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aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

Can crust be granted honourary metal status for the purposes of this thread? There really isn't anywhere else to talk about it.

aliencowboy fucked around with this message at Aug 29, 2011 around 03:28

# ¿ Aug 29, 2011 03:25

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# ¿ May 25, 2013 09:20

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

QPZIL posted:

Is it okay if I stop the last.fm circlejerk?

New Wolves in the Throne Room, Celestial Lineage, leaked and it rules. Definitely more atmospheric than Black Cascade, sort of like if you mixed it with Malevolent Grain. Really good stuff so far.

Well, guess I'm not going to bed for a while.

edit: Astral Blood

edit2: album of the year

aliencowboy fucked around with this message at Sep 6, 2011 around 06:51

# ¿ Sep 6, 2011 03:48

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

ladies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MZcyfgz_Lk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Pqc8sqkkM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWGiNLbmhs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IomiJ-4D1Zc

comedy power metal option

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1jVeLKqB7I

aliencowboy fucked around with this message at Sep 10, 2011 around 23:37

# ¿ Sep 10, 2011 23:30

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

stevie floyd

# ¿ Sep 12, 2011 18:29

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

I'm guessing they're referring to the lack of dynamic range in the mix.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSwLeLdkYjs

# ¿ Sep 13, 2011 18:59

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

We only talk about Norwegians in clown makeup and fat bald guys in camo shorts.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2011 22:07

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZhnTY_tdeU

HAAHHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHHAAHHAH
oh man

# ¿ Sep 18, 2011 18:09

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

MrBling posted:

Why does this surprise you? Think of anything even remotely offensive and there will be a metal band named after it in some way.

Hmmmmmmmmm.....

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands...egma/3540264690

Yup.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2011 19:09

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

I think if he went back to doing speedballs his heart would explode.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2011 16:36

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

Nuclear Wasteland are pretty rad if abrasive crusty speed is your thing, they've got an album coming out next month.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2011 01:22

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

I want to like Ghoul, but whenever I listen to them I just find myself wishing that I was listening to Frightmare.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2011 19:53

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

QPZIL posted:

Does Proscriptor write the music or is he just the "front man"?

I'm fairly certain he writes it.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2011 20:24

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

Baron Von Ghoulosh posted:

For those of us that still care...

THE 13 DATES OF DOOM

GHOST w/ BLOOD CEREMONY, ANCIENT VVISDOM

North American tour dates:

Jan. 18 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
Jan. 19 - Washington, DC @ Rock N Roll Hotel
Jan. 20 - Boston, MA @ Middle East (downstairs)
Jan. 21 - Montreal, QC @ Corona Theatre
Jan. 22 - Toronto, ON @ The Mod Club
Jan. 24 - Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
Jan. 25 - Saint Paul, MN @ Station 4
Jan. 27 - Denver, CO @ Marquis Theatre
Jan. 28 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The Vertigo (The Complex)
Jan. 30 - Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
Jan. 31 - Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater
Feb. 01 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
Feb. 02 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Roxy

I'm all over this.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2011 10:28

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

While on the topic of grind that isn't really grind, Frightmare are way too fun to not listen to. I don't think I'll ever tire of that outro solo.

There's also Impaled Nazarene if you want black metal with a grind candy coating.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2011 18:53

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

DEAR RICHARD posted:

My girlfriend won't let me wear metal shirts in public anymore.

In all fairness, most metal t-shirts are embarrassing. If the designs aren't cringe-inducing, the slogans on the back usually are. There's always diamonds in the rough though.

# ¿ Nov 17, 2011 21:58

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

Morbid Florist posted:

I'm in a municipal waste shirt at work, in a corporate office right now. I can't believe this many of you are this worried about fashion statements and the perceptions of strangers.

I wear a Toxic Holocaust shirt pretty frequently, it's not like anyone can read the font anyway. My issue is more with ugly design and slogans on the back like "KILL EVERYONE" or "DRINK BLOOD 666 DEVILFUCK" that just come off as something aimed at kids who desperately want to alienate their parents.

# ¿ Nov 18, 2011 21:15

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

when they're in town, speakers explode

# ¿ Nov 20, 2011 08:32

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

Ask him what his favourite Radiohead album is.

# ¿ Nov 23, 2011 02:59

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

New Municipal Waste album announced for early 2012. I wasn't a big fan of their last album, but I am interested that the bass/synth guy from Zombi is going to be on some tracks.

# ¿ Dec 16, 2011 02:31

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

I'm still waiting for something like Wolves In The Throne Room meets Vangelis. Is that too lofty of a dream?

# ¿ Dec 17, 2011 10:27

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

I can't say there were too many albums that really wowed me this year.

My top two albums by a mile are:

Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
Blood Ceremony - Living with the Ancients

Celestial Lineage grabbed be right away. Listening to it was practically a religious experience and I think it's far and above WiTTR's best work and a fitting end for them as a band.

Living with the Ancients was a bit of a slow burn for me. At first I dismissed it, feeling that the band had abandoned a lot of the cheesiness and the dominating role of the flute that I enjoyed so much from the first album. But, giving it a second chance a few months later, the album resonated with me as a much for mature production than their first effort and I fell head over heels for it.

honourable mentions in no particular order:

Earth - Angels of Darkness Demons of Light I
Bongripper - Sex Tape/Snuff Film
Dopethrone - Dark Foil
Hunters - From Birth to Soil
Thorr-Axe - Wall of Spears
Midnight Odyssey - Funerals From the Astral Sphere
Absu - Abzu
Weedeater - ...Jason the Dragon

# ¿ Dec 22, 2011 00:57

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

Gr31lly posted:

Not a chance

I'm demoting your objective metal facts to be subjective opinions in my heart.

