The Metal Thread

Thought I'd transfer this over from the weed thread.

Richie

I don't really like Satyricon's recorded music... but live they made their dodgy black metal sound really good... with the help of the HQ system.

My favourite metal band is Alchemist an Aussie psychedelic metal band out of Canberra. They used to run 'Metal for the Brain' every year... I went to a couple of them and I've seen Alchemist play around 7-8 times mostly here as well as Canberra

Haven't heard Alchemist should check them out. Metal for the Brain would be sweet had always meant to go but never got around to it.

And yeah Black Metal is a fairly hated genre from most people in the metal scene, and personally I don't like Satyricon's newer stuff because it is produced way to well. To me Black Metal is meant to sound under-produced. Not totally under-produced though, you still need to be able to hear what is happening. But to me the lower sound quality adds to the experience and atmosphere. For an example of this you could check out the USBM solo project Xasthur. Don't expect to like it though.


Glock

Just a quick derail from me here to say that maybe now you would classify Machinehead as nu metal (Supercharger and beyond) but the first album, Burn My Eyes was definitely heavy and fucking brilliant. I also loved The More Things Change and The Burning Red, having said that I don't know much about their newer releases, apparently the latest one was Grammy nominated so I guess the verdict on that could go either way...

Sorry that statement I made wasn't exactly true and was a bit of a vague classification. Personally with my metal I prefer my Death and Black Metal, with a touch of more Progressive bands such as Opeth and the like. I have heard Machine Head's earlier stuff but it still didn't really do it for me, although it was much better than the newer stuff.

An another note, how many people went to Slayer, and what do you think of their newer music? Personally the two best shows I have been to in Adelaide would have been Nile and Opeth, as in both musicality and atmosphere these bands were amazing in every aspect. Slayer had a huge atmosphere with all the people, but their playing was a bit average in my opinion.

I highly recommend that some of you check out Opeth though, really good band with lots of different jazzy elements. The drummer is amazing as well.

oh, i thought this was a thread about metal d&b, say concord dawn's raining blood etcetera

the dark beats electronic artist called SCORN (also making dubstep now) is the drummer from napalm death.

*exits*

Oh I'm a huge Scorn fan. Only have one CD (Ellipsis) but it is amazing. That DnB/Industrial song (The End - P.C.M somethingorrather) is sweet. Napalm Death are sweet as well. I actually forgot that I saw them live fairly recently. Pretty damn good band. Alot of artists these days seem to be branching out to doing different random things.

And as for Concord Dawn's remix, it is a pretty good song, but I want to hear some much heavier stuff from someone. I'm pretty sure I heard Angel of Death and a couple of other random metal songs mixed into one of Counterstrike's mixes, but I'm not sure if it's just some samples mixed in or what.

Oooh

Ok, I love my metal.

I like everything from Sepultura to Machine Head to Slipknot.

Machine Head's new album is brilliant.

They were fucking awesome live, when they played Imperium ..

I used to be into bands like Slipknot and Sepultura when I was a kid, but I've moved on from there now. I find I tend to prefer bands which have some sort of atmosphere or passion for their music, whether it be heavy or not. This is one of the reasons I don't like Cannibal Corpse. To me that band is just about writing controversial lyrics and being brutal and so on. Not really for me.

I got into metal through punk/hardcore about 12 years ago.  Im not a huge metal head but i still love grindcore as well as the old favourites Sepultura, Carcass and Napalm death.  The only problem is ive fallen off the metal wagon and thesedays wouldnt know where to look.  The faster the better.  Aussie bands i used to see were... Blood duster (still going  ) Beanflipper, Fallout, Truth Corroded & Captain Cleanoff to name a few

ps anal cunt, what a name for a band

I used to be into bands like Slipknot and Sepultura when I was a kid, but I've moved on from there now. I find I tend to prefer bands which have some sort of atmosphere or passion for their music, whether it be heavy or not.

You make it sound like your so old

Defintely have to have the passion factor, I used to love Korn (although I really wouldn't call them Heavy Metal) but can't stand them anymore because they have lost the passion, and a few band members but their first two albums are among my favourites.

I got into metal through punk/hardcore about 12 years ago.  Im not a huge metal head but i still love grindcore as well as the old favourites Sepultura, Carcass and Napalm death.  The only problem is ive fallen off the metal wagon and thesedays wouldnt know where to look.  The faster the better.  Aussie bands i used to see were... Blood duster (still going  ) Beanflipper, Fallout, Truth Corroded & Captain Cleanoff to name a few

ps anal cunt, what a name for a band

wow i had no idea Tristen! I used to go see those bands too!

Moved onto hardcore after that tho... shot point blank, day of contempt, prom queen etc
loved lotsa nu metal too.

fallen off the wagon nowadays too tho. dnb ftw!

:eh: wow i had no idea Tristen! I used to go see those bands too! :slayer:

Moved onto hardcore after that tho... shot point blank, day of contempt, prom queen etc :)
loved lotsa nu metal too.

fallen off the wagon nowadays too tho. dnb ftw!

