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[Ganondox 899]

2 hours ago, Twiliscael said:

Much more of a presence of it in Meta, but you can find a bit in their previous album w^w^^w^w as well. Them throwing in alot more of it on Meta is what makes it a more unique, impactful album imo. EDIT: Okay posthing those w^ tracks has made me want to relisten to it ASAP...... 

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The bit around ~3:40 gets me every damn time.

 

 

New single by everyone's favorite Halo-core band.

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Master Chief approves.

 

Nice list, some sweet picks on there... I'm trying to think of new bands doing something unique, and off the top of my head I'd say that cake goes to Ulcerate (previously posted) and Panopticon.

 

For the uninitiated, Panopticon is a one-man bluegrass/black metal band. And if that sounds contradictory and like it wouldn't work... have a listen. Banjos, flutes, harmonicas and more! It fucking slaps.  New album next month too!

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There are much more bluegrassy songs as well, I just figured you're here primarily for the metal

 

I'm quite familiar with Ulcerate, they must have just slipped from my mind last time I updated the list. I've heard of Panopticon before, but I don't think I've ever actually listened to them. My first impression on hearing the opening of Bodies Under the Falls was that I was being assaulted by a swarm of dissonant kazoos and I was wondering if this was some sort of joke, but it turned out to be quite good. 

[Twiliscael 3,962]

Anyone heard Blood Incantation's 2016 debut album Starspawn? Here I was thinking that solid, original, riff-fucking-tastic death metal was done for... this is an absolute marvel and an achievement, a 10/10 release in an oversaturated genre. So many layers upon layers of complexity, stunning riffing, and an overwhelmingly crushing, well-produced atmosphere in one relatively short package. Can't believe I slept on this since 2016, despite the overwhelmingly glowing reviews- it's worth all of its salt, and then some. Just a taste below!

 

Also throwing some Spectral Voice in here, because it's essentially a side project of those guys, and an equally awesome take on tasty,deathy doom.

 

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[Metaluna 38]

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Blood Incantation - Starspawn

Nice. Adding this to stuff I need to listen to.
 

[Denim&Venöm 21,231]

On 3/28/2018 at 7:38 PM, Twiliscael said:

What are some of your favorite bands?

Machine Head, Soilwork, Arch Enemy, Amon Amarth, Revocation, Death Angel, Kreator, Testament, Overkill, Megadeth, Fear Factory, Lamb Of God, Sabaton, Dragonforce, Kamelot, Stratovarius, Symphony X, While She Sleeps, Demon Hunter, As I Lay Dying, Amaranthe, etc. 

 

On 3/28/2018 at 7:38 PM, Twiliscael said:

What do you really fucking hate about modern metal?

Bickering, infighting, elitism. Over production and compression of the sound, taking away the distinctiveness and impact of all the instruments, or how songs are seemingly made more on a computer than with instruments in a studio. 

 

On 3/28/2018 at 7:38 PM, Twiliscael said:

Any particular subgenres you're into?

I like Thrash, Power Metal, Melodic Death, Post-Thrash/Groove, Metalcore. 

 

On 3/28/2018 at 7:38 PM, Twiliscael said:

Which classic bands do you really not get all the hype for?

Guns N' Roses, Motley Crue, AC/DC, Nirvana, The Clash, Stone Temple Pilots. 

 

On 3/28/2018 at 7:38 PM, Twiliscael said:

What albums are you hyped for?

As of now, the new Exodus, Megadeth, and At The Gates albums as well as the new Lamb Of God Burn The Priest EP. 

 

On 3/28/2018 at 7:38 PM, Twiliscael said:

Band/album recommendations?

Kinda hard to make recommendations when people here have different tastes. All I can do is post stuff I like. Thrash metal is alive and kicking. Go listen to the last 3 Death Angel albums. The last 3 Testament albums. The last 5 Exodus albums. The last 3 Kreator albums. The last 2 Cavelera Conspiracy albums. The previous 3 Overkill albums (the latest one is kinda 'meh'). Or go listen to the new kids on the block.  War Bringer, Power Trip, Havok. The future is in good hands. I'd also recommend overlooked veterans like Annihilator, Onslaught, Carnivore & Nuclear Assault. 

