Which Extreme Metal album u listening to now?

I was listening to Cynic's Focus but now, I'm listening to...

I was on a kick with good ol' Mercyful Fate this weekend, nobody loves "The Beginning" as much as I do...nobody!

again sicking out to:

Toaster Mantis wrote: Nevermore are a band I've never seen what the fuss was about. Their lyrics are great but all other components of their music I find oddly unengaging... yeah, they have a very distinctive style but not one that compels me in the slightest. (in case you are wondering, that is also exactly how I feel about Mastodon)

At first I didn't like the vocal style at all.
After a few months I began to love it.
I really love what Jeff Loomis does with the 7 string guitar... around the time he started using one for their albums, their was a lot of the nu metal thing with more simplistic musicianship thing going on with people playing simple riffs and what not on a 7 string (except perhaps Limp Bizkit's guitar work.......... yes, surprisingly, the guitar work is actually more complex than you might realize, courtesy of the rather talented Wes Borland, but let's not get too much into that now).
Jeff Loomis stepped it up about 50000 notches, with riffs that could easily be technical metal style riffage, and with insane soloing capabilties. Some of the stuff he does makes some of John Petrucci's hardest licks almost seem almost easy in comparison, no easy feat.
Many guys approached the 7 string as 6 strings+1, whereas, Jeff Loomis viewed it more holistically.
Check out the Born solo for example, where he incorporates the low B string into some rather ridiculously hard to play sweep picking patterns.

Honestly, give them a few more chances, maybe come back to them in a few months time, and chances are it might be one of the best things you could do.


Edited by HughesJB4 - September 11 2008 at 07:11

had a listen to the new Wold album down at the shops not so long ago. noisy as f**k. 

faceofdoomness wrote: I was listening to Cynic's Focus but now, I'm listening to...

Both great albums

Apsalar wrote: had a listen to the new Wold album down at the shops not so long ago. noisy as f**k.

good stuff, I love Wold,

Not into Extreme Metal myself. I much prefer Gothic Metal especially if it has a female lead. Today I listened to Sirenia - An Elixir for Existence. Pretty good 8/10

Apsalar wrote: mithrandir wrote: Apsalar wrote: had a listen to the new Wold album down at the shops not so long ago. noisy as f**k.  good stuff, I love Wold, I was going to ask, here's probably the best place, anyone got any recommendations on the noise/metal type stuff? Wold is a good example, also many recent albums cropping up from Israeli bands like lietterschpich, cadaver eyes, etcetera.

I don't know if I'd consider Wold 'Noise/Metal' just Black Metal with heavy focus on the low-fi/fuzzy aesthetic of BM, you can always check out influences of Wold and similar bands like Ildjarn, Beherit, Belketre, Torgeist, Vermyapre Kommando, Bone Awl, Sortsind, De Magia Veterum, Dead Raven Choir, Von, Furze, Bilskirnir, Akitsa, etc


Edited by mithrandir - September 21 2008 at 18:12

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