Music: METAL!!! \m/

[PSJ]

Is it better than Mezmerize?

[Sensei Jon]

Originally posted by: Terracosmo
Bump because of THIS (http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3409421)

Man I am SOOO happy, this is the new Mago de Oz release - and they are one of my favorite bands ever. However, despite the popularity this heavy/folk metal band has in their home country Spain, they aren't very famous outside of there. I've literally been sitting day out and day in lately in an attempt to find this online, to buy or to download, and then I find it at Piratebay (irony at it's best). AWESOME!!!

Downloading it now, I already heard the intro and it was enough to make me cry. I love this band so much!


Holy shit Terra..... I love it, amazing. Listening to it right now. God damn, absolutely incredible. This is the first time EVER that I didn't just skip from song to song to get an idea of what it sounded like first. I have listened to every song so far, in their entirety.

[Terracosmo]

Very glad to hear that Sensei Jon! Myself, I've listened to the album nonstop since I got it... and that is a lot i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif
But not enough!

Best album of the year, no question.

[Paulyboy]

Originally posted by: PSJ
Is it better than Mezmerize?

Yah its alot better and a little funnier. The songs I recommend you to listen is:

Attack
Lonely Day
Soldiers Side
Hypnotize
She's like Heroin

These songs too from their old Cd's

Toxicity
Aerials
Roulette
Highway song
Chop Suey - everyone knows this song
Soil
Fuck the system
Science

Plus, whats your taste on music and what bands do you listen to. Give me some recommendations also i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif

[PSJ]

Hmm, i might give it a listen, i didn't like Mezmerize very much. They had some good passages here and there but blew it with insane tempo changes all the time.

Some recommendations?

Right now Get Mago De Oz new album(Terra has been advertizing this for a while now). You should also try Loudness and X Japan, both heavy metal bands from Japan. Try out Airged L'amh, it's Heavy Metal with folk metal influenses. There is also Rammstiens newest, which i enjoyed very much. Older fans didn't like it that much but i loved some songs on there. Since i'm recommending i feel that it is my duty to recommend Iron Maiden even though you probably already know them. Get Brave New World and Dance Of Death.

[Terracosmo]

Downloading Hypnotize now. I've listened to nothing but Gaia 2 for 5 days. i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif I have this feeling that I won't listen much to Hypnotize before switching back, either ^^

[The Heretic Azazel]

Listening tooooo Carcass - Edge of Darkness and Alice in Chains - Head Creeps

Btw... Krisiun are on tour.. God I hope they come here.

[Terracosmo]

Hypnotize wasn't very good. I guess I'll never understand why people like SoaD...

Krisiun isn't among my favorite bands, but they are pretty decent.

Song of the moment: Hammerfall - Glory to the Brave

"Nothing on earth stays forever
but none of your deeds were in vain."

Fucking beautiful.

Also, I've located a torrent for the new Mago de Oz live album. Some of you seem to share my love for the band so this might be interesting. It's rather big, 150 megs, but great quality and 2 CDs. A great live band they are. Hilariously, they also have a live cover of the aforementioned Hammerfall song on there. Destiny or what? It's called El Peso del Alma there though, as they even went and translated the lyrics to spanish.

Mago de Oz - Madrid Las Ventas (http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3414522)

[Uchiha Barles]

Terra to the rescue once again. I'm in metal wonderland! i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif

[Terracosmo]

^^

You should try finding their old albums too, Gaia and Finisterra in particular. I don't have any torrents for those though...

[Shinda]

I was wondering. has anyone listened to Roadrunner United, the all star sessions?

it's a cooperation from 42 bands under the label Roadrunner. A few names are Opeth, Fear Factory, Trivium, Sepultura, Misfits, Killswitch Engage, Cradle of Filth and Ill Nino.
There are a few good songs on the album IMO.

[The Heretic Azazel]

I heard about the United Sessions, I almost got it but I dunno. But I do like posting over at their forums, Blabbermouth.net, great fun.

I'm downloading the new In Flames, Come Clarity now, we'll see how it goes.

The song for you kiddies for the day is Entombed - Chief Rebel Angel and I for an Eye

Terra, and anyone else.. did you ever check out Babylon Whores?

Oh and the new Exodus, Shovel Headed Kill Machine, is a sick ass album.

[Terracosmo]

Thanks for reminding me Azazel, I was meaning to check out Babylon Whores but I forgot. Downloading some stuff now.

New In Flames out already eh? I don't know if I dare to download it :S
But then again, it can't get worse than STYE so what the hell.

Edit: Just noticed that Babylon Whores has Taneli Jarva (ex-Sentenced) on backing vocals i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif awesome! Can't wait for the downloads to finish...

Edit2: New In Flames = hilariously bad album. Perhaps even worse than Soundtrack. Avoid this shit.

Babylon Whores = sounds pretty nice so far. Gonna let them sink in. i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif

[darkmetal505]

Originally posted by: Shinda
I was wondering. has anyone listened to Roadrunner United, the all star sessions?

it's a cooperation from 42 bands under the label Roadrunner. A few names are Opeth, Fear Factory, Trivium, Sepultura, Misfits, Killswitch Engage, Cradle of Filth and Ill Nino.
There are a few good songs on the album IMO.

yea only a few good songs on there.

[Terracosmo]

Awesome band time: Katatonia

They have played for a long time, a swedish band which started out as a death metal band but later evolved into some kind of depressive heavy metal. A good comparison would be Sentenced. Very nice band, great lyrics too, but don't listen to them unless you like gloomy stuff. Their albums really makes me depressed (in a good way). The best ones would be "Last Fair Deal Gone Down", "Discouraged Ones" & "Viva Emptiness".

[The Heretic Azazel]

Teargas is an awesome song, but the vocals tend to wear me down a bit, they get monotonous after a while.

I didn't care much for Viva EMptiness, moreso Soul's Highway and Last Fair Deal Gone Down

They played some damn fine death metal back in the day too.

[Terracosmo]

Teargas is beautiful. And yes, their death metal stuff ain't bad. For some reason I was reminded of old In Flames when I heard "Dance of December Souls" and decided to take "Lunar Strain" for a spin.
Awesome album it is.

Anyway, Katatonia didn't make Soul's Highway - Beseech did i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif

[The Heretic Azazel]

Lost Highway? RIght?

[Terracosmo]

As far as I know, Katatonia has no song or album with the word "Highway" in it. i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif

[The Heretic Azazel]

Tonight's Decision!!! That's what I meant.

[Uchiha Barles]

Good call on Katatonia. Ive been listening to them quite a bit thanks to pandora. I've also discovered Elis and Dragonforce. "Black Angel" and "Evening Star" are tracks from those bands that are really good. Somehow I doubt I'm enlightning many people in this thread though...

[Terracosmo]

Haven't heard Elis. DragonForce is however very good which I have probably written 100 times in this thread already so I don't need to worship them anymore right now i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif

Another pretty nice band is Suidakra. They play some kind of extreme gothenburg-esque folk metal.

[The Heretic Azazel]

I'm listening to the Northside Kings, pretty cool band for playing hardcore.

The singer was the one who knocked out Danzig a while back with one punch.

Has anyone else been listening to the almighty ENTOMBED lately?

[Terracosmo]

Never liked Entombed.

RECOMMENDATION: Listen to Deathstars NOW. Awesome band which hails from Sweden, the guitarist (Emil Nodtveidt) is the younger brother of the singer from Dissection (Jon Nodtveidt). They play some kind of industrial metal. A very good comparison would be The Kovenant. If you are even a small fan of electronica in your metal, then get their albums NOW. The newest one, Termination Bliss, is to be released 2006 but is already out on the net. (http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3415716) So get it.

Their first album (they only made two so far), Synthetic Generation, is also awesome. (http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3357620)

i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif

[XanBcoo]

I'm liking Deathstars so far. I think the only song that really got me was "Tounges". It reminds me a lot of Rammstein. I don't listen to a whole lot of metal, so that's the only good comparison I can draw, but it's composition reminds me of about 3 Rammstein songs all in one.

Also, the cover of Termination Bliss made me laugh.

[PSJ]

Started to listen to Evergrey today. Pretty well known band but i can't remember them showing up here so i thought i'd give a shout out.

Got their 2003 release(i think) Recreation Day and it sounds very good. The first time i heard this record back a year ago i wasn't impressed at all, in fact i didn't like it but now that i have broadened my music taste i find them very good.

Give them a listen!

[Terracosmo]

@Xan: Yes the cover is funny hehe. And I don't think Rammstein is a bad comparison at all. Tongues also happens to my favorite track as well. i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif

@PSJ: Recreation Day is the best album. Good choice i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif

[PSJ]

Deathstars are fucking amazing. Got Termination Bliss.

[Terracosmo]

Told ya so.

Now listening to the promo version of the new Edguy album "Rocket Ride". Promising!

[The Heretic Azazel]

So, it's been a year since Dimebag Darrell was killed... and it doesn't feel any better.

Some photos of his resting place:

http://www.ridefordime.com/pics/gravesite/PB270015.JPG

http://www.ridefordime.com/pics/gravesite/PB270016.JPG

Now his family are suing the club it happened in.. and the only reason I support that is because something has to be done to heighten security measures at concerts.

RIP Dime

[Terracosmo]

Wow, can't believe it's been a year already.

I do think it's pretty lame to sue the club though. That's not gonna solve anything.
But as you say, security needs to be heightened overall. But that's not just this particular club's fault.

[PSJ]

It is their fault however that he got shot since they didn't have enough security, it can serve as a warning for every other club if they do have to pay.

More band info!

Katatonia, i think Terra has recommended them already but they are fucking awesome. You better try Viva Emptiness, their 2003 release NOW!

[Giboc]

Originally posted by: Terracosmo
Haven't heard Elis. DragonForce is however very good which I have probably written 100 times in this thread already so I don't need to worship them anymore right now

Another pretty nice band is Suidakra. They play some kind of extreme gothenburg-esque folk metal.

I glance through the first page, and it fills me with considerable sadness. Linkin Park and Disturbed being called metal? Ugh.


BUT THEN TERRA MENTIONS DRAGONFORCE.


My god they're awesome... Here are a few bands I like...

In Flames (the old stuff. Everything after Reroute to Remain sucks), Dark Tranquillity, Arch Enemy, Rhapsody, DragonForce, Norther, Kalmah, Children of Bodom, Shadowsfall, At the Gates, Bloodbath, IRON MAIDEN, Finntroll... I'm forgetting a bunch too.

[PSJ]

I noticed Maiden in capslock. You're a bif Maiden fan? What era do you like the best?

[Terracosmo]

Welcome to the GotWoot metal militia, Giboc. i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif

You should just ignore the first 5 pages of this topic, as it's full with mallcore chattering and an attempted flame war courtesy of a few retards.

