Headbangers?

[ichi]

BTW I forgot to mention

I recently purchased the new Ozzy Box Set, which contained a coupon for a buy-one-get-one free to the 2005 Oz-Fest.

I will not be able to attend due to work conflicts, but . . .

If anybody plans on attending Oz-Fest 2005 and wants to get a free ticket please let me know and I'll mail my coupon to you.

First come first served.

ichi

Still no takers?

[GoreBag]

Is MARDUK extreme enough for you?

Fuck Me Jesus was. From there on out, though, they kind of became one of those washed-out semi-BM bands. However, any band who named an album Panzer Division Marduk automatically rules.

Well, they are not as brutal as some, but I do not like real hardcore death metal like Akercoke - far too much for me.

Really? Akercocke are my favourite English metal act. They slaughter my proverbial goat.

cryptopsy, opeth, arsis, between the buried and me, killswitch engage, candiria, into eternity, nightrage, god forbid, shai hulud, dark tranquility and on and on and on

I would contest that whole list except for Cryptopsy and Opeth as not being metal. Leave the hall.

Recently heard kick-ass music:
Voivod - Voivod (the last album, Newsted on bass, very oldschool)
Ministry - Houses of the mole (Ministry at their best)
Cathedral - don't remember the name.... (doom metal's finest)
Kreator - Enemy of God (kick assssss.....)

I would stick with the old Voivod, personally. Same goes for Kreator. Ministry and Cathedral are sure bets right now.

Still no takers?

I'm personally not interested, but that's the most generous thing I've ever seen.

[ichi]

Thanks but not really, if I could go I'd keep 'em, so . . .

[GoreBag]

Thanks but not really, if I could go I'd keep 'em, so . . .

Hey, I didn't say you were a saint. I would have scalped the coupon.

[Hurin_Rules]

Still no takers?

I'll take you up on your generous offer Ichi, if no one else has yet.

[Macedon]

Last summer I saw Vader, Polish death metal band, one of the oldest on the European scene. Some would describe them as "oldscool", others as "retro" but nevertheless, great band.
Vader.pl

I would offer you some clips of my band but we don't have a website...

[GoreBag]

Last summer I saw Vader, Polish death metal band, one of the oldest on the European scene. Some would describe them as "oldscool", others as "retro" but nevertheless, great band.
Vader.pl

I would offer you some clips of my band but we don't have a website...

Vader's playing in my city with Aborted, Suffocation and Cryptopsy on October 30th. Can't friggin' wait.

What's the name of the band, what do you play and, really, where are you?

[the Count of Flanders]

I like all kinds of metal. Arch Enemy is great (and live they REALLY rule). Children of Bodom is brilliant. I also like Dimmu Borgir, Tristania, Epica, Trail of Tears, Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Moonspell, Machine Head, Orphaned Land, ...
And have seen most of these live.

[Macedon]

What's the name of the band, what do you play and, really, where are you?

Tank Warning Net. We are together more or less 10 years, we play HC (actually, I've heard like hundreds of descriptions of our music - grind, crust, death-core core-grind, hardcore-grind-punk .... we call it Mutant Rock ).

And where am I? The Balkans man, the land of Brotherhood and mass graves...................

[hrvojej]

I used to listen to alot of metal before, but now only a few of those bands still survive on my listening list. Sepultura, Pantera, Tiamat, Soulfly, and early Paradise Lost would be the most prominent ones, with a few new ones like System of a Down and Rammstein added too. Before I listened to a lot of different bands of this sort, from Motorhead and Iron Maiden to Napalm Death, Suicidal Tendencies, Exploited, and My Dying Bride, but I kind of grew out of that 'pure power' phase.

[Proletariat]

I'm rocking on Bach again, it's what I often do when I'm woiking the boards.

When I got completely fed up with all radio music (maybe 16 years old or so?) Bach, Chopin and Tchaikovsky got me through a few years.

Recently I discovered Burzum, but I usually don't listen to much metal. Can anyone recommend anything similar to them?

