At 8 hours ago, Spilda-Bongwata wrote: Hey guys.

Great adaptation :) I'll watch more of his stuff !

At 4 hours ago, Sense-Offender wrote: I'm listening to Wiht - Harrowing of the North yet again, while checking on my spaghetti.

This is a fantastic post-rock influenced sludge album with some stoner rock moments. You're missing out if you haven't heard it.

Could you please share it with me ? I can't find a good mediafire link. Thanks brah !

At 1 day ago, Bahamut wrote: May as well consider everything that I've given 5 stars except for an album or two:

Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Helloween - Keepers of the Seven Keys Part 1
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Wintersun - Wintersun

Great choices. Not that the others aren't. I just don't know the others all that well or just don't like them as much as these.

At 1 day ago, Viper50 wrote: hmm lets see what i can think of...
this is gonna be really hard...now i have to think D':
thinking hurts my soul

It really does. It's so hard to abandon so many great albums...

1 Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics (dont ask im starting to be more in love with Electric Wizard i have a few albums on my phone and i listen to them all the time when im not at my computer)

I'd have chosen Dopethrone, really. Why choose Come My Fanaticks?

2 Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
4 Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun
6 Red Fang - Murder The Mountains
7 Sleep - Holy Mountain
9 Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics
10 Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
11 Hammers Of Misfortune - The Bastard
12 Melvins - Houdini

So much Stoner, Doom, Sludge and other heavy, progressive and immervise albums. Damn good choices right there :)

At 1 day ago, rockereaper wrote:

At 12 hours ago, HeavenDuff wrote: So, I'm dumping you on an island. You have an house, a radio system and you can pick 15 albums of your choice. The only albums you will ever hear again. What are they? (I picked 15 because 10 really was too hard for me...)

1. Children Of Bodom - Something Wild
3. Norther - Death Unlimited
4. Ensiferum - Ensiferum

Even though these are nice classics of Melodeath/Power Metal, I wouldn't have chosen any of these. Even though they rock. Your choices aren't bad at all though, I'm just saying that personnaly I wouldn't have chosen these. That Ensiferum album is fucking fantastic !

9. Kalmah - Swamplord
10. Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II
11. Wintersun - Wintersun

Those would fit a little more on my list.

12. Sodom - M-16
13. Judas Priest - Painkiller
14. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

:)

At 1 day ago, Zodir wrote:

That's a hard question. I'd probably go with:
1. Iron Maiden- Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
2. Death- Symbolic
3. Megadeth- Rust in Peace

Classics !

4. Sigh- Scenes from Hell
6. High on Fire- Blessed Black Wings
7. Nobuo Uematsu- Final Fantasy VI Soundtrack (That thing is like 4 Discs, it will take me a while)
8. Symphony X- The Odyssey
10. Morbid Saint- Spectrum of Death
13. Black Sabbath- Master of Reality
14. Judas Priest- Painkiller

I just removed those I don't know that well. Aside from them, these are pretty much all great :) I don't know High On Fire that much or this particular soundtrack by Nobuo Uematsu, but he's a great composer.

At 17 hours ago, Bahamut wrote:

At 12 hours ago, Zodir wrote: 7. Nobuo Uematsu- Final Fantasy VI Soundtrack (That thing is like 4 Discs, it will take me a while)

I actually wasn't considering non-metal albums for my list but if we did have five non-metal, it would be Queen's Greatest Hits, Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King and FFVI and IX soundtracks. Yeah, metal does dominate my music but at least this year I've been picking up loads of prog rock that I should have obtained long ago.

That's what I thought. I knew you didn't consider the non-metal albums for your list ;)

Progressive Rock is so damn sexy! If you haven't listenned to the album The Power And The Glory by Gentle Giant, I recommand you listen to this gem as soon as possible !

Anyway, thanks guys for taking part into my little game :) I'll use these lists to explore some bands I never heard of. Plus, it's cool to know what are the personnal preferences of the different members of the Metal Hell.

Electric Wizard - Funeralopolis

March Metal Madness (2012) - Tournament Selection

Go vote for the good bands... I can't even stand to see Dir En Grey and Avenged Sevenfold sitting at the top of their divisions...

Explosions In The Sky - Six Days At The Bottom Of The Ocean

At 7 hours ago, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 1 day ago, Viper50 wrote: hmm lets see what i can think of...
this is gonna be really hard...now i have to think D':
thinking hurts my soul

It really does. It's so hard to abandon so many great albums...

