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The Metal Thread |OT2| All Riffs, No Gifs

Juke Joint Jezebel said:
Although I thought everything they put out after their debut was shit, it's still depressing to hear. "Wisconsin Death Trip" was a great album and one of my favourites to listen to when I was growing up.
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Fuckin' drugs. I bought WDT the day it came out (15th anniversary was this year), and it remains one of the very few albums from that era that I can still listen to. Bummer.
 
Electric_ Cthulhu said:
Some of you may find it cheesy and unbearable, but to me Riot's Unleash the Fire is one of the best "traditional" metal albums of the last couple of years and even a serious AotY contender.

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Woulda liked to see them and Doro play like they did recently.
 
Ravager61 said:
Leaving in a couple hours to go see Noisem, Exhumed, Obituary, and Carcass. What an insane lineup.
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I've never heard of Noisem until you mentioned them, but I dig what I heard. Really, the comparisons to Morbid Saint were more than enough for me.

And yes, Obituary and Carcass are excellent bands. Sounds like one hell of a show. I'm less familiar with Exhumed but I've heard their music before.
 
Andrew_Korenchkin said:
And yes, Obituary and Carcass are excellent bands. Sounds like one hell of a show. I'm less familiar with Exhumed but I've heard their music before.
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Exhumed started out as pure early Carcass worship. They are well known in the bay area death metal/grind/powerviolence circle.

The main guy, Matt Harvey, has pretty much lived the dream by filling in on vocals for an Exodus show and played in Repulsion. Also had a killer thrash side project band Dekapitator and Scarecrow. Cool guy and was the most thrash metal guy I've ever known.
 
I listened to Slaughtercult a lot when I first heard it. Amazing riffs on that album, I just wish it wasn't high frequency ear rape. Would love a remix/remaster.
 
Hey all. Would any of you happen to know of any good/reputable websites to submit an EP to for review? I'm trying to build some press and a little exposure. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks. :)
 
For all you Death/Thrash lovers out there, the sweet sounds of Protected Illusion from Finland.

Protected Illusion - Festering Fairytales

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Really good energy on this album, it has been one of my favorite little gems for a while, though I say that a lot about hundreds of albums, this one really does kick ass. For obscure Thrash Metal Maniacs it is definitely worth a listen with blazing nut punchers like "Symphonies of Happiness" "Plain Pain" "Clockwork Toy" "Children Of The Chords" "Runk Öpström" and "Merciless Desert".

Check it out and Get Thrashed
 
MezzoForte said:
I listened to Slaughtercult a lot when I first heard it. Amazing riffs on that album, I just wish it wasn't high frequency ear rape. Would love a remix/remaster.
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I prefer Gore Metal because of the dirty raw production, almost Dismember-like. IMO, Exhumed aren't a very great band. Just a lot of hard work, respect, and tongue in cheek humor they deliver.

Been listening to some pure evil and uncomfortable sounding band by the name Swallowed.
Swallowed - Lunarterial

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Founded in 2007, Swallowed sent shock waves through the underground with a trio of filth-encrusted releases (2007's Putrefaction demo, 2008's Epitaph of Nauseation demo, and a self-titled EP in 2010) and caught the attention of the one and only Fenriz, who intoned: "You can just hear for yourself that these slow and bestial Finns are the bee's knees. Hail hail to the good times!"

"Unholy hell, bleak dirge, tortured riffs, blackened drone and filthy feedback are some of the elements that make up one of the sickest bands to come out of Finland. They go by the name of Swallowed" added Cvlt Nation, while the Sludgelord has been anxiously awaiting the band's return: "This is some super heavy and dark death/doom metal from Finland right here. While these guys did break up for a while, the band is recently re-activated and I'm really looking forward to a full-length from them."

The wait is nearly over now - you have been warned!
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Giant Robot said:
Exhumed started out as pure early Carcass worship. They are well known in the bay area death metal/grind/powerviolence circle.

