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Johnny Aztec posted:Okay, so Manowar announced their US tour dates, and the closest they will be to me is Chicago, 8 hour drive. I'm thinking about the Chicago show, but that's about $100 for a ticket. It will be so bad, but so awesome.
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Demilich 20th anniversery release stuff is up for preorder...remaster sounds awesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT76I8R9RBw http://www.svartrecords.com/shoppe/en/home/2428-demilich-20th-adversary-of-emptiness-3lp-box.html
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Dyscrasia posted:I'm thinking about the Chicago show, but that's about $100 for a ticket. It will be so bad, but so awesome. That's insane. I saw them at a small club in the NW Chicago suburbs in 1997 for $15. It was a great show, Eric kept grabbing women from the front row and pulled them on stage so he could make out with them.
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Gamma Nerd posted:I switched Possessed around to death/thrash - I am perfectly willing to keep people's suggestions in mind, it's just very hard to put things into the endless subcategories metal seems to lend itself to, and harder to keep it to a manageable sized list of "essential albums" (still thinking of putting Ripping Corpse and Infester on the list but I can't be arsed to remove albums I personally enjoy). Far too hard for me to actually do on my own. So please, do bother with the band choices, I posted it on this site because I know we have knowledgeable metal fans on here. Much more knowledgeable than me, certainly I would have included Infester - To The Depths. Also at least one Sadistik Exekution album somewhere. And Goatlord. And Rottrevore and Pyrexia. I'd have Morpheus Descends in over the band ripping them off. Your black/death section needs work - where are Order From Chaos for a start? I don't understand why you'd recommend Portal in a roundabout way, while also recommending bands that are pretty much just ripping them off too... Just stick them on there and lose Mitochondrion or the like. I think Autopsy & Excoriate look like they've been jammed into sub-genres they don't really fit just to get them in somewhere. Death/Doom is more stuff like Crimson Relic, Sempiternal Deathreign and Morgion than Autopsy. The reason I dislike lists is because they're sort of pointless, you end up pigeonholing bands into sounds they don't suit, or picking with a geographical bias. I mean there's tons of bands out there there that aren't even that well known that could go on such a list easily. [edit] and the descriptions are pigeon-holing too - Legion is more tech than most death metal albums, and tbh, I'd say you have to have Molested on the list somewhere too, but they suit absolutely none of the descriptions. The Clit Avoider fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Nov 28, 2013 |
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If you want to be a douche and not contribute to some totally non-objective thing I'm doing for fun and to educate myself and others, go ahead. But I would rather have people be helpful.
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sleepingbuddha posted:That's insane. I saw them at a small club in the NW Chicago suburbs in 1997 for $15. It was a great show, Eric kept grabbing women from the front row and pulled them on stage so he could make out with them. Any doubts I had about driving 8 hours to Chicago just got burned away by the purifying flames of metal. It actually looks like an easy drive. I'll get on 57 and...stay on 57 all the way directly there. for 500 miles. If I'll drive to Kansas City for Iron Maiden, I can do Chicago for Manowar.
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sleepingbuddha posted:That's insane. I saw them at a small club in the NW Chicago suburbs in 1997 for $15. It was a great show, Eric kept grabbing women from the front row and pulled them on stage so he could make out with them. Was that with Immortal? I saw Manowar and Immortal in Aurora (I think) quite a while back, not sure the year.
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Gamma Nerd posted:
New York is not New England  The Clit Avoider posted:The reason I dislike lists is because they're sort of pointless, you end up pigeonholing bands into sounds they don't suit, or picking with a geographical bias. Within a few months someone is inevitably going to get the wrong idea from something, but if it looks like educational material, it has authority! The worst attempted genre labels I've ever heard: 3. Body Count are speed metal (thanks Wikipedia) 2. Underoath's early stuff is black metal 1. Atheist, Cynic, Death, and Pestilence are "proto-djent"
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That last one is really bad but reminds me to go listen to Unquestionable Presence for like the tenth time this week
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Dyscrasia posted:Was that with Immortal? I saw Manowar and Immortal in Aurora (I think) quite a while back, not sure the year. No, I don't think so. I know it wasn't Aurora, it was a suburb farther north. I do remember it being the loudest loving show I've ever been to. It's the only show I've been to when I wished I had ear plugs.
