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H13
Nov 30, 2005

Fun Shoe
Cross-Posting from Musicians Lounge.

I needed to do something band related that WASN'T mixing\mastering today. So I put together an album teaser. 10-30 seconds of each song from the album :)

The mix\master isn't 100% yet, but eh, it's good enough for a teaser :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYp4UwY-R_0

This video contains 10-30 seconds of each song from our upcoming album due to be released...eventually

Please note that the album is still going through final mixing and mastering so things may sound a little different (hopefully better!) on the final release.

If you're interested in buying a copy of our album, please contact us through facebook on:
http://www.facebook.com/blackhandaus

Thanks for listening!

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H13
Nov 30, 2005

Fun Shoe
Listened to Amon Amarth today and it finally clicked.

Goddrat this poo poo is epic. I've only got Surtur Rising, what else should I look at?

H13
Nov 30, 2005

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keratas posted:

The full Metallica/Lou Reed song The View was released today. Man, the same riff plays over and over until the end of the song.

I actually really like the sound of the guitars, drums, bass and James' voice I would say is back to full glory.

The only problem is that Lou Reed...doing...whatever the gently caress he's doing is really terrible.

Apparently we're meant to approach this as a Lou Reed album, but with Metallica behind him.

H13
Nov 30, 2005

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Vargatron posted:

Like I've never heard of Devin Townsend... It's... too much to process...

Oh gently caress. Okay, look, just breathe...go sit down, turn your speakers off. There ya go. You okay? Here, have some water.

H13
Nov 30, 2005

Fun Shoe

Vintersorg posted:

Even funnier when you realize he's 80 GODDAMN YEARS OLD HOLY loving poo poo!

What the gently caress.

H13
Nov 30, 2005

Fun Shoe
I just saw Blind Guardian in Melbourne. They were loving awesome.

I am currently trying to figure a way into Valhalla. WHO WANTS TO COME WITH ME?!

H13
Nov 30, 2005

Fun Shoe

fozzy fosbourne posted:

Where is a good place to start with Blind Guardian?

Their newest album is excellent and well worth a listen.

H13
Nov 30, 2005

Fun Shoe
Local Melbourne Metal band Black Hand releases its first album online:

01 - Intro\Fear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dysauK9t-c&feature=related

02 - Bleeding Through
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPLLPXFoZ8A

03 - The End
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVNc2EwdrsI

04 - Darkness Fades
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR6aGIGT1gs

05 - Lost Paradise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4HTiP_vh5o

06 - Somewhere Else To Hide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLtFWT3XCI8

07 - Splinter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ZIb6bamIE

08 - Sheltered Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ1CD6xova8

09 - Looking Forward
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-cESivqUfM

10 - John's Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vAiQYVO3f4

These guys recorded this with 2 microphones and a $300 interface. Somehow it doesn't sound like old Burzum. They put on an awesomely fun show, so check it out!

H13 fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Oct 6, 2011

H13
Nov 30, 2005

Fun Shoe
I'm curious as to what this'll do to Opeth's career. Heritage has recieved pretty mixed results and a lot of people aren't gonna be happy with their recent setlists. I think they've got enough of a heritage (hurrr) for it to not affect them that much...but still.

H13
Nov 30, 2005

Fun Shoe

IRQ posted:

No offense to the recommendations, but my god stay away from recent Amorphis. Their current vocalist can't sing clean for poo poo so they use a disgusting amount of autotune on him, yet they keep having him do more and more clean vocals. Silent Waters and before is good though.

Eclipse was good...everything else has had moments of glory but a lot of shite too.

H13
Nov 30, 2005

Fun Shoe

co199 posted:

I'm as big a Metallica fanboy as you'll ever meet (I actually made it all the way through LuLu), but Lars as a metal drummer is average, and post-Black Album is not very good. I think most metal fans will agree that RtL, MoP and AJFA are three seminal thrash albums, but the most challenging song on any of those for Lars was Damage, Inc. It's challenging because it's 5:30 of super fast, but there's nothing truly groundbreaking about his drumming. It's textbook 80's thrash.

I won't even talk about modern Lars because Metallica has lost all relevance in pushing metal forward. I'll be a fan until I die (and Death Magnetic was a good album aside from the production issues) but Jason should have stayed and Lars should have left.

As long as James and Kirk stay in the band, they can have as many bassists and drummers as they want.

