At 12/6/09 09:13 PM, burnoutfool wrote: Besides, Lantlos beats the shit off Opeth any day.

You really can't compare a black metal band with one album to a progressive metal band with nine albums...

That's like comparing a thrash metal band with one album to Helloween, who have like thirteen albums - It doesn't work.

At 12/6/09 09:17 PM, AniMetal wrote:

At 12/6/09 09:13 PM, burnoutfool wrote: Besides, Lantlos beats the shit off Opeth any day.

You really can't compare a black metal band with one album to a progressive metal band with nine albums...

Lantlos isn't just black metal. They're more Progressive/shoegaze then anything. And you can compare them because they're fairly similar.

A better analogy would be Enslaved > Opeth then. In fact, that's a perfect analogy.

At 12/6/09 09:18 PM, burnoutfool wrote: A better analogy would be Enslaved > Opeth then. In fact, that's a perfect analogy.

That's not an analogy.

Opeth are more skilled and more meaningful, but Opeth are less "boring" and much better headbanging material.

I saw both bands together in may, only some people liked enslaved as everyone loved Opeth.

Except a few 13 year olds who were there who said it wasn't brutal enough.

At 12/6/09 09:22 PM, AniMetal wrote: Opeth are more skilled and more meaningful, but ENSLAVED are less "boring" and much better headbanging material.

Fixed.

I'm new at this BBS/forum thing I saw this group and said to myself " he why not I love good metal,they love good metal I gess i'll join" but is this how you join here, post something
If this is how you do it then I'll say that my favorite group is Dethklok after that some good cannibal corpse, midness self indulgence, maximum the hormone(some japanese metal band yeah I like asian metal bands, I can't understand it but it still good to my ears),and ect.(I have in fact a memory problem not alzeimer but I can't remember anything unless someone say it )...

Whoah whoah whoah. Opeth > Enslaved.

Opeth is just a taste not everyone likes. The first time I heard Blackwater Park I couldn't understand it and hated Opeth.

At 12/6/09 09:58 PM, PenisClown wrote: The first time I heard Blackwater Park I couldn't understand it and hated Opeth.

That is because that album is easily Opeth's weakest apart from Ghost Reveries.

Seriously, The Leaper Affinity and Bleak are the only not mih songs on that album.

The Drapery Falls is also mad boring, I hate it when people say it's there best song.

Orchid, Damnation and Still Life are by far the three best Opeth albums.

i'm listening to altar

it's pretty fucking sick

At 12/6/09 09:22 PM, AniMetal wrote: Opeth are more skilled

Not denying that.

and more meaningful, but Opeth are less "boring" and much better headbanging material.

all those are opinions.

I saw both bands together in may, only some people liked enslaved as everyone loved Opeth.

I saw Enslaved last year, and I honestly love them. Sept Vertebrae...that album was ass.

At 12/6/09 07:07 PM, Nev wrote: Other two?

SYL and Megadeth.

At 12/6/09 09:54 PM, RPGShadow wrote: I'm new at this BBS/forum thing I saw this group and said to myself " he why not I love good metal,they love good metal I gess i'll join" but is this how you join here, post something

post a list of 10 bands.

Guys. It doesn't matter. It's music. Let's not make it personal. Lol.
Currently listening to Abigail William's Legend. Pretty good. And from my homestate. :3

RIP Mütiilation...

At 12/6/09 08:45 PM, AniMetal wrote: Actually, I have no idea what the lyrics are but I was just saying that disclaimer so you guys aren't just like "WE'RE CONTRADICTING OURSELVES, LYRICS ARE EVERYTHING"

I'll take some peoples lyrics seriously.
But when you talk about Helloween's lyrical credibility I can't help but scoff :P.

If a band takes lyrics seriously, I'll take them seriously.
For example, The Cure I'll take seriously. The Smiths I'll take seriously.
DragonForce I shall not.

Bah, philosophy in music like this doesn't fit at all.

I disagree, you could whack some kind of nihilistic philosophy to it.

Then you probably won't like Riverside much, they are basically as subtle as a metal band you could possibly get.

I'm all for subtlety. But Opeth aren't good at it.
April Ethereal is a great example of what I mean. It's just dully strummed chords.

