Let's talk heavy metal.

[DisasterSoiree]

No sure if this counts as I was a Super group of the Grunge era but I think quite "Metal"

And even if it isn't, I don't care. I'm sharing this with everyone because it's soooooo cool

Alice In Chains were more of a metal band than any metalcore act, so I don't see why Mad Season shouldn't count.

 

[V4Viewtiful]

No sure if this counts as I was a Super group of the Grunge era but I think quite "Metal"

And even if it isn't, I don't care. I'm sharing this with everyone because it's soooooo cool

Alice In Chains were more of a metal band than any metalcore act, so I don't see why Mad Season shouldn't count.

Yay, validation!

But seriously, I bought the deluxe album a while ago about a week or so ago and it was the first time i'd heard THAT particular song

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

Posting Metal and none of you wanks put forth any Be'lakor!

Spoiler: Be'lakor: Absit Omen

Also, for anyone who liked Iced Earth or Blind Guardian in this thread, here's some Iced Earth AND Blind Guardian in a sexy Iced Guardian sandwich.

Spoiler: Demons & Wizards: Fiddler on the Green

And hey, it's Halloween, here's my favorite band making every day of your year Halloween:

Spoiler: Mushroomhead: Solitaire Unraveling

You guys better check out at least one of them. I had to spend like 5 minutes of my life making an account on this damn forum just to get these to you.

Mushroomhead! I'd kinda forgotten they existed, before Slipknot were doing their masked gang of metal guys shtick too, but I loved the album Solitaire/Unraveling was off. Also, I'm completely baffled that no one seems to have mentioned High on Fire at this point.....

One of the best trios in metal, or any other genre. Des Kensel can just go fuck himself with his drumming, goddamn dude is an octopus.

 

[duwenbasden]

Schaffer should really do something about putting out another Demons & Wizards album at some point.

Hansi is busy with the BG album right now (tehe...hehehehee....)

OT: This thread has a severe lack of Arcturus, and that's unacceptable.

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And also, Wintersun.

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Aw, I've been ninjaed on everything from Cynic, to Meshuggah and Gojira. Bah.

Sorry.

 

[optimusjamie]

Some of my personal favourites:
Gamma Ray [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLfwPzmbZTg]
Blind Guardian [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AfNOKQdY-U]
Iron Savior [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs4fHY6YiT0]
Keldian [http://keldian.bandcamp.com/album/journey-of-souls]

 

[Pink Gregory]

I don't like metal. I like doom.


Also Eyehategod.


Obligatory Dopesmoker.

 

[R.K. Meades]

Here are some of my favourites. A few may have already been mentioned ITT:

Ulver

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Incantation

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Converge

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Enslaved

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Kreator

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Edge of Sanity

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Nevermore

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Suffocation

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Cult of Luna

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Portal

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Grand Belial's Key

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Scorpions

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[DisasterSoiree]

One of my favorite metal subgenres is technical thrash.

A lot of people seem to have the idea that tech-thrash is little more than conservatory wankery, with endless show-off riffs that go nowhere and an overemphasis on structure at the expense of actual songwriting. But that ain't so.

For instance, check out this cover of "Eleanor Rigby" from Realm's 1988 debut Endless Wafare.


How fucking metal is that? It's pure class. Yes, the riffs are technical, and the solos are elaborate, but they don't feel like they're just sort of stuck in the middle of the song. And they're infinitely more complex than the Beatles' original.

Here's an original song, "Mayday In Kiev", off of the Texas tech-thrash act Watchtower's 1989 release Control & Resistance:


Again, it's a deeply structured song; the riffs build on each other, but they have an end-point, a logical progression from one note to another. And it's a ridiculous song. I adore the lyrics:

In a nation for a dangerous penchant for secrecy
A dread disaster at Chernobyl was concealed
As a poisoning cloud spread over the Eastern Bloc
Alarming information was reluctantly revealed

An explosion in Reactor Four - a fire refusing to cease
No containment walls preventing radioactive release
Evidence that peaceful technology had gone awry
More catastrophically than Windscale or TMI

METAL! Anyone can write about dragons or dwarves; it takes a special kind of creativity to turn a historical disaster into a raging piece of thrash.

And there's St. Louis's own Anacrucis. I love these guys. They excelled at a clinical, highly cerebral sort of thrash that didn't so much focus on technicality for its own sake as for the sake of atmosphere. E.g. "Still Black" off the album Manic Impressions.

 

[Pete Oddly]

Just thought I'd pop in to drop a few tracks from Devin Townsend's Z2 double albums, Sky Blue and Dark Matters, because they are fucking awesome.

Spoiler: March of the Poozers

Spoiler: Ziltoid Goes Home

Spoiler: Rejoice

Spoiler: Universal Flame

 

[raeior]

Yeah, same here. It's better than Carolus Rex, but still not excellent. That said, I just saw them a few weeks ago and they're just as good in concert as always.

Heroes pretty much grew on me. At first I didn't like it (same with Carolus Rex) but now I love songs like Night Witches. As for Carolus Rex, guess it's my favorite album together with Coat of Arms. I love the pretty much unused 30 years war theme and songs like Gott mit Uns are just great. As for the concerts, I definitely agree. One of my favourite live acts. Going to see them for the maybe 7th time or so in January.

As for music of my own: I have seen no mentioning of Freedom Call so I'm going to remedy that. It's basically good mood the musical. Probably one of the cheesiest power metal bands in existence. Saw them live once and every single person had a big grin on their face after the concert.

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As for black or death metal, a lot of good stuff was already mentioned so I'd like to name 2 German black metal bands. Cryptic Wintermoon, pretty keyboard heavy melodic black metal and Fjoergyn who play...I have no idea what they play. Melodic black metal with classical influence and a lot of other genres mixed in between. Wikipedia calls it avantgarde metal whatever that means.

Spoiler: Cryptic Wintermoon

Spoiler: Fjoergyn

Also Melechesh, an Israeli black metal band because why not. Pretty much standard black metal with oriental influences. Saw them live once and they were really good even though non melodic-black isn't usually my cup of tea.

Spoiler: Melechesh

Aaaand one last mention: Haggard. Various metal styles combined with classical music and a huge orchestration.

Spoiler: Haggard

Well this was more than I expected to write... might seem like I listen mostly to black metal but most of the power metal stuff I listen to was already mentioned so there's that

Captcha: Ace of spades...how fitting

 

[sextus the crazy]

Yeah, same here. It's better than Carolus Rex, but still not excellent. That said, I just saw them a few weeks ago and they're just as good in concert as always.

Heroes pretty much grew on me. At first I didn't like it (same with Carolus Rex) but now I love songs like Night Witches. As for Carolus Rex, guess it's my favorite album together with Coat of Arms. I love the pretty much unused 30 years war theme and songs like Gott mit Uns are just great. As for the concerts, I definitely agree. One of my favourite live acts. Going to see them for the maybe 7th time or so in January.

Night Witches is pretty awesome live. They use air raid sirens and everything to lead up to it. Good stuff all around.