The problem is that Lars is required for Metallica. He's an absolute oval office, but his cuntishness is the reason why they got so successful. His willingness to step on somebody else in order to get that little bit further ahead is probably why we know about Metallica more than we do any other Bay Area thrash band.

Sure, their music went commercial with Load\Reload, but I actually argue that Black is pretty loving metal. Holier Than Thou? Through The Never? Struggle Within? The God That Failed is basically an off-cut from AJFA and Wherever I May Roam is just a loving awesome song it doesn't matter what the gently caress it is. Sad But True (while painfully overplayed) is heavy as hell and so is My Friend Of Misery.

Besides, they were expected to win a Grammy for One. I mean...if you're winning grammys, you're probably reasonably commercial aren't you? All of their marketability comes from Lars' direction, but the awesome music comes from James.

H13
Nov 30, 2005

Fun Shoe
You can see his stripes but you know he's clean.
Dont you see what I mean?

My Lifestyle, determines my deathstyle...

H13
Nov 30, 2005

Fun Shoe

Defiant Sally posted:

Oh boy here we go

First single off Sonata Arctica's new album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nc2upc_erQ

Hooolllllllyyyyyy gently caress.

Are they trying to get into Eurovision or something? Guys, that isn't something to be proud of.

H13
Nov 30, 2005

Fun Shoe

IRQ posted:

I'm more annoyed that Dethklok is an actual thing outside the tv show and that people think it's good music.

Overall it's pretty standard, but Thunderhorse and Go Into The Water are loving great songs.

H13
Nov 30, 2005

Fun Shoe
Ne Obliviscaris is INCREDIBLE. I haven't heard an album so good in such a long time. When it goes all Black-Metally\Blastbeaty, endure it. Once you get used to those parts you'll love them. However even so, everything AROUND the harshness is stunning.

In classic Progwank style, most songs are 2 hours+ in duration. Here's one awesome song. The last 2 or 3 minutes of the heavyness are gut-wrenching, but the buildup to it is what makes it freaky.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wa4zqBwPVE

H13
Nov 30, 2005

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IRQ posted:

After the single they put out was even worse than expected the only interest I have is hearing just how awful "Shitload of Money" is because that loving song title.

Yuuuuuuup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYZxJFWtHKc

Oh and for the record, the chorus count in "I Have A Right" is 6 times in the 4 minute song. Goddamn.

H13 fucked around with this message at 23:17 on May 22, 2012

H13
Nov 30, 2005

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TheForgotton posted:

It is pretty much terrible from start to finish. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1dkKCZ_Flw

The new Lonewolf album does RW better than they have in a long time but I'm not crazy about their singer.

Oooooooooh dear. I just got their album Black Hand Inn and I thought it was pretty drat respectable. Motley Crue would've been ashamed of this song.

H13
Nov 30, 2005

Fun Shoe
New(er) Exodus is pretty awesome. I really liked the Atrocity Exhibition albums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk86FDqd5YY

H13
Nov 30, 2005

Fun Shoe

Non Serviam posted:

Intro would be the right word. I usually call it "loving annoying" though.

I say it's okay as long as it's skippable.

H13
Nov 30, 2005

Fun Shoe
New Gojira is awesome Gojira. It's nothing new for them but it's still loving sweet.

H13
Nov 30, 2005

Fun Shoe

lordblytzkrieg posted:

I gave that "Bound by Entrails" album a listen, the biggest thing that stood out to me was the drummer. A lot of the blast beats/transitions were off and not by a little bit, noticeably like the guy from Agalloch. Other than that, it was pretty drat good.

Yeah, he noticeably speeds up\slows down sometimes too. Yikes...

H13
Nov 30, 2005

Fun Shoe
Regardless of what we think of Baroness, this is a good read about their bus crash:

Baroness posted:

"On August 15th, just before 11 am, Baroness and our crew were involved in a very bad crash while on tour. The brakes in our bus failed completely, on a notoriously dangerous, incredibly steep (12% grade) hill in Monkton Combe, UK, on our way from a show Bristol to another show in Southampton. Our bus went entirely out of control, and we had no choice other than hitting a perpendicular guardrail going about 50 mph at the bottom of the hill. The guard rail and the 20 or 30 trees we ploughed through snapped like matchsticks as we went fully airborne and fell down more than 30 feet off of a viaduct to the ground below. Half of the band/crew were asleep while we lost our brakes, and a few of us were awake and sitting in the rear lounge. I was up front with our driver, and I bore witness to the entire thing. Once our brakes failed, the bus could do little more than gain momentum and plummet down the hill. There was nothing anyone on the bus could have done during our descent to avoid the crash, and no one, the local residents, the police or any of us can believe we survived the impact.

