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Metropolis View Drop Down

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Posted: August 24 2005 at 18:54

Well, next month I am going to see Opeth, Dragonforce, Nevermore, Arch Enemy and Dark Tranquility

We Lost the Skyline............

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Posted: August 24 2005 at 14:28

Death metal:
Behemoth
Hollenthon
Vader
Death
Esquarial
Enter Chaos
Soilwork
Dark Traquillity
At The Gates
Misteria
Arch Enemy

Black metal:
Emperor
Mayhem
Lux Occulta
Profanum
Christ Agony
Immortal
Limbionic Art
Satyricon
Thorns

Trash Metal:
Metallica
Megadeth
Slayer
Kreator
HUnter
Testament
Horrorscope

Last.fm

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Posted: August 24 2005 at 14:10

I find the whole image-based black metal scene more ridiculous than
amusing. Ulver's first albums stand out as the sole bm I really
enjoy.

Some death metal bands find their way to my ears every now and then,
Here's a selection:

Ajattara, mainly for the finnish growls
At The Gates, the fathers of melodic death/thrash
Cannibal Corpse, you know who I'm talking about.
Carcass, Former grindcore, later albums towards melodic death.
Cryptopsy, insane tech-death.
The Forsaken, good oldskool death
Nile, as above

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable - George Bernhard Shaw

Valarius

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Posted: August 24 2005 at 04:18

I love Extreme! They're one of my fave bands at the moment!

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Posted: August 22 2005 at 18:16

If you like SYL, check out the Devin Townsend Band ... but I guess you just forgot to list them.

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Joined: May 13 2005
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Posted: August 22 2005 at 18:15

Some of my favorites are:

Immortal
Emperor
SiKth
Strapping Young Lad
Empyrium
Death
Katatonia
Dillinger Escape Plan
Meshuggah
Dimmu Borgir
Pantera
Kamelot
Dark Tranquility (>>> In Flames bitches)
At The Gates
Arcturus

That's pretty much it, I oculd sit down and enjoy any one of those bands.

Logos

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Posted: August 22 2005 at 16:10

One man project Burzum is worth checking out! "Hvis Lyset Tar Oss" is a VERY, VERY good album, mainly instrumental. This music is also called ambient black-metal, the synths play a vital part in the overall sound and the tempo is not very fast. Also the riffs are pretty repetitive and very hypnotizingly catchy. The vocals are extremely brutal shrieks. "Filosofem" is also worth your time.

Quite a mythical person this Varg Vikerners. He's the one every BM fan likes to talk crap about.

moonlapse

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Posted: August 21 2005 at 18:49

IDDQD wrote:

Don't waste your time with Opeth.

Why not? Opeth is a great band.

goose

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Posted: August 20 2005 at 16:35

riversdancing wrote:

Actually, I'm more like a metalhead than a progger, my musical taste is much closer to heavy metal than to the prog mammoths. I'd like to mention some classic metal albums mostly from the technical speed/thrash genre

Mekong Delta - Dances of Death, Kaleidoscope
Forbidden - Forbidden Evil, Distortion
Voivod - Dimension Hatröss, Nothingface
Testament - The Gathering
Dyoxen - First Among Equals
Toxik - World Circus, Think This
Realm - Endless War, Suiciety
Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence, Act III
Annihilator - Alice In Hell, Never Neverland
Agent Steel - Omega Conspiracy, Order of the Illuminati
Coroner - Mental Vortex
Mercyful Fate - Melissa, Don't Berak The Oath
Atheist - Piece of Time, Unquestionable Presence, Elements
Death - Human, Individual Thought Patterns, Symbolic, The Sound of Perseverance

"I know many obscure metal bands, that's true. But I'm not really an expert on Thrash, because during the time when Thrash had it's peak as a genre, I was already onto something else - Prog Metal.

"

To Mike: I'm 28, so I have also missed the peak of thrash in the late 80s. The same happened to me, discovered bands such as Rush and Images and Words from a then-new band called Dream Theater and these discoveries completly changed my musical taste. But later I have recognized that the diversity is one of the most importat thing in music and I started to collect things from distinct thrash bands and also some CDs from hair metal bands.
Now I can listen Enchant, Forbidden, Shark Island, Winger, Death, Rush, Mezarkabul/Pentagram, Bruce Dickinson, Candlemass and Ephel Duath in quick succession.

Out of the nine you've listed I've heard, I love six of them and like another. Great stuff!

