It's in downtown Orlando. Right next to The Social.
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I've been to The Social, which is actually good for metal. I saw Gojira and Zoroaster there. Never been to The Beacham though.
Hydranockz
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Here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPZGMqWqbyk
That both took me by surprise and was oddly familiar. For that I thank you
Cheers for the recommendations guys. Still working my way through the list. It seems to go on a spectrum from "Just a bit overkill - Stuff I'm really enjoying" as I go down the list. Vinterland and Ulver were too heavy for my tastes but Dissection, Immortal and Demonaz were far more enjoyable for me.
Thanks Gaf, as usual
Backwards Marathon
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I was at that same show I admit the sound at the venue wasn't great but I thought Symphony X's set up sounded good, for Iced Earth I could barely hear their vocals and the bass on the instruments seemed to be turned all the way up.
Wish it would have been at House of Blues.
Yeah, HoB is a way better venue. Beacham is mainly a nightclub, so I think their system is much better equipped for bassier music.
I thought Symphony X sounded better than Iced Earth, as the vocals came through really well when he was doing the higher-range stuff, but not the mid to lower range.
It'd be great it this show was even at Firehouse. That's an awesome local venue, and I've seen numerous metal shows there and all have sounded fantastic.
HammerOfThor
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Went the the Iced Earth show last night. Fucking ROCKED!!! My ears are still ringing.
It was my first time at a venue in Joliet, IL called Mojoe's. It was a very nice, little, place!
I also heard Warbringer for the first time. I'm a huge thrash fan and they killed it. I'm definitely going to pick up their albums!
It was my first time at a venue in Joliet, IL called Mojoe's. It was a very nice, little, place!
I also heard Warbringer for the first time. I'm a huge thrash fan and they killed it. I'm definitely going to pick up their albums!
MetalGuardian
Banned
I just gave this a spin for the first time earlier this morning. It was... a lot less diverse and proggy than I was hoping for. It was also has a surprisingly angry sound throughout the album, something I definitely didn't expect.this one exceeded my expectation
It was good, and I think that now I know more of what to expect I'll enjoy it more on repeat listens.
Now I'm getting ready to listen to my very first Orphaned Land album... The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR! I've heard nothing but excellent things about both the band and this album in particular, so I am pumped to get my Israeli groove on
gonna definitely try to make it to the chicago show after work.
Backwards Marathon
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More doom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIn1lydKpOQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIn1lydKpOQ
Don't know what you're into, but here's what I found..
3/29 - Firestone Live
Deicide, Jungle Rot, Abigail Williams, Lecherous Nocturne
4/17 - The Beacham
Gwar, Kylesa, Ghoul, Legacy of Disorder
4/17 - The Social
Protest the Hero, Peripher, Jeff Loomis, The Safety Fire, Today I Caught the Plague
5/6 - Hard Rock
Megadeth, Lacuna Coil
5/8 - House of Blues
Miss May I, Whitechapel, After the Buriel, Within the Ruins
5/8 - Firestone Live
Overkill, God Forbid, Diamond Plate, Suidakra
That looks to be about it, from what I found on pollstar.
OmegaDragon
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RYM says March 31st
I saw these guys yesterday at a festival in Guadalajara, Mexico. Destruction
Holy fuck, the best thrash act I've seen live! They played in one of the small stages and the sound was pretty tight and clear, warm and responsive crowd. My neck still hurts from the headbanging, haha.
There were other good bands at the festival, Black Oil and Soulfly from Brazil and the surprise for me was this mexican band, Here Comes The Kraken. I'm not a fan of their sub-genre (at all) but surprisingly, they were very enjoyable live.
Holy fuck, the best thrash act I've seen live! They played in one of the small stages and the sound was pretty tight and clear, warm and responsive crowd. My neck still hurts from the headbanging, haha.
There were other good bands at the festival, Black Oil and Soulfly from Brazil and the surprise for me was this mexican band, Here Comes The Kraken. I'm not a fan of their sub-genre (at all) but surprisingly, they were very enjoyable live.
Backwards Marathon
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Nice thanks. Protest is awesome, saw them last year might go see them again. Always wanted to see Megadeth, maybe I'll get around to seeing them too.
The Spacepope
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That's great news Wrath! Really looking forward to the next EC album.
