I had more love for Tobias when he was in Repugnant.
A million times this. I’m okay with throwing people to and fro, but the American thing where you guys go around punching each other is just fucking stupid.
They opened for Iron Maiden in Copenhagen, and I decided to watch them out of perverse curiosity. At one point the lead singer was like “It’s great to be back here in the Great White North!”.
I wanted to throw my keys at him so fucking bad.
Tyjenks
2809
Yeah, the 90’s and 2000’s pits were people banging into each other and pushing each other around the circle. That’s plenty. I stood there and watched and I have no idea how faces were not punched and teeth kicked out. The metalcore pits don’t appear to be as crowded, so everyone has read the memo to give people a wide berth. It is just weird and pointless, but to each their own I guess.
CraigM
2811
Diablo Swing Orchestra has a new album coming out in November, with a few singles off it already.
https://youtu.be/jAGzkoGkc-c
https://youtu.be/JyfcbeLfYbI
It will always be hard to top Songs for the Damned and Delirious in my mind, but each album has brought something different worth listening to. I’m definitely looking forward to this one.
Vesper
2812
Paging new Ghost fan @DaveLong, there’s a new song!
Tyjenks
2813
My tastes in metal appear to be mostly different than much of you so I just read and don’t share. I still like the Nu-metal sound and bands that have been influenced by the 90’s and 00’s. I also like what I guess is being called sludge or trap metal or Rapcore or something (That’s actually a pretty broad range, but Spotify packs a bunch of varied artists into some of their playlists). Based on talking to people around me within about 20 years of my 52, I think I am the only one. :)
Anyways, appreciate everyone’s contributions. I always am searching for new music and I’ve found much through visiting this thread.
There’s no harm in that.
Personally I came up in the Danish death metal scene at the close of the 90s (same as Michael Poulsen from Volbeat) then sort of slipped into the classical or “true” scene, which really incorporates everything from thrash and speed to doom and proto-metal. I love me some Budgie!
I have no use for super clean production and more modern stuff personally, but it’s all connected down the line. Really, I’m just happy that instrumental music still has support. Rock out for goodness sake.
Man, Godsmack’s self-titled debut and Mudvayne’s The End of All Things to Come are still two of my favorite albums of all time. Something about that late 90s/early 00s super crunchy American nu-metal tone and style that just really gets my blood pumping. Gojira hits some of the same notes for me, but it’s been tough to find things that match perfectly.
DaveLong
2816
You and I have some similar tastes. I’ll try to post more stuff as I find it in here even if it’s more toward the rock side of things. Posting in the Rock threads just doesn’t work because most of what’s in there isn’t really Rock to me.
DaveLong
2817
I figured something was coming real soon now. I’ll be checking it out today!
Vesper
2818
I think we have a wide variety of metal tastes in this thread. I still appreciate it when people are posting stuff full of death metal growls (which I usually don’t like unless they are balanced by melodic singing), because I often find things I DO enjoy and haven’t heard of.
Personally, my favorite type of metal is ‘groove’ (Pantera, Lamb of God, etc), but I like a ton of stuff. Mostly, I seek out bands with very talented musicians. It’s why I also love Tool & Cynic.
Yeah, I’d describe myself as 35% power metal, 25% melodeath/metalcore, 20% atmoblack, 15% prog, 5% other these days. And I group it that way to make fans of melodeath and metalcore alike upset :)
DaveLong
2820
I have a hard time categorizing. I put on stuff like AWOLNATION, who I think are brilliant (Aaron Bruno is amazing), and that’s got serious metal beats and riffs at times so to me it’s as metal as anything else despite being electronic all over the place.
CraigM
2821
Yup. @ArmandoPenblade is closest to my tastes I’d say, but not particularly close either. I fall more onto avant garde and very experimental prog metals than him, and he more into metalcore.
And that is ok. Even if no one else cares for the new Diablo Swing Orchestra, I’m gonna post. it anyhow 😁
DaveLong
2822
@Tyjenks and everyone else… just gonna leave this here… kinda diggin it. Stay true to what you do, and get old. Fred’s delivery is still cool.
https://youtu.be/wPHWloW1-08
Wes Borland is unhinged.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8sU46LorQI
I embrace all metal and metal heads, as long as we all agree Rust in Peace is the greatest metal album ever
Well, this was news to me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtkaUZvMaG8
Story of how the song came to be:
