Just got back from seeing The Sword and Clutch a bit ago.
It was fucking awesome!
Though I ended up leaving after 2 songs of Clutch's set because my sister was my ride there (since my car is up in a garage now) and she wanted to leave because she was feeling really tired and her back was killing her so she didn't want to stick around. The opening band American Sharks was surprisingly VERY good. I can't really describe what they sound like though. The singer's voice reminded me a little of John Garcia mixed with another singer from a band I listen to but whose name escapes me at the moment. I wanna say the band I'm referring to is either Gypsyhawk or Mothership.
Also according to my sister me and the singer look REALLY similar. I shook hands with the guitarist and chatted for a minute or so with the drummer (who was running the merch table). I really wanted to talk to the singer/bassist though.

In all I bought: a The Sword t-shirt of "Hidden Masters", a The Sword poster, and a CD of American Sharks. All of that cost me $55. $20 for the poster, $25 for the shirt, and $10 for the CD.

At 11/19/13 09:42 PM, mothballs wrote:

At 11/18/13 09:08 PM, Viper50 wrote: big fuckin list of 2013 albums

I would definitely add Suffocation's "Pinnacle of Bedlam" to that list. I think it was one of their best albums yet.

I didn't get around to listening to that. Then again I've never been a huge Suffocation fan so that makes sense I suppose.

Also, you can't find a single video of both Maniac and Attila's eras where they perform Pure Fucking Armageddon properly... They always cut it short and make it look like some kind of bad joke.

What's fascinating about this, is that once... they've played the whole thing with Attila, but Messiah showed up to do the vocals, and Attila was on a crucifix...

Dunno if that's because they can't or won't sing it, but I don't like it...

When it comes to Attila I lean more towards his stuff with Grave Temple and Burial Chamber Trio.
Though I do like his stuff with Sunn O))). Mainly White2 and Monoliths & Dimensions.

At 11/18/13 11:51 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 11/17/13 05:34 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: Atilla Csihar?

Fucking this.

I'm not too much into industrial metal

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Havoc_Unit/h.IV%2B_%28Hoarse_Industrial_Viremia%29/174644

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Dimensional_Psychosis/Architecture_of_Realities/246276

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Neo_Inferno_262/Hacking_the_Holy_Code/199382

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Thorns/Thorns/3080

At 11/20/13 03:12 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Thorns/Thorns/3080

I have this one. I didn't listen to it though. Waiting for the right moment to do so!

Death - Within the Mind

At 11/20/13 01:07 AM, Viper50 wrote: I didn't get around to listening to that. Then again I've never been a huge Suffocation fan so that makes sense I suppose.

Well all of Suffocation's albums are a little different, this one isn't like Effigy of the Forgotten nor is it like Blood Oath, but I'd recommend it to all death metal fans. I have a friend who is into death metal & grindcore who also isn't a big fan of Suffocation, and when I showed him this album he loved it instantly.

At 11/20/13 01:08 AM, HeavenDuff wrote: Also, you can't find a single video of both Maniac and Attila's eras where they perform Pure Fucking Armageddon properly... They always cut it short and make it look like some kind of bad joke.

What's fascinating about this, is that once... they've played the whole thing with Attila, but Messiah showed up to do the vocals, and Attila was on a crucifix...

Dunno if that's because they can't or won't sing it, but I don't like it...

Interesting. I never noticed that.

Finally got a copy of Heaven And Hell last night.
Now to get the other like....10 Black Sabbath albums that I need and I'll have them all *laughs manically then goes back to eating soup*.

At 11/20/13 01:07 AM, Viper50 wrote: The singer's voice reminded me a little of John Garcia mixed with another singer from a band I listen to but whose name escapes me at the moment. I wanna say the band I'm referring to is either Gypsyhawk or Mothership.

Thats what he sounds like live^
He sounds like a completely different person on the studio stuff. Also their album was by produced by Brian Richie of The Sword and their manager is Kyle Shutt of The Sword too! o: I'm really expecting big things from this band in the future.

At 11/21/13 02:45 AM, mothballs wrote: Well all of Suffocation's albums are a little different, this one isn't like Effigy of the Forgotten nor is it like Blood Oath, but I'd recommend it to all death metal fans. I have a friend who is into death metal & grindcore who also isn't a big fan of Suffocation, and when I showed him this album he loved it instantly.

