At 4/15/13 11:23 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: Bahamut is gone :'(

It's so sad. I feel like I don't even know him anymore. I mean, he's always been there you know?

At 4/16/13 06:39 PM, Zodir wrote:

At 4/15/13 11:23 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: Bahamut is gone :'(

It's so sad. I feel like I don't even know him anymore. I mean, he's always been there you know?

I talk to Bahamut all the time. He's quite the jolly chap, but he has limited internet since he is between jobs right now and has been floating from temp gig to temp gig for a while.

At 4/16/13 07:37 PM, ElGhoulio wrote: I talk to Bahamut all the time. He's quite the jolly chap, but he has limited internet since he is between jobs right now and has been floating from temp gig to temp gig for a while.

He changed identity, but believe me... he's still around!

John Cage - A Valentine Out Of Season

Not really "metal" but a band I listen to called YAWN (yes its in all caps for some reason ._.) finally started releasing more music.
They only had one song out for the longest time called A Horse Called Jetpack.
If anyone wants to check em out you can find their stuff here.

I don't know if you guys remember, but a while back I gave you guys this situation :

If you were to be dropped on an island with 15 albums of your choice and that those would be the only records you could listen to for the rest of your life, what would they be (Not just metal albums, anything of any genre).

And if you guys are like me, you most probably saved that list somewhere on your hard drive :P So what I wanted to do today was to ask you guys to make a new list, and not look at your previous list and when you are done, compare your choices and post them in here. I was wondering if the choices I made back then, would have been good choices, and of course, if I end up with the same albums... it will mean that they were relatively good choices!

So, if you'd like to particapte, feel free to do so! Here's my new list.

April 2013

Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F (sharp) A (sharp) Infinity
Ulver - Perdition City
Dream Theater - Images And Words
Les Cowboys Fringats - L'expedition
If These Trees Could Talk - Above The Earth, Below The Sky
Benighted - Insane Cephalic Production
Kansas - Leftoverture
edIT - Crying Over Pros for No Reason
Spastic Ink - Ink Complete
Agalloch - The Mantle
Cynic - Focus
ISIS - In The Absence Of Truth
Blood Red Throne - Altered Genesis
Sigh - Scorn Defeat

Compared to:

March 2012 (I'll put a * before those that remained the same)

* If These Trees Could Talk - Above the Earth, Below the Sky
* Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
Agalloch - Pale Folklore
* Dream Theater - Images And Words
* Les Cowboys Fringats - L'expédition
* Kansas - Leftoverture
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
Benighted - Icon
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles
* Blood Red Throne - Altered Genesis
Symphony X - The Odyssey
Kalmah - Swampsong
Blotted Science - The Machinations Of Dementia
* edIT - Crying Over Pros For No Reason
* Ulver - Perdition City

That's 8 ou of 15 that I would have kept. So those seem to be good choices! But out of the 7 I removed, three of those were replaced by album of the same band. Those would be Agalloch - Pale Folklore replaced by The Mantle, GY!BE - Yanqui U.X.O replaced by F (sharp) A (sharp) Infinity, and Benighted - Icon replaced by Insane Cephalic Production.

Give it a try if you still have that oooold list from March 2012 :P

Leeches Of Lore - Child In Time

At 4/17/13 04:37 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: I don't know if you guys remember, but a while back I gave you guys this situation :

If you were to be dropped on an island with 15 albums of your choice and that those would be the only records you could listen to for the rest of your life, what would they be (Not just metal albums, anything of any genre).

Took me forever but I finally found my old list.

April 2013

1. Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics
2. Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
3. Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun
4. Stoned Jesus - Seven Thunder Roar
5. Red Fang - Murder The Mountains
6. Sleep - Holy Mountain
7. Dust - Hard Attack
8. Unida - Coping With The Urban Coyote
9. Truckfighters - Gravity X
10. Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains
12. Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
13. Priestess - Hello Master
14. Yes - Close To The Edge
15. Radar Men From The Moon - Intergalactic Dada & Space Trombones

Compared to:

March 2012 (I'll put a * before those that remained the same)

1. Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics*
2. Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
3. Nirvana - Bleach
4. Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun*
5. Stoned Jesus - First Communion
6. Red Fang - Murder The Mountains*
7. Sleep - Holy Mountain*
8. Dust - Hard Attack*
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
13. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
14. Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains*
15. Korpiklaani - Karkelo

I'm curious as to what anyone here's opinion is on this.

