At 11/25/09 11:34 PM, Nev wrote:

At 11/25/09 09:08 PM, SpeedMetalSandwich wrote: Which makes me think, we keep the already existing members in, and the new requirement for joining is you have to have had a smoke with Lemmy, or something equivalent in terms of awesome.

LOL I MET DRAGONFORCE DOES THAT COUNT!?

When I saw Rotting Christ, Mantic Ritual and Epicurean on a Thursday night in january there was also a HUMONGOUS snow storm that started two hours before the doors opened, and was still raging on even after the show had ended.

The only people that went to the show was myself, one girl and seven other guys: That makes nine people.

It was like we had our own private show: Rotting played for 90 minutes, Mantic for 45 and Epicurean for 45 as well.

After Rotting Christ had finished playing the storm was still raging on and they didn't want to send us out into the storm until it was over and so the nine of, all the members of all three bands and two of the security guards who were metal heads all sat around in a circle drinking till about 3 AM.

Do I win?

Dio - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, if he dies then silence will rein out into the world of good music.

Tool - Even though they aren't metal officially, I like to think of them as such because they influenced most prog metal bands today, sadly I don't own any of there albums(just heard a few of there songs) What albums should I get off the bat?

MissingJack - Welcome to the club! Just curious, when you saw the Metalcopypse tour(I was going to go to the one in Boston but I didn't feel like paying 40 bucks for a Tuesday night show) did the audience in general like High On Fire or was it just a few people like you? Cause i'd hate it if people didn't like em.

Riverside - YOU ALL NEED TO LISTEN TO THESE GUYS, seriously everyone in this club who likes either A.) Progressive Metal, B.) Ambiance or C.) Music that induces Revelation needs to buy all four of there studio albums.

Like, there first two albums and there 4th album are entirely comprised of nothing but win(There 3rd album is good, but has some filler tracks that sadly bring down the quality)

Riverside - The Same River

At 11/25/09 06:18 PM, missingjack wrote: Wat do u think is the most brutal album of all time?

Define which genre I think the most brutal album of all time is.

I wouldn't be able to decide between "Thrash metal brutal" or "Technical/Brutal Death Metal brutal"

I always felt like K0rn take themselves as a joke, I really doubt they take themselves seriously at all.

Slipknot on the other hand, are the complete opposites and have even claimed that there 4th album is the most brutal album is the most brutal album ever released.

Musically, however, they sound totally different.

Either way, they both suck.

Also, I heard Blind Guardian opened for Slipknot for one show in 2008......WHAT THE FUCK?!

Xandria - She's Nirvana

At 11/23/09 08:41 PM, mothballs wrote: Dark Tranquillity

THIS one is really late.

The Black Dahlia Murder (I know, I'm late on this one)

....Ew.

she liked Sonata Arctica and we did things together while listening to them. Metal? Not really. Yes Metal Hell, I still find power metal made of fail.

LOL WUT?

SA's first two albums = PURE WIN.

At 11/21/09 04:43 PM, Interventionism wrote: Avenged Sevenfold are metal.

LOL WUT?

Most of those bands are boring as hell..

No taste in thrash metal.

At 11/21/09 07:14 AM, nintendolover5000 wrote: forgot pic...

Wow....fail.

At 11/21/09 11:31 AM, Bahamut wrote: What the fuck is up with Disturbed's logo? Also, I much prefer this.

Way to steal the pic I posted a few pages earlier. Lmao

At 11/21/09 10:15 AM, ZpLiNtEh wrote: I officially have a new found love for Municipal Waste, they're awesome.

Indeed, seeing them on Dec. 8th with three bands i've never heard of(Phobia, Brutal Truth, Cauldron)

At 11/19/09 08:20 PM, Nev wrote:

At 11/19/09 08:14 PM, D3NTATUS wrote: I'm not sure how "Helloween" fits in with meaningful lyrics.

I don't believe Helloween have ever had meaningful lyrics :P.

The songs on their first album do.

How Many Tears anyone?

And I meant Helloween fits a thrash metal band.

At 11/19/09 06:53 PM, D3NTATUS wrote: If you want a shitty band name, kindly refer to Helloween.

