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Rightio, I was busy with my own band last year and it looks like I missed out on a lot of awesomeness. What greatness came out last year that wasn't Epicloud\Apochryphon that I missed?
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muike posted:Did you get the new Pig Destroyer or Converge? Not reeeeeeaaaallllllly into the really brutal stuff. Slaughter Of The Soul is about as heavy as it gets for me. Like a good bit of thrash.
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Feb 20, 2013 12:54
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I'm about to commit metal blasphemy. I loving cannot stand Slayer. I like some faster\thrashier stuff (I loving love Exodus and a fair bit of Testament\Overkill), a fair bit of non-cheesy melodeath (eg: At The Gates), but I just gave Reign In Blood another listen. What the gently caress am I missing here? Every song sounds pretty much exactly the same, which isn't a good thing if it was a poo poo song in the first place. There's a lot of awesome riffs peppered throughout the album, but there's an awful lot of not-exciting, no-impact and nigh-incomprehensible trem-picking. It really sounds like the 14 year old guitarist who just learnt how to trem pick and play a few Black Sabbath riffs. What's really annoying for me is that they will do something pretty loving sweet like the intro to Piece by Piece or the galloping\rolling riff when Reign In Blood kicks in full that makes me go: "Oooooohhh!" but then they'll switch to some poo poo riff straight afterwards. The riffs they sit on are the riffs that I hate, but the riffs they brush over are the riffs I dig. For a lot of stuff, even if I dont like it, I can generally see the appeal. I do not get Slayer at all.
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Feb 21, 2013 09:28
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Oh and the event that bought this on is because Lombardo pulled out of doing Australian shows. He hasn't been paid in 2012 apparently and doesn't like that 90% of Slayer's tour money goes towards expenses and only 10% goes to the band.
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Feb 21, 2013 11:03
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I just think it's a terrible shame to have an entire fretboard to work with, but to only down tune gratuitously and stick to the open chugs.
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Feb 23, 2013 01:47
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Metallica were loving awesome at Soundwave yesterday. gently caress the haters, they still do awesome poo poo live and Blackened is devastating live.
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Mar 2, 2013 08:39
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CmdrSmirnoff posted:Dream Theater - Images & Words Fixed it for you. Train Of Thought has got so much blatant Metallica worship. Dream Theater are a group of nerds, they shouldn't try to be tough burly metalheads as they tried on ToT.
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Mar 22, 2013 06:54
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It's not metal (gently caress you, if we're talking Ghost...), but the new Clutch album is loving fantastic.
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Mar 27, 2013 09:41
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That's a bitching song. They're not the second musical coming of Christ (or Satan...?) but they do write some pretty great songs.
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Mar 31, 2013 01:33
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het posted:Is Devin Townsend secretly in this band and I don't know about it? Have you heard Devin Townsend? He's so dreamy... 
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Apr 10, 2013 01:33
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"No Dave, I wanna sing that bit"
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Apr 11, 2013 01:26
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Radio Paranoia posted:On the subject of Big Four alumni that are past their prime, I'm seeing Metallica on the weekend. I've been brushing up on their discography to remind myself of their back catalogue and there is some really solid stuff there. Is their live show still a "greatest hits" repertoire? I'd be really bummed if it was mostly Death Magnetic stuff since I haven't even bothered with that album since it was released. The haters need to shut up. They are NOWHERE near as good as their Live poo poo show. That needs to be established. However, they still put on a loving fantastic show live. When I saw them, we only got 1 Death Magnetic song. They dig into the first 4 for most of it, but then occasionally into the Black album.
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Apr 23, 2013 15:06
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Holy poo poo. Tool are loving incredible live.
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Apr 27, 2013 15:17
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How could you get bored listening to Lateralus played at an earth-shattering volume? Then you throw in the light show (which I dont normally give a poo poo about) and holy gently caress.
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Apr 28, 2013 02:23
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nate fisher posted:If Metallica only called it quits after Justice. Black was good. Yeah, it was commercial, but it'd be a good album to retire on wouldn't it? Lost half your credibility but gained enough money to live like gods for the rest of your lives.
