Metal Thread VI: We're So Kvlt, We Have Frostbite On Our Devil Horn Fingers

[grimbold]

on the topic of AxCx

if you want silly metal

STEEL PANTHER

there lyrics make my day

"Fat girl!! Thar she blows!!"


on the topic of Alcest

yay french metal!
we need more of that

[Comrade]

on the topic of AxCx

if you want silly metal

STEEL PANTHER

there lyrics make my day

"Fat girl!! Thar she blows!!"

I'm sorry but I defy you to find a band sillier than one with song names like 'Windchimes are Gay' and 'Kyle from Incantation Has a Moustache'.

[Triscuitable]

I'm sorry but I defy you to find a band sillier than one with song names like 'Windchimes are Gay' and 'Kyle from Incantation Has a Moustache'.

What was the name of that one song? "We Locked [Vegan/Animal Activist Group] in a McDonalds"?

I'll edit the post when I remember.

EDIT: "Locking Drop Dead in a McDonalds". They actually did, and took photos too.



Dave, DAVE! Please turn around- Oh, you're facing us. Please look up. Oh right, please brush your hair out of your face. More. More. Almost there. You know what? Let me get the rope and a scissorlift, and we can hang you by your feet so we can see your face.

[zeratul]

Hey so I have some updates about my folk metal band Hounds of Annwn for you guys. We just started the recording process for our first EP and it seems like it should be pretty awesome so far. We'll probably have a couple songs up by February and the EP itself will probably be out in March, I'll give you guys more updates on it as they come.

[Feytalist]

I'm a huge fan of symphonic metal, but as I've said before, some bands tend to think slapping a chamber orchestra or choral effect onto their songs will make it somehow better. But if well-done, like Therion does it, I do enjoy it. Same with folk metal, really.

So I've been playing Voyages de L'Ame continuously for about a day now (let's rather not ask how I managed that). It's... so good. But I expected it to be a bit heavier, actually. Still, it's just... so good.

[grimbold]

Hey so I have some updates about my folk metal band Hounds of Annwn for you guys. We just started the recording process for our first EP and it seems like it should be pretty awesome so far. We'll probably have a couple songs up by February and the EP itself will probably be out in March, I'll give you guys more updates on it as they come.

YES

i'm psyched!

[Kindablue]

Blackjazz is a great album.

[Velaryon]

You know, everyone says that Ghost Opera was such a fantastic album. Personally, though, I just don't get it. Something about the album is just very unappealing, somehow, and I can't put my finger on it.

And I, for one, would be stoked if Fabio Lione would take Roy's place permanently.

It's weird, I've run into the opposite reaction. Everywhere I hear talk of Kamelot, the consensus seems to be "Ghost Opera was okay, but Black Halo is sooooooooooo much better." And I disagree. Ghost Opera is my favorite album, largely on the strength of the first few songs especially Rule the World which is my favorite Kamelot song) although I do like the entire album.

Poetry for the Poisoned... I don't know, I didn't really feel it. It's not a bad album, certainly, but nothing on there really jumps out at me. I can listen to it the whole way through and still not really remember any of the songs.


On a completely unrelated note, I just learned on Facebook that Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath has been diagnosed with the early stages of lymphoma . Not to bring anybody down or anything, but I didn't see it mentioned yet.

[Nameless]

Hey so I have some updates about my folk metal band Hounds of Annwn for you guys. We just started the recording process for our first EP and it seems like it should be pretty awesome so far. We'll probably have a couple songs up by February and the EP itself will probably be out in March, I'll give you guys more updates on it as they come.

That sounds awesome! Looking forward to it. :)

[Gullintanni]

It's weird, I've run into the opposite reaction. Everywhere I hear talk of Kamelot, the consensus seems to be "Ghost Opera was okay, but Black Halo is sooooooooooo much better." And I disagree. Ghost Opera is my favorite album, largely on the strength of the first few songs especially Rule the World which is my favorite Kamelot song) although I do like the entire album.