There are also a few bands that're showcasing a potential new direction, infusing thrash with elements of melodic and tech death. Bands like Vektor, who sound like a cross between Death and Voivod, and Revocation, who are what happens when you sandwich early Meshuggah between At The Gates and Lamb Of God. 

Also support hometown Thrashers Conniption for me, would ya? 

 

On 3/28/2018 at 7:38 PM, Twiliscael said:

Been to any sweet shows lately?

Just last month. Sabaton & Kreator. A team up I never knew I wanted to see. 

 

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If you're into thrash, I'm all over that. I think I've found the bottom of the barrel when it comes to the old breed. More and more new bands are popping up on my radar. I've seen Havok and revocation a couple of times. More recently I've seen dust bolt and power trip. Might go see skeletonwitch next month

[Twiliscael 3,962]

On 4/3/2018 at 8:02 PM, Denim&Venom said:

Kinda hard to make recommendations when people here have different tastes. 

Meh I find us metalheads are usually pretty good with listening to recommendations- at the very least I like broadening my palate and seeing what bands have to offer.

On 4/3/2018 at 8:02 PM, Denim&Venom said:

There are also a few bands that're showcasing a potential new direction, infusing thrash with elements of melodic and tech death. Bands like Vektor, who sound like a cross between Death and Voivod, and Revocation, who are what happens when you sandwich early Meshuggah between At The Gates and Lamb Of God.

Holy tits bro Vektor is the best current thrash band imo. Terminal Redux is such a great fucking album, front to back and so are their other two. I like the Death and Voivod comparison (their singer sounds like Chuck with his high screams from Death especially), I've always said they sound like an updated, more current Voivod, and in addition I even feel some power metal that pokes through their sound sometimes. Plus, their guitarist UPTUNES his guitar for that spacey sound. How many metal bands UPTUNE? 

Also, Revocation isn't my favorite band, but they are consistent. They put out a solid album that sounds exactly like Revocation every year or two- which means hopefully we'll get one this year. Two of my favorite tracks by both of those bands below, though I'm sure you're familiar with them.

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On 4/3/2018 at 8:02 PM, Denim&Venom said:

Also support hometown Thrashers Conniption for me, would ya? 

Wow sounds great, I adore that solo towards the end. Almost wish that the vocalist utilized harsher vocals but overall a solid sound- will be peeping more  

 

Looking for some old-school death metal that's straightforward and pummeling? Look no further than Jungle Rot! Consistent beyond belief, they have managed to not really update their sound since the 90's and still sound somewhat relevant. They're fans of crushing, chug-tastic riffing which is a sound that has only become more popular since their time in the spotlight back in the day. They're still around and kicking though, I'm hoping to catch them live on their next tour circuit whenever it may be.

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On the topic of death metal- what's everyone's favorite Death album, and why isn't it The Sound of Perseverance? Been listening through some of their albums again recently... RIP Chuck :/

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[Metaluna 38]

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On the topic of death metal- what's everyone's favorite Death album, and why isn't it The Sound of Perseverance? Been listening through some of their albums again recently... RIP Chuck :/

Sound of Perseverance was definitely a great end to a stellar career. If I had to pick a favorite Death album, I'm not sure what I'd go for... I listen to Scream Bloody Gore the most, though it's pretty primitive in comparison with later albums. I go back to Human a lot, too and I think it's the one I find the most consistently enjoyable. It's just such a good mix of traditional death metal and progressive elements.

Have you guys been keeping up with Gruesome? They just released a track from their upcoming album

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[Twiliscael 3,962]

3 hours ago, Metaluna said:

Sound of Perseverance was definitely a great end to a stellar career. If I had to pick a favorite Death album, I'm not sure what I'd go for... I listen to Scream Bloody Gore the most, though it's pretty primitive in comparison with later albums. I go back to Human a lot, too and I think it's the one I find the most consistently enjoyable. It's just such a good mix of traditional death metal and progressive elements.

