All men play on 10 (METAL THREAD 3.0)

I have to pick between one of the following shows, coincidently at the same venue...

1. Killswitch Engage, Chimaira, Dragonforce

2. Lamb of God, Machine Head, Trivium


hmmmmmm..........


Leaning toward #1 because I have never seen Dragonforce, haven't seen KWE in quite a bit, and well, Chimaira always kicks ass. As for #2, LOG brings the house down no doubt, but I have seen them about three times in the last six months. I haven't seen Machine Head in ages, and Trivium, well...they are hit or miss...especially with this new Metallica-esque album they put out.
 
id go with chaimera and dragonforce, allthough killswitch engage annoy the shit out of me i cant stand them personally.

Overkill is touring again, if im not broke (which i am) ill probably get to catch them on the 24th

Been listening to the band Anteus as recommended in this thread. These guys kick major ass (Black Metal).
 
This album has been getting a lot of good reviews, so I picked it up

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I - Between Two Worlds

sort of a black metal "super-group" consisting of Abbath (Immortal), guitarist Ice Dale (Enslaved), bassist T.C. King (Gorgoroth), drummer Armagedda (Immortal) and lyricist Demonaz (Immortal).

very, very good stuff.
 
So I was really stoned the other night and I happened upon the show, Headbangers Ball. I saw videos for Slayer - Eyes of the Insane, and Cannibal Corpse - Death Walking Terror. I was amazed by both the videos and the music. I can't get these songs out of my head.

Perhaps someone could recommend some other music in the same genre as the aforementioned songs/bands?
 
Those vid/songs were from Slayer's latest Christ Illusion and Cannibal's newby, KILL. Both are awesome, I personally listen to Kill more the CI.
 
Wow thats odd, KILL is probably my least fav cannibal release. they used to be my fav band and their last 3 albums have been a huge dissapointment. their last good one was gallery imo, just slightly went downhill from there. their albums after that would be great if they were just some other random band, but the newer stuff does not stack up next to the older releases in my opinion.

pennywise id say check out cannibals "tomb of the mutilated" to compare to their new style. production isnt as tight but music is thought out a lot deeper.

if you like new cannibal then check out malevolent creation, a guitar player has bounced back and forth between both bands. id also check out a new band called Origin, sounds a lot like newer cannibal corpse (esp on vocals) but much faster, much more techincal.


sort of a black metal "super-group" consisting of Abbath (Immortal), guitarist Ice Dale (Enslaved), bassist T.C. King (Gorgoroth), drummer Armagedda (Immortal) and lyricist Demonaz (Immortal).
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Shit! Black metal eruption. Im def going to have to check out "I," thanks for the hookup SonOF.
 
^^^ Wood I'm surprised regarding your views on "Kill." It is one of my favorite of their releases.
 
its not bad music i just cant get into it, the last 3 albums all sound exactly the same to me, like every single song sounds so much like every other. i dunno i havent listened to it in months, maybe ill throw it on again.
 
Liric said:
Oh my god, "I" blows. Period.
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I guess not black enough for you? It doesn't sound like it was recorded in a public bathroom?:p

Yes, there is a rock vibe to it that actually makes it listenable. Boo-friggin-hoo.
 
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Yes, there is a rock vibe to it.

Yes, it blows.

No, these aspects are not necessarily linked.

Try something new: instead of thinking of music in terms of black metal, rock and roll, avant-garde post-modern contemporary death thrash or whatever and obsessing over aesthetic "listenability" points, lets just have good music and bad music. I happen to be a die-hard good music fan. The aforementioned record is bad music because it sounds like they were trying to make the most generic, uninspiring blackthrash record possible and the composition is stays safely at grade-school level. Not surprising, since it comes from a guy whos lost enough fidelity to record with clowns like Dimmu Borgir on that one god awful song they did.
 
i just saw a movie called "Trick or Treat"

While the movie itself was terrible (i personally am a HUGE fan of low budget 80s movies of the worst kind), it was about a heavy metal kid who was like the high school reject. THis one fictitional metal vocalist kills himself in a ritual suicide by fire, and the kid learns to summon him by playing his records backwards. Ozzy Ozzbourne even stars as a television evangalist calling out to the public to condemn heavy metal and rock music. THe evil metal deamon guy comes to the high school dance and kills all the popular-types with highlander-quickening style lightning bolts. He plays totally flaming music and dresses like a cunt from motley crue tho.

but yah know, im so easy to please, that i thought the movie was good simply because the kid had a huge poster of Judas Priest's Defenders of the Faith.


