At 11/8/09 01:59 PM, Nev wrote: Heavy Metal is a genre. There was a wave of British HM in the 70s.
That wasn't a trend as those bands are still huge names in Metal.

I know, but the fact that it's impossible to be a "heavy metal" band today makes it seem like it's not even a genre.

Most of those bands could be classified as power metal or thrash metal IMO.

I think Heavy Metal is just the universal term used to describe all metal bands, period.

I don't consider it a genre.

So i've been researching pirate metal bands

Oh, and Pirate Metal is a legitimate genre?

No, if you looked next to the band names I wrote there genres.

It's easier to say "Pirate metal" than "Pirate themed metal bands that can be power metal, thrash metal, death metal or folk metal"

Just like how people say "Viking Metal" instead of "Metal that has viking themed lyrics!"

At 11/8/09 01:23 PM, Nev wrote: Is the New Wave of British Heavy Metal a trend? Cause thats been going for fucking ages now :P.

I don't even consider that a legitimate genre. :P

So i've been researching pirate metal bands since I saw both Swashbuckle and Alestorm in this past week and.....I think I have a complete list of metal bands who are pirate themedwho have albums out.

The ones you all know:
Running Wild - Like a million albums
Swashbuckle - Two albums
Alestorm - Two albums

The ones no one has heard of:

Skull Branded Pirates - One album - Power Metal, Folk Metal
Los Pirates - One album - Power Metal
Verbal Deception - One album - Death Metal, Folk Metal
Dom Vetrov - One album - Folk Metal
Cauldron Black Ram - One album - Black Metal, Death Metal
Abordazh - One album - Power Metal

I've also listened to Scuurvy(power metal) and Pirates of Acheron(Thrash Metal) whom both have their first albums coming out sometime next year.

So yeah, as you guys can tell - I have way to much time on my hands.

At 11/8/09 12:41 PM, DeIirium wrote: Its funny because hating metalcore is a bigger trend than the genre itself.

Go to warped tour next year and tell me that the hate the metal community has for metalcore is bigger than the metalcore community.

Do it, I dare you.

Poet, i'd just like to point out that using the fact you are a teenager and that teenagers love core is a pretty bullshit excuse.

I mean, almost all(Not bill, lol) of the members in this club are teenagers themselves, or so young of adults that they might as well be consider teens.

Yet we all hate metalcore, because we all broke free of the media run trends.

I mean, that's what a 'wave' is - A trend.

That is not an excuse for liking a genre of music. If you don't like The Beatles your opinion shouldn't automatically change if you hear the beatles on the radio because their famous.

Whatever.

Helloween - Ride The Sky

At 11/8/09 09:34 AM, TheUnwisePoet wrote: Ok... that's it... I got to admit, I am a Metalcorefag,

Why?

At 11/4/09 06:03 PM, TheUnwisePoet wrote: I want to listen to moar Viking Metal than Amon Amarth, give me some bands to listen to!

Mih, *no effort*

Went to Heathenfest yesterday, it was pretty kickass!

Going to see Vader, Decrepit Birth, Warbringer, The Amentia, Augury, Swashbuckle and S.W.W.A.A.T.S tomorrow!

Vader - Xeper

At 11/3/09 03:17 PM, smeagol1 wrote:

At 11/3/09 02:12 PM, Freaki-boy92 wrote: can I join?

He listed Metallica! Can we eat him?!

No, but since everything he listed was shit....

Have a nice meal, smeagol.

At 11/3/09 02:12 PM, Freaki-boy92 wrote: can I join?

What exactly is that a list of? Just stuff you like?

You're very short duff.

I went as a 70's/80's glam rocker/metaler.

Sadly, no pictures were taken.

At 11/1/09 06:23 PM, greensucksbluerules wrote: Is it wrong to think Trilogique's review is fucking hilarious?

The best part of that page is that only one person gave 5DPF a positive review, and even that person only gave the album a 60.

At 10/30/09 01:08 AM, Gergaloth wrote: Metal changes because metal has a lot you can do with it.
Punk just doesn't.

WHat are you talking about?

So a punk band has to have lyrics that sound like every other punk band out there and all their instrumental has to be those insanely generic + repetitive + simple riffs over, and over, and over again?

BOY IF WE HAD A DIFFERENT SOUNDING SINGER, AND MORE ORIGINIAL BUT STILL KICKASS INSTRUMENTAL WE WILL BE A DIFFERENT GENRE BY DEFAULT HUR HUR

It doesn't work that way, at all.

And even if traditional punk fans wouldn't consider it punk? Fine, then we'll a new amazing genre of music!

Besides a few shit bands today like Sum41 and Green Day and maybe a few of the FIRST thrash metal/hardcore bands there influences could unlock amazing potential.

Punk and Metal are also nothing alike.

They are both huge music genres, I was comparing how one has VAST variety and the other has none.

Not the music itself.

At 10/28/09 12:23 PM, EpicFail wrote: See what I mean by that? Changing the genre will make them no longer a part of the genre...

So if in the early 80's since metal went from this to this then that makes Sonata Arctica NOT metal?

Every metal band, rock band, pop band, rap artist, etc. has differences among the genre.

I mean, even if some artists are highly similar if you keep a genre EXACTLY the same then NOTHING will evolve out of it.

People need to innovate, doing the same shit in the early 80's and still today doesn't mean you are staying true to the genre - It means you are fucking lazy and unoriginal and you also know how to recycle riffs and lyrical themes.

I mean, fucking look at grunge. It was only big between '91 and '94.

Why? Because it remained EXACTLY the fucking same without anyone doing anything different.

At 10/27/09 06:56 PM, D3NTATUS wrote: You guys are forgetting the heaviest, tr00est all-girl band... KITTIE

In that picture they look very attractive, but not THAT attractive.

But, you have to keep in mind that they MADE them look that good with effects and whatnot.

So IRL they're probably shit.

At 10/27/09 12:59 PM, EpicFail wrote: Punk's always just been more simple, especially compared to metal.

But why? I don't see why musicians limit themselves.

So much unlocked potential.

At 10/27/09 11:39 AM, EternitySpent wrote: Isn't that kind of an oxy-moron?

It shouldn't be.

Why should a genre limit it's styles so much?

I mean look at metal, you can make about a infinite number of different styles of metal without leaving the genre.

Why isn't punk the same or at least similar to the same or similar degree or variety?

At 10/27/09 08:08 AM, PenisClown wrote: My only experience with Helloween has been watching the music video for I Want Out.

Walls Of Jericho, Keeper of The Seven Keys Part 1 and Keeper Of The Seven Keys part 2 are three of the most amazing and most influential metal albums ever recorded.

GO BUY THEM!

At 10/27/09 07:49 AM, Bahamut wrote: Domination reminds me of Cowboys from Hell and that's not a good thing at all.

The bass intro to Domination is great, but besides that it's incredibly ugh.

Also, interesting comparison considering I was reading SX reviews on metal archives the other day and one was talking about how SX steal everything from Pantera.

It's still metal, so it's a surprise he actually wanted to be part of that album whether he's friends with Kai Hansen or not and this was just a few years after he left Helloween.

Well it's not like he toured with the band or anything.

Does anyone have any more technical and complex punk than the normal stuff which is all really simple?

Progressive Punk(If it exists) recommendations would also be great.

At 10/27/09 04:32 AM, Mastermax009 wrote: Internet is it social. :P sorry

Do you guys consider porn a social activity?

I've finally found a metal band with all female members!

Do I win?

Finally level 30!

At 10/26/09 07:53 PM, batman64 wrote:

At 10/26/09 07:50 PM, mothballs wrote:

At 10/26/09 06:53 PM, AllMightyBruce wrote: Most of the guys that are in to Black Metal here go on to Doom. Alex did too. I guess I'm old skool. St8 legit brah.

I'm going to assume that Doom is a band, therefore I will go check them out.

Doom, as in Doom metal bro

Doom would've been an awesome name for a thrash or death metal band from the 80's IMO.

At 10/26/09 08:01 PM, TakeNoPrisoners wrote:

At 10/26/09 02:24 PM, AniMetal wrote: basically really poppy rock like Paramore only with keyboards and guitar solos.

Sounds great. I love Paramore.

I like how they are fun to watch, but not particularly a big fan of the band themselves.

At 10/26/09 08:40 AM, Bahamut wrote: Whenever he died, he still deserves more recognition.

Indeed.