Well when it comes to Death Metal I'm more of a "passing fan" of the genre.
I mean there are bands and albums that I like. But overall I don't listen to it enough for me to consider myself a fan.

Well I just bought tickets to see Kreator this Sunday. They're playing with Overkill and Warbringer, two bands I never listened to but heard of. I'm just going for Kreator, although I admit I've fallen away from thrash metal in the past year. Kreator's my fav, although I'm just too much into black and death metal now. Should be fun anyway.

At 11/21/13 11:30 PM, mothballs wrote: Well I just bought tickets to see Kreator this Sunday. They're playing with Overkill and Warbringer, two bands I never listened to but heard of. I'm just going for Kreator, although I admit I've fallen away from thrash metal in the past year. Kreator's my fav, although I'm just too much into black and death metal now. Should be fun anyway.

You should definitely listen to Overkill.
Warbringer are a pretty okay band too. But out of the 3 bands you listened I prefer Overkill.

Pornwer Metal !!!

At 11/21/13 11:30 PM, mothballs wrote: Well I just bought tickets to see Kreator this Sunday.

Speaking of sounding completely different live (as Viper was talking about).

They're playing with Overkill and Warbringer, two bands I never listened to but heard of.

Early Overkill is pretty damn good.

I've fallen away from thrash metal in the past year.

That's too bad. I still loooove thrash.

At 11/22/13 04:08 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: Pornwer Metal !!!

Ghoul got me into Heavenly several years ago when we used to chat all the time and he'd send me music files. I'm not that into power metal anymore, though.

At 11/23/13 04:07 AM, Shade wrote:

At 11/23/13 03:59 AM, Shade wrote: Anyone able to recommend me some Folk and Symphonic bands? Preferably without guttural vocals.

One more thing, if anyone could recommend a few Celtic Metal bands with a lack of guttural vocals that would be appreciated too.

I assume that you're looking for stuff like Eluveitie? All I can think of right now is Folkearth...

Otherwise, for Symphonic stuff, I assume that you already know Kamelot? If you don't, then check them out. I know some Symphonic Power Metal, also. Dunno if you are interrested in this. If you do, than check out Heavenly, Rhapsody and Stratovarius.

I remember when I had a thing against harsh vocals back when I was 16 or so. It didn't last long, though.

The only good folk metal bands I can think of with just clean vocals are Tyr and Mael Mordha. Alkonost has mostly clean vocals, but there's a tiny bit of harsh vocals. I'm sure there's more, but I kinda stopped paying attention. And Mael Mordha is Celtic, too, like you asked.

At 11/22/13 05:46 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: Speaking of sounding completely different live (as Viper was talking about).

idk, people always say how Mille's vocals suck live but I personally love them. They have such power and variety in them as opposed to in studio, where they sound kind of bland. Their Wacken 2005 concert was my favorite live performance I ever listened to so I'm excited anyway.

That's too bad. I still loooove thrash.

I do too haha thing is though when I get so focused on one subgenre of metal I start to forget about the others, but if I listen to them I still like them.

At 11/22/13 02:03 PM, Viper50 wrote: You should definitely listen to Overkill.

I'll give them a shot. I hate when I listen to an opening act for the first time in a show, and THEN I get into them when I almost never get to see them again, lol. Anything you'd recommend?

At 11/24/13 12:11 AM, mothballs wrote: I'll give them a shot. I hate when I listen to an opening act for the first time in a show, and THEN I get into them when I almost never get to see them again, lol. Anything you'd recommend?

For Overkill? I guess you could check out Under The Influence, The Years Of Decay, and Horrorscope.

At 11/24/13 12:41 AM, Viper50 wrote:

At 11/24/13 12:11 AM, mothballs wrote: I hate when I listen to an opening act for the first time in a show, and THEN I get into them when I almost never get to see them again, lol. Anything you'd recommend?

Under The Influence, The Years Of Decay, and Horrorscope.

Yup. What I would have said.