Most people who have been in accidents understand the pre-trauma sensation of time slowing down. There were almost two minutes during which I knew we were heading for a collision. It felt like two hours. I remember the sound of the air-brakes failing, and the panicked cursing of our driver as we slowly realized how desperate the situation was. I tried as hard as I could to yell and wake everyone up to prepare for impact. I remember the sounds of confusion from behind me as our collective terror rose. I remember seeing the guardrail split, then a cluster of trees smacking against the front windshield. While we were airborne my eyes met with our driver’s. I knew then that we each shared the same look on our face; and I won’t soon forget it. We had spent enough time in the air to appreciate, make peace with and accept a fate we thought inevitable, and we looked at one another with a horribly silent "goodbye" in our eyes.



When the bus hit the ground, I flew like a missile into the windshield. I can still see the double-paned auto glass turning blue and the spider-webbing cracks spreading outwards from the impact my body made. I hit the glass so hard, that the entire windshield flew from the frame to the ground, and I bounced back inside the bus. I landed on the ledge of the windshield. This came with an immediate and overwhelming pain throughout my body. I surveyed the damage to see instantly that my left leg was very obviously and badly broken. Then I lifted my arms forward to see if either had been damaged. My right arm was covered in burns, blood and broken glass, but working well enough. My left arm was crushed beyond belief, broken in the middle of the bone in my upper arm (humerus), and hanging 90 degrees backwar ds, with many spurs of bone poking through muscles and sinew at the surface of my skin. The bone was shattered into seven free-floating pieces, and my wrist and hand were swinging behind my back, spasming freely. Instinctively, I reached behind my back, grabbed my wrist and re-broke my arm forwards, hugging it to my chest, where it remained for the next three hours until it was cast in plaster. Meanwhile, I watched as some of the band was able to get off the bus and help the others, many of whom were broken-up as well, and several of whom were unconscious. There was blood, glass and diesel fuel everywhere.



We were all rushed to the hospital in Bath, and treated for our various injuries, broken arms, legs, vertebrae, bruises, cuts, etc. Our driver was air lifted to a separate hospital with many breaks as well. A few of us had to remain in the hospital for a few days, I was hospitalized for two weeks, following an eight-hour surgery in which my arm was rebuilt with the aid of 2 massive titanium plates, 20 screws and a foot-and-a-half of wire. The 15″ incision took almost 50 staples to close up. I was left completely immobilized for the remainder of my hospital stay, able to do next-to-nothing on my own and in need of constant care. Following those excruciating first two weeks, I was quite literally stuck in an apartment for another three weeks with my family while waiting for my doctor to allow me to safely board an airplane, for fear of bloodclots and swelling. I have just this past week returned back to the US and my home, where I am wheelchair-bound for another several weeks of physical therapy, learning to use my arm and leg again.

While I cannot lift a glass of water to my lips to drink with my left arm and hand, I am still able to play music with it. I picked up a guitar and played the day after I returned. Not without pain (for the time being), but the hand still acts out the creative impulses I give it. I'm told I was quite lucky to have regained any use at all of my hand and arm, though I have sustained quite extensive nerve damage. In spite of this and against my logic and reason, when I pick up an instrument, my hand remembers exactly what to do. It’s far from perfect, and will require a lot of therapy in order to recover mobility and strength, but I am encouraged by the ability I have been allowed. I do not believe in superstitious signs, but I am truly overwhelmed to have been granted the continued use of my hands.



As a result of the crash, I feel encouraged not only to recover, but to move forward with Baroness, as we had been doing every day previous to August 15th. This accident has inflicted an injury which has left its mark on the band: physically, mentally and spiritually. In order to rehabilitate ourselves fully, we must work towards and then past the goals we had prior to the accident. I will consider our immediate recovery a success only on the day we plug back in to play another show.

