The Metal Thread
 

I've been looking for new metal lately. I barely know many metal bands right now, but I'd like to hear more. I'm into Sunn0))), Khanate, Jesu, WRAITHS, and those, and Goatsnake and Sigh are fucking fantastic. Check them out

I like sunn0))).

dude, Jesu is one awesum band. everything with Ted Parsons involved in simply rules. that's not conventional metal tho, and thats' why i like them. how about these bands:

PRONG (Ted Parsons' band after THE SWANS)
MINISTRY (godfathers of industrial in metal)
CORONER (swiss band which quit in 1994. check out GRIN from 1993 and the S/T album which came out in 95)
SADUS (active since 1984. last album came out early may, OUT FOR BLOOD. seriously wicked shit.)

dude, GWAR.

stoner metal is pretty cool, too. Kyuss is a favorite of mine.

so prong is good?

i was looking through the metal lps at a record store and they had some record of theirs, the cover caught my eye and i liked the name. ill check em out.

you should. every album is worth the price, especially PROVE YOU WRONG, BEG TO DIFFER, CLEANSING and RUDE AWAKENING. Tommy Victor was a sound tech for the CBGB in the early SY days, I bet he teched for them a pair of times. the new line up shreds, too bad Ted isn't there anymore.

I like doing this cross things... Darren on the italian leg of the SADUS 2006 tour, with the PRONG shirt I gave him! :D



my buddy Yared, Darren and me chilling out backstage!

overkill-years of decay or under the influence. they are hilarious!

Thrones- A Day Late, A Dollar Short

Its Joe Preston from Melvins/Earth/High on FIre and its his kind of quirkysludge thing, the album i picked up is Thrones first in 5 years and is on SOuthern Lord.

speaking of thrones......

I have recently become a big Darkthrone fan, there stuff is pretty punky and raw. Transilvanian Hunger is one of the most grimm albums i've ever heard. If you like the sound of Sun0)))- Black One you'll probably enjoy this.

Anyone listen to Strapping Young Lad?

ok, step aside...

if you're into stuff like sunn o))), khanate, earth, etc. check out asva, burning witch, thorr's hammer, ocean, sleep, the goslings, electric wizard, om. if you are into the less doomy, more rocking, faster yet still sabbathy stuff, then check out kyuss, fu manchu, early monster magnet, early cathedral, some paradise lost, crowbar, eyehategod, clutch and high on fire.

hmmm, i'm into a lot of metal, too much, i might post a primer of great essential metal albums.

(not too long ago, john violence did a thread of thrash metal and i posted a big list of albums)

I got to open for Asva once (I think scott v did too), and they slayed me.
Electric Wizard are incredible too, one of the finest of their ilk.

ohhh yeah, if you like jesu, then you have to check out godflesh.

Got ripped for saying this once but Opeth are great too.

Bring on download fest!

how about some love for motorhead. I just really started listening to their stuff and its great. A lot better than that crappy doom metal shit where the singer sounds like he's about to couhg up a lung.

I love Motorhead, but don't really consider them to be metal per se.
Definitely essential though!

forbidden is pretty good old thrash, it has the guitarist from machine head in it but don't let that put you off

carcass are good too

who did is that guitar/art thing it looks fucking brilliant

check out dead meadow and acid king.... although they're not metal, but theeyr'e heavy and have great vocals

the first machine head album is amazing, it all went downhill after that. also i've heard wonderful things about vio-lence, the band robb flynn went on after forbidden but before starting machine head, but i've never heard any music by them.

ok, here's a list of some of my favorite albums that are considerated metal. this albums are heavy as heavy can be, it's not a nomenclature thing (like say, i didn't included any "hair metal" albums because i don't consider them metal since they aren't particularly heavy) or generalizations (some of my choices will not seem metal to you at all). anyway, here are some of my choices:

my very controversial, i'm sure i forgot some list of metal or extremely heavy albums in no particular order:

Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptus
Black Sabbath - first 6 albums (duh!)
Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
Iron Maiden - Killers
Motörhead - Ace Of Spades
Black Flag - My War
Sodom - Persecution Mania
Metallica - first 4 albums
Slayer - pretty much everything, although my fave currently is Live Undead (Reign In Blood, South Of Heaven or the Haunting The Chapel EP are probably the best places to start)
Corrosion Of Conformity - Animosity
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales, To Mega Therion, Into The Pandemonium
Die Kreuzen - Die Kreuzen
Exodus - Bonded By Blood
Possessed - Seven Churches
Kreator - Extreme Aggression
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Voivod - Rrroooaaarrr
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Megadeth - first 4 albums
Anthrax - Among The Living and Sounds Of White Noise
Napalm Death - Scum and From Enslavement To Obliteration
D.R.I. - Dealing With It
Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Melvins - Bullhead
Entombed - Left Hand Path and Wolverine Blues
Testament - The New Order
Sepultura - Beneath The Remains, Arise, Chaos A.D., Roots
Coroner - Mental Vortex
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Painkiller - Guts Of A Virgin
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Ministry - Psalm 69
White Zombie - La Sexorcisto
Helmet - Meantime
Quicksand - Slip
Cathedral - The Ethereal Mirror
Earth - Earth 2
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Burzum - Aske
Venom - Welcome To Hell, Black Metal and In League With Satan
Bathory - Bathory
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Kyuss - Welcome To Sky Valley
Monster Magnet - Dopes To Infinity
Fu Manchu - King Of The Road
Brutal Truth - Need To Control
Samael - Ceremony Of Opposition
Eyehategod - Dopesick
Prong - Cleansing
Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve
At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
In Flames - Jester Race
Dissection - Storm Of the Light's Bane
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Boris - Absolutego
Tool - Aenima
Karp - Self Titled LP
Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
Bardo Pond - Lapsed
Neurosis - Enemy Of The Sun
Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
Angel Corpse - The Inexorable
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Cave In - Until Your Heart Stops
Isis - Oceanic
Oxes - Oxxxes
Comets On Fire - Blue Cathedral
Converge - Petitioning The Empty Skies
Cursed - One
Sunn O))) - Black One
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
Darkest Hour - So Sedated So Secure or Hidden Hands Of A Sadist Nation
Discordance Axis - The Inalienable Dream
Mastodon - Leviathan
Pig Destroyer - Prowler In The Yard
High On Fire - Blessed Black Wings
Jesu
400 Blows - Angel's Trumpets and Devil's Trombones
Unsane
Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
Behemoth - Demigod
Asva - Futurists Against The Ocean
Enslaved - Isa
Ocean - Here Where Nothing Grows
Sleep - Holy Mountain and Dopesmoker
The Goslings - Between The Dead
Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies
Deicide - Scars Of The Crucifix
Wigrid - Die Asche Eines Lebens
Force Fed Glass - Fined Tuned Chaos Motherfucker
Carcass - Reek Of Putrefaction, Symphonies of Sickness, Necrotiscm and Heartworks
Deftones - Around The Fur
Cro-Mags - Age Of Quarrel
Ruins - Pallaschtom

