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

Listening to Drudkh and Hate Forest nonstop these days. Took time to grow on me but I'm totally addicted now.

Also, been hooked on Ashen Light's Stary Bilini album a couple weeks earlier. I liked Ashen Light's first alnum but that one was a totally awesome surprise. Folky nature influenced instrumental Black Metal at it's best.

Nyep ~

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Supernal Music has been supposed to release new Drudkh for almost a month now... RELEASE IT ALREADY BASTARDS

I'm going through an Slavic Black Metal phase again. Discovered many side projects from the whole Oriana clan, among which are a few gem.

Special mention to Finist which is as terrible as it's excellent. ^_^;

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by niki

Supernal Music has been supposed to release new Drudkh for almost a month now... RELEASE IT ALREADY BASTARDS

Bought it this afternoon, and it's fucking awesome. ^_^

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

:wink:

/me listens to Butterfly Temple again these days ~

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Zio

Anyone heard of Lordi? A friend recommended them but I wanted to ask if anyone has heard of them.

Uh yeah they just won Eurovision and it was awesome and all but it's not metal, really. More like some hard rock hybrid. It's pretty listenable anyway, though maybe not from a l33t metalhead point of view.

I was speaking idiomatically.

New Munruthel out since the 28th. Only 1000 pieces available from Oskorei though, and I couldnt get ahold of it yet. Can't wait ~

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Living Legend

I love aggressive music, I just don't like aggressive vocals. A lot of the time, it just ruins the music for me.[/url]

Used to be like that for years, and nowadays I could listen to the rawest slavic black metal scenes for hours. Never say never ... =)

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OMFG new Tyr ? =O

I was just coming here to ask about the lack of good Viking metal releases these days =p

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

Listening to it now kekekekekekeke ~

Reaaaally nice so far. Just like their usual style with, I'd say, even better musicianship.

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Originally Posted by Morrigan

I'd say that so far, the best 2006 folk/viking releases are Rubicon, Tales Along This Road and Urminnes Hävd. <3

Arkona's Vo Slavu Velikim ! is almost 2006 though ... *checks* waaah no sept. 2005 ... Found it only in Jan. 2006 ...

And yeah new Manegarm is <3

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Morrigan

I still don't have Vo Slavu Velikim. Where can one buy it?

Whoah you mean you don't own it or never even heard it ?! And yeah, like a lot of Russian bands it's really hard to buy their releases. Try emailing them?

Anyway, just in case and for Vemp' sake anyway:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/ewnu1b

Oh, and while the new Korpiklaani is fun, they still don't do much to me. I always feel like I'm kinda listening to some weird ska/metal when I listen to them. =/

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

I've been listening to latest Slavland "Tarcza Swaroga" today, and its fucking great. Exactly the kind of folk / black metal crossovers I love.

And o ok Morrigan ;_;

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Morrigan

Haha, I guess I killed the thread huh. :P

Can you post mp3s of this Slavland, please?

http://www.sendspace.com/file/yar46o

They rock ~

I was speaking idiomatically.

Folky? I'd rather say plain sterile. I dunno their music just never made me feel anything. =/

And Asmegin is <3

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Originally Posted by Iwata

it seems these days, If any form of metal contains at least one acoustic verse/riff, then it is instantly of folkish nature; which is stupid.

Anyways, im trying to delve into a bunch of Viking/Folk metal via slsk as it is one genre i never really delved into until now; but it is kinda like stabbing at the dark and hoping i get something good.

Last night, i got a bunch of stuff including

Falkenbach ( heralding the fireblade, Magni Blandinn ok megintiri )
Bergthron ( Faust fur faust )
Helheim ( Yersinina pestis )
Manegarm ( Nordstjarnans tidsalder )
Mithotyn ( King of the distant forest )
MoonSorrow ( Suden uni )
Morrigan ( Celts, Plague Waste Death )
Otyg ( I troldskogens drommande Morker )
Ragnarok ( Domgerorn )
Thyrfing ( Hednaland )
Vintersong ( Cosmic Genesis, Visions from the spiral generator )
Empyrium ( Weiland )

I haven't listened to much of these yet as i just got them last night, but hopefully at least a few of those bands are decent enough. Also does your Screen name happen to originate from the band " morrigan "?

I'd recommend DC++ over soulseek, but heh.

As for Viking metal, you seem to be on the right track. Early Thyrfing (first 2 albums are my fav), all Moonsorrow, Falkenbach, Manegarm ...