Giant Robot
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Saw them and Kreator play in San Francisco quite a few years ago. It was one of the most awesome and nostalgic feeling shows I've been to. Both bands played the well known older stuff of course. Can't remember why, but Sodom didn't play the US tour with them. It would have been the a perfect show.
I shit you not, Destruction never changed their look and sound and this is exactly how they were at the SF show, haha
Destruction - Thrash Attack
Sveitadurgur
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Has anyone here gottten the new Psycroptic album "The Inherited Repression"? I Is it just me or is it kinda bland and uninterresting? I've given it a few spins but I barely remember any of the songs on it.
ORwarriOR is pretty awesome. My only real complaint is that it's kind of long and drags on a bit. But at the same time I'm not sure there's anything they should have cut from the album, since it's all really good.
Melchiah
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That both took me by surprise and was oddly familiar. For that I thank you
Good to hear. =)
Only a few months until the preliminary recordings begin.
MetalGuardian
Banned
Nice! My speakers actually blew while listening to the album so I haven't been able to give it a proper listen yet
I'll get around to it sometime this week thoughAnd I like the avatar! I've been on a huge Porcupine Tree kick lately. The only album of theirs I had listened to was Deadwing, but I just recently got In Absentia, Fear of a Blank Planet, and The Incident. IA and TI are awesome (and I haven't had a chance to listen to FoaBP yet, but I'm sure that will be great as well)
How is Wilson's solo stuff?
Nice! My speakers actually blew while listening to the album so I haven't been able to give it a proper listen yet
And I like the avatar! I've been on a huge Porcupine Tree kick lately. The only album of theirs I had listened to was Deadwing, but I just recently got In Absentia, Fear of a Blank Planet, and The Incident. IA and TI are awesome (and I haven't had a chance to listen to FoaBP yet, but I'm sure that will be great as well)
How is Wilson's solo stuff?
PT's my favorite band ever, and I'm a bona-fide card carrying Steven Wilson nutcase. I love all his projects (No-Man, Blackfield, IEM, Bass Communion, Solo, etc). That guy is pretty much my music god.
FOABP is pretty great, though that's one of my least favorite PT releases. I'm kind of alone with that, though. I think my real problem with it was that I listened to the live bootlegs when they did the concerts of that material before it was released. There were some amazing spots in those bootlegs that didn't translate at all to the actual album. In the album he sounds kind of drugged up and weird, though I'm sure that's intentional given the subject manner. FOABP is awesome live, though. If you were to add the companion EP, Nil Recurring to it, though, it'd skyrocket forward on my list of PT albums. If you don't have that, get it. Actually, just get everything PT. Their older albums are different, but still insanely good.
His solo stuff is also amazing. Insurgentes is a bit more modern sounding. It has a lot of his different sounds throughout, from his ambient pieces to more catchy things. Harmony Korine sounds like it could have been a PT song. It also has a lot of noise influence from his Bass Communion side. It's kind of a hodgepodge, but it comes together insanely well. Originally when I was ranking albums the year this came out and The Incident came out, I actually put Insurgentes ahead. Grace for Drowning, his album from last year, was also insanely good. It takes a more old school prog approach (think Lizard era King Crimson). There's still a bit of modernism in a few tracks, but otherwise it's pretty old in technique. Still, he has his signature amazing song writing and hooks strewn throughout, and that's something you don't find in a lot of that old prog quite as much. Definitely give it a listen.
Went to see Arcturus on Saturday and it was amazing! Really hope they'll make a new album soon.
They didn't play Radical Cut even though they've played it on a number of other gigs during the tour. We talked a bit to Knut Magne Valle (the guitarist of Acturus) and asked why they didn't play it and the answer was that the last time Radical Cut was played, Hellhammer played so fast that all the other members got pissed off and decided they won't play it again. Brilliant gig overall. If you don't mind watching an iphone quality video then here's a clip I recorded.
They didn't play Radical Cut even though they've played it on a number of other gigs during the tour. We talked a bit to Knut Magne Valle (the guitarist of Acturus) and asked why they didn't play it and the answer was that the last time Radical Cut was played, Hellhammer played so fast that all the other members got pissed off and decided they won't play it again. Brilliant gig overall. If you don't mind watching an iphone quality video then here's a clip I recorded.
sankt-Antonio
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While not having heard all of koloss, i would say that obzen's "bleed" is still unmatched. Even the band themselve said that no song on the new record is as crazy as bleed. I love me some bleed.