New Black Sabbath.
Also just a bit of a warning. Its a tad slow and boring til like 6:30 into the song.

also no solos ._.

At 4/18/13 10:53 AM, Viper50 wrote: I'm curious as to what anyone here's opinion is on this.

"315 students, or 57 percent of the population sample declared themselves as metal fans, putting metalheads in the clear majority"

Obviously if your sampling sucks so much, you can't have good results...
No, there is not 57% of metalheads in the population and if they are sampling in high school, which it kind of looks like, the results will obviously suck.

At least, they made the effort of considering various metal genres and subgenres, so the test results might be interresting once you have eliminated Rage Against The Machine, Marylin Manson, Slipknot, Deftones, Bring Me The Horizon and all that wannabe metal stuff that really shouldn't count in the first place, but that they obviously did count in the testings...

At 4/17/13 04:37 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: So, if you'd like to particapte, feel free to do so! Here's my new list.

well alrighty (no specific order)

1. Meshuggah- Catch 33
2. Between the Buried and Me- Colors
3. Black Sabbath- Paranoid
4. Fallujah- The Harvest Wombs
5. Gojira- From Mars to Sirius
6. Blotted Science- The Machinations of Dementia
7. The Faceless- Planetary Duality
8. Decapitated- Organic Hallucinosis
9. Powerslave- Iron Maiden
10. High on Fire- De Vermis Mysteriis
11. Mastodon- Leviathan
12. Slayer- Reign in Blood
13. Necrophagist- Epitaph
14. Nile- Those Whom the Gods Detest
15. Animals as Leaders- Animals as Leaders

At 4/18/13 10:53 AM, Viper50 wrote: I'm curious as to what anyone here's opinion is on this.

Metal was all I had when I was anxious and depressed.

At 4/15/13 11:23 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: Bahamut is gone :'(

Good riddance. :P

At 4/16/13 07:37 PM, ElGhoulio wrote: I talk to Bahamut all the time. He's quite the jolly chap, but he has limited internet since he is between jobs right now and has been floating from temp gig to temp gig for a while.

Actually, limited internet was only because the flat down in London doesn't get it until next week and the best I can use with my phone is to check on Twitter and Facebook. As for the whole job thing, lack of it just gives me loads of spare time and at least helped to see the live shows from this week. However, I do get fed up with being stuck in the house all day long so I really want to get something.

At 4/18/13 10:53 AM, Viper50 wrote: I'm curious as to what anyone here's opinion is on this.

Fuck reports like these. One of the comments got it spot on. Depression can happen regardless of what you listen to so don't make metal a target. The idiots that spew out shit like this deserve to get fired.

At 4/18/13 04:19 PM, Viper50 wrote: New Black Sabbath.
Also just a bit of a warning. Its a tad slow and boring til like 6:30 into the song.

also no solos ._.

Iommi good, Ozzy bad. I expected it to be that way.

Storm Thorgerson died.

At 4/18/13 08:17 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: At least, they made the effort of considering various metal genres and subgenres, so the test results might be interresting once you have eliminated Rage Against The Machine, Marylin Manson, Slipknot, Deftones, Bring Me The Horizon and all that wannabe metal stuff that really shouldn't count in the first place, but that they obviously did count in the testings...

Yeah but if you try to tell some High School kids that those bands aren't metal they'll get all pissy about it -_-
Same goes for Asking Alexandria and shitty bands like that.

At 4/18/13 11:07 PM, Twone wrote: Metal was all I had when I was anxious and depressed.

Metal has helped me when I was depressed ._. but I've never been depressed and shit like that because of metal.

At 4/19/13 10:00 AM, FromADistance wrote: Fuck reports like these. One of the comments got it spot on. Depression can happen regardless of what you listen to so don't make metal a target. The idiots that spew out shit like this deserve to get fired.

Indeed they do. But its not going to happen ._.
Then again its Ultimate-Guitar.com they fuck up a bunch of stuff all the time...