1 Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics (dont ask im starting to be more in love with Electric Wizard i have a few albums on my phone and i listen to them all the time when im not at my computer)

I'd have chosen Dopethrone, really. Why choose Come My Fanatics?

because i love Come My Fanatics
and Dopethrone was too obvious a choice
and i was either that or Electric Wizard...

2 Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
4 Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun
6 Red Fang - Murder The Mountains
7 Sleep - Holy Mountain
9 Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics
10 Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
11 Hammers Of Misfortune - The Bastard
12 Melvins - Houdini

So much Stoner, Doom, Sludge and other heavy, progressive and immervise albums. Damn good choices right there :)

thanks :P
im starting to get more into those genres of metal
and im totally loving it :D
those specific genres take up a huge chunk of the music i have.

At 2 days ago, HeavenDuff wrote: So, I'm dumping you on an island. You have an house, a radio system and you can pick 15 albums of your choice. The only albums you will ever hear again. What are they? (I picked 15 because 10 really was too hard for me...)

1. Insomnium - Across the Dark
2. Opeth - Watershed
3. Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
4. Cult of Luna - Owlwood
5. Tool - Aenima
6. Alice in Chains - Dirt
7. God is An Astronaut - All is Violent, All is Bright
8. Baroness - Blue Record
9. Lamb of God - Sacrament
10. Children of Bodom - Something Wild
11. Nirvana - Bleach
12. Alcest - Ão/oocailles de Lune
13. TesseracT - One
14. Black Sun Aeon - Darkness Walks Beside Me
15. Bizarra Locomotiva - Ãlbum Negro

But I'm not really sure!

Excited for Symphony x and iced Earth tonight ^__^

The granddaughter of serial killer Arthur Shawcross is a Burzum fan, just saying.

At 1 hour ago, Tobi wrote: The granddaughter of serial killer Arthur Shawcross is a Burzum fan, just saying.

Don't tell the media. They could easily find, and by find I mean create, a connection between the murders and Burzum's music...

At 9 minutes ago, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 1 hour ago, Tobi wrote: The granddaughter of serial killer Arthur Shawcross is a Burzum fan, just saying.

Don't tell the media. They could easily find, and by find I mean create, a connection between the murders and Burzum's music...

I'll admit, I lol'd.

Have any of you dudes dug into the South American metal scene? Cuz I have, and I've found a lot of gems.

So, right now, I'm listening to a band that I just now discovered today. They're a Mexican band called EX, and so far, they're making my head bang....hard. They rock, dudes.

But there's another Mexican band that does a thousand times better than those dudes, and their name is Yaotl Mictlan. I'l give links later.

Listen, kids, you'll do well to pay attention to what I say. Otherwise, You'll be missing out on many, many treats. Since several other certain people are gone, I'm pretty much the ultimate metal nerd here. I'm not happy to be able to say that shit, by the way.

Also, listen to Bruce. He's the only currently (somewhat) active person who has more metal knowledge than myself.

I'll come back and check on this post when I'm sober.

I will just leave my bros with this message, to anybody who is into thrash....

Listen to Driaturas del Mal by Disaster.

Before I go, I must remind everybody here

YAOTL MICTLAN
YAOTL MICTLAN
YAOTL MICTLAN
YAOTL MICTLAN
YAOTL MICTLAN
YAOTL MICTLAN
YAOTL MICTLAN
YAOTL MICTLAN
YAOTL MICTLAN

dr0kn

At 14 hours ago, HeavenDuff wrote: Great choices. Not that the others aren't. I just don't know the others all that well or just don't like them as much as these.

Most of what you commented there could be considered generic choices but these albums are popular for a reason. As for the rest, well, it's always stuff to try out.

Progressive Rock is so damn sexy! If you haven't listenned to the album The Power And The Glory by Gentle Giant, I recommand you listen to this gem as soon as possible !

More progressive rock recommendations? I welcome this a lot so I will look into that album for Gentle Giant. The next prog rock bands I'll be looking into are Gong and Gentle Giant.

At 13 hours ago, HeavenDuff wrote: March Metal Madness (2012) - Tournament Selection

Go vote for the good bands... I can't even stand to see Dir En Grey and Avenged Sevenfold sitting at the top of their divisions...

