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What the gently caress. A friend of mine is going to this gig. loving Slayer and Motorhead on the same gig, and loving SLIPKNOT is the headliner?!  I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
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gently caress, how have I not seen Blind Guardian live yet. That song is incredible, it just goes on and on and on and each part is more amazing than the last.
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:I watched that, and then I immediately watched the full concert. That concert is my all-time favorite concert recording. And Then There Was Silence isn't the highlight though, this is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utfC09pTc5A The looks of stunned disbelief on the band's faces at the end is incredible.
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So.. uh... this certainly is a thing.  The Monolith Deathcult performed two of their songs acoustic, and unplugged for a.. easy listening morning radio talk show, in Iceland. http://www.ruv.is/afthreying/orafmagnad-daudarokk-i-beinni Geisladisk fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Jul 15, 2014 |
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edrith posted:I saw Solstafir three times this past week. Once in an abandoned warehouse, once when they decided to say gently caress it and play an extra half an hour longer than their setlist allowed. I was kind of meh on them before but drat, they're really, really loving good. Give them all of your money. I can't stand Sólstafir when I listen to their albums, but they're loving captivating live. I can't really put my finger on what makes them so great live.
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I think trying to pick a "best" Blind Guardian song is fairly pointless, because they've had a constant and fairly rapid change in style and sound over the years, to the point where every album has a fairly distinct feel.
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Just came home from Wacken. The highlight of the festival was definitely Devin Townsend, who, predictably, didn't make a single mistake, put on a hell of a show, and was incredibly funny while doing it. And he had the crowd do a giant group-hug instead of a circlepit.  The entire gig is on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okLjATl5xx8 the circlehug is at 1:06:00. Another highlight was Arch Enemy's new singer, which kicks loving rear end! Having seen them with Angela, I can safely say that she's an even better singer and frontman. They were incredible, despite being put in a bizarre slot at noon, playing the first show at one of the main stages, and I was almost too hungover to stand. Other highlights in no particular order include: Behemoth's sheer evilness and comic book villain-y theatrics (what do you mean setting inverted crosses on fire while I play a song called "Christians to the Lions" is slightly over the top?) Avantasia was incredible, I had goosebumps for like an hour Carcass's loving flawless and incredible set Children of Bodom actually being incredible and not super lovely and badly rehearsed like when I saw them in 2008 Hammerfall making me seventeen again for an hour Chtonic was incredible, though I'm pretty sure the singer was a bit confused about where he was playing when he demanded that the crowd sing along to a song with Chinese lyrics 
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IronLawnmower posted:It's now a thing apparently. That article was the dumbest thing I've ever read, until I read some of the comments on it. That dude is trying real hard to impose a set of social values and deep thinking to a genre of music that mostly concerns itself about things like the endless frost darkness beyond the moonsorrow madness.
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edrith posted:Immortal broke up. Kind of. There's a hissy fit over who owns the trademark. What is with Norwegian black metal bands and trademark disputes? quote:"The band rents a rehearsal space where costs were being shared between the three band members. Harald and Reidar did not want to pay their share of the rent since the band, in their opinion, was not active. Olve, as songwriter, was dependent on the rehearsal space and was willing to cover the rental costs himself. This sounds exactly like some of the trivial, petty hissyfits the bands I was in when I was loving seventeen years old would have to deal with. 
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Never seen a woman do pig squeals before holy poo poo: Yup, pig squeals are also dumb and awful when women do them.
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I just came home from Eistnaflug, which is a festival which takes place in Neskaupsstaður, which is a remote fjord in Iceland. How remote? 12 hours by car from the country's only major international airport. This is a very small (~2000 attendants) festival, which somehow had international bands Behemoth, Carcass, Rotting Christ, and Enslaved headlining this year. The venue was set up in a gym located next to the local old folk's home. Holy hell, seeing Behemoth at such a small venue is incredible. They absolutely blew me away. Their stage presence, theatrics, playing, their everything, was perfect. Geisladisk fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Jul 12, 2015 |
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Nordick posted:hey check out this awesome new thrash band y'all this owns
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I don't think I've ever felt genuine sadness at the death of someone I never met. I hope his death certificate has the cause of death listed as "Death".
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TollTheHounds posted:I seem to be in "acquisition mode" right now, finding random poo poo all over the place. This rules.
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In case anyone missed it, the first (thirteen minute long) track off the new Ayreon has been posted online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFuMKdrzPqU It's got everyone on guest vocals. And it's loving good.
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COOL CORN posted:It's like my high school CD case all thrown into one song, plus Tommy from BTBAM. You understand what Ayreon is all about.
