I've probably listened to From the Pinnacle to the Pit like 20 times burnttatertot Ghost's show at the Roseland in October costs $30/ticket
Saw Animals as Leaders a few nights ago. Twas spectacular despite the audience being full of shitbrains. Tosin. Abasi. Oh, and Children of Bodom's upcoming album looks like it'll suck just as much as Halo of Blood.
Love both old and new Kataklysm, definitely one of the better Canadian bands. I own the umpteen Belphegor albums including the 90's OOP Last Episode stuff, don't break them out much as that Behemoth/Belphegor sound starts to rub me wrong after about 5 or 6 tracks.
Loved Neuraxis since their Neoblast days. They've done pretty well for themselves, unlike another mid 90's Quebec band Quo Vadis who fizzled out quickly. Spoiler
Joe_Pesci - great interview with a nameless ghoul in guitar world: http://www.guitarworld.com/famous-m...new-album-meliora-and-staying-anonymous/25087
So I thought Job For A Cowboy played awful, awful deathcore. I stumbled across their latest release (2014's Sun Eater), and wow. Awesomely crafted technical death metal with a ton of atmosphere and great bass work. Reminds me a lot of Atheist or Gorguts. Maybe even Cynic. They might be one of the only bands I've ever seen evolve into a less commercial direction. This album is way better than anything they've ever released, and way more extreme. Awesome and refreshing to see a band go this route. Cover art is sick too.
Cattle Decapitation's new album is streaming here (not sure if (m)any here like them or not): http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/ca...ene-extinction-album-available-for-streaming/ Giving it my first listen through, and it's enjoyable. I way prefer proggy stuff, but this has enough going on to keep my attention. Album is released on the 7th.
one of my friends, who doesn't listen to metal at all, just asked me if i wanted to see Slipknot with him in October. i'm guessing he listens to them for like "pump up music" when he lifts. he thinks this is what i'm into when i say that i like metal.
It's really weird when people who are not familiar with metal at all think that Slipknot and/or Marilyn Manson are like the heaviest bands ever.
*at a bar* "hey joe_pesci, i put a song on the jukebox for you" "cool, what is it?" "just wait" *enter sandman*
That video posted a while back of their drummer was one of the better displays of speed I've ever seen.
What would you guys play for someone to show them that there are heavier bands? For me, heavier generally means more abrasive or dissonant. If we're keeping it to bands whose heaviness I actually still enjoy, I'd probably play Discordance Axis. I think grindcore is the most abrasive genre. Spoiler
obviously i appreciate that my friend wants to go to a metal concert with me just... it's not going to be slipknot. i'm going to ghost the night before the slipknot concert and he said he wasn't interested
probably something like Bleak by Opeth or Blinded by Fear by At the Gates i think Gentle Time by Isis is about the heaviest song i've ever heard, so maybe that
i've just heard it so many times that it has transcended good or bad it's in the same tier for me as Iron Man
So the hair metal thread recently started had me coming to the realization that I'm really not into most of the classic 80s metal out there. I mean, I fucking love Maiden, but it pretty much starts and stops with them for me, when discussing bands of that grouping. I respect what all those guys did for the genre, and how they influenced many of the later bands that I have come to love, but I'm just not into that sound or aesthetic at all. For clarification purposes, I do not consider 80s Slayer, Pantera, Metallica or any of the thrash bands to be of this ilk. Completely different, stylistically.
I don't really think of those guys as 80s metal (other than Accept). I think of 80s metal as more Ozzy, Dio, Judas Priest, Exodus, WASP, Anthrax... stuff like that. I classify most of the bands you listed as hair bands.
Amazingly, that wasn't even their drummer. That was just some dude at a music conservatory in Europe somewhere.
those are mostly bands that metalheads made fun of. Poison is total garbage. GnR is hella overrated but Appetite for Destruction is great
You were listening to the wrong Warrant & Poison back then. Lots of great 80's non-thrash albums got overlooked because of Winger, Accept, etc. First track off this album is one of my favorite from the 80's. And of course, two of the greatest non-thrash 80's full lengths evah! (1985/1986)