I've tried doing some research on black metal sites, but the reviews are all very pretentious and are way too superfluous in their descriptions to help the laywoman decide what else to try.

Death metal's way too aggressive for me, but I like the corny 'graveyard' ambience of some of this black metal I've heard. It's nice 'stare at the ceiling for a few hours and think about non-sense' music.

P.S. Adrian, Debussy is just what the doctor ordered.

[GoreBag]

Personally, I hate Burzum, but if it's because you want the 'dungeon music' feel, Mortiis' album The Stargate should be up your alley. It's not metal, of course, but arguably, neither is Burzum.

[Paul Peru]

I'm really soft + I never had long enough hair to bang properly.
Metallica got me into metal back in the eighties.
A couple of problems I have with many metal (and hiphop) acts
-they look and act very silly indeed, and have silly lyrics
-when the music is not instrumental, I prefer to have some singing involved

I saw Slipknot last year, and they were good. Some singing, very silly-looking.

[GoreBag]

Slipknot isn't metal. I hate to be the one to say for the first time here.

[A.Saturnus]

I would stick with the old Voivod, personally. Same goes for Kreator. Ministry and Cathedral are sure bets right now.

Do you know the new stuff from Kreator? It's great. Still one of my favorite band. Just forget "Endorama" exists. *shudder*

Slipknot isn't metal. I hate to be the one to say for the first time here.

What is it then? I like them. Ok, they are hyped, but why care?

I like all kinds of metal. Arch Enemy is great (and live they REALLY rule). Children of Bodom is brilliant. I also like Dimmu Borgir, Tristania, Epica, Trail of Tears, Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Moonspell, Machine Head, Orphaned Land, ...
And have seen most of these live.

Saw Tristania some months ago, together with Nightwish in Wieze. Let's just say Nightwish killed them, buried them and rocked on their graves...

[Idomeneas]

I only like death metal - anything else is just too soft

[GoreBag]

What is it then? I like them. Ok, they are hyped, but why care?

The term is "nu-metal", which a great deal of people don't even like because it has the term "metal" in it. The more elitist of us just call it "mallcore".

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Ah Ozzy and Black Sabbath are classic. I am so glad they have reformed with original line up and doing another album!!!!!

Vol 4, Paranoid and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath are classic albums, awesome.

And Ozzy's solo stuff wasn't bad, Crazy Train rulz. Randy Rhoads was a very good guitar player.

Paranoid is a classic, War Pigs, Paranoid, Iron Man...

[ah_dut]

Does Avenged Sevenfold count? or Pantera? If so, I like metal

[A.Saturnus]

The term is "nu-metal", which a great deal of people don't even like because it has the term "metal" in it. The more elitist of us just call it "mallcore".

It would appear to me that Nu Metal is a sub-category of metal. Hence the name. But ok, I'm long past my elitist phase...

[GoreBag]

It would appear to me that Nu Metal is a sub-category of metal. Hence the name. But ok, I'm long past my elitist phase...

"Nu-metal", or "new metal"m as it began, is just the name attributed to it by the media when Korn came around. It has nothing to do with metal, but to your typical mainstream consumer who doesn't listen to metal, it sounds like it. Hence the insistance by fans of the genre that it really is metal, and resigned repetition of this same old rhetoric every time it happens.

[Albino Gorilla]

Motorhead was my first ever concert back in April

[Macedon]

Motorhead was my first ever concert back in April

Good start.

[hrvojej]

Motorhead was my first ever concert back in April

Motorhead was my first ever concert too (16 years ago).

[Spetulhu]

Motorhead was my first ever concert back in April

Heh. I remember seeing them on the Monsters of the Millenium tour, and they really know what they're doing. There's a double live CD with them somewhere here.

So what's on my music shelf? Amorphis, Bolt Thrower, Children of Bodom, Dimmu Borgir, Emperor, Finntroll, Gamma Ray, Hammerfall, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Kilpi, Lumsk, Manowar, Nile, Opeth, Paradise Lost, Rammstein, Satyricon, Therion, Ulver, Warlock, Zyklon. Hmm, I need some more letters.




