metal Masters tour in 2008 with Motorhead, Heaven and Hell, and Judas Priest. Yes, that was as epic as it sounds.
I take it that you're a Pain of Salvation fan? I love the band too. Caught them live at IIT Madras on their India tour. Shared beers with Gildenlow :)
http://www.youtube.com/embed/eHo6I_AFCzo
http://www.youtube.com/embed/DRoZDMmUX7Q
Also, some other acts which have toured India - Orphaned Land, Eluvietie, Amon Amarth, Porcupine Tree, Gojira, Meshuggah. I missed all of them because I was spoilt for choice ;)
I think we should meet up sometime, In the Flesh & MacroArb. Where are you guys based?
hit me back jsut 2 chat, your biggest fan this is stan
PS we should be together
Always wanted to check out Orphaned Land live, and I have a friend who says she hates Amon Amarth as a band but loves their fans...don't get how that works. Last show I caught was Uriah Heep, and before that, Deicide. Killer stuff from both.
You guys should check this brilliant Band called Slain from Bangalore out. They're my current favourite on the scene.
they have a prog power metal (think Symphony X) meets 80s hair metal meets Maiden sound (apologies for the lack of a coherent description of their sound, it is kinda all over the place).
Got a few awesome shows coming up in New York--Morbid Angel on 11/13, Fates Warning 11/23 and Kreator and Overkill on 11/23 and 11/24. There goes some of my savings....
It doesn't get much classier than this:
Never would have imagined this happening - twerking to Behemoth:
New favourite video.
Wow. Um....there's headbanging, and then there's that....
At least they're easier on the eyes than Miley Cyrus...
How did I just notice this thread? Contributing my favorites.
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This shit is ridiculous, I recommend it
//www.youtube.com/embed/SGrF0r4lGg0?feature=player_detailpage
Watched Death gig last year.
^ Some nostalgic stuff u got there. Really digging that Solerrain track, never heard of em.
Yeah I could totally hear the older CoB vibe. As my prior posts in this thread indicate, i'm still not really a fan of the new CoB.
Wasn't a gojira fan until I heard their recent album:
Yeah, we got some serious love for melodeath in there.
Back in the day - pretty much went through all the rounds for various subgenres. Still have particularly (un)fond memories of the days when I listened to FDM like Ahab and Evoken. Nowadays I still jam to Agalloch and Deafheaven though
Halo of Blood was meh, better than their more recent albums though. They're back to their melodic death roots after wandering around... In the end I may just be a picky prick cause I liked their older stuff a lot more. Guess that also applies for most metal bands.
I hope it's a sign for better records in the future.
Did you hear Triviums new album?
Dude, the Death album "The Sound of Perseverance" was literally my very first extreme metal record--changed my life! So glad you appreciate it as much as I do. Dark Tranquillity is also one of my all time favorites--"Cathode Ray Sunshine" could be the best song in their entire catelogue--have you heard it?
//www.youtube.com/embed/9YguCkYy5Uk?feature=player_detailpage
Some other notable mentions that I really like that I didn't post vids for
-At the Gates -Obscura -Paths of Possession -Darkthrone -Emperor -Sepultura -Opeth
I really like Sabaton. They're not extreme, just heavy metal with some keys. They sing about war and shit which is awesome. Their live show was the loudest concerts I've been to.
//www.youtube.com/embed/y5V6sxZ8-eg
Five Finger Death Punch - Meet the Monster (Rambo)
I've got to give Five Finger Death Punch props for that Twitter campaign they mounted for their new album with the tagline "F*ck Pop." That was wonderful.
BB is also Epic:
Equallibrium Final Fight - Breaking Benjamin "I Will Not Bow"
Breaking Benjamin - The Diary of Jane http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWaB4PXCwFU
V for Vendetta - Breaking Benjamin - So Cold
Yo you forgot to add Linkin Park and Blink 182.... Those dudes are br00tal.
What's the deal with not liking this stuff? CompBanker gave me an SB for the Equilibrium one.
This is one crazy song.