I got into metal through punk/hardcore about 12 years ago.  Im not a huge metal head but i still love grindcore as well as the old favourites Sepultura, Carcass and Napalm death.  The only problem is ive fallen off the metal wagon and thesedays wouldnt know where to look.  The faster the better.  Aussie bands i used to see were... Blood duster (still going  ) Beanflipper, Fallout, Truth Corroded & Captain Cleanoff to name a few

ps anal cunt, what a name for a band

i've got an anal cunt cd at home they were the kings of 1 minute tunes.

could pretty much cut and paste that for me too, except for captain cleanoff. haven't really gotten into metal since high school.


one of the best live acts i've ever seen was pantera a few years back though.

my mates are still in a band. they used to play at the land of promise all the time. they had the best name i reckon. whoregasm.

I got into metal through punk/hardcore about 12 years ago.  Im not a huge metal head but i still love grindcore as well as the old favourites Sepultura, Carcass and Napalm death.  The only problem is ive fallen off the metal wagon and thesedays wouldnt know where to look.  The faster the better.  Aussie bands i used to see were... Blood duster (still going  ) Beanflipper, Fallout, Truth Corroded & Captain Cleanoff to name a few

ps anal cunt, what a name for a band

Yeah Truth Corroded are sweet, one of the better Adelaide bands for sure. Blood Duster are sweet as well, yet to see them live though. Have you heard The Day Everything Became Nothing?  The vocalist from Blood Duster started it.

Moved onto hardcore after that tho... shot point blank, day of contempt, prom queen etc

Yeah Day of Contempt and Early Prom Queen helped me to move on from Nu Metal and into harder things.

i've got an anal cunt cd at home they were the kings of 1 minute tunes.

Napalm Death still hold the record for the shortest song ever though at 1.316 seconds. Went off when they played it live. My old band played a shorter song but wasn't released so I guess that doesn't count.

Oh I'm a huge Scorn fan. Only have one CD (Ellipsis) but it is amazing. That DnB/Industrial song (The End - P.C.M somethingorrather) is sweet.

just got his new LP (the dubstep one) and its pretty dark. the only other stuff i have of his is an EP on the hymen label. lol the names.


always had a soft spot for some metal, the heavy/fast/distorted stuff, but couldnt be arsed listening to too much of it.
loved ministry's NWO. film clip was fat too.

whoregasm.

Fuck me! I went to school with the lead singer Zack!  I used to know some of the other dudes too.  Would be keen to go see them one day (ie ill need backup Chris  )

Sal and Chris good to know im not alone, ive pulled out a few old fave punk/hardcore cds in the last few months;
Minor threat -discography
Mindsnare - Credulity
Ten foot pole - rev
Nine - listen
Raised fist - all of their albums (saw them at uni bar a year or two ago )

Fuck me! I went to school with the lead singer Zack!  I used to know some of the other dudes too.  Would be keen to go see them one day (ie ill need backup Chris  )

zack cowan?

so did i. known him and nick (another member) since i was 7. we were in his sister's year.

he left in about year 7 i reckon.

was good mates with nick and glenn and dan throughout high school.


i reckon i'd be keen mate. haven't seen their name about for a while though. will look into it.

just got his new LP (the dubstep one) and its pretty dark. the only other stuff i have of his is an EP on the hymen label. lol the names.

Might have to check some of his other stuff. Also find it amusing how many of Metal guys end up listening to or producing DnB. Hell even one of the founders of Black Metal has a huge collection of Dnb.

one of the best live acts i've ever seen was pantera a few years back though.

oh yeah don't you know it! That's in my top ten shows definitely, maybe even top five.

pissed i didnt want to fork out the coin for machinehead

i'm a metal head from way back pantera,slipknot,sepultura,korn

locally diatribe kick ass used to love getting hammered drunk at thier shows then kicking on back at 1 of the guys houses there all fucking crazy and they love booze

Yup went the high school with Zac, used to smoke up with Nick and Glen on the odd occasion too (& i remember one of their mates in the day Andy? he was a champ).  Its been ages but im very keen to see them, cool.  

got into metal when i was 9-10 through a Welsh cousin that came over. Metallica, Megadeath, Death Angel, Anthrax etc, really dug the Cali sound. Now days i still love it but i cant get into screaming vocals. Triviums" The Crusade" has become an all time fave and cant wait til they release a newy this year

Anyone got any suggestions of some good metal where there singer doesnt sound like he has throat cancer?

www.adelaidemetal.com
The darkside of Adelaide Massive.

Yup went the high school with Zac, used to smoke up with Nick and Glen on the odd occasion too (& i remember one of their mates in the day Andy? he was a champ).  Its been ages but im very keen to see them, cool.  

we used to get blazed then try and give glen seizures. he loved it. . andy doesn't ring much of a bell, it wasn't simon was it? shez?

will definitely look into it mate.

Power Metal usually has clean vocals. Not a huge fan but bands Like Blind Guardian and Dragonforce aren't too bad.

Sacred Reich are a sweet Thrash band with clean vocals.

Some other random bands:

Iced Earth (Thrash/Power Metal)
Ill Nino (One of the few Nu Metal bands I don't mind)
Municipal Waste (Thrash/Crust Punk)
Opeth (Progressive - has sections with throat cancer, but clean bits as well)

I missed out a few which you would obviously know i.e. Iron Maiden

cheers mate, will check them for sure

we used to get blazed then try and give glen seizures. he loved it. . andy doesn't ring much of a bell, it wasn't simon was it? shez?

will definitely look into it mate.