Even though he's been a guest musician in many metal bands, most especially Gamma Ray. Funny how he said he hated metal yet in 1995 he was a guest vocalist in two songs from Land of the Free.

His guest work in helloween tribute band "Trick Or Treat" = The tribute band basically sucked Michael's cock until he agreed to be the vocalist for an album.

His guest work in Avantasia = This was in the early 2000's, he probably matured a little bit since then - Also you could argue that Avantasia is so melodic of a metal band that one might confuse it for a rock band if they didn't know any better.

His guest work in Gamma Ray = Michael Kiske is still great friends with Kai Hansen, he probably did it because their friends and not for the music itself.

I've never listened to any of his solo projects and I hope I never will.

I listened to one of his solo songs "Always"

It was pretty horrible, he limited his voice sooooooooo much - It didn't sound like he was singing, it sounded like he was whispering.

And the instrumental + lyrics to go along with it sucked also.

At 10/26/09 04:23 PM, DeIirium wrote: Afro samurai has an awesome rap soundtrack.

Afro Samurai is awesome all together.

Only, I was once flipping through channels at 2 in the morning and it was on Sci-Fi channel dubbed.

Which was really weird.

Helloween - Eagle Fly Free

At 10/26/09 12:29 PM, PenisClown wrote: Within Temptation suck cock.

This.

Also, stop sucking Metal Archives cocks - Go listen to them yourself, they are basically really poppy rock like Paramore only with keyboards and guitar solos.

At 10/25/09 11:16 PM, batman64 wrote: Tool is not Metal.
Please list 3 more bands, we ask for 10.

I'm pretty sure Within Temptation isn't metal either, so list 4 more bands.

At 10/25/09 03:08 PM, Nev wrote: He's perfect for Power Metal, but I can't imagine his voice in any other genre.

Well what he wants to be is a pop singer.

Everything's he done since Helloween has been pop in one way or another.

Plus, if you look at Chameleon and SOME of the songs on Pink Bubbles Go Ape then you can hear some serious pop influences.

Ingo isn't as well remembered because he killed himself three years after he was kicked out of helloween.

If he killed himself while still a member then MANY more people would know about it.

At 10/25/09 02:21 PM, Nev wrote:

At 10/25/09 11:26 AM, greensucksbluerules wrote: Why are you forgetting about Michael, who actually did the vocals on the song?

Didn't Kiske turn his back on Metal though?

He did, he said himself in '97 that being in a metal band was the worst thing that ever happened to him and it ruinned his chances to actually be in a good band.

He also said that he wouldn't return to metal even though no other genres of music accept him now.

And considering every single one of his solo projects and works with other bands turned into UTTER failures like his last two albums with helloween, and he still hasn't returned to metal, he's keeping to what he said.

At 10/24/09 06:06 PM, greensucksbluerules wrote: There's nothing gay about suicide by being run over by a train.

R.I.P. Ingo Schwichtenberg

Art Of Simplicity - n0thinG

At 10/24/09 03:24 PM, DeIirium wrote: Why the fuck does everyone like Dr. Stein so much? Its a lame song with stupid lyrics.

Because it's hilarious.

* Dr. Stein
* Future World

Niiiice.

* If I Could Fly
* Where The Rain Grows

Eeeeeeeew - These songs both suck(Except the inroing part of where the rain grows)

* The Keeper´s Trilogy

Mixed feelings, it's a 17 minute long medley - May be great, or it might be horrible - We'll see!

* Eagle Fly Free

I can't see Deris NOT butchering this.

* Perfect Gentleman

Should be sweet.

* Forever & One

Mih.

* I Want Out

This one COULD be great if they get Kai Hansen in there with Andi and they both do vocals on this one.

* Fallen To Pieces

WHY?!?!?! Gambling With The Devil was horrible vocally and lyrically and instrumentally it wasn't even that great IMO.

* A Tale That wasn`t Right

This should be a good one.

For a 25th anniversary album, it's surprising it won't be two disks long.

Exodus - No Love!

At 10/19/09 08:28 AM, batman64 wrote: Some mook in the UK is selling a copy for $16.33.

If someone buys that then that means someone must like you guys then. :P

But yeah, that's a cock slap across the face - sucks.

Also, here is the complete list of bands + songs on Brutal Legend.

