I tend towards "primitive" Black Metal and experimental Metal for sure but I dig some Death Metal (and Thrash). Mostly the early Swedish stuff (At The Gates, Grave, Entombed, Dismember, Nihilist, Unleashed, etc.) and then stuff like Intestinal Baalism, Incantation, Carbonized, Merciless, Asphyx, Demilich, Atheist, etc. which is more tech-y but still grisly. Some Death Metal with its emphasis on break-downs/grooves is so boring and superficially "heavy" that it's all posturing and little substance.
Yeah, I don't listen to Death Metal much anymore but sometimes I'll pull out old albums and really be re-blown away by them. Carbonized is an example of that. I don't like the general direction Swede DM took with AT THE GATES harbinger album Slaughter of the Soul in 1996 (I think) and so I really kind of stopped listening to what was considered "Death Metal" around 1999. I didn't like the general direction it was taking over-all. And the fact that many "Metalcore" bands co-opted the later ATG sound and largely pussified it furthered my disinterest. Though, there were some great later Swede bands that kept the sound kinda going but blurred it with Black Metal aesthetics. (from Nord; their most melodic album and the only one I really care for)
@Heavy - Kreator sounds right up my alley already, and I'll be sure to try the others. Cooper - Out of those you mentioned, I need to try Flaw and Helmet, but the others are on a pretty good rotation on my ipod. @Trappist - I'll keep revisiting this thread to view all your suggestions. I think I might like Nihilist if I remember correctly. Thanks yo. Looks like I'll be Skyrimming to a metal soundtrack this weekend.
I know that most of you guys are more into the technical stuff but I really adore the patient development of some of the ambient stuff and more primitive stuff. It's really stuff that demands your attention and is ultimately very rewarding I think (and some of the only Metal I think benefits from the use of depressant or hallucinogenic narcotics); And also punk/post-punk-fueled Black Metal;
I hear what you are saying on the pussification of the sound by "metalcore" (I don't include god-tier bands like Converge, Botch in this category even though they are technically metalcore). That said, I really appreciate that first wave of melodic death metal bands from Sweden. At The Gates, In Flames (Colony record and before), Dark Tranquillity (still carrying the flag) are all fucking sick bands who made fantastic albums that I regularly listen to. It obviously goes without saying that the other Scandinavian death metal bands that weren't the "Gothenburg sound" were also amazing as well. Dismember was one of the best, it's a damn shame they recently stopped making music. I still rock the shit out of some Unleashed. Along those lines, y'all should listen to At The Gate's Purgatory Unleashed live record from their Wacken performance in 2010. Awesome-sounding live album. Trappist, they play a fair number of tracks from The Red In The Sky Is Ours and With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness. http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/At_the_Gates/Purgatory_Unleashed_-_Live_at_Wacken/264840
Isis, Cult of Luna et al really hit the "patient development" chord for me. Definitely appreciate the soundscapes they create. I also feel like Drudkh does an awesome job of this as well, but I think we discussed that earlier ITT. Sorry for the deluge of posts, my tMB interface stopped tracking this thread for some reason and I didn't y'all's replies in my alerts.
Like 'em all, man. To be honest I didn't get into thrash until way into my Metallica years...didn't consider their big 3 albums thrash and didn't like Kill Em All at the time. So once I finally gave KEA a decent shot, I loved it - never left the cd player for months - then in comes the Megadeth influence of the 80s, and you know the rest. For the record, Sodom's Remember the Fallen got me from the jump; layman might even think it was a lost Megadeth song. Thanks for the recs.
I used to make a lot of emoticons for the Relapse Records message board back in '03-'05. I don't know what program I'd need on an iMac to continue doing them, but here are my old ones; Anensephalic baby [born without a brain] emoticon (taken from the Swede Industrial band Anenzephalia) Gummo chair wrestling emoticons Old school Mortiis is judging you emoticon Skeptical Varg emoticon IPOD-friendly life metal emoticon Fenriz approves emoticon Fenriz does not approve Obligatory inverted cross Viking smiley (I made it from this emoticon that was already on that board: )
New Meshuggah album release date is March 27th, 2012. Fuck yes! http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=167888
Honestly, I haven't been excited about a metal release in a long, long time. This has me stoked. I fucking love Meshuggah.
So guys, I need some help. I've been growing away from metal for the last few months, how should I fix this? I don't like it.
Been feeling the same way bro. I haven't been able to get excited about any new releases over the last 6-9 months. I still listen to all of my old catalog regularly, but the only new record I even care about is the Meshuggah record I posted about above... Last good, new album I heard was Origin's Entity.
I grew away from Metal for a few years but had some diet staples that brought me back around to it. I don't go out of my way to find new Metal bands anymore like I do some other types of music.
No doubt. I mean, it was my exclusive #1 genre for like 6 years. I got a lot out of it, but I kinda feel like as I've gotten older there is nothing new under the sun that I haven't heard done before in the genre.