I mean, I suppose I still like Opeth, because I used to love them and its not like I can't enjoy their music. But my interest in them has plummeted.

I was listening to yours actually(Because it was you, and I trust your opinion more than Mothballs)

<3

it is much better, but the vocals are a MEGA turn off - They sound so bad.

They fit the Post-Thrash sound they're going for. Swings and roundabouts.

Plus the video was retarded. hahaha

The video is great and you know it!

At 12/6/09 09:06 PM, AniMetal wrote: But Mike is not a twat, he is actually a really awesome guy.

He is a good humoured fella. His arrogance is all an act.

At 12/6/09 10:04 PM, AniMetal wrote: That is because that album is easily Opeth's weakest apart from Ghost Reveries.
Seriously, The Leaper Affinity and Bleak are the only not mih songs on that album.

Wow, someone who agrees with me!
Though I'd say Harvest and Blackwater Park are the only decent songs.

The Drapery Falls is also mad boring, I hate it when people say it's there best song.

Aye, we all know thats When :P.

Orchid, Damnation and Still Life are by far the three best Opeth albums.

Replace Orchid with My Arms, Your Hearse.

At 12/6/09 10:59 PM, D3NTATUS wrote: i'm listening to altar

The Sunn/Boris album?

At 12/6/09 11:27 PM, AllMightyBruce wrote: SYL and Megadeth.

I think SYL are a bit shit too. It's just Devin gone boo-hoo :'(.

At 12/7/09 12:10 AM, Nev wrote: The Sunn/Boris album?

the very same.

At 12/7/09 12:13 AM, D3NTATUS wrote: the very same.

Then I must agree with you about the shit content. And also the quality of that said shit.

Also DEWD if you like the womans voice in Blue Sheep check out Jesse Sykes (& the Sweet Hereafter's) 'Reckless Burning'. It's a great album :).

At 12/7/09 12:13 AM, D3NTATUS wrote:

At 12/7/09 12:10 AM, Nev wrote: The Sunn/Boris album?

the very same.

I liked that album >=T

At 12/6/09 11:44 PM, burnoutfool wrote: RIP Mütiilation...

Noo thats some shitty news..

Been bored with my metal collection lately and been trying to find some stuff to listen to outside of it. I've taken a liking to these guys though, and if you're a fan of Isis you'll probably like them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM02mJB76 MM

Several things:

1) To those who predicted Helloween's Unarmed re-recording album would suck, you were so right. I just heard the preview and MY GOD! What the fuck happened to them? I always disagreed with those who called them pop or "Disney metal" but now I can't say a thing against them. I expect to hear crap like this from Disney Channel, not Helloween. The only song I have a slight interest in is The Keeper Trilogy. The rest of them, shame on you Helloween. BTW, these opinions are coming from someone who actually ENJOYED Pink Bubbles and Chameleon so this is saying a lot.

2) I've been put off spartans thanks to 300.

3) On the subject of Meshuggah, they do have some enjoyable songs but I do find it difficult to enjoy most of their songs. If you like them more than I do, that's cool.i

4) Speaking of Devin Townsend and SYL, I'm curious about Devin's solo albums so which albums are the best to check out first?

At 12/6/09 11:39 AM, mothballs wrote:

At 12/5/09 06:52 PM, Bahamut wrote: <----- Will be seeing Opeth in April

My sister told me about Opeth in London on 5th April and we found out we're both good with going there, despite the Easter holiday. Can't wait until April comes. Blackwater Park in its entirely! :D

I honestly never understood what everybody sees in Opeth. Maybe I'm just one of those guys that only likes angry stuff, or just don't like progressive metal. I dunno man, I've tried them over and over again and I can't like them. Whatever.

I'll cut you some slack on this one. At first, I couldn't get into Opeth but as I got another album of theirs or two, I begun to like them a lot more all of sudden and now they're one of my favourite bands and I can't wait to see them in April.

I'm still amazed at how my sister got into them so quick. I thought it'd take her some time to get into them but after a few days she was saying how awesome Blackwater Park was.

