Metal Appreciation Thread!

Yeah, I think (the lack of) restrain has a lot to do with it.

  On 3/30/2016 at 6:10 AM, modey said:

 

  On 3/5/2016 at 8:22 AM, psn said:

Wow, a new benchmark in cheese.

Something I've never understood: why is the presence of melody and straying from full-on brutality in metal seen as cheesy? I can understand why people don't like it but I think bands like Scar Symmetry (for example) are really doing something interesting with metal and hope the trend continues. For what it's worth, I still love old simple brutal shit as well..

it doesn't matter what other people think, just listen to the stuff you like and claim everyone else their shit is gay cheese, that's metal

yeah cattle decapitation started to get praise when they dropped the fulltime grind and started incorporating more melodic elements (among other factors ofc) so it's not like that

(it kinda is though there's no denying that but there's a number of stupid fans for every genre)

tbh I only really care about the two most recent cattle decapitation albums. I don't mind a bit of straightforward goregrind/death metal stuff but a whole album of it with no melodic passages just gets kinda boring tbh

that said I haven't listened to their early stuff in much detail sooooo

  On 3/30/2016 at 6:50 AM, usagi said:

really enjoying Elder right now.

man, I'm fully obsessed with this band right now. Lore is on repeat multiple times a day. it's the first breath of fresh air I've had in stoner stuff in a while, even though I don't think this is strictly stoner metal.

also I think the comparisons to Isis are justified, though they don't have that post-metal sound incorporating electronics, being a simple three-piece band.

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

yeah I really enjoyed that album. A real refreshing change from slow minor pentatonic riffs and Ozzy style vocals, which I just fkn groan at now.

90% of all metalbands is forged out of cheese and melodies, i was listening to shinning - halmstad today and said to myself this is some goddamn cheese wankery but i can't help but like it

  On 3/30/2016 at 7:26 AM, Ivan Ooze said:

it doesn't matter what other people think, just listen to the stuff you like and claim everyone else their shit is gay cheese, that's metal

haha, nailed it!

new album on Relapse. 70+ minutes of crushing doom. love the vocals.

Amazing, will check out! Their Pariah track from a few years back is some of the sickest shit ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFm87zk_t3g

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any Bell Witch fans? digging their sound.

Doom metal/stoner/sludge seems to always do it for me. Slowly working my way through The Melvins debut - Gluey Porch Treatments.

  On 4/1/2016 at 2:49 AM, usagi said:

 

  On 3/30/2016 at 6:50 AM, usagi said:

really enjoying Elder right now.

 

man, I'm fully obsessed with this band right now. Lore is on repeat multiple times a day. it's the first breath of fresh air I've had in stoner stuff in a while, even though I don't think this is strictly stoner metal.

 

Elder is fuckin' great stuff, been listening to a lot of it lately, especially at work as it's one of the few heavier artists I can get away with putting on over the demo speakers.

Been cranking the first Monolord album a bunch this week, this track is just massive:

  On 4/4/2016 at 3:01 PM, QQQ said:

 

new album on Relapse. 70+ minutes of crushing doom. love the vocals.

Are they somehow associated with Buried at Sea?

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Are they somehow associated with Buried at Sea?

^ No.

I already knew it, but the two names were so close, that I had to crack a joke.

Oh, you joker. Say hi to Trey, btw!

Finally got around listening to the 'new' Mayhem album, took me about two years to get in the mood for it. Enjoyed it though, could've been produced a tad more shitty for me to appreciate it more (of course). Ordo Ad Chao still remains a fave, was reminded by it when one of the tracks was played in the pub this weekend.

^ so glad mayhem made the most glorious comeback from hell, these last releases destroy everything, the 4 releases after mysteries dom satanas did nothing for me. fuckin hellhamer and attilla the beast still on top of the game

enjoying the crap out of that new oranssi pazuzu album, a real gem in the massive pile of metal releases

also the latest Tribulation album is metal like fuck, love those heavy catchy riffs

getting hyped to see obituary in a few month's, i only have one album from em but that's all i need, it's a timeless dank metal classic for me, been listening to it for 17 years now, makes me wanna smoke pot till i pass out

gonna blast my brains out on that gig

so friggin dank

wish there were any pubs near that played black metal... (I think)

been listening to Leviathan's Scar Sighted lately. great fucking album, it perfectly captures a certain state of mind. between this and WITTR, I can finally get into some BM now, although I'm sure this statement will irk BM purists. I don't give a fuck though, there are so many insular/puritanical BM wankers out there that I'd gladly state loud and clear that, yes, I find the offshoot/USBM stuff more interesting/diverse than the first-wave Norwegian stuff.

also digging Dragged Into Sunlight. I listen to metal and non-IDM electronic music more than anything lately.

  On 4/10/2016 at 10:42 PM, Herr Jan said:

Finally got around listening to the 'new' Mayhem album, took me about two years to get in the mood for it. Enjoyed it though, could've been produced a tad more shitty for me to appreciate it more (of course). Ordo Ad Chao still remains a fave, was reminded by it when one of the tracks was played in the pub this weekend.

if you substract nostalgia from de mysteriis ordo ad chao is easily their best (studio-)album imo. dark af.

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on a brighter side: have some ironhawk. no idea how they got around getting bigger.

one of the most fruitful nwobhm reunions of late is deffo the that by mighty SATAN (yup)! on "life sentence" and "atom by atom" the band sounds fresher than ever, a little miracle really.

regardless, to these ears THIS is still their highpoint:

most tracks to be later featured on the debut but with a much nicer (because rawer) sound. also ian swift's voice, later serving the delightfully demented AVENGER: