Author Topic: Metal!!! (Read 122882 times)

Ixarku · « **Reply #720 on:** March 24, 2012, 05:42:40 PM »

Bal-Sagoth is great. I'm the only person out of any of my friends who's listened to them a lot. The first song (and still one of my favorites) I ever heard from them is Callisto Rising. That particular album, The Power Cosmic, is probably my favorite by them.

rostheferret · « **Reply #721 on:** March 24, 2012, 07:14:07 PM »

Quote from: froody1911 on March 24, 2012, 01:46:21 PM

Interesting. I always thought of viking metal as melodic death.

Nope, combination of Black Metal, (Nordic) Folk and Doom touches for the most part. Often has slow bombastic drums and mid-range growls, along with other things. The best example to exemplify the sound I can think of are Einherjer, but their music isn't as good as other bands. Often one element dominates the sound lending the variation; Equilibrium's Viking/Black, Slartibartfass' Viking/Folk or Moonsorrow's Viking/Doom for example. And yes, Diapsiqur is indeed an acquired taste that usually takes a little while to really understand what they're doing. I love it but can see why a lot wouldn't

Anyway, a have a friend whose almost exclusively been listening to Dark Metal since it's origins so I dredged up his list of rec's for you.

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Quote from: Ixarku on March 24, 2012, 05:42:40 PM

Bal-Sagoth is great. I'm the only person out of any of my friends who's listened to them a lot. The first song (and still one of my favorites) I ever heard from them is Callisto Rising. That particular album, The Power Cosmic, is probably my favorite by them.

I began with Battle Magic but usually listen to Ultima Thule these days. Though it's a hard album to recommend because I can never remember the full name of the title. *looks up* "Starfire Burning Upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule." Yeah... I can remember foreign names easier than that. But yah, their output is pretty consistent...

abc cuz · « **Reply #722 on:** March 24, 2012, 07:43:12 PM »

PARKWAY DRIVE
look up any of their songs

rostheferret · « **Reply #723 on:** March 25, 2012, 09:00:26 AM »

Quote from: abc cuz on March 24, 2012, 07:43:12 PM

PARKWAY DRIVE
look up any of their songs

The number of Metalcore bands I don't think stink are very small. Combining bland Groove Metal with Bro-fisting New York Hardcore is just a recipe for disaster, and to my mind PD fall into this category. But hey, at least it isn't as bad as Deathcore, which to my current knowledge consists of one little known French band that I like. I counter with 7 Angels 7 Plagues who manage to remain quite creative with it, and latter Converge who started out as Hardcore Punk so have an idea of how to make an energetic song.

froody1911 · « **Reply #724 on:** March 25, 2012, 09:09:30 AM »

I find metalcore really underdeveloped and lacking in variety. When I want unhinged aggression, I'd rather listen to RATM or SOAD.

rostheferret · « **Reply #725 on:** March 25, 2012, 09:27:59 AM »

Quote from: froody1911 on March 25, 2012, 09:09:30 AM

I find metalcore really underdeveloped and lacking in variety. When I want unhinged aggression, I'd rather listen to RATM or SOAD.

Generally punk can be very good at unhinged aggression, far more so than a lot of extreme metal which is rather more 'refined,' just not metalcore. A lot has a sort of "it matters less what we play so long as we have energy and break something in the process;' a raw animalism that forms an integral part of their sound. Grindcore or Powerviolence for example, or even crustier varieties of hardcore like Disfear work well when I want to vent. Though now that I remember your dislike for BM, I suppose this will also go very much unloved

froody1911 · « **Reply #726 on:** March 25, 2012, 09:52:23 AM »

Grindcore just makes me laugh, I can't take it seriously

And no, hardcore punk doesn't appeal to me whatsoever, though I do like post-hardcore bands like Fugazi and Pianos Become the Teeth.

Black metal fans should check out Mamaleek. Interesting Arabic style.

