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Nordick posted:Civil War's debut album is out! There is so much Dio worship going on here that any self-respecting metalhead should love this.
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Hammer Floyd posted:There is so much Dio worship going on here that any self-respecting metalhead should love this. Speaking of good pipes, the new vocalist for White Wizzard is pretty drat good as well. And so is the album. This and the Civil War are gonna tide me over for quite a while. Oh, and I love the cover art. It's just so wonderfully garish and absurd. That neon green. 
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Defiant Sally posted:The new Kalmah owns. I like this more than 12 Gauge already. Also the new Amon Amarth comes out in 2 weeks. TWO WEEKS. New Orphaned Land too. Gonna be a good month.
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drat, I had no idea Orphaned Land had a new one coming so soon. I just knew they were on tour. Now I'm excited.
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Orphaned Land I'm much less excited about than their last. The video they made a week ago or so put me to sleep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsPb1-uPIic. And I want to not be put to sleep 
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I've been listening to the new Kalmah album quite a bit today. I really like it, but what stands out is that it really sounds nothing like Kalmah of the past. They Will Return is my favorite album of theirs, and it's disappointing to see them sort of abandoning the neat melodies and riffs that made those older albums loving cool. That said, this album wasn't a misfire at all. I'm not sure I'd classify it melodeath, but I do like it.
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Houseplant posted:Orphaned Land I'm much less excited about than their last. The video they made a week ago or so put me to sleep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsPb1-uPIic. And I want to not be put to sleep The songs they've released (if you preordered they've been sending out youtube links every so often) haven't really wowed me either, but I could say that about several tracks on their good albums and not be doing justice to the sum of their parts. Of it could just be boring, who knows?
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You can stream the new Scale the Summit here. http://www.decibelmagazine.com/feat...ecibelMagazine+
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It also came out today and it's easily their best album to me.
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New Ego Fall dropped. Totally didn't know it was coming out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vaKZosobho
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KingKapalone posted:You can stream the new Scale the Summit here. http://www.decibelmagazine.com/feat...ecibelMagazine+ Overall a really great album. I think some individual songs on The Collective and Carving Desert Canyons were better, but this might be their most solid album yet.
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Let's talk about Books about metal!! Lately I've been devouring a bunch of books about heavy metal, its history, etc., since I'm writing a paper on the topic. DO you have any good recommendations? These are the ones that I've found the most useful (and 1 that is just pretty) The first two are books that I just mentioned this in the "stuff you just bought" thread, but I have to mention it here too. Louder Than Hell: The Definitive History of Heavy Metal  Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground I was afraid that this one was going to be mostly about SATANISM and corrupting young minds, etc., but it's actually a great investigation about the whole scene. Yes, as the cover suggests, church burnings are mentioned, just like Varg v. Euronymous. :P  Iron Man: My Journey through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath  Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal  On Board Flight 666 (this one is not so much for the paper, but simply because it's so loving pretty) As an amateur concert photographer who will never be nearly as good as this man, his photos fill me with awe and jealousy. An amazing book  Run for Cover: The Art of Derek Riggs The artist behind Iron Maiden's Eddie. If you go to the "new" section, he sells them directly. 
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I've also used Sound of the Beast as a source for essays before and it's pretty useful. Christe gets some genres totally wrong though (legacy metal? What the gently caress?). Heavy Metal Islam is a very interesting look at what it's like to be a metal fan or musician in the Middle East, with a focus on certain bands in each country. Off the top of my head it covers Iran (Acrassicauda), Egypt (Hate Suffocation) and Israel (Orphaned Land).
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Henchman of Santa posted:I've also used Sound of the Beast as a source for essays before and it's pretty useful. Christe gets some genres totally wrong though (legacy metal? What the gently caress?). The Sheikh's Batmobile has a section on the Egyptian metal scene too. It's not a very well-written book, though, despite covering interesting subject matter.
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Dont forget about True Norwegian Black Metal by Peter Beste Some amazing pictures captured in there in a GIANT book (14.3 x 11.5 x 0.9 inches).
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Robert Walser's Running With The Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music is interesting, if a little outdated since it was written 20 years ago. The concepts still hold true though, and definitely something more informative than the press release type of stuff which make up the bulk of writing on metal. There's also Deena Weinstein's book, but that's even more outdated, though that Canadian doofus who pronounces NWOBHM as an actual word had her in that documentary he did a couple years ago for VH1. Both of those are definitely products of their time and rely too heavily on metal's prominence within the larger culture as somewhat legitimately transgressive, though rap had already superseded it by the time both of those books were published. As far as PR-style material goes, Albert Mudrian's Choosing Death is probably the most well-written and in-depth, though nothing anyone already familiar with the bigger 90s death metal bands doesn't already know.
