riseofsetian1981
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"I met him fifteen years ago. I was told there was nothing left."
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Post by riseofsetian1981 on Jul 12, 2019 17:47:47 GMT -5
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Jul 13, 2019 9:18:37 GMT -5
Not big on black metal, but I’m digging this
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adamclark52
El Dandy
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Post by adamclark52 on Jul 13, 2019 10:33:04 GMT -5
Not big on black metal, but I’m digging this It’s good I think I’m the only person in the world that likes Revelations of the Black Flame
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Jul 13, 2019 15:37:00 GMT -5
Whoa, this is heavy
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Post by DSR on Jul 14, 2019 1:29:51 GMT -5
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Jul 14, 2019 5:11:27 GMT -5
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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Jul 22, 2019 9:18:09 GMT -5
Hate the video, dig the song. Corey sounds great.
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adamclark52
El Dandy
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Post by adamclark52 on Jul 22, 2019 20:41:57 GMT -5
It's been said that a persons tastes change every seven years. Two styles of heavy metal that I've never been able to embrace are thrash metal and technical/progressive death metal. Thanks to a couple of shows I went to recently I've been able to come a little around to both styles. ThrashI don't like newer thrash or more mainstream thrash. I find too often the songs are too long and bore me. They should have a rule that thrash songs should never exceed four minutes. Which is why I have liked dirtier, underground thrash in the past. I just never bothered to get too deep into it. However, I saw Razor live last month and I came to the realization that these guys rule. So I bought a couple of their albums. Razor - Executioner's Song (1985)I really enjoyed this album. It wasn't quite as dirty as I usually like my thrash but it made up with it with ferosiousity, speed and youthful exuberance. It's really simplistic stuff but it works. A lot of the songs from this album are still a part of their live sets. 8/10 Razor - Evil Invaders (1985)This however I didn't really care for at all. The riffs are great and the speed is up to par but the drums sounded HORRIBLE. They sound like a drum machine and get so repetitive. Even some of the riffs sound like they're repeated. Everything on this album just sounds so programmed that I couldn't get in to it. It has better songs (some of their most popular songs) but it sounds like crap. 5.5/10 Technical/Progressive Death MetalI still don't care for the newer stuff in this genre much at all (every band just sounds like they're trying to out wank one another) but I saw Pestilence at Maryland Death Fest and they were awesome. So I decided to take another dive. Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients (1991)I'm not even sure if Pestilence should fall into the technical/progressive genre but they sound like Death and I've always considered Death to be part of that genre. This ended up being a really awesome album. What I think makes it appeal to me so much is that they threw a short interlude between every song. That really breaks up the album nicely. But even still the guitarwork is really interesting and the keyboards are excellent. I was really surprised about how much I loved everything about this album from start to finish. I can't even pick a favourite song to showcase from it. It's too bad that bandleader Patrick Mameli is a piece of garbage. But I don't care about that. I like the music and I really need to check out their breakthrough album Consuming Impulse, but it's really hard to find. 9.5/10 Death - Symbolic (1995)Death are a band I should love and I've tried to love but I just can never do it. I think my problem with Death has always been since the day I first heard of them I thought a band with the name "Death" should have been the most guttural, primal death metal out there. And they are far from that. I did have Individual Thought Patterns years ago but I just could never get into it. But I figured with this newfound interest I should give them another go. This was the album the store I was at had so I bought it. I enjoyed it much more than Individual Thought Patterns. Something about it was clicking much more. I still don't love it but I like it enough to check more Death out. 7/10
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Pensacola Tableheads
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Metal Maestro: Co-winner of the FAN Idol Throwdown!
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Post by Pensacola Tableheads on Jul 25, 2019 10:46:25 GMT -5
I actually have Consuming Impulse (or CONSVMING IMPVLSE) on vinyl. Damn good album and sounds more like what you'd expect from Swedish death metal.
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adamclark52
El Dandy
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Post by adamclark52 on Jul 25, 2019 12:07:11 GMT -5
I actually have Consuming Impulse (or CONSVMING IMPVLSE) on vinyl. Damn good album and sounds more like what you'd expect from Swedish death metal. Any band that replaces the “u”’s for “v”’s is a-ok by me
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Aug 3, 2019 16:37:47 GMT -5
It’s seriously like if Hozier recorded a great song and then said “you know what would really make this pop? Some crushing guitars!”
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Derk!
Hank Scorpio
Yeah, "looks like."
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Post by Derk! on Aug 3, 2019 19:35:53 GMT -5
Hate the video, dig the song. Corey sounds great. First Slipknot song I've heard in years that actually sounds decent. My interest is piqued somewhat.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2019 20:12:43 GMT -5
adamclark52 Have you listened to Death's Scream Bloody Gore or anything from when they were Mantas? Pretty different from their later works and even their mid-period stuff. More raw and pretty punky/thrashy.
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adamclark52
El Dandy
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Post by adamclark52 on Aug 3, 2019 21:45:53 GMT -5
adamclark52 Have you listened to Death's Scream Bloody Gore or anything from when they were Mantas? Pretty different from their later works and even their mid-period stuff. More raw and pretty punky/thrashy. I’ve heard a song or two and I think I’ll be hearing more in the coming months. I liked what I heard. The only full album I’d heard from them until a few months ago was Individual Thought Patterns and I could not get in to that album.
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Post by DSR on Aug 3, 2019 22:21:30 GMT -5
It’s seriously like if Hozier recorded a great song and then said “you know what would really make this pop? Some crushing guitars!” I don't know if these guys are metal, but I do know that they are AWESOME! This album can't arrive soon enough for me!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2019 10:00:29 GMT -5
adamclark52 Have you listened to Death's Scream Bloody Gore or anything from when they were Mantas? Pretty different from their later works and even their mid-period stuff. More raw and pretty punky/thrashy. I’ve heard a song or two and I think I’ll be hearing more in the coming months. I liked what I heard. The only full album I’d heard from them until a few months ago was Individual Thought Patterns and I could not get in to that album. Individual Thought Patterns is kind of forgettable, IMO, so I get it. Human is usually my go-to, as it blends the attitude of their early material with their budding technicality terrifically. But yeah, Scream Bloody Gore and Leprosy are just fun as hell -- albums to put on while you throw the whiskey back. Chuck's vocals are awesomely grotesque on those early albums.
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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Aug 5, 2019 12:00:18 GMT -5
Not my favorite... rank it below Unsainted and Solway Firth.
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Post by Ishmeal Loves Kaseyhausen on Aug 5, 2019 16:06:52 GMT -5
Not my favorite... rank it below Unsainted and Solway Firth. I put it behind Unsainted but ahead of Solway Firth and All Out Life. Has a self-titled/Iowa-era feel.
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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Aug 5, 2019 17:30:15 GMT -5
^^^ Ya, I saw a lot of people comparing it to the sounds on those albums. I honestly didn’t get big into Slipknot (outside of their singles) until Vol 3, so I don’t have the crazy connection to s/t and IOWA that a lot of fans have.
That said, do I wish Corey had his S/t or Iowa scream in Vol 3? Yes. Absolutely yes I do.
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Post by Ishmeal Loves Kaseyhausen on Aug 5, 2019 17:57:25 GMT -5
Agreed. Iowa did so much damage to his voice, it's a miracle he gets any sort of growl or scream out now.
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