Top 3 albums/eps of the week.

[MacabreEternal]

So where would you recommend I go next with them?

[BlutAusNerd]

So where would you recommend I go next with them?

My favorites from Sigh are Hail Horror Hail, which is where they started getting weird, but were still pretty black metal sounding, and the prog epic Imaginary Sonicscape. I also love their debut, which is just great black metal, Scenario IV: Dread Dreams, which is like a whackier Hail Horror Hail, and Hangman's Hymn, which was a bit heavier and more fun than Gallows Gallery. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

[MacabreEternal]

Cheers BAN. Most interested in their BM sounding stuff tbh but that prog epic jumps out also.

[BlutAusNerd]

Cheers BAN. Most interested in their BM sounding stuff tbh but that prog epic jumps out also.

That's usually what I gravitate toward as well, but the power of Imaginary Sonicscape can't be denied. My friend Edgar, that doesn't even like prog or avant-garde, had it in a stack of CDs he was looking at at a record store in Vegas, and I made sure he grabbed it. He seemed annoyed at first that it wasn't black metal, but after hearing it a few times, he says he loves it. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

[FatherAlabaster]

Sigh "Gallows Gallery" Amorphis "Karellian Isthmus" Edguy "Space Police - Defenders of the Crown" (shut up!)

Karelian Isthmus is one of my all-time favorite albums. Amorphis introduced me to melodic death metal when I was 13 or 14, and they have a special place in my heart despite my low opinion of everything after Tuonela.

[MacabreEternal]

Karelian Isthmus is one of my all-time favorite albums. Amorphis introduced me to melodic death metal when I was 13 or 14' date=' and they have a special place in my heart despite my low opinion of everything after Tuonela.[/quote'] I have had a hard time coming round to it listening at home, but last week I took it on the road with me and I was taken with how it builds and the overall structure of the record as a total package.

[FatherAlabaster]

I have had a hard time coming round to it listening at home' date=' but last week I took it on the road with me and I was taken with how it builds and the overall structure of the record as a total package.[/quote'] There was something formulaic about the way albums were arranged back then, but I felt that it was valuable - the obligatory intro, and holdovers from the time limit of older formats, and the necessity of arranging for two sides. I hesitate to say album structure is a "lost art", but older albums usually strike me as being more consciously arranged. New ones tend to feel thrown together haphazardly, by comparison.

[BlutAusNerd]

there should be a "proto metal" sub genre

I love old Amorphis too, their first 3 albums are so fucking good. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

[MacabreEternal]

Edguy "Space Police..." - yeah, yeah I know! Gost - s/t Judas Priest "Ram It Down"

[MacabreEternal]

Goatlord - s/t Deicide "Scars of the Crucifix" Mitochondrion "Archaeaeon" Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk

[Frostaudn]

Insomnium - Shadows of the Dying Sun Severe Torture - Slaughtered Aborted - The Necrotic Manifesto

[rokr]

I will go with:Opeth - HeritageMy Dying Bride - EvintaAgalloch - Whitedivisiongrey

[MacabreEternal]

Blut Aus Nord "The Work Which Transforms God" Blut Aus Nord "The Odinist...." Tukaaria "Raw To The Rapine"

[metal_nerve]

obscura-omnivium obituary-slowly we rot amon amarth- deceiver of the gods

[MacabreEternal]

Ulcerate "Everything Is Fire" Ifing "Against This Weald" Demolition Hammer "Epidemic Of Violence"

[MissEighties]

Cripple Bastards « Nero in Metastasi » 2014Hecate Enthroned « Virulent Rapture » 2014Nervosa « Victim Of Yourself » 2014Bonus :Metal Inquistor « Ultima Ratio Regis » 2014

[BlutAusNerd]

Cripple Bastards « Nero in Metastasi » 2014Hecate Enthroned « Virulent Rapture » 2014Nervosa « Victim Of Yourself » 2014Bonus :Metal Inquistor « Ultima Ratio Regis » 2014

I didn't like Nervosa, they sounded like they were forcing it and trying their hardest to live in other band's shadows, not an uncommon problem with newer thrash bands. How is the new Hecate Enthroned? The last run through I did of their stuff left me uninterested, so I'm thinking of getting rid of most of it, but Redimus seemed to stand out over the rest. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

[MissEighties]

Coldwar "Pantheist" Archspire "The Lucid Collective" ...didn't have much time to listen to music. I was back from a vacation week with loads of work!

[MacabreEternal]

Serpentine Path "Emanations" Burzum "Det Som Engang Var" Mayhem "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas"

[FatherAlabaster]

King Crimson - Red King Crimson - Discipline Only two for this week.

[MissEighties]

I know what you mean about Nervosa....but I don't agree. I mean, at some point an album can be enjoyable and really good to hear even if they don't reinvent the wheel. About Hecate Enthroned I think there is something to dig out of this new album. Don't expect a big difference in the sound. The only thing really hate about about this band is that constant cheezy keyboard in the background. Some band do a great use of the keyboard but in their case it's useless. Envoyé de mon SGH-T999V en utilisant Tapatalk

[MacabreEternal]

King Crimson - Red King Crimson - Discipline Only two for this week.

Yeah but - in fairness who needs a third with those two? I rarely listen to King C but when I do I am mesmerised everytime. Need to play them more.

[FatherAlabaster]

Yeah but - in fairness who needs a third with those two? I rarely listen to King C but when I do I am mesmerised everytime. Need to play them more.

You're right! The clarity of the writing on those albums really impresses me. It's like, no matter how odd they get, they carry you along with them. I've listened to a bunch of other stuff lately, but nothing that sticks in my head and keeps me coming back the way those recordings do. I listened to a couple of my favorite Rush albums after blasting Crimson for a few hours, and they sounded like they were playing with kid's toys by comparison.

[BlutAusNerd]

I know what you mean about Nervosa....but I don't agree. I mean, at some point an album can be enjoyable and really good to hear even if they don't reinvent the wheel. About Hecate Enthroned I think there is something to dig out of this new album. Don't expect a big difference in the sound. The only thing really hate about about this band is that constant cheezy keyboard in the background. Some band do a great use of the keyboard but in their case it's useless. Envoyé de mon SGH-T999V en utilisant Tapatalk

I listen to plenty of bands that don't reinvent the wheel, but as long as they do it with conviction without sounding like a complete carbon copy of someone else and I like the sound, I'm good. However, conviction and purpose seems to be missing from newer thrash almost completely, with all of the elements seeming to exist more as placeholders to fit in to the genre than something that was actually felt, whether original or not. Many retro bands miss the point entirely, it's not those techniques that propel you aimlessly, it's what motivated the use and structure for those techniques and merits their being there. I definitely hear that with Nervosa, just checking all of the "thrash metal" boxes and riding the trend, but without any kind of drive or purpose, leaving a pretty empty feeling when the songs have concluded. That is not to say that thrash is dead, but most of it that's not fused with black or death metal these days seems to be totally worthless, with the exception of bands like Evil Army, Vektor, Nekromantheon, Antichrist, Deathhammer, etc... Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

[CastTheCrown69]

south of heaven - slayer surrounded by thieves - high on fire mental vortex - coroner