Promwolf · « **Reply #727 on:** March 27, 2012, 03:10:32 AM »

Quote from: froody1911 on March 25, 2012, 09:52:23 AM

Grindcore just makes me laugh, I can't take it seriously And no, hardcore punk doesn't appeal to me whatsoever, though I do like post-hardcore bands like Fugazi and Pianos Become the Teeth.

Black metal fans should check out Mamaleek. Interesting Arabic style.

I like a lot of post hardcore. If you like Pianos become... then I think you would like "With Horses In her Eyes"

froody1911 · « **Reply #728 on:** March 30, 2012, 01:45:37 PM »

Uneven Structure - Februus

Progressive djent. Meshuggah-style passages, but with spacy atmospheric ambient backgrounds. Quite unique, and relaxing in a way.
Awaken
Frost

CD2 contains half an hour of purely ambient tracks.
Dew Upon Shapeless Bounds

They also have an EP called 8 available for free on their site, but that's conventional djent and nothing special.

rostheferret · « **Reply #729 on:** March 30, 2012, 02:39:20 PM »

^Here's a review I wrote of it last month

froody1911 · « **Reply #730 on:** March 31, 2012, 08:53:53 AM »

Oh look, a new Burzum album.

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Boring. No innovation.
On the other hand, this means I've now heard 2 black metal albums all the way through

LayedBack · « **Reply #731 on:** April 13, 2012, 08:12:10 PM »

Guys I haven't been following this thread very much, just wanted to throw out a list of atmospheric black metal that I like a lot. It's all mostly new age stuff, my favorites are in bold I would most certainly recommend any of these albums if you are in to atmo-black. Also in to doom and drone if anybody is in to that.

Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain, Marrow of the Spirit, The Mantle
Alda - Tahoma
Altar of Plagues - White Tomb, Mammal, Tides
Astrofaes - Those Whose Past is Immortal
Addaura - Burning for the Ancient
Burzum - Filosofem
ColdWorld - Melancholie²
Drudkh - Autumn Aurora, Forgotten Legends, Blood In Our Wells, Handful of Stars
Falls of Rauros - Into the Archaic
Fell Voices - Tour CD-R (Untitled II)
Fen - The Malediction Fields, Ancient Sorrow
Gris - Il Était une Forêt...
Krallice - Krallice
Lifelover - Erotik
The Morningside - The Wind, The Trees and The Shadows of The Past
Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
Negură Bunget - Vîrstele Pămîntului
October Falls - The Womb of Primordial Nature, A Collapse of Faith
Panopticon - Panopticon, Collapse
Paysage d'Hiver - Paysage d'Hiver
Summoning - Oathbound, Stronghold
Threnos - By Blood And By Earth
Veil - Sombre
Weakling - Dead as Dreams
Windir - 1184, Arntor
Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars, Two Hunters
Zuriaake - Afterimage of Autum

Well there ya go, no trouble to me I created this list somewhere else haha.

froody1911 · « **Reply #732 on:** April 14, 2012, 12:27:51 AM »

From what I've heard of Drudkh it isn't really atmospheric though.

Okay, here's some stuff I've found lately.

Conan - Monnos
Despite what the tags claim, it sounds like stoner doom to me.

Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
Really heavy doom. The band has members from Om, Neurosis and Melvins.

Sunpocrisy - Samaroid Dioramas
Atmospheric post-metal. Kinda reminds me of Isis.

LayedBack · « **Reply #733 on:** April 14, 2012, 01:11:15 AM »

Quote from: froody1911 on April 14, 2012, 12:27:51 AM

From what I've heard of Drudkh it isn't really atmospheric though.

Okay, here's some stuff I've found lately.

Conan - Monnos
Despite what the tags claim, it sounds like stoner doom to me.

Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
Really heavy doom. The band has members from Om, Neurosis and Melvins.

Sunpocrisy - Samaroid Dioramas
Atmospheric post-metal. Kinda reminds me of Isis.

Well it's more of Drudkh's first two albums that are atmospheric. It's just a different type of atmosphere than you're used to, much more supernal and natural. Actually 'Autumn Aurora' is my favorite album of all time of any genre. Early Drudkh is leagues ahead of anything else they released - and for that matter most black metal ever released.