The Black Halo was the first and last Kamelot album I really liked. There are a few good songs here and there. I liked Across the Highlands and A Feast For the Vain, and a few others, but Halo was the first album that I thought was great the whole way through.

Ghost Opera, for me, sounded like it was trying to emulate Halo. I didn't listen to too much of it, but I wasn't really impressed. That's just my impression though, and if Halo had never existed, then Ghost Opera would be a decent enough album on its own. It might just be that the Black Halo is a concept album, and I love looking for narrative clues and subtleties hidden throughout the lyrics.

I haven't listened to any post Opera Kamelot and I probably won't now that Roy's out. Symphonic metal really isn't my thing.

[zeratul]

Yeah I think It's pretty widely accepted among even Kamelot fans (myself included) that really there isn't much point in listening to anything before Karma or after The Black Halo. That said that three album span is really rather fantastic. I wish they would rerelease Epica sometime with the same production values as they had on The Black Halo though.

Blackjazz is a great album.

Found out about these guys a few months ago and have been really digging them. That really crazy bad-trip-like section in The Madness and The Damage done is one of the trippiest things I've heard a non-Unexpect metal band do.

[Triscuitable]

I want to say something that may seem out of place. I love the bass. I really, REALLY love the bass. Best instrument ever, with the trumpet in a close second.

I love the bass solely because of how awesome Cliff Burton's performance in Kill 'Em All is.

[Science Officer]

Tony Iommi diagnosed with lymphoma.

Well how about that Sabbath reunion then? Yeah, how about that.

took me a while to decide where I should pretend to have heard it from.

[Triscuitable]

Tony Iommi diagnosed with lymphoma.

Well how about that Sabbath reunion then? Yeah, how about that.

took me a while to decide where I should pretend to have heard it from.

Numerous grandparents of mine have had (and survived, through treatment) some nasty cases of lymphoma. There's hope, especially seeing as this is a wealthy, famous man, and it's the early stages. Radiotherapy can help, if I remember correctly.

By numerous, I mean two. If I said "several" or "many", well, numerous dictates any number. Thus, two.

[Feytalist]

That's... unfortunate. Here's to hoping he pulls through. Maybe Ozzy can lend him some of his mutant superhuman genes.

Also, I'd like to revise my previous statement. The new Alcest isn't good, it's ****ing epic. That is all.

[grimbold]

Numerous grandparents of mine have had (and survived, through treatment) some nasty cases of lymphoma. There's hope, especially seeing as this is a wealthy, famous man, and it's the early stages. Radiotherapy can help, if I remember correctly.

By numerous, I mean two. If I said "several" or "many", well, numerous dictates any number. Thus, two.

you do indeed remember correctly

I'm just here playing iron man on the geetar and sending bad vibes at the mean anti-metal cells

[Velaryon]

Tony Iommi diagnosed with lymphoma.

Well how about that Sabbath reunion then? Yeah, how about that.

took me a while to decide where I should pretend to have heard it from.

I'm such a good ninja that not only did I ninja you by several posts, even nobody caught it after the fact. Although you did have a link and stuff, so...

But yeah, it sucks. I know there's hope and all, but sometimes people take a turn for the worse pretty quickly. I can't forget how quickly Ronnie James Dio's health went bad after his stomach cancer was announced. So I'm hopeful for Tony Iommi, but in the back of my mind I'm really worried.

Yeah I think It's pretty widely accepted among even Kamelot fans (myself included) that really there isn't much point in listening to anything before Karma or after The Black Halo. That said that three album span is really rather fantastic. I wish they would rerelease Epica sometime with the same production values as they had on The Black Halo though.

Siége Perilous is good for a listen once in awhile, though I'll admit it's a bit lacking in standout songs. The Fourth Legacy is actually pretty good, I'd say. Certainly it's no Ghost Opera or The Black Halo, but it's roughly comparable with Karma at least, and I actually like it better than Epica.