Human is a banger for sure! It is probably the most well-blended of their albums, in reference to their traditional old-school style and the more forward-thinking, progressive leanings of their later releases... all of their albums are superb though, it's hard to pick. I'm a bit partial to Spiritual Healing as well, it's the first album by them that I heard (picked it because I thought the cover art was unique and cool), and Living Monstrosity and Spiritual Healing the song are two of my favorite Death tracks. I especially love the little bit that starts at around 2:00 in the first song, which you get a bit of in Suicide Machine on Human as well, just way sped up before the solo at around the 2:20 mark.

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3 hours ago, Metaluna said:

Have you guys been keeping up with Gruesome? They just released a track from their upcoming album

Holy hell, that's what I'm talking about! Never heard of these guys before, and I was about to say that their logo, album art, and sound overall just screams DEATH. Lo and behold I go to check The Archives and...

Looks like I know what I'm listening to later.

 

You boys fuck with Skeletonwitch? Melodeath/heavier thrash for the kiddos. I haven't listen to them very thoroughly in years, and I think I'm going to delve back into them this weekend. I remember really liking Beyond the Permafrost and Forever Abomination, but if you think there's something else I should spin by 'em let me know~

EDIT: Accidentally posted a trap song by Lil Uzi Vert, but I'm keeping it in there because that dude is fun as hell to listen to. Plus he likes Marilyn Manson and GG Allin, which is a pretty metal thing to be into for a rapper imo 

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[Tytygigas 20]

Hey all,

I'm here because i'm looking for suggestions on Black Metal (Particularly Depressive/Suicidal Black Metal, Ambient Black Metal or Blackgaze but anything works really)

I can't really recall much metal that i listen to on a completely regular basis, I absolutely adore Noise Rock and Hardcore if that helps whatsoever. I really liked Alcest, Velvet Cacoon, Burzum, Darkthrone and Nahvalr when i checked them out but otherwise i haven't heard very much. I would really appreciate some essential albums or what have you 

[Twiliscael 3,962]

3 hours ago, Tytygigas said:

Hey all,

I'm here because i'm looking for suggestions on Black Metal (Particularly Depressive/Suicidal Black Metal, Ambient Black Metal or Blackgaze but anything works really)

I can't really recall much metal that i listen to on a completely regular basis, I absolutely adore Noise Rock and Hardcore if that helps whatsoever. I really liked Alcest, Velvet Cacoon, Burzum, Darkthrone and Nahvalr when i checked them out but otherwise i haven't heard very much. I would really appreciate some essential albums or what have you 

Have you ever heard of Lifelover? They're a now defunct Swedish DSBM band that's know for their genre-hopping and general experimentation- vocally especially, they always throw you for a loop with alternating screams, clean vocals, shrieks, sobs- all within the same line sometimes. Perhaps that'd be something up your alley?

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In addition, for some very very important blackgaze check out Deafheaven. Their first album Roads to Judah is very good as well- Violet is one of my favorite songs by them- but Sunbather and New Bermuda are both absolute masterpieces. Shoegazey, progressive, and just as warm as they are grim and icy. It's very good stuff!

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And for some things that are a bit more essential, I'm gonna start rattling off a few bands/albums and post a few links! I'll post one important song off each album and you can check out more if you like what you're hearing. Perhaps someone else can plug a few more and help send you on your way towards perhaps one day ascending the throne.

 

Agalloch- The Mantle. Emotional, overpoweringly melancholic, and a wonderful entry point into folky, atmospheric black metal.

Wolves in the Throne Room- Two Hunters. For something else a bit ambient/atmospheric after all, this is a band I actually slept on for a while because I thought their name was dumb. 

