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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Oct 29, 2022 20:42:39 GMT
Valborg have released a new album: "Der Alte". Looking forward to giving it a listen.
"New" material by Owl as well in the form of "Grid Shimmer", but it's more of a compilation with only two new songs.
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Post by Duffking on Nov 3, 2022 21:13:10 GMT
Saw Elder + Pallbearer last night. Pallbearer were very much Pallbearer, I enjoy them well enough but struggled to ever actively listen to them. Solid live but not quite the kinda energy I'm looking for.
Elder were aces though, they played a track off Omens too and it sounds *so* much better live, way more energy.
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Nov 4, 2022 22:07:47 GMT
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Post by stixxuk on Nov 18, 2022 9:37:17 GMT
Anyone familiar with White Ward? They make melodic black-ish metal with lots of ambient/noir jazz bits. I came across them as lots of people on the Damnation festival forum were requesting them for next year. As a lover of jazz and metal, these guys are seriously doing it for me. Pretty sure I just heard a sax lead over a melodic black metal breakdown. youtu.be/PXQnEfPRcVU |
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Post by drhickman1983 on Nov 18, 2022 12:01:33 GMT
White Ward are great. Only really got into them this year but they've done some great stuff. Their new album is amongst my faves this year.
There's a few metal bands who is sax. Ihsahn has incorporated sax a fair bit.
Imperial Triumphant are very jazz-metal, their last album even has a Kenny G sax solo.
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Nov 19, 2022 21:17:32 GMT
Last song on their only album so far.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Nov 23, 2022 0:35:17 GMT
Listening to Anaal Nathrakh as I'm going to be seeing them (or at least a version of them) in a few weeks.
Love this slightly obscure deepcut from the album Desideratum, starting with a hardcore d-beat that morphs into a Bolt Thrower-esque death metal groove.
(and yeah, I know I've posted them with a high frequency before, and there's a decent chance I'll blather on about them again in the future, but I genuinely think they're one of my favourite bands of all time, which is as much to do with how Dave (and Mick) come across as people as the music)
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Post by bichii2 on Nov 24, 2022 9:42:45 GMT
Have a couple of train journeys today so checking out some albums I have never given proper attention. First up was slayer - hell awaits.
Slayer are one of my most listen to bands on Spotify but that's almost exclusively from reign in blood, south of heaven and seasons in the abyss. Seasons being one of my favourite albums of all time.
Anyway, hell awaits and err yes please. Except for the awful mix/recording from 1985 where I could only make out about 5% of the lyrics it was excellent with so many sexy hard riffs.
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Post by stixxuk on Nov 24, 2022 20:48:35 GMT
Everyone should check out Dream Unending - Songs of Salvation.
It's progressive death-doom, but very melodic and varied. Getting a lot of hype and deservedly so - the whole album is just fantastic and needs to be listened to as a whole. Apparently one of the guys is from Tomb Mold, but the bands are very different.
And yes Hell Awaits is awesome. Especially the song itself!
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Post by Duffking on Nov 25, 2022 9:18:43 GMT
I'm checking out High Command's new record today. Should be some good thrash in the vein of stuff like Power Trip. youtu.be/rOfUMPQMK6QThere's also a new Elder album which could go either way after Omens. |
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Post by Tuffty on Nov 25, 2022 9:38:18 GMT
Also a good hardcore/thrash album released by Spiritworld today set in a B movie Western youtu.be/4lSSzMZg0oEI'm checking out High Command's new record today. Should be some good thrash in the vein of stuff like Power Trip What a shout, didn't even know there was a second album coming. Fantastic too |
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Post by stixxuk on Nov 25, 2022 11:41:54 GMT
I saw Spiritworld at Bloodstock this year, they were not at all what I expected from looking at them...
At a quick listen, both High Command and Spirit World scratch a similar itch and both are awesome. But Spiritworld really do the hellish Slayer riffs nicely.
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Post by simple on Nov 28, 2022 16:14:27 GMT
NEW METALLICA
Sounds like someone has dug out their old Diamond Head records
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Post by drhickman1983 on Nov 28, 2022 16:32:14 GMT
Well that was utterly okay.
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Post by simple on Nov 28, 2022 17:28:50 GMT
Ouch  Also the tour is two nights in each venue with a no repeats different setlist and different supports. In the US its night 1 PANTERA night 2 Five Finger Death Punch, that’s no fair is it? |
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Post by bichii2 on Nov 28, 2022 21:33:45 GMT
Just listened to it myself. It's okay. It wasn't bad really but didn't make me want to listen to it again.
I'm still listening to megadeth's latest album pretty regularly, about half of it is excellent.
