[Album] The Metal Thread! (The Zombie Edition)

Crap, I gotta get to broadband fast, I've been wanting to see that. Plus I have to fullfill my promise to you over in the hiphop/rap thread, lol.

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I like SA. My favorite album has to be silence, but my favorite songs are on Reckoning Night.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Maybe my tastes in music are a bit too wide .

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Originally Posted by elevator

I seriously don´t think that this has anything to do with disliking a band.

Well, I meant that I really like Sonata Arctica & Dragonforce as well as many others that I've mentioned, lol, and most people here don't seem to like DF or SA.

Among that, I like every single Queen song ever made....NOT an exaggeration, most classic rock, a lot of new rock... I'm starting to like country, I like classical, celtic, some rap, rock, alternative, techno, soundtracks, some punk, polka, i LOVE ragtime....yeah, pretty much if I listen to anything for a few hours, i start to like it, if not a lot, then at least some.

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Originally Posted by elevator

You know, that´s nice and all - but you are not implying that people who don´t like Sonata Arctica or Dragonforce have a narrow sense of music are you ? I don´t think having a music taste that is broad has anything to do with the liking or disliking of single bands..

Maybe I´m just interpreting it the wrong way

Oh, sorry, that's not what I meant at all, lol. I meant that my tastes are so extremely off-balance that I even like bands as pathetic (and I'll freely admit that they are, lol) as Dragonforce & Sonata Arctica.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by knkwzrd

I know no one who frequents this thread likes Slayer

I think they are OK . Not my favorite band, lol, but I like 'em.

FELIPE NO

I like either, but I can't stand screaming at all. There are only a few screaming bands that I can actually stand, and far less that I like.

Gutteral death growls are amazing, and I really like that in my music. I also like really clear vocals, but my favorites come when those styles are mixed.

Listen to Haggard to see what I mean .

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Hey I'm all for gimmicks. When I go to a live concert, I want to see a damn SHOW, not just an album being played. I have a stereo at home for that .

Of course, that might just be because of my love for Queen .

Also (this is a request =/) if anybody could track down these 3 Haggard demo albums for me, I would love you .

Introduction
Progressive
Once... Upon a December's Dawn

I've been trying to find them, with absolutely no luck at all.

I have 4 unnamed tracks in my Haggard folder that I got from a friend at college (he's from South America where they are really popular) and I think they might be from their "Progressive" demo. I'd like the others though, too, because I think their early sound is absolutely incredible. It's more of an angry sound maybe? Lol, hard for me to describe. Anyway, it isn't as mellowed out as their newer stuff is (which don't get me wrong, I still love it).

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I just now got into Nightwish, I remember the first time I heard them I hated them. I've really been going towards a more gothic/symphonic sound recently. Anyway was looking for some new symphonic bands to listen to, and thought I'd try Nightwish again. I don't really like their male vocalist much, but I'm getting used to him.

Originally Posted by Reznor

Plus they're four of the ugliest men ever with some of the best lyrics (and quite possibly music) that I've ever heard.

I think that title (four ugliest men ever) is actually reserved for Bachman-Turner Overdrive.



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Originally Posted by RAZGRIZ-3

If you're interested in some more symphonic stuff, try out Rhapsody or, to a lesser degree, Blind Guardian.

I have both those bands, and I especially LOVE Blind Guardian. I'm going to a concert of their's this November, already have my tickets .

Angra, Epica, Haggard, Sonata Arctica, & Within Temptation are the only other symphonic bands that come to mind that I have, apart from Nightwish, BG, & Rhapsody.

I am a complete sucker for the epic feel, I love having that in a song .

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Originally Posted by niki

Dark Moor, Bal Sagoth, Fairyland, Hollenthon, Thy Majestie, Wuthering Heights and recent Therion. =)

Thy Majestie has actually kind of put me off, save for a few songs. (Demons on the Crown is kickass ) They have absolutely disgusting compositional skills. There is NO unifying theme in any of their songs, they seem to be randomly arranged on the album without thought as to what will provide an enjoyable listening experience, it's ultimately way too chaotic.

