At 3/29/11 07:39 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 3/28/11 11:54 PM, Dalnaki wrote:

At 3/28/11 07:31 PM, Bahamut wrote: Thanks to a friend of mine for bringing up Ghost from Sweden. The retro metal thing may be a gimmick at this point but this is one band that has the sound production and atmosphere right.

Ghost isn't a gimmick band, though. Genuine oldschool worship.

I wasn't saying the band was a possible gimmick (although the band appearance is very silly) but rather the whole 80s metal revival we've had over the last few years. Gimmick or not, I still enjoy these bands.

Speaking of retro bands, ever listen to The Devil's Blood? While not exactly metal, they're still great and worth hearing. 70s psych rock worship with female vocals.

Guys from Agalloch are passing my video around :P

At 3/26/11 04:34 PM, JaY11 wrote: Although people on /mu/ can be dicks at times, they are useful for finding really decent, underrated metal.

Fuck, thankyou so much /mu/, my faith in you is restored.

At 3/29/11 11:23 AM, TheDaemonicPoet wrote: Check this.

Metal-archives says they're Gothic Avant-Garde Metal, and it sounds cool in my opinion.

I do have to say sir that every band you post I kind of cringe at.

Today, I've been Metal as fuck !!!

got lots more metal

Tankard - Kings of Beer
Tankard - Beast of Bourbon
Tankard - Beauty and the Beer
Korpiklaani - Voice of Wilderness
Korpiklaani - Tales Along This Road
Bulldozer - Day of Wrath
dot(.) - dot(.)
dot(.) - Smoking
dot(.) - Electric Weedland
Kekal - Acidity
Kekal - the Habit of Fire
Kekal - a Thousand Thoughts of Violence
Kekal - the Painful Experience
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Planet X - Universe
Ephel Duath - Phormula
Ephel Duath - Through My Dogs Eyes
Municipal Waste - Waste 'em All
Municipal Waste - the Art of Partying
Vanden Plas - Seraphic Clockwork

Swedish black metallers MARDUK recently completed recording three new songs for an upcoming EP. Dubbed Iron Dawn, the EP is set for release via Regain Records on May 27, 2011, at the Maryland Deathfest where the band will make their long-anticipated appearance. The EP will also be available at the six additional North American shows to follow with a worldwide street date of May 30, 2011.

Additionally, the EP will be issued as a digipak and on 12" vinyl (limited to 500 copies worldwide). Further details to be announced soon. View the cover art here.

http://www.thegauntlet.com/article/780/2 1329/MARDUK-to-Release-3-Song-EP

At 3/29/11 04:45 PM, Dalnaki wrote: Speaking of retro bands, ever listen to The Devil's Blood? While not exactly metal, they're still great and worth hearing. 70s psych rock worship with female vocals.

Metal or not, it's still pretty good.

At 3/30/11 08:24 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: Today, I've been Metal as fuck !!!

Sounds like my daily life except for different bands. :P

At 3/30/11 10:11 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: Korpiklaani - Voice of Wilderness

This one I heard a while ago and I found it to be good.

Opeth - Blackwater Park

You only got this now?

At 3/31/11 08:06 AM, Bahamut wrote: You only got this now?

Yeah, I've never been that into Opeth. There are some songs I've known and liked a lot for a while like the Moor from Still Life and the Drapery Falls from Blackwater Park, but I never listened to them that much. I also recently got My Arms, Your Hearse. Nothing really stuck out for me. I haven't listened to all of Blackwater Park yet.

At 3/31/11 08:06 AM, Bahamut wrote: Sounds like my daily life except for different bands. :P

There is more than this, but I wanted to share these because they are some of my favorite.
Total, I listenned to something like 7 hours of music yesterday... If you manage to do this everyday, than you have no friends, no job, no family, no girlfriend, no school and no homeworks to do.

At 3/31/11 12:23 AM, smeagol1 wrote: the six additional North American shows to follow with a worldwide street date of May 30, 2011.

God damnit they play today in IL and I had no idea.... and I have to work 3-10...... FUCK!

Korn.

At 3/31/11 07:11 PM, MudkipsPiano wrote: I need some fucking brutal death metal, preferably about brutally torturing women while they're pleading for their lives. Any band recommendations?

Blood Red Throne? They used to put these useless and pathetic samples in their songs back when they started. It sucks and ruins the music, but you might like it :)

At 3/31/11 07:11 PM, MudkipsPiano wrote: I need some fucking brutal death metal, preferably about brutally torturing women while they're pleading for their lives. Any band recommendations?

Annotions of an Autopsy.

I turned 18 today.

And had two lines of Charlie Sheen's breakfast for breakfast.

First album I listened to whilst being 18: Solefald - Neonism.

Fucking superb album, love it. It's like the most amazing painting I've ever seen. Except musically.

But that was at midnight to one, to kick off today, it's LORD WEIRD SLOUGH FEG: TRAVELER

Traveler fucking RULES.

At 3/31/11 11:32 PM, PenisClown wrote: I turned 18 today.

And had two lines of Charlie Sheen's breakfast for breakfast.

Happy birthday man, you can now legally do many different things depending on where you live.

At 4/1/11 12:13 AM, TheThinWhale wrote: Happy birthday man, you can now legally do many different things depending on where you live.

All of which he did beforehand. Haha.

If anybody is interested Between The Buried and Me's new EP is available for streaming on Metal Sucks.

I personally am trying not to listen to it until it arrives in the mail.

At 3/31/11 11:46 AM, HeavenDuff wrote: Total, I listenned to something like 7 hours of music yesterday... If you manage to do this everyday, than you have no friends, no job, no family, no girlfriend, no school and no homeworks to do.

I can only do it for most days. I've got two days of working and one dedicated day to friends.

At 3/31/11 11:32 PM, PenisClown wrote: I turned 18 today.

You were born on April Fools? Happy Birthday if that's the case!

At 4/1/11 11:30 AM, batman64 wrote: Tear it up and keep it Heavy.
Peace.

You look pretty badass with that silver gauntlet. :)

How, how does this guy have almost 6000 subscribers? Why are people so stupid?

At 4/1/11 08:13 PM, SomaGuye wrote: How, how does this guy have almost 6000 subscribers? Why are people so stupid?

I hope that idiot gets beaten up at school. Also, people are ust that stupid. There's no reason to it. It's one of the facts of life.

At 4/1/11 08:47 PM, Dalnaki wrote:

At 4/1/11 08:13 PM, SomaGuye wrote: How, how does this guy have almost 6000 subscribers? Why are people so stupid?

I hope that idiot gets beaten up at school. Also, people are ust that stupid. There's no reason to it. It's one of the facts of life.

Wait, hold on. Does his shirt say I heart grindcore? He doesn't even know what grind is. Fucking scenekids.

At 4/1/11 08:13 PM, SomaGuye wrote: How, how does this guy have almost 6000 subscribers? Why are people so stupid?

Cause there is at least 6000 other "awesome kids with fringes like him" who will give him support :)

At 4/2/11 01:43 AM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 4/1/11 08:13 PM, SomaGuye wrote: How, how does this guy have almost 6000 subscribers? Why are people so stupid?

Cause there is at least 6000 other "awesome kids with fringes like him" who will give him support :)

Forget it guys, let them have fun listening to core, and let's have fun listening to metal.

Hey there guys, name your top 10 metal bands. ;D

1. Paradise Lost
2. Running Wild
3. Testament
4. Atheist
5. Suffocation
6. Tankard
7. Sodom
8. Alcest
9. Deicide
10. Cathedral

It tends to change every now and then...

At 3/31/11 07:19 PM, AllMightyBruce wrote: Korn.

I love Korn..... No I'm not joking I really love Korn

At 4/2/11 12:23 PM, Vectom wrote: Hey there guys, name your top 10 metal bands. ;D

Damn I never can make my mind up when it comes to favorite band.
In no order.... Exhumed, Acid Bath, Ensiferum, Amon Amarth, Suicidal Tendencies, Slayer, Obituary, Morbid Angel, Down, Immortal.

At 4/1/11 11:30 AM, batman64 wrote: Happy Birthday Ponos bro.
Tear it up and keep it Heavy.
Peace.

Threw a big party and my stoner metal band Troll played, I got fucking wasted as fuck and it was a good night. I'm still recovering, it was that monstrous.

At 4/1/11 12:31 PM, Bahamut wrote: You were born on April Fools? Happy Birthday if that's the case!

Pretty weird birth date hey.

At 4/2/11 10:26 PM, Xarnor wrote: So guys, what band/album do you especially like the guitar sound on?

Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Ulver - Bergtatt
Anything that King Buzzo ever does.
Bongzilla - Stash

And a few hundred more or whatever 0_o

At 4/3/11 01:26 AM, Xarnor wrote:

At 4/2/11 11:54 PM, PenisClown wrote: Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Ulver - Bergtatt

Seriously? I didn't know that anyone actually preferred that bland, outdated sound.

I take it you seem to think guitar tone has only gotten "better" with modern production values. I am guitarist, a musician, and an artist above all. When recording guitar, finding an aesthetically unique guitar sound is an exciting art form.

Guitar recorded in the past is pleasing to my ear. Understanding the influence of guitar tones and how they have shaped and inspired future music is enjoyable. The classic albums of the past have great tones.

The way modern big budget metalcore, hardcore, and deathcore is recorded today is what I consider bland. A lot of bands guitars sound similar, a lot of modern bands production is similar. And a lot of it is squeaky clean and over produced, pop and dance music production values seeping in to the veins of the once great metal genre.

Modern big budget trendcore bands like BMTH, Parkway, Amity Affliction, Suicide Silence, Bullet, they all record their winy ass pussy core like Britney Spears would, making it appealing to a broad spectrum of people so as to make more money. And most are just kiddies being told how they should sound, instead of actually giving a shit and having a say about what they sound like.