Iommi good, Ozzy bad. I expected it to be that way.

Well Ozzy hasn't exactly been at his best singing wise in the past couple years so its not much of a shocker there.
And fucking YouTube apparently blocked the only version of God Is Dead? without any of those "IHEARTRADIOONDEMAND"s in it other than this one I found that has some dude talking over the first minute or so of the song.

At 4/17/13 04:37 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:
So, if you'd like to particapte, feel free to do so! Here's my new list.

I don't have an old list, but I figure it's fun to do stuff like this so here's my list as of April 20th, 2013. In no particular order.

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
New Order - Power, Corruption, and Lies
Tears for Fears - The Hurting
Joy Division - Closer
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Death - Leprosy
U2 - Boy
C418 - Minecraft Vol. Alpha
Nokturnal Mortum - Goat Horns
Attomica - Attomica
Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
The Cure - Disintegration
Burzum - Filosofem
Brian Eno - Another Green World
U2 - War

A good mix, I suppose.

So Black Sabbath started their tour and played two songs from 13. God Is Dead? and End Of The Beginning.
The video quality is pretty shitty but you can get the gist of what the song sounds like.

At 4/16/13 12:42 AM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 4/15/13 11:56 PM, Viper50 wrote:

At 4/15/13 11:23 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: Bahamut is gone :'(

Well....hes technically still here ya know ._.

I know :) He's now an Emo/Doom Metal fan!

WHAAAAAAAAAAT?!!!!! I go on hiatus from this group in search of Odin's Knowledge and this is what i hear?!

In case you haven't heard NEW AMON AMARTH ALBUM!!!! Amon Amarth-Deciever of The Gods

Hey guys, just wanted to share this with you...
I'm very happy to tell the Metal Hell that I have completed my bachelor degree in political science!

:)

At 4/21/13 01:31 AM, HeavenDuff wrote: Hey guys, just wanted to share this with you...
I'm very happy to tell the Metal Hell that I have completed my bachelor degree in political science!

)

Congratulations

At 4/17/13 04:37 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: I don't know if you guys remember, but a while back I gave you guys this situation :

If you were to be dropped on an island with 15 albums of your choice and that those would be the only records you could listen to for the rest of your life, what would they be (Not just metal albums, anything of any genre).

And if you guys are like me, you most probably saved that list somewhere on your hard drive :P So what I wanted to do today was to ask you guys to make a new list, and not look at your previous list and when you are done, compare your choices and post them in here. I was wondering if the choices I made back then, would have been good choices, and of course, if I end up with the same albums... it will mean that they were relatively good choices!

So, if you'd like to particapte, feel free to do so! Here's my new list.

Hmmm... all right here is my new list:
1. Iron Maiden- Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
2. Death- Symbolic
3. Heathen- Victims of Deception
4. Sigh- Scenes from Hell
5.Voivod- Nothingface
6. High on Fire- Blessed Black Wings
7. Final Fantasy VI OST
8. Symphony X- V: The New Mythology Suite
9. Ayreon- The Human Equation
10. Morbid Saint- Spectrum of Death
11. Genesis- Nursery Cryme
12. Immortal- At the Heart of Winter
13. Black Sabbath- Master of Reality
14. Porcupine Tree- Fear of a Blank Planet
15. Manilla Road- The Deluge

Old List
1. Iron Maiden- Seventh Son of a Seventh Son*
2. Death- Symbolic*
3. Megadeth- Rust in Peace
4. Sigh- Scenes from Hell*
5. Voivod- Nothingface*
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
9. Ayreon- The Human Equation*
10. Morbid Saint- Spectrum of Death*
11. Vektor- Outer Isolation
12. Strapping Young Lad- Alien
13. Black Sabbath- Master of Reality*
14. Judas Priest- Painkiller
15. Porcupine Tree- Fear of a Blank Planet*

Most of mine ended being the same. Well, guess I did well picking the first time.

Sorry for the double post, but change Genesis's Nursery Cryme to Selling England by the Pound on my list.

At 4/21/13 01:31 AM, HeavenDuff wrote: Hey guys, just wanted to share this with you...
I'm very happy to tell the Metal Hell that I have completed my bachelor degree in political science!

