mega thread Metal Thread

[packapunch3 20]

I could never really enjoy Viking Metal, or black metal in general for that matter. Love Wintersun though. High quality death metal there, and Jari Maenpaa is my hero.

 

What kinds of Death Metal do you like?

Typically Death Metal and Melodic. I love Dethklok from Metalocalypse, badass show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4ueN2YoEMk

Some helping of Metalcore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2RPo2cVjd4

And a dash of Death Metal.

[tehAgg 268]

Typically Death Metal and Melodic. I love Dethklok from Metalocalypse, badass show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4ueN2YoEMk

Some helping of Metalcore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2RPo2cVjd4

And a dash of Death Metal.

 

I dabble in some death metal once in awhile.

 

[Discordian 6,015]

Typically Death Metal and Melodic. I love Dethklok from Metalocalypse, badass show.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4ueN2YoEMk

Some helping of Metalcore.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2RPo2cVjd4

And a dash of Death Metal.

<3 Melodic Death. I love Dethklok and Scar Symmetry but I'm acquiring quite the taste for Disarmonia Mundi as well.

[tehAgg 268]

TOTES forgot that this song existed. XD

[EpiPony 32]

inb4 metalcore/hardcore/something like that

br00tal

[Twiliscael 3,960]

Meh, been feeling a helluva lot more into stuff 'sides metal recently. Only really been repping it during workouts.

No new releases to keep my attention up, I guess.

[Discordian 6,015]

TOTES forgot that this song existed. XD

 

I love the guitar in this song. So much

 

I have a friend who sings this song to his one year old daughter as a lullaby and she sleeps soundly to it.

[Discordian 6,015]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrfNe57cxNA

I've only heard a few Edguy songs so far but man I love the music. They really know how to use that guitar.

[tehAgg 268]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrfNe57cxNA

 

I've only heard a few Edguy songs so far but man I love the music. They really know how to use that guitar.

 

Edguy is full of straight up YES

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL6HmY8EbtA

[Pentakill 68]

I have been listening to this song A LOT lately!

[packapunch3 20]

inb4 metalcore/hardcore/something like that

br00tal

Another who likes Metalcore!

I have been listening to this song A LOT lately!

Really good song, might listen to these guys more often. Been listening to Pierce The Veil.

Edited March 13, 2014 by packapunch3

[uuunph 288]

So I was listening to TDWP and I realized how much I loved their rhythm guitarist's vocals

Edited August 23, 2020 by uuunph

[tehAgg 268]

It's not a song, but it IS metel related...

 

[Guest]

A classic. Still gonna post it anyway.

 

[Champion RD92 8,658]

A classic. Still gonna post it anyway.

 

 

I love that song!!!!

 

Really great band!!!

[Guest]

I love that song!!!!

 

Really great band!!!

 

Heeeeeeeeeell yeeea'! Straight up.

[Crispy 5,563]

What do you guys think of the new Architects?

 

 

I'm liking it a lot so far.

[Midnight Scribbler 1,705]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j82cCjI0ecc

 

FROM THE SKY!!!

 

 

 

At the very first sound
There was just light
And then, a storm
Of time and space
Just came and struck
Created our time
In water life
We understand
It just only began
Forced to look to the sky
And wonder why
We cannot face the fact that
We're all scared now
Of mysteries of life
There is a mask that soon will fall
Before the strong embrace
Of love and might
Of light in the dark
I go for a quest
I have to give myself the answer
Enter now this place in the wild
I can see the glade
My feeling now is growing bigger
From the sky

I do feel like no one can save me
I am so alone and yet I cried
I called for help, forsaken
But now I know
The only way is to
Understand the living
Obey the rule of light
And face the fear
Inside out !

Lost, I found there a stone
Erected in line
With one the brightest stars
Of all the night sky vault
And I took my time
Took off the moss
Washed away the dust
And gave a new lease of life
It's mystical force
I grab it now
And praise this lord
Of earth and stone
Make passage for souls awaken
So it returns
To where it's always been
With the gods
Now coming, I feel the love
It comes from on high

I know the words
But now I feel it inside
It grows, it's there
And all it comes from the sky

 

 

[tehAgg 268]

I love that song!!!!

 

Really great band!!!

 

 

Heeeeeeeeeell yeeea'! Straight up.

Some of their music is a little hard for me to enjoy, but this song in particular is awesome...

 

 

Anywho, here's my all-time favorite Slayer track.

 

Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

 

 

[Discordian 6,015]

Random industrial mood since I've been listening to Device a lot lately. I hope there's another album with as many guest appearances. Lzzy from Halestorm and Terj from System Of A Down had great guest appearances. Unfortunately M. Shadows' part was pretty underutilized. You can barely hear him in the song and it doesn't even take advantage of some of his better vocal work.