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Post by wunty on Nov 28, 2022 21:39:26 GMT
I really don't get Metallica, which is fine because we all like different things, but what's with the utterly sterile production. It's horrific. Is that the norm for them? Maiden are the same. You've got these tunes that should send heavy as all buggery and they sound as flat and clinical as anything. Utter balls. I mean, I presume Trujillo is in that song, and I can see him playing in that video. Can't hear him though.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Nov 28, 2022 21:53:00 GMT
The production isn't great. I've heard worse but yeah, it's not exactly popping out. The production sounds a bit tired, moreso than the actual song
Kinda wish they'd just employ Andy Sneap, I know he turns up on loads of stuff but his production would suit this kind of stuff really well.
Either that or it needs to be more raw and just play it live. Has a kind of garage band sound so it's be better if it was just more live and scuzzy.
At least it's not brick walled to fuck like Death Magnetic.
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Post by wunty on Nov 28, 2022 21:54:58 GMT
It's what's always put me off getting properly into Metallica tbh. I've just found the production on their stuff so lifeless.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Nov 28, 2022 22:02:16 GMT
It's a real mixed bag production wise.
I think Kill 'em All to Master of Puppets actually have decent production for the time.
Justice for All is crap production wise.
I honestly like the production on Black Album to Reload.
St Anger has those drums, I think that Lars's choice more than Bob Rock's.
Death Magnetic is just compressed awfully. It's actually my least favourite of theirs from a production point of view.
Hardwired production I didn't mind too much.
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Post by simple on Nov 28, 2022 22:40:34 GMT
Relative to their time and sound I’d say Kill ‘em All and Load have the best production. They both certainly have the “right” production for the type of music they contain in a way most, if not all, of the others fail to capture to varying degrees.
A decent live version of any Metallica song is always preferable to the album track I’ve found.
On this new track I’m very pleasantly surprised by the guitars having something of KEA or Diamond Head, maybe Mercyful Fate about them. The influence is definitely there. The drums have something Motorheady going on, but a bit mechanical, sampled almost. What lets it down is the vocals for me, I don’t think Metallica have written a properly memorable hook since something like Four Leaf Clover or even Reload and this doesn’t really change that. Can anyone hear a stadium singing along to this?
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Post by drhickman1983 on Dec 3, 2022 17:27:54 GMT
Seeing these guys tonight
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Post by drhickman1983 on Dec 3, 2022 22:10:41 GMT
After the gig
Was good
What's interesting is, live, Conan are 1/3 hardcore punk. Their fast sections are pure d-beat. Or pure d-beat ran through a scuzzy filter.
I liked it a lot.
Very fun.
I'm too old to mosh like that but I didn't have a conary which I genuinely count as a win.
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Post by simple on Dec 4, 2022 13:51:59 GMT
They were the support when I saw Max & Igor Cavalera’s Beneath The Remains/Arise tour and I thought it was an odd fit until they amped up all that crusty Discharge-y d-beat side of their sound then it made perfect sense
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Post by simple on Dec 5, 2022 9:50:12 GMT
I know its only mobile phone footage from a festival crowd but the first Pantera reunion shows look and sound pretty good. Phil’s obviously a lot less mobile these days but his voice seems to be holding up for now.
Obviously Zakk and Charlie are both safe bets who’ve been playing big shows forever but they really do sound just like Pantera.
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Post by Tuffty on Dec 6, 2022 11:34:51 GMT
Crystal Lake narrowed down auditons to the final 3 to replace their formal vocalist Ryo and you can see each of them performing live with the band here in a final audition. I dont think any of them can compare to Ryo |
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Post by damagedinc on Dec 6, 2022 12:39:22 GMT
If i had to pick the 3rd guy gets my vote.
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Post by stixxuk on Dec 6, 2022 12:40:56 GMT
I know its only mobile phone footage from a festival crowd but the first Pantera reunion shows look and sound pretty good. Phil’s obviously a lot less mobile these days but his voice seems to be holding up for now. Obviously Zakk and Charlie are both safe bets who’ve been playing big shows forever but they really do sound just like Pantera. It does... Phil's just too much of a cunt to enjoy it any more. I think between him and Zakk on stage I wouldn't be able to stomach going to see them. I don't even know what it is about Zakk, he just comes across like a bell-end. Some new interesting stuff from Lykotonon (members of Stormkeep and Blood Incantation). Like a mash-up of those two bands and uh... Rob Zombie? But good. And different. |
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Post by simple on Dec 6, 2022 21:19:27 GMT
That new Metallica song but the vocals are Hit The Lights
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