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I saw Ghost, Mastadon and Opeth last night in Seattle. I had never heard Ghost before, and wow. They were awesome. I picked up their CD at the show and it's good. Really good. The lyrics are ridiculous, but the music and melody is amazing. Mastadon absolutely kicked rear end. They put on an excellent live show. Curl of the Burl was as amazing live as I imagined it would be. Opeth was just "OK" for me. I have seen them a few times before, and it was basically the same, but a lot more of the new album. But yeah check out Ghost. Was good yo.
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The stained-glass tapestries that made it feel like church ruled, didn't they?
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Wattsamatta posted:I saw Ghost, Mastadon and Opeth last night in Seattle. I had never heard Ghost before, and wow. They were awesome. I picked up their CD at the show and it's good. Really good. The lyrics are ridiculous, but the music and melody is amazing. Ghost's album is really fun, I definitely need to dig that out of my collection again. I still haven't seen them live, the show I booked got cancelled  Opeth have put heavier stuff in their setlist again, right? They were really disappointing when I saw them on their UK leg of the Heritage tour. Encoring with a song from the new album was a bit of a joke. I am desperate to see Mastodon again, I love that band a stupid amount, even if I was a little disappointed by The Hunter.
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May 2, 2012 00:12
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Tree Limbz posted:Jon Oliva has the chubs metal market cornered. That really is a shame. I don't know if he has medical condition, or just the stress of his personal losses, or whatever, but I could not believe it when I saw the band photos for Jon Oliva's Pain (or Circle II Circle). He was enormous and pale, just morbidly obese huge. He literally looked like Danny Devito as the Penguin from Batman Returns.
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40ozOE posted:That really is a shame. I don't know if he has medical condition, or just the stress of his personal losses, or whatever, but I could not believe it when I saw the band photos for Jon Oliva's Pain (or Circle II Circle). He was enormous and pale, just morbidly obese huge. He literally looked like Danny Devito as the Penguin from Batman Returns. I saw him a couple years back and he had a chair on stage that some dude kept taking away when he'd get up and he kept having to go get it back. Eventually he just got pissed off and told them to leave his chair alone. 
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Karl Sanders. He shares a last name with a fried chicken magnate.
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vanov posted:Karl Sanders. He shares a last name with a fried chicken magnate. His first name even kind of sounds like "colonel".
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vanov posted:Karl Sanders. He shares a last name with a fried chicken magnate.
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Great Horny Toads! posted:Hey, guys. Just stopping by to drop off Kreator's shiny, new cover of "Number of the Beast". gently caress yeah. I liked the clever little touch of incorporating the harmonised riff from 'The Trooper' into the solo but otherwise I wasn't impressed at all by that. Steve Harris' bass playing on the original was great and adds lots of nice subtle touches to the song but this cover didn't have any of that and just felt really two dimensional.
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Ohms posted:SO excited about the new Gojira single out today. Gojira is so good. I'm counting down the days until this album hits. Everybody listen to this song.
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Salt Fish posted:Gojira is so good. I'm counting down the days until this album hits. Everybody listen to this song. After hearing the live version I'm convinced this is going to be one of their best albums. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eLuofM4UvIU Joe Duplantier is an amazing vocalist, I did not expect the more emotional tone to transfer over live but he nails it. The progression is so great, the song just explodes at the end. It's also way, way better than the Blood & Salt single they did.
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Fear Factory just posted this on FB. Looking forward to seeing FF (2nd time), Voivod and Cattle Decapitation. Speaking of, CD`s new album is REALLY loving good.
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Don't know how anyone feels about Sweden's Shining, but they're doing an EP of covers and here's a new track. http://patriciathomasmanagement.com/2012/05/02/niklas-kvarforths-shining-debuts-track-from-upcoming-covers-ep/ It's not the Shining I fell in love with, but I do really like it. Also, the Behemoth/Watain/Decibel tour was amazing and Nergal looks great! See it if you get a chance. 
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nomapple posted:Ghost's album is really fun, I definitely need to dig that out of my collection again. I still haven't seen them live, the show I booked got cancelled On Opeth - Not really. They mainly played Heritage and Ghost Reverie tunes. I didn't even stay for the encore if there was one. Was really lackluster in terms of stage show as well. It was like they were all "here is some music we play". No real energy. Made me sad. Which really blows. I saw them with Dream Theater a few years ago and they were absolutely loving amazing. But yeah, whether you like Mastadon or not, you should go see them. They are amazing live.
