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

Bought three more CDs:

Meshuggah - Catch 33
Cannibal Corpse - Kill
Death - Leporsy

I'm sure those will be some shuns and boos and hisses here, except for Death but I enjoy those bands. I plan on seeing Cannibal Corpse with the Black Dahlia Murder and the Absence next month.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Try the Absence, Arghoslent (as long as you're not too offended by their racist lyrics, good music however), Arsis, Becoming the Archetype, Enforsaken, The Faceless, Illiad, Insomnium, Mercenary, Night In Gales, Pathogeon, Paths of Possession, Scar Symmetry, Seraphic, Slaves For Scores, Sophia's Eye, Soulscar, Vehemence, Vornagar, Warbreed.

That should keep you entertained.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Vintersorg is fantastic for some folk metal. I recommend Till Fjills. That album is simply spectacular.

Also check out Karl Sanders', the guitarist from death metal band Nile, solo project which has a lot of Middle Eastern instrumentation. No real metal there but it's very atmospheric.

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Originally Posted by Will

I totally get where you're coming from, I guess I'm just anxious to appreciate more. XD I always find it frustrating when I can't get into something obscure that some people really love. Jazz/death sounds like a wonderful combination. I'm totally with you on the Opeth thing, I've been getting into a bit more death this year but I'm still lagging a bit behind you on that one. But that weird vocal shit on the Zorn album is just weird. XD Anyway, I guess I'll go back to Bungle and try again.

Have you checked out Unexpect or Alarum? Unexpect is pretty much advant garde metal and Alarum is a jazz/death metal band. Atheist has some jazz influence with their thrash/death metal brand. Really great stuff.

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I got the new Iced Earth album. From the couple of songs I heard so far it's decent, nothing mind blowing. Better than Glorious Burden, however I did like that one, it was the weaker of all the IE albums and I definitely like Tim Owens on here more. He's doing a fine job.

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Originally Posted by DarkLink2135

SONATA ARCTICA! Yes. I'm not much of a concert goer, but the last one I did go to was Blind Guardian's Twist in the Myth tour in Chicago. Amazing concert. I'd like to make it for Sonata Arctica again but I don't know if that works out with school. Don't think it does, unfortunately .

Taking a break from power, I recently got into a band called Decapitated. Anybody else heard of them? They've got some very catchy riffs, for being death metal, which I like but usually doesn't stick in my head like they do.

Decapitated is pretty awesome. Which album did you get? Organic Hallucinations? I'm not too familiar with their new singer but it was quite jarring to me compared to their original which I felt was one of death metal's best. I really like Decpaitated's tight rhythm that almost has a militeristic feel to it, especially on the Negation.

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I believe it's Cradle of Filth, CKY and Vains of Jenna who are with Gwar.

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

I picked up several new albums the other day and a new one today.

Atheretic - Adhesion, Adversion...

This is technical brutal death metal. It sounded alright from the little bit I heard. Nothing super special but nothing terrible either.

Amsvartner - The Trollish Mirror

Ridiculous album name but pretty decent black metal. This is the first I've heard of them and I enjoy it.

Disillusion - Gloria

I'm a fan of ...Back to Times of Splendor though this one was meh. Compared to their previous album it's definitely sub par but if it was to be on it's own, it's decent. Again not mind blowing and I'm glad I got it used and on the cheap.

Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time and Piece of Mind

Self explanitory here. These albums are certainly fantastic and I have no idea why I never bought these until now! Oh well it's worth the wait and I'm glad to have them. Now to pick up the rest of Maiden's discography.

Trivium - The Crusade

Sure hated by many metalheads but I like them. This album is definitely closer to thrash metal than their previous effort and the James Hetfield clone doesn't hurt. I personally don't like this as much as Ascendancy but this album has some great anthems and headbangable tunes. Classic thrash...almost.