Explosions In The Sky - Six Days At The Bottom Of The Ocean

Voted for Dir En Grey. Avenged Sevenfold, As I lay Dying, Trivium, Carnifex, Suicide Silence, Slipknot, Killswitch Engage and A Day to remember.

At 13 hours ago, HeavenDuff wrote: March Metal Madness (2012) - Tournament Selection

Go vote for the good bands... I can't even stand to see Dir En Grey and Avenged Sevenfold sitting at the top of their divisions...

Explosions In The Sky - Six Days At The Bottom Of The Ocean

A lot of the division leaders made me cry inside.

Funny that someone here is seeing the Iced Earth / Symphony X / Warbringer tour tonight in NY, I saw it last night in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was awesome as fuck.

Warbringer played six or seven songs, and were pretty tight, despite one of their guitars producing zero sound and the fact their microphone kept making obnoxious feedback.

Symphony X were next, this was their setlist:
1. Iconoclast
2. The End of Innocence
3. Dehumanized
4. Bastards of the Machine
5. When All Is Lost
6. Children of a Faceless God
7. Inferno
8. Electric Messiah
9. Of Sins and Shadows
ENCORE:
10. Eve of Seduction
11. Serpent's Kiss
12. Set The World On Fire

So yeah, pretty shit setlist. Seven Iconoclast songs, three Paradise Lost songs and only two pre-Paradise Lost songs... not only that, but Romeo was a bit buzzed so he totally butchered the solos in Iconoclast as well as pretty much Inferno in entirety.

That all being said, Symphony X's stage presence was phenom\inal last night. Russel Allen has become so good at putting on a show! Also, they added a really fucking sexy intro to Set The World On Fire, that's not on PL, which made me smile.

Then Iced Earth came on... they were flawless.

They completely ignored Framing Armaggedon and Crucible of Man, which is good because those albums are easily their worst, as well as ignored all of The Glorious Burden aside for only "Declaration Day".

From the new album, they played the title track as well as Anthem, Days of Rage, V and Dark City.

From the classic first six albums they played Dante's Inferno, Iced Earth, Angel's Holocaust, Burning Times, Slave to the Dark, Stand Alone, When The Night Falls, Damien and Watching Over Me.

From the 2004/2007/2008 albums, the only song they played was Declaration Day, which was excellent as those albums were largely suckish.

Also, Stu Block's vocals are fucking amazing. He rapes both Barlow and Owens when it comes to live performances.

Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes (three-part trilogy)

Just spent half of my birthday money on Tsjuder's new album "Legion Helvete" and the album's T-shirt. Just to support Tsjuder and Season of Mist even more, I bought each item separately instead of buying the bundle that has a little more of a discounted price. Am I crazy or what?

Anyway, anyone listen to it? They reunited fairly recently and I was happy as hell to hear it. One of the great black metal bands ever, reunited. It's fucking sweet.

Tsjuder - Slakt

At 8 hours ago, Sense-Offender wrote: Listen, kids, you'll do well to pay attention to what I say. Otherwise, You'll be missing out on many, many treats. Since several other certain people are gone, I'm pretty much the ultimate metal nerd here. I'm not happy to be able to say that shit, by the way.

Also, listen to Bruce. He's the only currently (somewhat) active person who has more metal knowledge than myself.

The hell Sense? Why are you getting so pretentious? We know a lot of stuff ourselves...

Listen to Driaturas del Mal by Disaster.

k.

Before I go, I must remind everybody here

YAOTL MICTLAN

k.

At 7 hours ago, Bahamut wrote: Most of what you commented there could be considered generic choices but these albums are popular for a reason. As for the rest, well, it's always stuff to try out.

That was the point, in fact. I wanted to know not only what the other guys favorite albums were, but also what albums I didnâEUTMt know yet I should check out.

More progressive rock recommendations? I welcome this a lot so I will look into that album for Gentle Giant. The next prog rock bands I'll be looking into are Gong and Gentle Giant.

You probably already know Kansas, but if you don't, their album Leftoverture is a masterpiece. Otherwise you already know King Crimson, I suppose you know UFO, so the next step is definitely Gentle Giant. The Power And The Glory is a great album. I don't know them well enough to recommand any other of their material though. I'm still digging around to find some more.