The main guy, Matt Harvey, has pretty much lived the dream by filling in on vocals for an Exodus show and played in Repulsion. Also had a killer thrash side project band Dekapitator and Scarecrow. Cool guy and was the most thrash metal guy I've ever known.
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I've heard Gore Metal and Slaughtercult. I enjoyed it for what it was, I guess. Decent stuff.

I wish Carcass would release Reek with better production. I love early Carcass the best, but damn that album sounds terrible.
 
I must be the only one disappointed with Z2. The first disc sounds like leftovers from epicloud, and the ziltoid album sounds like a mesh of deconstruction/epicloud. Not a fan of the heavy focus on the contrived campy narrative, and the melodies dont hold up on their own.

I may give the non skit disc a shot, but so far this probably sounds like a waste of a follow-up to the original album which was really awesome
 
Giant Robot said:
Been listening to some pure evil and uncomfortable sounding band by the name Swallowed.
Swallowed - Lunarterial
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been following them since their second demo dropped (which has a nice Autopsy cover btw). Frankly, I can't believe this is the same band. If the Bandcamp mobile site wasn't so glitchy I would have listened to this album 50 times by now. LP is mine this Friday. The EP is also not to be missed.
 
 
Dastardly Jerks said:
Oh god, Z2 is so good.

I can't handle it.
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As a package it's really really good. Separately it's still really awesome, too. I have a feeling I'm going to end up liking Sky Blue better than anything he's done since Synchestra. That's mostly because I tend to like Townsend when he combines all of his sounds together. Since Synchestra, he's kind of parsed things out with the quieter albums like Ki and Ghost and the heavier stuff like Deconstruction and the poppy/catchier sounding stuff with Addicted and Epicloud. Not that those all aren't awesome things, I just like it when he combines. So, yeah, Sky Blue is amazing. Really wish we got the Devin version of Fallout, though...

I also really love Dark Matters, more than most seem to. Deathray and March of the Poozers are my favorites from it. I can get why some might be annoyed at it and the dialogue, but I really like that direction for the Ziltoid stuff. I hope he gets to do another one at some point.

Really wonder what he'll do next. The label wants him to continue with Addicted/Epicloud sort of stuff and will probably push him into that, but I hope he can just do what he wants.
 
Been going back to the heavy hitters from my school days in the late '80s, when I wore a Boston Bruins baseball cap in junior high and had a mullet.

My top 5 cassettes of the era:

1. King Diamond 'Them' - Genius. I wore a few of these out.
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2. Sepultura 'Arise' - I saw the video for Dead Embryonic Cells on Headbangers Ball and I knew right then I'd still be listening to it when I was almost 40.
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3. Metallica 'Justice': Visionary and heady, it elevated everything.
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4. King Diamond 'Conspiracy' - almost as good as Them. King has some creepy moments on this album. Them and Conspiracy are amazing.
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5. Overkill 'Years of Decay' - Time to Kill took the badass middle riff to another level.
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I wonder what King Diamond would sound like if you played the cassette at a faster speed. I loved doing that with old cassettes; playing everything slighter faster so everything was sped up.

Anyway, new At The Gates is disappointing, unfortunately. Oh well, I wasn't expecting them to top Slaughter anyway. Well, listening to Profetus helped me get my mind off that.
 
Anyone here keep up with Sterogum's monthly metal feature? I am not really a big fan of the site in general but the monthly metal list is always good. Octobers has some great shit, the new Taake track is good and I had never heard of Giant Squid before. That album is awesome.
 
the best about taake is that all their releases range from good (self titled) to amazing (everything else).
Hope the new release is in line of the usual taake quality
 
So, my first post here, and I'm looking for a band/album recommendation as I haven't really gotten into any new music in a few years. I'm not particularly into anything heavy, more toeing the line between hard rock and metal. For reference, here are some bands/albums I like:

All That Remains - For We Are Many album
Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the Fallen album to present (my favorite band, I like the variety of sound from them)
Disturbed - Indestructible album
Iron Maiden - Brave New World album + Run to the Hills
Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies album
Slipknot - Vol. 3 The Subliminal Verses album
Three Days Grace - Self-Titled album
(Not metal, but I'm also a fan of early Linkin Park, and Papa Roach's Getting Away With Murder album)

Feel free to scold me for not being a proper metal-head :P Just figured this would be the best place to ask for suggestions.
 