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Powerslave is pretty much my favorite Iron Maiden album. I'll still check out the non-Dickinson era Maiden. I know it's shunned by many metalheads, perhaps I'll take to it.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I picked up Enslaved - Ruun. Pretty good stuff but I kind of enjoy Below the Lights more. Ruun is still enjoyable.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I saw one Oomph music video from the first Monsters of Metal DVDs and man what a terrible band. Not to mention a terrible name as well. Almost as bad as Subway to Sally.

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I'm checking out some of these folk metal bands and I'm digging them. I definitely enjoy Stille Volk. Though it will take a while to digest them as I'm downloading many bands at once.

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They're pretty much all folk metal, except for Itakk and Bella Sorte. I kind of liked Bran Barr, though I'll have to go back and relisten to these bands to absorb them better.

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I got some new CDs, Enslaved and Arsis in preparation of the upcoming tour.

Arsis - A Celebration of Guilt
Arsis - United In Regret
Enslaved - Isa
Enslaved/Satryicon - The Forest Is My Throne/Yggdrasill

Great stuff, though I'm a bit meh on Satyricon.

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I saw Enslaved on Monday and it was a great show. The turnout was pretty small but Arsis, the Faceless and Enslaved did very well. I got two shirts over there and had a great time. Enslaved played some older stuff but I'm not too familiar with the song names unfortunately.

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Yeah I miss the Metal Archives.


I need to buy more Summoning.

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

So I started downloading some more music from the metal album blog and I found some pretty cool bands like Vinterland (black metal, reminds me a bit of newer Immortal), Imperial Crystalline Entombment (American black metal featuring members of Aurora Borealis and Divine Rapture. Pretty good stuff) and Profanum who play, at least their newer stuff, an interesting mix of classical and black metal but they eschew the guitars and bass leaving in the drums and harsh vocals. It's done pretty well actually.

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Epicurean seems ok. Fairly typical power metal style.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Schadenfreude

Long time no see, metal thread. <3

Anyway, any recommendations in regards to good death metal bands? Preferably ones that don't blast endlessly from start to finish. I have enough of those. Maybe something like Funebre and/or Unleashed?

Nile, Spawn of Possession, Vital Remains, Deicide, Suffocation, Cryptopsy, Decapitated, Deeds of Flesh, Gorguts, Sinister, Abysmal Dawn, Aborted, Severe Torture, Anata and Atheretic.


There are tons more but that's all I have.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Very solid. A good slab of brutal technical death metal, though they don't have many of the atmospheric elements that made In Their Darkened Shrines so good. It doesn't disappoint.

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I like Bloodbath. I only have Resurrection Through Carnage though damn I love the guitar tone! It really sounds like chainsaw and the riffs are pretty damn catchy and at times sound appropriate in a slasher flick.

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Originally Posted by aesop

Has anyone had a listen to Meshuggah's ObZen yet? I only realised it was available last night, and decided to order it.

Yup. I bought that last night and it's pretty awesome.

Also picked up:

Abigail Williams - Legend (probably not too popular here, but it was only $6 and I like them)
Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (They had the rereleased Iron Maiden CDs on sale for 10 bucks)
Sodom - Agent Orange

and in the mail I finally got Agalloch - White EP and Island - Orakel. I'm set for music for a while.

I need to get some Dismember.

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Awesome. I hate their lyrical content and ideologies but they have some awesome riffs.

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Originally Posted by Schadenfreude

They do know how to write some killer riffs, don't they? I hear that their album before this one ("Incorrigible Bigotry") is full of even better riffs, but I haven't been able to track that one down yet.

Yeah I feel that one is a bit better than their newer one. However it sounds like that Hornets of Pogrom follows a similar path that Incorrigible Bigotry has, such as song structure and album layout.

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So I finally got to listen to the underrated Incubus. The death/thrash metal band, not the mainstream rock band. And no not that Incubus but this one.

This is really some great death/thrash metal. Sure the lyrics are very much Christian influenced but the music is fucking awesome.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

So Judas Priest, Heaven and Hell, Motorhead and Testament are going to tour together. Who's going? I know I am. This is going to be a legendary tour!

I was speaking idiomatically.