Metal Thread 2: In Metal There Is No Law

[New Rob Halfordia]

I'm out of metal to listen to again (kinda, I got some floating around). Give me random suggestions!

I don't think I've heard that song 'The Wizard' though. I might be wrong, maybe.

Here

Stratovarius

[Impaled Nazarene]

ugh got my sig reported. no fun allowed.

[NeuPolska]

Because I want to honor some heroes that aren't necessarily Polish, I'm writing a song about Alexander Nevski and the Battle of Lake Peipus (also known as the Battle On The Ice), where Nevski, Prince of Novgorod, saved the great city from the Teutonic Knights in a decisive victory. Can I get some feedback on the lyrics so far? The beginning is not the intro, I started writing from the middle of the song. So this is what I've got so far (commas are brief pauses, mostly used to fill in for missing syllables or to make certain lyrics more drawn out):

Alexander Nevski
Prince of Novgorod
Hero of the Rus
Savior of his kind
Saint, of the Slavs

The cold was bitter
The lake frozen solid
Under our boots
The black cross
Loomed over the horizon

The, charge, came
Teuton met Slav
Steel on steel
Furs on mail
Bloody ripped tabbards
And shattered swords and shields

[Impaled Nazarene]

Because I want to honor some heroes that aren't necessarily Polish, I'm writing a song about Alexander Nevski and the Battle of Lake Peipus (also known as the Battle On The Ice), where Nevski, Prince of Novgorod, saved the great city from the Teutonic Knights in a decisive victory. Can I get some feedback on the lyrics so far? The beginning is not the intro, I started writing from the middle of the song. So this is what I've got so far (commas are brief pauses, mostly used to fill in for missing syllables or to make certain lyrics more drawn out):

Alexander Nevski
Prince of Novgorod
Hero of the Rus
Savior of his kind
Saint, of the Slavs

The cold was bitter
The lake frozen solid
Under our boots
The black cross
Loomed over the horizon

The, charge, came
Teuton met Slav
Steel on steel
Furs on mail
Bloody ripped tabbards
And shattered swords and shields

What genre? give me some info and i could give you a demo

[Ameriganastan]

ugh got my sig reported. no fun allowed.

Yeah, I know. Got reported by a guy I didn't even know. But rules are rules.

[NeuPolska]

Because I want to honor some heroes that aren't necessarily Polish, I'm writing a song about Alexander Nevski and the Battle of Lake Peipus (also known as the Battle On The Ice), where Nevski, Prince of Novgorod, saved the great city from the Teutonic Knights in a decisive victory. Can I get some feedback on the lyrics so far? The beginning is not the intro, I started writing from the middle of the song. So this is what I've got so far (commas are brief pauses, mostly used to fill in for missing syllables or to make certain lyrics more drawn out):

Alexander Nevski
Prince of Novgorod
Hero of the Rus
Savior of his kind
Saint, of the Slavs

The cold was bitter
The lake frozen solid
Under our boots
The black cross
Loomed over the horizon

The, charge, came
Teuton met Slav
Steel on steel
Furs on mail
Bloody ripped tabbards
And shattered swords and shields

What genre? give me some info and i could give you a demo

It's likely going to be death. But I'm thinking either symphonic or folk death. Because I want to make sure it sounds epic as fuck but I like death growls and heavy guitars. So it'd be death metal influenced by traditional heavy metal, power metal, and with elements of either symphonic or folk metal.

[The republic of Kosh Naranek]

we should open a record shop. Finally an underground punk and metal record shop that has every subgenre and fusion/hybrid subgenre pinpointed.

From the Dead Kennedy's to our latest death/thrash metal band! We have it, quality products, for good prices!

[NeuPolska]

I was in the mood for some black metal, and I haven't listened to Burzum's Filosofem yet, which I get the feeling is an essential Burzum album. So I'm listening to it.

After a couple songs, I can see where the Burzum hype comes from. Varg's personal beliefs aside, this is a good album. I like it, at least so far.

[NeuPolska]

Okay, a few thoughts on Filosofem.

This album put me in a trance. But trance is a bad word to describe it. It was great in the beginning, and enough to get me in, and then once that second to last song was on (the 25 minute one) I was just completely mellowed out. I feel really weird now, after listening to it. It's not a standard emotion, it's sort of like some sort of nihilism, where I'm pretty dulled down and I'm not sure what to say or anything. I just kind of walk around like a zombie. It's like how I felt after watching Nieulotne or Miasto 44. A bit of a brief summary of both movies:

About a guy and a girl (both Polish college students, and they're in love) who go to Spain for summer vacation. There's a feeling of uneasiness throughout the entire movie. The people who put the camera work and the music together did a great job of just making it so emotionally crushing. Not in the sense that you cry but in the sense that by the end of the movie you don't know what to feel anymore, and you get stuck in this limbo where everything is dull and you're not sure what's going on anymore.

Anyway, the guy goes out to a lake, and he gets confronted by some rich guy who claims to be the owner of the property and threatens him with all this legal stuff. He also beats up the Polish student and starts walking away. That's when the guy takes an oxygen tank (he likes scuba diving) and hits the rich guy on the head, killing him. He then sinks the body into the lake and has to deal with emotional trauma. He ends telling his girlfriend, she hates him and never wants to see him again, but then it turns out he got her pregnant and then they're back in Warsaw and everything's grey and dull and she has to figure out what she's doing with herself and he's trying to get her back and it's just really screwed up by the end. There's no grand ending, it just sort of fades out and leaves you stuck there.

