The Metal Thread

[Nobuo Ri]

Originally Posted by Deathwish238

Do any of you listen to Nile? I downloaded their Discography and have been starting from Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka. It's my first taste of Brutal Death Metal...it's so technical. Some of the songs are alright and some of them are awesome.

Nile is classified as Egyptian Death metal which is cool in its own way as well.

I LOVE Nile.

Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka is my favourite album by them, although Ithyphallic has lots of plays by me.

The Essential Salts have some of the best lyrics I've heard.

[Aggro]

Originally Posted by Deathwish238

After listening to all of LoG's albums extensively my favorite by far is Ashes of the Wake followed by their live album Killadelphia. After that Sacrament and As the Palaces Burn each have their own appeal. After those two Burn the Priest and New American Gospel are equal. I like all their stuff more or less, but Ashes of the Wake is perfect while Sacrament is more experimental and mainstream imo.

Death Magnetic has a 70% from the Encyclopaedia Metallum which makes the album decent. Definitely superior than their last several albums. However, I cannot stand listening to the album as it sounds like crap(mixing is complete shit) and will have to try listening to the GH3 version at some point.


Lamb of God was my push into the metal world. I had always liked In Flames, but only certain songs. I became hooked on Lamb of God, Sacrament did not leave me car's cd player for about an entire month only to be replaced by another LoG album.

LoG is a mix of metalcore and Groove Metal(often called the new Pantera).



Regarding vocals, you'll find yourself liking it as time passes. Growling adds a certain element of darkness to music that you just cannot get from clean singing or the crappy clean singing found in classic metal or plain heavy metal.

Plus, a good growling vocalist can actually hit different notes. It is by no means an easy task. Lamb of God's vocalist is quite excellent as he employs several different styles of growling and shouting.

About half the time I listen to a new metal band, I'm not a big fan of the vocals. But they seem to grow on me after a few listens and I find myself really liking them. This has happened many many times. I figure it's because our ears are not used to listening to nonclean singing but we are used to hearing guitars, drums, etc. So it takes some time for our brains to acclimate to the new sound while the instruments we've all heard and are easy to like.


They were nominated for a Grammy which is impressive for a metal band.

Thats funny, because I was exactly the same. LoG are what got me into metal. They are one of my favourite bands.

[Deathwish238]

Originally Posted by benniemc

I like Tool. Does that count?

My buddy at work has put me on to Opeth. I like them.

Tool isn't metal. Their music ranges from alternative to nu metal.

Originally Posted by Masta Shake

I have one of their albums, Black Seeds of Vengeance. And I like it, I don't listen to it much anymore, but it was really awesome the first time I heard them, I thought they had a really cool sound.



Tool is my favourite band of all time. I have a Tool tattoo on my chest I like them so much

As for Opeth, they're farking awesome as well. Ghost Reveries is their best album, IMO, and I love the Damnation album, because I get to listen to Opeth, and it's mellow enough that the GF likes it as well

I listened to Black Seeds of Vengeance for the first time(three times actually). It's excellent.

I haven't listened to much Opeth...don't think I'll find time to either

[Deathwish238]

Originally Posted by Nobuo Ri

I LOVE Nile.

Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka is my favourite album by them, although Ithyphallic has lots of plays by me.

The Essential Salts have some of the best lyrics I've heard.

Amgonst the Catacombs is good, but I didn't care for the first track. Not sure why really. I like their 2nd album more so far. Ithyphallic is decent too and rather different.

I got Ithyphallic first from BB because I had to use up store credit. Then I decided to go back and listen to their stuff sequentially.

I'll be listening to Black Seeds of Vengeance for at least a couple weeks before I venture on to their next album.

Originally Posted by Aggro

Thats funny, because I was exactly the same. LoG are what got me into metal. They are one of my favourite bands.

Yeah they're a great beginner's metal band. I would bring Ashes of the Wake to demo speakers...loved seeing the reaction of salesmen

[fmp619]

my list:
children of bodom
3 inches of blood
zao
white chapel
knights of the abyss
recon
devildriver
the hoedown
canible corpse
suicide silence
between the buried and me
hatebreed
killswitch engage
slayer (some of there stuff)
subject failure

[Deathwish238]

Originally Posted by fmp619

my list:
children of bodom
3 inches of blood
zao
white chapel
knights of the abyss
recon
devildriver
the hoedown
canible corpse
suicide silence
between the buried and me
hatebreed
killswitch engage
slayer (some of there stuff)
subject failure

You should check out old school In Flames, Dark Tranquility, Droid, Bloodbath, Hypocrisy, Lamb of God based on your list. You ever hear any Black Metal?

[fmp619]

like?

[Deathwish238]

Like Rotting Christ for example

[fmp619]

yeah i have herd of black metal but i dont really listen to it.

[benniemc]

Here's a video to cheer you up!

YouTube - Gorgoroth - Carving a giant (uncensored)