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Fraeg
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Tarami
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stray
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my f'in mp3 collection is toast. its a long story... so i've rebuilt it with just Queen and the Misfits. Not even sure what else I want on here ( My Chemical Romance...heh). There was a Danzig song I came across that for the life of me, can't remember even hearing it in all the 20 yrs I've been a fan ( When Death Had No Name... killer opening chords). I keep listening to it, so I should put it on here too. Anything you think I might like, feel free to recommend :) [edit] Basically, catchy (psychotic/horror) punk or Operatic Rock. Fire away. Especially shit that I probably never heard of.
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Mrbloodworth
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Where is Zog?Wonder if Zod and Zog are related :) They almost seem the same entity, perhaps different planets recollection?
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« Last Edit: March 10, 2010, 07:52:26 AM by Mrbloodworth »
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trias_e
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Some unknown/unheralded black metal. Kvist. Only released one album in 1995, but it's good. I wish more black metal bands had followed their example in that regard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73S4JWkBVsU&feature=relatedAverse Sefira. One of the better bands still working in today's generally lifeless and unimaginative genre. Tetragrammatical Astygmata is by far their best work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMo2h1uO2RASorcier des Glaces. Youthful inspirational music. Brilliant production. Ok, only one of the two previous statements is true. But luckily production isn't too important in black metal, where streaming melodic development is king, and rhythm is used primarily as ambient forward motion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIrPe3mgEmQ&feature=relatedAuzhia. Epic. Requires a long attention span. But really cool in it's unorthodox style. Doesn't mind being vague, and features long melodies that often will force one to wait a long time before reaching resolution. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQWhg1_FAGA
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lac
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Hah, the music thread. Since everybody is posting obscure stuff in here and 106's sig made me reminiscence of times long gone by... When we were kids, our radar only showed rock and pop. I suppose we were into the generic stuff, I can't really remember. Then there was Front 242. And shit started changing. It wasn't until 15 minutes ago I realised how horrible their videos were. But fuck that, they were awesome on cassette! You probably won't be interested in this unless you have a soft spot for the sounds that, among many others, birthed industrial and electronic music almost 30 years ago. Front 242: HeadhunterFunkadhafiControversy between paying respect to those who were first. HappinessAnd, of course, a lot more
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Selby
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This thread is great with the links to the music. Makes it easier to determine whether something is any good or not. Much better than reading Amazon or FYE's CD recommendations...
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IainC
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This is pretty coolBunch of kids playing Cowboys from Hell, the singer is 12 and he just rocks it out.
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Sky
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They're playing some of the Sonisphere festival on Palladium HD. Some good stuff, the new Alice in Chains, Metallica doing Hit the Lights. Bullet for my Valentine is ok, but they do have a bit of the evil cookie monster shit. Really liked Machine Head (couldn't believe they're still touring), their newer tune was really good (Halo off the Blackening).
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trias_e
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Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium is one of the best albums in metal history IMO. Nice post.
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stray
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I said above somewhere that I'm rebuilding my music collection. I'd like to rant one more time about what a lost opportunity the Misfits are/were. Kind of re-listening to everything Danzig/Misfits atm. Danzig really sucks. Since IV, I mean. He's almost as hackneyed and cliched as Black Metal. I'm starting to think that Jerry Only is a better songwriter now. At the very least, it seems like he was a big help.. or something.. in how Glenn used to write. Only still writes goofy horrorpunk comic book shit - just not as well as Glenn did. Should revisit it. Why the hell did he get so serious... That isn't to say that Samhain/early Danzig sucked though. Even though he was serious, those albums kind of have a cool theme on being torn between good and evil. He never wrote about being evil, but being fucked up. Having a "Twist of Cain", asking "Am I Demon", etc.. After IV though, seems like he decided he was actually evil. And I don't think anyone can pull that shit off successfully. Not Oz, not Danzig. Just look at the cover of Satan's Child, and you realize the guy's a dork. It was probably good that he got sucker punched. Anyways, like I said.. "rant". Gonna move on to Morrissey now.
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Mrbloodworth
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You got further than I did, I think the last album of Danzing I ever really enjoyed was How the Gods Kill. The next album, and everything after, lost some sort of magic.
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Sky
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Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium is one of the best albums in metal history IMO. Nice post.
Really? It's decent sludgy music, but the "singer" is comically bad. You're on record with that being as good as Reign in Blood or Abigail or Master of Puppets or Black Sabbath? Hm.
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Selby
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...and you realize the guy's a dork.
Agreed. When he was writing cool material (ala Samhain and I-IV) it was a little goofy at times, but still good music and catchy songs. Now? It's laughably bad. Really? It's decent sludgy music, but the "singer" is comically bad.
I forgive goofy\bad singers considerably when the music is catchy and the songs are well written. When it isn't cookie monster-vocals, I can tolerate a LOT of bad singing (like say, Venom or The Darkness). And this is metal, we all rabidly agree and disagree on favorites to the death ;-)
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Mrbloodworth
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Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium is one of the best albums in metal history IMO. Nice post.
Really? It's decent sludgy music, but the "singer" is comically bad. You're on record with that being as good as Reign in Blood or Abigail or Master of Puppets or Black Sabbath? Hm. You sir, are out of your mind. You have to consider the time frame of its release ( 1991), and who comprised the band ( Protip: that singer, yeah, NAPLAM DEATH would be his other band). Forest of E, and, for a change of pace The Ethereal Mirror sent shock waves through the scene. It was some of the best, and is now considered a classic quintessential bridge between so called "doom" and the rest of the metal world. I personally fell in love with the "hippy/doom/good times" sound they created. Some of the ones I linked were my favorites, but the two first albums, were masterpieces. I would recommend listening to them. However forest of E, is quite possibly one of the SLOWEST albums ever made, some of those songs the tempo can't be quantified, as stark contrast to the sounds of the time. Also, " One of the best albums" does not replace other, awesome albums. However, Abagail? Pifft, it never held a candle to " them" and " conspiracy"! Next on: When metal heads fight!
