And this came in the mail. Super stoked to see them next year.

At 12/24/14 03:50 AM, TakeNoPrisoners wrote: Heavenduff, I'm with you on Scorn Defeat. I still blast Burzum's self titled album, but Sigh is weird in a good way. I can never tell whether or not they're doing the "evil" satanist stuff because they actually believe it or if they're doing it because extreme music to some extent requires extreme lyrical content. I know 99% of black metal artists aren't actually satanists or whatever, but Famine definitely seems to be all about it in interviews which is amusing for sure, but it's like he's read nothing but Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and La Rochefoucauld. Nothing wrong with that per say, but you know what you're getting into at least when you read about him.

I always perceived Sigh as some kind of dramatic act. They write music and lyrics like they write a play. It's all about exploring themes and writing epic scenes (from hell?). Like on Scorn Defeat, they explore some themes linked to Hell, but also to japanase mythology. I personnaly love it, and the fact that they aren't too serious about it, makes it all that much more appealling to me :)

At 4/15/04 08:28 PM, Goatchrist wrote: Welcome to the Metal hell :)

If you are into heavy metal, melodic metal or whatever, this is the club for you. Tell us your favourite bands and/ or songs and join the hell :)

I cannot believe this is ten years old, crazy
So
Who likes Anal Cunt?

At 1/1/15 03:21 PM, Gergaloth wrote: I cannot believe this is ten years old, crazy
So
Who likes Anal Cunt?

They're okay. Sucks that Seth Putnam died though.

At 12/23/14 06:04 PM, Viper wrote: Also. Really good band BrenTheMan. Check out Pallbearer.
Sorrow And Extinction
Foundations of Burden

Oh jeesh, I did listen to these when you posted them BTW. Not bad, but not exactly my thing either.

I've been listening to the NG Heavy Metal Radio I've been developing a lot lately. I've found a lot of really good tracks, like this Cradle of Filth cover:

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  Gilded Cunt (CoF Cover)

  by Chrizzly

  Cradle of Filth Cover. Finally a longer one. Includes vocals! Enjoy!

  Song

  Heavy Metal

  4,494 Views

  PLAY

and lots of great stuff by this amazing Swedish band, who has posted a LOT of stuff to NG over the years:

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  Strykjärn Album Teaser

  by Dimoria

  Full lenght album teaser.

  Song

  Heavy Metal

  1,211 Views

  PLAY

At 1/4/15 12:45 PM, BrenTheMan wrote:

At 12/23/14 06:04 PM, Viper wrote: Also. Really good band BrenTheMan. Check out Pallbearer.
Sorrow And Extinction
Foundations of Burden

Oh jeesh, I did listen to these when you posted them BTW. Not bad, but not exactly my thing either.

Foundations was considered album of the year by a TON of people. Granted I prefer their first album but I think it's still good.
Another album getting a lot of praise is
Wo Fat - The Conjuring
The singer/guitarist produced stuff by a band called Mothership who also released a new album last year.
Mothership - Astromancer
Fellow Newgrounds member Phobotech knows the band.

I've been listening to the NG Heavy Metal Radio I've been developing a lot lately. I've found a lot of really good tracks, like this Cradle of Filth cover:
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/83149
and lots of great stuff by this amazing Swedish band, who has posted a LOT of stuff to NG over the years:
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/588914

I shall look into them when I have time to do so.

At 1/5/15 01:08 PM, Viper wrote: Wo Fat - The Conjuring

That's actually really good. I've added all their albums to check out.

Mothership - Astromancer

Will check these guys out too. Good stuff.

At 1/6/15 12:00 AM, BrenTheMan wrote:

At 1/5/15 01:08 PM, Viper wrote: Wo Fat - The Conjuring

That's actually really good. I've added all their albums to check out.

Their stuff is really good I especially like their previous album The Black Code. Though my favorite song by them is this
Descent Into The Maelstrom

Mothership - Astromancer

Will check these guys out too. Good stuff.

Their stuff is really good too. I'd especially recommend listening to their first album. Mothership II is good but I like Mothership more.
Hallucination/Cosmic Rain

At 1/6/15 12:11 AM, Viper wrote: Hallucination/Cosmic Rain

This is good shit man. Reminds me of Kyuss.

