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

Fav. Bands list:

* Traditional/heavy metal/NWOBHM

Deep Purple
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Thin Lizzy
Venom


* Speed, power, prog

Ambeon
Ayreon
Blind Guardian
The Devin Townsend Band
Dream Theater
Evergrey
Helloween
Kamelot
Machinae Supremacy <3
Office of Strategic Influence
Pain of Salvation
Redemption
Rush
Star One
Therion (best category they fit into)
Threshold


* Death

Arsis
Chain Collector
Death
In Flames
Mercenary <3
Orphaned Land
Soilwork
Wintersun


* Folk/viking

Agalloch <3
Bathory (last two albums)
Falkenbach
Skyclad
Wuthering Heights


* Avant-garde

Age of Silence
Arcturus
Estradasphere
Frantic Bleep
Head Control System
Sculptured
Subterranean Masquerade
The Gathering
Ulver <3


* Gothic/Industrial

Katatonia
The Kovenant
Leaves' Eyes
Lunatica
Nightwish
Theatre of Tragedy
Waltari





I'm completely hyped about Mercenary's The Hours That Remain. Other than that, all signs point to 2006 being a great year for music! Devin Townsend's new CD was great, and Machinae Supremacy's blew me away. There's still plenty to look forward to - New Blind Guardian, new Dream Theater live album, and most importantly, new Agalloch. *orgasm*

edit: Huh, Morrigan posts here? Cool.

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Originally Posted by guyinrubbersuit

I eagerly await Agalloch's new album as well. However, I have a hard time classifying Machinae Supremacy as metal. Yes they kick major ass, though I guess songs like Hero do have a metal edge, the rest seem sort of hard rockish.

Meh, listen to Redeemer and say that again. Empire kicks major ass.

Originally Posted by Morrigan

Eh? Do I know you?

Nope. I'm assuming you're the same Morrigan of the MA, though. If not, then major oops.

Originally Posted by Luminaire

I think . . . I'm in love with you?

Flattering. You have great taste.

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Any thoughts on Evergrey's "Monday Morning Apocalypse"?

I recently posted a review on it here - Nothing revolutionary, good album nonetheless.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Will

BTW, off hand, does anyone know where I could get a hold of some Machinae Supremacy? I can't find it at amazon...I wanted to use my amazon prime free trial. XD

All their demo tracks (really high quality) and the soundtrack for Jets 'n' Guns are on their site. There's also two tracks from Deus Ex Machinae and three from Redeemer.

I love it when people share my taste. <3

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

I've heard Dragonforce, Rhapsody, Sonata Arctica and Demons & Wizards - They have an insanely similar sound.

Doesn't apply to DP or Sabbath, though...

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Originally Posted by Brent

In Flames, which went from awesome to horrible

Debatable. The way I see it goes a little like this:

Lunar Strain - Boring
Jester Race - Good
Whoracle - Mediocre
Colony - Alright
Clayman - Great
Reroute To Remain - Fucking TERRIBLE
Soundtrack To Your Escape - Also fucking terrible
Come Clarity - Amazing

It's perfectly possible for a metal band to suddenly become non-metal. Ulver does it quite well (they haven't had a metal album since Themes From William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.) Plus, their new stuff is amazing.

Soilwork, on the other hand, have gone from fairly decent Gothenburg MDM to nu-metal shit.

Then again, who am I to assign genres?

I was speaking idiomatically.

YEAH, I HEARD OCTAGON WAS THE BEST BATHORY ALBUM!

Yeah, that was sarcasm. Speaking of which, has anyone ordered the "In Memory of Quorthon" boxset yet? I've never actually bought any Bathory, but I do own Quorthon's first solo album... Should be a good buy.

Also, Hammerheart rocks.

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Definitely Terria. It's probably his most industrial effort, and "Earth Day" is my favourite track of his. Also probably the most varied album he's done.

Also, check out Physicist and Infinity. Physicist sounds a bit samey, but it's like... Strapping Young Lad lite. I'd say it's the heaviest thing he's done. Infinity has some of the catchiest songs Devy's ever thrown out - Also pretty varied.

Ocean Machine's also worth a look-in just for Bastard and Life. More melodic stuff there.

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Originally Posted by Morrigan

Ah yeah, on the seventh... I listened through Hammerheart and his solo stuff a few times on wednesday.

He's still missed .

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

I don't have the whole album yet, but on the day that I downloaded a few songs - "You Suck" and "Fucker" - I listened to the latter thirtysomething times.

Devin's insane. <3 skullets.

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Therion mug? Hahah, sweet. Does it have album art on it, or what?

There was a record fair in town on saturday; so I picked up the following:

In Flames - Lunar Strain
In Flames - Clayman
Rush - Power Windows vinyl
Rush - A Farewell To Kings vinyl

I don't have an LP deck in my dorm, so it'll be a while before I listen to the Rush stuff. I dunno if the people here consider Rush metal or not, but eh. The two In Flames albums are VERY nice.

How ya doing, buddy?