Helloween is a great name(Bad logo though)

It perfectly fits what Helloween was on their first, and best ever album: Walls Of Jericho which was basically thrash metal with falsetto vocals and meaningful lyrics.

At 11/19/09 05:54 AM, PenisClown wrote: Calling Alestorm folk metal is a bit insulting though.

Folk influneced = / = Folk Metal.

They are power metal and swashbuckle are thrash metal.

Their music is so damn piratey. It's pirate metal.

At 11/18/09 06:12 PM, CapnCrunchDaPimp wrote:

At 11/18/09 06:06 PM, AniMetal wrote: Death's logo....?

Did you carve that? If you do I'll fucking suck on your godly tits forever.

haha no, I wish!

I saw Vader and they had a bunch of pumpkins with bands names carved into them on stage!

Oh yeah, I saw:
Obituary
Goatwhore
Krisiun
The Berserker
Warbringer on September 30th

and:
Vader
Decrepit Birth
Warbringer
The Amentia
Augury
Swashbuckle on November 5th.

I wanted to go to Heathenfest on the 3rd of this month but I didn't feel like going last minute, I heard the show sucked though so all is good!

Marduk, Nachtmystium, Mantic Ritual, Black Anvil and Merrimack all on friday! :D

Death's logo....?

At 11/17/09 08:33 PM, Bahamut wrote: Why have I only listened to Metal Church just now? This band has been mentioned many times in the metal community yet I never even checked them out until now when I was looking at my "To listen to" list. It's a damn shame I overlooked them all this time since the one song I heard called Beyond the Black is awesome! Their debut album is definitely one to get sometime soon. Hopefully I'll see it when I go to London next week.

For all people looking into thrash metal look at this picture, mostly everything is gold. (Click on the picture again to zoom in larger, then scroll up and down)

Other bands not on pic(I think):
Bonded By Blood, Pro-Pain, Violator, Evile, Warbringer, Mantic Ritual, Gama Bomb, Warpath, Thrash or Die, Swashbuckle and Exorcist.

Then if you browse through this thread i'm sure you could find another five or six thrash metal bands.

At 11/17/09 07:21 PM, Idiosyncratic wrote: Speaking of Swashbuckle, they're the best band of the new wave of american thrash right now. their albums are really fun and thrashy and boozy and all around hilarity with riffs to boot. not to mention that they're a power trio, which is really unheard of in thrash.

Destruction...?

Swashbuckle are pretty good, but I prefer Mantic Ritual, Thrash Or Die and Warpath.

But Swashbuckle take the cake for best new aged thrash metal band to see live.

At 11/17/09 04:44 PM, TheUnwisePoet wrote: If you consider Groove Metal real Metal, and if you consider Machine Head, Groove Metal, can I talk about 'em?

Give me a list of what subgenres in Metal you consider Real Metal though...

Any genre of music that has "Metal" in the name is REAL metal with the soul exceptions of NU metal, Metalcore and Glam/Hair Metal.

Genres like viking metal and pirate metal are real metal bands, but not official genres.

And no one said you couldn't talk about Machine Head, aren't they Bill's favorite band anyway?

Good point Nev, I didn't think about it like that.

Poet, PONOS treats everyone like that.

If PONOS hates YOU then he must be hunting down Duff right now to cut his balls off. (No offense to either duff or ponos)

At 11/17/09 03:14 PM, Nev wrote: I seriously doubt the music industry buys into doomsday prophecies.

I mean, i'm sure a lot of bands releasing albums in November or December will just put it off till the 21st, just for shit and giggles.

Swashbuckle = Pirate themed thrash metal.

Very fun live, I recommend seeing them some time.

At 11/16/09 10:28 PM, greensucksbluerules wrote: Goddamn it, Mayhem got arrested.

What did they do this time?

At 11/17/09 10:27 AM, Bahamut wrote: Really now? I thought it was becoming mainstream.

The thing about deathcore is it isn't metal enough to liked by death metal fans and it isn't melodic enough to be liked by metalcore fans, so most deathcore bands are just as underground as most metal bands.

But then some make it big like Bring Me The Horizon and The Black Dahlia Murder.

This is also how it is for emocore(Simple Plan, MCR) and NU metal(Linkin Park, K0RN)

But then metalcore and screamo both have a TON of popular bands.