Carpathian Forest- Black Shining Leather. Essential black n' roll! They start to lose me on newer releases, but this one is something special! Plus you're only a trve black metal band if you have Woods or Forest somewhere in your name.

Immortal- At The Heart of Winter. Pretty accessible and with a bit of a death metal edge to it, Immortal and especially this album are no joke and should not be slept on. I'm sure @Metaluna would be inclined to agree.

Enslaved- Yggdrasill. Mayhem and Burzum worship! Can't go wrong.

Gorgoroth- Pentagram. Memorable and classic-sounding black metal riffs that are gone as fast as they come, played fast and rough, as black metal should be.

 

None of those are in any particular order, and I know for a fact there are definitely many more essentials I'm missing from there- just somewhere to get your feet a little wet before taking the plunge into the icy, frostbitten depths. The latter four posted are much more classic, old-school styled albums than the prior ones btw.

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[Metaluna 38]

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Holy hell, that's what I'm talking about! Never heard of these guys before...

Savage Land. They even got all their art done by Repka, too.

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You boys fuck with Skeletonwitch? Melodeath/heavier thrash for the kiddos. I haven't listen to them very thoroughly in years, and I think I'm going to delve back into them this weekend. I remember really liking Beyond the Permafrost and Forever Abomination, but if you think there's something else I should spin by 'em let me know~

YES. Forever Abomination will probably end up one of my favorite albums of this decade. Serpents Unleashed is a solid album, too.

I really love Skeletonwitch and I hate to say I'm getting impatient for new stuff but they're just so good.

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I'm here because i'm looking for suggestions on Black Metal (Particularly Depressive/Suicidal Black Metal, Ambient Black Metal or Blackgaze but anything works really)

I'm not too hip to depressive black metal, but off the top of my head you'd probably want to look into Leviathan, Silencer and Xasthur.

 

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I've got a bit more on the ambient side, Drudkh and Ulver are probably good places to start. Fen's a bit more on the ambient side of things. I'd highly recommend Borknagar, too
 

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And lastly, some blackgaze -- I really have some weird and obscure stuff here... Nameless coyote is truly a no-name and probably some of the strangest stuff I have in my library

 

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2 hours ago, Twiliscael said:

Immortal- At The Heart of Winter. Pretty accessible and with a bit of a death metal edge to it, Immortal and especially this album are no joke and should not be slept on. I'm sure @Metaluna would be inclined to agree.

Aye, that I would

 

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[Twiliscael 3,962]

On 4/6/2018 at 2:12 AM, Metaluna said:

I'm not too hip to depressive black metal, but...

>proceeds to post some of the most underground, kvlt black metal.

On 4/6/2018 at 2:12 AM, Metaluna said:

Aye, that I would

As you should.

 

Anyone give the new The Atlas Moth album a spin? I can say I've never heard of these guys before, but their take on atmospheric, stoner/sludge is pretty solid! I've been hearing that this is their most accessible record, which makes me want to consume more of their music because I think this triple-guitar, layered synth, fat bass, and thunder-ific drumming is sweet. They cover alot of genre territory throughout the record too, I can hear some doom, some pyschedelia, hardcore, stoner, sludge, noise-rock, and more all mixed in throughout the record.

 

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Felt like dumping some Meloblack while we're on the topic of it.

Istapp is a fun Swedish act that really likes freezing to death

Kampfar sounds good I don't know nearly enough Norwegian to understand anything about them

Windir is all about those Vikings.

Falkenbach is a stellar one-man band

Forefather is some English dudes that like the old Anglo-Saxon days

Obsequiae is my favorite band right now. Glorious-sounding medieval riffs. It's just gorgeous to listen to.

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[Twiliscael 3,962]

On 4/9/2018 at 8:10 PM, Metaluna said:

Felt like dumping some Meloblack while we're on the topic of it.

Meloblack seems like a contradictory thing, but if unblack metal can exist then I guess anything is possible! That being said, I am loving the jams that Obsequiae is laying down on that track you posted- medieval indeed...

