Masterpieces of Heavy Metal.
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Some of my favorite songs evar:
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These are all incredibly powerful, incredibly melodic, incredibly beautiful songs. Yes, metal can be beautiful.
And here's a more recent fave - less beautiful, but still kicks ass.
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In case some of you didn't know, Megadeth still makes amazing music. XD
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These are all incredibly powerful, incredibly melodic, incredibly beautiful songs. Yes, metal can be beautiful.
And here's a more recent fave - less beautiful, but still kicks ass.
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In case some of you didn't know, Megadeth still makes amazing music. XD
Seems to be a fair number of Devy fans here and that's a bloody good thing. I love seeing praise for his work whenever metal is brought up here. We have to convert more people to that >.<MiracleOfSound said:
Anyway, I'd say Deconstruction but that's been said before but... considering it's all I've listened to for the past week or so, I have to go with that. Planet of the Apes being my favourite track off there. It's absolutely amazing how insane that whole album is. Not since City or Alien has there been so much chaos in an album, not just for Devy but it definitely channels that energy of Strapping well.
However Ghost... is so beautiful that I'm tempted to say I enjoy it more than Deconstruction. Just a lovely something to listen to while you relax. ^_^
Oh and as a side note... what's up with all the Slipknot hate? I don't really understand it, to be honest. So what, they're popular. Big deal. Their music is simplistic but people enjoy that. Hell, I enjoy it. Not all the time but Slipknot is a good band. I don't understand the weird metal elitism that goes with a lot of this and Slipknot always seems to be a target of elitist hatred.
TonyCapa said:
Sabaton Buddies!*hi-Fivez*
My favorite sabaton songs:
Panzerkampf:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LeqzHJRxC0
Ghost Division
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LeqzHJRxC0
Screaming Eagles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1qkjzxPOkA
was going to post Rammenstein & Two Steps from hell..
But...
Rammenstein is Industrial Metal
And Two steps from hell is Syphnic Orchestral metal, and that is only a very certain selection of songs.
eh, screw it, these are both masterpieces of music alone.
Invincible:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjZACyYKGJ8
Ich Tu Dir Weh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6FtVtG6LfY
with english subs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SuGQ0_7LUE
The most literally epic song I've ever heard.
It tells the story of the Illiad i.e. the fall of Troy from the perspective of Cassandra. The lyrics perfectly capture Cassandras despair about not being able to to do anything about the imminent doom as well as the beauty of Troy before its fall. Musically, this song is 14 minutes of length, a multitude of pace-changes, a lot of overlapping vocals, choirs, and orchestral parts all adding and enhancing the sense of epicness and grandeur that the topic of the song entails. In my opinion, nothing but a masterpiece in modern Metal.
The lower two Youtube vids are a live version of the song. Doesn't quite capture the whole epicness thing as much as I hope but is nonetheless awesome
Dark Tranquility - Lost to Apathy
While I like Misery's Crown, Cathode Ray Sunshine, and a load of their other tracks, Character was their best album, and this the best song.
While I like Misery's Crown, Cathode Ray Sunshine, and a load of their other tracks, Character was their best album, and this the best song.
No-one's mentioning any of the stuff that I like, so I feel compelled to post here.
Firstly - CELTIC FROST. Every single heavy metal band that has ever experimented with... well, anything really, owe their existence to Celtic Frost, who did everything before everyone else, and even did a few things that no other metal band has ever dared since.
That's a good song but it's mindblowing to think that it was recorded in 1986. Nobody was doing this back then. Their record label hated that album and so did the fans at the time, but Into The Pandemonium is now considered the single album that defined orchestral doom metal and the list of imitators is huge and certainly includes all those crappy prog bands everybody mystifyingly loves.
Also, SEPULTURA.
In Brazil metal actually has the type of socio-political relevance that punk had at one point in England, so it's fitting that the best of the original thrash metal bands was from there, and they were lyrically and musically ahead of the pack so far it just wasn't funny. Metallica had to write cheesy pop songs (albiet with heavy guitars) to break on the charts internationally. Sepultura did the same thing years later with a defiantly anti-commercial song that was 90% built around one fucking note:
And let's not forget ANAL ****, who are particularly relevant for forum users.
These guys invented trolling before there was even an Internet to troll on. If you consider yourself a troll and you don't have an Anal **** album in your collection, you could use some lessons from the masters. They got their record deal by trolling the record company, who fortunately had a sense of humour. After releasing a few albums and annoying the world with violent misogyny and hateful grindcore, they started to build up a following, so the band trolled them too by releasing an album full of pro-feminist acoustic ballads:
There's a lot more great metal bands I could think of but these are glaring omissions that will fill the void for now. Enjoy.
Firstly - CELTIC FROST. Every single heavy metal band that has ever experimented with... well, anything really, owe their existence to Celtic Frost, who did everything before everyone else, and even did a few things that no other metal band has ever dared since.
That's a good song but it's mindblowing to think that it was recorded in 1986. Nobody was doing this back then. Their record label hated that album and so did the fans at the time, but Into The Pandemonium is now considered the single album that defined orchestral doom metal and the list of imitators is huge and certainly includes all those crappy prog bands everybody mystifyingly loves.
Also, SEPULTURA.
In Brazil metal actually has the type of socio-political relevance that punk had at one point in England, so it's fitting that the best of the original thrash metal bands was from there, and they were lyrically and musically ahead of the pack so far it just wasn't funny. Metallica had to write cheesy pop songs (albiet with heavy guitars) to break on the charts internationally. Sepultura did the same thing years later with a defiantly anti-commercial song that was 90% built around one fucking note:
And let's not forget ANAL ****, who are particularly relevant for forum users.
These guys invented trolling before there was even an Internet to troll on. If you consider yourself a troll and you don't have an Anal **** album in your collection, you could use some lessons from the masters. They got their record deal by trolling the record company, who fortunately had a sense of humour. After releasing a few albums and annoying the world with violent misogyny and hateful grindcore, they started to build up a following, so the band trolled them too by releasing an album full of pro-feminist acoustic ballads:
There's a lot more great metal bands I could think of but these are glaring omissions that will fill the void for now. Enjoy.
Just because you got into a band for the wrong reasons doesn't mean everyone did.MianusIzBleeding said:
Not sure why it's so hard for people to understand that some people just enjoy the music when they listen to it. Has nothing to do with being a fad, an age thing or anything like that - to me and many others it's just good, decent metal.
So what if it has a catchy pop chorus? So does every Iron Maiden song ever.
Wow, you actually said precisely what I wanted to contribute to this. You're absolutely right, this isn't about just "great" metal songs, but true masterpieces. Someone posted Blood and Thunder earlier, and while that's one of my favorite metal tracks, it doesn't really represent a masterpiece. Crack The Skye, and The Last Baron here in particular, represent the work of a band that has fully realized their sound and capabilities. I love that if you listen to Mastodon's discography, you can hear their entire body of work building up to this album, and even this song. Beautiful.Bebus said:
The Last Baron is what it sounds like when God tries to talk to you.
This [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5jaRipA5_M] will always be the quintessential Metal song for me.
I won't claim to know what constitutes "heavy" metal, but I know that my all-time favourite band, Rhapsody of Fire, at least counts as "symphonic" metal for the most part. I say most part because, well, some of their songs are clearly NOT metal...
But then there's stuff like this...
But then there's stuff like this...
TonyCapa said:
UK Tour in November. Annoyed they aren't playing anywhere near me, might have to make a pilgrimage to somewhere they are playing!