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Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill

Lethal - Programmed Pantera - Far Beyond Driven

Taake - Noregs Vaapen

Horna - Haudankylmyyden Mailla

Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments

Danzig - Danzig

Definitely agree - it is even true for the music that I listen to. Sometimes I just need a break from routine, so I listen/play something a little different. Doing so lets me return to the music I like with a clearer mind, which makes me enjoy it even more,

Awesome piece. . and I think you may do ..

Immolation - Here In After

Melvins - Houdini

Thank You! Have you heard the new Swans album, 'leaving meaning'? "Fuck Yes" is a worthy reaction to it. I was amused at the "gateway cassette" description. I did have years of bands like Van Halen, Ozzy and Kiss floating around, but Metallica really changed everything. I had seen the video for 'One' first, as most kids from my era. I bought the tape either that weekend or the following one and I haven't been the same since. For the sake of detail, I also bought Bon Jovi's - 'New Jersey'. Guess what style won...

Motörhead - Just Cos You Got The Power

Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss Happy Friday 🍻

Primitive old school death from Finland. or https://open.spotify.com/album/2O0ghSwzISu6Az8IDOsjt7 So far been mostly quiet writing songs and rehearsing, but now's a good time to start bringing it out in the open. We're currently recording our debut album, that will be out sometime in the fall. A couple of the demo tracks above will also get a new treatment on the lp. https://belowthegraves.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/belowthegraves

Fucking love Loggins, especially the early stuff with Messina NP: Dead Kommunist- "Expanding the Overton Window" Uber-simple rac from Finland with some blues influences. Nice 'n' heavy

Ministry - The Land Of Rape And Honey Evoken - Embrace The Emptiness Hedningarna - Hippjokk ...all over the place today, apparently.

Powerwolf - Blood of the Saints.

Venom Inc - Dein Fleisch

Got ya.

Thats extremely friendly indeed, thats basically half of the average rate so very generous of you. Thanks for the quick response. I´ll contact you when i´m finished with the track so you got a customer, if it´s a returning one.. time will tell. It´s not going to be an intrumental when finished btw, some clean and some growling vocals. I´ve never heard or seen anywhere, that the type of the song would effect the price of mastering? Mixing is a whole different animal since some songs can have ie.8 tracks where others can have 50. Maybe i completely misunderstood you and you actually didn´t consider that as a factor for the mastering process. I´d rather do the mixing myself, i quite enjoy it and i´m learning more and more every day.. especially now that i finally got a decent pair of studio monitors. I´m not exactly sure why it´s a tricky question to answer? Most mastering studios offer their pricing on their websites, transparency in costs will mean more business!

Some great new additions to this topic!

Yes. I first got in touch not too long after 'Blessed by Aris' was released on cassette. I've interviewed him, also. He is also involved with Chaosbaphomet, which is more Hellenic sickness, though quite different to Unholy Archangel. He's fairly easy to get in touch with. Contact info listed in every release I own - sans the split mentioned above, oddly enough. I want to also give credit to Agisilaos, as he writes all those lovely Unholy Archangel melodies. (Now playing) Irreverent - Blasphemous Crucifix Profanation (CD)

I'm really looking forward to Gretel and Hansel. The atmosphere in the trailers looks really interesting, and the name change from the fairy tale suggests to me that there might be a twist.

Off the top of my head: Try Autograph's debut - 'Sign in Please'. Hold Back the Night might be up your alley. Robert Tepper: No Easy Way Out (Classic stuff !!) Night Ranger: (You Can Still) Rock in America (off Midnight Madness, 1983) Europe - Rock the Night (album: The Final Countdown). King Kobra - Raise Your hands to Rock (album: Thrill of a Lifetime) and Piece of the Rock (off Ready to Strike). Keel - The Right to Rock Vinnie Vincent Invasion: Boyz are Gonna Rock.

I do indeed.

I have just recently started painting again. I love how I can just relax and lose myself in the creative zone I'm quite self critical in general really I suppose not just with painting, so when I do a piece that I find pleasing, it is always satisfying. I too have given away most of my recent stuff but it makes me happy if people enjoy it. Abstract can be very hit or miss for me. I am particularly interested in 'Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog' by C.D Friedrich at the moment and would love to visit the Kunsthalle Hamburg to see it in real.

I didn't know new album releases. So now I'm listening the Brotherhood. Thanks for the tip.

When I was a kid, every time I met someone who was into metal too it was so cool, like they understood. We had almost the exact same tastes, almost all of us. I think the only divide I saw was maybe on death metal, it was too extreme for some. If they liked death metal, they agreed with me on everything pretty much. If not, they still agreed with me on all the classic bands. I'm talking back in the early 90's and late 80's. Nowadays it seems like metal is not 1 all encompassing crowd anymore. I meet people into metal and get all happy and then I talk with them a little more and find out that they hate almost everything I like and love everything that I hate. I was watching this weird documentary about metal in Africa and they all had dreams of coming to the West where metal is supposedly popular. The few that got here were extremely disappointed about the scene. They described their own African scene as being far more welcoming, more comradery etc. It made me think of how it used to be. Is Metal still 1 thing these days or is it now like several scenes who all hate each other? This subgenre crowd vs the other subgenre crowd. I honestly don't know anymore. Maybe I'm just old, and its the old guys and the young hating each others tastes, but at that I started hating almost everything new back in 95 when I was 15. Am I wrong about this?

Forest- "Forest" At this point in time, I am much more fond of the Blazebirth Hall scene than the early Norwegian scene.

Sopor Aeternus - Es Reiten Die Toten So Schnell

I was recently turned on to Nachtlieder - another solid one-woman BM project with session drums. There are some vicious riffs in here, tough-sounding vocals, blastbeats for days, etc. Songwriting is not 100% my thing but it's definitely great when I'm in the mood. The first one I heard was "The Female Of The Species": "Lynx" is badass as well:

Starting off with Burroughs and ending with Rainbow just made my day! Hahaha! Does anyone else enjoy the fact that the name and look of this Artform both came from gay men? Take that, homophobe Metalheads! The Soft Machine is an awesome book - if you can handle odd literature. Killer band, too.

Nyogthaeblisz- "Abrahamic Godhead Besieged by Adversarial Usurpation" I find pleasure in having to listen close to an album in order to discern what exactly is going on. We've all felt that upon first getting into extreme metal, but not too many acts can evoke this phenomenon from one with a trained ear for 'rotten production', vocal effects, noise elements, etc. If nothing else, I will praise this group for revitalizing in me that unsure feeling of 'what the fuck did i just hear? I gotta run this back a few times'.

Hi Everyone, Just joined and looking forward to metal talk! Into loads of types of metal; currently going through a pagan/folk phase - Månegarm, Ensiferum, Windir etc.

Thanks natassja and everyone for the recommendations. Only had chance to listen to windir link but what a track. Dawn ray'd definitely play in this black metal with folk clean sections. Welcome again abronsius

He is intelligent, and gives good interviews, but I haven't really liked any of his music since the first album. That first album wasn't a great album, but it was a fun album.

Windir - 'Arntor' Hail Valfar, the true windir.

Cadaveria cast her spell on me in June of last year and she has yet to release me from it. Being mainly familiar with Opera IX's first three albums, I wondered how it was that I had never properly given her solo work its due. Witching hours by night and full moon were spent listening to The Shadow's Madame. Preceding this, I re-listened to said first Opera IX albums as well as Maleventum (the first to feature a new vocalist). Despite my devotion (get it:? how clever) to Cadaveria, it is possible that I like Maleventum more than the first three. Symawrath were a pleasant new find for me in spring of last year and their hold has persisted since. Namely, their debut album and split release for reasons listed in other threads. I didn't care to even listen to their industrial-whatever metal that they later attempted. The Cure are one of many favourites outside the world of metal. Wish and Disintegration made my playlist for a while. But everybody, their grandmother, and their dog like The Cure; only diseases and the pharmaceutical industry don't like The Cure. As you know, Tiamat has been on my mind with the effort being made to re-familiarize myself with their later works. I'm glad I did so, especially with regards to Judas Christ.

Looking at it now.... Indeed, It seems legit, and It checks out with the one listed on discogs.

Destruction - Cracked Brain

I know what you mean about the first two songs on 'Kill' - it's a great opening to the album. Nice overview of the albums.

Carcass - Heartwork

Sarcofago - INRI

If that is for me then yes of course! not from 'someone I scalped earlier'

Just keep practicing, study and try out different playing techniques, look into music theory a bit and learn a new song every now and then. Just keep doing stuff really. You will constantly get better, even if the progress can be at times hard to notice. Looks like you got a good start allready.

Psst we're trying not to make the kid feel like we're talking down to him. We all have our likes and dislikes right? It took me ten years to move from being able to tolerate harsh vocals in small doses to not being bothered by them at all and while six or seven years have passed since then I still remember what it was like. Felt stupid reaching out and asking for recommendations back then.

Gorgoroth - "Maaneskyggens Slave" - Pentagram Darkthrone - "The Pagan Winter" - A Blaze in the Northern Sky & "En As I Dype Skogen" - Transilvanian Hunger Demilich - "Raped Embalmed Beauty Sleep" - Nespithe