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nuncle jimbo posted:Besides this thread, where do you guys go for reviews? Feels like I'm always a little bit behind on new stuff Kind of a plug, since I write for the site, but Axis of Metal has ton of reviewers, so there's always new stuff posted.
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If you're looking for sites that cover just about everything and don't care about writing quality nor enough fortitude to actually be critical, The Metal Observer is pretty good too - lots of writers ranging from great to absolutely terrible. autothrall/From the Dust Returned covers just about everything too, with the odd situation of being one guy who reviews just about everything - he's bland and repetitive at times, but addresses the music pretty well.
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nuncle jimbo posted:Besides this thread, where do you guys go for reviews? Feels like I'm always a little bit behind on new stuff No Clean Singing is pretty good. I pretty regularly find new stuff to listen to there.
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Finntroll announced a North American tour with Metsatoll and Blackguard. I've heard that Metsatoll are loving amazing live, so I'm looking forward to this. quote:11/4/2013 West Springfield VA US Empire
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New full-length Carcass track is up: http://youtu.be/nSsrKl6HtAw Gooooood stuff.
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Wasn't that the one that was put up a couple weeks ago? e: yep it's the one with the weedly-wee break
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About that new Sirena.. Better then the last one by far, though the production/mastering kind of clouds things. Way to busy and mixed way to "hot", I have no idea why Morten thought it was a good idea with the kind of music this is but at least he is back in business song writing wise. Also Ailyn is less annoying this time around, though her singing voiced is still something I am not sure about, sometimes it works.. other times it sounds like a screeching banshee.
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edrith posted:Finntroll announced a North American tour with Metsatoll and Blackguard. I've heard that Metsatoll are loving amazing live, so I'm looking forward to this. Awesome! Missed Finntroll the last time they were in town so I'm pretty stoked. Metsatoll I can vouch for, but shame about Blackguard, ecch.
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Last night I saw Primitive Man, Reproacher, and Snakedriver. I must heavily recommend seeing these bands live. I must also heavily recommend earplugs; forgot mine and my aural equilibrium has been off all day. THANKS LOUD AMPS.
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Go to the bathroom, take some toilet paper, roll it up and shove it in your ears. Congratulations you've just figured out earplugs 101.
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Francostein posted:Go to the bathroom, take some toilet paper, roll it up and shove it in your ears. Congratulations you've just figured out earplugs 101. And as a bonus you'll be the coolest guy in the pit.
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I like the idea of symphonic metal, but a lot of it is really bad. Has anyone got any recommendations for good symphonic metal, if there is such a thing?
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A human heart posted:I like the idea of symphonic metal, but a lot of it is really bad. Has anyone got any recommendations for good symphonic metal, if there is such a thing? Fleshgod Apocalypse and Septic Flesh are tight. Francostein posted:Go to the bathroom, take some toilet paper, roll it up and shove it in your ears. Congratulations you've just figured out earplugs 101. I want to go to the venues you go to where you would risk touching anything in the men's room let alone insert it into your earholes.
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A human heart posted:I like the idea of symphonic metal, but a lot of it is really bad. Has anyone got any recommendations for good symphonic metal, if there is such a thing? Can you give us a bit more to work with? Like, which bands have you tried, what you liked and didn't like? Off the top of my head, try Chthonic. They're not symphonic in the usual sense, they use a lot of Chinese traditional instruments, but they sound really melodramatic and grandiose. I quite like both of the two latest albums, Tagasako Army and Bu-Tik. Also, Wintersun - Time.
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Father_Johann posted:Fleshgod Apocalypse and Septic Flesh are tight. I can feel all the piss on the floor through the soles of my shoes but if the guy wants to stick something from there in his ears that's his choice I guess.
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A human heart posted:I like the idea of symphonic metal, but a lot of it is really bad. Has anyone got any recommendations for good symphonic metal, if there is such a thing?
