Music The Ultimate Metal thread.

TheRedDevil'sAdvocate said:
1) Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery.
2) In Flames - The Jester Race.
3) At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul.
4) Carcass - Heartwork.
5) Soilwork - The Chainheart Machine.
6) Sentenced - Amok.
7) Septicflesh - Communion.
8) Insomium - Winter's Gate.
9) Amorphis - Tales From A Thousand Lakes.
10) Be'lakor - Stone's Reach.
11) Ulcerate - Shrines Of Paralysis.
12) Gorguts - Obscura.
13) Hypocrisy - The Final Chapter.
14) Cryptosy - Non So Vile.
15) Edge Of Sanity - Crimson.
16) Entombed - Clandestine.
17) Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding.
18) Morbid Angel - Covenant.
19) Bolt Thrower - The IV Crusade.
20) Atheist - Unquestionable Presence.
21) Obituary - Cause Of Death.
22) Cynic - Focus.
23) Opeth - Still Life.
24) Behemoth - The Satanist.
25) Immolation - Close To A World Below.
26) The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal.
27) Demigod - Slumber Of Sullen Eyes.
28) Nocturnus - The Key.
29) Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper.
30) Deicide - The Stench Of Redemption.
31) Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments.
32) Vader - De Profundis.
33) Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines.
34) God Dethroned - Bloody Blasphemy.
35) Death - Full Discography. * EDIT: Symbolic, since @Abraxas says i have to pick one. Fair enough, you gave Dissection a pass for the other list. It has great sentimental value. In my younger days, i only had my Walkman and tapes older teens would give me or write for me. When i bought my first hi-fi system with my summer money savings, the first three CDs i got were Symbolic, Images And Words and Operation Mindcrime. To this day, i believe that these three albums are some of the finest music that has ever been recorded in the history of mankind.
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Best of the lot for me in that list is Opeth's Still Life. Never get tired of listening to it. I have a soft spot for Face of Melinda, absolute banger.
 
Back from the dead again, not strictly metal. But Static X were awesome back in the day. This project regeneration stuff is ok.

 


this belongs on Saturday Night Wrist just as it belongs on In the Absence of Truth. three past members of Isis with Moreno on vocals of course. anyone who likes Deftones or Isis could easily like this album. same goes for those who tried listening to certain post metal bands and thought it would be better if they had better (clean) vocalist.
 
As an aside. Sometimes the best riffs are the simplest. Like when this really kicks in. God I love this song.

 
Been listening to this quite a lot lately. Beautiful instrumental.

 
What did people think of the "new" Cannibal Corpse album?

Just picked it up on Vinyl thinking I can't go too far wrong buying blind, it's CC - they don't do shit albums.

But it's a lot muddier than I'd like. Not sure that G tuning is doing much for it.

Picked up a shed load of metal vinyl in the last few weeks, most of it more obscure.
 
Abraxas said:
What did people think of the "new" Cannibal Corpse album?

Just picked it up on Vinyl thinking I can't go too far wrong buying blind, it's CC - they don't do shit albums.

But it's a lot muddier than I'd like. Not sure that G tuning is doing much for it.

Picked up a shed load of metal vinyl in the last few weeks, most of it more obscure.
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I liked it better than the previous one, whose second half seemed to be a homogenous block with no discernible songs. This one leans a bit more toward thrash and feels more "immediate" which is something i always liked in their music (when they did it). But it's mostly CC by the numbers. I don't remember having an issue with how it sounds, but a friend of mine told me that the Vinyl versions of their albums usually have a different DR and sound more "brickwalled" than the CDs (don't know if it's true). Other than that, for me, time stopped in March when the new Judas Priest arrived in the mail. It's such an inspiration to listen to Rob Halford knocking it out of the park at the age of 72. Can't wait to see them live again this summer.
 
TheRedDevil'sAdvocate said:
I liked it better than the previous one, whose second half seemed to be a homogenous block with no discernible songs. This one leans a bit more toward thrash and feels more "immediate" which is something i always liked in their music (when they did it). But it's mostly CC by the numbers. I don't remember having an issue with how it sounds, but a friend of mine told me that the Vinyl versions of their albums usually have a different DR and sound more "brickwalled" than the CDs (don't know if it's true). Other than that, for me, time stopped in March when the new Judas Priest arrived in the mail. It's such an inspiration to listen to Rob Halford knocking it out of the park at the age of 72. Can't wait to see them live again this summer.
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It could be that. I'll have to see if a mate has the CD or even try streaming it and see if there's a discernible difference.

The new Priest is very good, as always really.
 


I saw this lot in Leeds the other month and have been smashing this album since. Bangers left and right.
 
listening to Therion is such a unique experience. from slower to faster songs, from early gothic stuff to later, almost power metal albums, and they even have some good covers. I'm not a fan of their DM phase, although those early stuff were ironically my first contact with the band back in pre-internet era. the funny thing is, I could often hear Vovin from my sisters room when I was younger, which is their best selling album, but I wasn't sure whether those two are the same band or they just share the same name.