 

I've heard a lot of people say it's not very good as an industrial metal album. I don't listen to enough industrial to say one way or the other but I know I like it regardless.

 

Can't be too harsh on it though. Draiman's first attempt at Industrial and it achieved quite the sound regardless and of course Draiman's voice is as godly as ever.

 

 

I've only been listening to this for about five or six minutes but that's got to be some of the most unique screamo I've ever heard. I dunno if that's normal for industrial as I don't typically listen to it but I liked it.

Edited March 18, 2014 by Discordian

[Champion RD92 8,658]

I saw Protest the Hero last night, they were really really good. If you haven't listened to them, you should check them out.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMc0Hb-dSUc

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NZqm1SGASg

[tehAgg 268]

Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

 

A 42 minute long song detailing the lives of six individuals, each with their own unique mental disorder. In the spoiler, I have included a passage from Wikipedia explaining the song. Give it a read, as it won't disappoint.

 

The lyrics of the song never stay on one particular subject, instead describing each of the six people (referred to as the Six Degrees). Each of these people suffer from a different mental disability, and all six disabilities are described in the lyrics. The first movement, Overture, is an instrumental, which means it doesn't describe any of these disabilities, and the lyrics for the seventh movement, About To Crash (Reprise), describe the same person from the second movement, About to Crash, but from a different point of view (see analysis below). Though there are many Time signature changes in the song, most of the themes are in 7/4 (About to Crash, Solitary Shell), 13/8 (The Test that Stumped Them All), 6/8 (Grand Finale) or common time.

 

I. Overture

 

This serves mainly as an introduction, encompassing the many musical themes which occur throughout the remaining movements.

 

II. About to Crash

 

The lyrics tell of a girl (Degree 1) who has one of the most well known of all mental illnesses: Bipolar disorder. With bipolarity, a patient suffers from manic episodes (e.g. "She can't stop pacing, she never felt so alive") alternating with depressive crashes (e.g. "Then one day, she woke up to find, the perfect girl, had lost her mind"). Bipolar mania often involves heightened energy, flight of ideas ("Her thoughts are racing, set on overdrive."). Manics will often work for hours on end to the point of exhaustion and will often neglect their other duties to attend to whatever goal they have set their minds on at the time. ("They're expecting her, but she's got work to do.")

Bipolar sufferers tend to get worse when the affliction is untreated, and her father/spouse, presumably, has seen this ("I've never seen her get this bad").

The keyboard arrangement in the intro to this song can be related to the intro of the song "Biaxident" from the album Liquid Tension Experiment 2 released in 1999 by Liquid Tension Experiment, a Dream Theater side-project.

 

III. War Inside My Head

 

This movement tells the story of someone (Degree 2) who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, as some soldiers do after war. The lyrics show he served in Vietnam ("napalm showers"). The chorus reveals he has flashbacks ("Hearing voices from miles away... Waging a war inside my head"), experiencing instances where he believes that he is still in Vietnam. The second verse implies that he may believe he will have the condition indefinitely ("Trading innocence for permanent psychotic hell"). During the final chorus, it is revealed that his anxiety has become more pronounced ("Tasting danger with each word I say").

 

IV. The Test That Stumped Them All

 

This patient (Degree 3) is suffering from schizophrenia, ("He lives in a world of fiction"). Schizophrenics suffer from a variety of symptoms that are touched on in the lyrics here. Obvious ones include references to delusions and the fact that he "lives in a world of fiction". "Intro tape begins to roll...igniting sonic rage" refers to the fact that schizophrenics are prone to auditory hallucinations... especially command hallucinations that tell the person what to do - even to the point of killing someone or themselves ("To save him from himself"). However, there are references to drug abuse in this song (Random urine testing,/counseling and therapy."), so schizophrenia may only be part of the song.

Unfortunately, there is no "cure" for schizophrenia ("Counseling and therapy providing not a clue") and very little information on its cause (hence the name, "The Test That Stumped Them All"). There is, however, treatment with a variety of anti-psychotic medications ("Pills, red, pink and blue"). Decades ago, there used to be a prevalent method of treating the disorder with shock treatments and this is referenced by the "doctors" suggesting it in the song.

