Thread of Metal

Spacewalk 2015-05-16 11:35:23 UTC #561

Where did all the metal go it’s like it upped and died in here.

It’s called death metal, that doesn’t mean that it actually had to die on us. Come on.

Gerbick 2015-05-17 00:43:01 UTC #562

Wondered where this thread was lying.

As a massive doom fan, I cannot stop listening to the new Bell Witch album, Four Phantoms. It is just immense.

Spacewalk 2015-06-02 12:49:21 UTC #563

Powerslave was my first Maiden album which was a pretty good place to start.

Scareeeeem for me LONG BEACH!

Skeletor68 2015-06-10 11:15:45 UTC #564

Man, I just saw this thread. I’m hopelessly out of date with the Metal scene. Only new stuff I’ve listened to recently has been Killer Be Killed, Bloodbath, Mastodon, Opeth stuff. I’ll need to trawl through and find some recommendations!

TheDreamlord 2015-06-10 15:01:06 UTC #565

Huh. I didn’t expect to find a metal thread in rps. I’ll pitch in. Last few albums I enjoyed were the latest Arcturus, Dodheimsgard, Monolithe and Mors Principium Est.

Spacewalk 2015-06-11 02:10:18 UTC #566

All you need is High Spirits.

Anthile 2015-06-11 18:39:23 UTC #567

Pink_Gregory 2015-06-12 18:46:39 UTC #568

I know it’s a full album but listen though.

Pink_Gregory 2015-06-12 18:51:33 UTC #569

Pink_Gregory 2015-06-12 19:09:01 UTC #570

Takes a bit to get going, but when it does…

Spacewalk 2015-10-16 08:06:27 UTC #571

TheDreamlord 2015-10-16 08:22:11 UTC #572

I woke up with this stuck in my head somehow, and it’s been aeons since I heard CoF. Maybe the act of riding a motorbike in London’s morning rush hour brings out the “lightbearing Samael” in you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZR5po-fjds

Spacewalk 2015-10-29 07:01:12 UTC #573

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-yYG00Nr8I

Things have been getting a little spooky lately.

Spacewalk 2015-11-11 02:34:01 UTC #574

If you don’t think that this rules then maybe it’s time to admit that heavy metal really isn’t for you.

Procrastination_Giant 2015-11-11 17:47:10 UTC #575

I still prefer Aborym’s Attila-Fronted days (With no human intervention, etc.), but this album has grown on me regardless

Procrastination_Giant 2015-11-11 18:05:32 UTC #576

Double-posting because i’m a shameless git - sue me!

At the risk of being skinned alive by the trve kvlt crowd: I still think that Covenant’s Nexus Polaris is one of the greatest Black Metal albums of all time. There i said it! runs

TheDreamlord 2015-11-12 14:18:38 UTC #577

Nexus Polaris was decent at the time it was released, but a pale shadow of acts like Arcturus, In The Woods… or Ved Buens Ende and the like (that they kinda tried to imitate). I did enjoy it back then but it hasn’t really aged well.

And lets not mention their ridiculous follow up.

Procrastination_Giant 2015-11-12 15:06:18 UTC #578

[QUOTE=TheDreamlord]And lets not mention their ridiculous follow up.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, let’s not - Luckily 666 International came out that year to stear industrial BM into a… proper direction (ducks back into cover)

But yeah, my fondness for Nexus Polaris might really be mostly based on a mixture of nostalgia, ignorance (*) and hilarious memories of playful defiance. It arrived at a time where i often found myself on concerts surrounded by people in stereotypical transilvanian hunger and filosofem t-shirts, so discussing the musical merits of nexus polaris with those people was my equivalent of this generations fondness for rooftop parkour. good memories!

(*: i have a lot of blank spaces in my black metal curriculum since i come from more of a crust punk, grindcore and stoner/doom background - i just got dragged to a LOT of black metal concerts in my early twenties, since that was the only thing to do on weekends around here back then.)

TheDreamlord 2015-11-12 15:09:50 UTC #579

666 International was a very very good album indeed and surprisingly still stands the test of time all these years later. The new Dodheimsgard is very good as well, actually, if you haven’t heard it. I am of course assuming you still listen to this stuff, as I cannot tell for sure from the above comment!

Procrastination_Giant 2015-11-12 15:12:48 UTC #580

Yeah, i do try to keep up with the less rigid side of the black metal spectrum (should have added “industrial” to that list of musical backgrounds, which would have given it away), so things like Dodheimsgard are still on the table - i love most most their releases dearly!