Metal thread

Well, use this space for throwing recommendations of the past, present, upcoming releases or shows you went to!

I'm in the middle of checking out Deafheaven and I'll give em my undivided attention tomorrow, on my way to work. Throw in recommendations from Deathwish Inc. and I'll check em out. Rosetta, Light Bearer and Mouth of The Architect's Quiet next. Taking the convo forward, check out Year of No Light that's sort of like Alcest or Lantlos - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhnkD7YxJ1s

I don't know a lot of BM-Shoegaze bands or Hardcore.

Sadly the new Incantation album leaked a few weeks early, have it on pre-order anyway. Excited about Dan Swano mixing and mastering it, man, can't wait ... here's a track off the album - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WdHbT5wSckM ... back in form ^_^.
 
^ haven't heard of that band, so I checked the track - decent melodies, vocally I couldn't get into it. Check out later Katatonia or Anathema.

Last night I went to see Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult, female fronted German blackmetal band and they were frakkin AMAZING! Consistent vocals through the set and the drummer was a BEAST. Haven't heard anyone blasting as fast as him. She broke her string on the 2nd song so in total badassery she said "Thissss soonng ... withouttt guiiittaarzzz ... OOUUUU" and even that 1 song was awesome haha! Was wearing 2 jackets so I switched them around cos I was standing up front and she would occasionally spit out the fake animal blood she'd drink between songs. I got very little on my face ^_^.

Here's what they're like -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPf2bFKUoQ0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-PW6GBfIIs&feature=relmfu

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Tonight I'm going to see Deiphago : D
 
Killswitch is my fav metal band I cant wait for the new album when ever it drops. But among others i like are:

As I lay dying
Hate Breed
Sworn Enemy
Iced Earth
Moonsepll
CoF
Canibale corps
All that remains
 
Does anyone enjoy symphonic power metal or neo classical / rock opera? I'm probably in the minority with this sort of music, but I love it. Bands like Rhapsody of Fire, Ayreon, Luca Turilli, etc...
 

Aazealh

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tama chan said:
Does anyone enjoy symphonic power metal or neo classical / rock opera? I'm probably in the minority with this sort of music, but I love it. Bands like Rhapsody of Fire, Ayreon, Luca Turilli, etc...

I can enjoy some from time to time.
 
tama chan said:
Does anyone enjoy symphonic power metal or neo classical / rock opera? I'm probably in the minority with this sort of music, but I love it. Bands like Rhapsody of Fire, Ayreon, Luca Turilli, etc...

I used to really like Rhapsody of Fire when they where still called just Rhapsody. The direction they went since then sadly didn't really fit with me. Currently I like Ancient Bards a lot.
 
I don't listen to any power metal but I haven't hung out with someone who likes it/ recommends it. If there's a song on the radio, it seldom hits the spot. Could you guys recommend albums for me to check out?
 

Viral Harvest

Every Knee Bent Too Shall Break
Has anyone else checked out the new Cult of Luna? What do you think of it?

It's interesting that it's a concept album based on Metropolis, and I found it a bit hard to get into at first, but after a few listens it started to grow on me. The whole album sounds like urban decay, fittingly so.
 
Viral Harvest said:
Has anyone else checked out the new Cult of Luna? What do you think of it?

It's interesting that it's a concept album based on Metropolis, and I found it a bit hard to get into at first, but after a few listens it started to grow on me. The whole album sounds like urban decay, fittingly so.

Once again, a band that I only know by the name. Any other albums that you would recommend, please?

By any chance, did you got some free time to listen to "All we love we leave behind"?

At the moment, I'm listening to the last album of The Secret "Agnus Dei" (another band that went into GodCity studio for their two last records :guts:), Give Up the Ghost "Background Music".
Since few days, I've been also listening to Code Orange Kids first album "Love is Love // Return to Dust"... and it's pretty good, you should give it a try.
 

Viral Harvest

Every Knee Bent Too Shall Break
The Beast of Darkness said:
Once again, a band that I only know by the name. Any other albums that you would recommend, please?

By any chance, did you got some free time to listen to "All we love we leave behind"?

At the moment, I'm listening to the last album of The Secret "Agnus Dei" (another band that went into GodCity studio for their two last records :guts:), Give Up the Ghost "Background Music".
Since few days, I've been also listening to Code Orange Kids first album "Love is Love // Return to Dust"... and it's pretty good, you should give it a try.

I enjoy most, if not all of Cult of Luna's releases but they go something like this if you want to check them out:

Self-Titled (2001)
Salvation (2004)
Somewhere Along the Highway (2006)
Eternal Kingdom (2008)
Vertikal (2013)

My favorite is Salvation because of the ridiculous build-up of the first track, so I would recommend that, but that's my own personal preference. If you like post-metal, they're definitely a band worth checking out as they're considered to be at the forefront of it all (besides Neurosis)

The girl I'm dating showed me the new Converge album, and while it's definitely good, and very-much Converge, I think that's just it - they failed to push any real boundaries this time and doesn't hold up too well to previous releases. However, I'll definitely get around to giving it a second listen and have a more informed opinion about it.