Na, i remember Simon too. Cheers   

Power Metal usually has clean vocals. Not a huge fan but bands Like Blind Guardian and Dragonforce aren't too bad.

Sacred Reich are a sweet Thrash band with clean vocals.

Some other random bands:

Iced Earth (Thrash/Power Metal)
Ill Nino (One of the few Nu Metal bands I don't mind)
Municipal Waste (Thrash/Crust Punk)
Opeth (Progressive - has sections with throat cancer, but clean bits as well)

ill nino are wicked
Revolution Revolución is my fave album of theirs.
helped me through my angsty teen years lol

ill nino are wicked :)
Revolution Revolución is my fave album of theirs.
helped me through my angsty teen years lol

Power Metal usually has clean vocals. Not a huge fan but bands Like Blind Guardian and Dragonforce aren't too bad.

Sacred Reich are a sweet Thrash band with clean vocals.

Some other random bands:

Iced Earth (Thrash/Power Metal)
Ill Nino (One of the few Nu Metal bands I don't mind)
Municipal Waste (Thrash/Crust Punk)
Opeth (Progressive - has sections with throat cancer, but clean bits as well)

I missed out a few which you would obviously know i.e. Iron Maiden

sounds like u know ya shit dude, what type of Metal would u call Trivium? Thrash?

Trivium are a bit hard to define, sort of combine thrash/metalcore and nu metal elements. They are most commonly shoved into the Nu Metal box by most metal heads though. They're not too bad for a fairly commercial band though. Lots of the commercial bands (i.e. signed to Roadrunner Records) are pretty average these days.

Before DnB metal was the main genre of music which I listened too, but compared to some people I know nothing about metal. My old housemate knew so much random shit about bands. All their song names, what albums that song was off, what year that album was released and who it was released by; even random shit like when the members were born.

Caught a few few metal acts when I went to Soundwave. Fall Of Troy, Bleeding Through and As I Lay Dying were amazing, I expected a bit better from Killswitch Engage though : (

Quite excited about I Killed The Prom Queen doing their last tour, even though they are more hardcore than metal, they're touring with Bring Me The Horizon which I'm very interested to see play.

So many rad local bands we have to that do some awesome work.

Oh I used to love 'Unreal' by Ill Nino, ahh the memories.


Ah. Metal. 

wouldnt have thought of Trivium as bein Nu Metal at all, but i know they have copped a fair bit for ditchin the scream vocals from metal heads

Between The Buried And Me- Alaska. Fucking love that album.

Iron Maiden is the bomb. I must say a love my 70's/80's metal more than any other. Black Sabbath & Iron Maiden definitely among my faves. The Powerslave album is a classic...

80's hair metal: Gunners, the Crue, Poison, Loverboy etc. all have soft spots in my heart as I got into them as a kid... 

On another note check out my mate's interpretation of an Amon Amarth song, wikipedia list them as a Viking-themed melodic death metal band from Tumba, Sweden... 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg8tFUtaZiw

Iron Maiden is the bomb.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg8tFUtaZiw

FUCK YES!

Anyone got any suggestions of some good metal where there singer doesnt sound like he has throat cancer?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTpQOZcNASw&feature=related

Met a couple of Swedish Metal dudes at a house party in London last year from a band called Clan of Clay. They have supported bands like Entombed, anyone heard of them? I downloaded a few of there tunes off there webiste and digged them quite a bit.

I'll check them out soon. Must be pretty decent to be supporting Entombed.

diggin Sacred Reich a lot! Cheers Natho

On another note check out my mate's interpretation of an Amon Amarth song, wikipedia list them as a Viking-themed melodic death metal band from Tumba, Sweden... 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg8tFUtaZiw

i love those things

Yeah I love the Nightwish one in Kurko's sig.

Defintely have to have the passion factor, I used to love Korn (although I really wouldn't call them Heavy Metal) but can't stand them anymore because they have lost the passion, and a few band members but their first two albums are among my favourites.

I don't think your facts are right.
They have 1 member who sat out the making of their last album due to following other somewhat twisted things like writing an opera. They are coming in April with BIOHAZARD, CHIMAIRA, BLOODSIMPLE & THROWDOWN.
I'm going with 3 other friends, I reckon they'll put on a great show.


Any of you metal Heads checked out a local band called 'A Red Dawn' a good mate of mine plays Bass for them and is I guess a founding member. http://adelaidemetal.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=200&Itemid=5
If you haven't seen them I recommend it, they are really good.


PS - I was a massive fan of Fear Factory, BDO 97 mosh pit was nuts.

I don't think your facts are right.
They have 1 member who sat out the making of their last album due to following other somewhat twisted things like writing an opera.

No way dude

Check it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korn#Former_members

David Silveria and Head have both left!

Silveria runs Steakhouse and Bar/Grill joints
Head is a born again Christian working only on Solo projects

They went bad after Life is Peachy!

Any of you metal Heads checked out a local band called 'A Red Dawn' a good mate of mine plays Bass for them and is I guess a founding member. http://adelaidemetal.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=200&Itemid=5
If you haven't seen them I recommend it, they are really good.