At 6 hours ago, DeIirium wrote: Voted for Dir En Grey. Avenged Sevenfold, As I lay Dying, Trivium, Carnifex, Suicide Silence, Slipknot, Killswitch Engage and A Day to remember.

I bet :P

At 6 hours ago, Zodir wrote: A lot of the division leaders made me cry inside.

Dir En Grey :'(

Avenged Sevenfold :'(

Whitechapel :'(

At 3 hours ago, AniMetal wrote: Symphony X were next, this was their setlist:
1. Iconoclast
2. The End of Innocence
3. Dehumanized
4. Bastards of the Machine
5. When All Is Lost
6. Children of a Faceless God
7. Inferno
8. Electric Messiah
9. Of Sins and Shadows
ENCORE:
10. Eve of Seduction
11. Serpent's Kiss
12. Set The World On Fire

So yeah, pretty shit setlist. Seven Iconoclast songs, three Paradise Lost songs and only two pre-Paradise Lost songs... not only that, but Romeo was a bit buzzed so he totally butchered the solos in Iconoclast as well as pretty much Inferno in entirety.

I can't believe that setlist... It's terrible. I understand that a band would like to play more of their most recent material when they play live, but that... I can't believe ! At least tell us before you begin your tour ! I'm pretty sure a lot of fans were dissapointed. And I'm pretty happy I skipped this tour !

At 11 hours ago, AniMetal wrote: Symphony X were next, this was their setlist:

If that was the setlist they had for the London, I'd be happy to have not seen them after all. Yeah, turns out that was the setlist for the UK shows as well. Not that I have anything against Iconoclast but taking up the majority of the setlist is overdoing it and I'd hear hear songs from their other albums as well. When Blind Guardian played in London two years back, they balanced their setlist well with both old and new songs. Only Battalions of Fear was left out.

Also, Stu Block's vocals are fucking amazing. He rapes both Barlow and Owens when it comes to live performances.

It's not the vocalist that concerns me for Iced Earth, it all depends on the overall inspiration of them. I'm not faulting Stu Block but whenever I listen to Dystopia, it'll be all down to how good the music is and not because Stu Block replaced Barlow. And besides, like you said, The Crucible of Man sucks so it's not instantly justified just because Barlow returned.

At 7 hours ago, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 7 hours ago, Bahamut wrote: Most of what you commented there could be considered generic choices but these albums are popular for a reason. As for the rest, well, it's always stuff to try out.

That was the point, in fact. I wanted to know not only what the other guys favorite albums were, but also what albums I didnâEUTMt know yet I should check out.

Happy hunting. :)

You probably already know Kansas

Kansas I know but have yet to try.

Otherwise you already know King Crimson, I suppose you know UFO, so the next step is definitely Gentle Giant.

You were right on UFO as well.

The Power And The Glory is a great album. I don't know them well enough to recommand any other of their material though. I'm still digging around to find some more.

I'll try and listen to more prog rock albums online so I can catch up with them.

Iced Earth was so fucking incredible that it balances out the painful mediocrity that was Symphony X.

Seriously, Iced Earth alone made the 45 dollar ticket worth it.

Iced Earth - A Question of Heaven

At 6 hours ago, Bahamut wrote: If that was the setlist they had for the London, I'd be happy to have not seen them after all. Yeah, turns out that was the setlist for the UK shows as well. Not that I have anything against Iconoclast but taking up the majority of the setlist is overdoing it and I'd hear hear songs from their other albums as well. When Blind Guardian played in London two years back, they balanced their setlist well with both old and new songs. Only Battalions of Fear was left out.

I'm really surprised Symphony X did such a thing. I'm really unhappy with such a decision. At least they could have told their fans they were going on a Iconoclast/Paradise Lost Tour. Not that these albums suck, but seriously, with such a discography you have to expect some of your fans to be there for your older stuff.

Kansas I know but have yet to try.

I don't think they have so many good albums, but Leftoverture is classic from the first second to the last.

You were right on UFO as well.

Rock Bottom ! Rock Bottom !! Rock Bottom !!!

At 5 minutes ago, AniMetal wrote: Iced Earth was so fucking incredible that it balances out the painful mediocrity that was Symphony X.

I doubt their performance can be qualified of "painful mediocrity", really. Except for the titles selection and the fact that Romeo missed a few solos, was it all that bad?

Seriously, Iced Earth alone made the 45 dollar ticket worth it.