We cannot allow this accident, which I believe is unrelated to the band or our music, to slow down or stifle what has become so much more than a passionate hobby for the four of us. Through Baroness, we have discovered a method by which we may harness our drive to create, and channel all the emotion, anxiety and pain in our lives into something constructive. Music is the universal means of communication we have chosen to express ourselves. Our message has never been one of the absolute positive or negative, neither black nor white. True life occurs within the shades of grey, and I see this experience form that perspective. It seems only fitting to me that we continue working towards creating and performing again as soon as possible, as this band and its music are the vehicle through which we grow as individuals, artists and brothers. The injury the band suffered is an injury to my family and loved ones. Rather than allow it to become a wedge that forces us apart, I would like to see this experience become part of the glue that strengthens us. We have only begun to accomplish what we set out to do through this band. There is so much more to say, and though we do need to heal up a bit; we will not allow any of those things to be left unsaid.

I have no regrets about touring. I don’t blame music or the touring lifestyle for my current physical state, or for the accident itself. It happened the same way all things happen: randomly. If I was a carpenter, and I was injured on the way to the job-site, I wouldn’t consider quitting my job. That is truly how I see this situation. Baroness doesn’t stop because we got hurt on the way to work. We love what we do much more than that, and we have chosen this path because it offers us an unpredictable adventure. With any adventure that involves travel, and with any real passionate pursuit, one will occasionally come face-to-face with the reality of living on the other side of the yellow line. I didn’t choose to be a musician in order to live a risk-free life, safely avoiding bumps and bruises. I didn’t choose to play music because it seemed like a simple opportunity to make some quick cash. Nor did I ever make the assumption that things would get easier as we progressed.

We can do nothing but attempt to make something constructive and beautiful out of all this disaster, and we are well on the way to becoming active again. I have used this time, stuck inside my own head, to consider the importance of music and Baroness in my life. I can say, after nearly 6 weeks of reflection, that I feel more resolute and passionate about our music than ever. I have come to realize the importance of time in this particular equation, that is, I have none to waste and none to spare. There is no better moment than now, broken and in physical stasis, to devote ourselves more fully towards our art than ever. We cannot allow the traumatic fallout of our crash to cripple us internally. It seems simple: the shows we have cancelled we will reschedule and play in the future. It isn’t going to happen next week nor will it be next month. But it will happen. We will be back on tour as soon as we possibly can.

There was one moment in the crash that cut me deeply. For one heartbeat and one tiny sliver of time, I became disconnected entirely. It was, specifically, the moment I impacted with the glass. In that barest heartbeat of a moment, I came face to face with the infinite. I didn’t see a light, or the tunnel or hear any music. Nor did I get a “best-of” montage of my life. Instead, I felt the tip of my nose brush up against the very same fate I had accepted moments before. I looked into a cold, unreflective mirror. It was the dark, silent, dispassionate logic of the end. I realized in that moment that life can be seen as a light switch: “on” or “off”. When the moment passed and I heard the screaming, felt the pain, and tasted my own blood, I was overcome with joy. I was ecstatic to be back amidst all that chaos and horror because it was alive and real. I finally glimpsed the relative importance of all things. The support of our fans, our friends and our families has real meaning to me now. I say that now honestly, without false humility. Thank you. Everyone.

Till the wheels fall off . . .
John Baizley & Baroness"

Link for X-Ray pic and pic of scar: http://www.thegauntlet.com/article/3864/26350/BARONESS-Issue-Post-Accident-Update

H13
Nov 30, 2005

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Non Serviam posted:

I'm sorry if I missed it, but Iron Maiden's Steve Harris has a solo album out ("British Lion"). This is one of the new songs: http://vimeo.com/49913827

... I'm not sure about how I feel about this

Holy gently caress. How much bass does he want in that mix? Look Harris, I know you wrote it and it's your album and all, but I quite like hearing guitars sometimes.

H13
Nov 30, 2005

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dutch wife abc posted:

Personally, I can't understand why anyone wouldn't like Slayer.

Because they sit on the wrong drat riffs.

Slayer have loving great riffs, but the ones they choose to sit on and use as verses or choruses are nowhere NEAR as good as all the other riffs in the songs. I always found myself seriously digging a song, then they'd change to a poo poo riff and sit on it for the next minute or so instead of the riff I was really digging.

H13
Nov 30, 2005

Fun Shoe
While you're at it, give Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet a go. Nowhere near as metal as the other suggestions, but it's on the same path.

H13
Nov 30, 2005

Fun Shoe
Devin Townsend is better than both of them anyway...

