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Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal

Metallica - Master Of Puppets

Never really got into this before, but I'm liking it now. Are you familiar with the Brazilian Abhorrence? Their demo is also well worth checking if not...

Primus - Jerry Was A Race Car Driver

Incantation- "Tribute to the Goat" Gorguts- "Considered Dead" Amon- "Feasting the Beast" Disgorge- "Cranial Impalement" Inveracity- "Circle of Perversion" Mortician- "Mortal Massacre" For a long drive I took last night.

Slayer - Decade Of Aggression

With you here. That alien/robot vocal effect is really annoying and as much as I can recognise and acknowledge the effort it falls on design over content. Highly overrated album.

Brujeria - Raza Odiada Brujeria - Brujerizmo

Megadeth - Countown To Extinction

Gorguts - Obscura

Obscenity - Summoning The Circle

Kampfar - 'Ofidians Manifest' A modern black metal album packed full of of highlights and grandstanding. Get on board and feel the energy.

Vanum - Ageless Fire Edge of Sanity - Crimson II

Swans - Various Failures (yellow disc) Pretty sure I haven't, thanks for sharing!

Fucking fuck yes, love that demo! NP: Beherit- "Drawing Down the Moon" Respect! Jedi Mind Tricks have put out some of the best hip hop of the last decade

Cavalera Conspiracy - Bloodbrawl

Got on some underground hip-hop today. Mainstream has killed the genre. People think Drake is actually hip-hop. Hell naw. Jedi Mind Tricks - San La Muerte

Testament - Souls of Black

La Chouffe is good stuff. Happy birthday man!

I only have heard Focus and Kindly Bent To Free Us. I think the latter is a solid modern prog rock/metal album and I prefer it to Focus by a long chalk. Kindly Bent To Free Us is great background music which might seem an insult but isn’t meant to be. It fills my head regardless of what I am doing without being intrusive.

St. Anger: Won't say much, been done to death. I don't *hate* it, but, easily Metallica's worst sounding album. When they said back to their roots, maybe they shouldn't have gone *that* far back lol Risk: What happens when a record label, who doesn't know what to do with thrash, gets a hold of thrash legends? Risk. Risk is what happened. Not even gonna talk about the mix or any of that business. What I will say is that is was a BORING Megadeth album. Those are words that shouldn't go together.

Cynic - Focus ...I wish I liked this album. On one hand there's the amazing musicianship, great parts, lots of cool ideas, a really unique take on death metal. On the other hand, the songs feel incoherent, a lot of the great ideas are unsupported, and the vocal melodies grate on my nerves. Been trying since I first heard it in 1996, and it's still not working for me.

Internal Bleeding ‎– Heritage Of Sickness

Bolt Thrower ...For Victory and Those Once Loyal CD's. The debate I have now is whether I complete my collection on CD and get Honour - Valour - Pride and Mercenary also? Vektor - Black Future CD

A few of the latest arrivals: Mercyful Fate - 'Don't Break the Oath' Got the 2020 Metal Blade vinyl replica release. It's a beautiful package. Satanic Warmaster - 'Opferblut' Been meaning to pick this up for ages, so finally pulled the trigger. Atmospheric, unpretentious, yet emotional and moving. Emyn Muil - 'Elenion Ancalima' A flat out rip-off of Summoning, but enjoyable nonetheless. It's Summoning basically. Panopticon - 'Roads to the North' Everyone has been raving about this band, so I bought this without having heard them. What a cool album. Kind of hipster black metal mixed with bluegrass Kentucky music. Amazing one man band musicianship. I feel very inferior listening to this. Gehenna - 'First Spell' This is the 2014 re-release with no fewer than 10 bonus tracks in the form of demos etc. I just need this for the collection more than any great urge to listen to Gehenna's keyboard heavy black metal.

