salmonellapancake

Oslo, Norway

Awesome album! So heavy
NP: Cannibal Corpse- "Tomb of the Mutilated"
 

Haha nice pun there.
NP: Possessed- "Seven Churches"

It's a Krusher of an album...
 
NP: Atten Ash - The Hourglass

London, England - home of Jack The Ripper

Asphyx - Last One On Earth

Necrophagia - The Divine Art of Torture

Sopor Aeturnus- "Nenia c'Alladhan"

Hell yeah, The Shadowthrone is my favorite but DMT rocks just about as much.

Welcome! I also can't fall asleep without music

Man, I really wish they had stayed like this for a little while too. I guess I should just appreciate their progression of identity, but it would be great to have another record like this or "Hell Awaits".

Good points! I've had very similar thoughts. And, yeah, "Altars of Madness" feels very spiritual for me.

Hi everyone, just found out about this forum, thought i'd sign up to find new people, new bands
Im 24, from Lithuania. Listen to Heavy, Metalcore, Death, Black, Doom. I play guitar. Studied psychology
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I'm appreciative of audiobooks. When you can't read for long periods of time without an eye strain headache (yay for vision impairment) they make life so easy.

Decapitated - Nihility

The Lord Of The Rings on audiobook.

Cannibal Corpse - Hammer Smashed Face

Absolutely. Early Slayer is much darker and more ominous sounding, and featured actual songwriting instead of the high speed mish mash of unrelated riffs that they string together on RiB.
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I would be so happy if Slayer had stayed like this for 3-4 albums instead of going Reign in Blood so quickly...  They topped the speed and violence at that point and then felt they had to move on, but what I really like about HtC and Hell Awaits is that they have this brooding atmosphere - the whole thing is really dark, not necessarily bloody and violent and full speed all the way through.  I liked the themes of mystery and mythology, undead and magic, as well as serial killings and the like, feels like that kind of stuff fell out as Slayer became a bit "cool" after signing with whatever label it was (EMI?  Can't remember).  Anyway, HtC is seriously good, that and HA are my top 2 thrash.  Bordering on death metal, some of this stuff...

A phenomenal album for sure and worthy of all the praise it gets despite what FA will tell you

I have explored death metal a great deal and added hundreds of death metal albums to my collection since hearing this one, but none of those others can Top this. It's just perfect.
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By far one of the best DM records ever...  The thing which sells it for me is how they keep a consistent tone and feeling throughout the whole thing, it's really a "composite piece" as I think people say.  Like classical music, everything ties together so nicely.  If you listen to the riffs, you notice this 1-4-3-4-2-4-3-4 motif coming up all the time (Chapel, Maze, Rites), I find it cements a certain atmosphere throughout the record..
There are other things they do this with as well, sometimes particular parts (or even kinds) of solos at specific points, bringing back certain drum or vocal rhythms later on, the whole thing feels like it's been built (or "grew") with one vision, one ideal in mind.
Probably the baseline for DM, as far as I'm concerned - if it's not up there with Altars of Madness, I don't have time to listen to it anymore...  Good review, man, reminded me why I love this record so much

One of the features of extreme metal composition is that it's often motif based beyond being "merely" riff based (though being riff based itself seems to lend a certain baroque/classical quality to it).  The same ideas are repeated through a song or an album with minor variations (melodic or structural) relative to what's happened earlier on in the song/album... That's what makes it feel more tied together than a lot of other rock music which can be just licks thrown together without an ear for consistency or development.  Classical is practically just motif development to a great degree, so that might be where a lot of the similarity lies.
Most of what people call "classical music" is through composed, whereas most metal is based on phrase repetition (like pop music).  However, you do get an awful lot of classical music (esp. Baroque and Classical eras) which features phrase repetition in melodic structure even if keys modulate through the piece.. Thinking very much of Bach, Mozart, and I guess some Beethoven here.  That's the stuff which usually reminds me of metal in terms of the structure of the music, if not the specifics of composition and intent.  Wagner is where a lot of the feeling and "gravitas" of metal can be found.
Metal is also clearly a folk form, though.  Most metal musicians for a long time learned riffs by ear, they weren't necessarily taught to play their instruments, they had a feel for the sound and went from there.  That's why early metal can have diverse riff styles and sounds but still have a sense of being tied together somehow... Thinking also of bands like Hellhammer and Bathory who did certain things that other musicians then picked up on later and worked on, esp. Darkthrone, Burzum etc.  The whole of death metal and black metal were based on musicians playing similar sounding things without having been "taught" any standard pieces (or any theory at all) - seems more like folk than classical at that point (I'm using "folk" in quite a loose sense, here).
I never found tabs or anything for songs I liked, I used to listen really hard to the music itself and work it out on a guitar.  That's one of the differences between "classical" music and world music (incl. folk and country), in my experience - while the former is taught in quite a structured way, the latter is more about picking it up and learning as you go.  Metal for me is healthily within the two bounds - there are aspects that clearly mimic classical structure and style, and there are aspects which are rooted in a folk tradition (namely "heavy metal," being its very own tradition!).
I could emphasise the origin in Blues, but I think that's overstated a lot... Black Sabbath really jumped out of that whole game in their first few albums, and as soon as NWOBHM hit the scene, metal was clearly its very own beast.
 
Edit: long story short, I think that structurally metal can come close to classical, historically it's a lot like its own kind of folk tradition, it's basically just its own thing as far as these two extremes go!

I had that issue with lacking the tools to convert what I hear in my head to actual music for the longest time. I'm just now managing to start that process. Experimenting with blending some of the techniques (more specifically the way in which they're used) and feeling I've come across through learning BM, DM, and Doom. I've begun blending some of that Dissection and Death influence with My Dying Bride sort of feelings and whilst the process is proving painful I enjoy it.

Wow, cool to see lots of people have similar experiences to me... I've been playing guitar for 13 years or so, been singing for 21 and played drums for like, 4-5 years?  Can't remember.  I'm ok at keyboards as well, and can play "bass" (i.e. play guitar on a bass...).  I have the same thing as a lot of people as far as writing music goes, I hear a lot of it in my head and then sit down later to try and work it out, a lot of the best stuff I've recorded has been stuff that took me weeks to learn to play!  The music in my head is way too hard for me to do, you'd need some kind of superband with 40 musicians to pull some of it off XD  But a lot of it is a lot simpler, a lot cooler, a lot easier for me to get down, and I really enjoy the process of finding out how to play what I can already hear.
As far as instruments themselves go, my weapon of choice is an Ibanez RG7, my wife's got some beautiful Ibanez bass as well (that I steal at every opportunity... hehehe).  GSR205B it says on the head, but I remember not being able to find it as an official Ibanez model so that's probably wrong.  Started off on a Dean guitar, then got myself a mock PRS, then I think it was Ibanez all the way through - something about their guitars just sounds good to me.
I'm playing through a Blackstar Heavy Metal pedal at the moment, the sound is something else... Was with Marshall for ages beforehand and got used to their distortion sound, but I felt it dropped a bit in quality when I upgraded my old amp for a new head... So I got this pedal, and it's the shit, man!  Range of tone from Sodom's earliest output to some of these US country style bands I used to hear on the TV all the time (Down etc.)  Really fun to play around with, managed to get good NWOBHM, DM, BM, Doom and Sludge tones out of it so far!  Bit of studio engineering to help with the EQ and effects but on its own it's a fucking amazing piece of kit!
And no, I'm not paid to advertise on their behalf, I just think it's really cool XD