)

Congrats! I'm finishing my first year of college myself, any suggestions for a young 'un?

At 4/17/13 04:37 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: I don't know if you guys remember, but a while back I gave you guys this situation :

If you were to be dropped on an island with 15 albums of your choice and that those would be the only records you could listen to for the rest of your life, what would they be (Not just metal albums, anything of any genre).

And if you guys are like me, you most probably saved that list somewhere on your hard drive :P So what I wanted to do today was to ask you guys to make a new list, and not look at your previous list and when you are done, compare your choices and post them in here. I was wondering if the choices I made back then, would have been good choices, and of course, if I end up with the same albums... it will mean that they were relatively good choices!

So, if you'd like to particapte, feel free to do so! Here's my new list.

Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Baroness - Yellow & Green
Insomnium - Across the Dark
Bongripper - Satan Worshipping Doom
Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Mastodon - The Hunter
Opeth - Watershed
Protest the Hero - Fortress
Tool - 10000 Days
Alcest - Ão/oocailles de Lune
Corpus Christii - Rising
Keith Merrow - The Arrival
Nirvana - In Utero

Too hard to choose...

Anyone here into progressive metal/core music? Or just straight up metal?

Hey, I just wanted to ask you guys to check this demo I recorded and uploaded here on newgrounds, from my project A Lifetime Dying. http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/532193 Really hope you like it, any opinions are very helpful, since I don't get to have many people listening to my stuff.

At 4/18/13 11:07 PM, Twone wrote:

2. Between the Buried and Me- Colors
6. Blotted Science- The Machinations of Dementia

Pretty good choices. Blotted Science is one of my all time favorite bands, and BTBAM's Colors is a prog masterpiece!

7. The Faceless- Planetary Duality

I think Akeldama is far superior to Planetary Duality.

11. Mastodon- Leviathan

I like Mastodon two.

At 4/20/13 09:39 AM, SaltshakerClock wrote:

Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Death - Leprosy

Death, cool :)
Emperor... I still don't have any of their albums... but I've heard Ihsahn on almost all of his side-projects though...

At 4/21/13 11:26 AM, Viper50 wrote:

At 4/21/13 01:31 AM, HeavenDuff wrote: Hey guys, just wanted to share this with you...
I'm very happy to tell the Metal Hell that I have completed my bachelor degree in political science!

Congratulations

Thanks mah boi!

At 4/21/13 04:11 PM, Zodir wrote:

1. Iron Maiden- Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
2. Death- Symbolic
4. Sigh- Scenes from Hell
5.Voivod- Nothingface
8. Symphony X- V: The New Mythology Suite
10. Morbid Saint- Spectrum of Death
11. Genesis- Nursery Cryme
12. Immortal- At the Heart of Winter
13. Black Sabbath- Master of Reality
15. Manilla Road- The Deluge

Great choices, seriously :) I'd see myself with an axe, cutting trees down to Immortal, Sigh or Morbid Saint. Great list, great choice :) ThatâEUTMs some taste you have here!

At 4/21/13 04:18 PM, Zodir wrote: Congrats! I'm finishing my first year of college myself, any suggestions for a young 'un?

Cultural differences probably make it impossible for me to give you any good recommandations. What's your field of study?

At 4/21/13 04:33 PM, TheDaemonicPoet wrote:

Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Baroness - Yellow & Green
Insomnium - Across the Dark
Bongripper - Satan Worshipping Doom
Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Mastodon - The Hunter
Opeth - Watershed
Protest the Hero - Fortress
Tool - 10000 Days
Alcest - Ãfo/oocailles de Lune
Corpus Christii - Rising
Keith Merrow - The Arrival
Nirvana - In Utero

A lot of variety there, I like it. I think I'm going to use your lists to get myself a few more albums. That was my original secret goal I had when I first asked you guys to do that list.

At 4/21/13 05:34 PM, amanda wrote: Anyone here into progressive metal/core music? Or just straight up metal?

I am. Metalcore is a genre that suffers a lot from it's popularity. So many bands, produce so many generic and boring core albums, it ends up shadowing the good albums.

