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Vargatron posted:The Duke Nukem Forever of heavy metal. Let's hope it's not as bad as Duke Nukem Forever eventually was.
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I kept seeing posts about a bunch of metal people needing money for various medical treatments and procedures, so I complied a list. If you're feeling generous of have some extra $$ or some time to spread the word... http://scrapyardmagazine.blogspot.com/2012/02/do-something-good.html This is just some people I know who need $$ for different medical procedures (cancer, etc.). These are just links to places where you can donate.
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Vargatron posted:I really have a hard time believing that any power metal band takes themselves seriously. Sure, you can be proud of the musicality and complexity, but somewhere deep down in your mind, you realize that singing about dragons and elves is I know we would all like to believe that, and some guys obviously don't take it *too* seriously, but while I don't know any big-time musicians, I know a few small-time ones that managed to get a bit of local and small-market radio play back in the 80s, and a few that do small venues around Dallas currently, and a lot of them take themselves very seriously, to the point where it's almost psychotic. Cover bands for Neil Diamond, or New-Agey rock & roll, it didn't really matter, they were all egomaniacs convinced of their own genius. These guys are not a metal band mind you, but for example, I know some people that were a part of This band from the 80s. Listen to/watch the video on that website. That band took themselves very seriously, despite being completely ridiculous and silly. They still treat their music like it's a job. It's not hard for me to believe that some of those power-metal bands think they are God's gift to the planet earth and that their music is not a joke. Riot Bimbo fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Feb 23, 2012 |
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Feb 23, 2012 01:09
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I've heard that Sabaton is pretty big in Europe, have fans cruised through this thread?
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lordblytzkrieg posted:That's the difference. Alestorm know they're jokes and love it. Swashbuckle try to be serious and end up being the joke. With Alestorm I think its the opposite, from everything I read they hate the pirate thing and are doing it anyway, haha.
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Ein posted:I've heard that Sabaton is pretty big in Europe, have fans cruised through this thread?
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Ein posted:I've heard that Sabaton is pretty big in Europe, have fans cruised through this thread? I was a fan of their debut album, but then after that I just kind of lost track of the band. Nordick posted:I dunno if I'm quite a "fan", but I do like them a lot. I like the whole WWII schtick (and thus listen to them a lot while playing World of Tanks), their catchy-as-gently caress melodies and the vocalist. When you're singing about tanks and snipers and battleships and poo poo, it kinda helps to sound, you know, manly. This is why I love the all-star death metal band Hail Of Bullets. It's just crushing and visceral death metal with sharp-as-hell melodic leads, plus you can't go wrong with Martin van Drunen on vocals rasp-growling about how 300,000 soldiers died at Stalingrad. The good news is that they are going to be writing a new album soon.
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the first time i saw pentagram word was going around that the american leg of the tour was slmost canceled after bobby was caught smoking crack on an airplane.
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Sabaton is poo poo, I just wanted to see if they had some fans around here. They have a fan-base that buys their records/concert ticks which makes them successful somewhere and nowhere at the same time? I don't get it. Anyway crash-course on Sabaton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHEBA-8dMYQ
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Turk February posted:This is why I love the all-star death metal band Hail Of Bullets. It's just crushing and visceral death metal with sharp-as-hell melodic leads, plus you can't go wrong with Martin van Drunen on vocals rasp-growling about how 300,000 soldiers died at Stalingrad. The good news is that they are going to be writing a new album soon. stole my reply, hail of bullets is basically grimdark sabaton and loving awesome
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Man, what happened to Ablazer? They released an awesome as gently caress demo a couple years back, and now just recently released a track from their new album and it bloooooooooooows. I don't understand why you would change your band concept from Wintersun-lite to a really generic "core" sound. Reminds me of what happened to Hibria who put out the best modern speed/NWOBHM album and then two albums of pure undiluted poo poo.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Reminds me of what happened to Hibria who put out the best modern speed/NWOBHM album and then two albums of pure undiluted poo poo. Well, except that while their debut is certainly better, I still quite like The Skull Collectors as well. But the third album? loving bloody rear end, what a goddamn disgrace. For those who are unfamiliar with the band, some comparison: here's the title track of the debut album. The guitars have this really awesome metallic sound, and despite Youtube quality muddling it up a bit, the bass guitar is still clearly distinguishable (a feature that is WAY too rare in modern metal music). Overall, it's just amazingly well done and kickass old-school power/speed metal. Here's a track off the third album. Stupid modern downtuned chugga-chugga riffing, and just... gently caress it, I'm too depressed to continue. Also, the debut album's cover has a metalhead dude loving swordfighting a ninja ON MOTORCYCLES, which is pretty much as loving dope as you can get. Blind Ride has like, some tracks or something, and some fire. loving yay.