At 1/6/15 01:13 AM, BrenTheMan wrote:

At 1/6/15 12:11 AM, Viper wrote: Hallucination/Cosmic Rain

This is good shit man. Reminds me of Kyuss.

Yeah I know. I don't remember how I found em though. Maybe Phobotech mentioned something. But anyways. I was the person who added them onto metal-archives Mothership

So. Ufomammut announced they're releasing a new album.

Anyone here know of any good post black metal bands out there? (Besides Deafheaven, Alcest, Wolves in the Throne Room, and Lantlos)

At 1/12/15 08:25 PM, Viper wrote: So. Ufomammut announced they're releasing a new album.

Oh, man, I gotta try to get that. I haven't gotten a new album in like 2 or 3 years. I wonder if my one reliable source is still as good as it was. Metal has always been by far the easiest music for me to grab, especially since this decade came around.

I've been saying how I've not been checking out new stuff pretty much at all for the last couple of years but I did kinda start checking out a bit of punk music recently. I'm liking the kind of '80s American hardcore punk. Not so much into the British stuff I've heard like the Sex Pistols and what have you. Definitely digging Black Flag. I listened to the whole Damaged album while I was shoveling snow in the middle of the night last week. And I've heard a handful of songs from their other albums on Pandora. So far, not really feeling the stuff they did before Henry Rollins joined. Fear also seems decent so far. Other bands aren't coming to mind at the moment but there was other stuff I was liking. Pandora mobile fucking sucks hard and won't let me look at station details so I can't see what I thumbed up even though it's supposed to let me do that. Anyway, I noticed a common thing in late '70s - early '80s British punk where the singer sounds like he's being electrocuted but trying to act like he's fine. lol

So it's been a damn long time since I've been here, and I didn't even really cause much of a ripple whilst I was here anyway. Got caught up in an disagreement over Xerath for some reason a few years ago. But I am back, and with a much larger taste in all things metal.
I reckon it's safe to say I used to be quite an ass when it came to music outside metal a few years ago, but after listening to much Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, King Crimson and the like my appreciation for not just metal but music as a whole has grown significantly!

But that's besides the point, what is everybody listening to (metal or otherwise) at the moment? I have been jamming out to a lot of Darkthrone, specifically Transilvanian Hunger, Ulver's Perdition City and Shadows of the Sun, Dog Fashion Disco's Sweet Nothings; and a whole lot of other stuff in between.

Hope everyone is having a good day, and enjoy whatever it is you are all listening too!

At 1/12/15 11:46 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: Oh, man, I gotta try to get that. I haven't gotten a new album in like 2 or 3 years.

Same here. As for that second thing. Not me I even have the new Lord Dying and Torche albums pre-ordered.

I wonder if my one reliable source is still as good as it was. Metal has always been by far the easiest music for me to grab, especially since this decade came around.

What source would that be? I could use new places to get me some music.

I've been saying how I've not been checking out new stuff pretty much at all for the last couple of years but I did kinda start checking out a bit of punk music recently. I'm liking the kind of '80s American hardcore punk.

Check out Void and The Faith. And also Minor Threat.

At 1/15/15 02:17 PM, Viper wrote: And also Minor Threat.

Dude, that Slayer cover of "Guilty of being white" ....

At 1/12/15 09:24 PM, Twone wrote: Anyone here know of any good post black metal bands out there? (Besides Deafheaven, Alcest, Wolves in the Throne Room, and Lantlos)

I couldn't recommand the band Fen more. I do not know all of their material, but their debut album entitled The Malediction Fields is a masterpiece of creativity and gender blending. It's passionate, it's dark and it's awesome. Check it out!

If you like raw stuff with slow progression like WitTR, you might enjoy Fell Voices. Their 2010 untitled album is great. It has two tracks of roughly 20 minutes of lenght each. Like I said, great slow build-ups. I highly recommand them.

If you also like atmospheric black metal or psychedelic and avant-garde stuff, I could also recommand stuff along those lines.

At 1/14/15 03:18 AM, twistex wrote: But that's besides the point, what is everybody listening to (metal or otherwise) at the moment? I have been jamming out to a lot of Darkthrone, specifically Transilvanian Hunger, Ulver's Perdition City and Shadows of the Sun, Dog Fashion Disco's Sweet Nothings; and a whole lot of other stuff in between.

Perdition City is always one hell of a trip. Garm just knows how to write great music. Did you know that the track Catalept is based on the Prelude track from the 1960's Hitchcock movie Psycho.

