The Metal Thread

Oh man, new Between the Buried and Me? Awesome. I'll definately be checking that out.

More Baroness news. after reading that, someone near my desk at work must've been chopping onions while dusting or something.

This track has taken an early lead as one of my favorites on the new Converge album:

Not new, not exactly metal, but awesome rock.

So there was a new Dethklok album out last week. I think I may just pick this up.

The Sword has a new album out. I've only listened to it once, but, uh, it's sort of bad. Diving back into All We Love We Leave Behind to make up for it.

No time to talk much about it, but the new Neurosis album, Honor Found in Decay, released today. This post is just a reminder. I talk a bit more about the band and link to an article about this new album in this older post.

I haven't heard the whole album yet myself, but what I've heard so far is pretty much more of the stuff I typically want and expect from the band.

My initial impression of the new Neurosis album isn't so good, but I don't think I've given it a fair shake yet.

In other news, Om released an album back in July and I had no idea. It is pretty awesome.

I'm digging the Neurosis album. So far, it's a bit less sinister than Given to the Rising. Breathes a little more.

I love the new Om so very very much, yes. I thought I mentioned it here, but I must not have.

Om needs to officially change their name to Om Nom Nom, because apparently that's how my brain will forever choose to interpret it anymore anyway.

You very likely did mention it, I just don't check the thread very often. My metal tastes don't overlap much with kerzain's, so the thread is usually useless to me.

Don't feel intimidated by my presence here, I promise not to taunt or maliciously mock your contributions.

Feel free to fill those gaps I neglect and have no real ear or taste for, such as most Black Metal, Symphonic Black Metal, Viking Metal, Folk Metal, Power Metal, or whatever genres you're into (just not 80s hair metal, for god's sakes -- I mean, we gotta have some kind of standards!). In the mean time, and predictably, I'll just keep plugging away at the typical thrash metal, classic heavy metal, sludge metal, technical death metal, post metal, nu-metal, hardcore/mathcore, progressive, avant-garde, techo industrial metal, groove metal, and math metal bands I tend to limit my metal interests to.

I look forward to listening to all the stuff you'll bring to the table.

Sorry, I didn't mean to belittle your contributions! The case is really that my taste in metal is very narrow, and while yours is very broad, our tastes (or at least what you usually post here) don't overlap much.

To share, I've been listening to Initial State a lot after Eduardo X turned me onto them and their one album that came out way back in 1994.

I do listen to a lot more than I post here... because, well, I have to set some sort of limit. Most of my posts are about upcoming music and the like, because I'm always trying to actively expand my library. Although I'll delve into older stuff here, it's usually when trying to fill a request, or to serve as a reference to something else. And much of my library is decades old.

Okay, yea that video you just posted is a great song. So apparently Eduardo X has been fucking me over by not sharing this earlier.

If you dig that type of music, you might appreciate Coalesce (they've been around forever, but they've only got something like 5 albums out).


And certain early parts of your song remind me of Nailbomb (although NB is a bit more mechanical/industrial/punk, and less Hardcore sounding). Nailbomb tracks don't tend to diverge from their primary riffs too much though:


Both of these bands have a tendency to forget to allow their music to breathe (something another hardcore/metal band, Converge, is actually really good about), but if you can handle tons of aggression with little wiggle room these guys will deliver. I'd actually be surprised if you couldn't get into Converge.

Totally buying that album you mentioned BTW. Good find.

I've tried to get into Converge a few times now, but they just haven't clicked for me. I'll give them another try just for you.

If only my wife were as open minded.

Although Jane Doe (the one I linked) is considered their defining album, it would probably be best for new listeners to start with their most recent release and move backwards:
All We Love We Leave Behind
Axe to Fall
No Heroes (or just jump straight to Jane Doe from here)
You Fail Me
Jane Doe
(insert older stuff here)

Their most recent album is their most metal (in the traditional sense), and easily their most approachable, with each prior album moving further and further away from anything that even resembles easy listening on your first foray. I wont deny they are so much an acquired taste, but once acquired they'll be a band you spend the rest of your time comparing other new hardcore/mathcore bands to -- when you aren't too busy over-indulging in their music.

So what you mean is that I should start at the beginning and move forward.

Stopped into the music store yesterday and picked up a few CDs: High on Fire's The Art of Self Defense, The Sword's Apocryphon, and Horn of the Rhino's Grengus. Haven't had a chance to listen to the new The Sword album. I'll have to report back later. (I didn't even know they were coming out with a new one until I saw it on the shelf.) I'm assuming you all know the High on Fire album. Here's a sample from The Horn of the Rhino (I try not to make eye contact with the cover art):

Return Apocryphon.

Thanks for this. Been listening to what youtube has available, good stuff and great for programming. Makes me think of less-dense Sleep.

That's because it is two members of Sleep.

Correctly, as it is Sleep bassist Al Cisneros.

Edit to point out that Chris Hakius is no longer in Om.

I was almost correct!

Huh, small genre? :) Looks like Sunn O)) and Earth* have some team members in common too?

Which by the way I found via Mog's "related" feature thanks to Om, so triple thanks for this now!

No members in common as far as I am aware, but Sunn O))) are huge Earth devotees.

Joe Preston played with Sunn O))) briefly.

Edit: Although I'm not sure I would call him a "member".

Sunn O))) is pretty much just Anderson and O'Malley, with a rotating cast of weirdos.

How about some 90s doom/sludge metal? I've only just barely discovered these guys, a band called Acid Bath, and love everything I've heard so far. Apparently they only released two studio albums before one of their members was killed by a drunk driver, causing the band to subsequently dissolve soon after.

I'm really not too sure what to make of the new Wintersun album. I want to like it but... I dunno, something about it just doesn't sit right with me. I love me some overwrought, pretentious music to be sure but this album is just a little too much pretentiousness. Not sure, it's hard to quantify my unease about it.

Violin, eh? I do like me some traditional string instruments in my metal (and rock in general).

I'll have to listen to that later.

No. Now. And Charles - this was posted upthread (by you ?), and I am very thankful for it - heard it, bought it, love it. Thanks to you !

You can post it once an hour - more people need to buy this ! Just wanted to thank you, that is all.

I bought this back when you posted it the first time and it's been in constant rotation ever since.

I've been listening to Om's Advaitic Songs a lot lately, but finally got out the amp and good headphones this evening, and all I can say is fuck yes.

I posted this in the What Are You Listening To Thread as I forgot about this thread.

I've been listening to this on repeat. 1970's style doom metal with female vocals and keys. \m/

This might be less metal and more punk/hardcore-ish but there is no thread for that.



I've been digging the album this is from a lot, though it's not so new. Good stuff.

sure, why not?