* 3 Inches of Blood: Deadly Sinners
* 3 Inches of Blood: Destroy The Orcs
* Accept: Fast As A Shark
* Angel Witch: Angel Witch
* Anthrax: Metal Thrashing Mad
* Anvil: March of the Crabs
* Anvil: Tag Team
* Apostasy: Sulphur Injection
* Bishop of Hexen: A Serpentine Grave
* Bishop of Hexen: The Somber Grounds of Truth
* Black Sabbath: Children of the Grave
* Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe
* Black Sabbath: Never Say Die
* Brocas Helm: Cry of the Banshee
* Brocas Helm: Drink the Blood of the Priest
* Budgie: Breadfan
* Budgie: Zoom Club
* Candlemass: Witches
* Carcass: No Love Lost
* Cloven Hoof: Nightstalker
* Children of Bodom: Angels Don't Kill
* Coroner: Skeleton on your Shoulder
* Cradle of Filth: Her Ghost in the Fog
* Crimson Glory: Queen of the Masquerade
* Dark Fortress: Insomnia
* Dark Tranquility: Cathode Ray Sunshine
* Deathstars: Blitzkrieg
* Def Leppard: Rock of Ages
* Dethklok: Mermaider
* Diamond Head: Am I Evil?
* Dimmu Borgir: Progenies of the Great Apocalypse
* Dokken: Mr. Scary
* Dragonforce: Through the Fire and Flames
* Emperor: Thus Spake The Nightspirit
* Enslaved: Frost
* Enslaved: Loke
* Firehouse: Overnight Sensation
* Girlschool: Bomber
* Iced Earth: When the Night Falls
* Iced Earth: Pure Evil
* In Flames: Goliaths Disarm Their Davids
* Judas Priest: Battle Hymn
* Judas Priest: The Hellion/Electric Eye
* Judas Priest: Leather Rebel
* Judas Priest: One Shot At Glory
* Judas Priest: Painkiller
* Kabbage Boy: Girlfriend
* KMFDM: Free Your Hate
* KMFDM: Rip The System
* King Diamond: Cremation
* King Diamond: Welcome Home
* Kiss: God of Thunder
* Lita Ford: Betrayal
* Marilyn Manson: Beautiful People
* Manowar: Die For Metal
* Manowar: The Dawn Of Battle
* Mastodon: Crack the Skye
* Mastodon: Oblivion Instrumental
* Megadeth: High Speed Dirt
* Megadeth: Tornado of Souls
* Metal Church: Metal Church
* Michael Schenker: Group Assault Attack
* Ministry: Stigmata
* Ministry: Thieves
* Mirrorthrone: So Frail
* Motley Crue: Dr. Feelgood
* Motley Crue: Kickstart My Heart
* Motley Crue: Live Wire
* Motorhead: Back at the Funny Farm
* Motorhead: In the Black
* Motorhead: Marching Off to War
* Motorhead: We Are the Road Crew
* Nitro: Machine Gun Eddie
* Omen: The Axeman
* Ostrogoth: Queen of Desire
* Overkill: World of Hurt
* Ozzy Osbourne: Believer
* Ozzy Osbourne: Mr. Crowley
* Ozzy Osbourne: Diary of a Madman
* Prong: Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck
* Quiet Riot: The Wild and the Young
* Racer X: Technical Difficulties
* Racer X: Y.R.O.
* Ratt: Lay It Down
* Riot: Road Racin
* Riot: Narita
* Riot: Swords and Tequila
* Rob Zombie: Superbeast
* Rotting Christ: Ad Notics
* Running Wild: Riding the Storm
* Sanctuary: Battle Angels
* Savatage: Hall of the Mountain King
* Saxon: Wheels of Steel
* Scorpions: Blackout
* Scorpions: Holiday
* Skeletonwitch: Soul Thrashing Black Sorcery
* Skid Row: Youth Gone Wild
* Slayer: Metal Storm/Face The Slayer
* Slough Feg: Warriors Dawn
* Static-X: Love Dump
* Tenacious D: Master Exploder
* Tenacious D: The Metal
* Testament: For The Glory Of
* Testament: More Than Meets The Eye
* Tvangeste: Birth of the Hero
* UFO: Rock Bottom
* Whitesnake: Still of the Night
* Wrath of Killenstein: Ignisis Dance

Pagan's Mind - God's Equation