heavy metal thread

[rattlehead]

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Children of Bodom
Trivium
Black Label Society
Pantera
Amon Amarth
Job For A Cowboy
Metallica
Ozzy
Sabbath
Slayer
Lamb of God
Iron Maiden
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster

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I see you focused your acct.  Regardless that is one of the most boring uninspired lists I have ever seen.  Sure, lots of good ones on there, but all safe.  Go experiment.

I'm not a big fan of people calling others bandlists "safe". Like if I were just to write a short list it'd probably be something like "Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Metallica, Sabbath, whatever..". And thats a "safe" list, right? But who cares, it's a reason why it's safe, it's a reason why those bands are huge, they're superior to most other bands. I could go on listing up 20 obscure bands, but that wouldn't be right, cause they're not in my top 5-10 (even though you get cred for liking bands nobody have heard of). BUT that being said it was a pretty crappy list he had.

[sparksandblood]

I see your point, and yeah there are some good bands on there (I'd leave a TON of them off though because the majority of those bands should have hung it up LONG ago or just suck, period).  But what bugs me most about safe lists is that there is no point for them.  Like your list, and I respect a lot of what you post because you seem to know your shit, is just typical.  I've seen a million lists in mags with those same bands being the top bands of all time (and all time lists suck usually) because it's all the same shit over and over and over. 

Yes, I tend to listen to a lot of weird shit that not many people are into, but I like the older stuff too.  It's just that if I never had another conversation about Metallica's first 4 albums or Sabbath or Slayer, it wouldn't be a big deal.  And yeah while I love Slayer and Metallica, their more recent stuff has made me like them LESS.  But my favorite bands are more obscure to the mainstream but I've liked them since more damn near or more than a decade and they don't have any shitty releases.

Anyways, I've been listening to Portal all day while drawing.  Very odd Death Metal band from Australia.  Check the video to see just how weird...



here's their myspace

http://www.myspace.com/the-portal

Wow. Ive never heard anything like this, super good. Nice find.

[rattlehead]

I see your point, and yeah there are some good bands on there (I'd leave a TON of them off though because the majority of those bands should have hung it up LONG ago or just suck, period).  But what bugs me most about safe lists is that there is no point for them.  Like your list, and I respect a lot of what you post because you seem to know your shit, is just typical.  I've seen a million lists in mags with those same bands being the top bands of all time (and all time lists suck usually) because it's all the same shit over and over and over. 

Yes, I tend to listen to a lot of weird shit that not many people are into, but I like the older stuff too.  It's just that if I never had another conversation about Metallica's first 4 albums or Sabbath or Slayer, it wouldn't be a big deal.  And yeah while I love Slayer and Metallica, their more recent stuff has made me like them LESS.  But my favorite bands are more obscure to the mainstream but I've liked them since more damn near or more than a decade and they don't have any shitty releases.

Anyways, I've been listening to Portal all day while drawing.  Very odd Death Metal band from Australia.  Check the video to see just how weird...

Alright, we're on the same wave length then, high five..

Going to this festival in a few weeks, stoked:

[rattlehead]

rattle--thats a pretty awesome line up- where are you living?

Trondheim, Norway.

[Sleazy]

just when you think you've seen the gnarliest shit metal has to offer, some guy puts a coocoo clock on his head and one up's everyone

[sparksandblood]

I know, right?!  When you say it out loud it just sounds silly, but when you SEE it.... that's another thing.  And he goes by the name "The Curator", how awesome is that?  I just got their new album "Swarth" and it is the best Death Metal album I have heard this year.

just listened to "Swarth". I like it but do not know how to describe it. I suppose this picture sums it up pretty well.

[sparksandblood]

Heres another good one

[sparksandblood]

Ahhhhhh I am going to disagree actually.  That may have been my biggest letdown of the year.  I am not really into a lot of prog type shit, and that one just had too much guitar masturbation.  They also failed to let Brann Dailor really go off on his drumming like they did on the other albums, he felt very reined in.  I also am not a fan of Brent Hinds' nasally ass pseudo Ozzy vocals.  In fact I think they are terrible.  Just not my thing man.