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Vargatron posted:I really have a hard time believing that any power metal band takes themselves seriously. Speaking of, here's Arjen Anthony Lucassen's (of Ayreon fame) new album cover:  I'm sorry if that's too big but a shrunken image wouldn't do it justice at all.
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loam pup posted:the first time i saw pentagram word was going around that the american leg of the tour was slmost canceled after bobby was caught smoking crack on an airplane. Yeah there's a clip from the documentary out there where Bobby's talking to the documentary guy and signs a "contract" stating that if he smoked crack again, the documentary guy could have his entire record collection. Then he had this look in his eyes like "oh poo poo, I'm about to lose my entire record collection." It was legitimately  -inducing.
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QPZIL posted:Yeah there's a clip from the documentary out there where Bobby's talking to the documentary guy and signs a "contract" stating that if he smoked crack again, the documentary guy could have his entire record collection. Then he had this look in his eyes like "oh poo poo, I'm about to lose my entire record collection." I know if I were hooked on crack that would get me to become sober immediately. My god, the horror... 
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Nam Taf posted:Speaking of, here's Arjen Anthony Lucassen's (of Ayreon fame) new album cover: That is awesome I can't wait
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Nordick posted:Hibria stuff  Completely unrelated, my band Archdemon (melodic death) just released a small teaser clip to our upcoming full-length. Check it out if you feel like it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_RngOYNZ5A I'm guitars/recording/production. If you like it stay tuned. 
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Bonnene posted:Completely unrelated, my band Archdemon (melodic death) just released a small teaser clip to our upcoming full-length. Check it out if you feel like it! Musically this sounds pretty good but the production is really off the mark unless youtube's audio processing majorly hosed things up. The low-end is incredibly muddy and the guitars sound over-compressed to the point where there's an audible "pumping" effect which renders some of the riffs unintelligible.
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m-o-o-n posted:Musically this sounds pretty good but the production is really off the mark unless youtube's audio processing majorly hosed things up. The low-end is incredibly muddy and the guitars sound over-compressed to the point where there's an audible "pumping" effect which renders some of the riffs unintelligible. Thanks for checking it out! Might be youtube + not so pro mix, I can hear it just fine listening to the audio file but might just be because I know how it's supposed to sound.  Atleast I know I need to improve the low end. Anyway it might sound better here: http://soundcloud.com/archdemon/archdemon-demon-in-disguise-promo
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Waiting for Rammstein to come on stage here in London, some band called Deathstars are playing and they are absolutely loving awful
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henpod posted:Waiting for Rammstein to come on stage here in London, some band called Deathstars are playing and they are absolutely loving awful The guitarist/keyboardist is Jon Nödtveidt's brother (of Dissection fame). I heard one song, I think they did it as a tribute to Jon after he committed suicide, and it was horrible.
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henpod posted:Waiting for Rammstein to come on stage here in London, some band called Deathstars are playing and they are absolutely loving awful I really don't understand why Rammstein can't get better bands to open for them. Saving money for the elaborate sets maybe?
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This quiz popped up on Facebook. I somehow only got half right. Rick Santorum quote or Dave Mustaine lyric/quote http://motherjones.com/media/2012/02/rick-santorum-heavy-metal-megadeth-quiz
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DEAR RICHARD posted:This quiz popped up on Facebook. I somehow only got half right.
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DEAR RICHARD posted:This quiz popped up on Facebook. I somehow only got half right. I got 50%, too, but I'm really not sure if it's better to get more right or wrong. All I know is that Dave and Rick are very similar now.