The two albums before Roy Khan joined the band are pretty awful though, I must admit.

[Feytalist]

I enjoy The Fourth Legacy as well. Nights of Arabia springs to mind. But I do love Epica/Black Halo's narrative structure. I like concept albums.

I've been on a Bathory binge. Hammerheart, Nordland, Blood on Ice... it's glorious

[grimbold]

But yeah, it sucks. I know there's hope and all, but sometimes people take a turn for the worse pretty quickly. I can't forget how quickly Ronnie James Dio's health went bad after his stomach cancer was announced. So I'm hopeful for Tony Iommi, but in the back of my mind I'm really worried.

fortunately they detected it a lot earlier in this case and thus have a better chance of fixing it

[warty goblin]

So I'm trying to come up with a reason to listen to any metal that isn't Cassandra Syndrome.

Can't come up with one, really.

[Triscuitable]

fortunately they detected it a lot earlier in this case and thus have a better chance of fixing it

Let me find a song that is appropriate only in title, that will prove my poor taste in metal.

[Feytalist]

Let me find a song that is appropriate only in title, that will prove my poor taste in metal.

The top comment for that video:

"My iguana heard this. Now it's a dragon."

Yes.

[Makensha]

And now for my yearly contribution to the metal thread.

30 Pieces of Silver

The full CD finally came in the mail today. It has been a good day.

[Triscuitable]

What? Megadeth is ****ing awesome

I thought everyone was against that kind of stuff. So I just shied away from mentioning it. Everyone's talking about bands I've never heard of. I have no knowledge of metal beyond the Big Four, Black Sabbath, AxCx, and a few others that are quite well known.

Closet metal fan? I love everything Metallica puts out, including Load, ReLoad, St. Anger, and Lulu.

I even have Acoustic Metal! HAH!

[Feytalist]

I thought everyone was against that kind of stuff. So I just shied away from mentioning it. Everyone's talking about bands I've never heard of. I have no knowledge of metal beyond the Big Four, Black Sabbath, AxCx, and a few others that are quite well known.

Closet metal fan? I love everything Metallica puts out, including Load, ReLoad, St. Anger, and Lulu.

I even have Acoustic Metal! HAH!

Heh.

There seem to be lotsa power and symphonic metal fans here, some folk metal and a few black metallers here and there. Not so much thrash, I think.

Not a huge fan, myself. If I go old school, I'd rather go for the classic heavy metal and NWOBHM type stuff.

Speaking of: Axel Rudi Pell. Oh yeah.

[Triscuitable]

As far as the Big Four of thrash, I'm in general leaning towards Megadeth and Slayer rather than Metallica and Anthrax. But for the most part I'm more of a death metal fan if we're to choose one kind of metal in particular. Seems I'm in the minority here on that, though.

I listen to Rust in Peace, Countdown to Extinction, Kill 'Em All, and Master of Puppets, or at least one or two of them, every day. I started the bass because
of Cliff Burton, I should note (and Scott Pilgrim, but whatever).

[cleric_of_BANJO]

Heh.

There seem to be lotsa power and symphonic metal fans here, some folk metal and a few black metallers here and there. Not so much thrash, I think.

Well, then that needs to be remedied, does it not?

How about some new thrash similar to early Destruction?

On that note... How about some early Destruction?

[Triscuitable]

Well, then that needs to be remedied, does it not?

How about some new thrash similar to early Destruction?

On that note... How about some early Destruction?

Militia of Death reminds me of Damage, Inc. I don't know why.

Speaking of militias related to metal...

[WhamBamSam]

I'm generally not that fond of Thrash, as I find it to often be somewhat repetitive and poorly sung. That said, there are some elements of Thrash that I really like, and when I can get on board with the vocals I usually enjoy the style. For example, I'd put the new Anthrax album in my top 5 for last year and this Death Angel song is awesome.

[Nameless]

Personally, I'm not really a huge fan of traditional Death Metal, however, I do love Melodeath, like, a lot. Norther being one of my favorites.