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muike posted:That last one is really bad but reminds me to go listen to Unquestionable Presence for like the tenth time this week I've been totally addicted to An Incarnation's Dream and Your Life's Retribution recently. That album is nearly flawless.
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Anyone seeing Finntroll, Blackguard and Metsatoll in Denver on Saturday? I usually go to concerts with my brother but he can't make it, so I'd like to meet up with other people if possible.
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Hamferd put out an album and nobody told me! Fuuuuck it's good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzaU_8h9XuI
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Dyscrasia posted:I'm thinking about the Chicago show, but that's about $100 for a ticket. It will be so bad, but so awesome. I mean, you could do that, or you could stay home and taser your own ears and nipples?
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Nov 29, 2013 17:51
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Father_Johann posted:I mean, you could do that, or you could stay home and taser your own ears and nipples? It really was a tough decision, but I don't have a taser, which forced me to buy the tickets.
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Dyscrasia posted:I'm thinking about the Chicago show, but that's about $100 for a ticket. It will be so bad, but so awesome. Well, don't take too long to think about it . That place only holds 1600. I bought two soon As they went on sale. I expect it to be sold out pretty soon.
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A childhood friend of mine started a prog metal (i think this is the genre but I could be completly wrong) band called the The Isosceles Project about 5 or 6 years ago and I like to check up on them every now and then to see how its coming along. Today they posted there last EP as a free download on bandcamp and I was pretty blown away by how far they come. So if any of you want to give it a listen its here. I feel kinda weird whoring out an acquaintance's band in a forum I never post in, but I also feel the only bad thing I could say about this band is there choice of a name, everything else sounds amazing. https://bandcamp.com/download?cart_id=7143076&sig=48079fc7299ed4dff8e9b0528126c82d&from=check
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Johnny Aztec posted:Well, don't take too long to think about it . That place only holds 1600. I bought two soon As they went on sale. I expect it to be sold out pretty soon. No doubt, a couple of friends held a gun to my head, my ticket is purchased.
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Dyscrasia posted:No doubt, a couple of friends held a gun to my head, my ticket is purchased. Wow friends who hold guns to your head AND make you go see Manowar? New friends time? Just kidding, bro. Hope you have a loving awesome time!
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20 years after I purchased it (Halloween night '93), Danzig II remains one of the best metal albums ever. I've been listening to Danzig I, II, III and Thrall for the last few weeks and I said godDAMN. IV didn't age well. A lot of the distorted vocals and experimenting with backwards masking on the rest of the album just feel like bad omens of what happened on later albums.
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Nov 30, 2013 23:47
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Here's a funny interview by Evan Linger from Skeletonwitch. Text for people who hate clicking on things: quote:Skeletonwitch’s Evan Linger on the annoying positivity of Barenaked Ladies’ “One Week”
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TheAbortionator posted:A childhood friend of mine started a prog metal (i think this is the genre but I could be completly wrong) band called the The Isosceles Project about 5 or 6 years ago and I like to check up on them every now and then to see how its coming along. Your friends are pretty badass IMO, I like this a lot. This would make some excellent workout music. Instrumental only metal doesn't usually capture my interest, but this does. Hammer Floyd posted:But really, the best "Story" album from Opeth is Still Life. You can't beat The Moor: This man speaks the truth. I am one of the worst people in the world when it comes to noticing, comprehending, and caring about the actual lyrical content of an album. Still Life is one of those rare albums that transcends that for me.
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p4vl posted:IV didn't age well. A lot of the distorted vocals and experimenting with backwards masking on the rest of the album just feel like bad omens of what happened on later albums. There were a few okay songs like Until You Call on the Dark, even if it was just Twist of Cain pt.6 or whatever. To be fair though that's probably nostalgia speaking more than anything else.
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What are the best bands for prog metal? I'm a begginer in prog metal and am looking for a good place to start.
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Well Dream Theater is the biggest and most obvious one. Depending on your feelings about harsh vocals, Opeth and Between the Buried and Me (went from metalcore to full-on prog metal starting with Colors) are the best IMO. maudlin of the Well are great too. Orphaned Land have one spectacular album (Mabool) and a lot of decent ones.
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Xandoom posted:What are the best bands for prog metal? I'm a begginer in prog metal and am looking for a good place to start. You should listen to Haken. They are everything Dream Theater should have been and more.
