Metal Genre Music Discussion - Vol. 4

[Cadonica]

New Judas Priest album is better than Redeemer but not as epic. Much more consistent in quality across the album.

Tbh I probably won’t even listen to it. New Judas Priest in 2018 isn’t an idea that really excites me at all.

Title track was the best, some other good songs in there as well but yeah, you won't be missing much if you just skip it altogether.

[Kolmya]

Savage Grace are a really great USPM band.

Bookmarked for later because I <3 USPM but that album cover is not encouraging haha

Yeah, if I was designing their album cover, I probably would have picked something different.

[Corrian]

New Judas Priest in any year isn't an idea that really excites me.

[Impaled Nazarene]

As I’m sitting here blasting Bolt Thrower’s Those Once Loyal, I kinda naturally start thinking about WWI, right, and one of the coolest things I’ve ever done was in basic training: the Night Infiltration Course. In the middle of the night, in near darkness, we marched through a forest and took up positions behind a wall of ladders, sort of like being in a trench. Our M4s in our hands, our plate carrier vests fitted with bulletproof plates fastened around us, we waited for the Drill Sergeants to send us over the top.

Suddenly gunfire begins, as M240B machine guns fire live tracer rounds overhead and the explosions begin. “Over the top!” I yell at the guy in front of me, our point man, who delays in moving forward once the call goes out. I’ve been waiting for this moment all of basic training. Just wish I had a bayonet. He goes over the top first, followed by me and then a few others behind me. We drop to the ground into the prone position and begin crawling forward, as the tracers fly over our heads and flares and other pryotechnics shoot up over us from the sides. We crawl around armored vehicles, under barbed wire, and across both frozen and soft sand/dirt. Several hundred meters and we’re through, hyped as fuck but also incredibly sore from the ab workout that it is high and low crawling in all that gear without breaks.

Sounds like you need to write a death metal song about the experience

New Judas Priest album is better than Redeemer but not as epic. Much more consistent in quality across the album.

Tbh I probably won’t even listen to it. New Judas Priest in 2018 isn’t an idea that really excites me at all.

New Drudkh and BTBAM come out this week tho

Savage Grace are a really great USPM band.

Bookmarked for later because I <3 USPM but that album cover is not encouraging haha

Where's the icepick and gulag when I need them? Polska can I borrow some grenades? And maybe an M-4

[R249]

Has anyone paid any attention to the new Arch Enemy album?

[Hurdergaryp]

Has anyone paid any attention to the new Arch Enemy album?

To be honest, I didn't even know there's a new Arch Enemy album. I am in the possession of the latest Moonspell album, though. It's called 1755, after the year in which Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, was annihilated by an earthquake. It's an epic masterpiece.

[Kolmya]

Help guys. I think I've listened to Candlemass too much or something. It just doesn't sound as fresh or good to me right now, and I've found that I haven't been listening to them that much. Does stuff like this happen to you guys at all?
Edit: Actually now that I think about it, the way I've listened to music recently hasn't really changed much. I guess I was just freaking out over a future without Candlemass.

[Hurdergaryp]

Help guys. I think I've listened to Candlemass too much or something. It just doesn't sound as fresh or good to me right now, and I've found that I haven't been listening to them that much. Does stuff like this happen to you guys at all?

No, not really. I tend to listen to doom metal that is not a slowed down version of NWOBHM. Maybe listen to some diSEMBOWELMENT instead to reset your system. Or Shape of Despair, that's a good band as well.

[R249]

Has anyone paid any attention to the new Arch Enemy album?

To be honest, I didn't even know there's a new Arch Enemy album. I am in the possession of the latest Moonspell album, though. It's called 1755, after the year in which Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, was annihilated by an earthquake. It's an epic masterpiece.

Would definitely recommend said album. Even by Arch Enemy standards, The Eagle Flies Alone and The World Is Yours are amazing.

[R249]

Has anyone paid any attention to the new Arch Enemy album?