If that movie's score is already amazing, that Ulver track is also fantastic. And it's not easy to do something amazing when starting from an already great product. It just goes to show how amazing Garm is.

Ulver's remix of Genghis Tron's I Won't Come Back Alive is another proof of this. Genghis Tron's track was already mind-blowing, but Ulver brought their mastery of the eerie and unsettling ambiances to a track that was already killer as it was!

At 1/16/15 05:25 AM, HeavenDuff wrote: I couldn't recommand the band Fen more. I do not know all of their material, but their debut album entitled The Malediction Fields is a masterpiece of creativity and gender blending. It's passionate, it's dark and it's awesome. Check it out!

Holy shit, good call on Fen. I've only listened to Epoch so far and I love it!

At 1/16/15 09:47 PM, Twone wrote:

At 1/16/15 05:25 AM, HeavenDuff wrote: I couldn't recommand the band Fen more.

Holy shit, good call on Fen. I've only listened to Epoch so far and I love it!

Just heard these guys today and loved them. I'm definitely going to check them out more.

At 1/16/15 10:09 PM, BrenTheMan wrote:

At 1/16/15 05:25 AM, HeavenDuff wrote: I couldn't recommand the band Fen more.

Just heard these guys today and loved them. I'm definitely going to check them out more.

You should definitely do that!

At 1/16/15 09:47 PM, Twone wrote: Holy shit, good call on Fen. I've only listened to Epoch so far and I love it!

I'll be getting Epoch soon. I've been meaning to explore more of Fen's discog.

At 12/28/14 03:25 PM, Viper wrote: And this came in the mail. Super stoked to see them next year.

Good luck bro.

New Blind Guardian album coming out! It's call "Beyond the Red Mirror" Can't wait till i listen to that album!

At 1/15/15 09:47 PM, Twone wrote: Dude, that Slayer cover of "Guilty of being white" ....

Excellent cover. Almost better than the original.

At 1/14/15 03:18 AM, twistex wrote: King Crimson
Ulver

We're friends now.

At 1/12/15 09:24 PM, Twone wrote: Anyone here know of any good post black metal bands out there? (Besides Deafheaven, Alcest, Wolves in the Throne Room, and Lantlos)

Sólstafir and maybe it doesn't 100% count, but Agalloch.

Also, I noticed that MA labels Solefald as post-black metal, which I really don't know why. But they are one of my favorite bands ever and have possibly the most consistently perfect discography I know of starting with their second album.

At 1/15/15 02:17 PM, Viper wrote:

At 1/12/15 11:46 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: Oh, man, I gotta try to get that. I haven't gotten a new album in like 2 or 3 years.

Same here. As for that second thing. Not me I even have the new Lord Dying and Torche albums pre-ordered.

I wonder if my one reliable source is still as good as it was. Metal has always been by far the easiest music for me to grab, especially since this decade came around.

What source would that be? I could use new places to get me some music.

I'll PM you.

I've been saying how I've not been checking out new stuff pretty much at all for the last couple of years but I did kinda start checking out a bit of punk music recently. I'm liking the kind of '80s American hardcore punk.

Check out Void and The Faith. And also Minor Threat.

Thanks, will try to remember. Never heard of those first two before. It seems the only times now that I listen to music are when I'm washing dishes or cooking, especially if I'm sitting over a cutting board. I used to always have music on while playing videogames, but it's been all podcasts and occasional standup comedy for a while.

At 1/15/15 09:47 PM, Twone wrote:

At 1/15/15 02:17 PM, Viper wrote: And also Minor Threat.

Dude, that Slayer cover of "Guilty of being white" ....

I actually heard that on Pandora last time I was chopping vegetables. I think I only heard like 1 or 2 Minor Threat songs so far. If only I could check what I've thumbed up on the channel (which I'm supposed to be able to do).

At 1/18/15 08:17 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: I'll PM you.

Thanks for the PM.

Thanks, will try to remember. Never heard of those first two before.

No problem. They're both good bands. Could have bought that split of Void and The Faith.

It seems the only times now that I listen to music are when I'm washing dishes or cooking, especially if I'm sitting over a cutting board. I used to always have music on while playing videogames, but it's been all podcasts and occasional standup comedy for a while.