Here's a really good lyric video with a nice approach, although it's still very 'flicky'. I love the idea that the lyrics are being typed out on an old typewriter, as if a story is being written - which it more or less is. Our focus is being directed to the lyrics, but I think in this case it works because the lyrics are important to the tune. Also, I tend not to enjoy music videos at all as I find them too distracting from the song - hence I think I don't like Behemoth until I actually listen to 'The Satanist' without any videos whatsoever and I realise that it's a pretty happening album! Here's an example of a video that works really well for me as it reminds me of my trip through Norway but also because it's got that real rock n roll freedom vibe:

New Gorguts??? Fucking hell, that's made my day. Looking forward to hearing some new stuff from you. Is it Black Harvest stuff? Hear you on the parents front. Seeing mine face to face this week for my birthday and we are hoping the weather holds to maintain social distancing outside in the garden.

In Flames - Colony Nailbomb - Point Blank

Opeth - Orchid

Iced Earth - Night Of The Stormrider Fear Factory - Mechanize In Flames - Colony

Hooded Menace - Never Cross the Dead Sinister - Syncretism Boris - Boris At Last - Feedbacker Atheist - Elements

Greetings who ever sees this. I am a lover of many types of metal especially, Folk, and bm. I wanted to get back to forms again since I think socail media was the wrong direction. Anyways \M/

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - S/t (but skipping Greg's songs lol)

Septic Flesh - The Great Mass

Animated lyric videos are the fucking worst. I hate them so much. That "everybody look at me/follow the bouncing ball" shit ruins the song and the lyrics for me. I always put up a different tab or minimize the window. Honestly I don't even like "real" music videos much anymore... everybody get off my lawn! NP: Enslaved - E

Not bad, I usually take a punt on anything Incantation release nowadays. You know exactly what you are getting with them and that’s not always a bad thing if their existing formula works. P.s. I have a real problem with lyric videos though. Does anybody else find them really distracting as the vocals are all you find yourself focusing on? Had to turn away from the screen to just listen properly. Fuck I am weird.

Discussion of classic albums from Anvil, Metal Church, Van Halen, Witchfynde, Black Sabbath, and Megadeth. Remember to like and share the video, as well as subscribe to the YouTube channel.

Hellhammer - Satanic Rites Amorphis - Privilege Of Evil Wicked Innocence - Omnipotence Disaffected - Vast

Hi welcome to the forum. What bands are you into?

I greatly enjoy Sibelius. For symphonies, my favv is #4. A great shorter piece is Finlandia.

Thanks! Will check them out as soon as possible!

Sibelius huh? I have heard of him, don't know if heard any of his symphonies though, will check them out!

Awesome dude, I am exactly the same, black metal first, but also all other types of metal too, what's your favourite classical piece? Mine is Dvorak symphony no.9 in E minor, I used to work at a cd shop many years ago, when the boss was out I'd play metal, one day I was playing Stormblast by Dimmu, Guds Fortapelse has a sample of it at the beginning, so bossman arrived and I took it off immediately, he didn't approve of playing metal in the shop, first thing he puts on when he gets there was Dvorak 9th Symphony, I nearly spat my tea out cos I thought I'd left the Dimmu album in the cd player!!! The whole symphony is super dramatic though which is why I love it so much... You cant beat Jesus' Tod man, best burzum track! Beholding the daughters of the firmament too!!

I don't know if I have any favorite bands nowadays but one worth mentioning is Burzum and especially Hvis lyset tar oss and Filosofem albums, also all the Burzum ambients!

Hi, Welcome

Greetings! What bands are your favorites?

Not familiar with most of those if honest, I mean I know who they are but I tend to dwell on the more extreme side of metal but there are lots of threads on here linked to the bands you mention and plenty more users who share your favourites. Hope you enjoy your time here.

Thanks! I love Ghost, Sabaton, Beast In Black, Battle Beast, Symphony X, Nightwish, Powerwolf, Stratovarius, Sonata Arctica, Majestica, Amberian Dawn, Manowar, Edguy, Avantasia, pretty much anything I can sing along to and harmonize with! Thank you!

Welcome Nikki, who are some of your favourite bands?

Greetings! What bands do you like the most?