Metal Genre Music Discussion - Vol. 4

[Cadonica]

Any other albums confirmed for this year that people are looking forward to? I know Overkill and Ayreon are both supposed to release early-ish 2017.

Kreator and, as you said, Overkill. Also, from Immortal's Facebook page:

IMMORTAL will start recording their ninth album in January 2017.
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We look forward to record and present the new album to the IMMORTAL hordes sometime in 2017.

The tracks that will appear on the album are: 'Northern Chaos Gods', 'Into Battle Ride', 'Gates To Blashyrkh', 'Blacker Of Worlds', 'Where Mountains Rise', 'Grim And Dark', 'Called To Ice', and 'Ravendark'.

[NeuPolska]

So I got myself mono. Going on my second week of being a useless bag of human tissues and fluids with swollen lymph nodes so hopefully I'll be back to normal in a few days. Shooting for that minimum of two weeks of illness.

I slept about thirteen hours last night and I'm feeling okay today after a lot of tea and laying around, still swollen with a sore throat and a headache but at least I'm not knocked out yet. So since I haven't been listening to my Russian folk metal for a worrisome while now, guess what I'll be listening to when I do manage to stay awake and in somewhat good humor

I also found Рви меха's Bandcamp and I am a very happy camper. I just can't headbang so well because my neck is kinda fucked with the swollen lymph node and aching and all.

[Impaled Nazarene]

So I got myself mono. Going on my second week of being a useless bag of human tissues and fluids with swollen lymph nodes so hopefully I'll be back to normal in a few days. Shooting for that minimum of two weeks of illness.

I slept about thirteen hours last night and I'm feeling okay today after a lot of tea and laying around, still swollen with a sore throat and a headache but at least I'm not knocked out yet. So since I haven't been listening to my Russian folk metal for a worrisome while now, guess what I'll be listening to when I do manage to stay awake and in somewhat good humor

I also found Рви меха's Bandcamp and I am a very happy camper. I just can't headbang so well because my neck is kinda fucked with the swollen lymph node and aching and all.

Were you fucking radioactive Ukrainians again?

[NeuPolska]

Were you fucking radioactive Ukrainians again?

I must have been around someone that sneezed and had it. I remember grabbing lunch a while back and someone decided to make one of those explosive sneezes. That was probably what got me, either that or someone got it somewhere, the virus stuck, and I came and picked it up.

[Impaled Nazarene]

One of my favorite things about Beneath the Remains other than the Seven Churches and Scream Bloody Gore worship is that the experimentation isn't terrible and fits with the album. Listening to this for the first time in 7 years I can't see why it's taken me so long to listen to it again (other than Cavalera's slightly above mediocre vocals). The rhythm work outside of a few riffs is nothing ground breaking. Some good solos and I guess the consistent simplicity is what makes this a great album.

[Galborea]

Bands whose albums I'm looking forward to this year:

Benighted
Cradle of Filth (hopefully)
Dimmu Borgir (hopefully)
Enslaved (hopefully)
Falls of Rauros
Hour of Penance
Kreator
Lorna Shore
Mastodon (hopefully)
Nightbringer
Ne Obliviscaris (hopefully)
Nokturnal Mortum (hopefully)
Pallbearer
Persefone
Soen
The Black Dahlia Murder (hopefully)
Wintersun (hopefully)
Within the Ruins

[Impaled Nazarene]

Bands whose albums I'm looking forward to this year:

Benighted
Cradle of Filth (hopefully)
Dimmu Borgir (hopefully)
Enslaved (hopefully)
Falls of Rauros
Hour of Penance
Kreator
Lorna Shore
Mastodon (hopefully)
Ne Obliviscaris (hopefully)
Nokturnal Mortum (hopefully)
Pallbearer
Persefone
Soen
The Black Dahlia Murder (hopefully)
Wintersun (hopefully)
Within the Ruins

New Dimmu? Hope its good. Pallbearer on the other hand...consider me horny.

[Galborea]

Bands whose albums I'm looking forward to this year:

Benighted
Cradle of Filth (hopefully)
Dimmu Borgir (hopefully)
Enslaved (hopefully)
Falls of Rauros
Hour of Penance
Kreator
Lorna Shore
Mastodon (hopefully)
Ne Obliviscaris (hopefully)
Nokturnal Mortum (hopefully)
Pallbearer
Persefone
Soen
The Black Dahlia Murder (hopefully)
Wintersun (hopefully)
Within the Ruins

New Dimmu? Hope its good. Pallbearer on the other hand...consider me horny.

Well Dimmy has a live album coming out with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra (or something along that line) and promised that it's not the only thing they're doing this year. Which means either FINALLY a new album or a tour.

[Ameriganastan]

A little late, but my best album of 2016...and also the only full album I listened to in fact, was Titancraft. So it wins by default.