I would say, try to listen to:
Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
Death By Stereo - Into the Valley of Death
In Flames - Clayman
36 Crazyfists - A Snow Capped Romance
Chimaira - The Age of Hell
Machine Head - The Blackening
Unearth - The Oncoming Storm

And of course, Blind Guardian - At the Edge of Time

If you just want one band to start with, then Soilwork.
 
Saften said:
As I've understood it Devin Townsend has been free from any obligations from any label since around Epicloud.
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here

Is this where Sky Blue comes in? As a commercially viable companion?

DT: [laughs] In light of being honest with you, when I first proposed Ziltoid 2 to the label, they askedm "What's your plan?", and I'm like, "Well, we're going to follow up Epicloud and the five years of touring we've done in support of that style with an incredibly expensive puppet show about farting aliens…"

And they didn't want to go for that?

DT: Well they didn't, to be honest.

I'm somewhat perplexed by that -

DT: Me too, me too.

- your discography is diverse and pretty 'out there'; surely Casualties Of Cool recently achieving 546% of its crowdfunding target is proof that there is an audience out there interested in hearing whatever you do.

DT: That's how I feel, but there it is. But here's the other thing, it's not me against the conservative curmudgeons at the label. At this point I am part of a team and as much as I am a figurehead, the success of it is also based on the other people. There's an element of compromise. The end result is finding a way to retain my newer audience, interested in the Addicted/Epicloud material. So Sky Blue started life as a compromise, and I thought I'd be able to phone it in, just shit out another Epicloud so that I could do my Ziltoid thing. After I'd committed to it I realised it was just not resonating, but it ended up being something I'm incredibly proud of; even more so perhaps than Dark Matters. The process forced me to really think about where I was in life.


teruterubozu said:
He basically has the most enviable position of any musician I can think of. He can do anything he wants and his fans are loyal.
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He should be able to, but in practice I guess it doesn't seem that way. What he wants is apparently just to play bass in a band and not sing anymore, etc.
 
L4DANathan said:
So, my first post here, and I'm looking for a band/album recommendation as I haven't really gotten into any new music in a few years. I'm not particularly into anything heavy, more toeing the line between hard rock and metal. For reference, here are some bands/albums I like:

All That Remains - For We Are Many album
Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the Fallen album to present (my favorite band, I like the variety of sound from them)
Disturbed - Indestructible album
Iron Maiden - Brave New World album + Run to the Hills
Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies album
Slipknot - Vol. 3 The Subliminal Verses album
Three Days Grace - Self-Titled album
(Not metal, but I'm also a fan of early Linkin Park, and Papa Roach's Getting Away With Murder album)

Feel free to scold me for not being a proper metal-head :P Just figured this would be the best place to ask for suggestions.
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i say we gateway drug you now

at the gates - slaughter of the soul
carcass - heartwork
in flames - the jester race
dark tranquility - the gallery
also suggesting natural born chaos
death - the sound of perseverance
the haunted - made me do it
 
sgjackson said:
i say we gateway drug you now

at the gates - slaughter of the soul
carcass - heartwork
in flames - the jester race
dark tranquility - the gallery
also suggesting natural born chaos
death - the sound of perseverance
the haunted - made me do it
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Damn if this isn't me in high school. What a fine list you have here. You are truly a gentleman and a scholar.
 
RDreamer said:
He should be able to, but in practice I guess it doesn't seem that way. What he wants is apparently just to play bass in a band and not sing anymore, etc.
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Yeah, now I remember. I was thinking of Weird Al who've after his latest album fulfilled his label contract and are now free to do whatever. I guess I just mixed him And Devin together because of an old interview with Devin where he also talked about his label commitments.

Though, wasn't too far off the mark in regards to the artistic freedom Devin is able to wield.
 
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