H13
Nov 30, 2005

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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:

I still can't listen to a full Devin Townsend album and I think he's more overhyped than just about anything else in metal.

Them's fighting words.

If nothing else, you have to admit he's unique. There's nothing that sounds like Devin Townsend. Whether or not that's a good thing is up to you.

I actually like that there's some metal out there that's not trying too hard. I'll admit that yes, there's a lot of overproduction (I love the overproduction, but can understand why others wouldn't) but he's not trying to be the heaviest, meanest, fastest, cheesiest, most epic or anything like that. It's just Devin being Devin.

H13
Nov 30, 2005

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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:

All that is cool and I think that's why I've given him so many chances. I just can't get into DTP stuff. Every time I see / hear somebody talking about him I give it another go, but it just doesn't do it for me.

Awesome :). Well I'll leave this suggestion and leave it at that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0EC2ndoXDE

H13
Nov 30, 2005

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Bloodmobile posted:

It's also time to remind ourselves that Six Feet Under released a cover album of AC/DC's Back in Black in it's entirety, which might be the funniest album in recorded history : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxjz4Z__HKI

Because of that, I found this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud3yXIWwgTk

Oh my god. This is pretty drat hysterical. Who the gently caress let this happen?!

H13
Nov 30, 2005

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Non Serviam posted:

Sonata Arctica released this video for their song "shitload of money": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQY3jalQSk4 (it's not new, but I didn't see it posted before, and it's so bad I think it would have been discussed at large)

Also need to throw this into the ring as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Y7BjuLM5U

Metal with banjos. There may be a reason why nobody's ever done it before.

H13
Nov 30, 2005

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QPZIL posted:

Happy Friday. I know it's not a new thrash song or a new Ensrug song but............ well, I covered a Manowar song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQqZJQoHq4M

That was pretty awesome. Well done!

H13
Nov 30, 2005

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NuclearPotato posted:

Which is why those lyrics are sorta a precursor to the "12 Step Suite" thing he was doing around the time of SDOIT through BC&SL.

Oh man I forgot about this wank. I really hated that poo poo.

SFAM is a stunningly good album and I actually reckon the lyrics are okay. Mostly because I like the story of it. Everything else that they've done registers about a 7\10 on the scale of awesome.

H13
Nov 30, 2005

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Misogynist posted:

I'm about 8 years late to the thrash discussion, but man, how the gently caress have I never heard of Paradox's album Heresy before?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYKjNAHlYP4

:aaaaa:

Oh gently caress yeah! That's awesome! Cheers for the link!


VVV That's awesome too, but I didn't want to post twice.

H13 fucked around with this message at 13:40 on Nov 29, 2012

H13
Nov 30, 2005

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Mr. Heroes posted:

In other news, a new species of tarantula was discovered to have right wing political leanings, and is a born again Christian.

http://www.nme.com/news/megadeth/67742

Metallica did it first:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poecilotheria_metallica

H13
Nov 30, 2005

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Mr. Heroes posted:

I love melodic death metal. I now like Be'lakor and you should too. If you don't, you are wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDQQ0cH1Ys4

I saw them support At The Gates and they were embarrassingly bad.

H13
Nov 30, 2005

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Ne Obliviscaris gets my vote for best metal album of the year especially because they can do it live too.

H13
Nov 30, 2005

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rargphlam posted:

Yeah, I was at the Seattle show on Sunday, and even though I was initially there for Townsend, I wound up enjoying Gojira infinitely more despite only having listened to them a little. I now have this itch to get into them and similar sounding bands, any recommendations?

Their newest one is probably their most accessable albiet kinda repetitive. I rate that and The Way Of All Flesh to be their best.

But The Way Of All Flesh will beat pretty much everything because of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o4hKYNz7mY

H13
Nov 30, 2005

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An oldie, but this is still waaayyyyy worse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDzt6yI3Dw8

H13
Nov 30, 2005

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Cheapsteaks posted:

Oh God, look at that keyboardist just headbanging away at his lil setup back there. It's cracking me up. You keep that up, keyboard kid.

To be fair, I think it's physically impossible to be cool when you're rocking a keyboard. Unless you're John Lord but that's not fair.

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H13
Nov 30, 2005

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Sneap can sometimes sound a little too dry for my likings, but I did like what he did with Exodus on the two Atrocity Exhibition albums.

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