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Artist: Buried Inside
Album: Chronoclast: Selected Essays On Time-Reckoning And Auto-Cannibalism
Genre: Post-metalcore
Label: Relapse
Year: 2005



1. Introduction [2:51]
2. Time As Ideology [3:15]
3. Time As Methodology [2:23]
4. Time As Surrogate Religion [7:12]
5. Time As Imperialism [4:24]
6. Reintroduction [2:00]
7. Time As Abjection [4:55]
8. Time As Automation [0:57]
9. Time As Commodity [5:50]
10. Time As Resistance [6:16]

A friend bought this yesterday and lent it to me for purposes of ripping. It's atmospheric, crushing, brutal and amazingly original. The closest thing I'd be able to compare it to would be Cult of Luna, but it's quite far removed from even them... Crushing riffs, harsh hardcore-influenced vocals, repetition, ambient passages - It's certainly not for everyone, but definitely worth a listen.

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Jam it back in, in the dark.

Artist: Powerglove
Album: Metal Kombat for the Mortal Man
Genre: Power metal
Label: ????
Year: 2007



YOU NEED THIS RIGHT NOW. I DON'T CARE WHO YOU ARE. Power metal covers of various songs from various games. Tunes include:

1: So Sexy Robotnik (Sonic 2) 3:48
2: Mario Minor (Super Mario Bros. + Super Mario World) 3:56
3: Fight On (Killer Instinct) 6:15
4: Vanquish the Horrible Night (Castlevania 2 + 3) 3:58
5: Blasting the Hornet (MMX3) 3:15
6: The Duck Grinder (Duck Hunt) 2:21
7: Power, Wisdom, Courage (Zelda 1, A Link To The Past, Ocarina of Time) 5:51
8: Omnishred (We're Gonna Need A Bigger Sword) (Final Fantasy VII) 3:33
9: Holy Orders (Be Quick and Just Shred) (Guilty Gear XX) 4:31
10: Metal Kombat for the Mortal Man (Mortal Kombat, Mega Man 2) 3:37
11: Red Wings Over Baron (Final Fantasy IV) 7:50

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Epic. Epic epic epic. TELL YOUR FRIENDS. A quick search of the forums reveals that they've been mentioned before, but holy shit wow LISTEN.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Artist: Boris
Album: Flood
Genre: Post-rock, stoner doom
Label: MIDI Creative
Year: 2000



1. Part I [14:42]
2. Part II [13:35]
3. Part III [20:38]
4. Part IV [21:35]

A first-time listener - specifically, a first-time post-rock listener - might be intimidated by the more repetitive parts of this album. It's worth it, I promise. Flood is a 70-minute instrumental epic divided into four parts, combining elements of post-rock, doom metal and psychedelic music; influences include (among others) Sunn O))), Melvins and Sleep. The tracks are easy to get your head around: An intro and an outro and two fleshy bits in the middle.

It's hardly appropriate to say "hey try something different" in a community of people who listen to offbeat music, so I'll just sign off by imploring you to at least check it out.

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Artist: Beyond Twilight
Album: For the Love of Art and the Making
Genre: Symphonic progressive metal
Label: Nightmare
Year: 2006

FUCK MASSIVE TRACKLIST:

1. In The Eyes of My Soul (First Movement) [0:47]
2. Creep Evil [0:59]
3. Sleeping Beauty - The Journey [1:30]
4. Purity [1:48]
5. Sleeping Beauty - Connected [1:28]
6. Tongue Angel [1:22]
7. I Moved [1:11]
8. Blackened In My Eyes [2:14]
9. Temptations [0:16]
10. Fiery Woman [0:38]
11. Sweet Irony [0:22]
12. Conversation of the Dead [0:16]
13. The Perfect Heart [0:58]
14. The Perfect Heart Part II - Think [0:37]
15. The Key - Imagine [0:09]
16. The Perfect Heart Part III (Modulated Instrumental) [0:27]
17. The Black Widow [0:28]
18. The Key Part II - Naked Truth [0:09]
19. The Kiss of the Wind [0:18]
20. Dark Wild Rage [2:41]
21. Temptations Part II – Return (Modulated) [0:12]
22. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings [1:18]
23. Cold As Blue [0:33]
24. The Awakening [0:21]
25. Cold As Blue - Like A Candle You Start To Drip [0:20]
26. Bilingues Cavendi – One Should Beware of the Double-Tongued [0:09]
27. The Awakening Part II - The Smile [0:19]
28. The Awakening Part III – Opening the Curtains to a Beautiful Sunny Morning Watching the Singing Birds [0:21]
29. In The Eyes of My Soul (First Movement Modulated With Irony) [0:20]
30. Past The Magic [1:43]
31. Past The Magic Part II (Rhythmic Laughter) [0:54]
32. Nightwandering on Needles [0:21]
33. In The Eyes of My Soul (Second Movement Modulated With Irony) [0:18]
34. In The Eyes of My Soul (Second Movement) [1:04]
35. 6 Seconds Past 6 [1:20]
36. Organ Scientistic Formula (1) [3:00]
37. Nightwandering on Needles Part II – The Answer [0:31]
38. 6 Black Roses - Ship of Rowing Slaves [1:06]
39. Autumn Fog Message [1:28]
40. Sleeping Beauty Returns - The Black Box of Reverse (Forward) [0:22]
41. The Black Box of Reverse [1:10]
42. In The Eyes of My Soul (Third Movement) [0:32]
43. In The Eyes of My Soul - For The Love of Art And The Making (Finale) [1:21]

There are a few Dream Theater uploads in this thread - This isn't the same sort of music at all. Beyond Twilight are a somewhat avantgarde Danish progressive metal band, using orchestral elements alongside some pretty grandiose music. This album is interesting in that it's divided into 43 tracks, each of which starts with the same note, making for some interesting listening options.

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

Artist: Unexpect
Album: In A Flesh Aquarium
Genre: Extreme avant-garde metal
Label: The End
Year: 2006



1. Chromatic Chimera [5:52]
2. Feasting Fools [6:17]
3. Desert Urbania [7:30]
4. Summoning Scenes [7:47]
5. Silence_011010701 [5:14]
6. Megalomaniac Trees [5:57]
7. The Shiver - Another Dissonant Chord [3:00]
8. The Shiver - Meet Me At The Carrousel [4:08]
9. The Shiver - A Clown's Mindtrap [3:41]
10. Psychic Jugglers [11:11]

Anyone familiar with the idea of avantgarde metal will probably immediately think of Arcturus or similar artists - I believe a Diablo Swing Orchestra album is somewhere in this thread. (For those not so familiar: wiki article). This is nowhere near as conventional.

In A Flesh Aquarium is all over the place musically. The songs are completely absent of any structure, and there's a wide variety of styles. Unexpect draws on genres ranging from circus music to death metal; plus there's a pretty mean range of vocal techniques used on the album - soprano, deep-voiced singing, brutal growling...

That said, of course, it won't necessarily be accessible for everybody.

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Artist: Ayreon
Album: 01011001
Genre: Progressive metal / rock opera
Label: InsideOut
Year: 2008



DISC ONE: Y

1. Age of Shadows [10:47]
2. Comatose [4:26]
3. Liquid Eternity [8:10]
4. Connect the Dots [4:13]
5. Beneath the Waves [8:26]
6. Newborn Race [7:49]
7. Ride the Comet [3:29]
8. Web of Lies [2:50]


DISC 2: EARTH

1. The Fifth Extinction [10:29]
2. Waking Dreams [6:31]
3. The Truth Is In Here [5:12]
4. Unnatural Selection [7:15]
5. River of Time [4:24]
6. E=MC² [5:50]
7. The Sixth Extinction [12:18]

Candidate for the best album of 2008 already? Quite possibly. Arjen Anthony Lucassen has done it again. It's easily his most ambitious project yet, featuring an an all-star cast of seventeen singers, two guest guitarists, three keyboardists, a flute, a violin and a cello. 01011001 returns to the science fiction themes of older Ayreon albums, and has plenty of lyrical throwbacks to them all - the stories are all interconnected, you see. We must resolve this Human Equation...