 

I'm in a deathcore mood, so... in accordance with medieval, and the fact that I'm currently about halfway through the anime Made in Abyss, it seems fitting to post some Knights of the Abyss.

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And for some blackened deathcore, here's a little band I discovered just yesterday- somehow ended up in a Discord server with the guitarist, and I must say they blow alot of other deathcore bands out of the water... or should I say bog. New album is absolute heat, everything just seems so natural and tastefully accentuated by a small helping of atmospheric bits.

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I'm a huge fan of trash metal and its fusion genres like funk metal, grindcore and so on.

 

 

 

[Oleks 2,003]

It's like a scream in the void

 

[The Recherche 29,983]

I hadn't even realized that Disturbed even released this song, but I just found it, and it sounds great! 

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[Twiliscael 3,962]

SMH I leave for a week or two and y'all let the thread die. Disappointed.

 

In preparation for the Demilich / Blood Incantation / Artifical Brain show I'm going to in a week or two (which is slated to be the best day of my life, seriously) I've been listening to alot of death metal. I'm absolutely stunned that Demilich is back, they've been MIA since the 90's after dropping one single album, that is quite literally legendary. Blood Incantation and Artificial Brain are also most certainly some of the best bands to come out of death metal in the past decade, no exaggeration whatsoever. Required listening below.

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Another great one-album old-school death metal band? Infester- if you're not familiar with them, you should be. Brutal, technical, and even atmospheric. Shame they disbanded after this one, because it's an absolute achievement and a marvel.

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Since I'm all hot on old school death metal now, I must ask: Incantation or Immolation? The age old question of classic brutal death metal.

 

New Sleep dropped on 4/20 after so many years of absence? Fuck yeah. You already know what the soundtrack to my day was that day...

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And lastly, I will plug some fresh 2018 black metal releases that are at the top of my album of the year contenders, and should be at the top of yours too.

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What have y'all been jamming on recently metal folks?

 

On 4/19/2018 at 1:12 PM, Recherche said:

I hadn't even realized that Disturbed even released this song, but I just found it, and it sounds great! 

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You're listening to the wrong Disturbed.

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[The Recherche 29,983]

@Twiliscael Woah, I might not be the biggest fan of Black Metal, but Aorlhac actually sounds pretty good!  Aura Noir is alright, but Aorlhic sounds pretty sweet, actually!

3 hours ago, Twiliscael said:

You're listening to the wrong Disturbed.

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Jokes aside, that song is pretty cool... but if you ask me, it doesn't stack up to the other Disturbed's works. 

 

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My spoon just turned into an axe.

[The Recherche 29,983]

I haven't listened to this song in a while, so I decided to dig it up. I've got to say..  I'm not the biggest fan. You guys and gals might like it,though. 

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[Twiliscael 3,962]

Metal meme monday.

 

And for serious, listen to the fuck out of Repulsion.

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I've also been listening to a sickening amount of Death lately. As you should too. Death album rankings?

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Seriously why the FUCK was Chuck such a god?

 

 

14 hours ago, Recherche said:

I haven't listened to this song in a while, so I decided to dig it up. I've got to say..  I'm not the biggest fan. You guys and gals might like it,though. 

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Not bad, but formed from members of Carcass which is a vastly superior and renowned melodeath band.

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[Denim&Venöm 21,231]

You know what's becoming a cool thing lately? Metal reactions. People discovering the world of heavy metal and getting super into it. Like Lost In Vegas, a pair of hip hop heads who are now fans of Metallica, Gojira, Trivium, Alter Bridge, Devin Townsend and all his related bands, etc.

Listen to how much they flip out over this Gojira, Townsend & Meshuggah collab. 

 

[MangoFoalix 25,062]

Did someone say metal?

I'm currently deep into Thrash and Metalcore right now. Probably unpopular opinion but Megadeth > Metallica

[DixonTheAdversary 1,638]

I recently discovered this gem of a song: