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Another song from the upcoming Turisas album is on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-FQCokApVE SO many people are going to hate this song (and most likely the album as well) but I love it. It's just fun as hell and that main riff/melody is obscenely catchy. I'm very eagerly looking forward to the album, going to be interesting to hear what these guys have cooked up. Nordick fucked around with this message at 13:18 on Aug 3, 2013 |
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Aug 3, 2013 13:15
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Ha, I also like it, but then again I liked both previous albums quite a lot. At least they are trying new things (for better or worse). I do miss the violin though .
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Aug 3, 2013 17:03
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Occasionally between you guys and Spotify's Discover feature I find a band that makes me feel like I've been missing out for a long time. Today's exhibit A: The Crown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAkjZIpLnzs
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Aug 3, 2013 17:07
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the yeti posted:Occasionally between you guys and Spotify's Discover feature I find a band that makes me feel like I've been missing out for a long time. But this is Tomas Lindberg's least cool band! :P
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Aug 3, 2013 23:51
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thepitgoddess posted:But this is Tomas Lindberg's least cool band! :P I have also been missing out for a long time, it seems! I didn't know about any of his bands, except At The Gates.
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Aug 4, 2013 01:39
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Abysswalker posted:I have also been missing out for a long time, it seems! I didn't know about any of his bands, except At The Gates. Check out his other band, It's d-beat and it's awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jVwXXG9HPo
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thepitgoddess posted:But this is Tomas Lindberg's least cool band! :P Did we suddenly stop counting At The Gates or something
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Aug 4, 2013 03:47
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At the Gates isn't cool and they ruined death metal for everyone.
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nerve posted:Did we suddenly stop counting At The Gates or something Dimebags Brain posted:At the Gates isn't cool and they ruined death metal for everyone. oh hey look, internet posturing
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Aug 4, 2013 05:32
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Dimebags Brain posted:At the Gates isn't cool and they ruined death metal for everyone. I can't decide which is worse, modern tech death or modern melodeath. So the prize for "ruining death metal" either goes to them or maybe Necrophagist.
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Gorewar posted:oh hey look, internet posturing Hi I'm nerve and I don't like the band At the Gates please think I'm cool Gamma Nerd posted:I can't decide which is worse, modern tech death or modern melodeath. So the prize for "ruining death metal" either goes to them or maybe Necrophagist. Necrophagist however, owns
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nerve posted:Hi I'm nerve and I don't like the band At the Gates please think I'm cool Well ok, Just this one time.
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Aug 4, 2013 06:03
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nerve posted:Necrophagist however, owns Not disputing that but most of the tech death bands that copied their style are pretty lovely oh and the new Ulcerate track owns but I'm sure you didn't need me to tell you that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5SkcwHykU0 Gamma Nerd fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Aug 4, 2013 |
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Aug 4, 2013 07:09
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At The Gates were alright but The Haunted were so much better... until the last couple albums.
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Anyone who thinks the first two At The Gates albums weren't amongst the best Swedish death metal recorded has no credibility whatsoever. Yes, Slaughter of the Soul is partially responsible for a million and one knock-off clones that lack ability, style and any substance (although considering SotS itself lacks any of those compared with its predecessors, that's no surprise); but the real criminal is Carcass' Heartwork. Heartwork is the game changer, not Terminal Spirit Disease, not Slaughter. Without it, I don't think either TDS or SotS even get recorded - With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness does not show any evidence of the way AtG were to proceed a year or so later. If you go back and look at the discographies of most bands that are now infamous for gothenburg-style melodeath, you'll notice that they all have a change in direction, or sudden burst of "creativity" around the same time. At the Gates, Dark Tranquility, heck, even Sentenced in Finland display a sudden change around that point. And that point in time is 1994 - because they all heard Heartwork the year before.
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henpod posted:Ha, I also like it, but then again I liked both previous albums quite a lot. At least they are trying new things (for better or worse). I do miss the violin though  Also, apparently this album is going to have great variation from song to song, so maybe you'll hear that violin yet. The Clit Avoider posted:heck, even Sentenced in Finland display a sudden change around that point. Nordick fucked around with this message at 12:08 on Aug 4, 2013 |
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lordblytzkrieg posted:Check out his other band, It's d-beat and it's awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jVwXXG9HPo Misanthropic Generation is totally my jam. So I haven't seen any talk about the new Gorguts in here? Reminds me of Ulcerate a lot.
