[quote]StrengthDawg wrote:
I’ve grown fond of instrumental / mostly instrumental stuff lately. Don’t know what you guys think of August Burns Red but they have a song called Meridian that’s pretty cool, as well as others.[/quote]
Never heard of them… I’ll check them out.
What genre are they, roughly?
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
Probably my favorite amp up for a max pull type song.[/quote]
I like that one too (bought the album way back), but that kind of song doesn’t really amp me up enough… Individual thing of course, shit, Arnold and co had to make do with elvis and whatever hahaha (no wonder we kick their asses nowadays, right? 
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I’ve noticed that people “get amped” differently. There is the amonia sniffing, blood thursty, yelling, ripping the fucking bar in half, berserker, kroc type people. But there are also more inward focused, stair down the weight and make it your bitch ed coan type people.
I’m the ladder, I don’t ever yell or even speak or anything. I focus on the task internally. I think the music I listen to suits that better.[/quote]
You’re the MacGrath of powerlifting, huh? 
I see what you mean. Personally, I don’t yell, but I tend to yank the bar around etc… Without really noticing…
Funny how much of an improvement the right music/mood can net you… If I’m not amped, everything feels heavy/slow and my strength is down to maybe 80 percent tops on some lifts, or the weight feels bad on the joints where it otherwise doesn’t…
[quote]StormTheBeach wrote:
Watch that one all the way through. I love Behold The Arctopus because they dont ruin the songs with stupid singing.[/quote]
Heh. Especially nice as a lot of DM bands seem to add the vocals as sort of an afterthought/“has to be there because everyone does it” -kind of deal… Same as the ridiculous names some of the newer ones a sporting plus the lyrical themes being just plain embarrassing… Then again, Resurrection Through Carnage -era Akerfeld -style vocals (for example… He isn’t that great on the latest) can do wonders for the intensity of a song…
[quote]StrengthDawg wrote:
I kind of play acoustic guitar and I suck for the most part[/quote]
Toki~“What is acoustic? Oh, you mean a grandpa’s guitars?”
Skwisgaar~“A grandpas guitars? Is for pussies and grandpas. I think you know it.”
this is a brutal pump. insane breakdowns
[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
[quote]StrengthDawg wrote:
I’ve grown fond of instrumental / mostly instrumental stuff lately. Don’t know what you guys think of August Burns Red but they have a song called Meridian that’s pretty cool, as well as others.[/quote]
Never heard of them… I’ll check them out.
What genre are they, roughly?
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They’re pretty much metalcore, with pretty good melodies. Definitely worth taking a listen to. A portion of their songs are religion-related in some way, but it’s not obnoxiously Christian
[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
[quote]StrengthDawg wrote:
I’ve grown fond of instrumental / mostly instrumental stuff lately. Don’t know what you guys think of August Burns Red but they have a song called Meridian that’s pretty cool, as well as others.[/quote]
Never heard of them… I’ll check them out.
What genre are they, roughly?
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Think they are metalcore
edit: didn’t see matts post
[quote]Himora22 wrote:
[quote]StrengthDawg wrote:
I kind of play acoustic guitar and I suck for the most part[/quote]
Toki~“What is acoustic? Oh, you mean a grandpa’s guitars?”
Skwisgaar~“A grandpas guitars? Is for pussies and grandpas. I think you know it.”[/quote]
Ha I love that show…awaken Mustakrakis…
I like when they went to Norway (i think) to the metal record shop and the guy there said they weren’t hard enough…good stuff
Yes:
Vocals suck but the chorus/bridge are brutal and the 13 year old girls signing along is fucking hilarious:
[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
You’re the MacGrath of powerlifting, huh?
I see what you mean. Personally, I don’t yell, but I tend to yank the bar around etc… Without really noticing…
Funny how much of an improvement the right music/mood can net you… If I’m not amped, everything feels heavy/slow and my strength is down to maybe 80 percent tops on some lifts, or the weight feels bad on the joints where it otherwise doesn’t…
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I used to listen to a lot of iron maiden if that makes me any more hardcore or cooler.
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
I used to listen to a lot of iron maiden if that makes me any more hardcore or cooler.[/quote]
Now were talkin!
[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
I think a lot of it has to do with ear. Most of the stuff yall are posting could be the most technically proficient guitar playing ever, and all I hear is RORAROAORR GRBLRGRBLRGRBL. It’s like listening to a language you donÃ?¢??t know. I donÃ?¢??t ever listen to it, so I can’t hear the musicality of most of it.
On a side note I do occasionally listen to even some orchestral and concert band music. That stuff can be more powerful that even the most raw heavy metal IMHO.
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I used to be the same way. I progressed/eased into it, sort of. Nowadays I have trouble listening to the newer simple stuff that’s coming out… I’ve simply heard enough simple music back in the day, I just can’t take it anymore… I have my favorites in those styles from way back and that’s it mostly.
Another issue is production and what kind of sound system etc you have and eq settings… Production and mixing of something where you got super-complicated foot patterns and tons of different cymbals etc, plus long tom rolls, plus a very active bass guitar, plus 2 guitars (worse if down-tuned) etc is one hell of a bitch to get right… Frequency overlap all the time esp. at the bottom and mid, etc…
Blast beats can sound great, but not the way most extreme metal albums are recorded, produced/mixed (shit, Origin is a prime example here with their antithesis album). Plus regular headphones or earphones plugged into an Ipod make for terrible sound… Not so easy to notice if you don’t know any better or if you mostly listen to music that isn’t so busy.
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Same deal here. I grew up with the usual Iron Maiden, Anthrax, Metallica, W.A.S.P, Motorhead and so on. Since I really enjoy music I listen to it all the damn time and eventually I grew tired of the old stuff so your taste progressively change and you start noticing that things you didn’t use to enjoy suddenly start sounding nice.
With some music you need to listen to it a few times before it sinks in and becomes good, at least that’s the case for me. The funny thing is that the music I need to “learn” to enjoy is usually the music that lasts me the longest. Hell, the first time I heard Neurosis I didn’t like it much at all but since it at least was something new and because my friend loves that band I kept listening, now it’s one of my favorite bands.
[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
(gotta say I myself like somewhat simpler stuff while training… I automatically start paying too much attention to the music when it gets complicated, so that’s not so good while training… Some Behemoth songs, some older bloodbath, even some power metal at times, it just needs to get me into battle-mood).
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I can relate. I usually like a lot of athmospheric metal with a lot of contrasts and I also like some “technical” metal (if you wanna call it that) but I don’t really prefer either for training. Fairly straightforward, energetic and uplifting is what I consider good training music. For example:
(You familliar whit these C_C? Awesome band from Germany.)
Metal > Everything
[quote]Matsa wrote:
[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
(gotta say I myself like somewhat simpler stuff while training… I automatically start paying too much attention to the music when it gets complicated, so that’s not so good while training… Some Behemoth songs, some older bloodbath, even some power metal at times, it just needs to get me into battle-mood).
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I can relate. I usually like a lot of athmospheric metal with a lot of contrasts and I also like some “technical” metal (if you wanna call it that) but I don’t really prefer either for training. Fairly straightforward, energetic and uplifting is what I consider good training music. For example:
(You familliar whit these C_C? Awesome band from Germany.)
Th Ocean is an awesome band. Another not ruined by stupid vocals (most of the time).
There are some awesome tastes in music in here