What do I care about elitist labels? I've got Madonna and Mayhem side-by-side here!

[A.Saturnus]

"Nu-metal", or "new metal"m as it began, is just the name attributed to it by the media when Korn came around. It has nothing to do with metal, but to your typical mainstream consumer who doesn't listen to metal, it sounds like it. Hence the insistance by fans of the genre that it really is metal, and resigned repetition of this same old rhetoric every time it happens.

I'm into metal since almost 10 years now. I listen to bands like Marduk, Mayhem, Immortal, Dismember and Cannibal Corpse, so I don't think I'm a typical mainstream consumer. Still, Slipknot sounds like metal to me. I don't know about Korn though.

So what's on my music shelf? Amorphis, Bolt Thrower, Children of Bodom, Dimmu Borgir, Emperor, Finntroll, Gamma Ray, Hammerfall, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Kilpi, Lumsk, Manowar, Nile, Opeth, Paradise Lost, Rammstein, Satyricon, Therion, Ulver, Warlock, Zyklon. Hmm, I need some more letters.

You forgot Q. Like Quorthon.

Does anyone know the Greek band Astarte? They are among my favorites.

[Hurin_Rules]

My first ever concert was Iron Maiden, Powerslave tour.

Other highlights of my concert-going career were Ministry at Lollapalooza (dear lord, the casualties from that mosh pit!) and the Ramones at a little club in Hamilton, Canada. Both blew me away.

[Spetulhu]

You forgot Q. Like Quorthon.

That's because I don't have any artists on Q at all. The late Bathory mastermind should certainly be good for that, my Bathory CDs sound great.

So what about X? edit: And Y?

And my Scandinavian letters Å, Ä, Ö?

[GoreBag]

Motorhead was my first ever concert back in April

They played here, but I missed it. Where did you catch them?

What do I care about elitist labels? I've got Madonna and Mayhem side-by-side here!

As long you're not saying Madonna is metal...

I'm into metal since almost 10 years now. I listen to bands like Marduk, Mayhem, Immortal, Dismember and Cannibal Corpse, so I don't think I'm a typical mainstream consumer. Still, Slipknot sounds like metal to me. I don't know about Korn though.

Would you say that Iron Maiden and Slipknot sound similar? I would disagree. Just because someone can tune their guitars low and chug out two chords in a riff doesn't mean what they're doing is metal.

Does anyone know the Greek band Astarte? They are among my favorites.

I do, but I haven't heard much of them. Recommend me an album, if you would be so kind?

So what about X?

There's X-Japan, if you're into that kind of thing.

And my Scandinavian letters Å, Ä, Ö?

Those don't count...

[A.Saturnus]

So what about X?

And my Scandinavian letters Å, Ä, Ö?

Xytras, a member of the Swiss band Samael (great band), has brought out a sole album under his name with orchestral instrumentation of Passage. Though, it's doubtful that can still be called metal. But I'm sure I have at least some samplers with bands starting with X. I don't know about Scandinavian letters...

Would you say that Iron Maiden and Slipknot sound similar? I would disagree. Just because someone can tune their guitars low and chug out two chords in a riff doesn't mean what they're doing is metal.

I know a lot of metal bands that don't sound like Iron Maiden. Actually bands that sound like Maiden but aren't Maiden are rather boring. But I see some similarities between Slipknot and Pantera (though, of course, Pantera were far far better).

I do, but I haven't heard much of them. Recommend me an album, if you would be so kind?

Well, all of them
The first, Doomed Dark Years, sounds a bit like the early Satyricon. It's amazing that three girls from Greece can create such a cold atmosphere. Though in comparison with the others, that one might get a bit boring after you heard it a few times.
The second, Rise from Within, goes in the same direction but has more variation. They developed their own style there.
The third, Quod Superior, sicut Inferior, is IMO their best one. Still cold, hard black metal, but with their own ideas and a bit experimentation.
I would love to see them live, but they tour very little.