At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul

Reign in Blood gets name-dropped all the time, but you will want to hear it if you have any interest in Slayer. Speedy thrash metal perfected.

horsewhip wrote:The Sword are good, but it seems they only have two influences: Sleep and Black Sabbath.

I've seen Early Man twice and have been less than impressed.

I have seen the Sword once before. Literally like 2 seconds after they struck the last chord, the bass player got on his hands and knees in a very exhausted state and called me over to the stage.

"Hey.....mannnn....you have any weed??? I havent smoked...in like....3....days...and Im dying here....."

"No, sorry dude."

Hah, stoner metal never seemed so real until then.

- Chet

Tristwood and Aborym: industrial black metal. Tristwood's "The Delphic Doctrine" seriously scared the shit out of me, plus it's as catchy, riff-wise, as getting punched in the face very hard for five minutes without pause could possibly be. Aborym's "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" has a techno breakdown that is just gratuitously pompous and evil. I don't know if I'm going to want to listen to this stuff every day, but I'm glad it exists.

Kerble *is* right.
It's easy to make fun of Iron Maiden because of their epic songs about Coleridge, the RAF, Egyptian Pharohs, and American Indians, but I always found it refreshing that every friggin' song by them wasn't about death, the devil, etc., like the majority of metal bands. When they do go on the murder trip, it's some Jack the Ripper story or something historical, particularly during the post-Paul D'anno years, but even when he was with them.
They are great players who can show some damn restraint when they need to. I'm a sucker for their trademark post-solo sections when the guitarists do some static harmony riff while the bass works around it in a circle.

I'm no fan of Metallica because I don't really find them that clever. They do the "brain - insane" thing as often as bad pop bands do the "dance - chance - romance."
I know I'm supposed to like them, but I just never got it. They are good, but i just don't see why they are supposedly better than their peers. After seeing Some Kind Of Monster, I like them even less. Spoiled, whiney bitches.

Early to mid Judas Priest is pretty great too. I saw a reunion concert of theirs on VH1 Classic recently, and they wisely played that period, and not "Turbo" period (or later) stuff. They still got it.
K.K. did *not* age well, but he's out there doing it, leather and all. Glenn looked pretty cool for being 87 years old or whatever.

-A

.eater wrote:Insect Warfare

I just mastered the latest releaase by this band last night. It is brutal. 20 songs in 22 minutes. Loud and blown out and, per their instruction, I made it insanely loud and harsh.

Good Times!

Ben Adrian

I wholeheartedly second the recommendation for Baroness. Holy shit, do they kill.



Middian
Alabama Thunderpussy
Samothrace
Black Cobra
Skeletonwitch (These guys are playing Empty Bottle tomorrow! Go!)
The Makai
Deadbird
Test Site
End Of Level Boss
Electro Quarterstaff
Solace


I can go on...

Does 'Psalm 69' count as metal? This record is fantastic. Also, 'Filth pig' is heavier than 95% of metal albums I've heard.

emmanuelle cunt wrote:Does 'Psalm 69' counts as metal? This record is fantastic. Also, 'Filth pig' is heavier than 95% of metal albums I've heard.

Oh, yes. More recent Ministry is either love/hate, but everyone should check out Animositisomina.

The Magazine cover is worth the album alone. Rey Washam is on tracks 2,3,4, and 8.

Hatewave!
-amazing late '90s Chicago band that might appeal to people who don't typically like death metal, with Weasel Walter on drums.

A few other albums that immediately come to mind:

Weakling - "Dead As Dreams" - 70-minute, 5 song epic with a lot of anguished screaming, twin guitars, buzzing riffs, and moments of drone.

Sodom - "M-16" - Somewhat generic thrash, but it pretty much captures what thrash should be: fast, brutal, heavy, fairly ridiculous lyrics grunted about war.

At the Gates - "Slaughter of the Soul" - was recommended earlier, and I'll second that recommendation.

Carcass- "Heartwork" - this isn't the sloppy, noisy death metal version of carcass, this is the band in their well-polished, precise but brutal later years.

Melechesh - Djinn - epic "Mesopotamian" thrash from the Netherlands, with Sir Proscriptor McGovern on drums.