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True, i love Show Me a Dinosaur, lol.
Killer Queen
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Favorite live albums?
Hard Rock is included?
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I'm not a huge live album guy, but after thinking about this:
Iron Maiden - Rock In Rio
The album is a fantastic showcase of Iron Maiden's return to form and the energy they had in the early 2000s. I'm a huge sucker for Brave New World and this album also has some bits of Blaze era songs which get a new life during this live performance. Also this being a recording of a single concert is something I appreciate.
Iced Earth - Alive In Athens
A monster of a package that also became the go-to recommendation when people asked a gateway to Iced Earth material (pre-Spotify). A fantastic line-up of songs from their whole career at the time of the recording. Some of their earlier stuff sounds way more energetic than on the studio recordings, Days of Purgatory included.
Andrew Korenchkin
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Unleashed In the East!
Metallica - Live Shit: Binge & Purge
Slayer - Decade of Aggression
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Laevateinn
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I tend to only really get into live videos not albums but
Unleashed in the Studio is pretty solid.
I also spin The Gathering's live albums quite often.
Unleashed in the Studio is pretty solid.
I also spin The Gathering's live albums quite often.
Giant Robot
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Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Mayhem - Live in Leipzig
Slayer - Live Undead (fake live show)
Destruction - Live Without Sense
Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii (as a film)
Accept - Staying A Life
Blind Guardian - Tokyo Tales (best era)
Morbid Angel - Entangled In Chaos (although the drums triggered as fuck, it's clean and intense)
Napalm Death - The Peel Sessions (fucking devastating! sheer brutality sounding)
Not a fan of stadium rock Scorpions, but World Wide Live has a great live atmosphere.
DieNgamers
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With metal it's kinda hard. My favorite bands don't have live albums that come close to their actual live sound, production wise. They don't get the same attention from the get go.
So even if it's almost bootleg quality black Sabbath's past lives/live at last is a worthy collection that captures ther raw bombast of the early till mid 70s sound.
Not a huge Live Album person, not as much as a Live DVD/Blu Ray fan, but i guess these might be my favourites:
Sentenced - Buried Alive (By far my favourite metal live album)
Slayer - Decade of Aggression
Cannibal Corpse - Live Cannibalism
Ozzy Osbourne - Live & loud
Iced earth - Alive in Athens
If we are counting Hard Rock i would include:
Twisted Sister - Live at Hammersmith
Mr. Big - Live in San Francisco
Rainbow - On stage
Sentenced - Buried Alive (By far my favourite metal live album)
Slayer - Decade of Aggression
Cannibal Corpse - Live Cannibalism
Ozzy Osbourne - Live & loud
Iced earth - Alive in Athens
If we are counting Hard Rock i would include:
Twisted Sister - Live at Hammersmith
Mr. Big - Live in San Francisco
Rainbow - On stage
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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Devin Townsend Project released a live box set a few years ago, it's incredible. Deconstruction, Addicted, Ki and Ghost all had a DVD and CD, played the whole albums live. Deconstruction live is a top tier live album.
off the top of my head:
Metal:
Soilwork - Live in the Heart of Helsinki
Metallica - Through the Never
Devin Townsend - Ziltoild Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Opeth - Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Non-Metal:
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere
Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize
Anathema - Universal
Pink Floyd - Pulse
Katatonia - Sanctitude
King Crimson - Absent Lovers
King Crimson - The Great Deceiver
Yeah I got this and it's pretty awesome. It's also rare as hell now apparently.
nailbombxx
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A live EP but whatever. Early live Slayer, the energy captured in this recording is phenomenal.
Not sure it counts, but I've been listening to a ton of the two discs of live content that came with Judas Priests's "Defenders of the Faith" 30th anniversary reissue. Rob has a ton of energy in it.
Slayer's Decade of Agression is great.
Nonmetal - Nine Inch Nails - "And All That Could Have Been"; Front Line Assembly - "Live Wired", and lately I've been listening to lots of Switchblade Symphony's "Sweet, Little Witches"
Giant Robot
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A live EP but whatever. Early live Slayer, the energy captured in this recording is phenomenal.
