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nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS
New Absu and Skeletonwitch on back to back days :getin:

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nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS

QPZIL posted:

I got excited cause I thought there was new Absu to listen to right now :(

Abzu leaked yesterday, unless I'm misunderstanding you

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

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Nirvana7x posted:

How does the new Absu album sound?

it loving owns

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS
New AaL track streaming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYbu9YRzD3Y&hd=1

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS

deltawing posted:

The new Absu album is just as good as Tara, IMO.

What an incredible piece of music. Has anyone else heard it yet? Probably going to be my AOTY for 2011 unless Wintersun - Time comes out.

Mentioned it about a page back, I agree, I think it's excellent.

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS
Two new Vektor tracks streaming

http://heavyartillery.bandcamp.com/album/outer-isolation

edit: and they loving own

nerve fucked around with this message at 08:20 on Oct 5, 2011

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS
new animals as leaders leaked today :swoon:

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS

Femme by Force posted:

Their sound on their first album was way too dependent on -core elements. It's still quite good. Here's to hoping this new one is more enjoyable for those of us who don't enjoy -core.

hm, can't say i agree with that at all but i hope you enjoy the new one, i think it's great :]

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS
"Lulu doesn't appeal to the masses because it is challenging for the listener. Those who don't "get it" won't make it through a whole song, let alone a whole album. If you like experimental, hosed up, trippy, proggy, heavy, monolouge, storytelling, concept, avante garde, structure raping, disturbed, experience music, then Lou Reed & Metallica's Lulu album is for you. If you don't like this side of music and prefer straight-forward songs, you won't find any here. loving masterpiece of an album. Really breaks new ground. Not just an album, it's an EXPERIENCE! Not everyone will like the album, it's not "accessable" to alot of people. It'll be challenging for most listeners with long, experimental songs. The album sounds loving crazy."

:stare:

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS

Dead Man Posting posted:

Nerve, I always read your post as if you were Varg and it's great. Even if I am not 100% sure it's him in your avatar

lol thanks I never actually realized it but that sort of does look like Varg. It's actually Aaron Rodgers.

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS
Some bands for Doom Metal: Electric Wizard, Sleep, Candlemass, My Dying Bride, Black Sabbath, Pentagram

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO7VP34n2Ps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kkVlJMcJTw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpwkxbteIFQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndj1qQ6rb7o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W69DwrXkjgw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1En8nhifu7c

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS
Depending on how into the subgenres you want to get I can do one about tech death

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS
Technical Death Metal
Description: A progressive form of death metal that focuses on guitar solos, unique time signatures, and rhythms that are usually aren't as prominent in normal death metal
Regions Associated: Florida, Quebec
Goon Recommendations: Death, Atheist, Necrophagist, Nile, Gorguts, The Faceless, Fleshgod Apocalypse
Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwRePCUg4Fg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utqWrkVEQvI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ7Y4SNj6u8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EKgtDmdXH8

I know tech death can draw a lot of ire from some metal heads (wankery!!) but it's by far my favorite kind of metal. Went with classics of the genre in the recommendations, plus two of my favorite recent bands.

nerve fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Oct 22, 2011

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS

Cheeze Kuyeh posted:

Needs Pelican and Animals As Leaders. Would they fit into a 'post metal' or prog section?

I personally would split black into new wave and older stuff, ie old: Burzum, Mayhem, etc; new: Wolves in the Throne Room, Nachtmystium, Watain.

Also a founding/historical band list? Death, Bathory, Venom, etc.

I wouldnt know where to draw a line under it.

Pelican is Post Metal and AAL is Progressive Metal, in my opinion.

Also, heads up, in your post it says "We also have a Doom Metal Thread" etc under the Black Metal section.

nerve fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Oct 22, 2011

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS

Gorilla Radio posted:

Good, let's keep that poo poo there then.

How can you talk about folk metal without mentioning Ensiferum? Or even the founders of the genre, Skyclad?

He has Ensiferum in the post.

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS
I actually turned off showing embedded videos because it looks too messy for me already :shobon:

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

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Dead Man Posting posted:

Do me a favor and turn them back on again, check the post, and see if it is still too cluttered or messy. I added banners and it might improve the feel a bit.

The banners do help quite a bit but another reason I disabled them is it was pretty slow to load the page. Once it gets to the point where it's just the OP I'll be turning embedding back on.

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS

Zodijackylite posted:

Metal Archives is my preferred resource, it should cover every band recommended except Animals as Leaders

Wow when did MA remove AAL? They were on there a couple weeks ago last I checked.

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS

Zodijackylite posted:

About a week ago. I'm disappointed that I will no longer be getting angry PMs about my 0% review :(

People gettin' mad about music opinions owns

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS
New Oranssi Pazuzu leaked. Listening now, hope it owns as much as their first record (it will).

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS

hemophilia posted:

I'm not a guy that needs solos for the sake of solos, since plenty of metal bands can make songs work without them. I think your real problem here is listening to Korn.

And Staind.

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS
Can anyone recommend some death metal like Tribulation - The Horror

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0LNLqyBWFs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo4b5T2VHVU

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS

Gr31lly posted:

Stench is the fairly obvious shout there. Other than that the thrashier of the old swedish bands like Merciless, Mega Slaughter, Traumatic.

