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

It would be a first for me to see any of those bands. I'm stoked!

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Opeth's new album has been out a couple of days thus far. Thoughts? I know there are some Opeth-haters in the mist so we can keep that down to a bare minimum thanks.

I think the album is fantastic. It definitely branches off into a more progressive/experimental direction. Mikael sings cleanly more often and more with distorted guitar this time and they make heavy use of the keyboards as well as adding woodwinds. Not sure if they're sampled or live but they are done well. It's not as focused as their previous albums but I find the songs to be quite, not as memorable as previous albums and the playing rock solid.

Also, Origin is touring with Abysmal Dawn. Two great technical brutal death metal bands. I'll definitely be there.

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Originally Posted by Vemp

Man, I can't believe I wasn't enjoying IMMORTAL all these years!! Better late than never. I still can't believe I never listened to their stuff before. I mean, I'm not a big black metal fan. Some are good, some I find monotonous. And the thing that puts me off is the bad production, the sound just sounds bad. But man, am I loving Immortal right now. Can you guys recommend similar bands I should listen to?

I think I'm entering a black metal phase right now.

Uhm...Gorgoroth? I only have Heart of Winter from Immortal which is definitely one of my favorites. It's basically thrash/black metal. That's a great combination.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I saw Amon Amarth with Ensiferum, Belphegor and The Absence in San Francisco the other night and it was a killer show. The Absence put on a quality show full of solid melodic death riffs that got the crowd going while Belphegor was entertaining rarely taking themselves seriously. It was kind of funny to watch the drummer do the sound check as the sound engineer had to tell him to slow down when checking the toms. The drummer looked really pissed that he couldn't do blastbeats.

Ensiferum was definitely entertaining with crowd pleasing chants and solid stage presence. They played a solid mix from their three albums though I recognized most of them as being from the self-titled and Victory Songs. The crowd sang along to some of the songs as well which I think caught them off guard a bit.

Amon Amarth was the crowd favorite, and this show was sold out sure about 500 but still, a sell out is a sell out. They stuck mostly with a set list from Twilight of the Thunder God with a bit from With Oden On Our Side and a couple from Fate of Norns, the title track and of course In Pursuit of Vikings. They also played the obligatory Death In Fire which certainly got the crowd going. They ended with Pursuit and that was definitely a crowning moment. The whole venue was singing along with the chorus and moshed to verse riffs. Overall a fantastic show and more than worth the trip.

While in San Fran I went to Amoeba Music and binged on cheap metal CDs. There was a clearance section where I just grabbed whatever I felt was interesting. Most of it was black metal with one death metal CD.

Flesh Consumed - ...Mutilate, Eviscerate, Decapitate...
Tinne - Heiden
Dimhymn - Fördärvets Maskineri
Patriarch - Dark World of Men
Opfer Rassenhass - Fierte Ancestrate

I also bought a few non metal CDs from Camel, Larry Coryell and Allan Holdsworth.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Sex Machineguns is awesome.


I've been on a tech death metal binge lately so I dropped about 100 bucks at Metal Devastation and got:

Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds
Decrepit Birth - ...And Time Begins
Odious Mortem - Cryptic Implosion
Odious Mortem - Devouring the Prophecy
Psycroptic - Symbols of Failure
Psycroptic - Th Scepter of the Ancients
Spawn of Possession - Cabinet

That store is seriously awesome and I need to go there more often. They have metal CDs of all genres including hard to find ones, except for the ultra rare stuff that you get from online order and they have an abundance of shirts and hoodies there. Oh yeah and I guess due to how much I purchased I was able to get a free t-shirt. I got a Kreator - Pleasure To Kill shirt. And the store doubles as a place for seeing small and local metal shows. I'll probably go to one next month to see this symphonic black metal band called Sothis. They're alright but Abysmal Dawn is opening for them and they're a phenomenal technical death metal band.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

No one listens to metal any longer on here?

Anyone pick up the new Last Chance to Reason album or the new Obscura? Brilliant pieces of music.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Zorro

I sure do. Just not to the kind of Metal that's discussed here. ^^

Well then, talk about the kind of metal you do like to listen to!

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

That sounds like a fantastic score there Goldfish!

I'd collect more vinyl but I don't have a record player. However, I am definitely getting vinyl for bads that I love and have kick ass artwork with the intent to hang it up as display. So I'd love to get most of Megadeth's albums, Death, basically any classic death and thrash metal band would be fine.

I've been into Ghost recently. They just came out of nowhere with some fantastic songs that are reminiscent of early Mercyful Fate. Really good music and full of Satanic goodness.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Zorro

Wow... that I can get on board with. And here I thought no one in this thread listens to, well, classic Heavy Metal.

Why wouldn't we listen to classic heavy metal? Is that why you thought that the 'coyotes' would tear you to pieces? Or is it because you love 'crabcore'?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Haha. I find it funny that you think the trend has been that anything that 'doesn't cause earbleeding' isn't considered metal when in the first several pages, plenty of people listed traditional heavy metal (i.e. Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Mercyful Fate, etc.) as some of their favorites. Metal is certainly dominated by the extreme side but there are plenty of people here who enjoy all kinds, including the less 'earbleeding' variety. Besides, if it's too earbleeding for you, you're too old!

By the way Zorro, have you heard of Ghost? If you haven't, I highly recommend them. They'll be right up your alley.

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Haha, Wintersun's new album comes out on October 12! And they're touring too!

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?