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Logos 
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Posted: August 05 2005 at 18:54 |
List your favourite heavy metal (don't mean classic metal like Maiden, etc, but death / black / grind / doom etc.) bands / albums!
Mine in no particular order..
Immortal - their albums "Damned in Black" and "At the Heart of Winter" are simply masterpieces. The riffs of these guys could break down concrete walls! Just legends of the Norwegian metal scene.
Arch Enemy - great technical death with a female vocalist. Her growls are pretty rough! "Wages of Sin" is my fave album from them.
Death - one of the grandfathers of death metal! No need for explanations. "Individual Thought Patterns" stands out as a masterpiece.
Candlemass and Swallow the Sun - my Doom metal favourites. StS is Finnish , pretty well known here in the metal underground. Spectacular doom!! Candlemass' "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus" is my favourite doom album tho.
Vintersorg is my favourite vocalist, his growls and cleans are just perfect! A bit like Mikael Åkerfeldt in a way. His solo material is pretty astonishing.
Extol - an underground technical death / black band from Sweden. These guys sure know how to play! Almost prog at times.
Then there is of course Sentenced . They used to make death / black metal in the early 90's , for example the album "North From Here" is one of the best Finnish metal albums of all time. Nowadays their music is more accessible for the big audiences, depending more on catchy tunes than heavy riffing.
Discuss.. I know there are quite a few metalheads here!!
PS. It would also be nice to get a few suggestions on what metal to listen to next!! 
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: August 06 2005 at 03:45 |
Death-Human and Sound of Perseverance
Opeth-Everything in their catalogue
Extol-The Blueprint Dives,Synergy
Nile-In Their Darkened Shrines and Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
Gorguts-Obscura and From Wisdom to Hate
Cryptopsy-None so Vile,And Then You'll Beg,Whisper Supremacy
Napalm Death-From Enslavement to Obliteration
Cannibal Corpse-Gore Obsessed
Control Denied-The Fragile Art of Existence
Bathory-Under the Sign:The Sign of the Black Mark
Morbid Angel-Blessed are the Sick,Covenant
Meshuggah-everything in their catalogue
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Bj-1
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Posted: August 06 2005 at 16:55 |
 Logos wrote:
Extol - an underground technical death / black band from Sweden. These guys sure know how to play! Almost prog at times.
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Actually, Extol are from Norway. They are great!! I was on a release-party with them earlier this year! Great musicians, and very, VERY complex music.
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Ed_The_Dead
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Posted: August 06 2005 at 17:19 |
Paradise Lost
Mudvayne
Megadeth
Machine Head
Fear factory
System of a Down
Static-X
Slipknot (the last album is great! But the rest sucks )
Stone Sour
Strapping Young Lad
Norther
Children of Bodom
In Flames
Opeth
Anyone know some good polish bands like Vader or Behemoth? Don't love 'em myself but I think the'r one of the few polish bands that are world-worthy
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Logos
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Posted: August 06 2005 at 17:24 |
Bj-1 wrote:
Actually, Extol are from Norway. They are great!! I was on a release-party with them earlier this year! Great musicians, and very, VERY complex music. |
 You're right, my bad.
One I forgot to mention in my original post : Ulver , definitely one of the most original bands in the Norwegian black metal scene!! I just love their debut album "Bergtatt" , which has a lot of acoustic sections and clean vocals as well.
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Posted: August 06 2005 at 19:55 |
Bj-1 wrote:
Logos wrote:
Extol - an underground technical death / black band from Sweden. These guys sure know how to play! Almost prog at times.
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Actually, Extol are from Norway. They are great!! I was on a release-party with them earlier this year! Great musicians, and very, VERY complex music.
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I love Synergy and Blueprint!
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King of Loss
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Posted: August 06 2005 at 20:03 |
Extreme Metal blows most of the time, but I surely like Power Metal!
MY EMERALD SWORD OWNS YOU!!!
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Logos
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Posted: August 09 2005 at 13:18 |
Also; if you are interested in the roots of extreme metal, I strongly suggest you to check Venom's "Black Metal". It's from 1982, and you can tell. But still, considering their satanic lyrics combined with the soaring guitars and the fuzzy sound, these guys were surely seen as very extreme in the 80's. 