[PSJ]

Yea, this thread really had a bad start but with some good people with a good taste in music this thread became one of the best on these boards.

[Giboc]

Originally posted by: PSJ
I noticed Maiden in capslock. You're a bif Maiden fan? What era do you like the best?

I love Maiden. I guess I like Dickinson the best, but then again, most of the Maiden songs are with Dickinson. Killers and Prowler are both fantastic albums, and ... umm... Well Futureal was a awesome song. Blaze Bayley is just meh. His vocals didn't match with the feel of Iron Maiden, if that makes any sense. Then again, I'm not a big fan of deep, nonraspy vocals (like Iced Earth or Nevermore.)

Edit: Wait a minute, Prowler isn't an album... What the hell was I thinking? I meant Iron Maiden.

[Uchiha Barles]

Originally posted by: The Heretic Azazel
So, it's been a year since Dimebag Darrell was killed... and it doesn't feel any better.

Some photos of his resting place:

http://www.ridefordime.com/pics/gravesite/PB270015.JPG

http://www.ridefordime.com/pics/gravesite/PB270016.JPG

Now his family are suing the club it happened in.. and the only reason I support that is because something has to be done to heighten security measures at concerts.

RIP Dime

This was one of the greatest tragedies to strike the world of rock n' roll. Ever. Every time I think about it I get pissed off and heart-broken. I like that the family took time to consider whether or not suing the club was the right way to go. This is being done with as clear a head as its going to get. They don't need the money, so the fight must be to get a point across. I support them in this. I never want to see something like this happen to one of my favorite artist ever again. I actually burst into tears at the computer lab in school when I signed onto aim to speak to some friends. Aim today is how I first heard about this. Dec. 8th is also my birthday, so you can imagine, if there was anything good going for it that day, or if anything good was to happen later, it wasn't good anymore. Darrell Abbott, you and your music will forever be missed. RIP \m/

[PSJ]

Originally posted by: Giboc


Originally posted by: PSJ
I noticed Maiden in capslock. You're a bif Maiden fan? What era do you like the best?

I love Maiden. I guess I like Dickinson the best, but then again, most of the Maiden songs are with Dickinson. Killers and Prowler are both fantastic albums, and ... umm... Well Futureal was a awesome song. Blaze Bayley is just meh. His vocals didn't match with the feel of Iron Maiden, if that makes any sense. Then again, I'm not a big fan of deep, nonraspy vocals (like Iced Earth or Nevermore.)

Edit: Wait a minute, Prowler isn't an album... What the hell was I thinking? I meant Iron Maiden.

I agree with you fully. Bruce is what people think Maiden is, he is the singer that fits Maiden the best. Blaze is the worst in my opinion as they have a Bruce friendly sound on the Blaze albums and Blaze just can't do it like Bruce can. The first 2 albums works because they are heavier and raw-er than what Maiden became when Bruce joined.

So what Ablum do you like the best? For me it's Dance of Death. I love the new stuff.

[Giboc]

I might have to go with Brave New World or Powerslave. Brave New World has so many awesome songs, like the Wicker Man. That's probably one of my favorite Maiden songs. Then on Powerslave, we have classics like Aces High. I've heard covers of that song by Arch Enemy and Children of Bodom. The original is still much better.

[Giboc]

So I'm listening to Iron Maiden - Montsegur...

Does the opening remind anyone else of a Nartuo theme?

[PSJ]

Covers shouldn't be done on Maiden songs, i'm still looking for a decent Maiden cover.

When you mention it, the Montsegur intro actually reminds me of Naruto action music.

Here's a treat for all metal fans, a fanart Ed-vent Calender(you get the joke right?)
http://www.ironmaiden.com/xmascalendar/

[The Heretic Azazel]

All of Dream Theater's Maiden covers are cool.

OMG January 12th, HYPOCRISY, NILE, SOILENT GREEN AND DECAPITATED!!

I'm there bitches.

[PSJ]

Better check out those covers then. What songs have they covered?

[The Heretic Azazel]

Quite a few, you can probably find bootlegs of them doing the whole Number of the Beast album

DT is so crazy musically... they do loads of covers, they did a bootleg of the whole Master of Puppets album too. Quality.

[Terracosmo]

There are more awesome Maiden covers. I love the following:

Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Flight of Icarus
Graveworm - Fear of the Dark
Rage - The Trooper
Children of Bodom - Aces High

to name a few...

[Uchiha Barles]

Originally posted by: The Heretic Azazel
Quite a few, you can probably find bootlegs of them doing the whole Number of the Beast album

DT is so crazy musically... they do loads of covers, they did a bootleg of the whole Master of Puppets album too. Quality.

Another DT fan? Sweeeeeeeeeeet. Now that my DT fan army is assembled.....the two of us can take on terra and his unabated hatred of them and their awesome solos!

[Terracosmo]

lmao I never said that I hated DT and their solos, I just posted a funny link i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif

Still though, I can admit that prog metal is not my favorite genre...

[GhostKaGe]

Recent additons to my cd collection is the SENTENCED collection not too bad i like the BLEED track from the DOWN album. I havn't really had the chance to listen to many of the other tracks yet

[Terracosmo]

SENTENCED. ^_^

[GhostKaGe]

aye Sentenced there sounds not too bad quite like it and as PSJ said below The Cold White Light is quality

Ps:keep getting error messages when i try to post

[PSJ]

Put The Cold White Light into your cd player. That album is amazing, quite depressive stuff.

[PSJ]

Originally posted by: Terracosmo
There are more awesome Maiden covers. I love the following:

Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Flight of Icarus
Graveworm - Fear of the Dark
Rage - The Trooper
Children of Bodom - Aces High

to name a few...


You're right that really just is a few. I've found 51 Maiden covers, currently downloading on DC so i'll update this post everytime i get a new one down.

Here goes the list and rating of the song.

Dark Tranquility - 22 Acacia Avenue
Rating: 3 / 5
Comment: Works suprinsingly well as a death metal song, this one i can stick into a Maiden cover album.

Graveworm - Fear of the Dark
Rating: 2 / 5
Comment: I absolutly despise the vocals in this cover, it just doesn't fit this song. There are high points to though, the violins are extremly good and diffrent. Put somewhat clean lyrics in this cover and it would be heaps better.

Children of Bodom - Aces High
Rating: 3 / 5
Comment: Again, the vocals are what's dragging this down, the song works well musicly for this band, they upped the tempo a bit but the vocals just doesn't fit, again clean vocals and this one would be amazing.

Avalanch - Run to the Hills
Rating: 1.5 / 5
Comment: Well this is just bad. The tempo is screwed up and the singer doesn't do a very good job on the song, sounds as if the band tried to go with a rockish approach, didn't work at all.

Cradle of Filth - Hallowed be thy Name
Rating: 0 / 5
Comment: These guys shouldn't be allowed to cover any song at all, let them do their own shit so they don't ruin anyone elses work.

Sonata Arctica - Die with your Boots on
Rating: 4 / 5
Comment: Finally found a cover that works well. I would let these guys cover more Maiden songs.

Sentenced - The Trooper
Rating: 1.5 / 5
Comment: Well this was decent at the very best, it had some good guitar passages but other than that it wasn't very good.



In Flames - Murders in the Rue Morgue
Rating: 3.5 / 5
Comment: Works well just like Dark Tranquility's cover. These older Maiden songs seem to work better with growling vocals, it blends better with the rougher sound the older songs had. This i can see myself listen to again.

Ethereal - Fear of the Dark
Rating: 4.5/ 5
Comment: This was absolutly beautiful!! There is hope for correctly done Maiden covers. This song features a beautiful womans voice doing the intro and the choruses while a growling vocalist does the verses, there is also a growling vocalist with a deeper growl doing backup vocals through the entire song.

Musicly they use fluets(sp?), violins, bells. Yea the whole package, this is the best cover yet. Let's see if anyone can top this one. I warmly recommend this one to all of you and especially to Terra and Heretic, i think you boys will like this one.

Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Flight of Icarus
Rating: 4 / 5
Comment: Again a very good cover, they are piling up now it seems. Features good music passaged and just is done in the right way. I would have rated this 3-3.5 if it wasn't for the amazing solo at the end, it was really amazing.

Therion - Children of the Damned
Rating: 1 / 5
Comment: Okay now this one is close to the original but the vocals are aboslute shit, i am not familiar with Therion but i really hope they aren't a band o clean vocals normally, if they are i strongly suggest that they just call it quits. It just pains me to listen to his attempts at singing.

Burden of Grief - Prowler
Rating: 4 / 5
Comment: Amazingly good vocals, they are growling vocals and it works better than on the In Flames cover. This doesn't feel to far away from Paul's singing on this track actually which is kinda weird.

Armageddon - Die with your Boots on
Rating: 4.5 / 5
Comment: This works pretty well to. Yet again a growling song but it fits pretty good with this particular song, it gives it feeling, a feeling the original really doesn't have in my opinion. The original is just a mediocre Maiden piece while this cover is a gem among all the other shit covers.

Primal Fear - 2 Minutes to Midnight
Rating: 4 / 5
Comment: First i almost mistook this for the original. This one is rated so high becuase they keeps true to the original but gives it a special feel, it's hard to point out because it is so subtle but i like it alot.

Tierra Santa - Flight of Icarus
Rating: 4.5 / 5
Comment: This is amazing really. They don't stay trueto the original at all, they innovate as much as they can if they want to call it a cover. This cover is really interesting and shows how much you can do with a song without destroying it, why didn't i stumble upon peices like this one when i found shitholes like Cradle of Filths cover?

Opeth - Remember Tomorrow
Rating: 3 / 5
Comment: Well yet another song that is less than an inch form the original, this one however isn't as good as the Primal Fear cover for some unexplainable reason.

Black Abyss - The Trooper
Rating: 0.5 / 5
Comment: When the vocals kicked in in this one it literally sent a chill down my spine, that's how bad it was. There are 2 or 3 people singing, i can't really grasp it as they all suck terribly. One is trying to sound like Bruce and one isn't capabel of striking a clean note, his voice just disappears.

Vital Remains - The Trooper
Rating: 0 / 5
Comment: This is shit, do not get this one. Trust me. It seems that no one is able of doing a decent The Trooper cover.

Darkane - Powerslave
Rating: 4 / 5
Comment: Again i found a good cover, this cover is done a bit rougher with heavier riffs and vocals. This sounds like it could easily be a song made by this band.

The Storyteller - Moonchild
Rating: 3 / 5
Comment: This song doesn't offer alot of new twists and turns, it's basicly just a bit more melodic than the original, it's a good song, just not very interesting.

Iron Savior - Running Free
Rating: 4 / 5
Comment: Very interesting version of this song, close to the original but production and vocals are heaps better, if Maiden did their first 2 like this they would be even bigger classics.

