Metal Thread VIII-Playgroundklok

[grimbold]

So because the other Metal Thread VIII disappeared I figure I might as well start one

Before we go on this wonderful quest I just want to say this
when I started posting in Metal Thread I was not a metalhead, I was 14, I had just moved to France, I listened to some heavier bands, I was lonely
3 and a half years later I have a successful metal blog, a record label (which just might pick up Amon which has ex-Deicide members) and owe a lot of significant firsts to metal (beer, kisses, etc) I've got some scars, some of which I think are permanent, but thats part of the joy for me

what brings you joy in metal?

Previous Threads:

Spoiler

Show

Metal Thread II
Metal Thread III
Metal Thread IV
Metal Thread V
Metal Thread VI
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=243596

[Killer Angel]

So because the other Metal Thread VIII disappeared I figure I might as well start one

Doom over dead thread!

what brings you joy in metal?

For a starter? The ability to alternate unstoppable energy and crystalline melodies, the feeling of brotherhood (especially between metalheads at live shows), the Mosh pit.

[EmeraldRose]

There is nothing that helps me relax and get through periods of extreme anxiety like listening to metal. I know that sounds strange considering the music, but it really does work for me. If I'm having a bad day or can't concentrate, it really helps.

[Kalmageddon]

Does anybody here listens to Orden Ogan? I gotta say, the more I listen to them, the more I like them.

A few of my favourite songs by them:

The Things we Believe in (this band makes Fallout references and I love them)

Masks (warning, the video is a bit unsettling and graphic so it might be NSFW)

To New Shores of Sadness

About the question presented in the OP: I enjoy Metal because it makes my brain go like crazy, it makes me feel pumped, creative and it lifts my spirit when I'm down. And it comes in soo many subgenres I can always find something to fit my mood.

[EmeraldRose]

Let's see...My current favorites, in order:
1. Rammstein
2. Emigrate
3. Eisbrecher
4. Unheilg
5. Samael
6. Megaherz

[grimbold]

For a starter? The ability to alternate unstoppable energy and crystalline melodies, the feeling of brotherhood (especially between metalheads at live shows), the Mosh pit.

doesn't your concert going predate the moshpit K.A?

[Faulty]

Did the other thread get reported or something? Or did it just disappear? I had things I wanted to say about posts people had made.

Anyway I owe Comrade a break down of his death metal + Melt-Banana list:

Carcass - Captive Bolt Pistol
Defeated Sanity - Verblendung
Melt Banana - The Hive
Exhumed - So Passes The Glory of Death
Suffocation - As Grace Descends
Extermination Dismemberment - Disemboweled Engorgement
Katalepsy - Lurking In The Depth
Wormed - Multivectorial Reioinization

Carcass: This was pretty alright, but not quite my thing. I think I prefer their early days.

Defeated Sanity: Killer bass but the rest of it is also not exactly my bag.

Melt-Banana: I already love this album. :D

Exhumed: I like the way beefier chords break out into short melodies. The bridge was pretty awesome. I dig it! They apparently have a split coming out next week, too.

Suffocation: Pretty good. Didn't like it as much as the Exhumed but I already have the album so it'll get listened to eventually.

Extermination Dismemberment: This type of brutal death metal is not my field, haha. Nice band name though.

Katalepsy: Not my thing again. Sorry!

Wormed: Again, noticeably cool bass. I appreciate the musicianship but this kind of brutal tech death usually doesn't do much for me. I liked Deeds of Flesh's latest one for what it's worth.

Anyway my two favs were definitely the Exhumed and Suffocation. The Carcass was ok. Not big on the rest. If I understand correctly my kind of death metal is like black/death, old school Swedeath, catchy riffy stuff, atmospheric death, etc. and you're more of a brutal death, tech death, gore, etc. type of guy?

Related, my favorite death metal release of 2013 is no longer Bölzer's Aura or Verminous' The Unholy Communion! I've still been eating away at my 2013 list, despite it being 2014 already, and I listened to the latest EP by this band called House of Atreus, Into the Brazen Bull, and it is gooooooood. My favorite tracks are the opener "Bastards in the Hillside" and the epic closer "In the Shadow of Foreign Horses". It is quality stuff.

I also listened to Tribulation's The Formulas of Death and enjoyed it. Apparently their debut was well executed Swedeath throwback but then this opens with sitar (making them the fourth metal band besides Cult of Fire, Seidr and Grave Miasma to use sitar last year afaik) and goes on to be a bit of a mind ****. Really dark, interesting, somewhat progressive death metal album. It was someone I know's AOTY but I still need to give it more listens.

[Comrade]

I can agree as far as Carcass goes-- their Reek of Putrefaction-Symphonies of Sickness-Necroticism trifecta is my favourite from them-- but I still liked Surgical Steel. It was like Swansong done right.

That being said, while I can't deny a soft spot for the more brutal end of the death metal spectrum, I do also really like the thrashier side of the genre-- Morbid Saint, early Death, Deicide, Darkane, etc. But that's not to say I can't get down with some of the riffier, groovier old school ****, and I did rather enjoy the Beyond and the Verminous you posted. The only aspect of death metal I can really say I generally avoid is the strain of melodic death metal that seems to have an unfortunate tendency to neglect the 'death metal' half of the equation.

Have to say, I wasn't too big on the new Deeds of Flesh myself. Too heavy on the 'tech', not enough on the 'death'. Not execrable by any means, though. Still need to really listen to the new Tribulation, though.

Glad you at least enjoyed the Suffocation and the Exhumed!

[Nameless]

What actually happened to the other thread? I hit the "new thread" link on the previous thread because I couldn't find it, and it gave me the "you don't have permission to access this page" message.

[grimbold]

I think there was some sort of glitch in the GitP server, the way I see it, is that its better that it happen when we only had one page up rather than thirty


I'm genuinely surprised at the lack of love for Surgical Steel here, I honestly think that may be their best record, it was my album of the year for 2013 for sure

And yes comrade
the suffocation and exhumed did kick tremendous amounts of ass
do you know about Rivers of Nihil?

[Dallas-Dakota]

I assume everybody in Europe in this thread are going to Hellfest like me and Grimbold?

You don't know why you should? Look at this line-up and try to tell me that again.

Spoiler

Show

[Nameless]

I think there was some sort of glitch in the GitP server, the way I see it, is that its better that it happen when we only had one page up rather than thirty

Let us take a moment to remember our lost thread...

I assume everybody in Europe in this thread are going to Hellfest like me and Grimbold?

You don't know why you should? Look at this line-up and try to tell me that again.

Spoiler

Show

I don't really do festivals. ._.

[Comrade]

I'm genuinely surprised at the lack of love for Surgical Steel here, I honestly think that may be their best record, it was my album of the year for 2013 for sure

And yes comrade
the suffocation and exhumed did kick tremendous amounts of ass
do you know about Rivers of Nihil?

Their best? Over Necroticism, or Symphonies of Sickness? This is some kind of heresy right here.

And I just gave Rivers of Nihil's new album another listen to try and get into it again and I still can't. :v

[grimbold]

I assume everybody in Europe in this thread are going to Hellfest like me and Grimbold?

You don't know why you should? Look at this line-up and try to tell me that again.

Spoiler

Show

if you come you can try and hit on pretty ladies with me and cookie monster and my best friend from childhood

also destroy your liver
mostly destroy liver
nameless, only silly people don't come, so i guess you're silly

and comrade
you prefer symphonies and necroticism to heartwork? i think that already puts us at different ends of the carcass loving spectrum (don't get me wrong i loooooove those albums)

[Killer Angel]

and comrade
you prefer symphonies and necroticism to heartwork? i think that already puts us at different ends of the carcass loving spectrum (don't get me wrong i loooooove those albums)

I think I'll join grimbold. Symphonies , Necroticism and Surgical are great albums, but Heartwork is still their top tier (at least, IMO)

[grimbold]

I'd just like to clarify real quick
for me Surgical and Heartwork are roughly equal
Surgical is more varied and interesting, whereas for me, Heartwork is The Black Album of death metal
I don't actually like The Black Album, but what I mean is what it stands for, more polished, conventional song structures with a slightly more mainstream appeal

[WhamBamSam]

Necroticism and Heartwork are about equal in my mind. Surgical Steel is about on par with those two, or maybe even a little better.

On the topic of good Death Metal from 2013, I quite like this album, though the band's EP from 2012 was a bit better.

[Feytalist]

New Iced Earth out tomorrow. Pretty intrigued. Still waiting to see if Stu Block can keep delivering.


I haven't listened to metal in over two weeks. I was bombarded with nostalgic soft rock all that time. And I enjoyed it! I might be slipping.

I assume everybody in Europe in this thread are going to Hellfest like me and Grimbold?

Bastard.

[grimbold]

I haven't listened to metal in over two weeks. I was bombarded with nostalgic soft rock all that time. And I enjoyed it! I might be slipping.

you ARE going soft Feytalist...

On the topic of good death metal in 2013, does anyone knowNoisem?

Their debut really REALLY impressed me

[Killer Angel]

Bastard.

Envy is not metal!

[grimbold]

Envy is not metal!

I beg to differ

[Faulty]

Do you like Mongolian folk instruments? Throat singing? Black/folk metal? You need to listen to this album.

I can agree as far as Carcass goes-- their Reek of Putrefaction-Symphonies of Sickness-Necroticism trifecta is my favourite from them-- but I still liked Surgical Steel. It was like Swansong done right.

