Metal Appreciation Thread!

Never gave Repulsion a listen until recently and holy shit. Ahead of their time.

I'm gonna go ahead and post Abba in the pop thread again.

The riffs/solos throughout this entire album are ridiculous.  Listened again for the first time in a while.  Interesting how rarely Megadeth ever incorporated choruses into their early work.  Even Slayer had choruses in most (all?) of their tunes.  Megadeth did a full 180 on their followup, which was all about big hooky choruses.  Metallica followed that same trajectory between Justice and Black album.  Was Dave consciously following their lead?  The timeline certainly works out for that to be the case.

  On 4/19/2020 at 8:44 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:

 Interesting how rarely Megadeth ever incorporated choruses into their early work.  .

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Rust is an awesome album!

But there are plenty choruses on their first three albums, apart from the cover tunes and instrumentals? 

Killing is my Business / The Skull Beneath the Skin / Rattlehead / Looking Down the Cross / Wake Up Dead / Peace Sells / Devil's Island / Black Friday / Mary Jane / 502 / Liar / Hook In Mouth

There are some choruses here and there, but I just listened to So Far So Good and Rust in Peace, and was struck by how often songs had no chorus, or if there was something that sounded like a chorus it would happen once and never again.  Very unusual.  I noticed the same thing with Nile, but that's a whole other category of metal.  Anyway, i know from Countdown onward the choruses became almost poppy (which I don't think is a bad thing, necessarily).  Going to go through the rest of their discog.  i'm really unfamiliar with most of what they did after Countdown.

Yeah, they definitely got more poppy from Countdown. That's where they lost me.

  On 4/20/2020 at 8:01 AM, psn said:

Yeah, they definitely got more poppy from Countdown. That's where they lost me.

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Listening to Youthanasia now... I am bored af.  Countdown's actually really solid.  The hooks on that one sound somehow more appropriate... less like "okay, now we need a hook to go here."  On Youthanasia it just sounds forced.  Also, these trebly guitar tones are so unflattering/hard to listen to.  I'm hopeful that the discog gets better after this.  They certainly never slowed down.

*ugh, and Mustaine's voice is just so whiny... really irritating album haha.

The System has Failed is the only one I care for after Rust in Peace. They brought back a thrashier, more classic sound - with Chris Poland returning on the lead guitar and on Vinnie Colaiuta on session drums, incredibly enough... 

One of my all time favourites - Ripping Corpse "Dreaming with the Dead" - just got a remaster and a bonus track. Free download:

https://rippingcorpse.bandcamp.com/releases

  On 4/17/2020 at 10:33 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

That new oranssi pazuzu album sounds friggin amazing

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This album is fucking wicked.

I still play Rust In Peace maybe three times a year, which doesn't sound a lot but I did play it massive amount back in the day and it's 30 years old. Still blows me away, such an incredible set of tunes. Peace Sell But Who's Buying is my second favourite. Hated 90% of Countdown To Extinction (maybe a couple of tunes were okay) and recent visit hasn't changed my mind.

I've added the new Oranssi Pazuzu album to my Spotify list. I'm so out of the loop with metal nowadays my 20 year old self would be shocked and probably pour a glass of beer over my head and wrestle me to the ground!

belgian psych sludge postmetal. good stuff

i'm not that much into metal but the other day i listened to this and i really really like it, but then the rest of the songs the from the album, apart from magma, he sings like a new metal dude and i kinda h8 it... do they have an album made entirely of this kind of vocals? these 2 songs are really cool... the shooting star has a doom metal feeling to it... i also dig these monolord guys, recommend me stuff like this please...