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Nice' date=' my friend Eston does (did?) vocals for them. I liked their set but haven't heard the recording.[/quote'] Oh, I've enjoyed what I've heard. The album covers seem really goofy and stupid so you'd expect a lot of EEERT WEEERT BLEEUUURT vocals, kick pedals, widdling arpeggios and slam-death CHUN CHUN stuff, but it's actually quite technical. People have mentioned Obscura-era Gorguts in reviews and I do hear that, but this feels more uptempo and less harsh and grating that that.
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Last night and this morning painting: Burzum - Filosofem Burzum - Aske Darkthrone - Sardonic Wrath Borknagar - The Olden Domain (had to try it again, love Garm, but got tired of riding dragons through the frosty mountains after three songs) Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness (been years, my opinion hasn't changed. I like the feel, but the songs are too long and I wish they were better musicians.) Enslaved - Mardraum Nice, my friend Eston does (did?) vocals for them. I liked their set but haven't heard the recording.
Try Spirit the Earth Aflame and Storm Before Calm, or even To the Nameless Dead. The first two are heavier and more interesting, and the latter is a better representation of their newer, more introspective sound. The Gathering Wilderness came off as a bit weaker to me as well, I still enjoy it well enough, but don't reach for it much. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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Try Spirit the Earth Aflame and Storm Before Calm' date=' or even To the Nameless Dead. The first two are heavier and more interesting, and the latter is a better representation of their newer, more introspective sound. The Gathering Wilderness came off as a bit weaker to me as well, I still enjoy it well enough, but don't reach for it much. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2[/quote'] Spirit the Earth Aflame is the one that got me into them, but it's been probably seven years or so since I put it on, so I'll give it another listen. I think I have Storm Before Calm on my computer, but I've never listened to it. I just never got around to it. I like their approach, the guy has a unique vocal style... I want to like them...
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Slayer - South Of Heaven. I have never been able to appreciate thrash or whatever this is' date=' try as I might, I'm going to give up in a minute.[/quote'] It is thrash, but it's not very good thrash IMO. I haven't been a Slayer (or most thrash) fan since high school, but the vocals on that album in particular annoy the shit out of me. He should have never tried to "sing", he just can't pull it off. I'm sure there are some solid thrash recommendations floating around if you want to hear the good stuff before making up your mind.
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Last night and this morning painting: Burzum - Filosofem Burzum - Aske Darkthrone - Sardonic Wrath Borknagar - The Olden Domain (had to try it again, love Garm, but got tired of riding dragons through the frosty mountains after three songs) Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness (been years, my opinion hasn't changed. I like the feel, but the songs are too long and I wish they were better musicians.) Enslaved - Mardraum
Glad to gather your painting of late, look forward to seeing it. I'm a fan of yours in 2D for sure. As for the music I have to agree with your mother that it would be nice to hear you sing some nice songs, I bet you would have a lovely voice if you weren't screaming the whole time. Just kidding of course, scream your heart out Alabaster! is the painting for the new album cover? Is the painting the one we have seen in grey scale of a figure looming over the ruins of a city, or the one with someone getting shoved by multitudes. Do those sound like paintings of yours, or do I need to go back to the art thread. Please post something there to let us see.
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Glad to gather your painting of late' date=' look forward to seeing it. I'm a fan of yours in 2D for sure. As for the music I have to agree with your mother that it would be nice to hear you sing some nice songs, I bet you would have a lovely voice if you weren't screaming the whole time. Just kidding of course, scream your heart out Alabaster! is the painting for the new album cover? Is the painting the one we have seen in grey scale of a figure looming over the ruins of a city, or the one with someone getting shoved by multitudes. Do those sound like paintings of yours, or do I need to go back to the art thread. Please post something there to let us see.[/quote'] Thank you! Yes, I'm working on the one with the grey androgynous figure and the hooded figure and all the arms. It's coming along well, though it's not quite there yet. The album cover (and finished inside cover, which is the landscape you're talking about) are posted in my band thread, along with a video link to the final track on the album, which does have all clean vocals, though I wouldn't call them my strong point.
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Listening to/watching Metallica on tv live at Glastonbury now. Set list not anything out of the ordinary - played creeping death, for whom the bell tolls, master of puppets , one , nothing else matters, enter sandman, whiskey in the jar and others. High concentration on the black album with some earlier and later stuff. Glad they've played some stuff of ride and master of puppets - thought they might not at it's Glastonbury which isn't exactly known as a hard rock/metal festival, so that's some good, but it's not like they've played anything out of the ordinary. Nothing from Kill em' All though :( I'm not sure that the bbc broadcast the full thing.But I wish they'd play a few more off ride, kill em' all and master of puppets. - hopefully the four horsemen, Orion, fight fire with fire etc. But we'll see. Live, they're not what they were, such as in the 1989 Seattle concert, but it's still a good performance. Good to see them blowing the cobwebs off so to speak at Glastonbury, considering that it has such mainstream exposure. Granted, it is a 'trendy' 'hipster' sort of place, and I find it a bit funny when the bbc presenters have been hyping them up when they've never back Metallica or hard rock/metal on radio 1 et cetera. but it nice to see some heavy music there (along with Robert Plant and Brian Ferry)- better than the usual indie bands, Coldplay or Beyonce :eek: edit: Yes! They're playing seek and destroy as an encore! :D

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Yes? They play that song constantly as encore' date=' for the last ten years or something. It get's really boring and predictable.[/quote']True. My over exuberance there because I thought they might not play anything from kill 'em all, considering that this is Glastonbury we're talking about.It's like Metallica playing Coachella, which from what I gather seems to be similar festival. It is a small blessing that they played that song - nothing more. They were highly unlikely to play anything other than the 'hits' as it were so I was being conservative in my hopes. As I said, there's nothing from that set which was surprising- just their usual stuff really.It's a bit like when Judas Priest appeared on American Idol - If I had my way, they'd play Tyrant, Saints in Hell, Dissident Aggressor, etc not Living after Midnight and Breaking the law but that would never happen on such a show. I don't follow Metallica particularly so I'm not entirely up to speed as to their typical setlist, but I know that what they played is nothing unexpected. But for a festival like Glastonbury it is... sort of. I thought they might just play stuff off the black album and newer albums, so I was glad to get a few from the first four, but I don't pretend that the ones they did were anything out of the ordinary. It was just a few scraps. But I'm still in two minds about it. Metallica at a trendy hipster festival, once a free folk festival but now very much commercialized and never a rock festival - that was/is Knebworth and Donnington's jurisdiction. Is it just another confirmation of them 'selling-out'? Or might it be good for a 'metal' band to be on there - might it make guitar heavy music more popular? But then, again I'm not sure I care whether metal gets popular in the mainstream. Agree with what Bruce Dickinson said about it tbh.
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