I still love Reign in Blood. :(

How do you say overrated in a non-offensive way?

Let's not start predicting how those years will handle metal until they're close. Hardly anything has been scheduled for a 2011 release. The most I know that's coming out in 2011 so far is DragonForce...

I'm just saying, 2011 is such an ugly year though as opposed to 2012.

Most bands will be like "LET'S WAIT TO RELEASE IT IN 2012 CAUSE IT'S SUCH A AWESOME SOUNDING YEAR"

So yeah.

Also how many albums will be released and how many music festivals do you guys think will be on December 21st 2012? I'm betting a LOT.

At 11/16/09 05:38 PM, Bahamut wrote: It's far too soon to even think that. All I'm doing right now is looking forward to the day their new album comes out. 2010 is looking good so far with new Blind Guardian, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Symphony X. There's likely to be more stuff to look forward to as well so I can't wait until 2010!

There are a lot of bands putting out new albums either this year or next year.

2009 is a great year, 2010 will be just as great, 2011 will probably will be an average year but 2012 should be amazing!

Also Nucular Blast is a good thing, not a bad thing(Like most record companies)

At 11/16/09 03:30 PM, TheUnwisePoet wrote: But my favourite Metalcore bands, are Machine Head, Lamb of God, Trivium, Shadows Fall, All That Remains and Bullet for My Valentine...

Machine head are core? I thought they were just really bad groove metal/thrash metal...

Gama Bomb, Evile

These are two of the bands that are being huge parts in this new wave of thrash metal along with warbringer, warpath, swashbuckle and Mantic Ritual.

it's a lame their bassist died, I hope he rest in peace.

We talked about this for like 3 pages, but it still sucks.

I also like Slayer

Seasons of the abyss = Slayer's only good album IMO.

Oh and Pantera, orgasmic, I love the album "Vulgar Display of Power".

Cowboys from hell>>>>>>>>Vulgar display of power.

Metallica... Kings of Metal...

Hahahahaha NO.

Death Magnetic is a proof of their worth.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no.

I don't care if you like Metallica or not, but anyone who thinks Death Magnetic was a good album is delusional.

At 11/16/09 11:01 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 11/15/09 09:13 PM, PenisClown wrote: But metalcore lost it's edge a while ago, everyone loves deathcore now.

Wow, I guess I do pay enough attention to trendy music. I thought I was completely out of the loop with what's popular these days. Then again, I must have read enough about these genres in here.

Only a few Deathcore bands like Bring Me The Horizon are popular, only a few emocore bands like Simple Plan are popular and only a few NU metal bands like K0RN are popular, most deathcore, emocore and NU metal bands are just as underground as most metal bands.

Metalcore and Screamo however, are just as mainstream and popular as pop(In this day and age, in teenage populaces)

CONCERT FUTURE:

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20, 2009
$20.00
Marduk
Nachtmystium
Mantic Ritual
Black Anvil
Merrimack

FRIDAY DECEMBER 4, 2009
$25.00
Ensiferum
Hypocrisy
Ex Deo
Blackguard
Swashbuckle

TUESDAY DECEMBER 8, 2009
$15.00
Municipal Waste
Brutal Truth
Phobia
Cauldron

FRIDAY JANUARY 8, 2010
$25.00
Korpiklaani
Tyr
Swashbuckle
White Wizzard

SATURDAY JANUARY 16, 2010
$25.00
Nile
Immolation
Krisiun
Abigail Williams
Dreaming Dead

SATURDAY JANUARY 23, 2010
$25.00
Arch Enemy
Exodus
Arsis
Mutiny Within

SATURDAY JANUARY 30, 2010
$20.00
Epica
Threat Signal
Blackguard

SATURDAY MARCH 6, 2010
$??.??
Hammerfall
Infinite Descent

These are all the shows i'm going to in the future, they are all at the Palladium in my city of Worcester, Mass.

Also, I heard in April/May Sonata Arctica is going on another North America tour with support of Pagan's Mind and Icewind! If this is an actual tour and isn't just a rumour then it'd be fucking amazing to go to.

Symphony X - The Walls Of Babylon(The only great song on Paradise Lost)

This is an interesting tour, bands are on and off for different parts.