I was talking about the album cover, but yeah i really only enjoyed the title track with Scott Kelly on vocals.

[Dude Dudestofferson]

new Baroness is super fuckin' sick, yep. FINALLY a new metal record I can get into. It's been a minute...

[oyolar]

I really like how the same riff appears in several songs, it's an interesting way to make an album fluid.  A Horse Called Golgotha is one of my favorite songs of the year.

if you like that, have you ever heard "hangman's hymn" by sigh? it's such a good cd. it's arranged like an opera and the last song hase sections from all of the other songs within it and other songs do the same thing. it's funny that most bands repeat riffs and structures because they don't know what else to write, but the second someone knows what they're doing, it can work really well.

that "the portal" band was pretty sweet. when i'm back in the states, i'll have to pick up their new album. what guitar was their one guitarist playing that video? one was a 7 string, but the other guitar's neck looked huge!

[sparksandblood]

[Beer Keg Peg Leg]

I know I sound like a huge BDM fanboy in this thread, but this belongs in a discussion about best album art of '09 (even though we've passed that a little bit):

[sparksandblood]

Nothing wrong with being a huge BDM fan. Agreed, great album art

[Sleazy]

I am sure there are some fans around here, but the new Baroness is out.  Excellent album.  Streaming the whole thing on myspace.

http://www.myspace.com/yourbaroness

And in my opinion, best album art of the year

checking out the red album and do these guys sound a lot like isis or is it just me? i like a lot of the elements but the isis thing is making it hard for me to get into it.

[Sleazy]

i'll check out first and second

[trafficjam]

i dont know much obscure metal, so ill just say my three favorite albums of all time are black sabbath, show no mercy, and kill 'em all

[Sleazy]

do Russian Circles count as metal? pretty chill eitherway

[sparksandblood]

do Russian Circles count as metal? pretty chill eitherway

Im not sure either, they are rad.

[Acrid Avid Jam Shred]

Ambient Black Metal... It kicks ass

[tonysean]

led zepplin
misfits
black sabbath
deep purple
metallica
the offspring
slayer
motorhead

[cold budweisers]

led zepplin
misfits
black sabbath
deep purple
metallica
the offspring
slayer
motorhead

word
the
fuck
up.

[russ]

Peste Noire is smart french black metal.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UWY9GUP0

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diamond head
angel witch
anthrax
slayer
sepultura
corrosion of conformity (their old shit)
beowulf
iron maiden
judas priest
black sabbath
dio
accept
metallica (first four albums)
megadeath
witchfinder general
mercyful fate
testament
cannibal corpse
napalm death
children of bodom
saxon
thin lizzy
grim reaper

[Sleazy]

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do Russian Circles count as metal? pretty chill eitherway

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Im not sure either, they are rad.

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They are in some odd subgenre like Pelican.  It's not their heaviness that makes them metal, it's the complexity and song structures.

makes sense

new album by them is really good if anyone like them. it's definitely an easy way to burn through a productive hour at work.

[rattlehead]

Newest Slayer was like after a really hot bath when your balls are all saggy and then you sit on them.
St.Anger II production wise, just horrible. And half the songs were embarrassing too, like "Playing with Dolls". But I bet a few of the songs will work really good live.

[Dude Dudestofferson]

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do Russian Circles count as metal? pretty chill eitherway

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Im not sure either, they are rad.

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They are in some odd subgenre like Pelican.  It's not their heaviness that makes them metal, it's the complexity and song structures.

Oh and for ambient black metal..... well Burzum reigns supreme because every other band rips Varg off, but Lurker Of Chalice and Xasthur rank pretty high.

yep, Russian Circles is Pelican without the shitty drummer.

[oyolar]

Ambient Black Metal... It kicks ass

"Aske" isn't too ambient though. Especially compared with later Burzum. i got to listen to "MoRT" and "Odinist: The Destruction of Reason by Illumination" by Blut Aus Nord this weekend after not not listening to BAN for a while. Man, those albums are so good.

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