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Xombie posted:I really don't understand why Rammstein can't get better bands to open for them. Saving money for the elaborate sets maybe? Truth. Combichrist or whoever it was I saw open for them on the last tour were poo poo too.
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DEAR RICHARD posted:This quiz popped up on Facebook. I somehow only got half right. 90%. I missed the lord of the rings one because I remembered that one song from the newish album Oh Dave Mustaine
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Nam Taf posted:Speaking of, here's Arjen Anthony Lucassen's (of Ayreon fame) new album cover: Is this real? It looks like one of those lovely fantasy novels in the "Sales" bin at a bookstore-.
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Non Serviam posted:Is this real? It's awesome. Don't take it so seriously.
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Non Serviam posted:Is this real? I thought that the "in STEREO" and "TECHNICOLOR" markings would be an indication that the look you're referring to is intentional, guess not? I think it's a pretty sweet album cover.
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I've recently become interested in a somewhat obscure NWOBHM band called More, who released two albums at the start of the 1980s. This is the title track from their debut album, Warhead; musically, they weren't groundbreaking but they did possess a certain melodicism that I rather enjoy. I think there's a lot of Thin Lizzy and ZZ Top in their sound, though I'm sure somebody more musically astute could correct me. One point of interest (at least for people who enjoy AOR, I suppose) is that Laurie Mansworth, who played lead guitar on More's first record, subsequently joined Airrace, a melodic hard rock band I'm quite keen on which featured Keith Murrell and Jason Bonham. Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Feb 26, 2012 |
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EDIT: Double-post. Sorry about that.
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Non Serviam posted:Is this real? You're not familiar with AA Lucassen, are you?
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henpod posted:Waiting for Rammstein to come on stage here in London, some band called Deathstars are playing and they are absolutely loving awful Hahah, saw the tour here in Finland and thought the exact same thing. The drummer played the same goddamn beat every song, and not at all in a cool simplistic style but more in the unimaginative and boring kind. Edit: Also, that quiz just made me realize how big of a tool Mustaine really is. I mean I always thought he was a dick, but this... gently caress. goatse.cx haver fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Feb 26, 2012 |
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Newsflash: The new Terrorizer album, "Hordes Of Zombies," is loving boring. I'm sure we all expected this, but at least it's better than "Darker Days Ahead" was. On a brighter note, everybody should check out Plague Widow from Sacramento, CA who play a ridiculously good and catchy version of brutal death metal/grindcore that is very reminiscent of Wormed mixed with the dissonant misery of Portal. Their self-titled EP is really loving good.
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Read the whole thread. From waaaaaaaaay back on page 1:The Clit Avoider posted:Stench of Decay Holy fucktits, thank you. I'm not all that versed in the joys of death metal, but this kind of sound really does it for me (doomy as poo poo, can-almost-dance-to-it-groovy, light on the blastbeats). I listened to their other demo and it loving owns. Also followed some related links to Krypts...   Radio Paranoia posted:A Walk With the Wicked - groove metal This is great too, thank you for sharing! Want more! Based on what I mentioned here, any other reccomendations? And yes, I already have a Bolt Thrower album. 
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henpod posted:Waiting for Rammstein to come on stage here in London, some band called Deathstars are playing and they are absolutely loving awful If I remember correctly, Deathstars is more or less made from the small band Swordmaster after they got an offer/suggestion/money from Nuclear Blast(I think?) to create a band that could ride the wave around Marilyn Manson, Cradle of Filth and sort of Covenant. They're like a goth-boyband. That was the story ~10 years ago.
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Wow, Iron Maiden are headlining Summerfest on the 4th of July. The "worlds largest music festival" in Milwaukee, WI. Alice Cooper is opening. The last time they played Summerfest was 1981 when some other band couldn't make it, so they headlined instead with the original singer. The live bootleg of that is pretty good. http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/musicandnightlife/iron-maiden-to-headline-summerfest-july-4-7i47q7b-139484393.html
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Ein posted:If I remember correctly, Deathstars is more or less made from the small band Swordmaster after they got an offer/suggestion/money from Nuclear Blast(I think?) to create a band that could ride the wave around Marilyn Manson, Cradle of Filth and sort of Covenant. They're like a goth-boyband. Oh god why did I google this... 
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