Grave Digger - Running Free
Rating: 3 / 5
Comment: This is a notch lower than Iron Saviors version of this song. Good song, the vocals remind me of Motörhead but hearing this right after Iron Savior's version clearly shows that it just don't cut it.

Delusion - 22 Acacia Avenue
Rating: 3.5 / 5
Comment: This song is very close to the original, not in any way a bad cover but it justdoesn't offer anything diffrent. The singer even sounds like Bruce.

[Giboc]

I would give Dark Tranquillity's cover a bit higher rating. It's one of the few covers I heard that I can even compare to the original. It feels "right."


I don't see Arch Enemy's cover of Aces High. I hope you're getting that one i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif


Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Maiden_(band)

scroll near to the bottom and you'll see a list of covers.

[PSJ]

Yea, that one is coming up.

There are more than half of them left so don't worry you'll find close to any cover you have ever heard about.

The reason i didn't rate Dark Tranquility's cover higher is because i didn't feel it flowed good enough, it's hard to explain.

[The Heretic Azazel]

You didn't even rate any Dream Theater covers!

[PSJ]

They're coming up man.

I'm listening through the the Number of the beast album cover right now. I'll rate the whole album once i have listened to it all.

[darkmetal505]

currently listening to:

3 Inches of Blood - "Deadly Sinners"
Arch Enemy - "End of the Line"
At the Gates - "Need"
Carcass - "Heartwork"
Extol - "Gloriana"
Eyes of Fire - "Fly Away"
In Flames - "Touch of Red"
Into Enternity - "Spiraling Into Depression"
Lamb of God - "A Devil in God's Country"
Nightrage - "Being Nothing"
Shadows Fall - "What Drives the Weak"
Trivium - "Like Light to the Flies"

good stuff...

[Terracosmo]

I'm curious on what you have to say about Mago de Oz's cover on Strange World, as I haven't heard it yet. Actually, I haven't even heard the original. i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif

I just listened to Nocturnal Rites' version of Wasted Years (my favorite Maiden song), and I'll have to say that the original was much better. The cover felt sloppy, I don't really know how to describe it...

[PSJ]

Didn't know Mago de Oz made a coveron that song, interesting.

I better get going again with the reviewing of the songs, quite some songs left.

[Mr.X]

i watched a WoW PvP video and it had music by Kamelot on it. Not a big metal fan but this really got me into it.

The one i keep listening to is Center of the Universe.

[Terracosmo]

Center of the Universe = brilliant. Kamelot was the first metal band of which I bought a record. 2001's Karma, to be exact.

[Giboc]

And on a tangent, how many of you guys heard of Black Mages?

It's Final Fantatsy music + metal. It's so bad ass.

[Terracosmo]

I have both albums. Great stuff. I prefer the first one though.

[Giboc]

Nobuo Uematsu is a brilliant, brilliant man. I just love the Advent Children OST.


I swear, he's a closet metal head.

[Terracosmo]

Of course he is, all japanese are closet metal heads. i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif

The Advent Children OST is nothing compared to his game OSTs though, IMO.

[Giboc]

Originally posted by: Terracosmo
Of course he is, all japanese are closet metal heads.

The Advent Children OST is nothing compared to his game OSTs though, IMO.

Definately. FF7 and FF8 had GREAT music.

[Terracosmo]

Though not as great as FF6.

Hah, all cool threads eventually get sub-derailed into Final Fantasy discussions i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif

[Giboc]

Originally posted by: Terracosmo
Though not as great as FF6.

Hah, all cool threads eventually get sub-derailed into Final Fantasy discussions

hehehehehehe. So true. So true.


I really need to go and beat FF5 and FF6. I always end up quitting around the end game.

[Mr.X]

got a link to the Black Mages?

i tried some torrent spy and torrent reactor, but one does not have it, and the other's not downloading for me.

[Uchiha Barles]

Originally posted by: Terracosmo
Though not as great as FF6.

Hah, all cool threads eventually get sub-derailed into Final Fantasy discussions

Oh HEEEEEEEEEEELL no! The sacred metal thread must remain unblemished! In an attempt to veer this thread back to its sublime purpose, anyone have any recommendations for metal bands in the vein of industrial metal? I'm a big nine inch nails fan, and would like something a lot more "metallic" with the same dark feel and loudness, and electronic influences. I'm already very familiar with Rammstein.

A couple of Bands I heard on Pandora that are worth a shot are Ayreon and Agathodaimon. Ayreon's latest album features Dream Theater's James Labrie on vocals, and often times, he sounds better on that record than he does with his original band.

[Terracosmo]

Did you try Deathstars? You'll love them. I think you'll also like KMFDM, and certain works by Ministry.

Ayreon is so-so. I'm not really into progressive metal at all. Agathodaimon I'm not too familiar with i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif

[PSJ]

You answer to all metal is DC++ and the hub MetalPunk.

[Terracosmo]

Particularly when Terra is online so you can leech from him like PSJ does all the time. ^_^

[Giboc]

@Uchiha Barles: Check out Laibach. They're like Rammstein, but they're not laughed at in Germany for being ripoffs. (You see, Rammstein is a joke in Germany. They are apparently a complete ripoff of Laibach.)


@PSJ ... and really anyone else... Am I the only person in the world that still actually BUYS CDs? I download music too, but if I really like it, I'll buy it. Especially if the band is on Century Media or Nuclear Blast. I love those record labels.

[The Heretic Azazel]

Barles.. Agathodaimon sucks, don't waste your time.

[Uchiha Barles]

Originally posted by: Giboc
@Uchiha Barles: Check out Laibach. They're like Rammstein, but they're not laughed at in Germany for being ripoffs. (You see, Rammstein is a joke in Germany. They are apparently a complete ripoff of Laibach.)


@PSJ ... and really anyone else... Am I the only person in the world that still actually BUYS CDs? I download music too, but if I really like it, I'll buy it. Especially if the band is on Century Media or Nuclear Blast. I love those record labels.

Yep, I buy CDs all the time. Everytime I go out to purchase music, I buy at least one CD of music I downloaded. If I'm getting 4 CDs or more, I try to make it so that half of what I'm purchasing is music I've already downloaded. When I get a real job, I'll make sure to quickly own a copy of all the CDs I have on my harddrive. Sure its because I want to support the artist, and not be a thief, but its mostly because the CDs are shiny and in pretty packages. And I like to show them off.

[The Heretic Azazel]

I spend allmy money on weed and I have to listen to music while I'm smoking so yeah... they get supported by me when they get their asses out on the road and get some touring experience.

[Terracosmo]

Originally posted by: Giboc
@PSJ ... and really anyone else... Am I the only person in the world that still actually BUYS CDs?

Hell no, I'm an avid disc collector. Without exaggerating I can say that half of my money goes to buying music.

Oh and I wouldn't categorize Laibach as metal, by the way ;S

[Giboc]

Originally posted by: Terracosmo
Oh and I wouldn't categorize Laibach as metal, by the way ;S

I wouldn't categorize industrial as metal either. i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif We're both stretching the definition here.

[Terracosmo]

Well that depends a little, industrial in itself isn't actually a music genre but rather a definition of certain elements found in a song. I read an awesome essay about that once, I will try to find it again. Bottom-line is that today, what people think of when one says "industrial metal" is simply metal with electronic elements. Laibach is electronic, but they don't have solos or any other metal elements really, unlike Rammstein (which also doesn't have many solos, but nontheless is a metal band). Then again, categorizing within metal is one hell of a chore, and according to the wiseasses at www.metal-archives.com, anything with keyboards in it is false metal i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif

Edit: On a separate note, does anyone know why Tool suddenly released two DVD singles from their 2001 album? Really weird business trick...

[The Heretic Azazel]

From what I understand they're releasing a DVD of the Lateralus videos and a live DVD from the Lateralus tour. New album in spring!!!

[Terracosmo]

If anyone cares, I've added a vocal track to the doom metal song from a few pages back.

http://valethcosmo.free.fr/Kil...to%20Toe%20(Vocal).mp3 (http://valethcosmo.free.fr/Kill%20Hell%20-%20Madness%20Rapes%20My%20Mind%20From%20Top%20to%2 0Toe%20(Vocal).mp3)

You get to hear Terra growl and pant like a schoolgirl!

Here are the lyrics: (and no, it's not a very serious song)

Unknowingly
In the wilderness
The smell of fresh flesh
The man glares
The woman fears
As she always has
A newborn child
Too young to understand
All is black
A portal to madness





KVLT DOOM METAL \m/

[Paulyboy]

AHAHA nice dude, with the baby crying at the end, and is that you or a band, it sounds like someone was one their mic

[Terracosmo]

Me: Drums & vocals
Friend: Electric guitar & bass

So, "a band" I guess i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif

[Paulyboy]

Lol cool, but damn man, your too dark in your music lol, sounds like you were dying of lung cancer or something. But thats cool though for like 2 people.

[Terracosmo]

haha thanks... that's one of few compliments that song has gotten i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif
I agree about the "dying of lung cancer". It felt that way after the song was finished too i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif

[The Heretic Azazel]

http://www.myspace.com/rodrigoygabriela

An acoustic guitar duo who cover Metallica's instrumental Orion. Thought it was pretty cool so I'm posting it on over.

[Uchiha Barles]

Huh...that's a pretty interesting find man. Good stuff. Everytime I think I've gotten better, people like that show up to remind just how far I'll most probably never get.

[PSJ]

Originally posted by: Terracosmo


Originally posted by: Giboc
@PSJ ... and really anyone else... Am I the only person in the world that still actually BUYS CDs?

Hell no, I'm an avid disc collector. Without exaggerating I can say that half of my money goes to buying music.

Oh and I wouldn't categorize Laibach as metal, by the way ;S


I mostly download but i do buy cds to. I have a hard time finding bands i like, i live in a rather small town and there aren't any good metal record stores here. I can't buy online since i don't have a credit card and no one wants to help me with that stuff. Lastly i get a little over a 100 bucks a month. I spend most of it on entertainment with friends and beer, there simply isn't enough left to buy records. Sure i can buy one or two once in a while but not more.



On a entirely diffrent note.

Crashdiet bandmember Dave Lepard died two days ago, that would be friday right? He was found in his appartment saturday morning. The cause of death isn't determined yet as far as i know.

Go download or buy their album, Rest in Sleaze. I bought this album before christmas, one of the best albums ever.

[KitKat]

If anyone is interested, I uploaded most of my Opeth albums for my brother. So if anyone is interested and wants the link to download (within a week from now) PM me and I'll send it to you.

[darkmetal505]

New Bleeding Through is out, if anyone is interested


Bleeding Through - The Truth (http://www.fulldls.com/get_albums_27816)

[The Heretic Azazel]

Originally posted by: KitKat
If anyone is interested, I uploaded most of my Opeth albums for my brother. So if anyone is interested and wants the link to download (within a week from now) PM me and I'll send it to you.