I'd hate to reveal too much about the story (so much of the fun is in figuring it out for yourself), but it revolves around a group of emotionless aliens from a planet named Y, and their work to do stuff with humanity. There are a few songs separate from the main story which still tie in with the general theme of the thing (Connect The Dots, Web of Lies, The Truth Is In Here, E=MC²).

This album's absolutely genius. I've never known anybody else to be able to write songs which integrate words like "demonstrable" and "extremophiles" so beautifully. The music itself is delightfully bipolar. There are dark, brooding passages right next to some of the most uplifting music of Arjen's career. It's not quite as musically varied as The Human Equation, but damn, does it come close.

So, yeah - I'm going to have to give it a few more spins before I can be sure if I like this more than previous Ayreon works, but until I really get to know it, I'm still stuck in the "shitballs, this album is awesome" phase. In fact, I implore everybody to buy this thing when it comes out. Please. Pretty please. Piracy is wrong.

The cast is as follows:

Vocalists:
Hansi Kürsch (Blind Guardian)
Daniel Gildenlöw (Pain of Salvation)
Thomas Englund (Evergrey)
Jonas Renkse (Katatonia)
Jorn Lande (ex-Masterplan)
Anneke van Giersbergen (ex-The Gathering)
Steve Lee (Gotthard)
Bob Catley (Magnum)
Floor Jansen (After Forever)
Magali Luyten (Virus IV)
Simone Simons (Epica)
Phideaux Xavier
Wudstik
Marjan Welman (Elister)
Liselotte Hegt (Dial)
Arjen Anthony Lucassen
Ty Tabor (King's X)

Instruments:
Guitar:
Lori Linstruth (Stream of Passion)
Michael Romeo (Symphony X)

Keyboards:
Derek Sherinian (ex-Dream Theater)
Thomas Bodin (The Flower Kings)
Joost van den Broek (After Forever)

Drums:
Ed Warby (Gorefest)

Other instruments:
Flutes - Jeroen Goossens (Flairck)
Violin - Ben Mathot (Dis)
Cello - David Faber

Download Link: Disc One
Download Link: Disc Two

Warning: Some of the songs are improperly tagged; I didn't fix them before uploading. :\/

I was speaking idiomatically.

Artist: Machinae Supremacy
Album: Overworld
Genre: Power metal / electronic / VGM-inspired
Label: Spinefarm
Year: 2008



1. Overworld [04:21]
2. Need for Steve [04:11]
3. Edge and Pearl [04:00]
4. Radio Future [04:40]
5. Skin [05:24]
6. Truth of Tomorrow [04:35]
7. Dark City [05:56]
8. Conveyer [03:51]
9. Gimme More (SID) [03:25]
10. Violator [03:04]
11. Sid Icarus [03:58]
12. Stand [04:47]

Machinae have done it again. VGM buffs here will know these guys for working Terra's theme into the song "Flagcarrier", as well as their three epic 8-bit medleys (the Sidology songs). Hey look here's their third album!

Their 2004 debut, Deus Ex Machinae had some pretty dry production and lots of bleeps and bloops from their Sidstation. Redeemer, their 2006 offering, was a total contrast - much more guitar, lots of solos, breakdowns - it went to eleven.

Overworld is a hybrid of the two, with a whole crate of atmosphere broken open for good measure. It's varied - some songs sound poppy and catchy, some are epic, some are borderline ballads. I'm not sure if I like this as much as I do Redeemer, but it still rocks pretty hard.

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