Dragonforce don't really sound much like Gamma Ray, King Diamond, Helloween etc... At all. If you ask me they just sound like watered-down Rhapsody (and Rhapsody aren't really that interesting to begin with), with very, VERY mainstream influences. Feh. One to avoid if you're planning on being some kind of power metal advocate - Listen to Blind Guardian instead, they're fucking amazing.

As for Bodom, yeah, power with growly vocals... I personally prefer Kalmah, but I guess CoB are alright.

On the subject of genre debates and all, what does everyone think of Orphaned Land? A friend sent me Mabool recently, and... I'm having a hard time deciding what to call it. Melodeath? Folk? Power/prog? Whatever it is, it's great.

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

Their new single's damned impressive and reminds me a lot of Nightfall In Middle-Earth, but "And Then There Was Silence" is my favourite BG song of all time - Hell, maybe my favourite power metal song, full stop.

And yeah, they actually made "Surfin' USA" sound pretty damn rockable.

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Originally Posted by guyinrubbersuit

I can't stay hating a band that incorporates video game music into their songs. That's just fucking bad ass!

http://machinaesupremacy.com/discography.html
Eat me. These guys did a twenty-five-minute metal medley of old NES and C64 tunes.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Morrigan

I wish Hollenthon made a new album already.

Hell yes. Gonna be tricky for them to improve on With Vilest of Worms To Dwell though...

Can't wait until August - New Mercenary, new Agalloch.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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Yeah, Therion released Celebrators of Becoming recently - I've yet to get it. A good starting point for Therion's probably Lemuria/Sirius B, then Secret of The Runes - They're both VERY enjoyable, but SoTR takes a bit of getting into...

As for Theli, the only song I really, really liked was "To Mega Therion" (unsurprisingly). I'll have to give it another listen sometime.

Haha, I own an Of Darkness... demo tape. Never actually heard it, though. Is their DM any good?

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Sonata Arctica has, like, three good songs - "Wildfire", "White Pearl, Black Oceans" and "The Cage". Otherwise they sound like a slightly-more-enjoyable Dragonforce.

LTE, however, kicks ass. "Three Minute Warning" is my favourite track on their first CD, but if you -really- want to get the real LTE experience you should listen to "Instrumedley" by Dream Theater. There's no Tony Levin, but live Paradigm Shift is an automatic win.

In other news... The new Mercenary was leaked. Anyone heard it yet/is it worth downloading?

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

Originally Posted by Helloween

I'm just a little pissed off that they didn't include any Six Degrees on there.

Be happy. Score, DT's new live DVD/CD set, has Six Degrees in its entirity... With a full orchestral accompaniment.

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I also downloaded this sweet little private show they did as a promo for a cymbol company. They do 3 songs for a 45 minute show. It's just a guy recording with a video camera, but it's surprisingly high quality. I don't know all the names of songs so i can't name the songs they do off the top of my head, but i do know they do an extended version of Paradigm shift. One of the best live songs i've ever heard.

Ooooooooh. Link?

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Everyone, everyone. This thread is now about Mercenary's The Hours That Remain.

Anyone who likes In Flames (or previous Mercenary) NEEDS this. Check the Music Exposure Club thread.

It's like my speakers are having an orgasm.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Screaming is good sometimes... In small quantities. A good example would be the Frameshift song "I Killed You".

So I just downloaded a Butterfly Temple discography. They remind me of a doomier, heavier Falkenbach - I'm loving their stuff right now. Anyone else into 'em?

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

Venom's new album makes me want to break things. The vocals are hooooorrible.

I've lately been hooked on a Twilightning song ("Plague-House Puppet Show"), and I'm finding it fucking hard to find any of their stuff anywhere. It's cheesy as hell, and really damn rockable.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Will

The only screamer I can listen to is Townsend. Dunno why.

Same went for me at first. It's because he's so damned melodic and controlled even when he's growling/screaming.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Vampiro

I've gotta say, I've never liked Immortal's vocals. It was one of the low points of their music for me. Maybe I'm just spoiled when it comes to better black metal vocalists, since I used to like them, but I've lost my love for Immortal.

I dunno, I *loved* the vox on their final album, particularly on "Beyond The North Waves"... Different strokes I guess.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by guyinrubbersuit

Of course Avenged Sevenfold using psuedo names is nothing new. Just ask Immortal, Darkthrone, Mayhem, Mortiis and just about any other black metal band out there. Some of them are pretty bad and lame as well. Necrobutcher? Give me a break.

Some pseudonyms I've seen in the metal world are just a bit fucking cool.

Trickster G Rex for the win.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by knkwzrd

Lordi, as has been stated by Oderus Urungus, is but an imitation which needs to be destroyed.

Imitation true, needs to be destroyed not quite. They're WAAAY more glam than Gwar, and some of their stuff is just too rockable to not enjoy.