I don't doubt it. But what originaly wanted to make me go to that gig was the presence of Symphony X...

UFO - Oh My

At 13 minutes ago, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 6 hours ago, Bahamut wrote: Kansas I know but have yet to try.

I don't think they have so many good albums, but Leftoverture is classic from the first second to the last.

i agree with the Leftoverture
its a great album
my favorite Kansas albums are that and Point Of Know Return.
but thats just me

At 4 minutes ago, Viper50 wrote:

At 13 minutes ago, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 6 hours ago, Bahamut wrote: Kansas I know but have yet to try.

I don't think they have so many good albums, but Leftoverture is classic from the first second to the last.

i agree with the Leftoverture
its a great album
my favorite Kansas albums are that and Point Of Know Return.
but thats just me

I think these two are considered their best albums. I don't like Point Of Know Return quite as much as I love Leftoverture. I find it to be kind of lacking in terms of progression and quality riffs. It's kind of cheesy two. Leftoverture to me, is just perfect :O

Anenged sevenfold and thats all

At 53 seconds ago, Thedark wrote: Anenged sevenfold and thats all

.

Nah i was just kidding man

At 3 minutes ago, Thedark wrote: Nah i was just kidding man

With a Death Note profile pic, you can never be too careful.

At 1 hour ago, Tobi wrote:

At 3 minutes ago, Thedark wrote: Nah i was just kidding man

With a Death Note profile pic, you can never be too careful.

That's also what made me think he wasn't trolling.

I love Iconoclast and it's easily one of my favorites from Symphony X so I really enjoyed the show. Russel Allen is an energy fueled beast and gave a spectacular performance. Iced Earth however definitively stole the show for me. Dante's Inferno and Damien are two performances I'm gonna remember for a long time. Stu Block is Iced Earth's best singer, he fucking kicks ass.

At 16 hours ago, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 6 hours ago, Bahamut wrote: If that was the setlist they had for the London, I'd be happy to have not seen them after all. Yeah, turns out that was the setlist for the UK shows as well. Not that I have anything against Iconoclast but taking up the majority of the setlist is overdoing it and I'd hear hear songs from their other albums as well. When Blind Guardian played in London two years back, they balanced their setlist well with both old and new songs. Only Battalions of Fear was left out.

I'm really surprised Symphony X did such a thing. I'm really unhappy with such a decision. At least they could have told their fans they were going on a Iconoclast/Paradise Lost Tour. Not that these albums suck, but seriously, with such a discography you have to expect some of your fans to be there for your older stuff.

Exactly. I would have been disappointed if I attended their UK shows and only got Iconoclast/Paradise Lost setlist. That reminds me, I never even picked up Paradise Lost.

Kansas I know but have yet to try.

I don't think they have so many good albums, but Leftoverture is classic from the first second to the last.

I'll be sure to give it a shot. For Gentle Giant, I wasn't able to find The Power and the Glory but I did listen to the debut album. Good stuff on there. Along with that, I've listened to Gong's Flying Teapot which is also worth hearing.

At 15 hours ago, Thedark wrote: Anenged sevenfold and thats all

Hopefully this crap gets out and stays out.

Listening to Mastodon's Leviathan while reading Moby Dick. I am so metal.

goin cd hunting tomorrow :D

but the cds aren't for me
their late birthday presents for my girlfriend :P
im gonna be looking for a few of the following (not all of these that would be insane)...
Red Harvest or A Cruel World by Bloodsimple
something by Falkenbach
something by Hellyeah
XIII by Mushroomhead
Teratologie or Autopsie by Eths
Septembre Et Ses Dernieres Pensees by Les Discrets
or L.D. 50 by Mudvayne

this is gonna be fun and should take up a chunk of my day :D

So, Summer Slaughter tour this summer has a chance of being quite good!

So far, the confirmed bands are:

Cannibal Corpse
Between The Buried And Me
The Faceless
Goatwhore
Veil of Maya
Exhumed
+ two more confirmed bands T.B.A.
+ two more bands that get the most votes on the fan-vote.

So yeah, fan vote bands:

Aegaeon
Battlecross
Cerebral Bore
Enfold Darkness
Fallujah
Fit For An Autopsy
Hour of Penance
I Declare War
Pathology
Vildjharta

VOTE HERE: Go to the voting tab.

And vote for Hour of Penance and/or Vildhjarta!