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Nordick posted:Also, Wintersun - Time. If we're counting Wintersun (listen to their original album), then I'm going to have to recommend Nightwish's Once. Get your pitchforks out and come get me.
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This poster loves police brutality, but only when its against minorities!
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Sigh's "In Somniphobia" and SepticFlesh's "Communion" are both baller as hell symph metal. SF are one of my favorite bands to see live. Greek bands rarely disappoint. See also Rotting Christ.
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DeusExMachinima posted:If we're counting Wintersun (listen to their original album), then I'm going to have to recommend Nightwish's Once. Get your pitchforks out and come get me. And yeah, sure, Once is certainly a symphonic metal (god I hate that term though) hallmark and one of my favourite albums of the past decade. I just figured it's probably a bit obvious, too.  Anyways, now that I'm home and can think of some more stuff without distractions, here's a few more bands: Kamelot. Somewhat symphonic power metal. Very sleek and smooth and cool for a power metal band. Karma and The Black Halo are still a bit light on the orchestrations, but loving great albums at any rate. Later albums like Ghost Opera and Silverthorn lay on the strings a bit more heavily. They don't exactly revel in the bombastic orhestratic cheese, but they have that certain dramatic quality to them that makes me feel they're kinda symphonic. Pathfinder. Also power metal, but from the "ridiculously outrageously balls-out larger-than-life megalomaniacal cheese" end of the spectrum. This stuff gives no fucks about such trivial things as subtlety and good taste. Rather entertaining to listen to (in small doses) when I'm feeling silly. The musical equivalent of stuffing your mouth full of delicious candy. http://youtu.be/GPjAbyGkEjc http://youtu.be/82CJLo5F2hk Crimfall. Not completely unlike a cross between Nightwish and Wintersun. Bigass horn and string sections, soaring melodies, some folky bits, snarly male vocals and absolutely fantastic, dramatic and powerful (but not "operatic") female vocals. One of my favourite bands of this vague sub-genre. http://youtu.be/wr_lloiegPA http://youtu.be/1pzNndx0Ox0 I'm also going to link this ballad because jesus christ that woman's voice gives me goosebumps. 
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Thanks for the suggestions. I'm actually already familiar with Fleshgod Apocalypse and Chthonic and like both of them, I guess I just didn't really think of them as symphonic. I like that Wintersun debut album, and Sigh seem cool as well.
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Jul 22, 2013 02:06
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Optimum Gulps posted:Metal-Archives just posted this band Children on Facebook and they're absolutely fantastic. I'd never even heard of them...excellent thrash/prog from NYC, only released one album and then broke up. Quoting a post from March, but poo poo, this album is too loving good, and drat spectacular loud. Every time I play it I have to listen to the whole thing. I was going to watch Top Gear...
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Actual symphonic metal Haggard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qWB4izxuBM Virgin Black https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYWnRwqpFPQ
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Jul 22, 2013 18:34
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Was playing a game as the Norse on Age of Mythology and had this urge to listen to Amon Amarth that I haven't had in ages. 
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DeusExMachinima posted:If we're counting Wintersun (listen to their original album), then I'm going to have to recommend Nightwish's Once. Get your pitchforks out and come get me. At least recommend Nightwish from before they turned into hot garbage. Once is the point where you should pretend the band died in a plane crash. The only upside to that not having happened is that Floor Janson gets a paycheck before hopefully moving on to a band worthy of her talent. Their earlier stuff is ok though if you like that kind of thing.
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What's the general consensus on the new Black Sabbath? I quite like it, which is not what I expected at all.
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CornHolio posted:What's the general consensus on the new Black Sabbath? I quite like it, which is not what I expected at all. I couldn't get into it. It sounded ok, but it just wasn't connecting for me.
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I liked the new Black Sabbath and early Nightwish was pretty awesome as well.