Yeah we were talking about them a bit back in the weed thread. Seen them a few times. I only know Wayno but he's a cool guy. Good to hear A rad dongs new album thing is out as well.

No way dude

Check it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korn#Former_members

David Silveria and Head have both left!

Silveria runs Steakhouse and Bar/Grill joints
Head is a born again Christian working only on Solo projects

They went bad after Life is Peachy!

So if there was 5 to begin with and 1 left in 05 and 1 in 06.
From the final 3, 1 sat out the making of there most recent album 'Untitled'
Leaving only 2 original members left for this tour.

Sorry Courtz

I've never really cared much who was in the band more just listened to their tunes.
For some reason I only thought there was 3 members in the band.
But come to think of it there was 5 + when I seen them at the BDO.

Natho - My mate Josh Plays the Bass, he fuckin rocks it and he's a top bloke.

Yeah we were talking about them a bit back in the weed thread. Seen them a few times. I only know Wayno but he's a cool guy. Good to hear A rad dongs new album thing is out as well.

Yeah man. Picked up their ep yesterday(a need to defy) It's pretty good. Very unique style.
Their playing at underground tonight and enigma next weekend if any ones interested.

i got given some tickets to see korn. Haven't listened to them for about 7 years so we'll see how it goes.

Don't really get into the metal as much as i used to, havent really liked nu metal in ages. Nowadays its more progressive/alternative stuff for me, mars volta, tool, opeth's damnation album etc. Prefer decent guitar work over drop d tuning, power chords and scooped mids 

All the nu metal and screamo shit just sounds like a prettied up version of real metal. all the energy and power comes across as put on especially when the lead singer is wearing a pink shirt and some skinny jeans(maybe generalising a tad). They don't seem to have anywhere near the passion or angst old school death and black metal used to portray.
Alot of bands almost seem to be trying to 'cash in' on the now market able number of fans. Chemical romance etc are a classic exsample, releasing a clothing range at the same time as an album is near laughable! Can you imagine anselmo releasing his brand of ripped as fuck jeans at the same time as 'vulgar'? I'm all for the shameless promotion of band shirts because it makes a far bigger statement of the wearer. It says 'this is the band I like enough to wear their shirt' not 'this is what colour clothes my favourite artist wants me to wear to the gig'
However I'm sure there's some great new acts out there so please point them out to me.

Yeah, it's kinda sad my debut post on here is in the metal thread, but y'know.

I love metal. I'm actually the vocalist in a local band, and a regular member on the other AM.

But yeah, some favourites are The Faceless, Psycroptic, Anata, Spawn of Possession, Insomnium, Nile, Opeth, Symphony X, Helloween, old Elvenking, and so many more.

For those who give a shit:
www.myspace.com/asphyxiametal

Some good bands there. Did you go to Nile? I still reckon we need to see some more of Psycroptic though.

been listening to DragonForce all day.Fkn love it, the boys certainly don't mind the solos- I clocked one at 3 mins plus lol. Couple that with mass falseto vocals about battles, flying, flying battles etc. Awesome Power Metal

(http://eleventyone.done.hu/fyoop/metalfan.jpg)

I just got a hold of the 2xLP Picture Vinyl Orchid by Opeth. Definitely a band people should check out. Really progressive with many different elements ranging from Death Metal to Classical Piano to Acoustic Guitar stuff.

been listening to DragonForce all day.Fkn love it, the boys certainly don't mind the solos- I clocked one at 3 mins plus lol. Couple that with mass falseto vocals about battles, flying, flying battles etc. Awesome Power Metal

DragonForce are the bomb. Blind Guardian are pretty damn sweet as well.

Checking out the lineup for Wacken. Fair amount of bands I'd like to see. Really should get off my ass and go oneday.

3 Inches of Blood
Airbourne
Alestorm
As I Lay Dying
At the Gates
Autumn
Avenged Sevenfold
Avantasia
Axel Rudi Pell
Axxis
Before the Dawn
Carcass
Children of Bodom
Corvus Corax
Crematory
Cynic
Destructor
Dream of an O...
Enemy of the Sun
Ensiferum
Evocation
Ex. Grindfuckers
Exodus
Girugämesh
Gorerotted
Gorgoroth
Grave
Hatebreed
Head Hunter
Iron Maiden
Job for a Cowboy
Kamelot
Killswitch Engage
Kreator
Krypteria
Leaves Eyes
Lord Belial
Lordi
Machine Men
Massacre
Mercenary
Mustasch
Nashville Pussy
Negura Bunget
Nifelheim
Nightwish
Obituary
Opeth
Powerwolf
Primordial
PsychoPunch
Sabaton
Saltatio Mortis
Soilwork
Sonata Arctica
Stam1na
Sturm und Drang
The Bones
The Haunted
Torture Squad
Unearth
Van Canto
Warbringer
Watain

A few other bands in there I'd be keen to see as well.

vocals about battles, flying, flying battles etc. Awesome Power Metal

 

 :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w116/nerddog_69/Dragonforce3.jpg)

Testament's new one, The Formation of Damnation


These dudes must be 50 by now but holy shit this album is good. Real good

Yeah the new album's awesome. Unlike Slayer, Testament are still going strong and writing good music.