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Opeth has been playing soft stuff for the first part and then a couple heavy tunes for the encore. When I saw them it was The Grand Conjuration and Deliverance. I know they played Demon of the Fall at at least one of the shows on this tour as well. Mike's growls sounded real good, too. Re: the new Gojira song, I've only listened to it twice but I'm not as excited about it as everyone else seems to be. It just feels like the energy isn't quite there, like Gojira on mild sedatives. I'm looking forward to hearing it in context with the rest of the album, but it didn't hit me like Vacuity did when it was released, or Backbone when I first heard the band shortly after From Mars to Sirius came out. I only talk about overhyped popular metal bands.
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Semprini posted:loving magnates, how do they work? I guess it's a good thing SA Forums don't have a "Like" button, but goddamn.
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God drat I can't get enough of Disma's Towards the Megalith. It's everything I love in death metal compacted into one album.
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Vintersorg posted:Fear Factory just posted this on FB. Even though The Browning are there, I'd go for FF/Voivod/CD/Havok and Revocation. Urgh, The Browning really are horrible though. Really horrible.
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The Browning sounds like a psych thriller or horror flick about a supervirus that causes you to poo poo yourself to death. So, I guess I'm not surprised that they're terrible.
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Whoa, Vital Remains plays here in a couple weeks, almost missed it! Any word on how they are live?
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Moist von Lipwig posted:Whoa, Vital Remains plays here in a couple weeks, almost missed it! Any word on how they are live?
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Any of you guys into Ne Obliviscaris? They just dropped a new track from their upcoming album last night, and it's pretty loving awesome. http://www.nocleansinging.com/2012/05/03/ne-obliviscaris-xenoflux/
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Great Horny Toads! posted:The Browning sounds like a psych thriller or horror flick about a supervirus that causes you to poo poo yourself to death. So, I guess I'm not surprised that they're terrible. I was thinking it sounded like an interracial gangbang or scat porn movie
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Perhaps the greatest thing I read about The Browning was this nomapple fucked around with this message at 00:58 on May 4, 2012 |
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nomapple posted:Perhaps the greatest thing I read about The Browning was this This is nice and all but this belongs in the deathcore thread.
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To Battle posted:God drat I can't get enough of Disma's Towards the Megalith. It's everything I love in death metal compacted into one album. This is the same way I feel about the new Asphyx album, Deathhammer. It's instant death metal classic!
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To Battle posted:God drat I can't get enough of Disma's Towards the Megalith. It's everything I love in death metal compacted into one album. I love this stuff, can't wait to see em at mdf this year. Can't get enough of anything like it...Funebrarum, Decrepitaph. Decrepitaph http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhBVLhf3Veg Funebrarum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7RXhedbIX0
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Moist von Lipwig posted:Whoa, Vital Remains plays here in a couple weeks, almost missed it! Any word on how they are live? I saw them back in 2003 and they were sort of terrible. Krisiun destroyed the stage right before them though, so maybe that's what I'm remembering. Krisiun sounded much better live than on their albums, but VR were pretty corny.
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Saw them at Summer Slaughter a couple of years ago and they really sucked. Their vocalist got held up at the border, so they had a guy fill in who didn't know any of the lyrics so they only played a 15 minute set or so.
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Christopher Irvine posted:I saw them back in 2003 and they were sort of terrible. Krisiun destroyed the stage right before them though, so maybe that's what I'm remembering. Krisiun sounded much better live than on their albums, but VR were pretty corny. This exact thing happened to me but replace Vital Remains with Obituary. I was almost mad at Krisiun for making Obit seem terrible.