# ¿ Dec 23, 2011 12:17

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

Elrond Hubbard posted:

Alternate Reality http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhq1uWY9wHg (though Virgin Steele is way better).

This is amazing. It's like the Dadmetal equivalent of Call of the Wintermoon.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2012 22:25

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

After ignoring it for some time, I'm trying to get into Skeletonwitch's most recent album, and while I think it's a much better effort than Breathing the Fire, the productiom/mixing sounds like garbage to me.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2012 17:12

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

uncle jimbo posted:

This is probably a goofy request that will get me laughed at, but I'm looking for some well produced death metal with an older school kind of sound. Anything recent come to mind?

I really like what Martin van Drunen's been involved with lately, but I'd also like hear some suggestions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izDRx83dniQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNChRN79Z7E

edit:

Turk February posted:

"Dedicated To The Impure" by Crypticus

this rules

aliencowboy fucked around with this message at Jan 20, 2012 around 07:34

# ¿ Jan 20, 2012 06:34

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

Just saw Blood Ceremony/Ghost. Ancient VVisdom opened and they were terrible. Blood Ceremony was amazing as usual and Ghost was spectacular beyond my already high expectations.

aliencowboy fucked around with this message at Jan 22, 2012 around 10:47

# ¿ Jan 22, 2012 07:19

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

Man, I wish. The lighting in that place was great, but there was no professional photography equipment allowed. I've been pretty lucky in the past, but I really need to start checking with promoters ahead of time.

If anyone gets a chance to see Ghost live, do it. Even if you're lukewarm on them. The level of theatrics and showmanship they put on is astounding. I say this in the same vein that everyone and their dads rave on about Cirque du Soleil. Papa Emeritus even gave us communion at the end of the show.

I didn't realize there was another Ancient Wisdom and just checked them out and yeah, they are pretty rad. I just figured the guys I saw liked spelling their name like jackasses.

aliencowboy fucked around with this message at Jan 22, 2012 around 10:46

# ¿ Jan 22, 2012 10:42

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

It's cute that you think an awards show isn't bullshit.

aliencowboy fucked around with this message at Jan 24, 2012 around 02:25

# ¿ Jan 24, 2012 01:28

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

Speaking of Satan, there's also King Diamond North American tour dates forthcoming.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2012 21:32

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

Radio Paranoia posted:

For all the noise created around Windir I've never found then that interesting. It feels like proto-folk without the melodic sensibility. Please tell me I'm doing something wrong.

black viking space techno

# ¿ Jan 30, 2012 21:52

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

QPZIL posted:

Sigh are one of my guilty pleasures. "The Transfiguration Fear," a track from their upcoming album, In Somniphobia, is streaming a bit after the 16min mark in this BBC radio program webcast.

God they're so weird, I love it. They've gone... weird, Megaman-congo-fusion, or something.

edit-- not to mention they just have the best album covers:

poo poo, you really weren't joking about Megaman. I'm really excited to hear what the rest of this is going to sound like. I've only listened to Scenes from Hell by Sigh. What else is worth checking out?

aliencowboy fucked around with this message at Jan 30, 2012 around 22:07

# ¿ Jan 30, 2012 22:05

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

Mammal Sauce posted:

Oh man the new Sigh track sounds like they took Imaginary Sonicscape to hell. Official twitter linked to a youtube reupload so everyone who can't get at iPlayer can hear this.

I was kind of on the fence about this sound at first, but now I can't stop mashing the play button to listen to it again. It has an organ solo followed by a sax solo followed by a guitar solo and ends on a whistle chorus.

aliencowboy fucked around with this message at Jan 31, 2012 around 20:35

# ¿ Jan 31, 2012 20:31

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

Good power metal pretty much lives and dies as Helloween's Walls of Jericho and Keeper of the Seven Keys. Manowar can be a lot of fun in an overly-enthusiastic, but awkward 80's pro-wrestling sort of way.

aliencowboy fucked around with this message at Feb 3, 2012 around 05:30

# ¿ Feb 3, 2012 05:27

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

llama_arse posted:

Can one of you fine gentlemen recommend me some bands with sci-fi themed/inspired lyrics a la Voivod, Hypocrisy and The Faceless?

Traveller by The Lord Weird Slough Feg

# ¿ Feb 5, 2012 00:31

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

llama_arse posted:

Wow, this is pretty fantastic stuff. I wish more bands would do the blackened thrash thing like Skeletonwitch.

Adding to Houseplant's post,

Ruins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYREoNA05x0

Witchmaster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEVS9FTz8ik

Impaled Nazarene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4r7zdgz0SE

Megiddo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLVxXY6dnDs

I think the most comparable thing to Skeletonwitch I've heard was QPZIL's hurricane jam. We should all bug him to make more because it's loving tubular.

aliencowboy fucked around with this message at Feb 6, 2012 around 08:45

# ¿ Feb 6, 2012 08:37

aliencowboy: May 30, 2003

QPZIL posted:

Aww, thanks buddy. I'll work on more, I just haven't been in the mood to write lately, and when I have it's been all depressive black metal. Winter tends to do that. I've had the itch to play more thrash though, so I'll try to get back on that.

Also the girl doing vocals moved to Texas, but she and I have similar screaming voices so it's do-able.