Nom nom METAL!

[Stormy]

I have been using Spotifly loads latly and just been listening to loads of band's that I knew existed but just never had the chance to get my hands on some of their tunes and DAMN have I been missing out!!!

My favorates ATM are testament and kreator. Good old thrash metal!

Any other recomendations to bands I may not have heard before?!

Here is the link to my Playlist if anyone uses spotify.. likes metal and wants to see what I got!

http://open.spotify.com/user/stormy101/playlist/0idGpyujVraSrBcGgAjE7m

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv7bXf5rS8s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCc_V_uwvfs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NE2jZTtdTc

 

[Laivasse]

Finally, some Immortal love. Make sure you check out At the Heart of Winter if you haven't already.

I'm not much on thrash, generally, but now and then I'll get heavily into a blackened thrash band. Immortal's latter day stuff is great black/thrash. Since the vocals don't seem to be an obstacle for you, another band that does black/thrash very well is Absu. Their Third Storm of Cythraul album is their thrashiest, Tara is their most ambitious, the recent self-titled Absu is their most polished-sounding, but perhaps their best and most atmospheric is The Sun of Tiphareth, although it is also their most lo-fi and black-metallish effort. (I don't rate their very first album highly at all)

Check out this drumming performance:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoXCcSU8yKc

And here's the actual song (from Tara), although Youtube sound quality weakens it:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6S-zxbaJuo

I'll be seeing them in Dublin in November, can't wait.

 

[Stormy]

Yea not to bad, I'll have a look for them on spotify and have a listen to some more tracks if they are there.

My general rule of thumb with singing tho is as long as its not toooo EHGHGHhghsg to a point where its just noise then I'm not to keen. If Ill find an example I'll post but my main prioraty is having some good riffage/drumming that I can hear. Really into melodic stuff like borgir or any good chuggy metal like lamb of god or testament and general thrash.

But when its just a constant stream of triplets and double peddle then meh... I'll try and find what im chatting about.

Also into...
Dimmu Borgir
Behemoth
celtic frost
opeth

 

[VictimOfScience]

Here are some current and all-time favs. Gammacide is my favorite metal band ever. Not much matches their intensity and sound imho.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZk8...151076401&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od6IKLut-18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYZNojSTsxM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtRDX9gBeRc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmRvBCkMiSI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d47rb5HGaVo

 

[The Monkey]

Gah, I can't stand metal.

 

[Laivasse]

*snip*

All those songs went down surprisingly well with a beer, although I can't say I'd ever seek out any of it on my own. Although it's not my thing, it's a nice selection - imbued with just enough chaos and ugliness to offset (what I see as) the cheesiness of thrash. You might like Absu's Third Storm...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMbMSHClCiA

 

[VictimOfScience]

All those songs went down surprisingly well with a beer, although I can't say I'd ever seek out any of it on my own. Although it's not my thing, it's a nice selection - imbued with just enough chaos and ugliness to offset (what I see as) the cheesiness of thrash. You might like Absu's Third Storm...

Ah, that does sound good. I love me some blackened thrash mayhem. Good times.

I used to have a real hard time enjoying the black metal vocal stylings, but this band turned that all around for me with this album in particular. It stands conventional black metal on its head and I could (and have) listened to this album all the way through again and again.

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er4m6Y4TJIs&feature=related

Enjoy! :cheers:

 

[Laivasse]

Wow, I've meant to check out Peste Noire for a while now, but I certainly didn't expect them to pop up in this thread. That's some eccentric weirdshit right there, but very listenable. Shame that Famine is such an obnoxious moron, but I still intend to listen to this album further as well as La Sanie des siècles.

 

[Stormy]

What a crazy band, I quite liked them. They reminded me a lot of borknagar and vintersong for some reason.

