Duck and Cover

This topic is meant for discussing about the greatest of all music genres - metal - in all of it's forms. You little pussy swell guy with no taste in music can stay the fuck off from this topic. This is for real men only yay, blue oyster.

Let the thrashing begin!

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I found some real treasures today: A Semblance Of Normality -album by Skyclad, from this year... Brand new folkish stuff is always appriciated. I've been listening to the track A Good Day To Bury Bad News non-stop for the whole evening. Another jewel I managed to get my hands on was Waylander's Reawakening Pride Once Lost. A track really worth mentioning is Born To Fight, a magnificent combination of wood pipes and death metal.

And of course, Finntroll's Nattfödd is waiting it's turn in the CD player. God, I love that album.

Okay, I'll tolerate this for now. But contrary to popular beleif, heavy metal is not rock and roll (baby).

I like Black Sabbath, though?

Well, if we get all theoretical with this stuff, we'll find out that metal has so much variety within itself that it's tough to say anything for sure. Not to mention that many bands play music from several (sub-)genres and even combine different elements from several genres in *a single song* already. Genres in general pretty much suck, too. But back to the point.

Nu-Metal, Death Metal, Folk-Metal and Heavy Metal are pretty much the opposing extremes of the scene, Black Sabbath belonging somewhere between hard rock, heavy and heavy metal. It's cool, nevertheless. Even though I'm not a really big fan, I listen to it from time to time.

And by the way - what did you mean with the "heavy metal is not rock and roll (baby)"? You'll tolerate it for now? Huh? More question marks?!?!

I dont listen to music, so die you hippies.

"I'll tolerate it for now" means I won't delete this crappy thread. As for heavy metal not being rock and roll, well, I think that statement is pretty obvious. It ain't. Even prog-metal like Tool isn't that good.

Ah, I didn't realize you were a mod around here as well. And I first thought that you meant genres, not "isn't good" with "isn't rock and roll".

Anyhow. I'm waiting for Nicolai and the other metal heads to settle in, so we can start talking shit about albums and stuff.

Fine, carry on. Nothing to see here folks.

'Been listening a lot to the older Burzum-albums lately, 's pretty good stuff, you should check it out if you haven't already.

Oh, and get this

I've been listening to Renegade by Styx lately. Good stuff.

Black Sabbath is a great band, but it took me awhile to figure out the reason why the Black Sabbath song Iron Man sounds so much like Ozzie Osbourne's song of the same name. He's the singer! I know, I'm stupid.

Blue Oyster Cult is great too, but I have never heard anything other than Don't Fear the Reaper on the radio.

AC/DC is also a favorite band of mine. Though they are technically not Metal, they are still great in their own right. Hells Bells and Back in Black are great classics.

And of course, Metallica is the best metal band, ever. I have four of their albums right now, and I can honestly say that every single song on three of the four is good. Those albums are Metallica (also known as "the Black Album"), Kill 'Em All (their first album), and Master of Puppets.

The bad album I own is their most recent one, St. Anger. The only decent songs on that one is Frantic and St. Anger.

Kashluk wrote:You little pussy swell guy with no taste in music can stay the fuck off from this topic.

Irony?

Wolfman Walt wrote:

Kashluk wrote:You little pussy swell guy with no taste in music can stay the fuck off from this topic.

Irony?

Translation: "Whoa, calm down there Avril!"

Styx is pretty rad, yeah, and BOC's Godzilla is damn near unbeatable for awesomeness. History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of meeeen--Godzilla!

godzilla just might be the best song ever, don't fear the reaper is damn good too..,

Nicolai wrote:'Been listening a lot to the older Burzum-albums lately, 's pretty good stuff, you should check it out if you haven't already.

Oh, and get this

Burzum? Honestly, I've never heard of this band. I guess I'll go get some songs ASAP.

Amon Amarth sounds promising - really promising. Is The Avenger an old album? And are all the tracks as good as that one? This kind of basic smash-em-up is always welcome.

Oh and I got a Vintersorg album today! Cosmic Genesis, pretty tough shit... Some kind of a weird combination of folk-ish, power & speed and black metal. They got both clean and growling vocals and a whole pile of kewl keyboard tricks.

Kashluk wrote:

Nicolai wrote:'Been listening a lot to the older Burzum-albums lately, 's pretty good stuff, you should check it out if you haven't already.

Oh, and get this

Burzum? Honestly, I've never heard of this band. I guess I'll go get some songs ASAP.

Amon Amarth sounds promising - really promising. Is The Avenger an old album? And are all the tracks as good as that one? This kind of basic smash-em-up is always welcome.

Oh and I got a Vintersorg album today! Cosmic Genesis, pretty tough shit... Some kind of a weird combination of folk-ish, power & speed and black metal. They got both clean and growling vocals and a whole pile of kewl keyboard tricks.

Yar, The Avenger was released in 1999, and they've relled 3 or 4 albums since then. Pretty much all of their stuff is as good as (or better) than Metalwrath \o.

Wow. That means two more bands to check out, yo yo \;;-|

I just got Saxons brand new album Lionheart and it Rocks! The new drummer Jörg Michaels (Stratovarius) sounds great too... Maybe a bit too power metallish to Saxons style.
Ive also been listening to Tarot (which is way better than Nightwish in my opinion) alot. Another great finnish band is Peer Günt! Great songs...

I really dislike Peer Günt. I think it... it... it's hard to explain, but it just sucks, plain and simple - on every level.

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Some people like and some dont... thats the way things go