And in front of like 10 people. I imagined it had to be like the Ultimate Revenge show. Leather, spikes, bullets, raw, METAL.
People actually like these?
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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They say the pen is mightier than the sword! Well I say fuck the pen! 'cause you can dieeeee by the swooooooord
While vocals were indeed dubbed later in studio, the music is still live. The album gets too much shit for being called a studio recording.
Andrew Korenchkin
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Damn, really? Must be in the smallest room possible.
Brian_FETO
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(Including DVDs)
Metallica - Live Seattle 1989 (one of the greatest live performance recordings ever)
Sepultura - Under Siege 1991
Faith No More - Live at the Brixton Academy
Alice In Chains - MTV Unplugged
Misfits - Evilive
Mayhem - European Legions Live in Marseille 2000
Gray Matter
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https://youtu.be/bx4C6IxXYM8
It's a bad angle, but if you look carefully around the 3:39-3:41 mark the guy going up is me, then at 3:48 that's me again being taken down by security.
I had such a blast that night.
Killer Queen
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Yessir
I love Decade of Aggression and Live Shit:Binge and Purge 89'
There's a certain energy you get from those live shows is surreal
Brian_FETO
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I haven't heard either before, good stuff. Thanks! I've looked up Xysma before but I know their genre changed quite a bit over time, never found anything I liked enough to get into.
I think I prefer the Xysma recording, despite the guitar tone being fizzy garbage haha. I don't mind the Disgrace vocals but usually I prefer if those style are mixed with other stuff, otherwise it's all kind of monotone. Still cool though
I've been on a Dead Infection kick for a long while now, working on getting a project along those lines going with a friend of mine haha. I just love that style, perfect mix of From Enslavement era Napalm with the twisted evil of old Carcass
Haloid1177
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Deafheaven and Carcass are playing the local theater on campus in November and it's the same night as my once a week screenwriting class which you're absolutely not supposed to skip and I'm like what do I do.
Brian_FETO
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If you're taking the class and it's something you care about then I'd recommend not skipping. Carcass will be back and Deafheaven will hopefully break up
Haloid1177
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If you're taking the class and it's something you care about then I'd recommend not skipping. Carcass will be back and Deafheaven will hopefully break up
Do we not like Deafheaven what is this nonsense.
See it's complicated because my teacher is missing a class in November but she hasn't given us a date and now I really need a date lol. Monday shows are the most inconvenient thing.
I feel like I listen to less metal live dvds and CDs than other music live. Metal already has a bit of an edge to it so translating it to a live environment I feel doesn't do a ton whereas a lot of other rock I listen to is so pristine that a live version really takes it to a different dimension.
Brian_FETO
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How late is your class? Are there any openers? Maybe you could swing both unless it's a late class or early show
Being in Chicago we're lucky to usually have tours planned so shows happen in the Friday-Sunday window but yea, the random Monday or Tuesday show can be annoying (especially if it's a really late 21+ show).
And yea not a fan of Deafheaven. Especially touring with Carcass, lineup diversity is one thing but that really doesn't make sense. They played an offdate here from that horrendous Chicago Open Air fest and I didn't bother going
Andrew Korenchkin
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Deafheaven is boring as fuck.
teruterubozu
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Priest - Unleashed in the East
Motorhead - No Sleep Til Hammersmith
Thin Lizzy - Life
Sabbath - Live Evil
Rush - Exit Stage Left
The standards really.
Yeah I hear you on that. It seems like the live album is a dying art these days. It used to be a big deal when artists released a double-album live record but these days live albums are almost treated like catalog filler. In many ways though, those "classic" live albums were pretty contrived with in-studio overdubs and vocal-corrections and so forth, but they sound great and they're fun to listen to.
Brian_FETO
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One of the worst "live" tracks I've heard is Vio-Lence's live in Tokyo. It's one or two songs on (I think) Torture Tactics. They used a recording of a intro from the show, then blatantly cut to a reverbed to shit version of the studio recording, with a clearly in studio "ALL RIGHT TOOOKYOOOOOO"
It's the worst, not even a "live in studio" deal
It's the worst, not even a "live in studio" deal
I don't mind overdubs and stuff. My main attraction to live releases is just the change in energy and style of a song. If that's done partially in studio, then so be it.