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May 4, 2013 15:29
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Gorilla Radio posted:My guess is Kai Hahto, since he's in everything now. Or maybe that kid who covered when Kári was injured. Nah, it was Lars Ulrich. Serious suggestion: Gene Hoglan?
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May 14, 2013 08:39
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John Magnum posted:I finally listened to Opus Eponymous and Infestissumam and I'm mad at the people who described them to me as "like Blue Oyster Cult" or "like Deep Purple". More like Sabbath meets Blue Oyster Cult. I like Ghost when they do a good song, rather than desperately cramming in as many throwbacks to the 60s\70s as humanly possible.
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May 16, 2013 13:15
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DeusExMachinima posted:I get tired of too many hipster throwbacks to the past because I want to see bands doing new things but... come on, I don't like all of Ghost but how can you hate Zombie Queen? There's some talent in there. I really hate this song and is exactly what I mean. When the synth comes in at about 1:12, that was the sorta poo poo that should have died with King Crimson. In fact the whole thing gives me a real Moonchild vibe. The following eBow solo is bitching though. The change at about 3 minutes feels like a Taratino cut to some flashback scene in a 50s surf diner. The way the song ends is very Sabbathy. The reverb-drenched guitar solo is so predictable and cliche. I do dig the chorus, but it's sandwiched by so many references that it loses relevance in the song. It really stands out when the next song is Year Zero, which aside from Genesis is still their best song. Sure, it's still heavily influenced from a lot of places, but they're not making a point of cramming in references...rather they've just made a loving awesome song.
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May 16, 2013 22:59
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Protons posted:I can't stop listening to Be'lakor. I can listen to Of breath and bone and Stones Reach consecutively all day. They were shithouse when I saw them support At The Gates. Technical difficulties, boring as hell on stage and they couldn't pull off their material.
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Jun 5, 2013 13:16
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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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Jun 10, 2013 22:30
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God drat that guy's voice.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Whats the pit etiquette? Like , if I got a good spot in the pit, and during one of the breaks I hit the bathroom or whatever I have to pretty much fight back to my spot? Yes. Basically, it's everybody for themselves. However, you don't have to be a douche about it or anything.
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Jun 16, 2013 08:17
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I was always more of a Slaughter Of The Soul kinda guy. But that sounds pretty rocking. Vocals are loud in the mix though aren't they?
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Jun 30, 2013 18:03
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Reckon they could push their tits up any higher?
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Jul 4, 2013 04:43
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rivetz posted:I would agree with this as a general point but would like to observe that (for me) with Exodus, anyway, it works. Those Holt guitars right up front. Personally I LOVE the sound of Exhibit A & B, it sounds like a modernized uptake on the same sound they were going for on Fabulous Disaster. I think those last two Exodus albums are totally underrated, they totally hit the sweet spot for me. So while I agree that that's Sneap's approach and it comes with its limitations, for me when he gets it right with the right band, it's fuckin' right. I totally agree with you. Those two albums are almost my favourite Exodus albums. Edit: This is a good read http://mixingtips.userboard.net/t58-golden-tips-andy-sneap-reveals-some-of-his-techniques H13 fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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Jul 8, 2013 09:02
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comes along bort posted:This is pretty much the only live Metallica worth a poo poo. Grief and cocaine work well together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ESicEzUtqk There's the full show. Holy shitballs. Battery is the opener and they absolutely tear that song to pieces. It's a brilliant example of why Metallica WERE one of the best metal bands of all time.
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Jul 27, 2013 01:53
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02-6611-0142-1 posted:I watched this fervently hoping that there was a single metallica show where they didn't gently caress up the cool bit in creeping death. NOPE Are you talking about the "Die" bit? I didn't notice anything...
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Jul 28, 2013 02:24
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02-6611-0142-1 posted:They always extend it out to five or six times the length of the album recording and talk over it and get the crowd to sing along, and it goes on a lot longer and it kind of takes all the impact out of that bit. Pet hate. The crowd would sing along correctly even if they didn't do it, and it would be a cool, badass little interlude. I wouldn't really call it a gently caress up. They're just milking it.
