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

Originally Posted by knkwzrd

3/2/06 Opeth w/ DevilDriver @ The Venue, Winnipeg. Can't wait.

Maybe not quite metal, but heavy nonetheless, I also can't wait for my copy of Noise Addiction by Pure Hell on Welfare Records. That one's been waiting far too long. PURE HELL

I was at a show with a similar lineup, though there was some third opening band as well. Devil Driver was horrible, but Opeth was incredible. Their drummer fell ill, so they had one of their sound techs fill in for the first half of the show while they played mainly their lighter, more acoustic-based stuff. However, for the second half, they had Gene Hoglan on-hand to fill in, and man. He was incredible. I've never heard drumming like that live before. It was a rad show, and definitely made up for the weak opening bands.

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I went to G3 last time it came to Vancouver, and man, what a show. Satriani was his usual self, rockin' for a few songs but then beginning to sound repetitive. Vai absolutely blew me away. Not just the music but man, what a showman. It was unlike any show I've ever been to before. Yngwie, on the other hand, was pretty bad. Sure he can play a million notes in a second, but he still adamantly uses his thirty year old Martial stacks which sound like total garbage at that volume. It was almost painful to listen to.

The most disappointing thing about Yngwie is that a lot of my favorite stuff of his is where he slows it down and throws in some rad acoustic melodies here and there, 'cause all the arpeggiating starts to sound the same after a while, but, of course, that's what he focused on.

The end of the show was rad when the three of them were jamming together, but again Yngwie proved how one-dimensional a musician he is, and just played scales overtop of Vai and Satriani, who were actually sound really awesome rocking out together.

Aside from Yngwie, the show was fantastic.

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Yeah, Yngwie has a pretty jerkoff attitude. I read an interview once where the interviewer asked him what other guitarists he listened to, and he replied with something like "I don't listen to other guitarists. I hear them, but I don't listen to them."

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Originally Posted by Living Legend

I saw 3 Inches of Blood back in november opening for Exodus. My friend thought they were an amazing band and he got me into them, and the live show just blew me away. The bassist had so much energy on stage it was crazy. After the concert got done I couldn't lift my neck because it was so sore from the concert

They were much better than Exodus.

Haha, I remember watching 3 Inches of Blood in the basements of houses here around Vancouver before they were signed. Cool guys.

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I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by knkwzrd

Ok, so I should have left out the Tolkien reference in my post about Rhapsody. I'm not really into epic/symphonic/power metal. I had forgot about Tolkien-named bands like Amon Amarth and Cirith Ungol. No reading preference means bad music.

Haha, I've never met anyone else who's head of Cirith Ungol before. I was really disappointed in them, 'cause though admittedly I've only heard one song (Finger of Scorn) it starts off SO awesome, and then just gets ruined after the intro is over. =/ I've never been able to forgive them for it.

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I know a lot of people get annoyed by trying to force bands into genres, and I do too, but reading this whole conversation regarding the lack of contrast in heavy metal got me thinking.

Do you guys still continue to consider certain bands metal when they started out very much so, but have changed over the years into something less? For example, In Flames, which went from awesome to horrible, or Amorphis who went from awesome to, like, almost prog. Both the bands built up a lot of cred for their earlier metal stuff, but are kind of distancing themselves from that sound with their newer releases. Are they still metal bands?

FELIPE NO

I still am too. =D

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I saw them once opening for Children of Bodom, and their singer was trying to get people into their set, and said "nobody's too cool to jump up and down for Trivium." I about died laughing.

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Oh my god Mithotyn AWESOME. I've been looking for this album for YEARS.

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Amorphis is AWESOME. Tales and Elegy are two of the best albums I've ever bought in my whole life.

That said, I did like Opeth, too, until their last couple of albums. I do agree with Iwata though. For whatever reason if I'm trying to get someone to give metal a chance, they always seem to take a liking to Opeth first. I have no idea why. It seems like it would be less accessible, but people just dig it.

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I've always liked both Maiden and Deep Purple, so I have no problem recommending both of them, either.

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

I was speaking idiomatically.

Sho is homie! If you didn't dig on Gamma Ray, maybe some old-school Helloween would be more your style. Like Walls od Jericho and stuff has a much more raw sound that you might enjoy.

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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?

FELIPE NO

Iced Earth has been dead to me since the first time I tried listening through the Glorious Burden. That band's soul left with Matt Barlow as far as I'm concerned. Ripper Owens is too horrible for me to get over.

As far as Death goes Niki, you should give them a listen for the guitar alone. Chuck was INCREDIBLE.

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Originally Posted by Morrigan

I don't understand. Gamma Ray is pretty much recycling of Walls of Jericho. It rules, of course, but I can't imagine liking one and not the other...

Eh, it sounds different to me. Gamma Ray has made a career of recycling their own sound over and over, but old-school Helloween just has a different feel to it. It's a little more basic and raw, for lack of a better term I haven't used yet.

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If you're interested in some more symphonic stuff, try out Rhapsody or, to a lesser degree, Blind Guardian.

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I'll second the Running Wild. Jag Panzer was pretty good, but didn't really have a lot of variety.

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Running Wild got a lot better after a few albums. They're sort of like Death in that they never really fulfilled their potential until a few albums into their career.

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Originally Posted by Morrigan

Whaa? Ample Destruction is very different from Age of Mastery which is very different from Thane to the Throne which is very different from Mechanized Warfare.

Yeah, I wasn't as complete as I meant to be. All the albums sound different from eachother, but all the songs on each album sound the same as the others on that album. There are of course exceptions, but a lot of them sound pretty similar.

That said, the only one I remember really well is Thane; I haven't listened to the others in a couple of years. Actually I'm gonna go dig those up and make sure I'm not off-base.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I've always wanted to go to one of Type O's Halloween shows.

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People don't hate In Flames because they changed their style. =/ Amorphis changed their style, and they still kick ass. In Flames just plain got shitty.

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Yeah, but my point was that some bands change their style and remain awesome, just different. In Flames changed their style, and, while I agree it's certainly different, it's different in a bad way.

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Yes, Death definitely. Amorphis, as I mentioned previously. A lot of people hate on newer Dark Tranquillity, but I still dig it. Finntroll, Jag Panzer, Sentenced stayed cool the first time their sound changed around Amok, but when they changed again for Crimson/all that stuff afterwards they lost me.

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