Also dates for the Testament tour,

25/09/08 The Arena - Brisbane, Australia
26/09/08 Billboard Club - Melbourne Australia
27/09/08 The Metro - Sydney, Australia
09/11/08 AMI Stadium - Christchurch, New Zealand

No Adelaide date, but hopefully there may be one when the come back to NZ in November.



Also Opeth are touring with the release of their new album "Watershed" in September as well.

Sep 04 - Adelaide, AUS @ Thebarton Theatre

Think tickets are around the 60 dollar mark from memory. Have to get off my ass and get a job before tickets sell out. The place was pretty packed out last time.

http://www.myspace.com/opeth

I really love their stuff. Progressive and Jazzy elements, heavy in places, quiet in others. Really different stuff.

Love that old school Thrashy sound they still have

Speaking of old school thrashy sounds, you heard any snippets of the new Metallica album due in Sept? Its being described as the album that could've come out before Ride the Lightning and after Kill em All

Really looking forward to hearing Rick Rubens influence

Love that old school Thrashy sound they still have

Speaking of old school thrashy sounds, you heard any snippets of the new Metallica album due in Sept? Its being described as the album that could've come out before Ride the Lightning and after Kill em All

Really looking forward to hearing Rick Rubens influence

Hope he does some major influencing! Really didn't dig any of the st Anger crap! But if they're back in the vein of Kill em all then I'll buy it. I really hope they have taken a big step back to when their music had energy instead of volume!

Love that old school Thrashy sound they still have

Speaking of old school thrashy sounds, you heard any snippets of the new Metallica album due in Sept? Its being described as the album that could've come out before Ride the Lightning and after Kill em All

Really looking forward to hearing Rick Rubens influence

I haven't really kept up with Metallica as of late. Keen to check it out if it's back tracking for St. Anger though.

been listening to a bit of my old metal this week metallica,pantera,slipknot

just got my hands on a pre release of local group diatribe's new album 2 must say i'm really enjoying it thank fuck their back

Hope he does some major influencing! Really didn't dig any of the st Anger crap! But if they're back in the vein of Kill em all then I'll buy it. I really hope they have taken a big step back to when their music had energy instead of volume!

I haven't really kept up with Metallica as of late. Keen to check it out if it's back tracking for St. Anger though.

I haven't really kept up with Metallica as of late. Keen to check it out if it's back tracking for St. Anger though.

Comes in a limited edition box set. The box is a coffin! Now thats cool!

Comes in a limited edition box set. The box is a coffin! Now thats cool!

I saw some metal band from Finland called Nightwish at EXIT. Very Eurovisiony!

I saw some metal band from Finland called Nightwish at EXIT. Very Eurovisiony!

:lol:

Nightwish are a terrible terrible band. I truly feel sorry for you for actually having to listen to it. It's a pity they're one of the biggest metal(?) acts in Finland. So many other good bands from there.

my wish list is system of a down and avenged sevenfold.. aslong as i get to see them perform one day i will be happy!

been getting back into my metal/punk lately... i missed it! :P

I saw SOAD at the BDO a few years ago. Played a pretty awesome set. Had nothing on Hatebreed though. 300 or so people picking up the pennies on a massive concrete base. Scary stuff that.

You also need to check out crust/hardcore punk.   http://www.myspace.com/officialtheexploited

I saw SOAD at the BDO a few years ago. Played a pretty awesome set. Had nothing on Hatebreed though. 300 or so people picking up the pennies on a massive concrete base. Scary stuff that.

You also need to check out crust/hardcore punk.   http://www.myspace.com/officialtheexploited

ohh im jealous!!

ill check out that link later, cheers =)

:rofl:
Nightwish are a terrible terrible band. I truly feel sorry for you for actually having to listen to it. It's a pity they're one of the biggest metal(?) acts in Finland. So many other good bands from there.

ohh im jealous!!

ill check out that link later, cheers =)

www.missionmetallica.com       

has a lot of little snippets etc from the newie

not metal as such but fuck me Killing Jokes self titled album(from 2003, not the 1980 one-weird that they had 2 actually) is nuts. Heavy as fuck and with Dave Grohl on the drums, I'm loving this album right now!

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Anyone who's into their metal and loves cartoons should watch Metalocalypse.

God I love that show. "Do you like Coffee? Real Coffee? From the hills of Columbia!"

rumor has it slipknot will be in town late october

gota go just to relive those teenage stoner years

Tickets are already on sale for Slipknot. Saw some people buying them the other day. I'd get them soon if I were you before they sell out. On that note has anyone heard the new slipknot? Very different to the old stuff. (I don't like the old stuff or the new stuff at all though.)

yeah thats not rumour. They are here with Machine Head

I've been looking for the new slipknot actually natho-whats it like. I love the couple songs they do where he's singing ratherer than growling( Duality etc). Is it more like that?

To be honest it's more of a mix of nu-metal and thrash. I'm still not the biggest fan of it, but I like it much more than the previous ones. The couple of songs I heard had a bit of singing I think. Check out Psychosocial on Youtube. That song has a mix of real thrashy stuff at the start with some more nu-metal interludes with clean vocals. It's really quite different to their older stuff. I really wasn't expecting it to be like this.

