At 3/22/10 05:19 PM, TheUnwisePoet wrote:

At 3/22/10 04:39 PM, TheSporkLord wrote:

At 3/22/10 02:38 PM, TheUnwisePoet wrote:

What's your idea of progressive metal?

Very technical Metal, that you can't use to headbang...

Not all prog metal bands use keyboards or anything else other than the vocal/guitar/bass/percussion set. Byzantine and Mastodon are among those who don't use keyboards.

At 3/23/10 01:45 PM, AkujinRuukasu wrote:

At 3/22/10 05:19 PM, TheUnwisePoet wrote:

At 3/22/10 04:39 PM, TheSporkLord wrote:

At 3/22/10 02:38 PM, TheUnwisePoet wrote:

What's your idea of progressive metal?

Very technical Metal, that you can't use to headbang...

Not all prog metal bands use keyboards or anything else other than the vocal/guitar/bass/percussion set. Byzantine and Mastodon are among those who don't use keyboards.

I like Mastodon, but I see them as a Sludge Metal band...

Also... Me musician!... Shitty Musician!

At 3/23/10 01:57 PM, TheUnwisePoet wrote: I like Mastodon, but I see them as a Sludge Metal band...

they're progressive sludge. waddya know, genres aren't mutually exclusive after all!

At 3/23/10 12:01 PM, Bahamut wrote: I wish Gamma Ray could tone it down with the homages to Maiden and Judas Priest, especially the latter. The song To the Metal was basically a cut and paste of Metal Gods. I don't mind hearing similarities here and there but that was overdoing it.

Yeah, it's getting pretty damn annoying. Makes it seem like they're totally losing creativity...maybe they are. I don't think they'll make better stuff than Land Of the Free or Heading for Tommorow, those two were kickass.

Ok so normally I wouldn't even bother with those youtards but this is just... you just don't say this.

He had the balls to call Death metalcore.

I just don't know what to say.

At 3/23/10 06:52 PM, MiroDK wrote: Yeah, it's getting pretty damn annoying. Makes it seem like they're totally losing creativity...maybe they are. I don't think they'll make better stuff than Land Of the Free or Heading for Tommorow, those two were kickass.

Power Plant is my favourite album of theirs, even with the Priest homages there. Land of the Free and Heading for Tomorrow are also great, especially the title track for the latter. My least favourite albums of theirs are Sigh No More and Insanity & Genius. Both are so forgettable and the only good tracks are the ones I heard in Blast from the Past.

At 3/23/10 10:38 PM, greensucksbluerules wrote:

At 3/23/10 07:31 PM, TheSporkLord wrote: Ok so normally I wouldn't even bother with those youtards but this is just... you just don't say this.

He had the balls to call Death metalcore.

I just don't know what to say.

Screencap or link?

I think he'd be doing us all a favour by not showing us where that comment was. YouTube is known for extreme stupidity so this is nothing new to me.

So I've heard Necrophagist is good? I want to start listening to technical death metal, also other technical DM bands.

At 3/24/10 04:39 PM, TheSporkLord wrote: So I've heard Necrophagist is good? I want to start listening to technical death metal, also other technical DM bands.

Go for

Blood Red Throne
Benighted
Origin
Decapitated
Quo Vadis

At 3/24/10 04:39 PM, TheSporkLord wrote: So I've heard Necrophagist is good? I want to start listening to technical death metal, also other technical DM bands.

Demilich
Psycroptic
Blotted Science
Sleep Terror

At 3/24/10 04:39 PM, TheSporkLord wrote: So I've heard Necrophagist is good?

Well, I think so.

I want to start listening to technical death metal, also other technical DM bands.

Atheist
Demilich
Illogicist
Obscura
Sinners Bleed

At 3/24/10 05:50 PM, Nev wrote: Demilich

Maybe someone can explain something for me.

I got their album a while back, and found their music boring, lifeless, and pretty devoid of entertaining qualities.

Why are they so great again? Because they have a Californian tree frog for a vocalist?

At 3/24/10 05:50 PM, Nev wrote: Blotted Science
Sleep Terror

I forgot these because they're instrumental. I definitely second them.

At 3/24/10 06:10 PM, Centurion-Ryan wrote: I got their album a while back, and found their music boring, lifeless, and pretty devoid of entertaining qualities.

I like the sound they have going on. It's not that kind of noisy Tech Death like Nile that pretty much lacks any musical value. Nor the wankery riff, stop, riff, sweep, stop, riff thing Necrophagist and bands of that like use. I think those types of bands are the lifeless ones. Demilich's music I can get more immersed in.

Why are they so great again? Because they have a Californian tree frog for a vocalist?

It helps.

At 3/24/10 06:38 PM, Nev wrote:

Why are they so great again? Because they have a Californian tree frog for a vocalist?

It helps.

What?

At 3/24/10 06:48 PM, TheSporkLord wrote: What?

Their vocalists growls sound like demonic frog burps.

At 3/24/10 06:51 PM, Nev wrote:

At 3/24/10 06:48 PM, TheSporkLord wrote: What?

Their vocalists growls sound like demonic frog burps.

Oh, I thought they actually had a tree frog on vocals. That would be bad ass.

