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SKELETONWITCH (Vinyl or CD?)

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Re: SKELETONWITCH (Vinyl or CD?) Vinyl sounds better when the source recording was done on analog. When it's recorded digitally and transferred to vinyl, it's pointless soundwise, you might as well listen to the cd. Led Zeppelin II on vinyl: worlds apart from the cd. Sounds like they're in the room with you. Skeletonwitch on vinyl: The cover looks cool.

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Re: SKELETONWITCH (Vinyl or CD?) It's more about taking the time to sit and listen to an album, it's more involved to put on a vinyl than play a CD, and then flipping to side B. Most of my stuff is CD, pretty much all of my vinyls are albums i already have on CD and just like taking the time to appreciate the format. As far as Skeletonwitch goes, I saw them Friday night with Nile and they were fucking lame. It sounded like a bunch of mallcore kids listened to Pleasure To Kill or Black Thrash Attack once and tried to replicate it on a steady diet of As i Lay Dying.

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Re: SKELETONWITCH (Vinyl or CD?) I can certainly understand the sentiment for Skeletonwitch, I saw them at Blackest of the black a few years ago and apart from some good melodies and a good thrashbreak once or twice they weren't anything amazing. I just don't care for the sound of vinyl, and I can get the same experience by just putting a cd in my car stereo on a long drive as opposed to just listening to my music at work. It is a different experience with regards to a solid physical copy though, that much we can agree on.

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Re: SKELETONWITCH (Vinyl or CD?)

I can certainly understand the sentiment for Skeletonwitch' date=' I saw them at Blackest of the black a few years ago and apart from some good melodies and a good thrashbreak once or twice they weren't anything amazing. I just don't care for the sound of vinyl, and I can get the same experience by just putting a cd in my car stereo on a long drive as opposed to just listening to my music at work. It is a different experience with regards to a solid physical copy though, that much we can agree on.[/quote'] Vinyl is superfluous in my opinion too, but I just like the way it feels for no logical reason. I have around 1600 CDs and maybe only 50 vinyls, cd is definitely my preferred format, as i do most of my listening while driving, It's just something fun to do when you've got some time on your hands and feel like listening to a good album.
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I dig Skeletonwitch, one of the few thrash bands I find interesting. Their first CD was good, second was okay, but their third was great. They just posted a new track off their upcoming album, which is really good. If it's any indication, Serpents Unleashed will be their best album yet.

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Re: SKELETONWITCH (Vinyl or CD?) I've never liked these guys. It just sounds like a thrash parody to me, like somebody described to these mallcore kids what thrash was supposed to sound like and they did their best to recreate is without ever having heard it. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

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I don't care that you don't like them, but you describing them as "mallcore kids" is laughable and couldn't be farther from the truth. Most thrash bands i've heard recycle the same riffs and have that really annoying "shouting" kind of vocals. Personally I think Skeletonwitch is doing something "different" (using that term loosely because this is thrash metal we're talking about) but what do I know?

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Re: SKELETONWITCH (Vinyl or CD?)

Fueled by fire are a thrash parody' date=' Skeletonwitch are a bunch of dopes trying to meld melodic black metal riffs with leftover Kreator and Kill em all-era Metallica and doing a solid job at it. Not that I've bothered with some of their recent output.[/quote'] Most of the thrash revival is thrash parody, Skeletonwitch included. Most of them are just riding the trend and creating a pretty lame pastiche of their idols, but it seems like some European bands are doing a more legit job, like Nekromantheon, Antichrist, etc... Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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