I should clarify on this list, Windir and Moonsorrow more folky than atmospheric - but still solid stuff. It's really all good metal unless you're only in to orthodox black or whatever. Negura Bunget nor Astrofaes aren't so much atmospheric either but damn good bands!

I second Shrinebuilder, good doom metal.

rostheferret · « **Reply #734 on:** April 14, 2012, 09:55:20 AM »

Quote from: LayedBack on April 13, 2012, 08:12:10 PM

Guys I haven't been following this thread very much, just wanted to throw out a list of atmospheric black metal that I like a lot. It's all mostly new age stuff, my favorites are in bold I would most certainly recommend any of these albums if you are in to atmo-black. Also in to doom and drone if anybody is in to that.

Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain, Marrow of the Spirit, The Mantle
Alda - Tahoma
Altar of Plagues - White Tomb, Mammal, Tides
Astrofaes - Those Whose Past is Immortal
Addaura - Burning for the Ancient
Burzum - Filosofem
ColdWorld - Melancholie²
Drudkh - Autumn Aurora, Forgotten Legends, Blood In Our Wells, Handful of Stars
Falls of Rauros - Into the Archaic
Fell Voices - Tour CD-R (Untitled II)
Fen - The Malediction Fields, Ancient Sorrow
Gris - Il Était une Forêt...
Krallice - Krallice
Lifelover - Erotik
The Morningside - The Wind, The Trees and The Shadows of The Past
Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
Negură Bunget - Vîrstele Pămîntului
October Falls - The Womb of Primordial Nature, A Collapse of Faith
Panopticon - Panopticon, Collapse
Paysage d'Hiver - Paysage d'Hiver
Summoning - Oathbound, Stronghold
Threnos - By Blood And By Earth
Veil - Sombre
Weakling - Dead as Dreams
Windir - 1184, Arntor
Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars, Two Hunters
Zuriaake - Afterimage of Autum

Well there ya go, no trouble to me I created this list somewhere else haha.

Look up (in the following order:

KAUAN - Lumikuuro
KAUAN - Tietäjän Laulu
EMPYRIUM - Songs of Moors and Misty Fields
IN THE WOODS… - Omnio
FOREST STREAM - Tears of Mortal Solitude
FALLS OF RAUROS - Hail Wind and Hewn Oak
FALLS OF RAUROS - Into the Archaic
UARAL - Sounds of Pain
RAVENTALE - Mortal Aspirations
IN THE WOODS… - Heart of the Ages
SVAFNIR - The Heathen Chapters
PEORDH - Glaring From Spacious Woods And Mountains Of Eternal Frost
RAVENTALE - Long Passed Days
NACHTREICH - Sturmgang
EMPYRIUM - A Wintersunset…
DARKTRANCE - Beyond the Gates of Insanity
THE MORNINGSIDE - The Wind, The Trees and the Shadows of the Past
RAVENTALE - On a Crystal Swing

No trouble for me either, the list is shamelessly stolen from my friendly "Dark Metal" nutter.

I also spotted that Sunpocrisy album, though I've not given it much of a spin. Lately I've been occupied by Ever Forthright (Technical Prog Death Metal/Djent), the new Accept album and Desultor (Prog/Death/Power).

LayedBack · « **Reply #735 on:** April 14, 2012, 01:05:15 PM »

Quote from: rostheferret on April 14, 2012, 09:55:20 AM

KAUAN - Lumikuuro
KAUAN - Tietäjän Laulu
EMPYRIUM - Songs of Moors and Misty Fields
IN THE WOODS… - Omnio
FOREST STREAM - Tears of Mortal Solitude
FALLS OF RAUROS - Hail Wind and Hewn Oak
FALLS OF RAUROS - Into the Archaic
UARAL - Sounds of Pain
RAVENTALE - Mortal Aspirations
IN THE WOODS… - Heart of the Ages
SVAFNIR - The Heathen Chapters
PEORDH - Glaring From Spacious Woods And Mountains Of Eternal Frost
RAVENTALE - Long Passed Days
NACHTREICH - Sturmgang
EMPYRIUM - A Wintersunset…
DARKTRANCE - Beyond the Gates of Insanity
THE MORNINGSIDE - The Wind, The Trees and the Shadows of the Past
RAVENTALE - On a Crystal Swing

No trouble for me either, the list is shamelessly stolen from my friendly "Dark Metal" nutter.

