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Listened to a bit of Metallica's S&M album in the car. More metal bands need to do live albums with orchestras. Every song sounds better on that album, even the ones that were amazing anyway.

I do like how they wrote a song about our #11 before he even started playing though. GIMME FUE GIMME FIYAH GIMME ADNAN JANUZAJ.
 
Minkaro said:
Listened to a bit of Metallica's S&M album in the car. More metal bands need to do live albums with orchestras. Every song sounds better on that album, even the ones that were amazing anyway.

I do like how they wrote a song about our #11 before he even started playing though. GIMME FUE GIMME FIYAH GIMME ADNAN JANUZAJ.
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Cracking album that, used to play it daily, loved No Leaf Clover, but as you say, everything on that album becomes better with the orchestra I think. Orion would have been nice, or one of the unforgivens.
 
Minkaro said:
Listened to a bit of Metallica's S&M album in the car. More metal bands need to do live albums with orchestras. Every song sounds better on that album, even the ones that were amazing anyway.

I do like how they wrote a song about our #11 before he even started playing though. GIMME FUE GIMME FIYAH GIMME ADNAN JANUZAJ.
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Nearly 10 years ago since I saw them at Wacken 2005 now. Unfortunately there was not enough time for this particular gem, but then again nearly everything on the first 2 albums is flawless. Still nothing in extreme metal that can touch the brilliance of Dissection at their peak. What a genius (and unfortunately madman) that Nödtveidt was.
 
This is the second single from Moonspell's upcoming album. The first track they released (Last of Us) was a bit too gothic for my taste but i believe this one's way better. I really enjoyed the orchestral arrangements and the solo towards the end of the song.



Speaking of orchestral arrangements, "Beyond The Red Mirror" is definitely worth the 17 Euros i paid to get it. I can't stop listening to the song below...



Napalm Death's new album is also amazing and Angra's new effort deserves more attention than it gets from the metal fans and the magazines (who knew that Rafael could sing so well?).
 
Just saw Death again, this time with Gene Hoglan on drums. Devastating show once again.

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Wanted a shirt with that Leprosy cover on, the only one i could find was a pretty horrendous all-over salmon coloured job. Yeuch.
 
Pathfinder's Beyond the Space, Beyond the Time album is a must for any power metal fans. Blows my balls off everytime man.
 
2 Man Midfield said:
Wanted a shirt with that Leprosy cover on, the only one i could find was a pretty horrendous all-over salmon coloured job. Yeuch.
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I have a Leprosy shirt. :nervous: You can't really escape the pink-ish colour, it's like that on the album cover as well. I've had someone call it a pink shirt, but feck it, it's Death. :D
 
Ainu said:
I have a Leprosy shirt. :nervous: You can't really escape the pink-ish colour, it's like that on the album cover as well. I've had someone call it a pink shirt, but feck it, it's Death. :D
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I've seen a few about, with varying degrees of pink. Or maybe it's just the pictures. This is the sorta thing i was after though.

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but i hate buying clothes online and i'll never see one in a shop. In the end i just bought this since it was the only one that had a size guide. Plus i actually prefer the Human album anyway. :D

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Sparky_Hughes said:
Can anyone recommend any groove metal like pantera or lamb of god?
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Maybe some latter day Motorhead? Jason Newsteds debut album, Metallica's Black album, Roots by Sepultura, Soulfly, Down and Damageplan (Bands by former Pantera members) maybe middle era Slayer? Here's a video or two, but that's as far as my knowledge goes for that genre.



 
2 Man Midfield said:
Maybe some latter day Motorhead? Jason Newsteds debut album, Metallica's Black album, Roots by Sepultura, Soulfly, Down and Damageplan (Bands by former Pantera members) maybe middle era Slayer? Here's a video or two, but that's as far as my knowledge goes for that genre.
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That's a good selection, especially Down were great. Damageplan, however, I didn't like at all. I can't even describe exactly what it is, they sounded too polished, if this makes sense. Same thing with Machine Head.
 
Machine Head are very hit and miss for me too. They have some pretty great songs but not really a great album to speak of. And you're right. They sound way too slick.

Production in heavy metal these days is very patchy. Everything is so quantised and polished. Drum triggers and compression. A lot of stuff sounds so robotic now. I really need a bit of grit.

I really want to like Meshuggah, but I just can't listen to one of their records from start to finish without feeling a bit underwhelmed. I caught them live many years ago, and they sound a totally different band. So heavy and percussive. I could feel the stabs on those 8 string guitars making my belly rumble. An enormous sound. On record, the drums sound computer generated, and the guitars are so spongy and soft. This seems to be a production value that heavy bands are actively striving for. It's all so digital to my ears. It's boring.

All heavy bands should just record at Godcity Studios. Kurt Ballou knows how to make a record sound punishingly heavy, yet totally organic.
 
For some reason Meshuggah doesn't do anything for me. I've seen them live a few times and I still couldn't get into it. I should love it but it's just not happening. I'll take a band like The Ocean over them any day of the week.

Youtube quality doesn't do it any justice:


More hardcore influences than Meshuggah and post-metal on their later albums, but there's always a good dose of massive riffs and crushing drums to be found on their records. And they never fail to blow me away live.
 
2 Man Midfield said:
Maybe some latter day Motorhead? Jason Newsteds debut album, Metallica's Black album, Roots by Sepultura, Soulfly, Down and Damageplan (Bands by former Pantera members) maybe middle era Slayer? Here's a video or two, but that's as far as my knowledge goes for that genre.



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Love Motorhead, and the black album, Roots I havent heard for years but loved it in my teens, definately time to revisit it, Ill check the rest out, cheers mate :)
 
Agree about the production in modern metal, it actually hurts your ears. It all sounds the same to me.
 
I'm currently on a quest to storm through all of Blind Guardian's work. Only had Somewhere Far Beyond, Imaginations From The Other Side and Nightfall in Middle Earth so i decided to go from their first album forwards. Battalions of Fear sure is fairly different from those three albums but still fairly enjoyable. As i understand it, the next two gradually progress their sound towards what i recognise it as. Fun little quest i've set myself :)
 
Here's some more groove recommendations, though it's probably going to step into doom territory, because doom is the fecking best.

Trepalium from France are weird. Their new stuff is pretty bonkers, but their album called H.N.P. is superb. Loads of grooves mixed with some melodic death, and some mind-bending riffs.


Eyehategod. Sludge legends. Grooves all over.


Floor. It's fecking Floor. You don't need to know anything else.


HARK! Jimbob from Hark used to be in Taint, who were super, super good.


The aforementioned super, super good TAINT. The groove at the end of this song is utterly triumphant.
 
Skraeckoedlan. Swedish sludgy bluesy doom.


Revocation. They jam together just about every extreme metal subgenre. Fun as feck.


This isn't quite a groove record, but Inter Arma's THE CAVERN has everything you'd want in a heavy record. So punishing. One track, 45 minutes long. It's a total journey. Unbelievable record.
 
Here's some borderline nu-metal grooves. I can't decide if I like it or not. I feel like I shouldn't like it, but it makes me want to stay up late and not tidy my bedroom.


The album is pretty fun, if you want mindless heavyness.
 
Mancunians! Go see Corrosion of Corformity tonight at Academy 2! Pepper Keenan back in fold and many tunes from Deliverance in the setlist

 
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Mancunians! Go see Corrosion of Corformity tonight at Academy 2! Pepper Keenan back in fold and many tunes from Deliverance in the setlist

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Good times, this album. With Life of Agony after their debut release it was a blast in 1994.
 
Britain's only hope of decent metal. Nice bit of Sludge from Electric Wizard; turn it up.

 
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