I'm just gonna go ahead and post the whole album for this one
//www.youtube.com/embed/fXrhTQ1AxuQ
You. Are. Fucking. Awesome.
Been listening to a TON of Norther lately, no joke.
Ah, an entire thread consisting of full albums....wouldn't that be something?
If any of you guys are as interested in the history of the bands you like as I am, you'll probably dig these demos Rob Flynn just posted on Facebook:
//www.youtube.com/embed/d4ZxOudEBe8?feature=player_detailpage
//www.youtube.com/embed/pIxqlIkRnXE?feature=player_detailpage
//www.youtube.com/embed/8XdxBEC32ZI?feature=player_detailpage
If Lambesis wasn't such a fuck up in his personal affairs, I would have said these guys had some substantial potential:
Have no respect for the guy whatsoever and I was an AILD fan in high school.
I never got into AILD. That track you posted sounds waaaay deathcore-y
I've started to dabble with black metal. Darkthrone and Emperor are my favorites so far (New)
//www.youtube.com/embed/b0tsFqTulM8?feature=player_detailpage
(Old)
//www.youtube.com/embed/QIf2GgA1rGc?feature=player_detailpage
//www.youtube.com/embed/YgQRRI9goFg?feature=player_detailpage
@Stryfe : I've been listening to a TON of German thrash lately (Kreator, Destruction, Sodom, etc) and that was a huge influence on black metal.
Especially this:
Yeah Kreator is awesome.
Speaking of Germany, have you ever heard anything by Tobias Sammet? I really dig his supergroup Avantasia. It's not death metal heavy by any means; it's more along the symphonic side. I REALLY enjoy this niche area of metal. Great vocalists are really cool.
These three are my favorite, the second one is pretty gnarly, 3rd is the best tho.
//www.youtube.com/embed/P3tCpWSO5Yk
//www.youtube.com/embed/g8yfilEymiA?feature=player_detailpage
//www.youtube.com/embed/kR6WYswRVeo?feature=player_detailpage
Oh yeah, Tobias Sammett is definitely a large ham of a vocalist. Power metal! \m/ \m/ He also sang for Edguy, I believe.
//www.youtube.com/embed/SAMGbDkwVLE?feature=player_detailpage
Of course - Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, Beatles, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, CCR, Jimi, The Who, etc.I'm pretty indifferent when it comes to EDM/Trap stuff. I'll rage to just about anything but don't normally listen to those two if I'm just drivin around. I get most of my playlists for those from fratmusic.com and then modify them. I love EDM concerts though. Here's a clip from a Krewella show we went too when it came through town last spring. It got weird...
//www.youtube.com/embed/ndN4vFX5oks?feature=player_detailpage
Idk how I'm just now finding out about Sylosis, this shit is ridiculous.
//www.youtube.com/embed/7j_V5TGgUtw?feature=player_detailpage
This song is awesome at 3:00 after the solo. thrashy as fuk
//www.youtube.com/embed/GzmbKf3NXcY
^ Man Sylosis is by far my favorite band... they just keep getting better over time. Check out some of tracks from their edge of the earth album as well if you haven't:
http://youtu.be/D2QzE2HlJgE
Conclusion of an Age is by far one of the best metal albums Iv'e ever heard. EotE and Monolith are still kinda coming around to me. They jam really hard and I like em, but Josh Middleton doesn't have the same high range that their past singer Jamie did. I've listened to 2012/13 live performances and his vocals are improved a lot, so I'm really excited for the next album they put out.
Sylosis is definitely on the fast-track to my top bands though. Every 2 months or so a band will come around that I'll get into and literally spend the next couple weeks listening to/researching them so I can get an idea of progression and where they're going. Fundamentally, my process is the same as how I look at a company which I thought was pretty interesting when I noticed it.
Do you guy listen to genres beyond metal? I'll be the first to say that musically I'm all over the place, so that includes everything from Gucci Mane to Ludovico Einaudi.
I'm also a big classic rock guy, and my guilty pleasure is (good) 80's pop (a la "The Way It Is").
