At 6/8/10 01:18 PM, Centurion-Ryan wrote: I dunno, you can kind of tell it's supposed to be him by his eyes, but that's pretty much it. It doesn't really look like any picture Eddie I've seen before.

I think the whole head is enough to convince me that it's Eddie. It may not have a traditional 80s feel like AMOLAD did but this is Maiden in 2010 so I'm sure they wanted to make something with a more modern feel.

It's better than The X Factor or Dance of Death, anyway.

It's miles better. I can't even understand why people are comparing this album cover to them. Sure, you may not like the modern feel it has but going as far as putting it down at the bottom with The X Factor and Dance of Death? That's rather extreme.

At 6/9/10 07:53 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 6/8/10 01:18 PM, Centurion-Ryan wrote: I dunno, you can kind of tell it's supposed to be him by his eyes, but that's pretty much it. It doesn't really look like any picture Eddie I've seen before.

I think the whole head is enough to convince me that it's Eddie. It may not have a traditional 80s feel like AMOLAD did but this is Maiden in 2010 so I'm sure they wanted to make something with a more modern feel.

It's better than The X Factor or Dance of Death, anyway.

It's miles better. I can't even understand why people are comparing this album cover to them. Sure, you may not like the modern feel it has but going as far as putting it down at the bottom with The X Factor and Dance of Death? That's rather extreme.

i actually like the album cover. It looks interesting and something they really hadn't done before. There have been some pretty messed up Eddie designs in the 80s too, like Seventh Son of A Seventh Son. That was a pretty fucked up looking Eddie. It's not on the level of any of the classic Eddie designs (Piece of Mind, Powerslave, Number of the Beast), but it's not bad by any stretch of the imagination.

At 6/9/10 07:53 AM, Bahamut wrote: It's miles better. I can't even understand why people are comparing this album cover to them. Sure, you may not like the modern feel it has but going as far as putting it down at the bottom with The X Factor and Dance of Death? That's rather extreme.

Yeah, I'm kinda warming up to it now.

I still don't like it as a piece of artwork, especially how that even though Eddie's really big, he looks like he's tucked away in the background.

Far be it from me to look too much into things, but I think it's symbolic. I mean, Eddie's been everything; a Pharaoh, a Cyborg, the Grim Reaper, a Pilot, etc. But everything he's been has sort of been familiar and terrestrial. You can recognise what he is each time, and you can recognise it as Eddie. The Final Frontier might be the first Iron Maiden album cover in which Eddie is almost completely unrecognisable. He's a giant, grotesque monster with a bunch of dead aliens in the foreground, gripping what looks like the ship's power source. It's nothing like they've ever done before. To me, it represents the new heights to which Maiden are taking their music. They want it to be an album for 2010; fresh, yet it still has that trademark Iron Maiden style.

Or, I could be completely wrong. Maybe they wanted to have some fun and they thought giant aliens are just cool.

In other news, I got myself Beneath the Massacre's EP and their album Dystopia. I wouldn't recommend them. I checked them out last year and thought they were pretty good, but I don't know what I was thinking. They'd be okay-ish, if not for the breakdowns. The breakdowns that take up at least half of every song.

I think Deathcore is a somewhat derivative genre in general. It tries to take all elements of Death Metal and Metalcore and combine them, instead of just the best bits.

At 6/9/10 11:36 AM, Centurion-Ryan wrote:

I think Deathcore is a somewhat derivative genre in general. It tries to take all elements of Death Metal and Metalcore and combine them, instead of just the best bits.

Even that kind of piece of junk?

There is nothing Death Metal about that kind of piece of shit... They just set there guitars like death metal guitarists, they try to have somewhat similar ambiances in their music... but they fail...
No... Deathcore... most often then not... has nothing to do with real death metal... and plainly fails on all levels...

At 6/9/10 03:02 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 6/9/10 11:36 AM, Centurion-Ryan wrote:

I think Deathcore is a somewhat derivative genre in general. It tries to take all elements of Death Metal and Metalcore and combine them, instead of just the best bits.

Even that kind of piece of junk?

Ha ha. Wow. Holy shit.

It's like, they started off in a breakdown, and then went to another breakdown, then went back to the first breakdown, and then to the second breakdown again.

That's what bothers me about most deathcore. There's very little creativity.

BREEEEEEEE
BREE BREE BREE
DAWJAWINDABLAHHHHHHHHHHH
*arpeggio*
BREE
*dundun dundun TSH*

That's 90% of deathcore right there.

It's a chug-fest...
Plus... their fucking hardcore vocalists always sound like they are fucking angry and on steroids... wtf is wrong with that genre...

Gorod - Programmers of decline

To be fair I think a lot of them are genuinely all on steroids. All the little Deathcore bands I've seen first on the bill all have bald macho frontmen. Totally roidmonkeys.

At 6/9/10 06:02 PM, Nev wrote: To be fair I think a lot of them are genuinely all on steroids. All the little Deathcore bands I've seen first on the bill all have bald macho frontmen. Totally roidmonkeys.

Well..

Something you need to know is that when a musical genre gets popular, there will always be a huge proliferation of shit bands who will try to take advantage of the popularity of the genre. I still think we shouldn't judge the whole genre because of these greedy attention whores.

So if you put all the these bald macho guys and skinny emo kids, there is still authentical people on the deathcore scene. As I said before and I think you guys will agree... is that there is still a vast majority of shit bands on the core scene. Still, there are some good bands amongs the deathcore bands out there.