Gotta love borknagar, they had Vortex singing for them for a wile, and well he is just the shit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGt5EMYktG8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7E9aEB7w30

Some vortex in this tune =D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJhStZ7NfFg


and vintersong - pretty bad quality tho

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luB7XKMjBFk

Have any of you guys listened to any bloodbath? They are one of my fav black metal bands. I was very lucky to see their first and only gig at wacken a few years back =D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBfoMgllphs

 

[Stormy]

Have you guys listened to the in sorte diaboli album by dimmu borgir. I think its my favorate metal album

 

[Laivasse]

A very brief Extreme Metal Primer

I came back to this thread because I realised my only contribution to it had been Absu, having limited myself to similar music to that described in the OP. Now I'm inebriated and bored, it's time to spunk off some real quality extreme metal over this thing. I figured I'd post about half a dozen-ish songs from my favourite bands, along with a little bit of waffle for each explaining where these bands fit into metal as a whole, the specific appeal of the song I've posted, and so forth. I've made a big deal before about the uselessness of 'metal' as a genre term, so I selected a handful of bands which go some way to illustrating my point; these bands delineate the very distinct shades of sound within what many people mistakenly treat as a homogeneous niche. (Caveat: Much of this stuff is produced on a shoestring budget, to deliberately raw and abrasive standards, so it goes without saying that it's all butchered even further into unrecognisability by Youtube's sound quality - use headphones or pump up the volume if you want to give these bands a shot)

BTW@Stormy - Bloodbath are death metal. Not that the categorisation matters, but for the sake of identifying and describing other types of metal that you like, it does. The deeper vocals, blunted/chugged riffs, emphasis on groove, scales used, and lyrical focus are all more very much in the style of ye olde American DM than black metal. As for Dimmu, I'm not a fan (nor of Borknagar's particular blend of music), but when Nick Barker was with them I would sometimes give them a cursory listen because he's one of my favourite drummers. Got amazing feel...

Anyway, to start with here is my cream of the crop for some through-and-through Black Metal:

Kvist (Ars Manifestia)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s80QBT5xfEQThis song is just built out of awesome after awesome. Kvist exemplify all the best traits of melodic, symphonic black metal without setting a foot wrong. They only had one 6-track album before splitting up and vanishing into obscurity (although the lead musician later popped up in Xploding Plastix, some kind of Jazz'n'Bass project). Epic, transcendental, mournful, dense, organic... stuff. Love it.


Hate Forest (Elder Race)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYvbPyWkGsk&feature=relatedHate Forest characterise, for me, the sound that lies at the heart of black metal. Hazy, harsh, minimalistic and repetitious riffs over a very casually programmed drum machine, yet it's all packed with depth and feeling, despite (or perhaps somehow because of) the sparsity of elements. Their best stuff sends me into a trance, but this song is more of a shorter, punchier offering. The recurring riff which starts at 2:36 and later closes out the song is just class - so simple, yet the way it harmonises with the bass and hints at all these phantom notes as it repeats, over and over, is dreamily rich. The pounding triple-time rhythm which accompanies it is irresistible to me.

Here's a sample of one of their longer, truly trance-inducing pieces, The Gates:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uglPz9wv82g&feature=relatedI love the otherworldly passage that begins at 4:53, makes me feel like I'm drifting incorporeally through vistas of nature, dripping with pathos. BTW the last minute or so is missing from this vid, the drums and stuff start up again before fading out in the full version.

Deathspell Omega (Sola Fide I)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DAiFBx1UU0 DsO are perhaps one of the cleverest BM outfits around. A hell of a lot of thought and inspired flourishes are apparent in their songwriting - too much so, in fact, on their later releases, where they've tended to disappear up their own arses instead of thrashing out great, more melodic stuff like the above track. This entire song builds up to and revolves around a fantastic epic chorus (first occurring at 2:13) - as one Youtube comment on a poorer quality copy of this song says, 'I like the part where it goes doooo doooooooo doo doo do do doooo doooooooo dooo? oooo'.

Shining - (Plågoande O'helga Plågoande)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs2vNvMljRgHere's Shining, at the much more easily digestible edge of the BM spectrum. Actually they've become so proggy with recent releases, that it's become impossible to do justice to the breadth of their sound with just the 'black metal' tag. Great compositional sense and impeccably polished production values, although their arrogant twattishness leads to occasionally mistaken creative choices IMO (not in apparence here).