I find that most 'extreme metal' fans tend to be very narrowly focused on those specific genres in order to remain 'kvlt', to the extent that they become religious about it which I guess is somewhat ironic. In any case, just found this on metal injection- the timeline on black metal's history (I lol'd @ Misfits): http://www.metalinjection.net/video/an-animated-history-of-corpse-paint
Anyone recognize the Immortal song that was sampled?
I've only recently started listening to ambient IDM:
@"Macro Arbitrage" @Stryfe Got some seriously good music coming up in NY this weekend; Fates Warning on Saturday and Kreator/Overkill on Sunday! \m/ \m/
This is the closest thing to metal that I like. It's kind of like Metallica, only with more talent. It's soothing. I could listen to it over and over.
//www.youtube.com/embed/OD-I_CU2eU8
Nothing wrong with some solid alternative rock. One of the better songs of the 90s.
@"In The Flesh", did you know that Cho Seung-Hui would listen to Shine over and over? He even wrote the lyrics on his wall.
Anyone have experience with Insomnium? Just stumbled across this album, and holy shit. Sounds like a cross between In Flames' Whoracle and Colony, with a dash of Opeth thrown in.
//www.youtube.com/embed/KdZyte0EN5Y
in"the""Flesh Yeah, just another reason why NY is the best city, but Over Kill and Kreator in the same gig is just nuts... That's like a Big 2 show.
@Stryfe Agreed! Ascendancy was the first metal album that I listened to if you exclude stuff put out by Metallica etc. I used to think that the song "Rain" was the most brutal shit ever. I listen to a bit of Insomnium but I wasn't aware they had a new album so thanks for that.
Wintersun is one of my favorite bands right now:
Check out their album Time I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66cTH3X04uU
A very different Big Two, everyone's got their own definition of it these days. I'll let you know how it is!
Seeing these guys tonight, one of progressive metal's most criminally-underrated bands.
Some days are Machine Head days, and today is one of 'em. Robb Flynn is one of the few musicians that I admire on a down to earth level. I was beyond thrilled to hear that they signed with Nuclear Blast. I've given up hope for Roadrunner Records. After hearing Trivium's Vengeance Falls its clear that RR is the definitive mainstream breeding label now...but I think I've known that for years, but just haven't wanted to admit it. If you dig enough into Machine Head's history the majority of the band's problems have been with RR wanting them to make more mainstream music, so I'm really excited to see how the new album turns out.
//www.youtube.com/embed/YCfpCYr_7aQ
Fates Warning put on a PHENOMENAL show. I'm definitely doing a writeup of it for Head of Metal. Kreator and Overkill also tore it up. Thankful indeed for metal on this holiday!
I'm digging the EP for the future Insomnium album. Macro Arbitrage, I would highly recommend making your way through their discography. These guys are extremely consistent for a melo death. I still haven't found a song that I legitimately dislike or have a big issue with.
//www.youtube.com/embed/5DjmQXtZUx4
This would be really good if it didn't have vocals. In my humble opinion, the only metal bands with good vocals are Braking Benjamin (BB) and Five Finger Death Punch (FFDP). I used to hate AD/DC until I learned how to ignore the vocals.
@"Macro Arbitrage" I have not been able to stop listening to Candlemass lately. Unreal. Maybe it's just the foggy, dark and cold weather...
Had no idea Mikeal Stanne did this guest appearence. Its fucking sweet!
//www.youtube.com/embed/EUWn3xlPzhs?feature=player_detailpage
Been jamming a lot of Kalmah and Norther lately too
//www.youtube.com/embed/8-B8Y9l-vyU?feature=player_detailpage
//www.youtube.com/embed/ZsuyINOAO3c?feature=player_detailpage
@Stryfe : phenomenal lyricist as well.
Yep. Lethe has my favorite lyrics of any song I've heard. And this is probably the most powerful metal performance I've ever seen .
//www.youtube.com/embed/kXlGldTPiPg
Haha ITF, I can totally relate to that! My metal play-count has increased parabolically due to this obnoxious weather.
Can't go wrong with ATG:
Guys, what are your thoughts on the new Cynic and Amon Amarth albums? Can't say I'm a huge fan of either... I feel so old(-school).
Tl;dr version of Amon Amarth's new album - Once Sent from the Golden Hall pt. 9
Haven't gotten to the new Cynic album yet, but Amon Amarth has always been pretty good at what they do. I don't know anyone who's REALLY disliked their latest.
Btw, if anyone here hasn't followed Head of Metal on Google+ yet, you should--it's a 24/7 metal party over there: https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/112776982810328698425/112776982810328698425/posts
Bumping with some singles for upcoming albums I'm following. Sort of a grab bag of genre here.
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@Stryfe : I would ALSO like to bump the fact that Iced Earth and Sabaton are playing Best Buy Theater in NY on Fri 4/18, AND Carcass, Black Dahlia Murder, and Gorguts are playing Fri 4/11, same place.
Wow that's sick. I've been on an Iced Earth binge lately, that show sounds awesome. I've seen Sabtaon before at a suuuuuuper super small club here in the Midwest, it was by far one of the most fun and energetic show I've been to. They're extremely loud as well, I think they took a few pages from Manowar's live setup.
Wow, I'm so surprised by how good the new SA album turned out. I had basically written them off after their last, but this is a super refreshing return to form.
Can't get enough of these two:
//www.youtube.com/embed/SUmwVojnvIY
//www.youtube.com/embed/49XULJkzbpI
Next up is the Edguy album on the 15th.
@Stryfe : I've been on a big Angra kick lately, as long as we're on the subject of power metal.
I've never heard of Angra, but I just listened to the album Temple of Shadows and I really liked it. They sound sorta like Rhapsody (who, btw, released a great 2014 album).
@Stryfe : Yup, "Temple of Shadows" is very well regarded. They're from Brazil--probably that country's #2 metal group after Sepultura.
They also have a big 2-disc collection called "Best Reached Horizons" that's a good overview of their whole catalog, including a cover of "Kashmir."
@"Macro Arbitrage" : Do you like Angra?
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I just realized that In The Flesh possibly has the smallest monkey in all of WSO.
Bump. Twenty year anniversary of Pantera's far beyond driven CD. Also, have heard great things about the new Machinehead movie.
@Paladin : Machinehead movie?
Also, 20-year anniversary this year of Cannibal Corpse's "The Bleeding," Mayhem's "De Mysteriis," and Korn's first record.
Oh, and "Burn My Eyes," natch.
Oops, Lamb of God movie. As the palace burns. Not MH.
@Paladin : 10-year anniversary of Ashes of the Wake...O_O
Machine Head released the demo version of their song KIllers & Kings from their upcoming album, I think its fucking nuts! They're playing at a a super small club close to my school this summer, I'm so excited to see them.
//www.youtube.com/embed/OGEcZgX5o2c
@"Macro Arbitrage" : You're a big Cynic fan, right? Any thoughts on "Kindly Bent To Free Us?"
I was just talking about it a few days ago - I hate to sound like a cynic, but Masvidal will never reach the heights of traced in air...
Currently (re-)playing Wintersun and some Joe Pass.
Anyone get anything good on Record Store day? I picked up some black metal cassettes that honestly I don't know what they are yet, Darkthrone's Frostland Tapes, and this 12":
//www.youtube.com/embed/kiqW9U4KBJ0
@"Macro Arbitrage" was that pun intended? I'm sure it's not "Traced In Air," but is it still good by itself?
@"Feeling Mean" Didn't get anything this year for Record Store Day, but I've been stocking up on plenty of Candlemass, Gorguts and My Dying Bride in preparation for MDF. I'll also probably hit up The Sound Garden record store down there, ever been?
I want to go to MDF so bad, but I'll be getting ready to move at the time its going on.
@FeelingMean see above
Nah, never been to Maryland. That looks like a great store.. Here is my local- I've known the guy since he was selling CDs on his own label out of the back of his car: http://redscrollrecords.com/. It's worth keeping an eye on their Discogs profile.