Goddamn everyneurotic, thanks. I'm going to check out some of that.
I don't feel I've ever been properly introduced to metal, and that list should help put me some where in the metal genre.

one thing i have noticed, at least 3 female SY fans I know are huge Slayer fans also,

so i gotta ask the ladies, are you big SY AND Slayer fans?

I'd give you more rep if I could.....good list.

That band must have the worst vocals ever. Other than that and a few others which are a bit cheesy for my liking its a good list. Good to see Eyehategod getting some lovin

who's the third one? i'm blanking at the moment.

borknagr's self-titled record is great...and i'd say every pantera record (post-
glam shit, which is long out of print anyway) is worth a listen. "screaming for vengeance" by judas priest...damn everyneurotic, that is as close to a perfect list as you'll find...

La Sexorcisto is my favorite metal album. White Zombie rules.

i never listened to my war till today, a WHOLE different side of black flag. i love it

hell yes, i remember the first time i heard the first song i was "is this supposed to be the best doom album ever" it's the closest doom has ever come to power metal. but after the first song, the vocals kind of fit in a weirdo way, it is a great album.

EDIT:: shit!!! i forgot carcass!!! i also decided to put deftones' around the fur since it's quite bleak and textured and qualifies as heavy in my book.

check out a band called Baroness. saw them supporting capricorns who are also excellent but Baroness savaged them that night, kind of classic metal, kind of hardcore-y kind of thrash. bliss.

check this stuff:

SADUS: SWALLOWED IN BLACK
SADUS: A VISION OF MISERY
SADUS: ELEMENTS OF ANGER
SADUS: OUT FOR BLOOD

CORONER: GRIN
CORONER: CORONER

PRONG: CLEANSING
PRONG: RUDE AWAKENING
PRONG PROVE YOU WRONG
PRONG: BEG TO DIFFER

MINISTRY: THE LAND OF RAPE AND HONEY
MINISTRY: RIO GRANDE BLOOD
MINISTRY: THE MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO TASTE
MINISTRY: PSALM 69

DEATH: INDIVIDUAL THOUGHT PATTERNS
DEATH: HUMAN
DEATH: SYMBOLIC

OBITUARY: CAUSE OF DEATH

there's more I can't think of right now...

Never thought I 'd see Death get a mention on here...

Isn't Seventh son of the seventh son by Maiden so muh better than Killers? Or Number of the beast for that matter


Vulgar display of power kicks far beyond drivens arse.

Lateralus. Not Aenima, there's to many filler on that album.

first of all. i said it was MY list of favorite albums.

second, i like killers far better than seventh son... (too long and boring for my taste) or number (while it has some incredible songs in there, it has also many weak ones). in fact, the only maiden album that rivals killers in my opinion is powerslave.

vulgar, while being a classic, doesn't really cut it like far beyond does for me; side two is very weak with a couple of stand out tracks and also, dime's riffs have been recycled so much i feel like i'm listening to a deftones or coal chamber album.

lateralus is a fantastic album but it's not a HOLY FUCKING HELL WHO DID THEY DO THAT?

why don't you do your list?

here are a few more to the list, they kind of float more on the melodic metal:
russian circles
the torch
the sword
paik
pelican
these arms are snakes
les savoy fav
mastadon
earth crisis

i definitely word further recommend isis, jesu (especially silver ep), and deftones any day.

^Earth Crisis....hell yeah dude.

check out http://www.darksoul7.com/indexVideo.html ...

some vids really kick ass...others are just funny...

tipp: the first immortal video is funny as hell...^^ gandalf is alive...

Me, do a list? Ok then. I'll keep it short and sweet

Slayer-Reign in Blood (essential)
Megadeth-So Far, So Good, do What or maybe Rust in peace
Iron Maiden-Seventh son of the seventh son
Testement- The new order
Metallica-Master of Puppets
Pantera-Vulgar display of power
Opeth-Deliverance
Death-anything except 'scream bloody gore'
Anthrax-Among the living


The essestials remember

Yeah Mastodon are pretty sweet. I heard them at the same time as when I heard Isis, so I often get the two confused even though they sound quite different

lordy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


go finland!

All I listen to is death metal and feedback skronk.