[Galborea]

A little late, but my best album of 2016...and also the only full album I listened to in fact, was Titancraft. So it wins by default.

You only listened to one album in one year?

[Calimama]

A little late, but my best album of 2016...and also the only full album I listened to in fact, was Titancraft. So it wins by default.

Go listen to Vektor, like, right now.

[Hurdergaryp]

New Dimmu? Hope its good. Pallbearer on the other hand...consider me horny.

Well Dimmy has a live album coming out with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra (or something along that line) and promised that it's not the only thing they're doing this year. Which means either FINALLY a new album or a tour.

Can't say I was disappointed by the last few Dimmu Borgir albums, since I actually like neo-classical black metal bombast.

[Galborea]

Well Dimmy has a live album coming out with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra (or something along that line) and promised that it's not the only thing they're doing this year. Which means either FINALLY a new album or a tour.

Can't say I was disappointed by the last few Dimmu Borgir albums, since I actually like neo-classical black metal bombast.

I prefer early Dimmu but still find all their albums at least passable. When it comes to what lots of people call the two "posers" of black metal, I kind of prefer Cradle of Filth.

[Cosumar]

A little late, but my best album of 2016...and also the only full album I listened to in fact, was Titancraft. So it wins by default.

Go listen to Vektor, like, right now.

He only likes clean vocals.

Well Dimmy has a live album coming out with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra (or something along that line) and promised that it's not the only thing they're doing this year. Which means either FINALLY a new album or a tour.

Can't say I was disappointed by the last few Dimmu Borgir albums, since I actually like neo-classical black metal bombast.

Same. I still love Abrahadabra - such a crazy fun album. Also the very first black metal album I ever liked back in early 2011. I cant believe it's been seven years since that came out. Yeah, Dimmu are due for a new one. So I'm actually looking forward to it.

One of my favorite things about Beneath the Remains other than the Seven Churches and Scream Bloody Gore worship is that the experimentation isn't terrible and fits with the album. Listening to this for the first time in 7 years I can't see why it's taken me so long to listen to it again (other than Cavalera's slightly above mediocre vocals). The rhythm work outside of a few riffs is nothing ground breaking. Some good solos and I guess the consistent simplicity is what makes this a great album.

Some big understatements there imo. Top 3 thrash albums of all time for me. Unwaveringly excellent energy and intensity, great thrashing riff after riff, EXTRAORDINARY solos. And addictive melodic moments that provide perfect breathing room between the pummeling.

[Impaled Nazarene]

One of my favorite things about Beneath the Remains other than the Seven Churches and Scream Bloody Gore worship is that the experimentation isn't terrible and fits with the album. Listening to this for the first time in 7 years I can't see why it's taken me so long to listen to it again (other than Cavalera's slightly above mediocre vocals). The rhythm work outside of a few riffs is nothing ground breaking. Some good solos and I guess the consistent simplicity is what makes this a great album.

Some big understatements there imo. Top 3 thrash albums of all time for me. Unwaveringly excellent energy and intensity, great thrashing riff after riff, EXTRAORDINARY solos. And addictive melodic moments that provide perfect breathing room between the pummeling.

Even by my standards that sounds fanboyish. BTR might be in my top 10 thrash albums but compared to the rest of my list Cavalera's vocals are terrible ONLY by comparison.
Violent Restitution- Razor
Speak English or Die- Stormtroopers of Death
Handle With Care- Nuclear Assault
Seven Churches- Possessed
Metal Church- Metal Church
Endless Pain- Kreator
Rust in Peace- Megadeth
Morbid Tales/Emperor's Return- Celtic Frost
Executioner- Meltdown

Speaking of Sepultura, Sepultura A.C.A.Q. released a new album today.

[Galborea]

Some big understatements there imo. Top 3 thrash albums of all time for me. Unwaveringly excellent energy and intensity, great thrashing riff after riff, EXTRAORDINARY solos. And addictive melodic moments that provide perfect breathing room between the pummeling.

Even by my standards that sounds fanboyish. BTR might be in my top 10 thrash albums but compared to the rest of my list Cavalera's vocals are terrible ONLY by comparison.
Violent Restitution- Razor
Speak English or Die- Stormtroopers of Death
Handle With Care- Nuclear Assault
Seven Churches- Possessed
Metal Church- Metal Church
Endless Pain- Kreator
Rust in Peace- Megadeth
Morbid Tales/Emperor's Return- Celtic Frost
Executioner- Meltdown

Speaking of Sepultura, Sepultura A.C.A.Q. released a new album today.

Machine Messiah is pretty meh.

[Cosumar]

Some big understatements there imo. Top 3 thrash albums of all time for me. Unwaveringly excellent energy and intensity, great thrashing riff after riff, EXTRAORDINARY solos. And addictive melodic moments that provide perfect breathing room between the pummeling.