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Xandoom posted:What are the best bands for prog metal? I'm a begginer in prog metal and am looking for a good place to start. Fates Warning and Voivod are great. FW are heavy/prog and Voivod are thrash/prog, not pure prog, though. Maybe Pain of Salvation would be nice?
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Xandoom posted:What are the best bands for prog metal? I'm a begginer in prog metal and am looking for a good place to start. Pain of Salvation, Ayreon, and Psychotic Waltz. thehouseplant fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Dec 3, 2013 |
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Tool are surely worthy of a mention.
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Xandoom posted:What are the best bands for prog metal? I'm a begginer in prog metal and am looking for a good place to start. Been mentioned a lot but depends what you mean when you say prog. That said people have already mentioned bands so I might as well pick out albums for those bands Pain of Salvation: You probably want "The Perfect Element" and "Remedy Lane". I loved this band when I was younger because there's a lot more emotion than a lot of other prog which always sort of came off as soulless to me - it's a lot more about the lyrics and vocals than most prog, or really most metal in general. The album after those two, "BE", was a HUGE departure from their sound (there is a track which is literally just a bunch of phonecalls fans of the band left on an answering machine), it's really divisive. I stopped paying attention to the band after Scarsick. Ayreon: The Human Equation is probably the best starting point. A guy in a coma has his life played back to him. Each track is a different memory and they have a different vocalist for every emotion he experiences. If it sounds cheesy, welcome to Prog  Ayreon goes a step further than most prog with the concept album thing and has EVERY SINGLE ALBUM as part of a huge overarching story (as far as I understand). The album that just came out is supposed to be good as well but I haven't had a chance to listen.Opeth: I haven't followed them recently but from what I understand Akerfeldt has made a conscious decision to not do metal at all anymore? Their earlier stuff would have songs that shifted between death metal and progressive metal. The fan favorite used to be "Blackwater Park", my favorite was always "My Arms, Your Hearse" but that's possibly a lot heavier than what you're looking for. My prog metal knowledge is clearly stuck in 2005
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Does Agalloch count as prog metal? They completely ignore traditional song structure and almost all of their songs are 7 minutes or longer, but I'm not sure if that's enough to qualify as "prog". They are super heavy with harsh vocals, but the vocals are only a small fraction of the song time. But everyone should listen to Agalloch anyway.
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Animals as Leaders is supreme guitar wank fuel for prog nerds who don't want vocals. Cloudkicker, too.
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^Scale the Summit are the best example of that style though.Hammer Floyd posted:Tool are surely worthy of a mention. I love Tool but they aren't really a metal band.
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Jolly - The Audio Guide to Happiness Pt. 2 and Haken - The Mountain are the best prog metal releases of the year.
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Karnivool's Asymmetry blew me away as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJhfVNeJKaA
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Prog prog prog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-5P7PWkvFY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EDtJBzakK0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dUbTxm7Y-w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBPIEaZppeA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFEQNF-Lh-E
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Kumbamontu posted:Karnivool's Asymmetry blew me away as well.
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Do you guys have any recommended sites for buying metal tshirts, especially for older black metal bands (90s and earlier)?
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Bigass Moth posted:Do you guys have any recommended sites for buying metal tshirts, especially for older black metal bands (90s and earlier)? https://www.rockabilia.com is fairly decent if you want a big selection. I have a Burzum shirt that somebody bought me off of that site, and I'm pretty happy with the quality.
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sleepingbuddha posted:No, I don't think so. I know it wasn't Aurora, it was a suburb farther north. I do remember it being the loudest loving show I've ever been to. It's the only show I've been to when I wished I had ear plugs. The Immortal/Manowar tour was in March 2002 - I caught the Indianapolis leg of the tour (incidentally, the last US tour Immortal did before they broke up). The place was packed for Immortal, but by the time Manowar took the stage, there were only about 20-30 people left - I stayed for Manowars set, but more out of pity than anything else. They were pretty good though - although they paled to the glory of Immortal....
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Kumbamontu posted:Karnivool's Asymmetry blew me away as well.  Their previous album, Sound Awake, is a bit less weird.There's also a prog rock thread for all of your not-metal-but-still-wanky recommendation needs (Steven Wilson).
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