At 12/2/15 07:34 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: Tiiiime after time!
Teeen miles high!
I'm living my fantasies!

*dun!

At twenty thousand posts!

solo!

kill me

You're one of the old folks in here now. Congrats!

At 11/24/15 12:12 PM, Viper wrote: I guess I'm lucky since Bongripper are from my state. They sometimes play free shows up in Chicago. But Chicago is a liiiittle out of the way for me.

I was thinking about visiting Chicago someday. Maybe in 2016 or 2017. Let's just hope that they'll be around when I come to visit.

At 9/29/15 01:08 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 9/22/15 08:21 PM, KillerTerror wrote:

At 9/22/15 08:20 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: As I mentioned to others, maybe this thread is more up your alley.

Looks like that thread is dead.

Yeah... It kind of is. But we don't really discuss nu-metal in here either.

At 9/27/15 03:35 PM, 9X74 wrote: This looks like my place. :)

Anyone here into The Fall of Troy?
Went to one of their concerts not too long ago.

They are most of a post-hardcore band then a metal band, really. And it's funny that there never was a hardcore thread on NG... I wonder why that is...

Lol sorry I didn't follow the metal code :D

I totally forgot how all metal "subgenres" should be strictly placed in different sections. And we should all follow it's hierarchy.

'Cause that's what metal is all about right? Following rules and a strict hierarchy? :3

At 1/2/16 09:59 PM, 9X74 wrote:

At 9/29/15 01:08 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 9/22/15 08:21 PM, KillerTerror wrote:

At 9/22/15 08:20 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: As I mentioned to others, maybe this thread is more up your alley.

Looks like that thread is dead.

Yeah... It kind of is. But we don't really discuss nu-metal in here either.

At 9/27/15 03:35 PM, 9X74 wrote: This looks like my place. :)

Anyone here into The Fall of Troy?
Went to one of their concerts not too long ago.

They are most of a post-hardcore band then a metal band, really. And it's funny that there never was a hardcore thread on NG... I wonder why that is...

Lol sorry I didn't follow the metal code :D

I totally forgot how all metal "subgenres" should be strictly placed in different sections. And we should all follow it's hierarchy.

'Cause that's what metal is all about right? Following rules and a strict hierarchy? :3

"Welcome to the fruit club! Let's talk about how great fruit is!"
"I like fruit, too! I love carrots and celery!"
"Hey, that's great! Have you seen the vegetable club?"
"lol You guys are so elitist."

At 11/26/15 04:07 AM, zornuzkull wrote: This party seems to have ended a while ago...

The party will never end. Just keep doing what you do.

At 1/2/16 09:59 PM, 9X74 wrote: Lol sorry I didn't follow the metal code :D

I totally forgot how all metal "subgenres" should be strictly placed in different sections. And we should all follow it's hierarchy.

Post-hardcore, metal "subgenres"...

Yeah... metal subgenres...

'Cause that's what metal is all about right? Following rules and a strict hierarchy? :3

Do you like Pink Floyd? I like Pink Floyd. Were in the Metal Hell though, not the Rock Hell.

I'm working on a top 30 black metal tracks, and I was wanted to share what I have so far with you guys so you could help me out a little. You can replace any track from this list and replace it with something else, or maybe just suggest a new list completely. So here goes:

1. Darkthrone - Kathaarian Life Code
2. Satyricon - Walk the Path of Sorrow
3. Ulver - I Troldskog Faren Vild
4. Ulver - Hymne I: Wolf and Fear
5. Darkthrone - Summer of the Diabolical Holocaust
6. Sigh - A Victori Of Dakini
7. Taake - Hordalands Doedskvad Part I
8. Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times
9. Fell Voices - (untitled) (2 from the 2010 album)
10. Peste Noire - Le Mort Joyeux
11. Austere - Just for a Moment...
12. Balrog - Le baiser du fouet
13. Deafheaven - Dream House

I'm so expecting hatred for this one :P

14. Wolves In The Throne Room - Ahrimanic Trance
15. Darkthrone - The Pagan Winter
16. Taake - Hordalands Doedskvad Part III
17. Agalloch - Into The Painted Grey
18. Gris - Il était une forêt...
19. Mayhem - Freezing Moon
20. Ulver - Hymne III: Wolf and Hatred
21. Sigh - At My Funeral
22. Xasthur - The Prison Of Mirrors
23. Agalloch - The Wilderness
24. Chaos Moon - Abstract Tongues
25. Mayhem - Pure Fucking Armageddon
26. Carpathian Forest - It's Darker Then You Think
27. Enslaved - As Fire Swept Clean The Earth
28. Fen - Colossal Voids
29. Monarque - Mes Blessures
30. Monarque - La Vallée des Larmes

It's still a work in progress, and I still need to listen to quite a lot of black metal, especially early black metal like Venom, Celtic Frost and Bathory so don't go too hard on me.