I'm not really into them, but I see you were listening to Background Music. Did you happen to catch any of the American Nightmare reunions in Boston, LA, or New York?

I've been listening to...

Cult of Luna - Vertikal
Today is the Day - Sadness Will Prevail
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Integrity - In Contrast of Tomorrow & Humanity is the Devil (Seeing them next week in Baltimore)
Catharsis - Samsara (also seeing them in Baltimore with Integ. and then in NYC the next day)

and, nothing to do with metal, but:

Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
 
I haven't heard much of Cult Of Luna, I remember hearing of them years ago so I know they're an old band. I'll check them out.

Viral, you seem to be a Doom lover, Esoteric/ Evoken/ Thergothon/ Shape Of Despair/ Skepticism/ Ahab/ Isis/ Yob/ Worship/ My Dying Bride/ Funeral/ Moss/ Unlife/ Celestiil/ Mournful Congregation/ Rigor Sardonicous/ Seidr/ Darkflight/ Talbot ... most of them are Funeral Doom though, I think you've listed bands in the past that're more Traditional or Drone.
 

Viral Harvest

Every Knee Bent Too Shall Break
IncantatioN said:
I haven't heard much of Cult Of Luna, I remember hearing of them years ago so I know they're an old band. I'll check them out.

Viral, you seem to be a Doom lover, Esoteric/ Evoken/ Thergothon/ Shape Of Despair/ Skepticism/ Ahab/ Isis/ Yob/ Worship/ My Dying Bride/ Funeral/ Moss/ Unlife/ Celestiil/ Mournful Congregation/ Rigor Sardonicous/ Seidr/ Darkflight/ Talbot ... most of them are Funeral Doom though, I think you've listed bands in the past that're more Traditional or Drone.

Doom has been a fairly new thing for me, and as far as funeral doom goes, I've only listened to Evoken, Thergothon, My Dying Bride and Disembowelment. I might have to check some of those others out though! I've recently been on a 'Sabbath kick, and Thou is a more recent band that I think are pretty awesome. It's funny when all it really comes down to are semantics when listening to some of these bands. Doom and sludge sound almost identical to me, and even some post-metal haha. I grew up on 90's hardcore and punk, so finding this stuff is all new to me.
 
Viral Harvest said:
I enjoy most, if not all of Cult of Luna's releases but they go something like this if you want to check them out:

Self-Titled (2001)
Salvation (2004)
Somewhere Along the Highway (2006)
Eternal Kingdom (2008)
Vertikal (2013)

My favorite is Salvation because of the ridiculous build-up of the first track, so I would recommend that, but that's my own personal preference. If you like post-metal, they're definitely a band worth checking out as they're considered to be at the forefront of it all (besides Neurosis)

Thanks dude, I'll make sure to listen to them!

Viral Harvest said:
The girl I'm dating showed me the new Converge album, and while it's definitely good, and very-much Converge, I think that's just it - they failed to push any real boundaries this time and doesn't hold up too well to previous releases. However, I'll definitely get around to giving it a second listen and have a more informed opinion about it.

I understand what you mean. It remains a Converge album, there is nothing really new in their style. I even think that certain songs could have been on You Fail Me.
But once again, I think that it's a great one, certainly one of my preferred of 2012.

Viral Harvest said:
I'm not really into them, but I see you were listening to Background Music. Did you happen to catch any of the American Nightmare reunions in Boston, LA, or New York?

At first, I couldn't get into them, but over time it grew on me and I really like their sound. I don't live in the USA, so, unfortunately, I haven't been able to see them on their reunions shows.

Viral Harvest said:
I've been listening to...

Cult of Luna - Vertikal
Today is the Day - Sadness Will Prevail
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Integrity - In Contrast of Tomorrow & Humanity is the Devil (Seeing them next week in Baltimore)
Catharsis - Samsara (also seeing them in Baltimore with Integ. and then in NYC the next day)

and, nothing to do with metal, but:

Sisters of Mercy - Floodland

Electric Wizard, Integrity (I especially like Those who fear tomorrow) and Sisters of Mercy, some great bands there...

Since last week, I've been listening to...

Celeste - Morte(s) Née(s)
Wormfood - Posthume
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
Hierophant - self-titled album (very similar to The Secret)
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
 
New tracks off the latest Portal album are FANTASTIC!! Here's the art work and the 2 songs -

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpr7wSzQeFI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwCxfMyPM5I

New WORMED track out too - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kyZShKuiVk (album of the year maybe?)