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DISSECTION Frontman Shot Himself In Head As Part Of Ritual Suicide - Aug. 19, 2006
Swedish heavy metal musician Jon Nödtveidt, 31, was found dead on Wednesday, August 16 at his apartment in Hässelby, a suburb of Stockholm. He shot himself in the head and was surrounded by lit candles, Expressen reports. Shortly before the ritual suicide, he had sent farewell letters to his father and his girlfriend and explained to a friend, "I'm going away for a long, long time. I'm going to Transylvania."

Sometime between Monday (Aug. 14) and Wednesday, Nödveidt, vocalist and guitarist in the popular Swedish black metal band DISSECTION, chose to take his own life.

At 7:21 p.m. CET on Wednesday, a police patrol reported to the police communication center in Stockholm that a man had been found dead, the apparent victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. According to several of Expressen's sources, the singer had placed an open copy of "The Satanic Bible" in front of him before pulling the trigger.

"He shot himself in the head and lay dead in a ring of lit candles," says a police source.

At 5:44 p.m. on Wednesday, the police received a 911 call from Jon Nödtveidt's family who hadn't been able to establish contact with him for a couple of days.

"They were very concerned," says his legal representative and manager, Per Nordqvist. "His girlfriend and his family called after their fears that something terrible had happened had been bolstered."

The reason for their concern was a farewell letter that Jon Nödveidt had sent to his girlfriend in Germany. His father, Anders Nödtveidt, had also received a postcard asking him to contact a number of people and thank them for everything.

"What it said is personal. I want to keep it to myself," Jon's father says of the postcard's contents.

"I met him in Stockholm just a week and a half ago. Everything seemed great then. I've always had good contact with Jon during his upbringing and throughout his adult life. I don't understand what has happened to make things turn out this way. This weighs even more heavily on us considering everything that has happened. This is very difficult for the entire family."

Jon Nödveidt's father likes the photo in which his son wears a black leather jacket and has asked for that picture to be published.

"It's a good photo. Jon thought so as well," says Anders Nödtveidt.

The suicide is believed to have been planned for a long time.

"At the scene there was also a will and a suicide note," a police source tells Expressen.

In December 1997, Jon Nödveidt was arrested for the murder of Josef Ben Meddaour and served seven years for accessory to murder and possession of an illegal firearm. The highly publicized murder in Gothenburg is depicted in the movie "Keillers Park". What has come to be known as "the Satanic murder" in Sweden has led to both a movie and a book.

"It affected me immensely," the movie's director, Susanna Edwards, tells Aftonbladet.

"Keillers Park", which is named after the park in Gothenburg where the murder took place, opened in theaters in Sweden in March 2006.

"Josef Ben Meddaour was a naive and open person with a big heart," says Edwards. "He was a victim of a grotesque act of homophobia."

The murder was also the basis for last year's "No Tears For Queers", a book about hate crimes by Swedish journalist and author Johan Hilton.

In 1997, at the time of the murder, Jon Nödtveidt explained that he lived in a world where Satan was *** and that they drank blood and sacrificed animals. On DISSECTION's web site he revealed that he was a member of MLO ? Misanthropic Luciferian Order.

On September 22, 2004, two weeks after his release from prison, Jon Nödveidt talked to Expressen about the murder and his time in prison.

"I want to put the murder behind me and move forward," he told the newspaper. "It feels like I'm a new person after my time in prison. The time before the incarceration feels like another life. I've been through so much since. I've become more mature, older and look at life and death in a totally new way."

When asked about the crimes he was convicted of, Nödtveidt said, "No matter how you twist and turn it, it can't be undone. What happened happened and I must move forward with my life. I have taken responsibility for my actions by having served my time in prison. I'm not proud of the fact that I have to watch my mother cry, but I'm working with new strength and look ahead."

When asked if he regrets what happened, Nödtveidt said, "Out of respect to the victim's family, I don't want to discuss what happened. The only thing I want to say is that I'm not proud of it."

Josef Ben Meddaour was a 37-year-old Algerian homosexual man who was killed by a shotgun blast to the head and the back.

"I'm absolutely not a racist," Jon Nödtveidt told the newspaper. "There's nothing that makes me more sad and upset than people who say things like that. These are people who know nothing about me. Everyone who knows me knows that I have friends, brothers and sisters from all over the world."

"Jon was an open person who enjoyed life," explains his manager, Per Nordqvist, to Expressen. "He was easy to get along with and very accomodating. Still, what happened happened and that is something you always carry with you one way or another. All people have baggage."

Per Nordqvist tells Aftonbladet that the suicide of his friend has left him feeling totally empty and that it's terribly saddening.

"I've spent the last few years collecting the rights to his music," Nordqvist tells Aftonbladet. "Jon felt that he was losing everything during the time he was incarcerated."

Johan Hargeby at the Swedish distribution company Sound Pollution worked closely with Jon Nödveidt for 15 years.

"I met him as late as Monday (Aug. 14) when he was here for a short meeting," Hargeby tells Expressen. "I am shocked and dismayed."

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...I want to call total bullshit on this, but I really don't know what to say.

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