Old school metal was recorded in so many interesting and awesome ways, nowadays it can be recorded really shit.

Metalcore truly has stained how great metal was, because when people think of metal, they don't think of the greats, they think of Bring Me The Horizon.

Sick albums of today list ya'll should gander at:

Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh
At the Gates - The Red In The Sky Is Ours (About 500 times better than Soulside Journey.)
Lesbian - Power Hor (Sensey is correct, this is legendary)

At 4/2/11 10:26 PM, Xarnor wrote: So guys, what band/album do you especially like the guitar sound on?

These are mine (Band - Album)

Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
Bongripper - Satan Worshipping Doom
Blotted Science - The Machinations Of Dementia
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Dream Theater - Images And Words
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Gris - Il était une forêt
If These Trees Could Talk - If These Trees Could Talk (Post Rock band)
Kalmah - Swampsong
Morbid Saint - Spectrum Of Death
Origin - Antithesis
Primus - Antipop (Funk)
Spastic Ink - Ink Complete
Sunn O))) - The Black One
Ulver - Bergtatt
Wolves In The Throne Room - Black Cascade

At 4/3/11 02:40 AM, PenisClown wrote:

At 4/3/11 01:26 AM, Xarnor wrote:

At 4/2/11 11:54 PM, PenisClown wrote: Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Ulver - Bergtatt

Seriously? I didn't know that anyone actually preferred that bland, outdated sound.

I take it you seem to think guitar tone has only gotten "better" with modern production values. I am guitarist, a musician, and an artist above all. When recording guitar, finding an aesthetically unique guitar sound is an exciting art form.

Ponos is right. Bergtatt as one of the best production I have ever heard. The guitar sounds great on this record. And overall, this is probably the Ulver album with the best production, if not, the best Black/Folk Metal production I have ever heard. It remains unmatched. And only Agalloch as found a way to somewhat bring us back to this kind of sound with From Which Of This Oak and Pale Folklore. And before Ponos or anybody gets mad at me, I didn't say it's the same, but I like how both gets a very good feeling from the production.

Listenning to bands like August Burns Red and usually most metalcore bands, I feel that the production makes it plastic... and "fake" if you know what I mean. It's so clean... it feels like silicon tits to me... While it makes it bigger, it's not a garantuee of quality.

Guitar recorded in the past is pleasing to my ear. Understanding the influence of guitar tones and how they have shaped and inspired future music is enjoyable. The classic albums of the past have great tones.

This is why I was against the re-recording of Focus, by Cynic. To me, the original production was great, and it only got worst with the years.

The way modern big budget metalcore, hardcore, and deathcore is recorded today is what I consider bland. A lot of bands guitars sound similar, a lot of modern bands production is similar. And a lot of it is squeaky clean and over produced, pop and dance music production values seeping in to the veins of the once great metal genre.

Haha! It's funny you say so, cause I didn't read your whole post before starting to write my reply, and I've already stated previously, how I dislike metalcore's production. The Over-Production is what kills the music. It makes the music sounds very bad.

Modern big budget trendcore bands like BMTH, Parkway, Amity Affliction, Suicide Silence, Bullet, they all record their winy ass pussy core like Britney Spears would, making it appealing to a broad spectrum of people so as to make more money. And most are just kiddies being told how they should sound, instead of actually giving a shit and having a say about what they sound like.

Well said :P

Old school metal was recorded in so many interesting and awesome ways, nowadays it can be recorded really shit.

Most important, is that all bands had a different sound. The production was part of the writting process. You would not only write the riffs, drum paterns and stuff like that, but also work on the sound, the production and the ambience it would create, along with the feeling you want to share with the listenners.

Metalcore truly has stained how great metal was, because when people think of metal, they don't think of the greats, they think of Bring Me The Horizon.

True :'( And that really kills me...

Ponos is definitely right. And I feel there should be a lot more people reading these lines, cause he said all that needed to be said about music production and quality.

Believe it or not, Bergtatt is probably the album with the BEST recording quality for all metal albums. That is at least... In my humble opinion.

At 4/2/11 10:26 PM, Xarnor wrote: Also, I've been wanting to check out some more thrash metal. I've heard a lot about Slayer, and I checked them out once on iTunes and was unimpressed. I'm planning on giving them another shot; what albums should I check out?

You'd be all good if you checked out Reign in Blood and nothing else except for maybe Seasons in the Abyss.

At 4/3/11 02:40 AM, PenisClown wrote:

At 4/3/11 01:26 AM, Xarnor wrote:

At 4/2/11 11:54 PM, PenisClown wrote: Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Ulver - Bergtatt

Seriously? I didn't know that anyone actually preferred that bland, outdated sound.

I take it you seem to think guitar tone has only gotten "better" with modern production values. I am guitarist, a musician, and an artist above all. When recording guitar, finding an aesthetically unique guitar sound is an exciting art form.

To me, it's nothing to do with sound production but for Emperor's In the Nightside Eclipse, it's rather unimpressive to me except for the first track. I kept hearing good things about the song I Am the Black Wizards but what's so good about this song?