Sigh - Voices

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jan/06/lemmys-funeral-to-be-live-streamed-on-youtube

huh...

At 1/5/16 06:59 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: I'm working on a top 30 black metal tracks

Wish I could help on this, but I don't even recognize most of these.

BTW - the new Baroness is REALLY good.

At 1/7/16 12:23 PM, BrenTheMan wrote: BTW - the new Baroness is REALLY good.

It is. But I haven't gotten to listen to it as well as the new Ghost or Uncle Acid albums because I listen to a lot of my music on my phone due to not having a working computer for an ungodly amount of time. I'm thinking about buying a laptop soon, ripping my cds onto it as well as copying my music onto it off my external hard drive, then putting said albums onto my phone so I can actually listen to them.

Though out of everything that came out last year, I was indescribably disappointed with The Sword - High Country.

Purple is pretty good. It could probably grow on me with more listens like Chlorine and Wine did listening to it on its own a few times.

At 1/7/16 09:51 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: Purple is pretty good. It could probably grow on me with more listens like Chlorine and Wine did listening to it on its own a few times.

I honestlythink my favorite song off it is Morningstar.
I really dig Baroness' heavier but still melodic songs they've had on their last 2 albums. So my liking it seemed like a no brained since I songs like The Line Between and Sea Lungs were two of my favorites off Yellow & Green.

At 1/7/16 10:07 PM, Viper wrote:

At 1/7/16 09:51 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: Purple is pretty good. It could probably grow on me with more listens like Chlorine and Wine did listening to it on its own a few times.

I honestlythink my favorite song off it is Morningstar.
I really dig Baroness' heavier but still melodic songs they've had on their last 2 albums. So my liking it seemed like a no brained since I songs like The Line Between and Sea Lungs were two of my favorites off Yellow & Green.

Holy shit, I just realized that they have other albums I haven't heard yet. Getting on that right now. Love the heavy + melodic sound too.

At 1/7/16 10:27 PM, BrenTheMan wrote:

At 1/7/16 10:07 PM, Viper wrote:

At 1/7/16 09:51 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: Purple is pretty good. It could probably grow on me with more listens like Chlorine and Wine did listening to it on its own a few times.

I honestlythink my favorite song off it is Morningstar.
I really dig Baroness' heavier but still melodic songs they've had on their last 2 albums. So my liking it seemed like a no brained since I songs like The Line Between and Sea Lungs were two of my favorites off Yellow & Green.

Holy shit, I just realized that they have other albums I haven't heard yet. Getting on that right now. Love the heavy + melodic sound too.

Yeah. They have 4 albums, 2 EPs, a split EP with the band Unpersons, and a live EP called Live at Maida Vale.
Out of all of that I have all 4 albums on cd, 3 on vinyl, their 2 EPS First & Second and Live at Maida Vale on vinyl too. Only thing I need is Yellow & Green on vinyl and A Grey Sigh In A Flower Husk (the split).

At 1/7/16 10:27 PM, BrenTheMan wrote:

At 1/7/16 10:07 PM, Viper wrote:

At 1/7/16 09:51 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: Purple is pretty good. It could probably grow on me with more listens like Chlorine and Wine did listening to it on its own a few times.

I honestlythink my favorite song off it is Morningstar.

I'd need to listen to the album again. Chlorine and Wine is the only one I know by name because I Checked it out before the album came out and listened a few times and it didn't do much for me before.

Holy shit, I just realized that they have other albums I haven't heard yet. Getting on that right now. Love the heavy + melodic sound too.

Dude First, Second and Red Album are all so good. I grew to really like Blue Record a lot over time as well.

I still haven't heard Yellow and Green

At 1/7/16 10:56 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: I'd need to listen to the album again. Chlorine and Wine is the only one I know by name because I Checked it out before the album came out and listened a few times and it didn't do much for me before.

Well this is Morningstar.
Also the last track Crossroads of Infinity seems very pointless.

I still haven't heard Yellow and Green

How? It's such a good album! Yellow is heavier but also feels like a proggier progression from Blue whereas Green feels a bit like what was expanded upon in Purple.

At 1/7/16 10:27 PM, BrenTheMan wrote: Holy shit, I just realized that they have other albums I haven't heard yet. Getting on that right now. Love the heavy + melodic sound too.

Was going to post links to their 3 previous albums as well as First & Seconds because I have all of that on my Youtube channel but for some reason Yellow & Green and Blue Record are both gone....Red Album and First & Second are still on there though.