Metropolis View Drop Down

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Posted: August 20 2005 at 16:18

Did any of you guys make it along to Wacken Open Air this year?

It was awesome beyond compare.

We Lost the Skyline............

Logos

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Posted: August 19 2005 at 09:05

For SLOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW doom metal I suggest you to check Reverend Bizarre from Finland.

Their album"In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend" is pretty good and even has a 21-minute HUGE doom metal epic!

(Along with a few shorter ones and two 13-minute monsters)

hotbelly

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Posted: August 18 2005 at 00:17

Logos wrote:

If you don't mind the satanism and the deaths and murders and the pig heads and the cannibalism and the sadism and masocism that Mayhem is known for

, their debut "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" is a pretty strong BM effort.

That album is excellent, but I would advise limiting Mayhem to that album alone. The others (what I've heard) are terrible...

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Posted: August 16 2005 at 14:41

Slayer! wrote:

Slayer is thrash metal. I wouldn't consider them death metal. IMO, Paul Bostaph (the 2nd drummer of Slayer) was better than Dave Lombardo. Although Dave was good Paul seems more technical.

Recently I've been into Fear Factory. I may be wrong, and probably am, but I think it's progressive like. Anyone have anything to say on that?

IMO Fear Factory is quite proggy!!!

Archetype is a great album! 2 bad its callled industrial metal

Logos

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Posted: August 16 2005 at 13:40

If you don't mind the satanism and the deaths and murders and the pig heads and the cannibalism and the sadism and masocism that Mayhem is known for

, their debut "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" is a pretty strong BM effort.

Kohllapse

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Posted: August 16 2005 at 04:46

Equinox

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Posted: August 16 2005 at 03:28

Actually, I'm more like a metalhead than a progger, my musical taste is much closer to heavy metal than to the prog mammoths. I'd like to mention some classic metal albums mostly from the technical speed/thrash genre

Mekong Delta - Dances of Death, Kaleidoscope
Forbidden - Forbidden Evil, Distortion
Voivod - Dimension Hatröss, Nothingface
Testament - The Gathering
Dyoxen - First Among Equals
Toxik - World Circus, Think This
Realm - Endless War, Suiciety
Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence, Act III
Annihilator - Alice In Hell, Never Neverland
Agent Steel - Omega Conspiracy, Order of the Illuminati
Coroner - Mental Vortex
Mercyful Fate - Melissa, Don't Berak The Oath
Atheist - Piece of Time, Unquestionable Presence, Elements
Death - Human, Individual Thought Patterns, Symbolic, The Sound of Perseverance

"I know many obscure metal bands, that's true. But I'm not really an expert on Thrash, because during the time when Thrash had it's peak as a genre, I was already onto something else - Prog Metal.

Edited by riversdancing

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Posted: August 14 2005 at 07:19

MikeEnRegalia wrote:

Slayer are difficult to describe - I'd call it Thrash Metal, but their music also has many attibutes of Death Metal. It's Thrash with more brutal vocals and at a faster pace.

What are your favorite Prog Metal bands?

Well as far as prog metal goes, I really like Dream Theater, but I find it hard to get into any other bands. I tried Symphony X and Queensryche, but its abit cheesy, and i get the feeling theyre trying too hard to sound like something else. I heard Pain of Salvation are really good though, Im looking for a place to start with them.

I was asking about Slayer cause I had an arguement with some metalhead friends about it being thrash or death metal, it seems abit of both really.

Edit: I play drums, and I must admit Heavy metal is great fun to play, you can always challenge yourself with it.

Edited by Dreamer

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Posted: August 13 2005 at 21:17

MikeEnRegalia wrote:

Another great band:

Lamb of God.

.....Hell Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been listening to their Ashes of the Wake cd quite a lot lately.

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Posted: August 13 2005 at 16:41

I know many obscure metal bands, that's true. But I'm not really an expert on Thrash, because during the time when Thrash had it's peak as a genre, I was already onto something else - Prog Metal.

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Logos

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Posted: August 13 2005 at 16:39

Oh and by the way Mike, you should check out Borknagar and Vintersorg. Borknagar has three or four prog metal albums, and their first one is black metal, but a fine one also. I bet you might like them, being a friend of prog metal!

Vintersorg is the vocalist of Borknagar, his solo material is very good!! But not as proggy as Borknagar. A lot of double bass drums and lots of clean vocals by Vintersorg. This guy is probably my fave metal singer after Åkerfeldt. Both have the amazing ability to sing both top notch growls and cleans!