I also tend to listen to live releases kind of like a guilt free "greatest hits" sort of thing. It feels cohesive (probably because they were actually all played at the same time and at least they were mixed the same), and it gets through an artists big songs usually. That's why I tend to listen to full album play through live discs much much less than other live sets. I often tend to feel like that's pointless. I have the album. I can listen to that at any time.
Honestly can't say I've ever been grabbed by a song from a live album. They always feel second-hand.
Killer Queen
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I dunno, for me hearing the band have fun and the crowd go wild is just so much more exciting to me, I feel the energy.
Giant Robot
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The Officer Nice song? The worst is that Sean Killian says "Gong Hey Fat Choy" which is not even Japanese.
Pan-Thy-Monium has a deliberate take on a fake live song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAwhdVZs1cc
Musically, Impaled is closer to Dismember/Impetigo with heavy Carcass themes. In fact, I'm sure that they've admitted to be more influenced with the slice 'n dice riffs of Dismember. Mondo Medicale is an amazing album though, I was a huge fan of it when it came out.
As far as early Carcass clones: old General Surgery, The County Medical Examiners, Rotten Sound, Necrony, old Exhumed, Xysma, Pathologist + there million side projects.
Napalm Death - Mentally Murdered ep is the perfect transition between old Napalm Death/old Carcass, well because Bill Steer wrote both albums simultaneously. I'm sure you knew that though
Andrew Korenchkin
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There are some live albums that bring much more to the songs for me personally, such as Priest's Unleashed. All of the songs on that album are superior to their studio versions.
Killer Queen
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For me I much prefer the live versions of Blackened and Master of Puppets, just so much more fierce than their studio counterparts. Creeping Death too.
Oveja Negra
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In my opinion, great bands or single artists that are really talented ALWAYS improve their creations during a live performance with a new arrangement, intro, improvised extended solo, whatever, so... yeah I love live albums.
Bitanator
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Creeping Death with Jason Newsted as the wingman
hunchback
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Do you mean the Seattle show from Live Shit or the entire package?
The show was from 89 but they didn't release the box set until 93.
That was an amazing 2 night's of Metallica in Seattle. They just crushed it both nights.
Killer Queen
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The Seattle show
I feel that the 93 show is too produced and ruins some of the live aspect and the Seattle performances are just more exciting
Brian_FETO
Banned
The 92 video and 93 audio come nowhere close to 89
They're also on the tail end of James' voice before giving out. Even Jason sounds weak on them, whereas 89 was perrrrfect.
TheLastCandle
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My favorite live albums:
Iced Earth - Alive in Athens
Blind Guardian - Live
Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East
Deep Purple - Made in Japan
Rainbow - On Stage would be up there if Ritchie could stop dicking around for 5 seconds and play some god damn songs.
Iced Earth - Alive in Athens
Blind Guardian - Live
Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East
Deep Purple - Made in Japan
Rainbow - On Stage would be up there if Ritchie could stop dicking around for 5 seconds and play some god damn songs.
Melchiah
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Yeah, the post-EP rock stuff of Xysma never appealed to me either. Their more grindy Swarming of the Maggots demo, that preceded the EP, is pretty good though.
I managed to see both of them live in the early 90's, and the two vocalists really added to Disgrace's live presence. The growler Mr. Stranius, who died 10 years ago, played in Xysma as well.
Speaking of Dead Infection, their grind drums mix of Stayin' Alive is hilarious: https://youtu.be/mutgNJsppRY
Speaking of live stuff, live DVDs that don't come with CDs or where there aren't any ways to listen to the audio really suck. I want to get the most out of my money and listen more but if it's not available...
Example is The Ocean's Collective Oblivion. Really want to hear that more but it didn't come with any CDs.
Example is The Ocean's Collective Oblivion. Really want to hear that more but it didn't come with any CDs.