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The Clit Avoider posted:Anyone who thinks the first two At The Gates albums weren't amongst the best Swedish death metal recorded has no credibility whatsoever. Yes, Slaughter of the Soul is partially responsible for a million and one knock-off clones that lack ability, style and any substance (although considering SotS itself lacks any of those compared with its predecessors, that's no surprise); but the real criminal is Carcass' Heartwork. All of these bands had blown their creative wad by that time, saw Pantera, Carcass, Morbid Angel, Slayer etc getting play on MTV and probably had girlfriends harping on them because they're gone all the time and didn't have any money. Either consciously or subconsciously, they decided to take the easy road, thus we have this near 20 year old trend of bands releasing stuff that at first sounds profound due to production and the Heavy Metal dog and pony show, but doesn't mean poo poo in the end. The problem starts when people only listen to these things once in a while as background noise and then scream from the roof tops that it's the best ever.
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Aug 4, 2013 20:52
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nihil morari posted:At The Gates were alright but The Haunted were so much better... until the last couple albums. The Haunted is terrible compared to At the Gates. Even Slaughter of the Soul was better than any of their albums. The Clit Avoider posted:Heartwork is the game changer, not Terminal Spirit Disease, not Slaughter. Without it, I don't think either TDS or SotS even get recorded - With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness does not show any evidence of the way AtG were to proceed a year or so later. And yes, Heartwork was really the game changer and if Surgical Steel sounds even somewhat close to Heartwork, it'll be one of the best albums of the year (here's to hoping). thehouseplant fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Aug 4, 2013 |
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Aug 4, 2013 21:17
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It sounds a lot like Heartwork, but a little bit more monotonous.
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Aug 4, 2013 21:25
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Houseplant posted:The Haunted is terrible compared to At the Gates. Even Slaughter of the Soul was better than any of their albums. I've been following this thread for a bit and it's pretty clear to me that my taste in metal differs dramatically from most of the people here. I can't stand metal with guttural vocals and growling (besides Opeth because I like that guy's voice). I much prefer stuff along the lines of The Haunted (actually, I like basically all of Peter Dolving's work), Dillinger Escape Plan, or almost anything with Devin Townsend. It's crappy for me because sometimes I stumble upon bands with great sounding music; but then the singer starts and ruins it for me.
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Aug 4, 2013 21:31
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Wow, I didn't realise how many people don't like At The Gates. Slaughter is one of the best "Gateway" albums of all time. I would put money on it that many many people got into more extreme metal from digging Slaughter.
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Hammer Floyd posted:Wow, I didn't realise how many people don't like At The Gates. Slaughter has a special place with me because when it came out nothing else sounded like it. I don't put it on much now but I won't deny it was a big album for metal. If it gets people into better poo poo, awesome, but there's still way shittier metal people blow a load over. The new album isn't bad at all. It starts of boring but it gets good halfway through and keeps it up. There's some Necrotism to be found among the Heartwork for sure.
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nihil morari posted:I've been following this thread for a bit and it's pretty clear to me that my taste in metal differs dramatically from most of the people here. I can't stand metal with guttural vocals and growling (besides Opeth because I like that guy's voice). I much prefer stuff along the lines of The Haunted (actually, I like basically all of Peter Dolving's work), Dillinger Escape Plan, or almost anything with Devin Townsend. It's crappy for me because sometimes I stumble upon bands with great sounding music; but then the singer starts and ruins it for me. Hey man, more power to you for knowing what you like. Metal has a lot to offer besides the vocal style that you are trying to avoid, though. Actually, if you avoid Death metal entirely, pretty much every other genre of metal has a less guttural feel. Devin Townsent is really progressive and is a pretty huge gateway drug for other bands like Dream Theater, Pain of Salvation, even Mastodon. Dillinger is pretty "core-y" for people in these parts, but you can probably dig Ion Dissonance and Converge. Converge gets a lot of love here even. Morbid Florist posted:Slaughter has a special place with me because when it came out nothing else sounded like it. I don't put it on much now but I won't deny it was a big album for metal. If it gets people into better poo poo, awesome, but there's still way shittier metal people blow a load over. Slaughter was a gateway album for me so it's got a special place even though it's arguably their worst album. And I'm glad to hear that Surgical Steel sounds like it's at least decently solid.
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Hammer Floyd posted:Wow, I didn't realise how many people don't like At The Gates. Lots of love for SOTS here too. This and Amon Amarth were big gateway bands for me in terms of death metal.
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Amon Amarth is the only 'gateway metal' band I still listen to
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Aug 5, 2013 01:03
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For me Red In The Sky is probably one of my top 10 albums ever released. I just love it! The guitar work just sounds perfect to my ears, memorable riffs everywhere.
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Killsion posted:So I haven't seen any talk about the new Gorguts in here? Reminds me of Ulcerate a lot. The mastering felt really compressed and muddy but I liked the songwriting a lot, especially the weird-rear end chamber music interlude. I'm really torn on it to be honest.
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Gamma Nerd posted:The mastering felt really compressed and muddy but I liked the songwriting a lot, especially the weird-rear end chamber music interlude. I'm really torn on it to be honest. The Battle of Chamdo... I loved that piece so much. On one hand I was hoping some guitars would kick in to add to it, but it was still fantastic and blew me away.
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Abysswalker posted:I have also been missing out for a long time, it seems! I didn't know about any of his bands, except At The Gates. Let us also not forget Lock Up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ0MMaBMXMI Mmm, shane embury, nick barker, tomas and Anton Reisenegger from Chile Pentagram.
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Slaughter's pretty cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08EVewJA8jM
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RHTITE posted:All of these bands had blown their creative wad by that time, saw Pantera, Carcass, Morbid Angel, Slayer etc getting play on MTV and probably had girlfriends harping on them because they're gone all the time and didn't have any money. Either consciously or subconsciously, they decided to take the easy road, thus we have this near 20 year old trend of bands releasing stuff that at first sounds profound due to production and the Heavy Metal dog and pony show, but doesn't mean poo poo in the end. The problem starts when people only listen to these things once in a while as background noise and then scream from the roof tops that it's the best ever. I would honestly be surprised if Morbid Angel or Carcass ever made any real money during their commercial peak. Hammer Floyd posted:Wow, I didn't realise how many people don't like At The Gates. I've never heard that album or any At the Gates stuff. 30 seconds of youtube song snippets leads me to believe I haven't missed all that much. Alec Bald Snatch fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Aug 5, 2013 |
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The new Gorguts has knocked my head right off. I think Luc Lemay's background in classical composition is much better applied to something like this rather than Obscura and FWtH, which ended up sounding like death metal string quartet music. Colored Sands sounds like a death metal orchestra. It's got layers but never sounds too dense or elaborate. It has this massive oceanic bottom end that doesn't sound like anything else I've heard. I really think this thing is gonna go down as one of the greatest achievements in death metal. Someone on metal-archives noted that it took a certain subset of tech death bands a decade to figure out how to incorporate Lemay's influence into their music, and I'd add that he just jumped another decade ahead of them. Though now I'm worried it'll create some weird new subgenre like "technical atmospheric symphonic doom" and will spawn even more bands that shouldn't be trying to pull off Gorguts' style. Hell, I don't even know what to call this "style." It's just huge and filled with so much imaginative detail. At the very least it's the best metal album since NM's Voice of Steel (in my opinion, obviously). Also, on Slaughter of the Soul: aside from its unfortunate influence on a style of music I quickly came to loathe, what bothers me the most about the album is that almost every song begins with an awesome riff, but then falls back into the tremolo polka thing for every verse. It gets monotonous fast.
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Dimebags Brain posted:At the Gates isn't cool and they ruined death metal for everyone.
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comes along bort posted:I've never heard that album or any At the Gates stuff. 30 seconds of youtube song snippets leads me to believe I haven't missed all that much. Let's not say things we can't take back. The first AtG album is a cornerstone. It all went to poo poo once Alf Svensson left. But then AtG comes from this, so, yeah early poo poo was always going to rule. I mean, this just kills. The Clit Avoider fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Aug 5, 2013 |
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Aug 5, 2013 15:24
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New Dream Theater track released: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/08/04/dream-theater-enemy-inside-premiere/2613895/ It's okay. The first part feels more like straight out metal than Dream Theater. The instrumentals fell on the right side of gratuitous for me, but that's going to be pretty subjective.
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The song is a pretty solid Dream Theater track but that rhythm guitar tone sounds like a low-bitrate Periphery sample.
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The Clit Avoider posted:It all went to poo poo once Alf Svensson left. Hulk Krogan posted:The song is a pretty solid Dream Theater track but that rhythm guitar tone sounds like a low-bitrate Periphery sample. Vulture Culture fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Aug 5, 2013 |
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Well, this is a pleasant surprise. I'm very pleased they didn't release some cheesy ballad as a single this time like they typically do. I'm actually a little excited for this album (something I haven't been able to say since Train of Thought), as the last one was a step up from their other later albums.
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