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Vital Remains are pretty much a toss-up live, since they generally have at least one new member per year, often have different fill-ins for each tour, and the entire line-up, minus Tony Lazaro, has been completely turned over a few times. Lazaro is the only guy in the band who has been on a VR album. They were good when I saw them many years ago, but the lineup changes make it unpredictable.Hatman101 posted:This exact thing happened to me but replace Vital Remains with Obituary. I was almost mad at Krisiun for making Obit seem terrible. I've seen Krisiun a ton of times and they always have a ton of energy, they're sharp, and they get the crowd into it. They certainly put on a better show than Behemoth, Belphegor, Hate Eternal, and some others who followed them directly on different shows. The only band I can think of that played immediately following Krisiun that managed to top them was Immolation. Zodijackylite fucked around with this message at 00:25 on May 4, 2012 |
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Killsion posted:This is nice and all but this belongs in the deathcore thread. Noted. Anyway, I ordered the Watain Opus Diaboli boxset which arrived today  It's very nicely presented, the photobook is very nice quality, the artwork on the LP jackets is nice, the box is good quality, and the signed screen print(?) also looks fantastic. Despite this, I do have a few gripes. The DVD/CDs don't have slipcases, they are simply affixed to the bottom of the box by discs that go through the centre of the DVD. This meant that by the time I received the box, they had all come loose and were sliding round the bottom. Luckily, none of them were damaged, but I didn't think it was great. Also, the LP jackets are VERY flimsy. They constitute strong paper at best. My only other gripe would be the fact that the box was shipped wrapped in 1 layer of bubble wrap in what was essentially a bin bag. I would happily have paid extra for safer shipping. Overall though, I am very happy with the contents of the product and overall quality of it. I have not watched the DVD yet, but the live recordings are brilliant.
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Any of your brothers going to the Decibel show in Charlotte NC tomorrow? I can't get any of my friends to go see Watain with me. Something about animal parts bugs them out. Actually, a friend that saw the tour last week told me that Behemoth asked them not to use any animal blood on this tour, just some body parts here and there. Wonder if that's true.
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You guys remember that whole Euronymous being elected to be painted on the tail fins of Norwegian Air Shuttle's planes? Apparently the family declined and requested that he be removed from the list of nominees. source (på norsk) (also old news but I didn't know)
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QPZIL posted:Actually, a friend that saw the tour last week told me that Behemoth asked them not to use any animal blood on this tour, just some body parts here and there. Wonder if that's true. Awwww, I hope this isn't true. They are coming back to Columbus (first show they missed) on May 17th and I want to be stinking with death when I go back to my apartment.
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QPZIL posted:Any of your brothers going to the Decibel show in Charlotte NC tomorrow? I can't get any of my friends to go see Watain with me. Something about animal parts bugs them out. They didn't have a whole lot, maybe some heads, but not blood, just paint. They still smell a little, but not as much. Or the venue we were in was just kind of big.
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Watain was a huge dissapointment. I was expecting horrible smells and blood and animal corpses. What I saw was 4 balding men in black metal make-up playing basically diet Behemoth songs, slightly headbanging, in front of 2 (count em 2!) goat skulls on poles. Thrilling.
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nomapple posted:Noted. Watch it! It's loving awesome! Not a region free DVD, but still awesome never the less. QPZIL posted:Any of your brothers going to the Decibel show in Charlotte NC tomorrow? I can't get any of my friends to go see Watain with me. Something about animal parts bugs them out. All of gawd's fury could not keep me from this show. From what I understand, some of the venues on this tour have asked the bands to refrain from some of the details they are known for. The Devil's Blood covering themselves in blood and candles on stage. Watain's pig heads, animal parts/blood and some of their fire effects (torches, candles, etc.) Everything I've read though has lead me to believe that it's pretty much up to the individual venue, not the artists. So, if your attending this tour at a relatively small venue, some or all of the usual stage trimmings may be missing. I don't expect this to detract from my overall experience THAT much. Particularly Watain! OnlyJuanMon posted:Watain was a huge dissapointment. I was expecting horrible smells and blood and animal corpses. What I saw was 4 balding men in black metal make-up playing basically diet Behemoth songs, slightly headbanging, in front of 2 (count em 2!) goat skulls on poles. Hey! Maybe Five Fingered Death Punch is coming to your area soon. Enjoy!
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Baron Von Ghoulosh posted:All of gawd's fury could not keep me from this show. From what I understand, some of the venues on this tour have asked the bands to refrain from some of the details they are known for. The Devil's Blood covering themselves in blood and candles on stage. Watain's pig heads, animal parts/blood and some of their fire effects (torches, candles, etc.) Everything I've read though has lead me to believe that it's pretty much up to the individual venue, not the artists. So, if your attending this tour at a relatively small venue, some or all of the usual stage trimmings may be missing. I don't expect this to detract from my overall experience THAT much. Particularly Watain! Hell yes brother. If you see a guy in grey jeans and a Wolves in the Throne Room shirt, say hello, I'll buy you a beer. Amos' is a decent sized venue, so I'm expecting good things.
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