I really like Protest The Hero and Between The Buried And Me, are fantastic bands! The Human Abstract's album Midheaven is very good also, while I feel that some of their other albums are way too wanky and isn't quite mature. I feel this band is always trying to find itself, but can't see to accomplish their goal. What comes out of this is an uneven discography, with a few gems here and there. Other than that, I have very limited knowledge in prog metalcore. I know of a rather young band named Everything After Zero. That's about it... Oh! Would bands like Born Of Osiris count as prog deathcore or somethin' along those lines?

Mastodon - All The Heavy Lifting

At 4/21/13 11:26 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: A lot of variety there, I like it. I think I'm going to use your lists to get myself a few more albums. That was my original secret goal I had when I first asked you guys to do that list.

Oh. Well if thats the case I'd really recommend listening to those Radar Men From The Moon and Unida album.
Heres something off of the RMFTM album Intergalactic Dada & Space Trombones
And from the Unida album Unida - Thorn

also if you didn't know Unida is a post-Kyuss band fronted by John Garcia

I just found these guys yesterday:
Stöner Kebab - Superdoom

I haven't been around here for a while so I don't know if anyone mentioned them before, but these guys are pretty epic, really good psychedelic and massive sound, I haven't found something so good in this genre since Bongripper, plus, their name is astoundingly hilarious. If you enjoy some good stoner doom and never heard about these guys you certainly should check them out. Enjoy!

At 4/21/13 11:26 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 4/21/13 04:11 PM, Zodir wrote:

1. Iron Maiden- Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
2. Death- Symbolic
4. Sigh- Scenes from Hell
5.Voivod- Nothingface
8. Symphony X- V: The New Mythology Suite
10. Morbid Saint- Spectrum of Death
11. Genesis- Nursery Cryme
12. Immortal- At the Heart of Winter
13. Black Sabbath- Master of Reality
15. Manilla Road- The Deluge

Great choices, seriously :) I'd see myself with an axe, cutting trees down to Immortal, Sigh or Morbid Saint. Great list, great choice :) ThatâEUTMs some taste you have here!

Thanks! I tried to have some diversity, so I left off a few albums that I really enjoyed. So sad. I wanted to fit Bathory in there somewhere, but couldn't find a spot.

At 4/21/13 04:18 PM, Zodir wrote: Congrats! I'm finishing my first year of college myself, any suggestions for a young 'un?

Cultural differences probably make it impossible for me to give you any good recommandations. What's your field of study?

I'm a Philosophy major with a minor in Health Care Administration. I plan on going into medical ethics after I get my master's degree.

At 4/22/13 12:49 PM, Zodir wrote: Thanks! I tried to have some diversity, so I left off a few albums that I really enjoyed. So sad. I wanted to fit Bathory in there somewhere, but couldn't find a spot.

That's the point of the process :P It's heart-breaking when you have 500+ albums to chose from and you can only pick 15.

I'm a Philosophy major with a minor in Health Care Administration. I plan on going into medical ethics after I get my master's degree.

Well that surely is interresting :) I never knew that! Next fall I'm going to start my master degree in political science. But right now I'm thinking about switching to sociology since my master's thesis will most likely mix elements of political science, sociology of domination, sociolinguistic and gender studies. Plus, a sociology professor already showed interest in my project!

Melvins are streaming Everybody Loves Sausage with commentary by Buzz Osborne.

Tech death band Anata apparently broke up. This saddens me because The Conductor's Departure is one of my technical death metal albums of all time.

At 4/17/13 04:37 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: April 2013

Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F (sharp) A (sharp) Infinity
Ulver - Perdition City
Dream Theater - Images And Words
Les Cowboys Fringats - L'expedition
If These Trees Could Talk - Above The Earth, Below The Sky
Benighted - Insane Cephalic Production
Kansas - Leftoverture
edIT - Crying Over Pros for No Reason
Spastic Ink - Ink Complete
Agalloch - The Mantle
Cynic - Focus
ISIS - In The Absence Of Truth
Blood Red Throne - Altered Genesis
Sigh - Scorn Defeat

Going through my list, I'm wondering why I removed Blotted Science - The Machinations Of Dementia of it. It's one of the greatest albums I've ever heard. Maybe I'd make some room for it by removing either Agalloch - The Mantle or Cynic - Focus. But that would be a fucking tough choice...