*Not metal but whatevs*
The band Mammatus are releasing a new album tomorrow. It's their first album in 5 1/2 years. And I honestly think their other two albums are absolute masterpieces when it comes to the world or newer American Psychedelic Rock.
If you ever have a chance give both Mammatus and The Coast Explodes a listen. There is a 3 part song that all together clocks in at roughly 43 minutes long. 2 parts are on their first album and the 3rd part is on their second one.
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (Excellent Swordfight).

Also the album art for their debut album was done by Arik Roper.
If you somehow haven't heard of him he has done artwork (be it album art, posters, or various other art pieces) for:
Sleep, High On Fire, Sunn O))), Earth, Weedeater, Buzzoven, Melvins, Down, Witch, Dinosaur Jr, OM, Cathedral, The Black Crows, MGMT, Astra, Howlin' Rain, Priestess, he did a poster for a Tombs/Pelican/Eagle Twin show, and various others.

I've ordered Leprous' album Bilateral, just now. If you don't know them, they are a progressive metal band from Norway, and they are quite amazing young musicians. These guys are also the live band for the ex-leader of the black metal band Emperor's solo projetct named Ihsahn.

You might already know Ihsahn, and if you do, then let's just say that these guys release much better albums than Ihsahn!

Here's the full-lenght album Bilateral on YouTube.

Ulver - Dead City Centres

I finally got a copy of Holy Diver yesterday on vinyl.
I wanna get more stuff by Rainbow though because the only album by them that I have is Down To Earth. Even though it has one of my favorite Rainbow songs on it (Since You've Been Gone) I still want the Dio Rainbow stuff.
I also need to get some stuff by Elf too.....

At 11/25/13 02:00 AM, Viper50 wrote: *Not metal but whatevs*
The band Mammatus are releasing a new album tomorrow.

I've had their self titled for quite a while. It's fantastic.

At 11/28/13 06:00 AM, ZeroAsALimit wrote:

At 11/23/13 10:07 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: The only good folk metal bands I can think of with just clean vocals are Tyr

I don't really pick up things for my collection outside 1980-1989,

Jeez, you're missing freakin' gigatons of great stuff, then.

Seeing Death tonight! Saw Amon Amarth and Carcass recently, and Tyr and Finntroll before then. Y'all jelly.

At 11/28/13 10:55 AM, Earfetish wrote: Saw Amon Amarth and Carcass recently, and Tyr and Finntroll before then. Y'all jelly.

Not if I saw all of them myself. I take it you went to Manchester to see them all. I was in London for those shows. Last time I saw a band live in Manchester was Wintersun.

I know I'm a little late, but Kreator absolutely blew me away on Sunday night. I went for them, and after they performed I was so thrilled I was planning on just leaving and ending on a good note. But I stayed for Overkill anyway and they were great, but nothing like Kreator. I love them so much. \m/

Quick question.
Is anyone else having issues with Metal Archives? Whenever I go to a page theres no info on there other than for example:

Seremonia
Country of origin: Finland
Location: N/A
Status: Active
Formed in: N/A
Genre: Psychedelic Rock/Doom Metal
Lyrical themes: N/A
Current label: Svart Records
Years active: N/A
The band name is Finnish for "ceremony." The band's lyrics are also entirely in their native language.
2013 photo by Sami Sänpäkkilä.

Then theres no info beneath it for the albums or anything like that.

At 11/29/13 07:27 AM, ZeroAsALimit wrote: I just checked out their entry for Old Funeral and it seems to be working fine. However, there is a discography listed for Serimonia when I checked it out. Cookies?

I guess I'll check it again.
...
I just checked Bongripper and yep still no discography info on my end just completely blank as if there was never that section of the page. I guess I'll do something with my cookies and see if that fixes anything.

I completely forgot to ask this but has anyone here checked out Wolvserpent's new album Perigea Antahkarana?
If not I highly recommend it to anyone who likes: Drone, Ambient, or "Dark Ambient" and stuff along the lines of that.
If you want to get an idea as to what it sounds like heres a track off of it.
Within The Light Of Fire

So I just became aware that Sunn O))) and Ulver are going to be collabing for a new album that is set to be released next February.
I'm curious as to how I didn't hear about this sooner since I like both bands.

You know what's great? When you go to a rock bar and the DJ knows Slough Feg very well and plays some of their songs by request.

Sorry for not catching up on here as much as I should do.

Introducing, Dr. Tony Iommi.