At 1/9/16 03:44 PM, Viper wrote: Was going to post links to their 3 previous albums as well as First & Seconds because I have all of that on my Youtube channel but for some reason Yellow & Green and Blue Record are both gone....Red Album and First & Second are still on there though.

I checked them out on Google Play. Good shit.

BTW - anyone else hate when metal bands put softer interlude tracks in the middle of an album? Or poetry (Sikth) or something else. I get it works sometimes, but man it can be so jarring. I almost always skip those tracks because they're so dumb.

At 1/9/16 05:23 PM, BrenTheMan wrote: BTW - anyone else hate when metal bands put softer interlude tracks in the middle of an album? Or poetry (Sikth) or something else. I get it works sometimes, but man it can be so jarring. I almost always skip those tracks because they're so dumb.

Well sometimes it helps make the song immediately after it feel even heavier by comparison.
Like take Master Of Reality for instance.
You get Lord of This World which goes into Solitude then into Into The Void.
Any of which are great songs on their own.
But hearing something lighter going into something arguably A LOT heavier gives it a little more....oomph. Ya know?
But that's just me.

At 1/9/16 05:34 PM, Viper wrote:

At 1/9/16 05:23 PM, BrenTheMan wrote: anyone else hate when metal bands put softer interlude tracks in the middle of an album?

Well sometimes it helps make the song immediately after it feel even heavier by comparison.
hearing something lighter going into something arguably A LOT heavier gives it a little more....oomph.

Týr has done this really well several times. Rwake also comes to mind.

So I'm seeing Sunn O))) in March, and I really can't explain how keen I am to see them live finally!

At 1/5/16 08:20 AM, zornuzkull wrote: Frank Zappa ain't bad... Pink Floyd have there moments...

More non-metal bands. Let's get back on topic.

At 1/9/16 05:23 PM, BrenTheMan wrote: BTW - anyone else hate when metal bands put softer interlude tracks in the middle of an album? Or poetry (Sikth) or something else. I get it works sometimes, but man it can be so jarring. I almost always skip those tracks because they're so dumb.

Softer tracks between heavier tracks is good, but if their just "interludes", they often feel like filler or a cheap way to transition between tracks without putting much effort into it. When it comes to spoken words, poetry and tracks that are just there to create some kind of conceptual album, it usually doesn't work too well. Blind Guardian and Kamelot are guilty of trying too hard with such tracks which usually results into skips for me.

But like Viper said, if they are softer tracks and not just place holders, then it can work very well. Master Of Reality is one of the best examples he could have taken to prove his point.

At 1/15/16 12:43 AM, twistex wrote: So I'm seeing Sunn O))) in March, and I really can't explain how keen I am to see them live finally!

I'd love to see them live two :) But what I'd love even more would be to see Sunn O))) & Boris live together performing Altar. That would be awesome!

At 1/16/16 12:50 PM, zornuzkull wrote: This dude did a video about Gorgoroth...
They metal enough for yah?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_fhFdJWgUQ0

Looks good enough to give them a try.

At 1/16/16 12:50 PM, zornuzkull wrote:

At 1/15/16 01:06 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote: More non-metal bands. Let's get back on topic.

This dude did a video about Gorgoroth...
They metal enough for yah?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_fhFdJWgUQ0

I'm not really getting what you are trying to do here.

At 1/18/16 05:43 AM, zornuzkull wrote: Well if you must know I'm trying to encourage conversation about a musical genre we all claim to enjoy...
But if you prefer this remains a dead thread... I can oblige...

The text you quoted made me doubt your intentions, but it's already. Proceed!

Now this is a pretty awesome pic.

At 1/20/16 10:57 PM, VGmasters wrote: Now this is a pretty awesome pic.

Dank meme bro.

At 1/20/16 10:57 PM, VGmasters wrote: Now this is a pretty awesome pic.

That was a good read and it is true. Nice job.

At 1/20/16 10:57 PM, VGmasters wrote: Now this is a pretty awesome pic.

I still have a problem with how big media treats information. There job is to inform, to relay information to the general public. Now of course you don't want media to talk about every little insignificant event, but what you do want is a media that informs people of relevant information, not just popular information. If the media always just strives for popularity, it just ends up talking about what people want to ear, and then starts the visious circle of useless information... You get people who do not learn crap and basically use big media to seek information they easily gain through their Facebook page already, and end up seeking information they already care about instead of looking for new stuff.

Quorthon was A MASSIVE influence on todays music. The guy inspired tens of thounsands of bands and helped shape metal music in such an important way... it's just totally ridiculous that no fucking big media has the intelligence to share this information with the public. A real shame.

At 1/20/16 10:57 PM, VGmasters wrote: Now this is a pretty awesome pic.

Don't forget that she died from a crack overdose. Her daughter also married her son.