Please list you favorite albums of different metal genres :)
Feel free to add or remove any of the genres (if you think there should be a classification for sub-genres, then feel free to add it to the list)

Death Metal: Altered Genesis by Blood Red Throne
Melodic Death Metal: Swampsong by Kalmah
Progressive Death Metal: Focus by Cynic
Symphonic Black Metal: In The Shadow Of A Thousand Suns by Abigail Williams
Atmospheric Black Metal: Black Cascade by Wolves In The Throne Room
Black Metal: Ars Talionis The Art Of Retaliation by Balrog
Black/Folk Metal: Bergtatt by Ulver
Thrash Metal: Rust In Peace by Megadeth
Heavy Metal: Fear Of The Dark by Iron Maiden
Symphonic Power Metal: Winterheart's Guild by Sonata Arctica
Power Metal: Hellfire Club by Edguy
Progressive Power Metal: V - The New Mythology Suite by Symphony X
Progressive Metal: Ink Complete by Spastic Ink
Folk Metal: Sagas by Equilibrium

I don't really know a lot about Stoner Doom and Doom Metal
but em...
I still have to add Dopethrone by Electric Wizard to the list
And since Agalloch are playing Doom, Folk and Black Metal, I'll have to put Ashes Against The Grain in his own genre classification :P

Can someone give a link to the old slipknot. I tried searching but everything I came up with is that piece of shit nu-metal slipknot.

Death Metal: Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
Melodic Death Metal: Urgh... Hypocrisy count as Melodeath right? The Final Chapter
Progressive Death Metal: Death - The Sound of Perseverance
Technical Death Metal: Demilich - Nespithe
Black Metal: Immortal - Battles in the North
Black/Folk Metal: Ulver - Bergtatt
Thrash Metal: Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Heavy Metal: The Lord Weird Slough Feg - Traveller
Power Metal: Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Progressive Metal: Dream Theater - Awake
Folk Metal: Týr - Ragnarok
Avant-Garde Metal: Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Doom Metal: Warning - Watching from a Distance
Stoner Doom: Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Sludge Metal: Dystopia - The Aftermath
Drone Metal: Sunn O))) - Altar

At 3/24/10 06:10 PM, Centurion-Ryan wrote: I got their album a while back, and found their music boring, lifeless, and pretty devoid of entertaining qualities.

If you don't find the bizarre nature of the music intriguing most of albums magic is already lost. It's like Nev said, their tech is to create a weird atmosphere and I think it works well. That and it's full of catchy riffs.

And while I'm here I'd like to recommend Nocturnus' The Key to everyone. Kickass oldschool death metal. With keys.

At 3/24/10 11:27 PM, TakeNoPrisoners wrote:

stuff

I know it really doesn't have anything to do with your post. But anytime I see you posting, I read your name and I feel like posting just a sentence...

"Take no shit !!!"

At 3/24/10 08:53 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: Power Metal: Hellfire Club by Edguy

Can't you put, you know, a good album by Edguy?

Not only that, but that album is entirely consistent of a more traditional metal style instead of power metal.

I need to get a new terrarium for my tarantula. Bah.

black metal has already had some really good releases this year...Ragnarok, Ondskapt, Avsky and Burzum. Pretty tits.

Favorite Albums:
Thrash Metal: Master of Puppets by Metallica
Heavy Metal: Piece of Mind by Iron Maiden
Stoner Metal: Snakes for the Divine by High on Fire
Black Metal: Black Wings of Desting by DragonLord
Blackened Death Metal: Evangelion by Behemoth
Power Metal: Land of the Free by Gamma Ray
Symphonic Metal: The Black Halo by Kamelot
Progressive Metal: The Odyssey by Symphony X
Death Metal: Left Hand Path by Entombed
Progressive Death Metal: The Sound of Perseverance by Death
Melodic Death Metal: Clayman by In Flames
Drone Metal: Monoliths and Dimensions by Sunn O)))
Doom Metal: Psalm 9 by Trouble
Technical Death Metal: Piece of Time by Atheist

At 3/25/10 08:35 AM, burnoutfool wrote: Burzum.

I thought you hated Burzum

At 3/24/10 08:53 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: Please list you favorite albums of different metal genres :)
Feel free to add or remove any of the genres (if you think there should be a classification for sub-genres, then feel free to add it to the list)

I can only fill in half of the list and I'm going to be merging some of them together. However, I'll be sure to refer back to these posts at a later point if I'm wanting to check out more of a certain genre or even subgenre.

Death Metal: Death - Symbolic
Melodic Death Metal: Carcass - Heartwork
Black Metal: Bathory - Hammerheart
Thrash Metal: Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Traditional Metal: Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Power Metal: Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1
Progressive Metal: Opeth - Blackwater Park
Folk Metal: Ensiferum - From Afar
Doom Metal: Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

At 3/24/10 09:07 PM, TheSporkLord wrote: Can someone give a link to the old slipknot. I tried searching but everything I came up with is that piece of shit nu-metal slipknot.

I feel really sorry for the crossover band Slipknot.

At 3/25/10 10:19 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 3/24/10 08:53 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:

Doom Metal: Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

The most retarded album name i have ever seen.

At 3/24/10 11:27 PM, TakeNoPrisoners wrote:

At 3/24/10 06:10 PM, Centurion-Ryan wrote: I got their album a while back, and found their music boring, lifeless, and pretty devoid of entertaining qualities.

If you don't find the bizarre nature of the music intriguing most of albums magic is already lost. It's like Nev said, their tech is to create a weird atmosphere and I think it works well. That and it's full of catchy riffs.

And while I'm here I'd like to recommend Nocturnus' The Key to everyone. Kickass oldschool death metal. With keys.

I can vouch for The Key. Top notch album, and should be listened to by any death metal fan. Unless said death metal fan's idea of death metal is yawnworthy bands like Nile, Bloodbath (SWE), and post-AoM Morbid Angel.

At 3/25/10 05:07 PM, Dalnaki wrote:

I can vouch for The Key. Top notch album, and should be listened to by any death metal fan. Unless said death metal fan's idea of death metal is yawnworthy bands like Nile, Bloodbath (SWE), and post-AoM Morbid Angel.

Bloodbath is awesome.