I also spotted that Sunpocrisy album, though I've not given it much of a spin. Lately I've been occupied by Ever Forthright (Technical Prog Death Metal/Djent), the new Accept album and Desultor (Prog/Death/Power).

Thanks for the list. Empyrium is amazing, somehow they escape this list but I've been a fan for a few years.
'A Wintersunset...'
'Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields'
Great metal with a 'neofolk' twist.

Kauan - Tietäjän Laulu - I listened to this album a few weeks ago and was pretty impressed, more metal 'neofolk' - it's a very interesting new genre I'm excited to see what comes of it. Will listen more closely to both albums today.

I do see 3-4 bands I haven't listened to and will be more than glad to check them out in the next few days, appreciate it!

as a side note, 'Forgotten Woods - Curse of Mankind' is a great album that I've added to my personal list as well.

rostheferret · « **Reply #736 on:** May 01, 2012, 06:37:57 PM »

Any other mathcore/djent fans around here? The former combining hardcore punk and math rock, the latter leaning to more a Prog Metal/Tech style with a "djent" guitar tone; it makes a delightful combination...

Botch (Old School Mathcore)
Dillinger Escape Plan (Post-Hardcore Mathcore)
Crydebris (Post-Rock/Post Hardcore Mathcore)
Sikth (Post-Hardcore Mathcore)
Aliases (Post-Hardcore Mathcore)
Rolo Tomassi (Jazz-Fusion-y Mathcore)

Djent:

Tesseract
Periphery
Animals As Leaders
Skyharbor
Chimp Spanner (Ambient/Prog Metal/Djent)
Cyclamen (Post-Rock/Mathcore/Djent)
Once a Wolf
Intervals
Ever Forthright

froody1911 · « **Reply #737 on:** May 02, 2012, 12:01:24 AM »

I've tried listening to a couple of metalcore bands like Converge and Botch but it's too...let's say, brutal for me. And overly mathy stuff, even math rock like Don Caballero or Battles, annoys me for some reason I can't figure out.

I do like Animals as Leaders though, and I've been meaning to listen to Tesseract and Textures.

rostheferret · « **Reply #738 on:** May 02, 2012, 10:39:20 AM »

Quote from: froody1911 on May 02, 2012, 12:01:24 AM

I've tried listening to a couple of metalcore bands like Converge and Botch but it's too...let's say, brutal for me. And overly mathy stuff, even math rock like Don Caballero or Battles, annoys me for some reason I can't figure out.

I do like Animals as Leaders though, and I've been meaning to listen to Tesseract and Textures.

Try Tesseract, Chimp Spanner and Skyharbor in particular. They aren't as "full on" as some of the other artists

kadatherion · « **Reply #739 on:** May 05, 2012, 04:53:48 PM »

In the past few years we've finally seen a new Italian metal band climbing the ladder of their subgenre. Those of you who dig folk metal might find Folkstone of your taste, though the singing in Italian might need some time to get used to. They are quite reminiscent of In Extremo, and it seems they are becoming quite popular in germanic countries too. Here they are unifying the whole country, attracting also listeners from non-metal folk rock genres, and there's a growing dedication for them. Part of the reason is also they are organizing and promoting metal festivals such as Foschfest in what previously was a pretty barren scenario.
And live they are simply amazing, at the last Fosch they left Korpiklaani speechless...

Small bunch of examples:

Alza il Corno
Nell'Alto Cadrò
Aufstand!
Anime Dannate (official video)
Un'altra Volta Ancora
Nebbie (official video from the latest album)