Because you liked it so much! More! 1991, Forest of Equilibrium: Cathedral - Picture of Beauty and Innocence That goes right into: Cathedral - Commiserating the CelebrationCathedral - A Funeral Request Cathedral - EquilibriumCathedral "Ebony Tears"1992 Cathedral - Autumn Twilight1994 Cathedral - Cosmic FuneralMuch more recent: Cathedral "Stained Glass Horizon"
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Engels
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I just can't get all metalhead about a band named Cathedral. I grew up around Cathedrals, and all they summon to mind is wobbly old ladies, warbling priests and the soul crushing smell of incense and boredom.
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Sky
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It is true that I know nothing about the metal scene in the late 80s/early 90s
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Mrbloodworth
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It is true that I know nothing about the metal scene in the late 80s/early 90s I still love you.
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I just can't get all metalhead about a band named Cathedral. I grew up around Cathedrals, and all they summon to mind is wobbly old ladies, warbling priests and the soul crushing smell of incense and boredom.
Hey, be thankful! You got to go be bored in a huge ornately carved building with statues and gilded shit to stare at while the priest drones on. When I got dragged to church, we only had a simple cramped wooden building where it was just you, the preacher, and Jesus. Oh how I envied the catholics and their idol worship.
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trias_e
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Really? It's decent sludgy music, but the "singer" is comically bad. You're on record with that being as good as Reign in Blood or Abigail or Master of Puppets or Black Sabbath? Hm.
I never like ranking albums like that. Clearly in context RiB and Black Sabbath are the best out there. However, not in context, I think the best modern death metal is in many ways a superior version of reign in blood. Since it's entirely building off RiB though, how do I rank them? I don't like ranking music for this reason. And I really like Abigail! I think Don't Break the Oath is better though. But, anyways, the reasons I like Forest are probably the exact reasons you don't like it. But regardless, I think if you concentrate on that album from start to finish, which I think is important as it is clearly constructed as an album not as just a collection of songs, you will have gone on a fucking trip the likes of which are rarely seen in music in any genre. One of the particular things it did was actually make me literally sick to my stomach at one point...and then somehow, paradoxically given the tempo, manage to almost spiritually uplift me at another point. And it is still capable of getting into quite the groove despite the unconventionality...It's a weird, weird experience. Candlemass had some good sabbath inspired albums sure (and I think some later cathedral falls in this category as well) but FoE is the first time I think doom really attempts something past Black Sabbath, which is a big deal. Unfortunately, later Cathedral gets kind of bland and predictable to me tbh.
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Sky
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I think Don't Break the Oath is better though.
But, anyways, the reasons I like Forest are probably the exact reasons you don't like it.
Agreed and agreed. Oath is one of the albums that had a huge influence on my band's style, though. Fate, Sabbath, Metallica, Maiden, Van Halen, Queen and Queensryche would probably be the main influences we had, with a bit of Slayer, Exodus Bonded by Blood, Overkill Feel the Fire and Savatage The Dungeons are Calling.
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trias_e
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so...was your band fates warning? : )
But seriously, that's a very cool list of influences. Albeit one that I would guess many bands from the 80's were operating with, but correctly so.
Oath is amazing. The melodic guitarwork in those fate albums kicks the balls out of recent 'melodic death metal', thats for sure.
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stray
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You got further than I did, I think the last album of Danzing I ever really enjoyed was How the Gods Kill. The next album, and everything after, lost some sort of magic.
IV has the ironically titled Cantspeak and Let It Be Captured (which is the same riff as Cantspeak, but in reverse). After that he could neither sing as well or write.
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Musashi
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Those zebra finches were better than the last page of this thread. I used to have zebra finches when I was a kid. Dr. Feathers and his wife, Marshmallow. They also make songs of their own. Yea. Way better than Danzig.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kBdMF41O5oReminds me of my days in Istanbul, smoking waterpipes and just laying on my back in a huge sofa with other friends, listening to music, sleeping or playing a bit of backgammon, all day long. Memorable mention goes to the people at the waterpipe cafe under the Galata bridge. Oh how I miss those days..
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Mrbloodworth
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You got further than I did, I think the last album of Danzing I ever really enjoyed was How the Gods Kill. The next album, and everything after, lost some sort of magic.
IV has the ironically titled Cantspeak and Let It Be Captured (which is the same riff as Cantspeak, but in reverse). After that he could neither sing as well or write. Right, forgot about that one. That single is decent Danzig. But still, lost the magic comment still stands.
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I got an order of CDs from Projekt over the weekend, and they included a free sampler CD. I listened to it on the way to work.
Why the fuck can't goths learn to sing?
The male singers are particularly bad, but every goddamn song is full of hysterical yelps, weedy Internet Tough Guy growls, plain overemoting, or bad imitations of Siouxie Sioux or Peter Murphy.
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I don't remember if I've linked to Wolfgang's Vault before, but the place rocks. Last week they had a Texas sale, I missed ZZ Top day but got a 1984 performance by SRV for $6 (FLAC, $4 for mp3). They stream a bunch of stuff for free. I'm a big fan of Peter Green-era Mac, if you like guitars and only know the Rumors bunch, check it out. Anyway, been listening to that SRV disc, Mercyful Fate's Don't Break the Oath and some Charlie Patton.
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This is kind of a cool way to hear new music and such (and lawl, it has daily quests): http://www.thesixtyone.comFair warning, a lot of the stuff on there is shitty.
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