About the Warsaw Uprising. More specifically, a young teenager who lives with his mother and little brother, and his dad died fighting the Nazis. He joins up with the underground resistance despite his mother's warnings and tons of crying and yelling, but he enjoys being part of it. Then the first fight happens, and it really shows how uncertain fighting can be. You could get shot at any time and every action is a risk. But he cannot find it in him to kill. He forces a surrender and victory is declared for the Poles. Everyone's happy. But then there's a deadly and brutal battle in a cemetery (and the makeup and effects crew did a fantastic job, one half of a guy's face got completely torn off and it was insane). The guy survives, though he was grazed by a bullet. He wakes up in a blown out apartment, and glances outside as he hears commotion. He watches as the Nazis round up the insurgents that were caught and shoot them all. The young soldier then sees his mom and brother out there too, the Germans took everyone out of their homes. His mom eventually sees him looking at her, and just stares at him while he stares at her. She's just stuck standing holding her young son's hand. A Nazi officer walks up to them and puts a bullet through the kid's head, blowing him right of his mother's hand. She keeps staring at her oldest son as he stares at her, even as her shoulders swing in reaction to her youngest being ripped from her hand. She is then shot immediately afterward, and then things just fall apart from there. A lot of crazy mind-numbingly things continue throughout the movie, the effects crew again not missing a beat, and eventually by the end the soldier survives, though barely, and is reunited with a young girl he met that fell in love with him, and they sit on the same little island in the river that they met in at the beginning of the movie. The city burns all around them, and slowly it goes from Warsaw 1944 to Warsaw today. But it just sort of ends, there's no grand ending either so you're just stuck there.

So yeah, it screwed me up a bit but that album was a good album. Not quite as mind-numbing as either of those two movies but it gave me a feeling that was kind of like how I felt after watching those movies.

[NeuPolska]

Hey, where's that guy that was preaching Arkona about a hundred pages ago or so?

I listened to this and I'm loving this band. The cool part is I'm able to understand a bit of it without looking at the translation (though the Polish translation in that particular video is handy), goes to show how similar Slavic languages are.

[The Alexanderians]

Because I want to honor some heroes that aren't necessarily Polish, I'm writing a song about Alexander Nevski and the Battle of Lake Peipus (also known as the Battle On The Ice), where Nevski, Prince of Novgorod, saved the great city from the Teutonic Knights in a decisive victory. Can I get some feedback on the lyrics so far? The beginning is not the intro, I started writing from the middle of the song. So this is what I've got so far (commas are brief pauses, mostly used to fill in for missing syllables or to make certain lyrics more drawn out):

Alexander Nevski
Prince of Novgorod
Hero of the Rus
Savior of his kind
Saint, of the Slavs

The cold was bitter
The lake frozen solid
Under our boots
The black cross
Loomed over the horizon

The, charge, came
Teuton met Slav
Steel on steel
Furs on mail
Bloody ripped tabbards
And shattered swords and shields

I think I love you

[The Lendol Archipelago]

All very good songs. Which version of À Tout Le Monde do you like?

The original, with just Dave.

I prefer the United Abominations one, it was the one I listened to first.

Agree with you. Youthanasia as a whole is a fairly underrated album, same goes for Cryptic Writings honestly.

Youthanasia was a great album, Cryptic Writings I haven't listened to besides a couple of songs.

I'm the same. I should get Cryptic Writings soon.

[Cosumar]

I'm out of metal to listen to again (kinda, I got some floating around). Give me random suggestions!

If you're ever in the mood for something like Myrath (catchy middle-eastern metal) but slightly more progressive and/or death metal-influenced, look up Orphaned Land. I've been listening to them a lot this week.

Or for something on the extreme, mind-bending side of metal spectrum, give Obscura by Gorguts a go.

And of course, I'd always recommend my personal Big Four of Metal if you haven't heard one of them yet (Blind Guardian, Dissection, Death, Candlemass).

[Corrian]

Oh, old Gorguts. I can't recall if I could really get into that. I like new Gorguts , though.

I'll give those others a try, though (Besides Candlemass. I know them)

Stratovarius

And I'll give at least some of this a listen.

Also, I still recommend you guys give Lychgate a try (I know some of you did, but I'm suggesting the full album to check out as a 2015 metal album. Listening to it now). The organs really add to the black metal.

[Kiaculta]

Oh, old Gorguts. I can't recall if I could really get into that. I like new Gorguts , though.

"new" Gorguts: Just one album. An amazing one though.

[Impaled Nazarene]

where have you been all my life havok?

[New Rob Halfordia]

where have you been all my life havok?

Aren't they the best?

[Impaled Nazarene]

where have you been all my life havok?

Aren't they the best?

Faptastic

[The Eurasian Front]

I saw Martyrdod play at Obscene Extreme in 2010 and they blew my mind. I can't decide if they're crust or metal though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNtWBF-g-MI

[Ravenflight]

I am tagging this!

[Impaled Nazarene]

I am tagging this!

Uh Why not just actually post something? such as Murmaider or Rain Eater?

[Cadonica]

The original, with just Dave.

I prefer the United Abominations one, it was the one I listened to first.

I absolutely despised United Abominations version of it.

[Hurdegaryp]

I saw Martyrdod play at Obscene Extreme in 2010 and they blew my mind. I can't decide if they're crust or metal though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNtWBF-g-MI

Got the album In Extremis by Martyrdöd myself. Some call the musical style of the band 'blackened crust'.

[The Lendol Archipelago]

I prefer the United Abominations one, it was the one I listened to first.

I absolutely despised United Abominations version of it.

Each to their own, I guess.

[Corrian]

So I just read an update on Facebook that Ihsahn said "the new album is done". I dig Ihsahn, so I'm certainly curious.

Also stumbled across Arcturus, which seems...interesting.