[video: www.youtube.com]

*edit* Just listened to the end as well and there is a breakdown. The whole song is sort of a cross between Slipknot, Megadeth and Killswitch Engage. Not really sure how I feel about the mixing of all those styles though.

*edit2:*

Cyanide from the Death Magnetic album performed live:

[video: www.youtube.com]

Not too bad, sound quality is average though.

hmmmmm don't mind that at all. Nice n HeavyHas a really good, clean vocal. Wish he'd use it more

Been really gettin back into the metal as of late, mainly due to picking up the guitar again. Been listening to Tool's 10,000 days album, which I never liked to begin with (always loved their old albums though!). Rosetta Stoned and Right In Two are awesome tracks.

Ah slipknot, they were the shit back when I was 13  In all honesty I really havent liked anything Iowa and later..

I liked Slipknot for about 2 months when I first got into Metal. Shortly after I found Death Metal. So much better in every way IMO.

i must admit i do get into the opeth when the mood is right 

Opeth are just plain amazing. Mostly because of the variety of their music. I have the purely acoustic "soft" album and it is probably one of my favourites.

Opeth are just plain amazing. Mostly because of the variety of their music. I have the purely acoustic "soft" album and it is probably one of my favourites.

damnation is pure quality, their guitar work is amazing

rumor has it slipknot will be in town late october

gota go just to relive those teenage stoner years

slipknot backed by machinefuckinghead at jubilee pavillion, $90 + fees.

slipknot are supposedly absolutely insane live, and i love machinehead. never seen either of them.

still umming and ahhing

I saw Slipknot with SOAD at the BDO once (I may have already mentioned this) but I found that they didn't really do much for me at all live. SOAD seemed to have a better atmosphere and crowd response.

Death Metal Natho-lotsa growling?

Yeah most of the time. It takes a while to get used to it and some people never do like it. IMO the growling just compliments the rest of the music.

I saw Slipknot with SOAD at the BDO once (I may have already mentioned this) but I found that they didn't really do much for me at all live. SOAD seemed to have a better atmosphere and crowd response.

i saw both of them that year too, soad put on a great show. Slipknot bored me however.

slipknot backed by machinefuckinghead at jubilee pavillion, $90 + fees.

slipknot are supposedly absolutely insane live, and i love machinehead. never seen either of them.

still umming and ahhing

I love Machinehead (pre-Supercharger). Burn My Eyes was a fucking awesome record. High school thrash out memories for sure! Seems they're never a big enough name to headline a tour though, from memory they were the support act for Slayer a few years back too. I wanted to go but couldn't justify the full tcket price just for a cut-down performance.

Seems they're never a big enough name to headline a tour though, from memory they were the support act for Slayer a few years back too. I wanted to go but couldn't justify the full tcket price just for a cut-down performance.

What about justifying the full-ticket price with the fact you were also going to see SLAYER. 

SLAYER

Meh.

Seems they're never a big enough name to headline a tour though

Machine Head played their own tour last october with Trivium supporting... it was awesome. Their debut album was always their best, nothing they've made since can really be held up next to Burn My Eyes.

i must admit i do get into the opeth when the mood is right 

Opeth are playing Thebby on the 4th Sept.

Meh.

*gasp*

reign in blood is considered by most as the greatest thrash album ever!

*gasp*

reign in blood is considered by most as the greatest thrash album ever!

I know they're icons in the scene but they've never honestly done anything for me...I don't really dig thrash...

I really like the more progressive melodic kinda shit like Rush, Uriah Heep, Pink Floyd, Sabbath etc. And for newer acts, Machinehead, Tool. Love my 80's hair metal stuff too. Closest thing to thrash I like is probably Iron Maiden and early Metallica.

can't believe that's even real!

Some young up and comers called Judas Priest.

been listening to a lot of a French Doom Metal band called the Old Dead Tree lately. The lead singer has an amazingly emotive clean singing voice. Big fan

this has been in my head for days. Epic sound. Fkn love it

Strapping Young Lad-Almost Again

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plenty of clean vocals if the full growl isn't your thing

have listened to a ton of SOAD today, and for some reason, I just don't think of these guys as being Metal any more. Don't know wtf they are lol

'Nu:metal' innit? (Half a )

Me either, I have no idea what category they fall into though. Haven't listened to them in ages .. haven't listened to any metal in ages. Did buy the self title Korn album the other day as I lost my first copy though. Awesome, awesome album.

And of course still listen to a bit of Machine Head. Favourite metal act hands down, freakin' awesome live too.

lol that's a dirty term

A Punk reccomendation from me for any who like it.

A band called English Dogs, they have since become power metal apparently, I haven't heard it myself though. Check the album "To the Ends of the Earth".

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lol how do u go from punk to power metal? lol

im going to the exeter 2nite to see the old metal band i used to be in defcon its free entry

Byzantine-Nadir

Though not together anymore, great band. Lead singer Chris "OJ" Ojeda has one of the best voices in metal.

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talking to myself here really but the new Mastodon album has arrived!!!!

Listened to it this morning and it's little different than i expected. Reminds me of a metal version of Pink Floyd. Real good!

I cant't wait for Rise Against tonight 

Metallica, Machinehead, 20000 people at the O2 Arena tonight. Sweet.

Hopefully Machinehead play Davidian in all it's Doublekick glory tonight and Metallica play Sanitarium.