Maybe it's because I overplayed Bleed so much back when it was released, but there's a couple songs on Koloss that I would say are easily heavier or faster than Bleed. "The Demon's Name Is Surveillance" sounds like the spiritual successor to Bleed to my ears. The album as a whole is much stronger than Obzen anyway, even though Bleed will be their best known song for years to come.
ReConstructDead
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I personally prefer "I".
A shame they can't play it live, though.
A shame they can't play it live, though.
sankt-Antonio
Banned
From what i heard, i really like the more organic sound, can't wait to hear the whole album.
Thomas Haake said that no song on koloss is as difficult to play for him as bleed and that he has to switch to triggers, on his base drum, (only for this song) when playing bleed live.
I just can't tell you how much i love bleed
While the difficulty of a song has nothing to do with its quality, it has some magic to it knowing that a song is fucking hard to play.
Same here, and i typically like heavy for the sake of heavy. Nothing about them appeals to me.
TheLastCandle
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this one exceeded my expectation
and this one was disappointing
Gonna check out the Adrenaline Mob album, but I honestly don't know what to expect.
Shame about the new Epica. I thought their last one was by FAR their best.
Facism
Member
I personally prefer "I".
A shame they can't play it live, though.
quality track for a 20 minute run.
Let me know how that is. I'm going to the one on May 12th, last stop in Atlanta.
My only Meshuggah experience is this video someone linked to me of Rotten Sound covering a song called War:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtIzctherZc
I heard the original used a drum machine and people seemed impressed by the drumming here, I wouldn't know since I don't play drums. Sure looks crazy though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtIzctherZc
I heard the original used a drum machine and people seemed impressed by the drumming here, I wouldn't know since I don't play drums. Sure looks crazy though.
SlickWilly223
Time ta STEP IT UP
New Meshuggah is bomb
SaggyMonkey
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Not sure what I was expecting with that Adrenaline Mob album, but I'm happy I only tried a few tracks on Spotify. It's pretty bland. Kinda reminds me of a cross between the current Ozzy material and Nickelback. (ie shitty)
New Cannibal Corpse, Napalm Death, Spawn of Possession and Coldworker albums slay, though.
New Cannibal Corpse, Napalm Death, Spawn of Possession and Coldworker albums slay, though.
Will do. I haven't even been to a concert in 2 years so im pretty hype.
The Janitor
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Lately I've been listening to anything with Christian Älvestam, the way he does both growls and clean singing is amazing.
Disarmonia Mundi - Ringside Seat to Human Tragedy
Scar Symmetry - Artificial Sun Projection
Solution .45 - Clandestinity Now
Disarmonia Mundi - Ringside Seat to Human Tragedy
Scar Symmetry - Artificial Sun Projection
Solution .45 - Clandestinity Now
Ethereal Collapse - Towards the Asymptote
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGZA9vylADA
From their new album
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGZA9vylADA
From their new album
I usually tend to like one or two songs from each album while the rest doesn't appeal to me at all. From the new album, Koloss, I only liked overall is The Demon's Name Is Surveillance since its a bit structured and doesn't change tempo every 10 sec.'s or more and some ambient noise in some tracks. Thats it.
Oldschool
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The new Cannibal Corpse album it's just brutal. Awesome.
Kinda remembers me of early Carcass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOuSyOQ3OSw#t=0m46s
Kinda remembers me of early Carcass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOuSyOQ3OSw#t=0m46s
Sveitadurgur
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What does that even mean? Isn't that just a sneaky way of saying "I think their songwriting is bad"?
The only thing that's actually "heavy for the sake of being heavy" is Slam-metal garbage, wich is just breakdowns and BREEBREE pigsqueals for 20 minutes.
Also, Pravus is the best song on ObZen. No contest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoOquKCATdQ&feature=related
Holy shit, how come I didn't know about this band earlier.
I feel like beating the crap out of someone.
Holy shit, how come I didn't know about this band earlier.
I feel like beating the crap out of someone.
teruterubozu
Member
It's pretty good, although it seems very "safe" and lacks the experimentation compared to their other albums, in my opinion.
No. I don't think their song writing is bad. I 'get' what people like about them, it just doesn't appeal to me personally. Stylistically or thematically.
Yah...the riff at the end of Marrow makes me hard. I've never heard anything like before. Complicated and brutal as all hell.
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