Edit. They're Britons by the way, not Norwegians, although Norway is the home of black metal these days.
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Posted: August 09 2005 at 13:23 |
most extreme/black metal sounds like poo to me.
a few are awesome tho.
Mastodon is my favorite metal band at the moment.
Children of Bodom are also interesting
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Logos
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Posted: August 09 2005 at 13:27 |
GoldenSpiral wrote:
most extreme/black metal sounds like poo to me. |
Well, about 99 out of 100 black metal bands are sh*te. 
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: August 09 2005 at 16:20 |
GoldenSpiral wrote:
most extreme/black metal sounds like poo to me.
a few are awesome tho.
Mastodon is my favorite metal band at the moment.
Children of Bodom are also interesting
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Mastodon are very very good.I saw them on their Remission tour with The Dillinger Escape Plan and they were great live.Brann Dailor is an awesome drummer.
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Posted: August 09 2005 at 16:41 |
Logos wrote:
Extol - an underground technical death / black band from Sweden. These guys sure know how to play! Almost prog at times.
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They're not black - in fact they're a Christian band. Their latest album is quite innovative - not as thrashy as their previous albums.
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Posted: August 10 2005 at 03:51 |
AUTOPSY "Mental funeral" Perfect album title! There's pictures of the guys smoking dope from 2 meter long glass pipes before their rock'n'roll act.
CARCASS "Symphonies of Sicness"
DEATH "Human"
MY DYING BRIDE "Turn Loose The Swans" ...there's good material also on their other releases.
NAPALM DEATH Any of their material to mid 90's. "From Enslavement to Obliteration" is their best.
SEPULTURA "Arise" and "Beneath The Remains"
Some titles from BOLT THROWER and IMMOLATION also.
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Posted: August 10 2005 at 06:58 |
Hollenthon - With Vilest Of Worms To Dwell (One of the best albums ever released)
Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness
Amon Amarth - The Avenger (or Once Sent From Golden Hall)
Bathory - Hammerheart
Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage
Enslaved - Eld
Manegarm - Nordstjarnans Tildsalder
plus a fair number of the previously mentioned bands/albums
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Posted: August 10 2005 at 08:12 |
Cynic - Focus
Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
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Posted: August 10 2005 at 19:54 |
Logos wrote:
Also; if you are interested in the roots of extreme metal, I strongly suggest you to check Venom's "Black Metal". It's from 1982, and you can tell. But still, considering their satanic lyrics combined with the soaring guitars and the fuzzy sound, these guys were surely seen as very extreme in the 80's.
Edit. They're Britons by the way, not Norwegians, although Norway is the home of black metal these days. |
Great album! Can't listen to it too often though it seems. Feel slightly in the mood for it now though.
Opeth and My Dying Bride are great bands. Primarily however i enjoy "classic" metal, e.g., Judas Priest, Iron Maiden e.t.c., and more recently getting into Mercyful Fate and King Diamond.
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Posted: August 11 2005 at 13:01 |
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Just a few essentials:
Summoning - Dol Guldur, Nightshade Forests. Epic Fantasy
Metal with heavy keyboards in looping, classicaly inspired phrases,
often running textural changes.
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tarr Oss. The best from the second wave.
Therion - Beyond Sanctorum
Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus - Two of the greatest albums of
the European Melodic Death tradition circa early 90's, when Death and
Melodic were not mutually exclusive.
The above would be an excellent overview of Extreme Metal, with only ***** albums. Don't waste your time with Opeth.
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Posted: August 11 2005 at 15:20 |
IDDQD wrote:
Summoning - Dol Guldur |
I have this too, and it's very good! Do you know, is this one-man project? Are the drums programmed?
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Posted: August 11 2005 at 21:57 |
Death, Mayhem, Dimmu Borgir, Children of Bodom, Sepultura, to name a few.
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Posted: August 11 2005 at 22:04 |
Opeth is the only extreme metal band i can stand. Blackwater park is the heaviest thing i can take.
Oh yes, Anal c**t are hilarious. I dont take it as music, but funnier then some comedies
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