 

Badger Badger Badger Badger

well completely missed machine head, bloody buses! metallica were awesome and top notch production too

If you're into doom quaz you should check out Pagan Altar (Where Black Sabbath stole their riffs from) and Lamented Souls. Both are excellent.

Doomsword (mentioned them earlier) and Reverent Bizzare are good as well.

You'd probably like Mercyful Fate as well. Not doom but still awesome.

it's ridiculous how good Meshugga are. The best drummer in metal (fairly unanimous) and they play guitars that have fkn 8 strings

"Bleed"

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Crushing

lol. Gotta be one of the most metal, metal clips I've seen. Headbanging in a quarry hahah

God Dethroned-Necromagnon

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Not that anyone GAF, but dig these dudes at the moment. Little more "core" than what i like these days but meh, when it's done well.....

Architects

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woot quadruple post






that is all.....

and preventing quazz from a banworthy 5 in a row post is me 

still waiting on the quintessential metal genres CD natho ol chum 

I'll whip something up for ya dude. Prolly wont be as in depth as what natho would do, but it's a start

I'm getting there

Tell you what, you going to be at pleasure this Friday? I already have some tracklists done just have to burn em' off. Whip something up as well Quaz, should get a fair variety then.

cool. Wouldn't get much Black metal in anything I do. Maybe a bit of Destoyer666 for an Aussie touch but that's about it

heard a band called devine herecy and there tune face breaker how the hell is the drummer drumming so fast?

check this clip. Just as quick on the foot pedals but so much cleaner and a much more complex rhythm. Tomas Haake is pretty much untouchable in Metal drumming

alright. So a few people have asked me for a metal cd/mix of late, so thought, since I've got the day off, I'll throw something together. 20 songs, covering a wide range of all sorts of metal.

Quaz Presents: Download.Listen.Die.Rot

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IJB0M5E8

1-Mastodon-Oblivion (Sludge/Prog Metal- Off this years best album so far, Crack the Skye)
2-Devildriver-End of the Line (Groove/Thrash)
3-Strapping Young lad-Almost Again( SYL are their own genre. Devin Townsend is a God)
4-Opeth-Porcelain Heart(Prog Death though though they bend genres every album)
5-Evile-Thrasher(Thrash)
6-Meshuggah-Bleed(Techical Death-Best metal drummer in the world)
7-Byzantine-Nadir-(Modern Metal))
8-Five Finger Death Punch-Way of the Fist(Groove Metal)
9-Bloodbath-Eaten(Death Metal-Song is about German, Armin Meiwes, who advertised he's like to kill and eat someone-and did just that)
10-Gojira-Flying Whales(Death Metal- Lotsa their stuff is about the Environment)
11-Trivium-Down from the Sky(Metalcore-don't really like em anymore, but these guys got me back into metal-a great starting point for beginners)
12-Anaal Nathrakh-In the Constellation of the Black Widow(Blackened Noise-Lol if you've made it this far, congrats. Good luck with this one. Described as the most evil sounding band on the planet)
13-Architects-Early Grave(Metalcore)
14-Amorphis-Sampo(Prog Death)
15-The Old Dead Tree-Out of Breath(Doom metal)
16-Dauntless-Waking Up the World(Thrash/Death)
17-Disarmonia Mundi-Process of Ahhihilation(Melodic Death metal)
18-Goatwhore-Carving Out the Eyes of God (Blackened Thrash)
19-Suicide Silence-The Price of Beauty(Deathcore)
20-Zimmers Hole-When You Were Shouting At the Devil.....We Were In a League With Satan( Lol Pure Comedy-couple of the Strapping Young Lad dudes formed this band and managed to fit in every single metal cliche)

I wasn't one of those people, but thanks anyway dude! I need some education on metal.

Mixed or just assorted tracks?

Nice name too

lol ta

mixed? You've gotta be fkn kidding me haha

Haha yeah I figured as much.

Browsing the torrent sites just then I think I have a new entry in the competition for most blatantly offensive metal album title and band name:

Behold...


Whilst not as full of exotic imagery as some I'm sure this will have it's fans. Perhaps it's Aryan metal?

fucking awesome

cheerz quaz, will give it a listen.
will be cool to compare who's got tougher tastes in metal when i get natho's compilation

No worries:)

and I Dare are say Natho will. That said, he likes little girls so much of a muchness really

wow, cant believe i havent found this thread before. lol.

massive metal fan, have been since the early 90's when metallica (think ride the lightening, master of puppets era) and slayer (reign in blood) were the mainstays.
listened to a lot of thrash like exodus, helloween, sadus, sodom, testament etc.
got into death metal shortly there after starting with stuff like morbid angel, malevolent creation etc and then suffocation dropped and man, nothings been the same since. lol.
oh and somewhere in there was the grindcore era with bands like carcass, bolt thrower, napalm death etc.
since i got into dnb i havent really heard a lot of new metal bands i like, but a few that i have that are worth sharing are...

!T.O.O.H! death metal from Czech Republic. bit weird, but man their ideas were awesome. check out the Řád a Trest ("Order and Punishment") album.
The Faceless. Akeldama had a bit of an impact. Loved that album.
Misery Index. Flat out grindcore.

