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Re: Metal Forum Top 10 Power Metal Bands Serenia aren't power metal, they're gothic. Dragonforce suck. They're a joke. Nightwish is good but nowhere near number one in anything.

Pretty self-explanatory: 1. My Dying Bride 2. Gwar 3. Loss 4. Immortal 5. October Tide

Re: Cannibal Corpse I've always had a soft spot for them. I've seen them 3 or 4 times and they put on excellent shows every time. I've got all their CD's and for a while they were my favorite Death Metal band. Obituary is my all time favorite now.

Re: Metal Jokes! How many emo kids does it take to change a light bulb? Who cares, let them cry in the dark. How many hardcore kids does it take to change a light bulb? Ten, one to change it and nine to back him up.

Re: IMMORTAL What other band could offer you such awesomeness? No one, that's who. Dimmu could match the vocals but not the season.

Pretty self-explanatory: 1. My Dying Bride 2. Gwar 3. Loss 4. Immortal 5. October Tide

'Meltdown' is a great live album.

Re: Judas Priest, Fight! or Halford?
Jugulator is one of their top 3 albums IMO. That album furthered the direction of Painkiller but with a better vocalist. Ripper is much better than he's credited for.

There were a lot of quality bands to come from that era of Heavy Metal history, some are still around while some died out quickly. If you are new to this style I recommend the following: Angel Witch - Angel Witch Angel Witch - Screamin' And Bleedin' Blitzkrieg - A Time Of Changes Cloven Hoof - Cloven Hoof Def Leppard - On Through the Night Grim Reaper - See You In Hell Grim Reaper - Fear No Evil Holocaust - The Nightcomers Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden Iron Maiden - Killers Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind Legend - Legend Legend - Death In The Nursery Judas Priest - British Steel Raven - Rock Until You Drop Raven - Wiped Out Raven - All For One Raven - Life's A Bitch Samson - Head On Samson - Shock Tactics Saxon - Denim & Leather Tygers Of Pan Tang - Wild Cat Tygers Of Pan Tang - Spellbound Venom - Welcome to Hell Venom - Black Metal Venom - In War with Satan Witchfynde - Stagefright Granted there are more great bands/albums out there, but these are great starting points!

Re: New Purchases/Acquisitions Annihilator - Criteria for a Black Widow Dismember - Misanthropic

Re: Ghosts A ghost (or whatever you want to call it) is basically energy. You can't destroy energy, it goes on forever. Some school's of thought say that a "ghost" is a moment in time. Specifically, an imprint left over from something horrific, like a murder, suicide, etc... and they can be triggered to play out again. Another school of thought says its all psychosomatic. I don't know what caused the EVP's my friends and I got. We went to various cemeteries all over our state. Sometimes we'd bring occult devices with us (with some in the group being heavily involved in witchcraft and what not). We got some crazy recordings when we used said devices. We also got crazy readings when we went on sabbats. Life isn't worth living unless there's something after we die.

Re: Top 10 Albums of Any Given Year 1999: 1. Type O Negative - World Coming Down 2. Lacrimas Profundere - Memorandum 3. Gamma Ray - Powerplant 4. Bal-Sagoth - The Power Cosmic 5. Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black 6. Entwine - The Treasures Within Hearts 7. My Dying Bride - The Light at the End of the World 8. Annihilator - Criteria for a Black Widow 9. Sentenced - Crimson 10. Pegazus - Breaking the Chains Honorable Mention: Anathema - Judgement Lacuna Coil - In a Reverie Finntroll - Midnattens Widunder

Re: Top 10 Albums of Any Given Year 1998: 1. Cradle Of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast 2. Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth 3. Cannibal Corpse - Gallery of Suicide 4. Theatre Of Tragedy - Aegis 5. My Dying Bride - 34.788%...Complete 6. Amorphis - Tuonela 7. Slayer - Diabolus In Musica 8. Borknagar - The Archaic Course 9. Helloween - Better Than Raw 10. Grave Digger - Knights of the Cross Honorable Mention: Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding Death - Sound of Perseverance Primal Fear - Primal Fear Iron Maiden - Virtual XI Katatonia - Discouraged Ones Blue Oyster Cult - Heaven Forbid

Re: Top 10 Albums of Any Given Year 1996: 1. Anathema - Eternity 2. Type O Negative - October Rust 3. Cradle Of Filth - Dusk ... and Her Embrace 4. Cannibal Corpse - Vile 5. Iced Earth - The Dark Saga 6. Katatonia - Brave Murder Day 7. Moonspell - Irreligious 8. Manowar - Louder than Hell 9. Carcass - Swansong 10. Theatre Of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear

Re: Top 10 Albums of Any Given Year 1995: 1. Iron Maiden - The X-Factor 2. At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul 3. Paradise Lost - Draconian Times 4. Anathema - The Silent Enigma 5. Morbid Angel - Domination 6. Anathema - Pentecost III 7. Theatre Of Tragedy - Theatre of Tragedy 8. Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side 9. The Gathering - Mandylion 10. Death - Symbolic Honorable Mention: In Flames - Subterranean Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings Cathedral - The Carnival Bizarre Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet Sentenced - Love & Death Rammstein - Herzeleid

Re: Top 10 Albums of Any Given Year 1992: 1. Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark 2. Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer 3. Obituary - The End Complete 4. Anathema - The Crestfallen 5. My Dying Bride - As the Flower Withers 6. Cathedral - Soul Sacrifice 7. Malevolent Creation - Retribution 8. Atrocity - Longing for Death 9. Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond 10. Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus

We've all heard albums so terrible we wanted to hurl midgets out the nearest window out of pure rage! These don't have to be albums you own either but they do have to be full albums, not just songs. List your most hated headache inducing mistakes below: For starters, I wish I'd never heard/purchased 'Dance of Death' by Iron Maiden. What an utter piece of shit! 'Covenant' by Morbid Angel would be next followed by their even shittier FFF. These phoned these turds in and if I'd never heard any of them I'd be a better person.

Re: Favourite metal quote "...all day long when we were in school we could hear the metal press from the foundry across the street. You could feel the vibration from the hammers pounding all day long. I think it had a subconscious effect on us. I think we had no choice but to play Heavy Metal being in those surrounds, lol" - KK Downing (Judas Priest)

Re: Albums You Wish You Never Bought
blowjob for a cowboy is crap. I'm surprised you'd bother wasting money on any of their material. Demonic Christ isn't amazing. That Hammerfall album, while the first bad thing they did, is still better than their last three, sadly. I never cared for that Satyricon album either. Dismember is just awesome. That is a great Obituary album too. You need to listen to them until you see their awesome.

(This is a "ported" topic from the old board written by Ryan Henry not me. However I have added to parts of this.) For those who have never heard funeral doom, but are curious as to what it's all about, here are some general characteristics of the genre. I can tell you that it's not for everyone... - Very slow, heavy music; with few "riffs". Relies more on chording or a few riffs to eventually build into a soundscape. - Snail-slow drums with sparse fills; traditional drums are often replaced with timpani (Skepticism does this frequently) - Almost always employs keyboards or organ. - Vocals are usually guttural, almost to the point of being indecipherable; often sound pitch-shifted; will also employ chanting or spoken verse - Lyrics are as sparse as the music; often not following traditional song structure at all - Songs usually clock in at anywhere between 8 to 14 minutes, and are often intentionally repetitive Very quickly, funeral doom unofficially "began" with the recordings of the Finnish band Thergothon in the early 1990s. The production was horrendous; the songwriting, stellar. From here, a number of bands emerged. Skepticism, another Finnish act, would follow in the vein of Thergothon. Esoteric, out of the UK, would release some very essential work as well. diSEMBOWELMENT would mix the "funeral doom" pace with grindcore and ambient/world music. Funeral doom peaked in the early 2000s, with the release of Shape of Despair's "Angels of Distress" -- often held up as the gold standard of the style. Finland is considered the "nexus" of this style of doom. If you are still interested in exploring this style, here are the best albums to start with: Colosseum - Chapter 1: Delirium** Colosseum - Chapter 2: Numquam** Colosseum - Chapter 3: Parasomnia** Esoteric - Epistemological Despondency** Esoteric - The Pernicious Enigma Esoteric - Subconscious Dissolution into the Continuum Evoken - Shades of Night Descending* Evoken - Embrace the Emptiness*,** Evoken - Quietus Evoken - Antithesis of Light Hierophant - The Tome Mistress of the Dead - Weeping Silence of the Dead** Mistress of the Dead - White Roses, White Coffin Mistress of the Dead - I Know Her Face from the Tombstone Panthiest - 1000 Years Pantheist - O Solitude Reclusiam - Reclusiam Stabat Mater - Stabat Mater Shape of Despair - Shades of...** Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress Shape of Despair - Illusion's Play Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet** Skepticism - Lead and Aether Skepticism - Aes Skepticism - Farmakon Thergothon - Fhtagn-nagh Yog-Sothoth Thergothon - Stream From the Heavens** Tyranny - Bleak Vistae Tyranny - Tides of Awakening Until Death Overtakes Me - Symphony III - Monolith Wormphlegm - Tomb of the Ancient King Worship - Last Tape Before Doomsday Worship - Dooom *Not considered "pure" funeral doom, but borrows elements from the genre ** RECOMMENDED starting points for the FD initiate