Metal Appreciation Thread!

woah, they're back? *googles leaks*

meanwhile:

OK, this one is really special to me:

once upon a time, a dark time in hindsight, when i turned into my 20s, i ... apostazied from the metal. yes, i felt i had outgrown its goofy antics, reading adorno n shit was much cooler... needless to say i had become a complete dickhead!

then after approximately 5 years of deaf-, dumb- and blindness and several desperate tries a close friend finally managed to drag me back into the light of badass rock n roll musics and it was all thanks to one track from this beautiful, beautiful canadian prog-metal outfit called *drum roll*

SACRED BLADE

unfortunately that very über-hit he showed me ("IC eyes") is nowhere to be found on the tubes, it only made it on a couple of demos, which i hereby urge you to track down (not hard)...

anyway, the sole album they released (under that monicker) doesn't fall behind much either:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egkuTgtMH1o

one fav-fav:

i totally adore the powerful yet unagitated vocals, very unique. in that regard to me they feel like the spiritual successors of the style praying mantis established on "captured city", which i linked earlier in this very thread.

in 2004 they changed their name to othyrworld and rerecorded the debut with some tracks from demos thrown in for good measure. that version naturally has a somewhat "better" (not clinical tho!) sound and is worth checking out for the additional tracks alone!

unfortunately their mastermind jeff "the pilot" ulmer passed away due to a stroke in 2013... RIP brother and thank you for getting me back on track, this time for good! *pumps fist*

...some cherries on the cake: rather early live vids. material not quite as proggy yet, still worthwhile (if for rarity alone) documents:

Been on the cosmic vibe, spending some time with the latest Oranssi Pazuzu and Inquisition this week... 

also really looking forward to the upcoming release from The Great Old Ones, got it pre-ordered.

Been loking at a bunch of best albums of the year lists by various publications and most of the metal albums are some kind of black metal derivative. Dunno what's with the current hard-on for the genre

Current? It's been pretty hip for ten years.

^^^ that new oranssi pazuzu album is fantastic, played the shit out of it this year, still do

one more bump for that new Furia album Ksiezyc milczy luty cause it's so fuckin great!!!

really something else, awesome tracks and i just love the vocalist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBxF-l0Sk68

also hype as fukk for the new cultes des ghoules album, unholy shit every track is like 20minutes long :D

Got around to listening to the latest Car Bomb album today, been a fan since Centralia but this is probably their best album yet...

 

Dunno exactly what genre this is but some kind of doomy post-metal. At any rate it's a fucking massively amazing French band, super consistent discography. 

  On 12/8/2016 at 12:50 PM, Candiru said:

 

This album rules.

Fuckin oath AOTY for me metal wise.

  On 12/16/2016 at 1:26 PM, Lewps said:

 

  On 12/8/2016 at 12:50 PM, Candiru said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq_N_vD6b7o

 

This album rules.

Fuckin oath AOTY for me metal wise.

I think it's become one of my favorite albums period.

  On 12/16/2016 at 12:54 PM, chim said:

Dunno exactly what genre this is but some kind of doomy post-metal. At any rate it's a fucking massively amazing French band, super consistent discography. 

 

 

Yeah, had a listen to them earlier this year and really dug it. Must listen more.

  On 12/16/2016 at 1:26 PM, Lewps said:

 

  On 12/8/2016 at 12:50 PM, Candiru said:

 

This album rules.

Fuckin oath AOTY for me metal wise.

 

this is good, not sure I'm a fan of the vocal style against this specific sound though.

  On 12/16/2016 at 11:01 PM, usagi said:

 

  On 12/16/2016 at 1:26 PM, Lewps said:

 

  On 12/8/2016 at 12:50 PM, Candiru said:

 

This album rules.

Fuckin oath AOTY for me metal wise.

 

 

this is good, not sure I'm a fan of the vocal style against this specific sound though.

 

Listen to this album and savor it like a fine Islay Scotch on a bearskin rug in front of a roaring hearth. 

I'll do that!

btw y'all Cobalt fans may enjoy these, just gone up on HMP

  On 12/8/2016 at 8:07 PM, ghOsty said:

Been on the cosmic vibe, spending some time with the latest Oranssi Pazuzu and Inquisition this week... 

 

like this a lot, anything else similar?

  On 12/18/2016 at 3:03 AM, keanu reeves said:

 

  On 12/8/2016 at 8:07 PM, ghOsty said:

Been on the cosmic vibe, spending some time with the latest Oranssi Pazuzu and Inquisition this week... 

 

 

like this a lot, anything else similar?

 

if you like that, give that new furia album a try    

Also look into the rest of the Oranssi Pazuzu discography, the most recent is their 5th album.

Just listened to Fenriz's last podcast like two hours ago (mind you, his selections are almost my only gateway into new metal for the last 6 years, and for good reason) and stumbled upon this track and haven't heard the rest of the podcast because I just played this track over and over again, it's absolutely perfect. Holy shit.

  On 12/28/2016 at 10:55 PM, Herr Jan said:

(...) and haven't heard the rest of the podcast (...)

u missed out on watchtower D:

  On 12/28/2016 at 10:55 PM, Herr Jan said:

Just listened to Fenriz's last podcast like two hours ago (mind you, his selections are almost my only gateway into new metal for the last 6 years, and for good reason) and stumbled upon this track and haven't heard the rest of the podcast because I just played this track over and over again, it's absolutely perfect. Holy shit.

 

this is great

3/4's of Vektor have quit the band

  On 12/29/2016 at 9:50 PM, doublename said:

3/4's of Vektor have quit the band

Yeah, only the singer remains. Not sure of the circumstances but wow. 

Wow, that's a bummer about Vektor.

Watchtower is great.

Just got back from Entombed A.D. a little while ago. It got people jumping. I also got to meet LG Petrov because he's talkative right after they're done playing. It's always cool when cool music people are indeed cool. 

  On 12/29/2016 at 10:09 PM, Hail Sagan said:

 

  On 12/29/2016 at 9:50 PM, doublename said:

3/4's of Vektor have quit the band

 

 

Yeah, only the singer remains. Not sure of the circumstances but wow. 

 

Yeah, read that the other day... WTF happened between them?