^^^^

MARCH 18TH, OPETH AND DARK TRANQUILLITY!

IN A BAR THAT HAS A CAPACITY OF 250 PEOPLE!!

[Giboc]

GODDAMN IT.


DT and comany won't be in Colorado. i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif

[TwisT]

Well sometimes you just have to go too where the band is, and not just sit and wait for them to come too you.

I just started too listen to Cradle of Filth again. "Lovecraft And Witch Hearts" is probably my favorite album with them. You should all give it a try if you havn't heard them/it before.

[Giboc]

I was never a CoF fan. From what I remember about them, they're really mediocre and gimmicky. What other bands do you like Twist? (I'm sure you answered this before, but I'm not about to rummage through 30 pages of posts i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif)

[The Heretic Azazel]

*Whistles*

Soooooo........

Terra, how many black metal church burnings have you had in your neighborhood this year?

I live in Arkansas so not many for me!

[Terracosmo]

Not as many as one might expect, though it's mostly in Norway that stuff happens. :S
That actually merits some research. Like, how much the general burning of churches has changed compared to when Mayhem were active.

New metal recommendations:

Kalmah - The Black Waltz
- Newest album from Kalmah, their heaviest one yet. Melodic death metal from Finland, with a lovable keyboard to back it up.

Elvenking - The Winter Wake
- The new offering from the italian folk/power metal combo. Pretty nice, though not as good as Heathenreel.

Moonsorrow - ALL ALBUMS
- God I love this band. I know I've said it before, but they are so FUCKING AWESOME. Epic, folky, heavy, melodic, extreme... it all mingles, it all rocks so much that it makes me want to cry. And dance!

[masamuneehs]

...against my better judgment I'm going to trust terra's suggestion and see what this Moonsorrow group is all about... i'm really not much of a metal-head (in fact, I really mostly appreciate 'chill' music) so let's see how this goes...

[The Heretic Azazel]

I'll check that out. And Mayhem RULES \m/

I'm in the middle of listening to Edguy's new record, Rocket Ride, and it's a fucking masterpiece.

[Paulyboy]

Hey you guys listen to the new cd by Bullet For My Valentine, its good and alot better than the other one.

[Uchiha Barles]

I'd like to thank the posters of this thread, yet again, for keeping me inundated with more kickass music than I can shake a fist at. In a few minutes I'll get up and go buy a moonsorrow record and check it out (terra, do you happen to like anything that sucks?)

I'll also take this opportunity to make a recommendation. I don't know what you guys think about cradle of filth, I myself am not a big fan of them (can't get past the theatrics) but they're song "nymphetamine" isn't bad, mostly due to Liv Kristine (from leaves' eyes) kicking major ass on it. I saw the video on the leaves eyes myspace page while checking for US tour dates (not until the fall *sniff*) Check out the video if you're interested:

http://www.myspace.com/leaveseyesusa

[PSJ]

I can safely say that everything Terra listens to is kickass. That's from my own experience though, 90% of my music library is stuff Terra recommended.

[Terracosmo]

Hehehe... it's true, everything I listen to is 110% free from suckage.

Nymphetamine, incidentally, is one of few Cradle of Filth songs I like.
I've tried to get into them, but they just lack that special touch.
Oh and don't get me started on Dani's vocals...

[Uchiha Barles]

Yeah, my metal catalogue is growing faster than everything else, and, I'm pretty sure, that if I go through this thread, at LEAST 90% of the things I've "discovered" will already have been mentioned by our resident transvestite. It's a little humbling, but its well worth it.

[IFHTT]

Anyone patiently awaiting the new Tool album?

[Raven]

I'll probably be shunned by the people in this thread, but I recently saw Static-X and Ill Nino live in a dual concert - fucking awesome!

[IFHTT]

I'll probably be shunned by the people in this thread, but I recently saw Static-X and Ill Nino live in a dual concert - fucking awesome!


I've seen Static-X a couple times. Both were very good shows. Never seen Ill Nino live though. Do they play well live?

[Raven]

Shit yeah.... I hadn't heard much of their stuff before, just a few random tracks, but I might have to go and buy/d/l some now. So much music I want. Damn this thread.

[Terracosmo]

Bleh @ Ill Nino. :/

Static-X has a few good songs though... but mainly their older stuff, when the industrial touch was more genuine - hell you could even hear them flirting with Ministry (and all bands which do that automatically kick ass).

Edit: While on the topic of Ministry, get their 2004 album "Houses of the Mole". Now that's industrial metal at it's best. So full of energy!

They have a new album coming out this year too :D

And live they have Joey Jordison as drummer! Slipknot matters aside, Joey is AWESOME.

* Plugs a Joey drum solo: http://drummerworld.com/Videos/joeyjordison.html *

WATCH IT!!

[darkmetal505]

Slipknot is kickass, not to mention joey.

New Atreyu March 28th!!!

http://www.purevolume.com/atreyu

[The Heretic Azazel]

Ill Nino were fucking BORING live when I saw them. Gross ass.

The lineup for Ozzfest looks HORRIBLE with System of a Down headlining (Ozzy will only headline 10 dates) and Hatebreed, rumored Avenged Sevenfold, and Lacuna Coil (well, they're pretty good) Then the second stage has Atreyu, some random metalcore shit, FULL BLOWN CHAOS who are awesome.. and some other crap.

OH AND STRAPPING YOUNG LAD

But even SYL couldn't save this lineup.

NEW TOOL ALBUM DUE ON MAY 2!!!

[IFHTT]

Ill Nino were fucking BORING live when I saw them. Gross ass.
NEW TOOL ALBUM DUE ON MAY 2!!!
Hell yeah 10,000 Days! I can't wait. I was beginning to think I was the only tool fan here.

[darkmetal505]

Ill Nino were fucking BORING live when I saw them. Gross ass.

The lineup for Ozzfest looks HORRIBLE with System of a Down headlining (Ozzy will only headline 10 dates) and Hatebreed, rumored Avenged Sevenfold, and Lacuna Coil (well, they're pretty good) Then the second stage has Atreyu, some random metalcore shit, FULL BLOWN CHAOS who are awesome.. and some other crap.

OH AND STRAPPING YOUNG LAD

But even SYL couldn't save this lineup.

NEW TOOL ALBUM DUE ON MAY 2!!!

I saw Avenged Sevenfold with CKY and Bullets and Octane. It was beautiful.

I would go just for a7x and atreyu.

[blizeH]

Check out this band, imo the best metal band in the UK right now and a great bunch of guys - www.myspace.com/thethreat

Check them out live if you can, you'll be blown away :D

[Raven]

Some of you guys are way too picky. Going to a concert is great for the atmosphere alone, even if you don't particularly love the music - how could you ever find it boring? That's just stupid.

[Terracosmo]

Maybe you have better bands (better atmosphere) to compare it with?

[Uchiha Barles]

Hell yeah 10,000 Days! I can't wait. I was beginning to think I was the only tool fan here.

Yeah, I've been waiting quite *patiently* for this record. Tool seems to have no problems making us wait massive amounts of time for new records, but hey, I'm never dissappointed, and still not bored by any of they're records. This band rules. By the way, I remember reading an interview where Danny said that the record was heavily influenced by Meshuggah because of the tour they did together. This should mean something significantly louder and heavier than previous releases, maybe even hearing Maynard yell a lot more than in the last two records. Anyone else as excited about this as I am?

[IFHTT]

Wow, I saw them on that tour. I'd have never thought that they were influenced by them. I love listening to maynard hold out those long ass yells. And I wouldn't mind going back to a little harder rock. The entire Lateralus album was almost hypnotic, and that was great but it wasn't near as heavy as Undertow or Aenima. I can't wait damnit.

[The Heretic Azazel]

Some of you guys are way too picky. Going to a concert is great for the atmosphere alone, even if you don't particularly love the music - how could you ever find it boring? That's just stupid.

I take it you've never seen a really, really boring band like Ill Nino and fucking Chevelle. I walked out.

[IFHTT]

I take it you've never seen a really, really boring band like Ill Nino and fucking Chevelle. I walked out.
lol I used to love Chevelle till Pete Loefller kicked his brother (the bassist, I forget his name) out of the band. That's your own brother... You don't do that kind a shit. Absolutley rediculous..

[darkmetal505]

my friend gave me metal for the masses cd number four. It actually isnt that good.

the only good songs were by God Forbid, Diecast, Shadows Fall, Dimmu Borgir, Soilwork, and In Flames.

The rest just sucked (that last 10 songs werent even metal :confused: )

[The Heretic Azazel]

Alice in Chains have announced they will tour a few clubs in the U.S. in late May.

My favorite fucking band. Ever. Layne Staley is a big reason I'm still alive. I miss him so.

[PSJ]

Seems like this thread is dying. We can't have that can we?

I'll just recommend some nice 80's hair metal, far from all of you will probably like this but give it a shot. 2 bands i have listened alot to lately is Lita Ford and Vixen, just go get there Best Of albums and listen to those.

Other 80's bands you should try out:
Nasty Idols
Quiet Riot
Whitesnake
Poison
Great White
White Lion
L. A. Guns
Faster Pussycat


Give it a shot, you might like it.

[darkmetal505]

Atreyu - A Death Grip On Yesterday (Promo) (http://www.fulldls.com/get_albums_35486)

The actual CD came out today.

[Terracosmo]

Been listening a lot to the black metal band Mayhem lately. Two reasons:

1. The old stuff is fucking awesome, especially Deathcrush & De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (for any fan of metal, that's a big "duh" I know)

2. I've joined a thrash/black metal band and we play Mayhem stuff during the rehearsals. Damn, you get rather sweaty after a few rounds of Pure Fucking Armageddon when you're a drummer :D

[Raven]

Whatever happened to "Extreme Lotus"? :p

[Terracosmo]

lol you remember that? It died out rather quickly unfortunately...

[The Heretic Azazel]

Been listening a lot to the black metal band Mayhem lately. Two reasons:

1. The old stuff is fucking awesome, especially Deathcrush & De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (for any fan of metal, that's a big "duh" I know)

2. I've joined a thrash/black metal band and we play Mayhem stuff during the rehearsals. Damn, you get rather sweaty after a few rounds of Pure Fucking Armageddon when you're a drummer :D

I don't think I'm even metal enough to listen to Mayhem on a consistent basis. Just wow.

Aaaaaanyway Tool's new single, Vicarious, has FINALLY hit the radio waves. You can watch a fan made video for it (actually, it's the live video they played for the song Reflection in 02) here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMF-228pBIo

I'm still letting the song grow on me. It..er.. sounds a bit like rehashed material.

