Heavy Metal Thread (and Associated Genres)

One band released an EP one week after the fire, look at the cover rofl

Yesss I know all about these channels. I was in a black metal band 12 years ago, still listens to it every day ahah

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What kind of black metal… not the NSBM type right?

Nooo Symphonic BM I’m not a nazi lol there are just a few bands with questionable ideas which are too good to not listen to

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Just subtly making sure. I try not to judge individualstically harboured political ideologies/world views. But when views are blatantly hateful without adequate reason/incite harm or are without scientifically backed merit I have trouble restraining myself.

Nazism covers this, I can’t for the life of me understand the rationale behind ā€œracial superiorityā€ā€¦ or why someone would want to be associated with one of the most evil, barbaric regimes in modern history. I also have trouble with not poking fun at certain viewpoints of which are clearly blatant over-reactions to perceived change and/or are steeped in hysteria.

Check out the following if you don’t already know them

  • belzebubs
  • Rotting Christ
  • toxic holocaust
  • book of black earth
  • thy art is murder
  • cursed
  • the secret
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Meh pretty sure they aren’t all 100% nazis, I hope so at least lol. Usually european people fed up with immigrants doing shit, or actual soldiers.

But heh, at a Satyricon concert I saw a black guy with a M8l8th shirt so one can wonder ahahah

I only know the upper half of these. The secret sounds really dark

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They’re fairly macabre (the secret). You’ve stated you evolved away from the humanely listenable, so I’ve decided to recommend some darker/potentially more extreme material

I forgot… one more

  • pig destroyer

And another one

  • all pigs must die (not sure why wiki categorises them as metalcore… they’re grindcore/crust punk with a tinge of black metal)
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100% agree. Especially Brave New World, one of my top 5 albums of all time. I caught them on the Matter of Life and Death Tour as well, and wasn’t disappointed, despite them playing the entire album front to back before they played any old stuff.

You don’t hear enough about BLS, but I’m a fan. I listened to 1918 eternal on repeat when I first got it.

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Would have loved to been to one of those concerts - That is a hughely underrated album, easily the best from the modern era. The sound is just massive.

Did you get a chance to go to one of the Legacy of the Beast concerts?

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I did and I thought they were better on that tour than they were in '08 on the Somewhere Back in Time tour. They actually played at least one song off of each album which was really cool. Bruce is absolutely inhuman and has more energy than most people half his age.

As a side note, I literally ran into Nicko McBrain at Cleveland Hopkins Airport. Didn’t realize who he was until after we both apologized and he walked away…talk about blowing your chance to chat with a hero.

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Me too, was a great evening, really a great set list and even greater show. Should have seen the festival version this summer, but you-know-what put a stop to that.

Heh, too bad, bet he would have been a up for a brief chat, comes a across as a nice bloke.

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Oh yeah. We chuckled and apologized and he wished me a good day. Not every famous person would be that cool about being run into.

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I don’t think I could pick only one song off every album.

It was a great show, although I’d rate Brave New World over a Matter of Life and Death anyday.

Bruce Dickinson is just an absolute legend. Just made of totally different stuff than the rest of us. Inspiring guy, but if you were going to have a beer with any of Maiden, you know you’d have the best laugh with Nikko or smiling Dave

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I’m more into Rudess’s solo work. I liked the Dream Theatre albums, but the singing portion became redundant and just irritated me except for a couple of songs. I think their previous keyboardist wasn’t a ā€œvirtuousoā€ so the songs were more traditionally structured with the vocal melodies written before everything else. It seemed the opposite on their later albumbs.

Man, I gave up after Fear of the Dark.

Agreed. I think I’m one of the only idiots in the world who read Bruce Dickenson’s book The Adventures of Lord Iffy Boatrace. Some dude with a 12 inch prick gets it stuck in wet concrete and dies overnight from exposure. And that’s just one of the supporting characters. Good shit.

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Yeah, I remember being a massive fan of Led Zep and loved Deep Purple but when I heard Rainbow I was like, who is the fucking amazing singer lol? He’s better than Coverdale(never liked Gillian. Flame on.) and has much better vocal technique than Robert Plant. Then I started listening to Dio. Then I realized that was the reason why people here called him ā€œThe Man with the Golden Voiceā€. Blackmore’s riffs were amazing too.

Speaking of Blackmore, I got his Blackmore’s Night album and it wasn’t bad.

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This is one of my favorite all around metal clips.

Ward is just a maniac.

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Definitely a fan of LoG. They’re probably my favorite purely metal band right now. I like growling vocals and riff heavy guitarwork over shredding - and that has absolutely nothing to do with my inability to shred on the guitar after more than a decade of trying … :slight_smile:

My number one right now is Deftones - which is a little nu metal, with some other stuff thrown in. That’s all I listen to when lifting. For plodding out 40-50 minutes of cardio, on the other hand, Tool’s latest album is working like a charm.

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Fav lamb of god album? I really like ashes of the wake

Haha! I love that! This is exactly what I’ve been doing with it since it’s release. Get on the bike, que it up, and just go. It puts me into a wierd head space- aggressive but maintainable for an extended period.

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If you have YouTube music. You can select your music tastes based upon favourite musicians and a playlist will be created based upon selected choices consisting of favourite bands + music considered similar by algorithm. This way one can discover new bands

Unsure if Spotify is the same

This is what I do for cardio