Aww come on guys, there is some good Deathcore, like All Shall Perish, and, umm, nope, that's all I got.

At 6/9/10 08:55 PM, SomaGuye wrote: Aww come on guys, there is some good Deathcore, like All Shall Perish, and, umm, nope, that's all I got.

Glass Casket?
Through The Eyes Of The Dead?

I guess these two are also quite good :)

At 6/9/10 09:17 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 6/9/10 08:55 PM, SomaGuye wrote: Aww come on guys, there is some good Deathcore, like All Shall Perish, and, umm, nope, that's all I got.

Glass Casket?
Through The Eyes Of The Dead?

I guess these two are also quite good :)

The Agonist... the band with the most beautiful vocalist ever...

Didn't the guy who originally done Maidens artwork die or something? Or did he just stop. I know that it's not the original artist anymore.

Also, how the hell did you not recognize Eddie on the new artwork. I'm not even a fan of Maiden (I listen to them but i'm not too into them), and he was the first thing I noticed.

motherfucking piece of shit Zune isn't working. fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck

At 6/9/10 09:17 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: Through The Eyes Of The Dead?

I forgot about them, I have Malice, it's pretty good.

At 6/10/10 08:44 AM, TheUnwisePoet wrote:

The Agonist... the band with the most beautiful vocalist ever...

First album was good, second one is a chug fest with no kind of worth in the composition. And no vagina is ever going to save this band from failling.

At 6/9/10 11:33 AM, Zodir wrote: like Seventh Son of A Seventh Son.

I always thought the album cover for Seventh Son of a Seventh Son was strange but it still looked awesome.

At 6/10/10 09:50 AM, SpeedMetalSandwich wrote: Didn't the guy who originally done Maidens artwork die or something? Or did he just stop. I know that it's not the original artist anymore.

Nope, he's still alive. He does artwork for other bands as well but like Blind Guardian, Maiden wants to give other artists a chance to draw album covers for them.

Also, how the hell did you not recognize Eddie on the new artwork. I'm not even a fan of Maiden (I listen to them but i'm not too into them), and he was the first thing I noticed.

Thank you SMS. I'm glad I don't feel like I'm in the minority here.

I highly suggest that all the fans of depressive black metal in the Hell go check the band Sui Caedere right now if you don't already know them. I think their stuff is very interresting and you guys might like it :)

Jeez I just didn't think it looked like the traditional eddie.

And now for a fun fact, eddie has his own video game.

Also bands you should all listen to.

Weeping Birth - Extreme Black/ Death metal
Hurle a la mort
Myspace Sadly does not have all of his albums.

Unholy Matrimony - Black Metal

Innocence abusée
Fragment Premier

And I think two of you already listen to Mirrorthrone.
Florilège Lunatique Occultement Révélateur et Néantisation Caduque Engendrée
A Scream To Express The Hate Of A Race

At 6/10/10 02:55 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: I highly suggest that all the fans of depressive black metal in the Hell go check the band Sui Caedere right now if you don't already know them. I think their stuff is very interresting and you guys might like it :)

A little too slow...I know I'd like it if it wasn't depressive/doom. Still good though.

At 6/10/10 02:55 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: I highly suggest that all the fans of depressive black metal in the Hell go check the band Sui Caedere right now if you don't already know them. I think their stuff is very interresting and you guys might like it :)

"Sui caedere" is Latin for "to kill yourself"-it's where we get the word "suicide."

THE MORE YOU KNOW!

At 6/10/10 03:14 PM, TheSporkLord wrote:

Also bands you should all listen to.

Weeping Birth - Extreme Black/ Death metal
Hurle a la mort
Myspace Sadly does not have all of his albums.

Unholy Matrimony - Black Metal

Innocence abusée
Fragment Premier

Will listen later tonight when Im more calm right now I feel like screaming a storm up.

At 6/10/10 06:32 PM, D3NTATUS wrote:

At 6/10/10 02:55 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: I highly suggest that all the fans of depressive black metal in the Hell go check the band Sui Caedere right now if you don't already know them. I think their stuff is very interresting and you guys might like it :)

"Sui caedere" is Latin for "to kill yourself"-it's where we get the word "suicide."

THE MORE YOU KNOW!

..emo black metal?

Also, Duff, are you trying to hide the fact you want us to go kill ourselves :O

At 6/10/10 09:32 PM, SpeedMetalSandwich wrote:

..emo black metal?

Ever heard of Depressive Black Metal? :O

Also, Duff, are you trying to hide the fact you want us to go kill ourselves :O

Haha! Damn you!

DUDE!!! WEEPING BIRTH=JIZZ!!!

no caps.

Talk about good melodic death metal, even Ponos and Nev will have to admit these guys know what they are doing :P

Unmoored - Unspeakable Grief

At 4/15/04 08:28 PM, Goatchrist wrote: ... melodic metal ...

surely that's a contender for the biggest oxymoron ever?

At 6/11/10 12:56 AM, crapatflash wrote: surely that's a contender for the biggest oxymoron ever?

Go be a virgin somewhere else.

At 6/11/10 12:56 AM, crapatflash wrote:

At 4/15/04 08:28 PM, Goatchrist wrote: ... melodic metal ...

surely that's a contender for the biggest oxymoron ever?

How dumb could you possibly be?

May I join this club? And if I can, can you guys tell me exactly what kind of taste in bands I have?

yeah, metal has more of a... TWANG sound to it

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