TheLastCandle
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The Metal Thread
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Wormrot - Dirge is soooooooooooo good
Andrew Korenchkin
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Good call on Moonsorrow. Their album Kivenkantaja is downright amazing. Pretty big fan of Agalloch's The Mantle.
OmegaDragon
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I prefer my folk metal to have a black metal background. My favourites of the genre would be Agalloch and Primordial. Agalloch for its beautiful mix of folk, black & doom. Primordial is more black/folk band with a pagan/celtic sound. Powerful songs with an amazing cleanish vocalist. To the Nameless Dead is an amazing album and a runnerup for my 2007 album of the year.
Melechesh (rec album Emissaries) and Orphaned Land ( rec allbum Mabool) are some nice examples of metal band with middle eastern folk influences.
I also adore folk influences in my atmospheric black metal, such as Negura Bunget ( rec OM) and Nokturnal Mortuum (rec The Voice Of Steel)
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=042ULWGgaIE
Not a big fan of stuff like Ensiferum and Fintroll anymore, but folk metal is usually fun for festivals.
So you haven't heard any folk metal. Seems like a good time to explore the genre a bit, you have plenty of recommendations to start with
Andrew Korenchkin
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I'm listening to The Mantle right now. Did you know that the clicking sound on "The Lodge" is the skull of a Deer?
Dude i messed it up for six seconds. Were you just waiting for it?
Machine Head is such a godawful band, how can you go from making albums like Eternal Nightmare to that shit?
British Monsoon
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I'm not a huge folk metal fan, but I love me some Månegarm and don't see them mentioned nearly enough. Their first two albums are more atmospheric black metal with folk influences, which grow in predominance from then on. I haven't heard the new one yet, but I really like all six of their other releases, with Vredens Tid & Vargstenen being my favourite two.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL-V3OnHF8g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQdD7kRWE0Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LLpxOQRAw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL-V3OnHF8g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQdD7kRWE0Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2LLpxOQRAw
So you haven't heard any folk metal. Seems like a good time to explore the genre a bit, you have plenty of recommendations to start with
I've heard some here and there....not sure if I'd be a fan of most of it.
Andrew Korenchkin
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So much this.
Here's some Vio-Lence to wash away the awful taste that Machine Head left in my mouth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHXQlrccNPU
Anyone remember Nuclear Assault?
I wish I still had their albums, used to have the whole discography. Fantastic thrash. Well, the first 3 albums, at least.
I wish I still had their albums, used to have the whole discography. Fantastic thrash. Well, the first 3 albums, at least.
Andrew Korenchkin
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Here's some Vio-Lence to wash away the awful taste that Machine Head left in my mouth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHXQlrccNPU
Serial Killer is probably my favorite song, but I honestly couldn't pick just one.
I'd go with the title track.
I'VE DRANK THE BLOOD THAT DEAD SOULS HAVE CRIED!
I'VE CURSED THE DEVIL THEN WATCHED HIM DIE!
Andrew Korenchkin
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Fuck it, the whole album is just classic track after classic track. I think I've mentioned before that's my favorite Thrash metal album plenty of times. I want to listen to it again after I'm done with The Mantle.
Morrigan Stark
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Orphaned Land is Opeth-level of boring, but I second the Melechesh recommendation. Great, great band, and truly amazing live as well.
HammerOfThor
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Nuclear Assault is one amazing, and IMO seriously underrated, thrash band.
This is some awesome shit. Technical death with some Thrash sprinkled in
Ouroboros - Glorification of A Myth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o8vGrDKbYs&list=PL4AE3BEA1E314F109
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-MyditZP-Y&list=PL4AE3BEA1E314F109
Ouroboros - Glorification of A Myth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o8vGrDKbYs&list=PL4AE3BEA1E314F109
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-MyditZP-Y&list=PL4AE3BEA1E314F109
If you'd count it as pure folk metal, I nominate Asmegin's Hin Vordende Sod & Sø as my favorite folk metal album.
I like a lot of other offerings from the bigger names in folk metal like Korpiklaani and Moonsorrow but some of the lesser known stuff you find is really good.
I like a lot of other offerings from the bigger names in folk metal like Korpiklaani and Moonsorrow but some of the lesser known stuff you find is really good.
Andrew Korenchkin
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Whoa, Asmegin has some pretty cool musical motifs going on here.
I've never heard Orphaned Land before...but that sounds like an amazing recommendation to me! Gonna check em out.
My man.
It depends on the album, really. Orphaned Land used to be a death metal band with some middle eastern influences and starting from Mabool they took a turn for a more folk/progressive approach. Their last three albums are great, if a bit inconsistent. Mabool is definitely their masterpiece though, I don't think they'll ever top it.