The 'newest' things going on in Metal are just applying non-rock retro-styles and compositional ideas to modern Metal aesthetics (ie. the ambient/drone/avant-garde compositional ideas with Pagan/Abstract/Evil/Satanic imagery and posturing). Artists like Aluk Todolo, Menace Ruine, Dead Raven Choir, SunnO))), Velvet Cacoon, Murmuure, Yrsel, etc.
I'm really big into electronica. I like electro house, dubstep, glitch hop, trip-hop/downtempo, etc. Not a fan of most of the poppy stuff, however. I'm a huge hip hop fan as well, but most of what I listen to is pretty underground or has a release date prior to 2002. Wu-Tang, 2Pac, Nas, Aesop Rock, just to name a few. I also like a lot of the folk bands that I got into through metal (Drudkh's Songs Of Grief and Solitude was a big gateway for me). I like some indie stuff, but it has to be fairly uptempo for me to get into it. I'm a big fan of hardcore punk (and straight-edge hardcore), simply because of the positive energy and intensity of the music. So to summarize that rambling diatribe, my tastes are basically: electronica folk hardcore hip-hop metal
I listen to plenty of electronic music, but none of the house/dubstep/etc. stuff. The closest I can get to some of that is some of the Ant-Zen Records roster and artists like Squarepusher, Muslimgauze, Autechre, etc. but it doesn't hold my interest for too long. I don't listen to any hip-hop...I just can't stand the vocal styling and lyrics (similar to the problem a lot of people have with 'Extreme Metal' forms of vocalizations/lyrical subject matter). I listen to a lot of different stuff though: Industrial/Post-Industrial, NeoFolk/Apocalyptic Folk, Psyche-Folk/Rock, Ambient/Soundscapes/Avant-Garde, general Experimental Rock (No-Wave, Shoegaze, Post-Rock, New Wave), Punk/Post-Punk, Country/alt-Country, Prog/Fusion and all its submovements (RIO, Zeuhl, Kraut-Rock, etc), Screamo/Emo. I'd say my top 10 non-Metal bands/artists are: Angels of Light/The Swans/anything Michael Gira related Brian Eno YES (pre-1977) Magma Boyd Rice and all of his projects Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds/Grinderman/anything Nick Cave related Current 93 Neu! Six Organs of Admittance/Comets on Fire/anything Ben Chasney related Throbbing Gristle
I like that list a lot. Definitely seems like a list someone with a foundation in raw black metal would put together - I'll have to check some of these bands out. I've heard of a lot of them. Current 93 rules, btw. I think the overarching characteristic common to all my musical tastes is that there has to be high energy. Even the downtempo stuff that I listen to can have an intense energy, despite the pace being slower.
Yeah, I don't listen to much high energy stuff, I guess. What high-energy music I do listen to (Emo, Crust Punk, Punk-Black Metal, Thrash) usually has such a dismal aesthetic that its energetic compositional style is almost negated by its depressing subject matter. Some post-rock can be pretty energetic too, I guess. MONO comes to mind. Shame? I can't think of anything I'm ashamed to listen to -- the closest I come to that is being a closet Blind Melon fan (really just the 'Soup' album though).
My metal tastes are pretty shallow compared to some of yours, but I'll just run with the question. Most of the non-metal stuff I enjoy anymore is some variety of prog rock: Rush, Yes, Genesis, Camel, Blackwater Park, Cloudkicker, and so on. I've been blasting The Shape of Punk to Come by Refused the last few days since they announced their Coachella reunion, and I'm hoping for some kind of US tour. I love 80's groups who messed around with the cold-sounding electronic stuff of the time, and I'm a sucker for any female vocalist with a deep soulful voice, so Eurythmics is one of my all-time favorites. I get my usual post-rock stuff in, too. I'd list the bands, but they're the typical bands with 4-word names, so you all probably know them.
80's groups like the New-Wave post-punk stuff (Clan of Xymox, The Cure, Sad Lovers & Giants, Depeche Mode, etc)? If you like throaty female vocalists over coldwave electronic music, check out the chick in my avatar; ZOLA JESUS:
Haha I love that you have a 'go-to' band reccomendation for "throaty female vocalists over coldwave electronic music." The metal thread rules.
FYI, Joe Pesci, Refused just announced a tour date at the Warfield in San Francisco. This is a small, club-like venue, so one can only hope that a full tour is forthcoming.
I don't really even listen to hardcore or punk, or whatever you'd classify them as, but I love Refused. Not sure why, now that I think about it. In hindsight it's a little funny that a band full of Marxists has a song featured in a movie about Texas football
Opeth / Mastodon just announced a co-headlining tour with Ghost: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=169003
Thread definitely needs to be bumped. I've pretty much been blaring constant Mastodon for the last few days ........except for a play through of the latest Lamb of God Spoiler