I haven't listened to much of my music in awhile due to my computer being all crappy right now. So it's only music on my phone and whatever cd I want to listen to. And sometimes a random youtube video.

At 1/21/15 11:54 PM, SubliminalVirus wrote: this seems like the best place to ask. Sorry if I'm wrong... just curious

Yeah, this is something that's been done with a lot of bands, especially when they rely on the novelty of having a woman as the lead singer. It's not only bands like that, though. Sigh has had extra attention focused on Mikannibal wearing fishnets and shit, but they're way more than that and she wasn't even in the band until later on. Other bands like Krypteria seem to exist pretty much just because they have a pretty face in their videos and promo pics (Victoriam Speramus and Scream are pretty damn catchy, though). Sometimes if they aren't using sex appeal, bands will milk the fact that they have a woman who does harsh vocals. That said, some bands do have women that do harsh vocals well and they make good music despite what many may assume.

At 1/21/15 11:54 PM, SubliminalVirus wrote: this seems like the best place to ask. Sorry if I'm wrong... just curious
The other day I was talking with someone about bands, the topic of "female fronted" bands came up. He pretty much went on a rant on how much he hates it when bands focus attention on the female in the band. He referenced to In This Moment, for instance their promo pics often only show Maria Brink, even the latest music videos tend to feature her, only showing near subliminal clips of the rest of the band, even in their live shows the band tends to stay in her shadow. This kind of makes me wonder how they feel about it...

It's not really much of an issue within metal music. Mallcore crap like In This Moment, which I came to refer to as titscore, doesn't qualify as metal, not in their sound, and especially not in their attitude, aesthetics and pop music marketing and general vibe.

Personally I don't give a shit what bands release other than music. It's not like sexy pictures are the only reason they can sell albums and gain fans. to me it seems like a bonus. I guess the only thing that bugs me is when the rest of the band is almost forgotten...

Oh yes it can! Well, not single-handedly, but it sure helps a lot. You have to understand that bands that usually focus on their image so much, are the "heavy" version of pop artists and bands. They NEED the looks to sell, because this is their main (often only) quality/interest. These bands usually bet a lot on the strong and badass female lead to sell records. It attracts poser teenager kids who find them hot, and it gives the teenage girls icons, role-models.... girls who are hot, but strong and does what male musicians and vocalists can also do... It seems to work better when the female musician is the vocalist. And it's especially efficient when she can growl (like them boys, yaknow). It's crappy marketing. But again, it doesn't usually affect real metal. When it does, it usually stays within gothic/symphonic metal and melodic death metal realms. Arch Enemy, Nightwish, Lullacry, Within Temptation and Epica are all bands with female vocalists. And just to make myself clear here, I'm not saying these bands are bad. Some of them have awesome material.

Even if that gimmick is spreading, there are still awesome female vocalists. And well, sure it's a gimmick... but not all bands that have female vocalists do it because of the gimmick. Some of them are true to what they artistically want to accomplish and aren't trying to make a quick buck on a dumb trend like shitty bands like In This Moment and Amaranthe are.

Oh, and while we're on the subject of females in metal music. I was looking for some women in corpsepaint pictures (musicians or non-musicians).

But I have to specify that I'm not looking, at least not specifically, for the heavily eroticized pictures that some photographs like to do and that usually involve totally naked women with only their faces in corpsepaint. I'd like to find some material that reflects more the black metal aesthetics, or just basically... typical black metal pictures, but with females in them instead of men. If any of you guys know where to find some, please let me know!

At 1/12/15 09:24 PM, Twone wrote: Anyone here know of any good post black metal bands out there? (Besides Deafheaven, Alcest, Wolves in the Throne Room, and Lantlos)

Sólstafir and maybe it doesn't 100% count, but Agalloch.

Also, I noticed that MA labels Solefald as post-black metal, which I really don't know why. But they are one of my favorite bands ever and have possibly the most consistently perfect discography I know of starting with their second album.

"Make a change... Kill yourself" is pretty ambient DSBM that sounds almost post-rock
Agalloch does 100% count :D
Skeletonwitch is up there, I'd think. Melodic Death Metal, but it fits with the rest
Swamp Witch is pretty good too
Nagelfar
Xasthur, Leviathan, Panopticon
There's two bands which are projects of the same guy that aren't entirely black metal, but have elements of it
Have A Nice Life and Giles Corey
Both very ethereal sounding but damn dark they are.