Heavy Music thread

i don't usually do Spotify playlists, but check out the Wode and Mare Cognitum albums i posted on the last page.

 

Meshuggah has officially started recording a new album, and announced that Frederik is back for both the studio and touring. Guess I’ll be making plans to see them.

I know they’re over the hill, but I’m still excited. Violent Sleep of Reason really grew on me after initially being pretty disappointed.

 

I haven’t gotten into any of their albums other than Nothing and ObZen (which is an elite metal album).

I think they’re at their best when they fold in some atmosphere as a counterpoint to all the furious drums and time signature riffs.

See: Lethargica

 

I love them. Catch 33 is basically a metal opera in 4 movements. It’s so great.

 

Been a while since I listened to them but I remember liking Nothing more than Obzen. Probably need to relisten though.

 

None EP, thanks.

 

listening to the Garden of the Titans Opeth live album. this is a very good live recording

Spoiler: spoiler

martin mendez

 

I like looking at Svart Records' youtube channel

 

i thought the cover was sweet, so i listened. strong Elder vibes

 

Lol.

 

New Cannibal Corpse out today

 

I've been listening to the Dream Theater album When Dream and Day Unite for the past week or so. This album rips

the chorus riff

 

I have around a 150 album backlog for listening, I need to stop fucking around and get down to business.

 

This resonated with me https://www.angrymetalguy.com/yer-metal-is-olde-opeth-blackwater-park/

 

new Darkthrone album out this June.

 

some of my recent pre-orders:

Amorphis - Tales from the Thousand Lakes [resissue]
(absolutely classic Finnish death metal, great folk melodies)

Opeth - Blackwater Park [25th anniversary re-issue]
(this album and In Flames’ Colony bridged the gap for me to harsh vocals)

Darkthrone - Eternal Hails
(see post above)

 

Nice, all on vinyl? I just recently started collecting, so I’ve only got four records so far after seeing what the local shop had: Opeth - Still Life, Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper, Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk, and Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light, which I randomly found at another store.

I also preordered the Blackwater Park 20th anniversary, since it was also a formative record for me.

I do love that Amorphis record.

 

Yep, all vinyl. Started collecting in 2019, it’s been fun so far.

I get most of my stuff from Bandcamp, but have some great local shops here that I frequent occasionally.

 

Yeah I’ve been using bandcamp for merch, especially on Bandcamp Friday each month. I’ll just add vinyl to those orders. The shops where I live are solid but don’t have a huge metal selection, so will have to order most things.

 

Cool - will post in here more regularly when I pick something up.

some advice, start a Discogs account and track your collection in there. so much easier to do at the beginning and it helps keep track of everything. fun to watch the collection grow, and you can keep a ‘wantlist’

not the most user friendly site, but i got the hang of it eventually.

 

But lots on discogs, but not exclusively. Need to retrofit my collection

 

Other than my Black Sabbath collection which is categorized differently, this is my metal section. I have a punk/hardcore one that kinda overlaps. Stuff like Cave In, Botch, Converge, or Shai Hulud goes there.

 

wow, that’s awesome. how long have you collected

 

got dam

 

2015. My punk/hardcore collection is much larger

 

Must be nice to be able to listen to all 30 tracks on a punk album without having to flip it over.

 

New At The Gates

 

Love you Dave

 

New Gojira out today.

Have to say, just okay to me. Don’t love the direction they’ve started going.

 

i think the people in Gojira are great humans, and enjoy a few songs of From Mars to Sirus ('Backbone', 'Flying Whales'), but the rest of their material is really boring.

i've tried extensively and they just don't 'hit'.

 

I’m a fan of the run of From Mars to Sirius through L’enfant Sauvage. Magma and this one just don’t move the needle for me though.

 

new At The Gates

found their recent records boring, but i enjoyed this song much more.

riffs were pretty interesting

 

Agreed, I was actually listening to their latest earlier when I saw they had this single out. It’s hard for anything to live up to Slaughter

 

half way through new Thron and I like it

 

they don't have the same mojo that they once had. when these guys get into their 40s, prog death metal doesn't seem to be as cool as it once was

 

From Mars to Sirius is a great album. i never really loved Gojira but i saw them open for Mastodon and they were an A+ live band. i was hoping they would finally do a full-on Crack the Skye prog album, but it never happened

newer stuff i liked:
this riff is great


they did this tapping part that ripped


otherwise

 

stupid critique: mario duplantier wears gloves. i don't like this for some reason

 

what kind of gloves are we talking about here

 

the drummer wears gloves. it's a very stupid critique but i think it makes the guy look lame

 

especially when he's playing some baller song like To Sirius. develop some callouses, friend. Brann Dailor did it

 

Gonna be hard to top Enforced Kill Grid for best album of 2021.

 

Fuck Gojira

 

tell me that you don't like the Another World riff