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Was visiting friends in Helsinki last week. We went to see Sabaton, Twilight Force, and Accept on friday, Dream Theater on Monday, and Devin Townsend on Tuesday. Accept bored me to tears, and Sabaton neither exceeded my expectations nor let me down. But the heroes of the night were Twilight loving Force . I'd checked them out a little before the gig - I liked their albums, and I knew they wore fantasy getups on stage, which is amusing. I was kind of expecting them to be terrible live, though. Their albums are very heavily produced, with a lot of layering, sound effects, choirs, and poo poo. It's just not something that six dudes on stage can reproduce very easily. They're also really fast, with a lot of tremolo picking, intricate sweep solos, and extremely high pitched vocals. In my experience that's a formula for an extremely lovely live performance. Also, the cheesy stage costumes kind of felt like a compensating gimmick. Nope. They were perfect. The singer didn't even break a sweat, the instruments were tight as gently caress. And the keyboard playing wizard was hugely entertaining. Dream Theater played a massive three hour set - They played what felt like a full set, took a fifteen minute break, and then played the entirety of Images and Words, which was really neat to see. James LaBrie's age does seem to be catching up with him though - He was audibly struggling towards the end of the set, and the band added quite a few gratuitous and lengthy instrumental breaks, no doubt intended to give James a little breather. Devin was Devin. Charming, awkward, impossibly flawless musician Devin. He talked at length about how Finnish saunas taught him that his penis isn't as small as he thought it was.
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Mr. Pickles posted:That was the case both times I went to see behemoth and I have since decided they are not a good band to see live. Contrary to other bands of similar musical complexity who are destroying everything live, such as Nile I can't relate to this at all. Behemoth back in 2015 was one of the very best if not the best metal gigs I've ever been to, it was loving flawless. I guess you just got unlucky.
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Actually, that band you like sucks on albums and live. Owned.
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This is sad as hell, but not really a surprise, I guess. Dude was unhealthy as gently caress and been a raging alcoholic since his teens. COB was my gateway drug into death metal. Rip guy. 
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stab posted:Have you ever seen the lineup history of Iron Maiden and Megadeth my dude Maiden are on their second drummer, have replaced one guitarist, and second vocalist (who left but came back), and everyone in the band currently has been there at least thirty years. Seems pretty stable to me. E: and a shitload of guys who were in the band before they even released their debut, but I'm not counting those
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I listened to 200 stab wounds after seeing this thread praise it. It kinda rules that this album was made without even a single original thought going into it - at times it sounds like a parody of itself - but it still absolutely slaps.
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Vintersorg posted:Abbath back to his old tricks. This is pretty good. I kinda thought that he was done, given how much of a mess he was on tour pre-covid. I've always had a soft spot for his solo stuff.
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henpod posted:What's Wintersun up to? Did they get the quantum computers needed for the music processing? He did and they finally released an album in 2012 and again in 2017 but they're not very good
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Nazzadan posted:Did the whole thing drop early somewhere? I know it comes out this Friday and is probably my last super anticipated album of the year, John Yelland is probably the best dude working in power metal right now. It dropped on Youtube about an hour ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0h1xVCQFl4
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I run a Warhammer league and like half the players are in local black metal bands and I'm in a power metal band. Metalheads are nerds
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https://solanvarma.bandcamp.com/album/s-l-n-varma This came out a couple of days ago, extremely good black metal
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My morning routine for the past few months has been to sit down at my computer toucher desk job, drink my coffee, open this thread, and find a album I've never heard by a band I've never heard of to listen to. Rarely disappoints. I've discovered so many good bands thanks to this thread. Thread rules.
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Nordick posted:Here's some really good nerdy-rear end trad I hate this song because it whips rear end and this is the only song this band has put out
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Non Serviam posted:Wacken is turning into Fyre festival this year. Just check Twitter or reddit for the utter chaos. To be fair they're not having problems because of any incompetence (Wacken is probably the most consistently well run festival I've been to), but because of absolutely cataclysmic rain having turned the entire festival grounds into a sea of mud. It's so bad that they've had to ask people to not come. Kind of a bummer. I guess the only reason they haven't just canceled is that it only started after the early birds started showing up.
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symbolic posted:thank y'all for talking about Woods of Ypres because Woods 5 is absolutely slaying me on this first listen yeah holy poo poo
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WoodrowSkillson posted:arriving in the latter portion of the year blackbraid, hellripper, the halo effect, and orbit culture have been dominating my listening still. its been a drat good year for metal. New Orbit Culture is really good except the mix is so loving muddy and blown out. Which is my complaint with a lot of new metal. Maybe I'm just finally going deaf.
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