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Jul 28, 2013 04:10
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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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Aug 4, 2013 23:02
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Misogynist posted:I suppose it's not quite as unpleasant as sticking my head in the oven but I think I would still prefer a lovely diaper full of angry bees It's a lot better than it should be.
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Aug 25, 2013 07:36
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And Justice For All was released 25 years ago today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TptaoXNJjsI I will argue you into submission by sheer persistence and stubbornness that this is Metallica's best album and possibly one of the best thrash metal albums of all time.
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Aug 26, 2013 09:05
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Varg posted:If you've never seen Maiden from the floor like 10ft from the stage, you haven't yet lived. You mean like this?  YEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHEAAAAAAAAAHHHHEEEEEEAAHHHHHH! HAALLLLLLOOOOWWWWWEEEEEEED BE THY NAAAAAMMMMMMMEEEEE!
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Sep 9, 2013 11:51
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Vintersorg posted:Great photograph - well worth the time to pull out your camera. Have any more? Oh come the gently caress on! That was Maiden's first tour in Australia since the 80s. I had been waiting since I was 16 for them to come out to Australia and for about 5 or 6 years, they promised they'd make it out to Australia, but never did. The 4 of them line up during my favourite song and nobody is around me. drat straight I'd get a quick photo before jumping back in. It doesn't matter to me that it's with a lovely mobile phone. It's one of those photos that's got a shitload less to do with the image quality and more of a momento of that specific moment. Gutted to hear they don't do Hallowed anymore.
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Sep 9, 2013 22:52
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So I've liked Amon Amarth for a while. But I only just got Twilight of The Thunder Gods. Goddamn that's a good album. It's definitely a step up over pretty much everything else they've done.
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Sep 14, 2013 01:59
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I saw Metallica's Through The Never tonight. First of all, the "story" takes up a total of about 10 minutes screen time. Generally they just use it for different visuals while Metallica play a kickass song in the background. The story is almost one big long video clip. So Metallica fans? Don't worry. The songs aren't really compromised for the sake of the story. There's a few cuts and stuff, but nothing really cringeworthy. The stage is awesome. They sounded REALLY good which surprised me because I hate their live sound these days. The performances were great and the setlist is almost the best of the first 4 albums. It's a punishing thrashy setlist and is awesome. Anybody who has ever liked Metallica? Go check it out. If you get the chance, see it in 3D with IMAX. There were times when I felt like I was at the show again.
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Oct 12, 2013 16:00
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brucio posted:I read an interview with Lars from a few weeks ago, and he said that they didn't want to become a nostalgia act. And then here comes Through The Never, featuring one song from after 1996. Oops. They do Fuel AND Memory Remains and Cyanide.
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Oct 13, 2013 00:24
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Ahhh Gamma Ray. For 51 weeks of the year I cannot stand them. However, for 1 week of the year, they will be the ultimate definition of musical glory that nobody else has ever reached. I will live, eat, breathe and babble constantly about Gamma Ray. Then one week later I can't stand them again. Still they are awesome value for that one week.
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Oct 19, 2013 05:52
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LordWeird posted:Not a cover, but the new Toxic Holocaust video is a thing of beauty. This is a reminder that I have not done anywhere near enough drugs in my life.
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Oct 30, 2013 21:54
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John Magnum posted:Are there any rerecordings that are significant improvements on the original? There's the terrible Dark Quarterer XXV, and I don't think I've heard much good about that rerecording of Bonded by Blood Exodus did. I actually really like Exodus' re-recording. Then again, I reckon Rob Dukes is the best vocalist that they've ever had.
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Nov 2, 2013 04:13
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Demon Of The Fall posted:really is a good album, When has always been my fav Sorry, April Ethereal wins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf8PJvUpjog But really, the best "Story" album from Opeth is Still Life. You can't beat The Moor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0hRznmgLUo
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Nov 24, 2013 05:39
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Tool are surely worthy of a mention.
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