MDF is intense this year, looking forward to that HOM write-up for sure. Really happy to see Crowbar/Torche/Dropdead in particular on there.
The title track of the new Insomnium album is pretty good. Since their new guitarist is from Omnium Gatherum I expected to hear a lot more of their sound throughout the album, but I like the In Flames influence on this one.
//www.youtube.com/embed/bi4ZMQbUkRc
@jon1987 : Don't worry, it'll still be there after you move.
Also, power metal fans: Gamma Ray's latest just recently came out, and Blind Guardian should have theirs finished in May.
@Stryfe @FeelingMean Since you guys seem to appreciate the melodeath quite a bit, I just published a review of The Jester Race on HOM if you want to check it out.
I checked it out, great review! Such an important album in metal history, TJR overtook The Gallery as being one of the most popular albums from the early Gothenburg metal days. The song Moonshield, one of my personal favorites, was a beautiful answer to The Gallery's Lethe. The Jester Race was the first In Flame's album to feature Andres Friden on vocals, which previously had previously been performed by Mikael Stanne (Dark Tranquillity), and Henke Forss (Dawn). One of the things I like so much about the Gothenburg Metal scene of the mid-late 90s was the amount of collaboration between all of the bands in the area, nearly all of them were friends and assisted or performed with each other's projects. I can't help but think that one of the reasons why the unique melo-death sound that was formed was due in part from the friendly nature of competition amongst everyone.
While on the subject of bands from Sweden, this 2nd single from Sabaton's upcoming album is sooo sick.
//www.youtube.com/embed/EoLRsCiOmS8
@Stryfe : man, you should do a guest post sometime, or comment more often! Jester Race is more melodic, Slaughter of the Soul the most riff-centered, The Gallery overall the heaviest and a healthy medium, in my view. Like the same character, but different traits being emphasized in each one.
Yeah I would agree with that. All three released in 1995, which I would mark as the start of the melo-death explosion. Edge of Sanity released Crimson in 1996 which was huge for the incorporation of Gothenburg riffs with more traditional death metal, and also because...its Crimson. Definitely of my favorite albums from that period, too.
After I finish the semester next week I'll be able to get to writing somethings I've been wanting to do, too.
@ITF, got any recs for a girl who recently got interested in metalcore? xD Not exactly your subgenres of choice, but the little EDM kid I used to be in middle school has had her interest piqued.
@chicandtoughness : Shadows Fall, Machine Head, Hatebreed, As I Lay Dying, All That Remains, August Burns Red.
For the stuff THEY listened to/were inspired by, check out Sepultura, Discharge, GBH, Agnostic Front, and Napalm Death.
@chicandtoughness : Oh, and Killswitch Engage, of course.
Anybody else have something to add? I'm no metalcore expert, but I know at least the basics.
And, I'm sure @FeelingMean will chastise me if I don't include Black Flag, Bad Brains, and Cro-Mags also as key influences. Underoath is considered more screamo, but it's in the ear of the listener. @chicandtoughness
@chicandtoughness I would recommend Trivum, too, they were my first "death metal" band. @ITF hit a lot I would've suggested.
I've listened to Trivum and enjoyed them, same with All That Remains (The Last Time
@chicandtoughness : Happy headbanging!
Tool's "Opiate" and "Lateralus"
@chicandtoughness, @intheflesh there are so many directions to go. Grew up going to Hatebreed, 100 Demons shows etc, but can't really recommend that ignorant style on here with a straight face. The bands I think you should really check out have an asterisk
@chicandtoughness - special recommendation: Torche. Super heavy and melodic, clean vocals.
Staples:
Cro-Mags* 108* Shelter* Leeway Killing Time Hatebreed Integrity* Strife Earth Crisis Trial****** Inside Out* (Early Rage Against the Machine)
"2nd Generation" (Probably more in line with what you are looking for, more melodic)
American Nightmare/Give Up the Ghost* Coalesce* Converge Shai Hulud* Poison The Well Unearth* Grade* Underoath* Snapcase Boysetsfire Darkest Hour* Most Precious Blood Zao Evergreen Terrace Norma Jean Every Time I Die Fear Before The March of Flames
Feeling pretty nostalgic right now, haven't thought about some of these in 10+ years. It was fun digging.