At 12/6/09 10:04 PM, AniMetal wrote:

At 12/6/09 09:58 PM, PenisClown wrote: The first time I heard Blackwater Park I couldn't understand it and hated Opeth.

That is because that album is easily Opeth's weakest apart from Ghost Reveries.

You seem to dislike the best albums. :P

At 12/7/09 10:27 AM, Bahamut wrote: 4) Speaking of Devin Townsend and SYL, I'm curious about Devin's solo albums so which albums are the best to check out first?

These will give you a good preview of his music.

Ocean Machine: Biomech
Terria
Synchestra

But with Devin every album is always so different.

=======

So I just checked out Grand Magus, seen them mentioned a few times around here, I think mostly by Ponos and Sensey?

Anyway, fucking loving what I've hard so far, which is mostly stuff from their new album. Will be definitely checking them out much further (:

At 12/7/09 10:27 AM, Bahamut wrote: 1) To those who predicted Helloween's Unarmed re-recording album would suck, you were so right. I just heard the preview and MY GOD! What the fuck happened to them? I always disagreed with those who called them pop or "Disney metal" but now I can't say a thing against them. I expect to hear crap like this from Disney Channel, not Helloween. The only song I have a slight interest in is The Keeper Trilogy. The rest of them, shame on you Helloween. BTW, these opinions are coming from someone who actually ENJOYED Pink Bubbles and Chameleon so this is saying a lot.

I think I want to go cry.

What is this blasphemy? It's not metal at all!

Just because they have an orchestra, doesn't mean they have to use it every second of every song to make it not-metal.

Jesus christ.

You seem to dislike the best albums. :P

It's still a great album, but compared to there other eight albums it is shit.

On the subkect of Helloween, I think Keeper of the Seven Keys should replace Stairway to Heaven as the end all ballad of rock/metal.

It just offers so much more. In fact, I think I'm going to make a T-shirt like those Led Zeppelin ones, with the lyrics of stairway on them, and put all fucking thirteen minutes of that song all over the fucking t-shirt.

At 12/7/09 02:50 PM, DrMafesto wrote: On the subkect of Helloween, I think Keeper of the Seven Keys should replace Stairway to Heaven as the end all ballad of rock/metal.

It's an amazing song, no doubt.

But I doubt it's the best, in fact I know it's not the best.

And Then There Was Silence by Blind Guardian is the best song in the world IMO

Yay it finally snowed!!!!!!!!! thou not alot but hey now I can go play in my grim and frostbitten kingdom!!!!

Unleashed-Winterland

At 12/7/09 10:27 AM, Bahamut wrote: 4) Speaking of Devin Townsend and SYL, I'm curious about Devin's solo albums so which albums are the best to check out first?

I'd second Bruce's shout of Terria and I'd add Ziltoid the Omniscient, just because I find it really enjoyable in a GWAR kind of way.
But Terria has Earth Day, and thats brilliant :).

I'm still amazed at how my sister got into them so quick. I thought it'd take her some time to get into them but after a few days she was saying how awesome Blackwater Park was.

I forced myself into liking them at the start. I think I bought My Arms, Your Hearse just so I could fit in or get accepted into this place. I felt so hardcore :P. But I was never overly into them, even if I did enjoy songs like Demon of the Fall.
But then I saw them live at Download '06 a few months later and I started to genuinely love them.
I think the reason for my decline in interest is that in 06 and 07 when I saw them live they played better songs from the albums I actually care about. Recently they've focused more on Deliverence and onwards.

At 12/7/09 03:06 PM, AniMetal wrote:

And Then There Was Silence by Blind Guardian is the best song in the world IMO

WERD!

At 12/7/09 04:57 PM, batman64 wrote: Was without a comp for a while.
I am back now.
Not that anyone missed me or anything.

I missed you and your pseudo-haiku posts.

As it turns out I won't be able to see Sunn/Om))) as I can't afford the travel :(.
I could see Sunn in Manchester but it doesn't interest me without Om, despite their apparent fantastic live shows - which also sound a wee bit scary.

At 12/5/09 02:23 AM, PenisClown wrote: Also, the lack of Sense-Offender and Idio are making me a very sad fucking panda.

my bad.