 

V. Goodnight Kiss

 

This is a piece about a mother (Degree 4) who has lost her child, in one form or another, and is suffering from post-partum depression ("Are you lonely without Mommy's love?" ... "I'm so lonely without Baby's love"). There is also evidence of the child having been hospitalized at some point, or perhaps died during child birth. The mother struggles between believing that the loss of her child is her fault ( ... "my tainted blood's still the same") or the doctors fault ("Those bastard doctors are gonna pay"). A heart monitor, and a baby crying can be heard in the later part of the song, suggesting a medical problem with the baby; the manic laughter of a doctor also suggests a recurring nightmare that the sufferer has. The lyrics also suggest the death of more than one child on separate occasions ("It's been five years to the day and my tainted blood's still the same")

 

VI. Solitary Shell

 

Referred to as Degree 5, this person most likely has Asperger syndrome. The lyric tells us that he started off quite social ("He seemed no different from the rest" "He learned to walk and talk on time, but never cared much to be held"), however, he did withdraw from social contact (the title, "Solitary Shell", shows that he is quite reclusive). The lyrics end with a plea for social acceptance from a peer or relative ("When will he be let out of his solitary shell").

 

VII. About to Crash (Reprise)

 

This section carries on from where About to Crash left off. This time the song is sung from the sufferer's point of view and describes her going through another manic episode ("I'm invincible, despair will never find me"). She then makes the realization that she will come out soon only to have another depressive episode ("And when I fall out of the sky, who'll be standing by"). The lyrics here possibly show the bipolarity is getting better as sufferers tend to become more conscious of the syndrome when they start to feel more like themselves. Pieces from several other movements are included in this and could further describe the character's bipolar and confusion.

 

VIII (Part 1). Losing Time

 

The last degree is a girl suffering from dissociative identity disorder, previously called Multiple Personality Disorder. The lyrics tell the listener that she does not have many friends ("She never wears makeup, But no-one would care if she did anyway"). This is probably caused by having her life split among multiple personalities. The results of which is her relative amnesia caused by her inability to keep track of her life among her multiple personalities ("She doesn't recall yesterday, faces seem twisted and strange"). However, this may also be a reference to Alzheimer's. This can be justified by the lines "She always wakes up, only to find she'd been miles away", a possible reference to Alzheimer's victims "wandering", leaving their families to wonder where they went. The "Losing Time" title refers to the fact that she isn't living parts of her life due to her dissociative identity disorder, which in turn implies that she is "losing time". The lyrics also reveal the darker side of dissociative identity disorder, in that those who suffer from this disorder often create alternate personalities in order to cope with severe emotional or physical trauma ("She learned to detach from herself, a behavior that kept her alive").

 

VIII (Part 2). Grand Finale

 

In this section, the lyrics advise the listener to be more understanding of the people who carry these and similar afflictions, and to accept them as they should be. This section, in which the degrees described by the song are summed up in six lines, is similar to the "Intervals" section in the song "Octavarium":

 

Deception of fame — Degree 3: The Test That Stumped Them All

Vengeance of war — Degree 2: War Inside My Head

Lives torn apart — Degree 4: Goodnight Kiss

Losing oneself — Degree 6: Losing Time

Spiraling down — Degree 1: About To Crash (and Reprise)

Feeling the walls closing in — Degree 5: Solitary Shell

 

The Grand Finale ends with a drum fill and gong while the final chord fades over the course of the remaining minute and forty-five seconds. The final chord is the same chord that starts "As I Am", the first song on the next album Train of Thought, which is a further example of Dream Theater's continuity between albums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP7ahfOP-gY

Edited March 18, 2014 by tehagg

[Rainbowcrash420 109]

   

 

Epic 80s powermetal at its finest!!!

 

I cant get enough of these guys they are awesome. MULLET TIME

Edited March 20, 2014 by PONY SPIKE

[Crispy 5,563]

Okay, so.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8saKHKt1A5Q

 

Preorders are up, motherfuckers.  

[Twiliscael 3,960]

Okay, so.

 

Preorders are up, motherfuckers.  

Phys. Ed is out of this world.

I'm absolutely adoring how little Tosin tries to adhere to playing metal. I'm loving what he's doing with all this really jazzy and proggy stuff.

 

On a more somber note, I think this might be the last time you'll see me around here. Not going to get all whiny, but when you've got to go, you've got to go, you know? Figured you guys out of all of them are the ones I should even bother telling.

 

You guys have treated me well, and been some of the most rad guys I've talked to over the 'net. For that alone, I applaud you. Furthermore, I pretty much owe it all to Crispy for showing me metal beyond just modern prog, so for that... you've given me something I'll enjoy for a lifetime. Thanks man. To the rest of you, keep on rocking and keep it real.

 

Don't get me wrong I'm still going to whore my modern prog.

Edited March 21, 2014 by Twiliscael