Even by my standards that sounds fanboyish. BTR might be in my top 10 thrash albums but compared to the rest of my list Cavalera's vocals are terrible ONLY by comparison.
Violent Restitution- Razor
Speak English or Die- Stormtroopers of Death
Handle With Care- Nuclear Assault
Seven Churches- Possessed
Metal Church- Metal Church
Endless Pain- Kreator
Rust in Peace- Megadeth
Morbid Tales/Emperor's Return- Celtic Frost
Executioner- Meltdown

Speaking of Sepultura, Sepultura A.C.A.Q. released a new album today.

It's not really fanboyism, I just think the music is great. I mean, I guess everyone is a "fanboy" of their favorite albums, whatever they may be. Beneath The Remains isn't perfect (the last two songs are a step below the rest) but it's still a magnificent piece of adrenaline-pumping metal. Arise and Chaos AD are the only other Sepultura albums I really care about. (Haven't heard Schizophrenia yet).

Even by my standards that sounds fanboyish. BTR might be in my top 10 thrash albums but compared to the rest of my list Cavalera's vocals are terrible ONLY by comparison.
Violent Restitution- Razor
Speak English or Die- Stormtroopers of Death
Handle With Care- Nuclear Assault
Seven Churches- Possessed
Metal Church- Metal Church
Endless Pain- Kreator
Rust in Peace- Megadeth
Morbid Tales/Emperor's Return- Celtic Frost
Executioner- Meltdown

Speaking of Sepultura, Sepultura A.C.A.Q. released a new album today.

Machine Messiah is pretty meh.

I probably won't listen to it then. Haven't bothered with modern Sepultura much. At least the album art is cool.

[Cosumar]

My Top 10 Thrash Metal Albums (one album per band limit)
1. Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
2. Slayer - Reign In Blood
3. Metallica - Ride The Lightning (top three essentially tied)
4. Artillery - By Inheritance
5. Vektor - Terminal Redux
6. Anthrax - Among The Living
7. Megadeth - Rust In Peace (four thru seven essentially tied)
8. Helstar - Nosferatu
9. Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
10. Kreator - Pleasure To Kill

HMs: The Legacy, Agent Orange

[Ameriganastan]

A little late, but my best album of 2016...and also the only full album I listened to in fact, was Titancraft. So it wins by default.

You only listened to one album in one year?

I don't really go looking for albums. I find a band on YouTube, I marathon a few songs if they're good, get bored and do something else. Also, this was the first new album they'd put out since I found them in 2015. So I binged the thing.

[Galborea]

You only listened to one album in one year?

I don't really go looking for albums. I find a band on YouTube, I marathon a few songs if they're good, get bored and do something else. Also, this was the first new album they'd put out since I found them in 2015. So I binged the thing.

I recommend going out looking for albums. Or having some sort of watchlist like RYM where upcoming releases from bands will be on your front page.

[Ameriganastan]

Also, Steelwing apparently split-up. Kinda glad, cause "Reset, Reboot, Redeem" sucked balls.

[Galborea]

A band that chances are most of you will not like but I do, the down-tempo deathcore band Traitors, broke up recently. Sad. Unlike most deathcore bands now they (a) did something a little different and (b) actually created a legit emotion through music even if it's the kind of predictable "ANGRY" feeling, they fuckin' did it well.

[Cadonica]

Also, Steelwing apparently split-up. Kinda glad, cause "Reset, Reboot, Redeem" sucked balls.

Can't say I really miss them. I've only listened to Lords of the Wasteland. While there were good songs like Under the Scavenger Sun and Clash of the Two Tribes, it really didn't make me go "I need more!".

[Impaled Nazarene]

My Top 10 Thrash Metal Albums (one album per band limit)
1. Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
2. Slayer - Reign In Blood
3. Metallica - Ride The Lightning (top three essentially tied)
4. Artillery - By Inheritance
5. Vektor - Terminal Redux
6. Anthrax - Among The Living
7. Megadeth - Rust In Peace (four thru seven essentially tied)
8. Helstar - Nosferatu
9. Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
10. Kreator - Pleasure To Kill

HMs: The Legacy, Agent Orange

Your Anthrax pick is strange.

[Cosumar]

My Top 10 Thrash Metal Albums (one album per band limit)
1. Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
2. Slayer - Reign In Blood
3. Metallica - Ride The Lightning (top three essentially tied)
4. Artillery - By Inheritance
5. Vektor - Terminal Redux
6. Anthrax - Among The Living
7. Megadeth - Rust In Peace (four thru seven essentially tied)
8. Helstar - Nosferatu
9. Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
10. Kreator - Pleasure To Kill

HMs: The Legacy, Agent Orange

Your Anthrax pick is strange.

How so?