ENSIFERUM, HYPOCRISY, BLACKGUARD, SWASHBUCKLE:
06. Nov. 2009 Springfield, Virginia - Jaxx
07. Nov. 2009 Crocodile Rock Cafe Allentown, Pennsylvania

ENSIFERUM, HYPOCRISY, BLACKGUARD:
08. Nov. 2009 Raleigh, North Carolina - Volume 11
09. Nov. 2009 Atlanta, Georgia - The Masquerade
10. Nov. 2009 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida - Culture Room
11. Nov. 2009 Orlando, Florida - AKA Lounge
13. Nov. 2009 Houston, Texas - Meridian
14. Nov. 2009 Austin, Texas - Emo's
15. Nov. 2009 Fort Worth, Texas - Ridglea Theatre
17. Nov. 2009 Santa Ana, California - The Galaxy Theatre
18. Nov. 2009 Hollywood, California - The Key Club
19. Nov. 2009 San Francisco, California - DNA Lounge
20. Nov. 2009 Portland, Oregon - Hawthorne Theater
21. Nov. 2009 Seattle, Washington - Studio Seven
22. Nov. 2009 Vancouver, BC CANADA - Rickshaw Theatre
23. Nov. 2009 Calgary, AB CANADA - The Warehouse
24. Nov. 2009 Edmonton, AB CANADA - Starlite Room
27. Nov. 2009 Winnipeg, MB CANADA - The Zoo
28. Nov. 2009 St. Paul, Minnesota - Station 4

ENSIFERUM, HYPOCRISY, EX DEO, BLACKGUARD:
29. Nov. 2009 Chicago, Illinois - House of Blues
30. Nov. 2009 Cleveland, Ohio - Peabody's

ENSIFERUM, HYPOCRISY, EX DEO, BLACKGUARD, SWASHBUCKLE:
01. Dez. 2009 Toronto, ON CANADA - The Opera House
02. Dez. 2009 Quebec City, QC CANADA - Imperial de Quebec
03. Dez. 2009 Montreal, QC CANADA - Le Medley
04. Dez. 2009 Worcester, Massachusetts - The Palladium
05. Dez. 2009 New York, New York - Irving Plaza

Ensiferum , Hypocrisy and Blackguard are playing every single show, but Ex Deo and Swashbuckle are seemingly randomy playing. Haha

Luckily, i'm seeing them on the 4th and all five bands are playing then. :D

Basically every core band rips off At The Gates and In Flames.

Pagan's Mind - Painted Skies

At 11/14/09 06:50 AM, TheUnwisePoet wrote: Dazed And Confused by Led Zeppelin... 26:52

Lol twenty seven minutes.

I don't have a Ipod or anything like that, I just listen to cds.

BUT my longest song, that I have on CD, that I can recall would probably be "Plague Of Butterflies" by Swallow The Sun, it's like 49 minutes long.

At 11/14/09 07:04 AM, michelinman wrote: Well, I don't swing by here very much because with regards to how diverse metal has become over the years, I'm not much of a fan of most of the bands that receive mention here.

Every band you listed is core or not metal and they all suck so that would be why all those albums were failures.

Every band I LISTEN to that have released a new album this year was golden, this is the best year in metal since 2002 IMO.

At 11/14/09 07:33 AM, Zodir wrote: All right, I just want to check something. Which do you guys think is better: Gamma Ray or Helloween? It seems to be a big debate over which band has put out better albums, etc. among power metal fans. So what is your guys' opinion.

Helloween before Kai Hansen left>>>>>>Gamma Ray>>>>>Helloween after Kai Hansen left.

There is really no debate about it, that is pretty much fact.

At 11/12/09 01:35 PM, batman64 wrote: Peace

I feel neglected.

Ireland has nothing but GREAT metal bands.

Seriously.

Good morning all. <3

At 11/9/09 01:57 PM, TheUnwisePoet wrote:

At 11/9/09 01:43 PM, greensucksbluerules wrote: Deathcore is an amalgamation of two musical styles: metalcore and death metal.

It's different anyway, and you still can't compare...

No, you can.

In the same way you can compare Folk metal with clean vocals and folk metal with unclean vocals.

Who cares? Pl0x is fucking awesome.