[IFHTT]

I'm still letting the song grow on me. It..er.. sounds a bit like rehashed material.Noooooooooo, I could understand hearing that from someone who isn't very familiar with tool but your a true fan!!! I haven't heard it yet but now that I've read this, I have my doubts... :(

[The Heretic Azazel]

Well you must not be very familiar with Tool if you won't click that shit and listen!

[IFHTT]

I was going to listen either way lol! I am on dialup right now so its taking ages to load, but I am listening to it right now. The intro sounds a little rehashed but the main goodness of the song is fucking magic!!! God I can't wait for this album to drop!

[el_boss]

What do you guys mean by rehashed?

I didn't think it would be possible, but Tool have actually evolved even more. The music is insanely well made. Some parts feel like they are playing backwards.

EDIT: Listened to it some more and now it's really grown on me. One thing that striked me is that the lyrics are more concrete, whereas on Lateralus they are really spiritual and abstact.

[IFHTT]

It didn't exactly sound rehashed, just a little similar to a couple songs on Lateralus put together. I still absolutely love the song though. I love the way Maynard sings on the song and I agree with what you said about the lyrics being more concrete. It's definately got me more impatient than I already was to buy this album. I ripped the song from the video to mp3 and left it on repeat all night, and boy was it nice to wake up to Maynard chanting "Why don't we just admit it" followed by Danny's beautiful drumming!

[el_boss]

Altough Maynard is miles beyond every other vocalist ever, I feel like he isn't using his full power in this song. It seems like he has taken alot of inspiration from his projects with A Perfect Circle. Some sections of the song actually really remind me of Schism from Lateralus, but I doesn't sound like they have reused anyrthing.

[The Heretic Azazel]

The song is growing on me but el boss is right, Vicarious is kindalike a revamped Schism.

[The Heretic Azazel]

http://www.funkytorrents.com/details.php?id=5186

10,000 Fists.

Bow to me

Meant to edit the message above sorry.

[el_boss]

That kinda sucks. Now I will fall behind everyone when I wait for the real album to be released.:(

[The Heretic Azazel]

I've never been able to wait for an actual release when I can download first.

With Tool it isn't a matter of fearing a bad quality albumthough, like with a lot of others, it's that it naturally has to be so great that my impatience kicks in and I have to hear it.

[Terracosmo]

:O I do not understand people who wait when they can download...

Of course you buy the actual record once it hit the stores, but why wait until then?

[The Heretic Azazel]

I'm withholding full judgment, I've only listened to it once, but it's musically brilliant, and VERY diverse.

The Pot is the funniest shit I've ever heard and heavy and awesome at the same time.

I did the smart thing and smoked up before going into the album.

[el_boss]

I want to savour this feeling, I love the anticipation. It feels like christmas back when you were a kid.

[IFHTT]

I'm downloading it now, I didn't see your post Heretic, though I would have got it from there hadn't I just strolled across like 7 torrents of the album on the mininova homepage hehe. As for killing the anticipation... I've waited 4 years already, enough anticipation. I'm going to buy it on release day too anyway, I just want the mp3s to toss onto my ipod.

[el_boss]

It's been 4 years, 11 months and 5 days IFHTT.:) Lateralus was enough to satisfy me until they announced 10k days. So that's when the real anticipation set in.

EDIT: Fixed the duration.

[IFHTT]

Holy shit Wings for Marie(both parts, part two is 10,000 days) is so incredible. I am still listening to it so I'll edit this post with further opinions.

And here's the tally thus far

Jambi kicks major ass.
The Pot is hilarious as Heretic stated and sounds wicked. Including Maynard's rather high pitched intro verse.
Lost Keys & Rosetta Stoned is also brilliant. Does anyone know who is saying the distorted lines in Rosetta Stoned?

Edit to comment on el_boss' edit above: :D nice!

[The Heretic Azazel]

The title track is absolutely beautiful. Just wow, I can't explain it.

[Alhuin]

On the subject of Tool, how many people downloaded the fake albums (one with nothing but silence, and one with some other band singing weird songs)? Hahaha...

Anyways... the new Tool sounds awesome. I have to admit that Vicarious seems like a revamped Schism... it just has that feel that I got when I first heard Schism. The rest of the album is great as expected... but, as with all other Tool songs, it has to grow on you. I've listened through it twice now, and on the second go through, I appreciated it more than the first time.

May 2nd isn't that far away now...

[el_boss]

In my experienced, it takes about three full runs of a Tool album to get you stuck for life. This usually doesn't differ if you are a Tool junkie or just started listening to them. The difference lies in that the junkie will let the album run enough times, whilst the newbies head will explode from the sheer awesomeness. It's true, I've seen it happen.

[NaitS]

My favoritte metal bands atm... HmmMz!

1) Linkin Park (Is this metal acctually... wheren't sure.)
2) Korn mayB (I know one who knows the singer there :))
.... 3,4,5 i cant decide...

But I have been at a korn konsert in Oslo spektrum that was way too fun :D so I'm goin' to go to norwegianwood festival www.norwegianwood.com there Korn, deftones and soulflies comes at this one day I'm going with some friends :) \m/.

[Alhuin]

I have to admit, my favourite "metal" or "hxc" or "rock" bands in general are mostly local bands around where I live. That's most of the stuff I listen to. I mean, sure I listen to Tool (which is my all-time favourite band), and Evergreen Terrace, and Bullet for My Valentine, And Hopesfall (the older), and Bleeding Through, and Atreyu, and bands like that.... but most of what I listen to are local bands: MSD, Incursion, Antikythera, (intheclear), Five Bolt Main (which contains members of Flaw), 7DaySun, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, A Present Day Nightmare, Straight Line Stitch, Arcane Saint, PUC.... and I can name a lot more.

Anyways... while much "mainstream" metal is definitely worth listening to, I find local music fresher... 'cause there's really no boundaries. And band members treat their fans as equal; you can chat away with any of the band members at a show or online or even at their place of employment (yes, they have other jobs). So, while the rewards aren't as plentiful as "making it big", the lifestyle is much more appreciable.

I'm completely lost on what I'm saying now, so I'm just gonna shut up... haha...

[Terracosmo]

I hate local bands. I'm going to be honest and tell you why. I AM FUCKING JEALOUS. Every time I see some "regular guy" standing on the stage, I get pissed off. So until I actually have my own breakthrough, I will never be able to appreciate local music acts. They are too close. I can't take it. Fuck them.



Ehrm, anyway, did I mention that the new Eternal Tears of Sorrow album is out?
I've waited sooooo long for it... it's called Before the Bleeding Sun and I recommend it to all fans of melodic death metal with lots of keyboards.

[Paulyboy]

I just wanted to say IRON MAIDEN IS KICKASS!!! So far I didn't like them as much but when I listened to Dance of Death I was like man they are good. Then I listened to Blood Brothers, and then I was like man they are really good. Then I listened to Trooper and Aces High and so far im listening to Seventh Son of A Seventh Son which is cool because they used to that title that was from Orson Scott Cards Book called Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. or probably another source. But any good song recommendations?

[el_boss]

TOOL | TOOL | TOOL | TOOL | TOOL | TOOL | TOOL | TOOL | TOOL | TOOL | TOOL | TOOL | TOOL | TOOL | TOOL | TOOL | TOOL | TOOL | TOOL | TOOL | TOOL | TOOL |

OMFG! just bought the new album. Can't say much about it yet, just put it in the stereo. But I can say that it has the most awesome cover in the history of the universe. If I survive listening to the whole album I'll be back with an update. :)

EDIT: Jambi is my favourite. But it's all good.

[darkmetal505]

So I just heard Lust for Blood by Gackt pretty awesome.

Does anyone know where I can download his songs, or at least that song because I saw it on a video.

[GhostKaGe]

Any Iron Maiden fans out there need to get Death on the Road live DvD


So I just heard Lust for Blood by Gackt pretty awesome.

Does anyone know where I can download his songs, or at least that song because I saw it on a video.

I love Gackt - Redemption (Dirge of Cerberus) the video owns i watched it about 50 times today

Gackt - Redemption (Final Fantasy: Dirge of Cerberus Theme) [DVD] (http://a.scarywater.net/mognet/[Mognet][JROCK_Karaoke_PV]Gackt_-_Redemption[DVD][40FA4DAB].avi.torrent)

[Genma]

God, I'm so pissed.

I was supposed to hit the 6/6/06 Slayer show in San Diego, but it got cancelled and they're not playing in San Diego until July 20th.

>_<;;;

[el_boss]

Oh shit I can't believe I waited this long to start listening to Slayer. That's some good shit man. Been listening to Reign in Blood almost non stop for a while now.

Only three days 'til TOOL! Always worth mentioning :D

[darkmetal505]

Does anyone know where I can download Dir en Grey and what songs to get?

[GhostKaGe]

My play list at the moment is dominated by

Sevendust - Next
Sevendust - Seasons
Entwine - Dieversity
Entwine - Gone
Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder (Children of Bodom own)
Children of Bodom - Something Wild
Symphony X - The Odyssey
Firewind - Allegiance
Also plenty of Bob Marley (nothing beats a sunnyday in the garden with a BBQ a beer and Bob Marley playing in the background) <--not metal but wtf Bob was the dogs bollocks

We need to keep this thread alive as long as possible

[Terracosmo]

I enjoy Ghost's playlist, out of which I like all the bands except Sevendust, simply because I haven't heard them.

Entwine is wonderful music. I've cried to "Closer (My Love)" & "Safe in a Dream" many times.

Oh and I've given Tool MANY chances now, and I... just don't get it. The music fucking blows and is so incredibly boring that I want to kill myself. It doesn't matter that Danny is one of the best drummers I've ever heard, nor does it matter how complex it is, I just don't get it. It SUCKS.

I will never understand what people see in To-motherfucking-ol.

I could by the way hear their gig all the way to my house.
(they played in gothenburg the other day, the concert that el_boss attended)

[el_boss]

@Terra: Uuuuum your talking in reverse language, right? :D

I can sympatize though. Your mind isn't sufficently evolved to enjoy Tool. Nah I'm just kiddin'... or am I? I am. Truly, I am.

Setlist:

Stinkfist
The Pot
Forty Six & 2
Jambi
Schism
Sober
Lateralus
Opiate
Vicarious
Ænema

Need I say that I orgasmed when they played Lateralus... oh I just did. It was all magical. I stood so close that I could actually see the colors of their eyes. I cought Maynards water bottle. :D

[IFHTT]

Surely you think Danny Carey is a good drummer at least, Terra?!

Glad you enjoyed the ethereal experience known as a Tool concert. I hope they swing by here again later this year. That's cool you could hear their set from your house Terra. If I wasn't attending the concert, you bet I'd be outside jamming to that.