Lemuria, Sirius B and Gothic Kabbalah are the ones I'd call more accessible to wider audience. but for me, Secret of the Runes is where the magic is and it has been on repeat for the last few days. whether you like it or not, in the era of "safe" releases you won't hear something like that any time soon.






 
I'm not into this type of metal usually and I don't really like bands such as Symphony X and Dream Theather (that much anyway), but... Human Equation and 01011001 by Ayreon and Revel in Time by his other project, Star One, are brilliant. this is how progressive metal should sound, deep yet accessible without ever giving you a feeling that they are playing for themselves. I'm not sure if there's a point in bothering with links with these albums as you're basically being told a story on each of them, but here's two tracks from Human Equation:



 
Sorry for the shameless plug but hopefully some will enjoy :)

My band Mountainscape has a new album out today, we're an instrumental post-metal/rock trio very much inspired by the likes of Russian Circles, pg.lost etc.




And if anyone wants to see this random guy from the caf playing drums we're playing London tonight and Manchester tomorrow night, tickets are £15 otd or cheaper online beforehand:

https://dice.fm/event/8drnv-mountainscape-7th-jun-229-london-tickets?lng=en

https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Ma...chester/Mountainscape-with-The-Grey/38302154/
 
Patchbeard said:
Sorry for the shameless plug but hopefully some will enjoy :)

My band Mountainscape has a new album out today, we're an instrumental post-metal/rock trio very much inspired by the likes of Russian Circles, pg.lost etc.




And if anyone wants to see this random guy from the caf playing drums we're playing London tonight and Manchester tomorrow night, tickets are £15 otd or cheaper online beforehand:

https://dice.fm/event/8drnv-mountainscape-7th-jun-229-london-tickets?lng=en

https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Ma...chester/Mountainscape-with-The-Grey/38302154/
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My kind of bands! I like it, plenty of sludgey parts, some spacey stuff. Sounds like you'd do well at something like Arctangent (or Dunk!Festival over here, perfect fit).
 
Ainu said:
My kind of bands! I like it, plenty of sludgey parts, some spacey stuff. Sounds like you'd do well at something like Arctangent (or Dunk!Festival over here, perfect fit).
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Thanks! Yeah we're hoping to get on ArcTanGent next year, Dunk would be amazing but not quite so easy logistically, but hopefully one year!
 
Patchbeard said:
Sorry for the shameless plug but hopefully some will enjoy :)

My band Mountainscape has a new album out today, we're an instrumental post-metal/rock trio very much inspired by the likes of Russian Circles, pg.lost etc.




And if anyone wants to see this random guy from the caf playing drums we're playing London tonight and Manchester tomorrow night, tickets are £15 otd or cheaper online beforehand:

https://dice.fm/event/8drnv-mountainscape-7th-jun-229-london-tickets?lng=en

https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Ma...chester/Mountainscape-with-The-Grey/38302154/
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Just listening on Spotify now. Really good. Sounds like if you mashed Russian Circles, Deafheaven and 65daysofstatic all together. There's a lot going on, and the switch up between dreamy post rock, sludgy doom and black metal come out of nowhere, it's awesome. Good job!

I see you've got a couple of older albums on there too, gonna check those out later.
 
OnlyTwoDaSilvas said:
Just listening on Spotify now. Really good. Sounds like if you mashed Russian Circles, Deafheaven and 65daysofstatic all together. There's a lot going on, and the switch up between dreamy post rock, sludgy doom and black metal come out of nowhere, it's awesome. Good job!

I see you've got a couple of older albums on there too, gonna check those out later.
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Thanks man that means a lot! Loved Deafheaven until my brother (guitarist/songwriter of our band) saw them live about 18 months ago and said how crap the vocalists clean vocals were live, so then I watched a live video and it's kind of ruined the lovely clean vocals vibe from the latest album! (Reckon there might be a lot of autotune going on on the recordings...) Hopefully enough time has now passed for me to go back and enjoy it again...

And 65daysofstatic are one of my favourite all time bands alongside Russian Circles, so nice to hear we sound like a mashup of those!

We still play a lot of the 2nd album live, 1st album my drums are a bit more basic but think I've come a long way since then...let me know what you think of them if you get a chance to listen!
 
Who are the great new metal bands these days? I kind of stopped paying attention around 2019
 
Patchbeard said:
Thanks man that means a lot! Loved Deafheaven until my brother (guitarist/songwriter of our band) saw them live about 18 months ago and said how crap the vocalists clean vocals were live, so then I watched a live video and it's kind of ruined the lovely clean vocals vibe from the latest album! (Reckon there might be a lot of autotune going on on the recordings...) Hopefully enough time has now passed for me to go back and enjoy it again...

And 65daysofstatic are one of my favourite all time bands alongside Russian Circles, so nice to hear we sound like a mashup of those!

We still play a lot of the 2nd album live, 1st album my drums are a bit more basic but think I've come a long way since then...let me know what you think of them if you get a chance to listen!
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Yeah I happened to catch Deafheaven at a festival just after that album released, and it was... not good! :lol: I'm not much of a fan anyway but the singer's clean voice and antics on stage are not a great advert.
 
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