New Defeated Sanity album leaked, my pal ordered an extra copy accidentally and I'll pick that up from him but here's a track - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt4KTdD7Joc

Doom lovers check out the last Ahab album if you haven't already - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WETwWI2CySU
 
Meshuggah's new EP is available for free through Scion (yep, the car manufacturer), hypnotic as hell but it's interesting to hear him do clean vocals throughout the first track and not switch to his usual style - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48RCYpX_a8k

I hope to see them either this week or next, whenever they play in NYC. Last year my favorite concert was by them, so I'm stoked. NOT looking forward however to being stepped on punched/ elbowed or kicked or pushed or assist/ carry crowd surfers BUT I have to be up front so I can jump and SLAM it up! To give you a sense of it, here's a video of the first song they played at the show I was at - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UISjgLu8zBA - I'm to the band's right in the front, somewhere haha. I think I see my hand at 3:57 or something XD

Just ordered the new Guttural Secrete album, it's SO good but the label sucks, so I picked it up straight from the band. Here's the last song on the album, pretty epic, super technical, pinch~harmonics <3 (influenced by Malignancy) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHB4XpXry34

For you Doom~lovers-

Hanging Garden's new album is very smooth sounding, easy on your ears - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xneABtrjohY

Not sure if you're familiar with Sinistrous Diabolus, they're SO under-rated, I own their demo on cassette and this new one sounds dark - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NVINOkc0nJE#!
 

Viral Harvest

Every Knee Bent Too Shall Break
Light Bearer - "Silver Tongue"

http://lightbearer.bandcamp.com

There's about an hour and a half of music here, and they're releasing the masters of the audio files for FREE or name your price.

For those of you not familiar, Light Bearer is an atmospheric post-metal band from the UK (and there's even some really nice string pieces in here too) that's an entire band based around Milton's Paradise Lost, Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, and the Book of Genesis. It's a really ambitious project that's telling an interpretation of these stories over the span of 4 double-length albums (and a few shorter albums) and "Silver Tongue" is the second in the series. For those even further interested, here's the chronology of the releases if you want to check those out too:

Celestium Apocrypha (song on a split LP) >> The Assembly of God >> Lapsus >> Silver Tongue

The lyrics are rather beautifully-written too.

Enjoy!
 

Wyrm

HEMA
For some black metal from the deep forest check Arckanum:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrhq32PNdSM


And from France, no less, the great Deathspell Omega (word of caution: if you take religion seriously you might be upset at this):

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

More to come...
 
DsO are pretty good, good call Wyrm! That last EP they put out sounded like left over Gorguts riffs haha. I own the first 3 full lengths from Arckanum, are they still around?

Moving away from that Swedish signature BM sound, check out Numinous - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMXo8FO448s
 

Wyrm

HEMA
Arckanum is still around although is just one guy.

I didn't knew Numinous and is really good. Thanks a lot!

And here's what I've been listening all day at work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0okZ-xzTME

Finsterforst a folk metal band from Germany. Don't know much about them as a colleague lent me the album today.
 
Ohhh haven't heard of this band, sounds pretty cool. The only other bands I've heard within the same genre are Forefather, Heidevolk, Falkenbach and maybe even Thyrfing. German folk, interesting. Cool beans, I'll have to hit up Arckanum's recent stuff then. How does it compare to their first 3 in your opinion?

Are you guys familiar with Summoning? Big fan here, excited since they have a new one coming out this year and I hope it doesn't disappoint. Here are a few tracks if you wanna check the band out, they're atmospheric and very Tolkien~y -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBfkDH3F1GA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHESjItTd-Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl60kjN8NoA

Thaw has a new album coming out, here's a track - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX0bMhgCKxc&feature=player_embedded#!

I hope Thorns' new album comes out this year, their last one was out in 2001 or 2002 and it was just a 10/10 album for me, mentioning it in case you haven't checked it out Wyrm - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb1j9xNzobY
 

Wyrm

HEMA
Well, the last one is from 2009, ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ, and I like it a lot. But for me he has yet to surpass Fran Marder...

Will most definetly check Forefather, Heidevolk. If they are in the same vein as Falkenbach or Thyrfing it's totally worth checking.

If you like Tolkienesque music, check Za-Frumi. Not really metal but the "lyrics" are in the dark speech of mordor. :badbone:

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

And thanks for the tip on Thorns. I've heard from the band but never came around to check them out.
 
Cool beans, I'll check out Za-Frumi when I get home later tonight.

Btw, Light Bearer are awesome, thanks for the tip Viral Harvest.

EDIT:

Watched Meshuggah last night, they were AMAZING. Just massive sound, tight and unreal. It was like a wave of djent going through you. Jens did vocals on all songs (he's down with the flu) except New Millennium Cyanide Christ (guy from Intronaut filled in) and Dancers To A Discordant System. I missed Intronaut but I watched Animals Killing People for the first time and they were 'meh', I think there was a click track playing in the background. Their light show has always been something talked about ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MiSr8iNwWsw

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Viral Harvest

Every Knee Bent Too Shall Break
IncantatioN said:
Btw, Light Bearer are awesome, thanks for the tip Viral Harvest.

No problem! They're definitely my most closely-watched project at the moment. I'm already itching for the next chapter in their series but likely wouldn't even be written for another 2 years, the only problem with ambitious concept albums haha.

Fall of Efrafa were really good too, which was the singer's old project, a 3-album concept band based on Watership Down.
 
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