@FeelingMean : Yeah a lot of my high school friends were into Underoath, Senses Fail and the screamo stuff. Some of it was okay, but for me it hasn't aged well.
Recognize a few of those, thanks for the huge list! My bent has always been the symph / neo-classical / folk-ish stuff, so I'm sloooowly trying to expand my horizons. Got brutally thrown into death and thrash stuff by the roommates, haha.
If you like neo-classical stuff you should check out Children of Bodom's first two albums. Something Wild is my personal favorite of them. If at first the vocals turn you off don't disregard it they take a little bit of time to click, but the focus of the songs is on the guitar, and the vocals should be interpreted as an additional layer of heaviness.
@chicandtoughness : Neoclassical/progressive metal is great stuff, @"ThaVanBurenBoyz" and I got into a discussion on the "albums to hear before you die" thread. He prefers his prog instrumental, but you really can't go wrong with Dream Theater and Yngwie Malmsteen for that, either.
@Stryfe : For the new listener, I know it isn't ideal, but they just released a 20-song greatest hits compilation for Children of Bodom.
Yngwie is awesome, I love his early stuff.
I don't think CoBs compilation album would be a bad place to start. It has a mix of all their styles, but leans more on their riff-heavy thrash side. My only fix to it would be adding more songs from Something Wild and different picks from Hatebreeder.
I stole my Bodom playlist from this YouTube video which would also be a pretty good place to start.
Fo sho
//www.youtube.com/embed/g68hQ4zJ3t0
New Opeth
//www.youtube.com/embed/_QJjJgptNxs
New Fallujah slays.
//www.youtube.com/embed/cPypRw7yvVQ
And the cover art for Hammerfall's next album makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. If the trend of stagnated power metal bands returning to their roots becomes a thing I don't know what I'll do with myself.
I haven't read the whole thread but anyone bring up Between the Buried and Me? My favorite band of all time, hands down. Also some of the weirdest guys I've ever met.
Working on my MDF writeup in 3 parts because I'm writing down everything I can remember...it'll be up soon, fellas...
Ever since you showed me that Mayhem disc I have been on the biggest black metal binge
//www.youtube.com/embed/gxWhvdhdG_4
Just don't overdo it.
@FeelingMean : I know you'll order Mayhem's new record on release day, right?
@In The Flesh I am so out of the loop. I have very little by Mayhem, to be honest.
...Wha....?
Dark Tranquility and Insomnium announce North American tour hhhnnngggg. Booking my flight to come up for the first show date.
@Stryfe : Excellent. Dark Tranquillity is one of my favorites (caught them with Omnium Gatherum this past February). @FeelingMean you gonna hit this up?
new fallujah single. so metal it hurts.
//www.youtube.com/embed/tLPHSpHvSUA
recovering metal addict here, I have roommates and lost my headphones so it's tough haha. went to Ozzfest (I know, super commercial) about 10 years ago saw Maiden, Arch Enemy, and the Haunted, was awesome. as you might imagine, not many people in PWM who like metal haha.
I would've sold both my kidneys and my liver to go to the Ozzfest with that lineup.
When you say "recovering," do you mean you've moved on from metal or are you trying to get back into it after it lost appeal for you?
I mean it's all I used to listen to before I went to college, I still listen to it just not as much and I haven't really heard new stuff since 2005. And yes it was the best concert of my life. It never lost appeal but I started listening to it in middle/high school so I guess as I grew up I wanted to try different genres, but metal will always have a place in my heart.
Friday's pump up song! Skip to 2:50 for solo of dreams.
//www.youtube.com/embed/QpoLe2v6MVo
Judas Priest also announced a tour with Steel Panther earlier today:
@Stryfe Wait, what? I thought Judas Priest retired from touring?!?!?
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