To be honest, I didn't even know there's a new Arch Enemy album. I am in the possession of the latest Moonspell album, though. It's called 1755, after the year in which Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, was annihilated by an earthquake. It's an epic masterpiece.

Oh, also, I should probably check out that Moonspell album. Never heard Moonspell but I like black metal. Thanks.

[Impaled Nazarene]

To be honest, I didn't even know there's a new Arch Enemy album. I am in the possession of the latest Moonspell album, though. It's called 1755, after the year in which Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, was annihilated by an earthquake. It's an epic masterpiece.

The World Is Yours

Pop Metal Song of the Year 2017

[R249]

The World Is Yours

Pop Metal Song of the Year 2017

It's melodeath...you're literally calling death metal "pop".

[Cosumar]

Has anyone paid any attention to the new Arch Enemy album?

I heartily enjoyed the two or three singles that came out with music videos, but I never got around to listening to the full album.

Pop Metal Song of the Year 2017

It's melodeath...you're literally calling death metal "pop".

I think he just means that it's really catchy. Which it is! And, in this case, that's a good thing.

[Impaled Nazarene]

Pop Metal Song of the Year 2017

It's melodeath...you're literally calling death metal "pop".

Death metal is too trendy.

[R249]

It's melodeath...you're literally calling death metal "pop".

Death metal is too trendy.

I’ll give you credit, if you’re calling death metal trendy, you must have a pretty underground taste in metal. But my standards of “trendy” are very different. Death metal is awesome!

[NeuPolska]

Death metal is too trendy.

I’ll give you credit, if you’re calling death metal trendy, you must have a pretty underground taste in metal. But my standards of “trendy” are very different. Death metal is awesome!

Don’t give him that satisfaction

[R249]

I’ll give you credit, if you’re calling death metal trendy, you must have a pretty underground taste in metal. But my standards of “trendy” are very different. Death metal is awesome!

Don’t give him that satisfaction

Why not? I respect underground taste. I often listen to avant-garde metal and black metal myself.

[NeuPolska]

Naz is out here posting old memes and you’re encouraging him

[Hurdergaryp]

Naz is out here posting old memes and you’re encouraging him

And that is terrible. At least as terrible as some of the more conservative metal fans would probably find the Libido Airbag cd I'm currently listening to.

[NeuPolska]

Personally, I more or less stopped giving a fuck. Found myself more important things to worry about, like terrorists or North Koreans or the Chinese or even the Russians. Or being able to make Sergeant before my four years’ is up and enjoy being an NCO for a little while before finding something new to do.

[Kolmya]

I think over the past couple months, Accept's Balls to the Wall has become one of my new favorite albums. I've heard some people think it's overrated, but I think it's almost completely flawless (except for Losers and Winners, which is only OK).

[R249]

I think over the past couple months, Accept's Balls to the Wall has become one of my new favorite albums. I've heard some people think it's overrated, but I think it's almost completely flawless (except for Losers and Winners, which is only OK).

"Pandemic" is really good, honestly.

[Cadonica]

I think over the past couple months, Accept's Balls to the Wall has become one of my new favorite albums. I've heard some people think it's overrated, but I think it's almost completely flawless (except for Losers and Winners, which is only OK).

I quite like Losers and Winners but Guardians of the Night not so much and Winter Dreams even less so. Overall I like Metal Heart a lot more and would call it a flawless Accept album. Hell, it's even my AotY 1985

[Impaled Nazarene]

Naz is out here posting old memes and you’re encouraging him

Polska's right. But it could be worse. You could be encouraging Polska. The Polska train never stops when it gets going.
Sub you see through me like Stalin sees through the lies of Trotsky <3

[Dumb Ideologies]

Not posted here for a while. This year I've mostly been obsessed by:

1990s shoegaze/metal crossover band BP.
Artificial Language's pretty lite-prog metal
Vexes bringing the nostalgia with some excellently executed Deftones-worship
And for a guilty pleasure...still 100% on board with the idol/metal craze