It's like they were disgusted with the current trend of over-simplistic music to repeat a chorus 50 billion times, but they took it to an opposite extreme which is just as bad.

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Originally Posted by Living Legend

You should check out Kamelot also then. Great syphonic epic metal band. I just bought their album Epica and it's quite amazing.

I know it's probably horrible to bring up, but I bought another Marilyn Manson cd, and it's actually really good. I love industrial elements brought into metal.

I do have Kamelot, but I haven't listened to much of their stuff, didn't realize they were Symphonic at all.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I just got Amon Amarth's The Crusher, it's pretty amazing. I'm not normally a fan of pure death metal (I'm more of a fan of bands along the line of Haggard) but this is really good stuff.

Double Post:
http://www.tvangeste.com/english.html

Tvangeste has their entire Firestorm album released 100% free. Technically, its decent quality, which is more than enough for black metal files. The music is absolutely incredible. Best symphonic black metal I've ever heard. They did this album along with the Baltic Symphony Orchestra.

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Originally Posted by Krelian

k; downloaded. I've not listened to much yet, but what I've heard is pretty impressive so far - Only thing that annoys me is the vocals. Seriously, some of the time they sound like they're being done by an incredibly whiny woman.

Otherwise kickass. Thanks, sir.

lol no problem, they were actually my first metal band, and what got me into the genre in the first place.

and hey, you can't complain too much, it's free

actually their was only one part of the vocals that bothered me when i first started listening to them. for example if you listen to "tears will wash the blood from my sword" during end of the choral section at the beginning of the song, there is a male vocalist who sounds almost flat, and kind of like he's talking instead of singing...ive actually kind of grown to like the effect.

i still don't like it when the woman is talking, as you said, she sounds whiny & stupid, but her singing ive always liked

FELIPE NO

I don't think I ever ended up writing about this, but way back last Thanksgiving I finally got to see Blind Guardian live. Rates up there as pretty much the most incredible experience of my life. Everyone knows all the words, so you have a massive chorus to accompany them, and of coures, the Bard's Song was impressive. They played "And Then There Was Silence" much to my surprise, since it's something like 14 minutes long. It's one of my absolutely favorite BG songs so I was pretty happy.

EDIT: We even got them to add a song to their set list, Majesty .

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That was my second live concert ever, the first "real" one. I was at an Audio Adrenaline concert way, way back when I was younger at the 4H Fair, it was really good, but I was a bit young to actually enjoy a concert as much as I should have. Moshing and crowd-surfing going on, interstingly enough.

Heh. The mosh pits @ the BG concert were WAY more brutal though.

I've never really been much of a concert person, but when I found out BG was playing live in Chicago (about a 3.5+ hour drive) I couldn't pass it up. My favorite (still living & performing) band.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Morrigan

What the fuck. We chanted Majesty over and over again and they didn't even play it. And the place was packed, too.
Wankers.

Chicago was a great show

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What specifically are you interested in? I'd be glad to share out of my collection.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

The only viking/pagan/folk metal I have is Amon Amarth, at least that I know of, and I've gotten fairly negative reactions to them on this board before . I like them though =/.

If you want them I can upload them to my site and send you a link.

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Viking metal doesn't have a sound. It's all about the lyrical content, which is why I say it's pretty much the dumbest genre label ever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_metal

Viking metal is a cross-genre reference usually used to describe the lyrical and thematic elements of bands rather than the music itself. The bands that are associated with viking metal cover a broad range of musical genres and influences, such as folk metal, thrash metal, death metal, black metal, and power metal.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I think we will agree to disagree. Everywhere else I've looked for a definitive definition says viking metal means little more than the thematic content.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I'm a pretty stubborn asshole, so don't think you are going to get through to me .

FELIPE NO

Hey.

None of that now. Dethklok is awesome.

Nothing wrong with enjoying something that makes fun of metal.

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Dream Theater is hit & miss with me. Occasionally one of their songs I hear, listen to, and actually like, but most are just substanceless.

How ya doing, buddy?

I just got Dimmu Borgir's Death Cult Armageddon, and all I can say is, wow, incredible. Fell in love w/ it right away .

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