[Genma]

I, too, am not a big fan of Tool. I tried listening to their songs for a while but just couldn't get into them.

I'm digging KaGe's music choices though. CoB has been a favorite of mine since... geeze, Hatebreeder I think, and Sevendust is up there on my list of favorites as well.

As for the slayer concert I mentioned earlier (which will feature CoB too)... ugh... I'm not sure if I'm going. Might just hit up the Sounds of the Underground tour, but even that's looking bleak now since none of my friends can afford to go.

Right now I'm listening to Opeth - Deliverance. 13 minutes and 35 seconds long. o_o;;; Pretty good song though.

[Terracosmo]

Surely you think Danny Carey is a good drummer at least, Terra?!

Well I did write that in my post... ;)

[IFHTT]

I see, says teh apparently blind man <---- me :D

[Paulyboy]

Have you guys heard the remake of Hallowed Be thy Name by Cradle of Filth, originally made by Iron Maiden, I think its a little bit better. Oh and I recommend you to 3 inches of Blood, a real good band.

[Swimmerdude]

My play list right now

Pink Floyd - in memory of Syd Barret
Killswitch Engage - The Jesse Leach fronted Killswitch, I've always enjoyed Leach's vocals
Sevendust - Ever since I saw them in concert about 6 years ago I've liked them
Silent Civilian - Just started listening to them
In Flames
Dragonforce - Gotta have some power metal


@Pauly: I personally have never been a huge fan of Cradle it might be me but there music never really caught my ear. 3 inches of Blood aren't bad but they're not really my cup of tea.

@el boss: I'm with you in your love for Tool. I don't know what it is but when I listen to Tool it just puts me in that mood.

[PSJ]

If you listen to both versions properly you will hear that Cradle of Filths version is worse, way worse.

But then again i am a huge Maiden fan and i rarely enjoy any maiden covers at all.

[Terracosmo]

And now for a theme-based post. You might have heard me mention this band before, but now, once and forever, I am going to make you listen to them and fucking realize that it's one of the best extreme metal bands ever to have existed. Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you,

Eternal Tears of Sorrow

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v478/joshuajerand/etos4.jpg

Eternal Tears of what?

The band's current line-up is Petri Sankala (drums), Altti Vetel&#228;inen (vocals, bass), Jarmo Puolakanaho (guitar), Risto Ruuth (lead guitar) & Janne Tolsa (keyboards). From the band's original line-up, only few remain since their years as a band has been pretty stormy. Several former members of the band can today be found in Kalmah (another excellent melodic death metal band). As some of you might realize upon seeing their names, they hail from Finland. Ever since the group came into being back in 1991, they have been popular. The first few years as a successful underground band, until finally landing a record deal and releasing the now classic "Sinner's Serenade" in 1997.

Their true status as future legends weren't established until their sophomore effort however. 1998's "Vilda Mannu" is one of the most influential records in finnish extreme metal. Have you ever heard Children of Bodom? You probably have. Do you think their usage of keyboards is unique? Eternal Tears of Sorrow was first. Even though CoB debuted in 1997 as well, they already had EToS as a big source of inspiration. I dare say that EToS was the band which truly pioneered the usage of whole keyboard structures within the finnish metal music scene. A song from "Vilda Mannu" called "Burning Flames Embrace" was also released on a split single together with a song called "Sacrament of Wilderness" by a then-unknown band named Nightwish. The rest is history, right?

With every record, the EToS cult grew. They abandoned some of their extreme tendencies with their third album, "Chaotic Beauty" which was released in 2000. It is widely accepted as their best album though it is in fact not my favorite. It contains such classics as "Autumn's Grief", "Tar of Chaos", "Bhean Sidhe", "Shattered Soul" and the Edge of Sanity cover "Black Tears". Ending the disc is another cover, "Flight of Icarus" (originally by Iron Maiden of course). With this album they finally perfected their style, without flaw blending beautiful keyboard arrangements with a symphonic touch, along with the heavy and brutal drums & guitar playing - and the aggressive vocals of Altti Vetel&#228;inen.

Now more popular than ever, they released their fourth album - "A Virgin and a Whore" in 2001. This record is one of my 5 favorite albums of all time. I cannot even begin to tell you how fucking great it is. It is beautiful, brutal, tender and unforgiving all at the same time. Every song on it is flawless, from the amazing opener "Aurora Borealis" (I dare you to listen to this song and not instantly turn into a fan), to the PERFECT ballad that is "The River Flows Frozen" (one of my favorite songs ever). If you people only knew how much this song means to me. Every time I feel sad I turn it on, and I become one with it, because the sadness in this song is equal to none. I played it when I got dumped by my second girlfriend whom I loved deeply, and our deal was forever sealed. It's me and Eternal Tears of Sorrow. It's me in The River Flows Frozen. And it's indeed a river which will always run cold. I adore it beyond words.

Other awesome songs include the single "The Last One For Life" (awesome usage of keyboards as usual) and the popular "Aeon", "Prophetian" & "Fall of Man". Also present are two covers, "Sick, Dirty and Mean" (originally by Accept) & "As I Die" (originally by Paradise Lost).

After this, things turned silent in the EToS camp, deadly silent. They decided to take a break. Their enormous fanbase were of course saddened, but they promised to return. In mid-2005 the new line-up finally emerged after years of absolutely nothing, and early 2006 they finally released their fifth album "Before the Bleeding Sun". They prove once again that they are without equal when it comes to mixing beauty and pain in their music, and I hope that they will stay around and provide us with awesome music until the end of time.

Awesome, but what do they sound like?

As I wrote above, they play extreme music with keyboard as a primary force. It has been described as "Symphonic Death Metal", "Melodic Death Metal", "Symphonic Extreme Power Metal" and so on. You probably get the point. We have a lot of double-bass playing on the drums, twin guitars producing a brutal sound and growling vocals - but always with the keyboard being the focus. Fans of Children of Bodom, Norther, Kalmah and so on will adore this band - and so will the rest of you unless you suck horribly.

Discography and mini-reviews

These are my ratings on all of EToS' albums and therefore not necessarily the general opinion. So don't listen to me TOO religiously...

1997 - Sinner's Serenade

The first album was very raw (as is custom with debut albums in this genre). The keyboards are still there, but not as present as they will be later on in their career. It stands the test of time and is charming, but not recommended as the first album to try. It will best please the ones among you who prefer brutal music over melodic dito.

5 best songs: "Another One Falls Asleep", "Dirge", "Into the Deepest Waters", "Bard's Burial", "The Son of the Forest".

Rating: 2.5/5

1998 - Vilda Mannu

A big improvement over the first album and more melodic as well. Here is where it is evident where the sound is going. The musicianship of the group has increased, and they also play better together. This album is considered to be very influential by many extreme metal groups.

5 best songs: "Northern Doom", "Burning Flames Embrace", "Scars of Wisdom", "Vilda Mannu", "Coronach".

Rating: 3.5/5

2000 - Chaotic Beauty

An awesome album which once and for all manifests the EToS sound. Not as extreme as the previous efforts, but much better in all aspects. Wonderful melodies and so much passion that it's almost frightening. A landmark which is considered EToS' best album by the majority.

5 best songs: "Blood of Faith Stains My Hands", "Autumn's Grief", "Bride of the Crimson Sea", "Black Tears", "Tar of Chaos".

Rating: 4.5/5

2001 - A Virgin and a Whore

One of the best albums ever made and obviously my favorite. Everything on this record is absolutely flawless, and if you don't think so too you deserve to die. Fucking perfection.

5 best songs: All of them, but with "The River Flows Frozen" receiving an honorary mention because it means so much to me.

Rating: 5/5

2006 - Before the Bleeding Sun

The "come-back". Not as strong as "Chaotic Beauty" and "A Virgin and a Whore", but a bloody awesome record nontheless. It's actually even more symphonic than before, and with "Angelheart, Ravenheart", they attempt their first "epic" track, clocking in at 8:40. The album also includes a track with a japanese name - "Sakura no Rei". Pretty interesting. It's an instrumental though, so don't expect any japanese growling...

5 best songs: "Sweet Lilith of My Dreams", "Another Me", "Upon the Moors", "Tar Still Flows", "Angelheart, Ravenheart".

Rating: 4/5

10 Best Songs

A hard list to compile, but I'll try.

1. The River Flows Frozen
2. The Last One For Life
3. Aurora Borealis
4. Autumn's Grief
5. Sweet Lilith of My Dreams
6. Prophetian
7. Black Tears
8. Angelheart, Ravenheart
9. Blood of Faith Stains My Hands
10. Burning Flames Embrace

And to finish it off...

Goddamn that was a lot to write SO GET TO LISTENING ALREADY.

May the tears of sorrow flow eternally!

[Terracosmo]

Fuck you all for not appreciating my hard work with the EToS post above. I'm bumping this in order for you to do so. Also, I'm going to state that I was WRONG about DéspairsRay's debut album Coll;Set. When I reviewed it several pages ago (in fact I think it was almost a year ago) I said that they had lost their heavy edge and sense of melody, but I've recently given the disc a few more spins and I don't know what I was smoking. It's an awesome album, full of heavy metal greatness and broken english. Get it!

[Genma]

I just listened to a few of their songs and... uh... I don't know. I'm a huge fan of both CoB and Norther, but this band sounded a lot different from both of them. I'm not sure if it's just the few particular songs I listened to or what.

I wasn't too fond of the vocals, because they seemed weak to me. Maybe it's just an acquired taste.

[el_boss]

My current playlist:

Tool - Opiate (album) - best song Sweat
Tool - Undertow (album) - best song 4 degrees
Tool - Aenima (album) - best song H.
Tool - Salival (album) - best song No Quarter
Tool - Lateralus (album) - best song Lateralus
Tool - 10,000 days (album) - best song Right in Two

Wash, rinse, repeat... yes I am addicted. :D

[Terracosmo]

*is having doubts whether he'll ever see el_boss post in this topic without mentioning Tool* :p

[el_boss]

@Terra: Dang! You found my weak spot.

Ok, listened to At the gates album Slaughter of the soul a while ago and it is some pretty good shit. I really liked the (don't know how to describe it) choppy musical parts. It almost sounds a little off beat (but isn't) or backwards or something.

I have also been listening to Slayer's God hates us all. Bloodline is awesome. I love the drum beat on Cast down. Of course Diciple is some upper echelon shit.

"I got my own philosophy
I hate everyone equally
You can't tear that out of me"

Love this part. :)

I know I'm a little behind in my metal evolution, but I think you all should know by know why that has happened.

[Terracosmo]

Slaughter of the Soul is a classic, though I never fully appreciated At the Gates. I don't know why, something about it just doesn't click. But I still respect them for what they did for the sound of melodic death metal. :)

[el_boss]

Slaughter of the Soul is a classic, though I never fully appreciated At the Gates. I don't know why, something about it just doesn't click. But I still respect them for what they did for the sound of melodic death metal. :)
lol we never seem to like the same stuff. That's it I'm filling in the divorce papers. You get the kids, I'll take the car and the hot nanny.