What the fuck happened to me D:

so wut annie may you watchin'?

At 12/5/09 04:08 AM, AllMightyBruce wrote: Shoveling five feet of snow in a blizzard wearing nothing but an army jacket. Lame. My hair and beard were frozen fucking solid. Almost froze my hand too.

haaaaaaate snow. it looks so nice, but that's the only good side to it. I was yelling at the sky the other day "stoooooop! stoooop!"

At 12/5/09 10:03 AM, PenisClown wrote: I just found this new band called Space Bong. They're a stoner metal band from Adelaide.

heard of 'em. never listened.

At 12/5/09 12:53 PM, AniMetal wrote: Pagan's Mind

There's a band I haven't listened to in forever.

At 12/5/09 01:38 PM, DrMafesto wrote: I define Metalcore as screams with clean vocals.

nope

At 12/5/09 02:53 PM, DrMafesto wrote: Does it matter I used to be in the club? :3

In that case, welcome back. The list was certainly acceptable, but you don't need to re-apply.

At 12/5/09 05:52 PM, D3NTATUS wrote: listening to Cynic for the first time

fuck yes

wow, late. I didn't realize you hadn't listened to them before. They're so amazing.

At 12/5/09 07:54 PM, D3NTATUS wrote: If this is the case, what is your opinion on national socialist black metal? There are guys like me and Sense-Offender who avoid it entirely

ZERO TOLERANCE

sort of like how people listen to satanic music even though they're not satanists.

Yeah, I find satanic lyrics harmless. laughable, even.

At 12/5/09 09:20 PM, DrMafesto wrote: I just now realized I should have made my new name Dr. Stein. Fuck.

I miss Dr. Mephisto. South park just simply stopped using the character out of nowhere. What will we do without our four-assed animals?

At 12/6/09 05:20 PM, AniMetal wrote: Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuys, five new shows I just learned about in the beginning months of next year!

I wouldn't worry about the others as long as I got to go to the Megadeth show.

At 12/6/09 06:44 PM, AllMightyBruce wrote:

Garm >>>>>>>>>> Mikael

Well, comparing someone to Garm isn't really fair. He's Garm.

At 12/6/09 10:04 PM, AniMetal wrote: The Drapery Falls is also mad boring, I hate it when people say it's there best song.

That's the only one I know from that album, but I think it's really good.

At 12/6/09 10:59 PM, D3NTATUS wrote: i'm listening to altar

it's pretty fucking sick

yessss. I was just listening to the Sinking Belle earlier before taking a nap.

At 12/6/09 11:27 PM, AllMightyBruce wrote:

At 12/6/09 07:07 PM, Nev wrote: Other two?

SYL and Megadeth.

I thought one of them would have been Tyr. Or am I thinking of Duffy who was always talking about how he hated them?

At 12/7/09 10:55 AM, Oppugnant wrote: So I just checked out Grand Magus, seen them mentioned a few times around here, I think mostly by Ponos and Sensey?

yes. I think it was Bruce who introduced the club to them, though. good stuff. and very impressive beards!

Also, Animetal, that Powerglove song with the Sonic 2 riffs was pretty cool.

At 12/7/09 03:06 PM, AniMetal wrote:

At 12/7/09 02:50 PM, DrMafesto wrote: On the subkect of Helloween, I think Keeper of the Seven Keys should replace Stairway to Heaven as the end all ballad of rock/metal.

It's an amazing song, no doubt.

But I doubt it's the best, in fact I know it's not the best.

And Then There Was Silence by Blind Guardian is the best song in the world IMO

Eh. Im going to disagree. Blind Guardian is an amazing band, but they aren't the greatest Power Band, or any band for that matter.

At 12/7/09 07:16 PM, Sense-Offender wrote:

At 12/5/09 09:20 PM, DrMafesto wrote: I just now realized I should have made my new name Dr. Stein. Fuck.

I miss Dr. Mephisto. South park just simply stopped using the character out of nowhere. What will we do without our four-assed animals?

YES. I'm glad someone remembers him. He was such a brilliant character.
"I have spliced this squirrel with a hunk of provolone cheese, kevin. Never will the world have to look in two places for squirrels and provolone cheese."