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It was terrible and Ozzy was having trouble moving his mouth but it's Sabbath so the general consensus is that it's good because it kinda sounds like Sabbath even though it sucks horribly. Because it's Sabbath every halfwit has too much to say about it too so I'm glad it hasn't been mentioned here. Church of Misery's new album is killer. Best doom release I've heard in at least a year or two. I haven't fully hashed out my thoughts as it's still fairly new, but it's very good.
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The songs on the new Sabbath album aren't jazzy enough, which made old Sabbath so interesting. There were doomy and bluesy riffs, but the jazz influences made the songs incredibly dynamic. This album lacked a good jazz drummer and a nimble guitarist. Also Ozzy sounds like he didn't even get out of his hospital bed in the nursing home. It's just not an appealing album for anything more than nostalgia value.
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Jul 23, 2013 03:38
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IRQ posted:At least recommend Nightwish from before they turned into hot garbage. Once is the point where you should pretend the band died in a plane crash. The only upside to that not having happened is that Floor Janson gets a paycheck before hopefully moving on to a band worthy of her talent. Funny, I pretend Tomas went through with his emo bullshit and threw himself off a cliff after Once. It united the different styles they'd been trying in other albums (epic/heroic in Oceanborn/Wishmaster, dark in Century Child, etc.) and made them work.
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Dark Passion Play is one of the band's best albums, gently caress all you haters.  Also, while I really liked Anette's voice on the albums, a frontwoman she was not. I hope Floor stays, maybe Tuomas will be inspired by having a charismatic vocalist who doesn't seem like a karaoke hostess, or something. I dunno. A human heart posted:I'm actually already familiar with Fleshgod Apocalypse and Chthonic and like both of them, I guess I just didn't really think of them as symphonic. That said, Shade Empire's new album gets pretty bombastic at some parts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArHOlG16Aag Nordick fucked around with this message at 14:47 on Jul 23, 2013 |
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CornHolio posted:What's the general consensus on the new Black Sabbath? I quite like it, which is not what I expected at all. It gets a resounding "meh" from me. Ozzy just doesn't do it for me anymore. The riffs weren't even that catchy either.
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Jul 23, 2013 21:43
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Monster Magnet just released a song, Announced US Tour. http://www.zodiaclung.com/2013/07/monster-magnet-announce-new-album-confirm-first-north-american-tour-in-over-10-years-debut-new-song/ MONSTER MAGNET North American Tour: 11/14: Grand Rapids, MI @ Intersection 11/15: Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews 11/16: Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge 11/17: Minneapolis, MN @ Mill City Nights 11/19: Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater 11/20: Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge 11/22: Seattle, WA @ Neumos 11/23: Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theater 11/24: Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater 11/26: San Francisco, CA @ The Independent 11/27: Los Angeles, CA @ House of Blues 11/29: Tempe, AZ @ Club Red 11/30: Albuquerque, NM @ Launch Pad 12/2: Austin, TX @ Red 7 12/3: Houston, TX @ Fitzgeralds 12/4: Dallas, TX @ Trees 12/6: Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade 12/7: Charlotte, NC @ Amos Southend 12/8: Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Sound Stage 12/10: Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace 12/12: Boston, MA @ Sinclair 12/13: West Chester, PA @ The Note 12/14: New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
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I like that Monster Magnet song. Was not expecting that. I was expecting to like the new Týr song but it's like Heri condensed everything I hated about the Lay of Thrym and jammed it into four minutes. 
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I'm late to the party, but the new Fleshgod Apocalypse song kicks rear end. Between this album and the Carcass release I'm going to have a real good time. The new Tyr song loving blows, though I'm not surprised. I haven't enjoyed anything they've done since Ragnarok.
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Yeah that Monster Magnet song was good. I still give Powertrip a listen every now and then for high school nostalgia.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Yeah that Monster Magnet song was good. Spine of God and Superjudge are legitimately good albums. And to be honest, in retrospect, for radio rock Powertrip isn't all that bad. Every time I start my car without plugging in my phone for music has me BEGGING for the days when "Space Lord" was played on the radio.
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