Death Metal:

Axis of Advance (Primeval Expansion)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie953W6wIUwAxis of Advance were simply the ultimate band. I used to try to torpedo many a sympathetic musical discussion with some kind of sneaky mention of or reference to them, but never with any real hope that people will take me up on what I was talking about. It's practically impossible to showcase what I'm talking about anyway, since short of downloading or buying a complete album, they can't be easily sampled due to their lack of online exposure. Even this track, the best example of their music I can find on Youtube, is one of the weakest on its album (my favourite album, incidentally). Nevertheless, despite the dearth of fertile soil for my seeds of proselytism, I persist in singing AoA's praises, because it really doesn't matter if people listen or not - the music simply commands me. It's like a tithe for hearing it in the first place. As far as I'm concerned, their oeuvre does a decent job of encapsulating the entirety of the human experience, with all its attendant triumph and rage, creation and destruction, pride and sadness. In fact, my Youtube comments on this vid later developed, via pm's, into a 1000 word breakdown of the band's lyrical themes.

Suffice to say, there is something to discover here. Doesn't matter if anyone does so or not; I was simply commanded. Here is their myspace for four more songs. Evanescent Judgement of the Last Era is also from Strike.

Nile (Wind of Horus)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0KDNwNxldYHopping from relative obscurity to death metal celebrity here... Nile are deservedly one of the biggest names in death metal, and another band that falls into the 'I'll always recommend them' category. This is from the In Their Darkened Shrines album, back when they weren't treading water quite as much as they are nowadays. Wind of Horus is essentially a 'come and get some' type of fight song, but for an Ancient Egyptian army. Bombastic as shit. Get a load of how it opens up at 2:08, with the panoramic riffs and extra snare reverb. ASHU SEHU NEFERUI SKHENN!

Theory in Practice (Colonising the Sun)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcsvPS0t0_UTechnical death metal - a particular flavour/subgenre of death metal characterised by complex time signatures and distinctively virtuosic guitar playing - as played here by Theory in Practice, one of the best exponents of the subgenre IMO. Colonising the Sun is probably their best track, the keyboard and guitar interplay being POSITIVELY DELECTABLE

Might post more further down the line.

 

[Lucid]

This thread's definitely refreshing my ipod play lists a bit.
Even though there's a bit too much death metal for my liking.

Any good thrash, industrial, or maybe even viking metal bands(mmm Falkenbach) you guys listen to a bit?
Kreator's pretty awesome and Testament's always excellent.

 

[soulslicer]

Alarum, best damn technical metal band ever...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of4aBnQIAlg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maYGuqMJx8E&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRNMfOQZO6Q&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvC1UnDt9fA&feature=related
kind of reminds me of deftones this song..

 

[Laivasse]

Any good thrash, industrial, or maybe even viking metal bands(mmm Falkenbach) you guys listen to a bit?

Not liking viking metal much, I'm not the best with recommendations but: you could try Ensiferum, Einherjer (both melodic, bombastic 'viking' metal), Enslaved (verging into black metal with their earlier stuff and progressive metal with their recent stuff) and Amon Amarth (melodic death metal with viking themes).

I don't dabble in industrial much, apart from an occasional listen to industrial BM like Aborym and Mysticum. Already drew a blank on thrash.

BTW:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er4m6Y4TJIs&feature=related

Listening to this song a hell of a lot. The shameless bluesy opening riff/5:24 riff is a real ear worm. Going to try and get my hands on this album.

 

[Shift]

What pretty song names.

 

[VictimOfScience]

BTW:Listening to this song a hell of a lot. The shameless bluesy opening riff/5:24 riff is a real ear worm. Going to try and get my hands on this album.

Good call. The art is beautiful and the album is amazing. :cheers:

I am going to see a band called Evil Army tomorrow night in Philadelphia (with the Melvins of all bands). They are an amazing new thrash band that is putting out some seriously mature stuff for ones so apparently young. Check out their cover of Aggressive Perfector:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BQIpCAHl1g&feature=related

...or just check their MySpace here. Satan Made Me Do It is just plain awesome.

 

[Lucid]

Can't say I like any of those recommendations, Laiv.
I'm far too picky with my metal really.

Although, Amon Amarth is alright.
Not a fan of the vocals though, way too harsh.

Thanks though.

 

[Laivasse]

No worries, tbh I had heard praise from others but I'm not really a fan of the bands I recommended... Just thought they might fit the brief. Some of Enslaved's stuff is more in line with what I like but they're too hit and miss, whereas Amon Amarth, while they have some fun riffs, aren't really my cup of tea.