Thanks, these sound great so far

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS
New Psycroptic track

http://soundcloud.com/nuclearblastrecords/psycroptic-carriers-of-the

it's really good imo

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS

lordblytzkrieg posted:

Didn't Absu's newest album come out in 2011? I'm surprised none of you have listed it at all.



It's not a mind blowing album, but it definitely has some great parts. The second half of Abraxas Connexus is really amazing.

I actually do think it's mind blowing, it's my favorite of 2011.

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS

The Capitulator posted:

My theory is that most metalheads dislike them purely because they are big / popular and high school kids like them. But you never know these days.

They just don't like how their music sounds. Why do you have to make a whole thing about it just because someone disagrees with you.

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS

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?

Beyond Creation (reminds me a lot of The Faceless), Rings of Saturn, Abiotic, Substructure (you will probably either love or hate these), Augury, First Fragment

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS

Zodijackylite posted:

Vektor's "Outer Isolation" (and their first album too, but I haven't heard it)

It's called Black Future and it's loving awesome

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS

QPZIL posted:

Another track off the new Sigh album!!! :aaa:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsSvEAqiSTY&noredirect=1

In my opinion, not as good as the others, but just as weird.
This leaked btw, it's awesome

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS
I don't get why people say stuff like "a lot of tech death is bad" like that's unique to that subgenre. A lot of music is bad

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS
Tech death literally raped and murdered my family

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS
Truly an issue that only applies to technical death metal

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS
Speaking of tech death here's a pretty great album that came out last summer. Can't remember who turned me on to this so apologies if it was this thread, but it's pretty great.

http://burningatthestake.bandcamp.com/

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS

rxcowboy posted:

These past two weeks I've been getting into some awesome bands that are new to me, but I've noticed an interesting trend:

1: Bolt-Thrower, death metal but different because of the increased focus on more riffs and a 'groovier' feel to it than most death metal
2: Entombed. Death metal but the label 'death & roll" fits due to the different elements of hard rock they incorporate from the 70s and 80s.
3: Nachtmystium. Started out as straight ahead black metal with impressive execution, but evolved into a band that incorporates different genres and sound styles. Multiple reviews have commented that this is what would happen if Pink Floyd played black metal. High praise, but accurate. The overall feel of Addicts: Black Meddle 2 is Wall-era Pink Floyd. While the core of the album is undeniably black metal, you can pick up everything from GNR style hard rock, dance, prog and even 80s style Cure/Depeche Mode.

So what I've learned is that I really like black metal that doesn't always sound like every black metal band out there. I also like the difference in lyrical styles each band has. Bolt Thrower does war, but they do it so loving well they apparently realized they do it as good as they will ever do it and stopped. I'm mad as poo poo I just got into them and their last record came out in 2005, but I can see where they are coming from. Those Once Loyal is a drat good end to an impressive career, and while I would love the idea of another album, I doubt it would surpass loyal and I'd rather them end on a high note. Entombed sings about everything, and you can tell they didn't take themselves too seriously. Wolverine Blues pretty much proves this. Nachtmystium evolves lyrically on each album, and while I would hesitate to call Addicts a concept album, all the songs are thematically linked and they resonate with me. It's just so refreshing to hear different takes on some of the death metal cliches.

With that in mind, what else should I look into? I appreciate the anti organized religious themes of most black metal as much as the next guy, but I'm more interested in hearing a band that isn't afraid to take a risk. I would rather hear an album that takes risks and makes some big mistakes than a flawlessly executed album that is basically a thematic rehash of material covered by other bands. I already have a shitload of albums like that.

Oranssi Pazuzu is a psychedelic black metal band from Finland that I know you will enjoy. Their first album is my favorite.

I absolutely love Absu so I'm going to throw a recommendation in here for them. Tara and their latest Abzu are my two favorite. Abzu has some pretty great occult lyrics if you're into that sort of thing.

And finally I'll recommend Beyond Creation, some perfectly executed technical death metal from Quebec. If you dig that kind of progressive/technical sort of DM then I can't imagine you won't love this.

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS


Full dates

I'll be at the Milwaukee show on the 17th. Very excited for this tour.

nerve fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Apr 23, 2012

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

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Killsion posted:

Why would you go? Exhumed alone simply isn't worth that price or ear torture...

Primary reason is that I like many of the bands on the tour.

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS

Taco_Fury posted:

With all this Summer Slaughter talk, how is The Faceless now since they got a new lead singer?
He sounds very similar to Demon Carcass, so much so that when they put out the demo version of a new song on YouTube with the new guy on vocals, nobody knew it wasn't DC. If you should be worried about anything with them it's that Keene's ego might grow so colossal that it begins to engulf entire songs.

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS
King's-Evil is absolutely incredible thrash from Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dKUiQYr4P4

nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS

Killsion posted:

Pretty sure I brought them up a few pages ago but yea, Deletion of Humanoise is a ripper. Used to love that poo poo in high school.

According to your post history it was March 10th and this dude is just asking for recommendations now.

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nerve
Jan 2, 2011

SKA SUCKS
I hope that doesn't mean Forest is leaving Beyond Creation. Enjoy them more then Augury tbh.

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