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man just had to edit this to say, nile got a new website, and its fucking cool as shit.

www.nile-catacombs.net

even the background music is cool
 
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Liric said:
Try something new: instead of thinking of music in terms of black metal, rock and roll, avant-garde post-modern contemporary death thrash or whatever and obsessing over aesthetic "listenability" points, lets just have good music and bad music. I happen to be a die-hard good music fan. The aforementioned record is bad music because it sounds like they were trying to make the most generic, uninspiring blackthrash record possible and the composition is stays safely at grade-school level. Not surprising, since it comes from a guy whos lost enough fidelity to record with clowns like Dimmu Borgir on that one god awful song they did.
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That was the point I was originally trying to make. I like the record and didn't care that it lost "black metal points." The same way I like Satyricon's last two efforts even though they aren't very "scene." I agree with you, I like "good music" regardless if it fits into a certain genre category or whatever. My "listenability points" only existed in the fact that I think this is good music. I don't know how callings something "listenable" is a put-down, do you prefer your music unlistenable?

If you listened to the album without any preconceived notions about what it was "supposed to" sound like and then decided you hated it, fine. I thought the previous poster thought it was bad because he was expecting an Immortal album and it didn't sound like it.

I guess I don't really like black metal all that much because whenever a band "strays" fromt the black metal norm, I think they kick ass. Because "straying from the black metal norm" for me usually means making a quality record where I can decipher one instrument from another and maybe, just maybe, being able to make out some lyrics, without the crackling distraction of neverending feedback.

When did semi-decent production (not over-production) become the enemy?
 
^ man i fucking love quality production. a lot of albums i think are excellent have but one flaw and its with the production. sure, i mean i love metal so that i can listen to music with garbage production and still love it. but most of my friends that are in to metal hate production, as though good production is sign of a low quality band.

sure, i agree some bands out there ride solely on the quality of their record's production level. but pleanty of bands out there kick ass o' pleanty that have excellent production quality. imo if a band can afford it, why not? You dont appear more "metal" to me if you dont know a damn thing about making it sound good. Thats the point - deliver your art to the listener as crystal clear as you can. If youre an underground band with a budget lower than a movie rental clerk, then its more than acceptable. If youre a band with enough national (or even moreso, international) recognition you shoudl hopefully be able to toss a few g's into refining your sound.

to each their own, i personally like to hear music delivered as clear as it can be. ive even aquired entire albums (in mp3) and deleted them instantly for having low compression quality. i hate listening to music on my computer for the sole reason of that it sounds so much better through the stereo. im damn picky about sound quality. wotn stop me from listening to a band tho.

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OOOH YES! Kataklysm released a new album! I had no idea. Im getting this ASAP. "In the Arms of Devastation."

I have always loved Kataklysm, one of my fav bands.
 
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got the new Kat...only listened to a few tracks quickly but its pretty good so far. Same thing to expect as all the other albums but this one has quite a lot of melody worked into it, seem to have a thing for harmonizing melodic guitars on this album. I love it so far ill talk about it more later when i have time. But if anyone is looking for a kickass new death metal cd, id suggest this.

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Kataklysm | In the Arms of Devastation

oh and cuz i know you love em SonOF, this cd is chock full of classic death metal breakdowns
 
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I'm still waiting on the new Vital Remains album, which was just finished, and I'm stoked. Glen Benton from Deicide is growling for them again, and from what I've heard it should be even more insane than Dechristianize, their last album, which I have called the greatest and most brutal (while still staying crushingly melodic) death metal album of all time.
 
The link between HiFi production and poor quality is there because when bands want to make crowd-friendly sell-records music, they move to upscale production and write shitty music that has already been done by hundreds of over forgettable bands. Its certainly true that not every band that scales up prod writes shitty music, but it is true that virtually every band which tries to write mass-appeal music will a) produce as clean a sound as possible and b) stay within the convention of profitable music. No band trying to sell records is going to make an "unlistenable" record. On the flip side, many bands are just trying to whore kvlt points with LoFi shit records which is no better. So much bad music, so little time.
 
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I'm still waiting on the new Vital Remains album, which was just finished, and I'm stoked. Glen Benton from Deicide is growling for them again, and from what I've heard it should be even more insane than Dechristianize, their last album, which I have called the greatest and most brutal (while still staying crushingly melodic) death metal album of all time.
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Yeah, the new VR should be tight.
 
ive been informed through the grapevine that slayer is touring with afi...


slayer may have sucked for a while now, but now, slayer has officially lost their title as a metal band.

they are no longer part of our worldwide revolution. slayer are now just another mass of bodies floating around in the blind world of gentile music. there will be no prodigal son forgiveness, for just as we have banished metallica, we now banish slayer.
 
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