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Black Sabbath, a new album at last? at least? 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qopoot2_Fc 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmbEQcuGUQ4 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw32fVrBVgg 6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gae6UZrF5_Y
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I listened to Sabbath's album the other day and was pleasantly surprised by it. Pretty chill groovy poo poo edit: and just got myself to finally listen to the new Megadeth... but now I'm just confused and scared for their future.. where's the thrash? Varg fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Jun 13, 2013 |
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Non Serviam posted:Let's talk about Books about metal!! The book Swedish Death Metal is really good, even if you've been into it since the beginning. It gives you the back stories behind bands like Dismember, Entombed, Grave, etc and how all the members of these bands basically grew up together and had a really incestuous scene when it all first started. Out of all the music books I've read this was one of the most informative and entertaining, especially if you try and find some of the REALLY early poo poo they talk about. If a band existed in sweden in the 80s or 90s they're most likely in it even if they never recorded fuckall. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/swedish-death-metal-daniel-ekeroth/1102219041?ean=9780979616310 The Celtic Frost/Hellhammer book was pretty good too. It's a good look into what starting a band as idiot teenagers is like, in a scene that's still in infancy. Only Death Is Real I think it's called.
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If you have never checked it out, http://www.progmetalzone.com/ is a pretty great website for keeping up to date on that particular genre of metal (this includes death/doom/etc.), and has lead to me finding some amazing music I would have never heard in a million years. Votum - Harvest Moon that came out in Febuary for example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a09404E5_Q Durendal fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Jun 14, 2013 |
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I am flying up to KC for the September 7th Iron Maiden/Megadeth Concert. Anyone else going to that? Got me a GA ticket for the pit.
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I wouldn't really put too much stock in Lords of Chaos, unless you really like Moynihans fanboy'ish worship of Varg.
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Misogynist posted:Hahahahahahahahaha Reminds me of Elvenking but less folk and not funny.
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Misogynist posted:Hahahahahahahahaha Hey bro, don't power metal shame. 
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Durendal posted:Hey bro, don't power metal shame. Did anyone tell these guys they were filming a music video before they got dressed in the morning? Vulture Culture fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Jun 14, 2013 |
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Misogynist posted:I'm not power metal shaming! There's just something delightfully awkward about this video. The singer is some hideous mistake of a chimera formed when Tony Kakko's creepy smile met Ryan Seacrest's creepy hair. Hahah I was thinking the same thing. Dude just doesn't look right, great set of pipes though.
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MrBling posted:I wouldn't really put too much stock in Lords of Chaos, unless you really like Moynihans fanboy'ish worship of Varg. Pretty much this. A fun read at best, not really an accurate history though. This is terrible and you should be ashamed.
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Not Very Metal posted:Pretty much this. A fun read at best, not really an accurate history though. My taste in music is unmatched* thank you very much. *at being terrible
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Last night I saw (Geoff Tate's) Queensryche performing Operation: Mindcrime in it's entirety. While it was great to see one of my favorite albums ever played live, the entire band was full of 40-something dudes who wanted to look TUFF playing this 80's metal. All dressed in leather, with the most pained "THESE POWER CHORDS ARE CAUSING ME GREAT PAIN" faces. Also, Geoff Tate is one ugly dude. I really want to see Todd La Torre's Queensryche now 
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SgtScruffy posted:I really want to see Todd La Torre's Queensryche now Supposedly they're pretty good, even if La Torre kinda looks like normal-sized Peter Dinklage.
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comes along bort posted:Supposedly they're pretty good, even if La Torre kinda looks like normal-sized Peter Dinklage. The only I'd heard of them was the videos back when they were touring as an almost-tribute band before they fired Geoff Tate, and it sounded like Queensryche did in 1987 and only played Empire and before - which I'm absolutely fine with.
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There's a video floating around of him taking some audience member's phone and filming the band for a bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWcMllZqxFE
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SgtScruffy posted:Also, Geoff Tate is one ugly dude. If you painted Geoff Tate blue he'd be a dead ringer for the genie from Aladdin.
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Hulk Krogan posted:If you painted Geoff Tate blue he'd be a dead ringer for the genie from Aladdin. He looked like a sickly character from a Tim and Eric sketch.
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Johnny Aztec posted:I am flying up to KC for the September 7th Iron Maiden/Megadeth Concert. Anyone else going to that? Got me a GA ticket for the pit.  I'm driving down 3 hours but I've got family there so it'll be a nice weekend.I have never been to a show of this kind of size. Like, there are actual seats, that aren't at a bar. It's all very intimidating. Looking forward to it, although I have heard exactly 1 song by Megadeth before so I don't know what to expect there.
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I was wondering what Samoth was involved in these days... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0gfO2BuEVw  because your boss probably doesn't want to see dead rotting poo poo.Sounds pretty loving good.
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First impression: This sounds like blackened Vader. Good poo poo. In other news, nordic metal made it to The Wall Street Journal. Surprisingly interesting read, actually.
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Gils posted:I have heard exactly 1 song by Megadeth before so I don't know what to expect there. Don't expect much. Dave can't write music anymore and he's turned into a crazy teabagger  .
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