Giant Robot
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During the night of Vio-Lence's re-union show, they were recording a live album for the Eternal Nightmare re-release. Sean Killian gave me the mic and I did the "my silent grave" during the Serial Killer parts, but was too gruff and almost death metal-like....Sean joked about it on stage being too death metal and the song was omitted on the Live album
Too bad this song never made it on the Eternal Nightmare album: Vio-Lence - Paraplegic
During the night of Vio-Lence's re-union show, they were recording a live album for the Eternal Nightmare re-release. Sean Killian gave me the mic and I did the "my silent grave" during the Serial Killer parts, but was too gruff and almost death metal-like....Sean joked about it on stage being too death metal and the song was omitted on the Live album
Too bad this song never made it on the Eternal Nightmare album: Vio-Lence - Paraplegic
If I recall correctly Bodies on Bodies has different lyrics on that demo.
Paraplegic is great, any idea why it never made it into Eternal Nightmare?
Giant Robot
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I've always read it was too controversial. Eternal Nightmare could have used 1 more song, but I'm fine with it being as short as it is since its so fucking brutal and doesnt let up. Besides, Paraplegic sounded a little too similar to Eternal Nightmare and Phobophobia.
I wish Oppressing The Masses would swap out half the songs with every song on the Torture Tactics ep...
Andrew Korenchkin
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During the night of Vio-Lence's re-union show, they were recording a live album for the Eternal Nightmare re-release. Sean Killian gave me the mic and I did the "my silent grave" during the Serial Killer parts, but was too gruff and almost death metal-like....Sean joked about it on stage being too death metal and the song was omitted on the Live album
Too bad this song never made it on the Eternal Nightmare album: Vio-Lence - Paraplegic
Damn, I've never heard this song before.
For that matter, I really need to listen to Opressing the Masses.
Morrigan Stark
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They don't sound alike at all, but they are similarly pretentious and boring.
Now that is an unfathomable comparison... unless they've really changed style lately. :S
Andrew Korenchkin
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That's one of those records where you completely put down over the years, and pick up years later and remember how good it was.
Giant Robot
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None So Vile is so good. That drumming still pisses me off. But damn, that album was an instant classic when it was released.
Oh, that's unfortunate. I don't mind that it's a bit similar to other songs from Eternal Nightmare mainly because every song on EN is just ridiculously good
That album needed a gutterslut oh so bad.
Opressing the Masses has too many mid-paced songs and not enough balls to the wall insanity, still a good album with some catchy choruses.
Impureza - La Iglesia del Odio
Nokturnal Mortum - NeChrist
Temnozor - Horizons
Arkan - Salam
Skyforger - Latvian Riflemen
Kroda - Towards the Firmaments Verge of Life
Man, I'm going to get so much playtime out of BTBAM's Paralax II...the amount of depth in this album is absurd.
Apparently they're touring later this year and playing the album from start to finish with no pauses. I hope they make a stop in Canada.
I only had a listen to a few songs from their latest album. They sounded like Kamelot with a Middle Eastern twist.
Apparently they're touring later this year and playing the album from start to finish with no pauses. I hope they make a stop in Canada.
I only had a listen to a few songs from their latest album. They sounded like Kamelot with a Middle Eastern twist.
On the subject of Melechesh, how do you feel about The Epigenesis?
Christberg
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Top 5 Canada DM stuff here, probably top 3 really. Depending on the week for me the order is Obscura, Temple of Knowledge then this but it's been known to change around depending on my mood.
Andrew Korenchkin
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I am back with yet another question. What is everybody's favorite Industrial Metal album?
For me, while I think some of the other bands that have been released over the years are pretty good, I would have to go with the one and only Streetcleaner, by Godflesh. Nothing else comes close, aside from maybe Too Dark Park (but that's not an Industrial Metal album, so never mind).
For me, while I think some of the other bands that have been released over the years are pretty good, I would have to go with the one and only Streetcleaner, by Godflesh. Nothing else comes close, aside from maybe Too Dark Park (but that's not an Industrial Metal album, so never mind).
Giant Robot
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The most obvious answer from me.
Streetcleaner has such a great brooding, mechanical, melancholic feel to it.
Godflesh S/T, Streetcleaner, Slavestate, Pure and all the EPs in between are unmatched.
Dead World came pretty close, but was super short lived and too much of a Godflesh ripoff.
Swans - Cop/Young God/Filth needs to be in this conversation. As well as early Scorn and Coil.
Diseased Yak
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Woo damn, one of my fav albums of all time. So fucking bad ass. EDIT: Listening to that track, and it's just phenomenal how brutal it is. The drumming is in some other realm, but everything just meshes so tightly. Gonna have to dig this whole album out.
Also, that Take Over And Destroy posted earlier is killer!
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I can never really get into Alaska. There are a few really really great pieces and tracks strewn about (like Selkies), but other than that it's just not for me.
One of the very few death metal bands/albums I ever got into. Shit's nuts.
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