Otyg is more Folk metal but I guess it could be argued. Still great. Get Storm's Nordavind if you like them (actually get it anyway it's that awesome). Vintersorg I never liked much eventhough everyone say they're awesome. Same goes for Einherjer ... =/

The Russian equivalent of those would be bands like Arkona, Pagan Reign, Temnozor, Nomans Land ... I'm just saying you'll like them if you like the above.

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Originally Posted by Iwata

The Arkona upload link you posted here was amazing and is what stirred me to delve into the folkish/viking metal genres.

haha good to hear it ! ^_^

Originally Posted by Morrigan

I also made an impulse purchase of a Pagan Reign album (don't ask me to spell that Russian title... it's the one with the winter scenery on the cover) based on a short listen of a few songs at my local metal store. Heh.

Aaaah I love that cover art <3

Oh btw it would seem they just released a new album. Must get !

And bleh about Blind Guardian ... It's all about Nightfall to me and I didnt really like Opera already ...

Originally Posted by Krelian

Mmm. Not long until their new CD comes out, thankfully - I was really, really, really disappointed by Pagan.

Damn, me too. I really like their previous ones, though.

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Originally Posted by Morrigan

I want to grit my teeth everytime someone mentions Opeth or Dragonforce. Gah.

haha I like how we (almost) always agree ~

Also, call me noob, but I've just slipped from the psyche/prog rock phase I was in to rediscover the fathers of metal which, with the exception of Rainbow, I know relatively few about.

Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Dio, ... and all the gang, here I come ~

Listening to Black Sabbath debut now, and wow, is this really 1970?

Aaah, the seventies ... what an endless source of wonders you are ...

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Will

You're pretentious and boring. Ha!

I mean, it's cool if you don't like a particular band, but you're just so damn turgid about it. Incidentally, when did this become your personal metal op-ed column?

Man, you're the one that asked for her opinion ...

There's nowhere I can't reach.

So I've gone all the way from 1970 to 1980 with Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Rainbow so far. Loved Sabbath and Priest, and all Rainbow with Dio, but I knew that already.

Anything fantastic I'm missing? =p

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

Originally Posted by Krelian

Um, Iron Maiden? :P Deep Purple are worth a serious look-in, too.

Guess I could give Maiden a second chance, yeah ... And there's something about Deep Purple I never really liked. I could never find out what exactly, but they never got anything more than a weak head shake from me. =/

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by RAZGRIZ-3

I've tried to get Niki to listen to Helloween and Gamma Ray forever, it just doesn't look like it's gonna happen. =/

Is this Diss? ._.

And while this would be true for Gamma Ray, I don't think I listened to Helloween since I was like 15.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Could be. You know, the thing is I actually used to listen to Black Sabbath, Judas Priest or even Accept, Ozzy solo, Motorhead an all the kind, in my mid teen years.

At that time, my step sister gave me her whole hard rock cassettes collection from when she was herself a teen, and so I was suddenly loaded with literally hours and hours of music.

The only things I got from it were total worship for early Alice Cooper, Rainbow, the Am I Evil song by Metallica and, granted, a general taste for metal. But all the rest? Well, I guess it kinda canceled itself from having so much to listen to at an early age.

Thus why I'm even more surprised at how great some of this stuff is now that I listen to it something like 10 years after. And also thus why I'm open to (re)listen to basically anything.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by RAZGRIZ-3

Sounds like it's time for another try at Helloween and Gamma Ray then. =D Also, I forget how you felt about Death. Yay/nay?

Even Gamma Ray? Oh well if I have to ... ;_;

And no I don't think I even listened to Death, but then again I never liked Death Metal much, and that is based on much more recent experiences. =p

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Okay then ~

By the way, Lent had to warn me about the new Rhapsody like 2 weeks after it was released! How come nobody mentioned it in here?

Pretty good album btw. Really sounded like they were covering themselves, but it has that fresh Rhapsody thing, so it's all good. Oh yeah they changed their name to Rhapsody of Fire too, for some copyright reasons.

And as much as I liked that album, I almost equally disliked Luca Turilli's 2 latest efforts. Seriously, wtf Luca? ;_;

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Originally Posted by Helloween

I rather liked Luca's latest solo album. Does this mean i'll like Rhapsody?

I've been trying to expand my musical gene pool, and after Mercenary, and Luca Turilli were officially accepted into my music circle, i've been on the prowl again for new bands to check out.

Well, Turilli is Rhapsody's guitarist, if you didnt know, so yeah I guess there are chances. And I like Turilli's older albums, just not his latest 2 solo works.

And about Wintersun, well, as much as I liked the first album, I will always feel it's a big shame he splitted from Ensiferum, as both bands became less than old Ensiferum was.

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