[Terracosmo]

My thrash metal band, WITH PAIN, is finally scheduled for it's very first gig!

It will be in december. Oh hell yeah!

[Nai]

Well, I decided to give Eternal Tears Of Sorrow a spin and subsequently obtained everything I could and then promptly devoured it. I must say that I really do enjoy their music and that it in my opinion succeeds most bands out there by far. It's gentle yet suitably epic. Autumn's Grief is without a doubt my favorite tune of theirs. Aurora Borealis comes close.

... However, I've never been a fan of screamo vocalists and this one... well, he isn't even that good at screaming. As Genma noted earlier in the thread, it sounded weak. So yeah, the vocalist pretty much ruined the experience for me. It's kind of like putting a naked Brian Peppers in a field of the most precious flowers known to man.

As a side note I'd like to recommend Luca Turilli's DreamQuest's first album Lost Horizons. I just got my grubby hands on this ( long overdue, I admit ) and its beauty is limitless. I am awed and enamored. Acquire it or suffer eternal ignoranance.

[Terracosmo]

I personally think that the "weak" growls of the vocalist in EtoS fits well with the music. An extremely strong growling style (such as the one used in death metal bands such as Cannibal Corpse) would not have the same effect. But yeah, acquired taste might be it.

Other than that, I expected no less than Nai liking the music. ^^

[Paulyboy]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8134937785993786668&q=dragonforce

I dont know if you guys saw the video, but the solo with the azn and white guy is just too elite.

[Genma]

Ugh, Dragonforce. I want to like the band... and the music itself is excellent... but the vocals just make me cringe like no other.

[The Heretic Azazel]

Dragonforce isn't worth a shit, I don't give a damn if Kirk Hammett called it the fastest playing he's ever heard. It doesn't make it good.

[Mr Squiggles]

Dragonforce seems pretty cool, and that guitar solo is definetly amazing, their hands move so fast 0.o. I don't find find the vocals as bad as you guys say, but thats just a matter of taste I guess...

As for you, Terra, I finally got around to trying out Eternal Tears of Sorrow too, and I must say their pretty awesome. As Nai said the screaming takes some getting used to to but I think I'm getting there. Thanks for introducing me to them.

[Paulyboy]

Dragonforce isn't worth a shit, I don't give a damn if Kirk Hammett called it the fastest playing he's ever heard. It doesn't make it good.


I don't listen to the band as much, but I was just saying thats a nice solo. But yeah he is "one" of the fastest guitarists in the world. Also the vocals do suck, which I agree on.

[The Heretic Azazel]

Why are you shitheads always stuck up Terra's ass anyway? I offer new music choices as well but you never listen to them. Your loss.

[Paulyboy]

Why are you shitheads always stuck up Terra's ass anyway? I offer new music choices as well but you never listen to them. Your loss.


Im never stuck up his ass, but give us some recommendations :).

[KitKat]

I've been listening to Mnemic a lot lately. They're pretty fun.

[PSJ]

Why are you shitheads always stuck up Terra's ass anyway? I offer new music choices as well but you never listen to them. Your loss.

What's your problem? Why do you care if people listen to Terra and try out what he recommends? Why don't you write a recommendation and we'll see if you can do it good enough for people to actually want to try the band.

I happen to enjoy Dragonforce to and i don't care if some guy on a forum says it isn't good, let people like what they want.

[The Heretic Azazel]

Holy Satan, I was just fucking around

Anyway I did make suggestions. And no one bothered trying! Terra may have seniority but I am SO TOTALLY more metal than him

Looks like the new Samael album is being recorded, check out The Cross, my fave song from them.

[Terracosmo]

Samael is cool. But I could have sworn that your favorite song would be from their black metal period. The Cross is nice though, as is most of their electromaterial. I didn't like old Samael however.

Other metal news,

Rhapsody changes name to Rhapsody of Fire and becomes even more gay. Their new album has leaked, I haven't listened to it yet but for those who are interested; get to it.

The new Blind Guardian album "A Twist in the Myth" has also leaked. I am not normally a big fan of this group despite their vast popularity, but the new album fucking kicks ass! Especially the single, "Fly". GET IT!

[mage]

"Otherland" is the best on the cd IMO.

[The Heretic Azazel]

Whoa, I was blindsided by the news of a new Maiden album, I'd no idea it was almost done..The single, Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg, is awesome.

I've been into Graveworm as of late, I especially love the instrumental "Threnody"

OH and Symphony X's new album is going to be a concept album based on John Milton's book "Paradise Lost" (for those unfamiliar, the internet is a wealth of all knowledge) I can't wait to see what they do with this.

I got the new Blind guardian... I don't much care for it. Kind of boring

[mage]

Anyone like Haggard? They're my favorite band.

[The Heretic Azazel]

We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee, we don't take no trips on LSD!

[Nai]

Hoho, the new Rhapsody ( of Fire, now too! ) album was great with an ample amount of the usual gayness indeed. Strong vocals, awesome chanting, Christopher Lee narrating once again and their usual epic sound. I also felt their lyrics were better written than usual. My favorite piece was without a doubt Silent Dream. Old Age Of Wonders made me want to slit my wrists. FUCK THE GOD DAMN ELVES! I do however have to say that Rhapsody of Fire feels somewhat dull compared to Luca's own project Dreamquest (http://www.dreamquest.it/). Guess I'm growing somewhat tired of fantasy.

At any rate, it makes me pleased to see that both Rhapsody and Luca are developing in such positive ways ( unlike oh so many metal bands ). Now Staropoli just needs to release that damn solo album of his!

[Terracosmo]

I'm having troubles. Should I create a new folder for Rhapsody's new album (since they have a new name now) or should I rename my original Rhapsody folder to reflect their name change? This is hard!!

[Diptera]

Some metal I like:
----
Soilwork - Predator's Portrait
Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
Botch - Anthology of Dead Ends
Meshuggah - Chaosphere
----
I also like some stuff by Theory in Practice, Coalesce, derrrr.... as soon as I found this thread, of course I forgot all my favorite bands.

By far my favorite metal was composed by an amazing friend who is developing very complicated polyrhythms. So far I've seen him do four simultaneous meters (one with each limb). Heh, actually, he's a Japanese drummer who got me in to Naruto in the first place.

[Paulyboy]

http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/

Kick ass website with all the best metal bands and power metal.

Edit: I just wanted to say Megadeth is just to cool

Song recommendations

Hanger 18
Trust
She wolf
Holy wars

[The Heretic Azazel]

Or just listen to all of Rust in Peace, including POLARIS -points to signature-

[Terracosmo]

Symphony of Destruction is awesome as well when it comes to their "hits", and Tornado of Souls of course.

[Paulyboy]

Has anyone recommended Dream Theater yet? If not they are a kick ass band as well.

Home
The Dance of Eternity
Panic Attack
As I am
One Last Time
Pull Me Under
One Last Time

[The Heretic Azazel]

Dream Theater is more prog-rock than metal, though Train of Thought went hard as fuck.

Home is my favorite Dream Theater song. and Jon Myung, Mike Portnoy, John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess... fuck, they would stomp Dragonforce's ass if they decided to play ridiculously fast. Infinitely talented musicians.

[Paulyboy]

Ahaha your actually right man. They are kick ass, anyone know a band similar to them or similar to Megadeth?

[The Heretic Azazel]

If you mean like 80's old school thrash you can't go wrong with Exodus and Slayer

You guys should check out this funny clip of a black metalist on the Austrian equivalent of American Idol, "singing" a classic Naglfar track.

http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_id=sD6dKvVFzog&eurl=http%3A//www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx%3Fmode%3DArticle%26newsitemID%3D56949&iurl=http%3A//sjl-static6.sjl.youtube.com/vi/sD6dKvVFzog/2.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskK8tCXVb7vBfsmVPpcywPHg

[Paulyboy]

If you mean like 80's old school thrash you can't go wrong with Exodus and Slayer

You guys should check out this funny clip of a black metalist on the Austrian equivalent of American Idol, "singing" a classic Naglfar track.

http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_id=sD6dKvVFzog&eurl=http%3A//www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx%3Fmode%3DArticle%26newsitemID%3D56949&iurl=http%3A//sjl-static6.sjl.youtube.com/vi/sD6dKvVFzog/2.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskK8tCXVb7vBfsmVPpcywPHg

Ahaha his ass just ran out of breath lol. That chick was hot though.

[The Heretic Azazel]

Deicide's new CD, The Stench of Redemption, is their best in years. YEARS. Go buy 500 copies NOW (if you love Satan)

[GhostKaGe]

The latest offering from Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death -

Different World
These Colours Dont Run
Brighter than A Thousand Suns
The Pilgrim
The Longest Day
Out of the Shadows
The Reincarnation of Benjamin
For the Greater Good of God
Lord of Light
The Legacy

Pretty decent offering from the Irons

[Bucket]

Some metal bands I listen to:

Bloodbath
The Red Chord
Children of Bodom
Fear Factory
Ministry
Mudvayne
Cannibal Corpse
Opeth
Strapping Young Lad
Atheist
Gwar

I nominate The Red Chord as the best metal band of the 21st century so far.

[darkmetal505]

I know many of you know them but I want to show you the awesomeness of the band known asDRAGONFORCE!

Dragonforce - "Through the Fire and Flames" (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6774480477151603429&q=dragonforce)

Dragonforce - "Operation Ground and Pound" (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7433815438137473979&q=dragonforce+video)

[Genma]

God, what's with everyone's love for Dragonforce? Yeah, they play fast -- but the vocals can't keep up.

Everytime I hear a song by them lately, I cringe. "The Future of Metal"? I certainly hope not.

[Terracosmo]

Well for some reason they have gotten a lot of american publicity lately, and as always when something hits the US, it gets blown up to ridiculous proportions. Personally I had a period where I loved DragonForce to death, and I still cherish a few of their songs very highly, but that was all from the first CD - Valley of the Damned.

The problem with DF is that the music is so fucking repeative. The first album was a masterpiece and it's own way groundbreaking, but after that it's gotten a bit silly I admit.

I love the guys though, and the vocalist is a nice guy (talked a bit with him online). And the song "Starfire" still makes me cry.

[mage]

Haggard, anyone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yfzU0tSWd4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GmGR_RwlXw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hbfbZM11n0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roJ0Vt4HirI

[Terracosmo]

Haggard is a pretty cool band I believe. Damn many members.

I enjoy the album Eppur si Muove.. pretty classy stuff.