That being said, while I can't deny a soft spot for the more brutal end of the death metal spectrum, I do also really like the thrashier side of the genre-- Morbid Saint, early Death, Deicide, Darkane, etc. But that's not to say I can't get down with some of the riffier, groovier old school ****, and I did rather enjoy the Beyond and the Verminous you posted. The only aspect of death metal I can really say I generally avoid is the strain of melodic death metal that seems to have an unfortunate tendency to neglect the 'death metal' half of the equation.

Have to say, I wasn't too big on the new Deeds of Flesh myself. Too heavy on the 'tech', not enough on the 'death'. Not execrable by any means, though. Still need to really listen to the new Tribulation, though.

Glad you at least enjoyed the Suffocation and the Exhumed!

I never actually listened to Swansong due to its mixed reputation. Symphonies of Sickness is my preferred Carcass album, though I haven't listened to them in ages.

Glad you liked the Beyond and Verminous. I figured you'd at least like the former. I actually generally don't do death/thrash. Or thrash. Or black/thrash. For some reason, even if mixed with my favorite genres (death but especially black metal), thrash turns me off except in small doses. With the exception of certainy thrash/thrashy bands (Artillery's By Inheritance reigns supreme) or thrashy moments in otherwise non-thrashy songs. As far as melodeath... I wouldn't even call it death metal a lot of the time. More extreme NWOBHM/power metal. The genre has its moments though. Omnium Gatherum's first album, Kalmah, etc.

I can understand not liking the Deeds of Flesh. I only listened to it 2 or 3 times but it was enjoyable for a bit. I think Ulcerate's Vermis was my favorite techy album of the year, though I need to give the Gorguts more listens.

I don't remember if it was on my list, but Sacriphyx's debut is also pretty interesting and enjoyable as far as 2013 DM.

I'm genuinely surprised at the lack of love for Surgical Steel here, I honestly think that may be their best record

I think I'll join grimbold. Symphonies , Necroticism and Surgical are great albums, but Heartwork is still their top tier (at least, IMO)

V

This is some kind of heresy right here.

I assume everybody in Europe in this thread are going to Hellfest like me and Grimbold?

You don't know why you should? Look at this line-up and try to tell me that again.

Spoiler

Show

Wow, Urfaust, The Ruins of Beverast, Vreid and 1349 on a single stage. @_@

you ARE going soft Feytalist...

On the topic of good death metal in 2013, does anyone knowNoisem?

Their debut really REALLY impressed me

It sorta piqued my interest, but not to an extreme extent.

[grimbold]

Do you like Mongolian folk instruments? Throat singing? Black/folk metal? You need to listen to this album.

that record blew my mind

and honestly, I agree with you on noisem Faulty, but i get so many mediocre ddeath metal debuts in my inbox everyday something special like them should be noted

[Feytalist]

you ARE going soft Feytalist...

Hey, blame my friends. It was their music

And I didn't have any of mine with me. It would have been vetoed anyway :/

Envy is not metal!

With a line-up like that, can you blame me?

Sigh. I need to move to the Northern Hemisphere.

Wow, Urfaust, The Ruins of Beverast, Vreid and 1349 on a single stage. @_@

AND Equilibrium. Bloody hell.

[thorgrim29]

I assume everybody in Europe in this thread are going to Hellfest like me and Grimbold?

You don't know why you should? Look at this line-up and try to tell me that again.

Spoiler

Show

You know that weird feeling you just got? That's my jealousy hitting you.

I just got into Volbeat, I picked up their first album and it's pretty cool, where should I go from there?

[Killer Angel]

I beg to differ

Indeed, I deserved it.

[EmeraldRose]

Just found out today that one of my teammates is into metal as well! Apparently she's a huge Pantera fan. This made the day go a little quicker as we chatted about metal and the stuff we play for our kids.

[Nameless]

Apparently she's a huge Pantera fan.

Yes, but is she into any good bands?

[grimbold]

we chatted about metal and the stuff we play for our kids.

What kind of bands do you play for your kids Emerald?

Also, one point in hellfest, Gorguts followed by Nile followed by Carcass on the same stage



@Nameless, walk on home son

Them be fighting words

[EmeraldRose]

@Nameless- Nice!

@grimbold- Whatever I happen to be listening to. My youngest likes Rammstein, Eisbrecher, Samael...pretty much anything he can try out some headbanging to. The middle one is tougher to figure out, although he has loudly requested that I "turn that off it's annoying!" to a few things, Emigrate in particular My oldest is starting to like his own stuff. He's very into Imagine Dragons (we are going to see them for his birthday) and stuff that sounds like that. I'm trying to get him into Emigrate (he's ok with it) and he heard some Evanescence (which he liked). I will probably try to add in some Apocalyptica...