Thats a start anyway, lol.

they're all 80s albums

 
Nothing wrong with living in the past! Puppets is still a main stay for me!

yeah well lol.back in those days it was all on cassette tapes and recorded of a mates brother. no way my pocket money would have covered the latest albums haha

hah i hear ya. I still have those orig tapes somewhere

Have a feeling the tracklisting may be all out wack. Think when I RAR'd it, it went all skewiff

I should have mine uploaded sometime today.

to anyone that dloaded mine, would def recommend re ordering em into the list i wrote. Set it up pretty deliberatelly

lol-You don't want to kick things off with Anaal Nathrakh. Trust

See lamb of god and devildriver are here in december!!

Maybe not.. Damn router cuts out whenever I try and upload for too long.

will be there I reckon. The  new DD album is a bit hit and miss,but their good is very good

I'll be checkin it out for sure. I'll be on holidays so its perfect timing.




Dont know if anyone in here likes them but went and saw Mammal on Friday, Was a pretty good show!  Drummer was pretty mental!

if anyones interested:
A RED DAWN play at the Magill club on 15th august with Blood Covered Shovel, Trace Vapour and Convict Anatomy
kicks off at 8pm and only costs $10 bucks.

so far   

one of 2 amazing reasons everyone should be going to Soundwave

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tossed a coin between soundwave and BDO. BDO won and I tossed it again, same result.
Now im full of regret

herhaps the worst decision made since prince di decided to take the tunnel

Herhaps
Bassnectar was the best act i saw at the bdo too.

I've been stuck on this one song recently, it's a little older but it's nothin hard.

not my thing

I love metal, used to play in a death/goregrind band but our last ever show was a while ago now ...

Good to see a few guys on here were/are into some of the local bands! I've lately been into death from Asia and the oldschool stuff from America and Sweden.

Anyone else played in bands? Sorry if this's been covered already, it's a long thread

I've lately been into death from Asia

Any Thai bands?

They have a fair scene over here... a friend of mine went to a metal festival/show a few months ago called "Bang Cock" lol. The next one is happening soon so I might check it out and see for myself. Death metal is not really my thing though, it's a bit too over the top for me, I prefer more anthemic/melodic stuff (old Machinehead, etc.) but I am interested to see what it's like regardless.

I could never get to a stage in my life where this would get tired.

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Don't know any asian metal bands unfortunately...
Just wanted to share a vid that I recently found Michael Jackson meets rock!

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and Sepultura, apparently they're quite famous but I haven't heard of it till today, haha

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and Sepultura, apparently they're quite famous but I haven't heard of it till today, haha

 

Don't know any asian metal bands unfortunately...
Just wanted to share a vid that I recently found Michael Jackson meets rock!

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Lol, how old are you? Obviously you weren't around (or musically aware let's say) when this was a massive hit.

Don't take that the wrong way... I am just surprised that that song could be considered new by someone.

Total one hit wonders though Alien Ant Farm... and it wasn't even that great a song!

Went here last night.

http://www.crobar.co.uk/

Proper ballsy bar full of Beer, Bourbon and Old Metalheads.

Had a great jukebox full of everything you could think of in the way of rock. I've never seen one with a range from Obituary, Entombed through to New York Dolls, Bad Brains and then onto AC DC and Rose Tattoo.

There's something to be said about playing Reign in Blood at 5pm in a Bar and having nobody bat an eyelid.

 

There's something to be said about playing Reign in Blood at 5pm in a Bar and having nobody bat an eyelid.

 

Sounds like a right  classy joint

sorry i havent gotten to ya post yet Tony, but now i cant move for a while, I should have time. In the mean time, everyone, enjoy some Battlecross. Not totally my thing, but hard not to love these guys. So metal

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and for something a little more intense, have some Cattle Decapitation. Worth watching for Travis (the singer) alone
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and an all time fave of mine, something I go back to time and time again (a bit lighter too. ) Keith Buckley is a FANTASTIC singer . The break from 3:20 in........<3

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Lol, how old are you? Obviously you weren't around (or musically aware let's say) when this was a massive hit.

Don't take that the wrong way... I am just surprised that that song could be considered new by someone.

Total one hit wonders though Alien Ant Farm... and it wasn't even that great a song!

I used to be more of a hiphop fan. My years of metal were really short, barely made it through Hard Metal and switched to Electronic music. Now I normally only listen to weird mashups of different electronic genres, haha

I used to be more of a hiphop fan. My years of metal were really short, barely made it through Hard Metal and switched to Electronic music. Now I normally only listen to weird mashups of different electronic genres, haha

I'm not even sure if you would call that song metal... it was basically a pop hit. Nu-metal perhaps.

it's not Metal

I just said that it's something that I recently found, haha. Sepultura isn't metal?

Sepultura - Yes

Alien Ant Farm - Good god no


how one stumbles upon Sepultura for the first time, in 2012, is truly mind boggling lol

Alien Ant Farm - Good god no

 

Sepultura - Yes

Alien Ant Farm - Good god no


how one stumbles upon Sepultura for the first time, in 2012, is truly mind boggling lol

 Cavalera conspiracy was one of the main reasons i chose bdo over soundwave.

just listened to meshuggah's new one a few times in a row. Wow, stunning album.
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