[mage]

Eppur Si Muove is my favorite cd ever :P

[Terracosmo]

I can just picture you listening to that album while laying the smackdown on everybody here on GW :S

[Paulyboy]

I can just picture you listening to that album while laying the smackdown on everybody here on GW :S


Ahaha I like Haggard, really nice band. Keeps it classical with a medieval theme, love the Medieval era.

[The Heretic Azazel]

I'm watching the Rebirth of Dissection DVD, holy shit, you guys need to check out Mahi Kali and Elizabeth Bathori

The singer, Jon Nodvedt, killed himself a couple of weeks ago.

[fahoumh]

I listen to pretty much everything now but when I was younger (~'92 to '97) I used to listen to nothing but heavy metal. Favourites at the time were White Zombie, Pantera, Sepultura, Megadeath, Metallica, Ozzy. I also listened to Manson but I'm not sure if you can call him metal...

White Zombie was by far my favourite. Even now Astro-Creep: 2000 is an amazing album. If you haven't listened to this album then you're really missing out. I have Rob Zombie's first solo album, Hellbilly Deluxe, but I was a little disappointed. Despite still being pretty good, I felt it didn't quite match up to Astro or La Sexorcisto.

EDIT: Rammstein's stuff is also pretty good, from what I've heard

[mage]

Now, Haggard is my favorite band, but Nightwish is fucking amazing too, especially live. I love metal bands with good female singers (any suggestions?). It's too bad almost no one in USA has heard of these bands. Check it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD0xm-beA3Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gveo1KhB1CQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOPb9dRY8Vw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue4tBHxA16Y

[Terracosmo]

Nightwish rules, one of my favorite bands ever, loved them since '98. Too bad many people are calling them sellouts now because they have been getting more attention. People suck.

[Nai]

Nightwish kind of lost me with Once but Century Child is the best album I own. Period.

Ever Dream (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZEQbcQ02gs) is my deity.

I love metal bands with good female singers (any suggestions?).
Luca Turilli's Dreamquest ( I freakin' love it! Have a sample! (http://rapidshare.de/files/34408694/04_Black_Rose.mp3.html) ), Edenbridge, After Forever, Within Temptation, Tristania, Lacuna Coil ( kind of repetitive but I really like Heaven's A Lie ) and Dark Moor ( think they changed vocalist but the old songs by them are still awesome ).

There's a lot more, but that's what comes to mind at the moment.

[Terracosmo]

Ever Dream is indeed one of the best Nightwish songs, as is Heaven's a Lie for Lacuna Coil, but Nai, how come you do not like Once?! I can't believe our tastes actually go in different directions for once (lol, get it?)! I love that album :S

[Genma]

I'm watching the Rebirth of Dissection DVD, holy shit, you guys need to check out Mahi Kali and Elizabeth Bathori

The singer, Jon Nodvedt, killed himself a couple of weeks ago.

Did you actually like their new stuff? I couldn't get into it... maybe I was just spoiled by the old stuff and expected much more, or something.

Oh well - the new album was okay, but I was never really a fan of Jon to begin with. Being a satanic homophobic murderer just isn't cool, so his suicide doesn't bother me at all.

Back on topic (or rather, what everyone is talking about right now): Gothic Opera Metal is okay... but... um... I'm not sure about Nightwish. "I Wish I had an Angel" was pretty good... the music video made me laugh (because of the guitarists' expressions)... but I'm not sure what all the hype is about. Lacuna Coil... pretty good too. I can't stand any other gothic-opera singing bands, though. >_o;

[Terracosmo]

Nightwish is not gothic in the least. And you are only seeing it as "hype" because they more recently made it big in the US, before, when they were comparatively smaller, nobody really saw them as a hyped up band (the american effect yay!). :S

As for new Dissection, well, never liked the band that much anyway. Jon's private life doesn't concern me as long as the music is good, and it was only so-so in my eyes. Jon's younger brother Emil also has a band - Deathstars - which is on the move upwards (I just love it when bands you like suddenly for some reason gets a big break, in the form of a hit or something, and then everybody worships them - fucking posers). That band may be considered overblown but hey, they are still pretty good. I think I recommended them earlier in the thread..

[The Heretic Azazel]

Did you actually like their new stuff? I couldn't get into it... maybe I was just spoiled by the old stuff and expected much more, or something.

Oh well - the new album was okay, but I was never really a fan of Jon to begin with. Being a satanic homophobic murderer just isn't cool, so his suicide doesn't bother me at all.

Back on topic (or rather, what everyone is talking about right now): Gothic Opera Metal is okay... but... um... I'm not sure about Nightwish. "I Wish I had an Angel" was pretty good... the music video made me laugh (because of the guitarists' expressions)... but I'm not sure what all the hype is about. Lacuna Coil... pretty good too. I can't stand any other gothic-opera singing bands, though. >_o;
I'm just now getting into them, I got the DVD and Mahi Kali is like my favorite track on it. I know that one's a new song, I don't know about Elizabeth Bathory. I havent been able to spend time wth their back catalogue yet so I haven't heard Reinkaos

[Terracosmo]

Reinkaos, the third and last album, is more like melodic death metal while the first 2 albums are more extreme black/death metal and considered legendary in the eyes of many.

[Nai]

Ever Dream is indeed one of the best Nightwish songs, as is Heaven's a Lie for Lacuna Coil, but Nai, how come you do not like Once?! I can't believe our tastes actually go in different directions for once (lol, get it?)! I love that album :S
It just failed to strike me on the same emotional level as the previous albums. I think the main reason why I was so disappointed was because it was hyped up to extreme levels in my mind. When it didn't even come close to Century Child I was naturally extremely disappointed.

None of the songs really appealed to me either. I found the best ones were Planet Hell and Ghost Love Score and that was mainly due to their epic nature. None struck me as hauntingly beautiful or particularly well written. Tuomas just didn't live up to his standards on that front.

[Terracosmo]

http://www.myspace.com/perfektor

CHECK IT OUT! PROMOTIONAL SHOTS FOR MY BAND YAY!

I'll create a topic about this and spam you further once we get our demo out.

[Genma]

Is your bass player's name really "Viktor Klavenhoof"? God.... that's the coolest name I've ever seen, seriously.

[Terracosmo]

Lol, I'll be sure to tell him that :D

[darkmetal505]

Terra for some reason, your band reminds me of the part in Clerks where they get they get Jay's cousin who sings Beserker. I think he was from Sweden too.

[el_boss]

Stone Sour's new album is really good. I really like Corey's vocals, his style reminds me a little of Maynard's from Tool. In the way that Corey also has both great harmonic and screaming capabilities as well as the thing between singing and screaming that I can't really describe. I'm not saying that he is as good as Maynard, cause that would be blesphamy and some divine force would surely smite me.

If you give the album a chance, pay special attention to 30/30-150 and Through Glass since those songs define the sound of the entire album.

[The Heretic Azazel]

Through Glass is a terrible song, and Corey Taylor sounds nothing like Maynard. Come on.

[Genma]

Heretic Azazel is right. Although I'm not a huge fan of Tool, they sound nothing like Stone Sour.

I also saw Stone Sour at the Family Values Tour (worst mistake of my life... KoRn sucks) and I can tell you right now... none of their songs reminded me of Tool or Maynard.

[el_boss]

I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything. I don't feel like arguing but I don't mention anywhere in my post that Stone Sour sound like Tool.

[The Heretic Azazel]

Shit, Dying Fetus and Cannibal Corpse are coming to Memphis!!

[el_boss]

I just started listening to Mastodon's album "Blood Mountain". It's got some real potential. Check out the track "Capillarian Crest", it's fucking crazy. I have gotten a weird feeling from the album so far, it feels like a mix of Meshugga, Isis, At the Gates... and Pink Floyd.

Totally worth a listen.

EDIT: I meant Capillarian Crest. Also check out Bladecatcher, it's instrumental and has awesome drums.

[el_boss]

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!! I've found one of the best bands in the world.

PORCUPINE TREE

Check out their album In Absentia. It's totally fucking awesome. I can't even describe the music you have to listen to it for yourself.

[The Heretic Azazel]

Porcupine Tree is cool.

Mastodon.. I never really saw the appeal. And on top of that the first single from Blood Mountain I don't care for.

[Shinda]

I'm going to Dragonforce saturday. I haven't heard any songs from the band, but my boyfriend says they're great, so I think that counts for something. Just hope I'm not wasting any money on it. Wacken was a waste of money as well. :mad:

[Genma]

Wacken was a waste of money as well. :mad:

BLASPHEMY.

I wish I could go to Wacken. :[

[el_boss]

OMG! Tool are going on tour with Mastodon, and they're not coming to sweden :(:(:(

[Shinda]

BLASPHEMY.

I wish I could go to Wacken. :[

It was nice to go to Wacken as in: "The Greatest Metal Fest In The World"
But that's just it, it's too big. Almost nothing of the atmosphere you have at a good concerts was there.

[Terracosmo]

Listening a lot to Vanishing Point lately. Power/prog metal, very catchy stuff. I recommend all three of their albums, although Tangled in Dream is probably the best.

As a sidenote, I'm finally going to play live for the first time with my band... at november 3rd! Hell yeah! (this is a hint for you el_boss)

[The Heretic Azazel]

BLASPHEMY.

I wish I could go to Wacken. :[

I'm with you.. though a lot of the participating bands have spoken on how badly they've been treated on that festival (The Project hate most memorable), as well as the fans.

[el_boss]

As a sidenote, I'm finally going to play live for the first time with my band... at november 3rd! Hell yeah! (this is a hint for you el_boss)
OMG! Where are you playing? Dare I hope that it's in stockholm?

[Terracosmo]

Unfortunately it's in Gothenburg XD but not to worry if you can't make it, we're having another (bigger) gig in mid-December too. So plan a trip! ;D

[el_boss]

I just discovered Opeth. Damn I had gotten a totally unfair impression of them before. They totally kick ass. I'm listening to Ghost Reveries as we speak (or should it be "I write"?).

Also I would like to bring some attention to the dutch band Textures. Very cool stuff.

[Bucket]

If you like Opeth, Tool and Porcupine Tree, I highly suggest you get into King Crimson. They're a band best known for inspiring quite a few of the better modern rock bands (Maynard cites them as a main source of inspiration), and they've found a way to stay just out of the spotlight while enjoying a solid following.

If you want something with a harder sound (most Tool-like) try their last album, "The Power to Believe". Very interesting chord and pattern stuff there, too. Their earlier album, "Thrak", has a Porcupine Tree feel to it... or rather, the other way around. The 80's stuff is probably their most complex, but the 80's vibe is pretty strong and that might put you off. The 70's albums are also strongly recommended, probably the best of them being "Red", "Starless and Bible Black" or "In The Court of the Crimson King".

[el_boss]

Thanks man. I have added King Crimson to my "will listen to" list.