Metal Appreciation Thread!

Okay, listen guys. I need a good metal album that is very technical and heavily composed with little to no vocals and with ripping lead guitar solos. Heavy but not washed out. Something for my brain. I want to get into metal but I'm really never in the mood for the dark thrashing screaming shit.

EDIT: let me expand on my request.. I've recently gotten very into king crimson which isn't exactly metal but I'm very into some of the riffier heavier moments they have. Such as:

Red:

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

and the guitar soloey part of frakctured(solo around 5:10):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qZjVD4ejcs

According to a Facebook update by Steven Wilson, he and Mikael Åkerfeldt have just finished mixing a new Opeth record.

"(...) Firstly, we finished mixing the incredible new Opeth album a few days ago, keep an eye on their website for details on that. Mikael and I also took the opportunity while he was here to finish writing our collaboration album - there's still a lot of recording work to do, but this should definitely be out in early 2012."

Yes. Oh, yes.

  On 3/25/2011 at 10:04 PM, Bubba69 said:

Okay, listen guys. I need a good metal album that is very technical and heavily composed with little to no vocals and with ripping lead guitar solos. Heavy but not washed out. Something for my brain. I want to get into metal but I'm really never in the mood for the dark thrashing screaming shit.

 

EDIT: let me expand on my request.. I've recently gotten very into king crimson which isn't exactly metal but I'm very into some of the riffier heavier moments they have. Such as:

 

Red:

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

 

and the guitar soloey part of frakctured(solo around 5:10):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qZjVD4ejcs

maybe check out the album sol niger within by fredrik thordendal's special defects.

  On 12/17/2010 at 12:39 PM, modey said:

textures are another great band. they build on meshuggah's style to include more melodic stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN3Og8gCHDo

when the keyboards come in, so gorgeous. really great to hear a technical metal band using ambience.

Thanks a lot for turning me on to this, fantastic musical ideas. It's rare that I hear new metal that leaves a big impression on me.

These guys never cease to amaze:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkEkPI79f3k

Cephalic Carnage is pushing extreme metal into some interesting directions. They're all over the map, always exciting:

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

Intronaut's crazy creative, I'm very curious to hear how they evolve:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZYhDtg31Wc

And for some reason I'm only just now getting into Napalm Death. Inside Out Torn Apart is a fucking great album:

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

And for anyone who wants to be assailed relentlessly, Origin's last album Antithesis is just stupid. It's one of the few albums that has left me feeling beaten up after listening to it. I have a theory that if their drummer stopped machine gunning his kicks for more than 5 seconds the whole thing would collapse:

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

--they're not a personal favorite, but possibly the most extreme sounding metal band I've heard. That's got to be worth something.

  On 3/25/2011 at 10:12 PM, Hasselbalch said:

According to a Facebook update by Steven Wilson, he and Mikael Åkerfeldt have just finished mixing a new Opeth record.

"(...) Firstly, we finished mixing the incredible new Opeth album a few days ago, keep an eye on their website for details on that. Mikael and I also took the opportunity while he was here to finish writing our collaboration album - there's still a lot of recording work to do, but this should definitely be out in early 2012."

 

 

Yes. Oh, yes.

  On 1/17/2011 at 11:56 PM, dankbudz said:

 

:sleep: :sleep: :sleep: :sleep:

Saw these guys on this tour back in 94... Great multimedia projections

The newest Born of Osiris is pretty wicked, and the new Salt The Wound

Saw someone posted some Isis! I missed them when they were touring with the Melvins :angry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoEY5NoaMuw

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf2ZX_XYGSA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmfzWpp0hMc

  On 3/26/2011 at 11:08 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

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

--they're not a personal favorite, but possibly the most extreme sounding metal band I've heard. That's got to be worth something.

Origin's second album "Informis Infinitas Inhumanitas" is their best by far, check that one out.

Also, these guys are even more extreme than Origin, and pretty damn great. Suffocation for the next generation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daO4xynsbO0

  On 3/25/2011 at 10:04 PM, Bubba69 said:

Okay, listen guys. I need a good metal album that is very technical and heavily composed with little to no vocals and with ripping lead guitar solos. Heavy but not washed out. Something for my brain. I want to get into metal but I'm really never in the mood for the dark thrashing screaming shit.

Check out Animals as Leaders:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ho4-tExpTE&feature=related

...and Behold the Arctopus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEX4BQ72lNA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jHu3EF20xk

Yep, pre 95 Darkthrone is the fucking real deal.

Still getting a ton of fun out of last year's offering from Inquisition. Sample for y'all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4pob3nlYP4

My favorite metal bands:

immortal, tool, burzum, bathory, darkthrone, beherit, thorns, gorguts

I'm sure everyone's heard Tool, but I'd recommend Thorns, Gorguts and Burzum specifically to members here.

Hmm couple other ones to recommend to users here:

Meshuggah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOd-T58qHLA

Jesu

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

Neurosis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4jT7br5m1c

Hmm I'd have edited my previous post for the first recommendation samples, but I can't....so here you are:

Thorns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq3IGvsU7bg

Gorguts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDUIMokbk2g

Burzum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bm-kdLwBVc

big fan of folk metal here, notably Tyr, Korpiklaani, Turisas

thorns are amazing. and i love tyr. new album out recently.

Been digging the newest After The Burial lately... this song is fucking wicked. Saw them live with Winds of Plague and As I Lay Dying recently. I was most pumped for these guys and Winds of Plague

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0MX8C5esl0&feature=fvst

  On 3/29/2011 at 10:15 AM, essines said:

and i love tyr. new album out recently.

Light of the Northern Star? it's damn good. much less proggy than their older concept-ish albums...

I've never listened to "extreme" metal before, just thrash, nu, industrial, you know, normal metal. But this EP is just so sexy it makes me jizz in my pants lol

thanks to mike patton

  On 3/29/2011 at 8:16 PM, baph said:

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

Book of Horizons is a fucking majestic album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAPIpLycwh8

I think I like it as much if not more than Mr. Bungle's California.