Masterpieces from the "heavier music genres"
Such as 'The Shape Of Punk To Come' or 'Jane Doe' for example.
Basically when Mike Diver wrote this about The Shape Of Punk To Come- "There’s no excuse for not having this landmark album in your collection." I sort of realised the amount of albums that may have escaped my radar because-
1)They have not been reissued
or
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So yeah I think I have a fairly decent idea of the classic indie rock and pop albums of the last 20 years but I was wondering what albums y'all classify as masterpieces from the heavier music genres? (And yes I know thats a really vague and generally shitty term but hopefully you know what I'm getting at.)
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Not sure whether this rates as 'heavy' enough, but...
Trouble Gum by Therapy?
Awesome.
I meant to check out Troublegum but I never got round to buying it. If I'm being honest I think I picked it up in a record store but then got put off by the art work. I'm aware of how weak that is, I shall rectify the situation ASAP!
This a lot
I'm a late comer to Therapy? basic, good rock and roll. There is nothing earth-shatteringly new or something that birthed a new genre, but it does what it wants to do extremely well,
Go on youtube and check out "Screamager" if you need more convincing.
This band deserve a far higher position in our collective minds.
See also: The Wildhearts.
"This band deserve a far higher position in our collective minds"
I like that. I really need to find those bands who come under this category that I've missed out on. I felt seriously guilty the first time I put on The Shape Of Punk To Come because I had missed out on it for so long. No one seemed to talk about it until the reissue and then everybody went nuts about it again. Same with Jane Doe.
I really liked...
Therapy when I was a young un. Dunno what effect they'd have on me now but I've always been of the opinion that The Wildhearts are rubbish.
I watched Therapy? and The Wildhearts on that double headliner
tour they did about 5 years ago.
Gig was at Southampton University Union and very enjoyable it was too.
I was at this one too.
I even liked the glitterati who supported - I have since learned this was silly.
More recently,
they played King Tut's at the end of lkast year and were dead good. Better than I remember, in fact (I was a copy-of-a-mates-tape-and-a-couple-of-singles-type fan when they were first around). Should probably do the right thing and buy an album properly, really.
Had a lot a friends who were Wildhearts fans but tooks me ages to give them a proper try
I eventually got them, then have seen them (and Ginger solo) a few times and have never been less than fully entertained, the back catalogue has some crackers and they seem to always put the effort in
nah
Earth vs The Wildhearts is a classic solid piece of Pop Rock Metal ness.
Tiger Bear Wolf's self-titled debut
Hmm...
I have no knowledge of them and can't find much on them either.
I thought that was the point of the thread?
The whole thing is on last.fm, that's all you need to know: http://www.last.fm/music/Tiger+Bear+Wolf/Tiger+Bear+Wolf
But you know, really
who gives a shit.
please don't be a passive-aggressive dickhead
it befits you ill
Fuck off
:D
Fuck off and HAILS is what you meant to say there
I listened to the first TBW track...not really my thing although if you actually write about the album rather than whine petulantly about how nobody gives a shit, maybe I'd pay it more attention.
I wasn't
I don't care if nobody checks them out. Nobody other than J-Ham, anyway - he started a thread asking for suggestions, I gave one, he said he hadn't heard of them and then ignored it. Curious attitude.
I have no doubt he's going to return to this thread quite a lot
He has a LOT to chew through here! I don't doubt his integrity, or that he'll get round to TBW.
Now tell me why you like the album so much, and which is the best track.
The first track
If you didn't like it, probably not much point in persevering.
You can have a look at the blog entry I wrote on them though, if you want
Down near the bottom: http://daysliketelevision.blogspot.com/2009/02/holy-trinity.html
turns out I'd only heard 30 seconds of the first track
Last FM doesn't appear to let you play the whole album. Nonetheless, I'll give them a go if I find them anywhere; I didn't mind a snippet from another track I heard.
Oh what?
For fuck's sake. I swear it used to.
http://hypem.com/track/941154/Tiger+Bear+Wolf-Input%2C+Output
This isn't bad! (Coincidentally the other track I listened to)
They remind me of White Denim, whose Fits album from last year was really good.
Have you heard White Denim?
I have
They're nothing like Tiger Bear Wolf.
Vincebus Eruptum
have always loved this
and almost half of Insideoutside
toxicity
seriously though
i may be very drunk but this is the best album ever made
A list, I can elaborate on the specific choices if asked
Mer De Noms - A Perfect Circle
Recliner - Aconite Thrill
Blue Record - Baroness
Alaska - Between The Buried and Me
Burn, Piano Island, Burn - The Blood Brothers
Birthing The Giant - Cancer Bats
Almost any album by Clutch
Any album by Dillinger Escape Plan
Arc'tan'gent - Earthtone 9
Hot Damn! - Every Time I Die
Say Hello To Sunshine - Finch
rEVOLVEr - The Haunted (my favourite Haunted album, but opinions will differ on this - "99" is an awesome tune)
In The Library of Horrific Events - Johnny Truant
Static Tensions - Kylesa
Leviathan - Mastodon
Vulgar Display of Power - Pantera
Kezia - Protest The Hero
We Will Be Dead Tomorrow - Raging Speedhorn (shamefully underrated)
Scratch The Surface - Sick of it All
The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out Wait for Something Wild - Sikth
Lateralus - Tool
Meanderthal - Torche
Apocalypse Dudes/ Party Animals - Turbonegro
Carpe Diem - Will Haven
For a few I may have stopped before "masterpiece" and just went to "really good heavy album you should buy" but forgive me.
I'm also missing out more "classics" as Maiden, Sabbath etc as I assume you will be aware of them, trying to get some bands/ albums you may not know.
Cheers!
This is excellent. The ones on I here that I can comment on.
Baroness- Saw them in Glasgow this year. One of my gigs of the year so far, they are incredible.
Dillinger- Probably my favourite heavy band. I always ask other fans their thoughts on Ire Works because that often seems to be a big divider amongst TDEP fans.
Earthtone 9- Glad to see they are back, I really like what I've heard from them. Arc'tan'gent is on it's way.
Kylesa- I'm seeing them support Converge in Glasgow in July!! Pretty excited.
Kezia - Protest The Hero I have it but I never really dug it at the time. I'll give it another bash.
Mastodon, Tool and Torche are all amazing, my friend is a really big fan of all 3 actually. I really love sluggish, sludgey, stonery, Melvins influenced metal like you get with Torche.
dude
check out the other two supports for converge.
gaza are incredible http://open.spotify.com/album/7hVhS4uzFtYMgeJLqggGUw
and the kvelertak record is my favourite new discovery of the year.
http://open.spotify.com/album/08d7MnYYp9OEsQ8GcnMHOn
it's an amazing lineup that tour.
lush artwork
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/46323739/Kvelertak+Coverart+by+John+Baizley.jpg
Waow
Shit, wow JOHN BAIZLEY!! John Dyer Baizley!
just been trying to research them both a bit and I've got Kvelertak pumping out my shit tinny laptop speakers as I type. Thanks man.
I am now super excited for this gig.
That Kvelertak album is awesome!
Thanks for introducing me to these! Love your Young Ones inspired username by the way! :)
THIS
Is where it all started!!
the first entry on this list being A Perfect Circle
makes me not want to read any further
presumably you have no taste for quality heavy music
Come on, APC are hardly that bad,
Its a extremely enjoyable album, not particularly "heavy" as such, but has great dynamics, and a softness, accessabilty and intimacy from Maynard James Keenan that you don't get from Tool albums,
Its a brilliant album to put on to chill out to,
They are also very good live,
they were cocks live...
Maynard banned smoking in the whole area and then after the gig he got his security to rough up anyone who was within 3 streets of the Carling Academy for having the temerity to try to get into their own flat in the middle of the night...
And they made me listen to a James Iha song. That was definitely the worst bit...
You didn't mention the tunes though did you?
I saw them that tour and thought they were the business.
But I agree
James Iha should be banned from going near a mic.
I saw them on this tour it was amazing.
There was a great atmosphere from the band, really fun. I wouldn't say they are heavy music though so I wouldn't have put them in my list that and Tool make masterpieces APC never really did.
...and yeah clearly MJK got the security to rough up people that seems logical.
Raging Speedhorn you have dead on, Sikth I thought their 2nd album was better, BTBAM I still think 'Colors' is there triumph, and I think ETID should be 'New Junk Aesthetic' yeah it's been out a year almost but damn that album blew balls to shreds.
I would also recommend Norma Jean's first album, Botch's albums and basically Converge's discography all their albums are a triumph.
ah, i forgot Botch
Mondrian Was A Liar :D
just listening to Man The Ramparts just now
fuuuuuck it is awesome. So gutted that Botch split without me ever seeing them :( i like Minus The Bear and These Arms Are Snakes, but they'll never make an album like this.
oh man
i don't reckon i'd survive a lineup like that, sounds mental! I'd still like to see DEP but am a bit scared
don't want to get your head run on?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-lxwlgyhhA
i know you've all seen it before but it stands watching again. lols.
this is exactly what i was thinking of
serious \m/
Which has recently been re-issued/mastered......
....and benefits greatly as a result.
Streetcleaner that is.
Saw them in the hammersmith odeon in 89. Don't get the chance to say that very often!
Shellac - At Action Park
Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
Don Caballero - American Don
Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
Mastodon - Leviathann
Boris - Pink
Blood Brothers - Burn, Piano Island, Burn
Melvins - can't choose my favourite. Maybe Houdini, for true 'masterpiece' status
Flipper - Generic
Black Flag - Songs About Fucking
Nirvana - In Utero
...Trail of Dead - Madonna
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
Rocket From The Crypt - Scream, Dracula, Scream!
The Jesus Lizard - Goat
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
Melt Banana - Cell Scape
Mclusky - Mclusky Do Dallas
Hot Snakes - Audit In Progress
this can be my list for now, although i'm sure i'll think of tonnes more.
Serious amounts of love for this list!
It's a pretty fucking sweet list
MY GO NOW (potters off to find that Your Favourite Metal Albums thread)
validation!
just realised i've written Black Flag instead of Big Black though. I don't know much about Black Flag, this thread might be the place to find out what i need to know. Damaged or My War guys?
first four years
I need to know about both of them!
So yeah, everyone fire away while I prepare to stare down Steve Albini (whose playing output I know little about save the fact that the opening tracks of the last two Shellac albums are absolutely goddamn incredible, especially the Peel Session version of The End Of Radio which is just mind-shatteringly great)
...
(and Prayer To God has pretty much my favourite lyrics ever)
all you need to know about shellac
is contained within at action park and 1000 hurts :D
Prayer To God has forever been tainted for me by that godawful acoustic cover of it by Frank Turner which is probably one of the worst things i have ever heard.
oh god
that's an example of a song that should never, ever, ever be covered by anyone
there are plenty of brilliant songs I can accept or even enthuse about a cover of, but Prayer To God...no.
i hope for your sake that you never hear it
its like the worst cover you can imagine, then times that by a thousand.
I bet he doesn't even mutter 'no particular woman'
in that disarming way that makes it probably the funniest line in the history of rock
i quite like a couple of covers of prayer to god
sure there never gonna match the opus of the original but the maestro echoplex and solander covers are both alright and acoustic enough to conflict witht the original, never heard the turner one though
MY WAR
And First Four Years. And Damaged.
Totally amazing list!
I either love or want everything on it.
I don't have any Boredoms*looks at shoes* but I know they are amazing n everything. I've just never got round to it. I was going to get Super AE first. Which I thought was supposed to be their best album and also happened to be their heaviest album, right? Wrong? Fuck Pitchfork?!
I was torn between Super æ and Vision Creation Newsun to be honest
went for VCN because i know it a bit better, it was the first boredoms album i bought. Super æ is awesome too though, i like a description i remember of it which is something like 'tumultous space-sludge' :D
it's worth buying for Super Coming alone
for some reason that song synaesthetically makes me want to eat Doritos, also it is insane
:D
what flavour of doritos? Pretty sure most members of Boredoms are at least a little bit insane. Like when Eye cut a dead cat in half with a machete and and also almost cut his own leg off with a circular once when he was playing a show with one of his other bands. I'm reading the wiki page now and apparently he once drove a bulldozer through a venue to get onto the stage. amazing.
circular saw*
The old spicy chili flavour I think
It wasn't that spicy but it was a very busy sensation, full of crunching and croaking and warmth and....just this indescribable RUMBLE. I remember eating them and listening to that song at school and it being the perfect match.
Hanatarash were epic - there are some great Youtube videos. I think there's one where Eye attacks some tyres. Certainly when I saw Boadrum the other month, he was like an absolute fucking dervish, plainly as real and as dementedly obsessed with expression as he sounds on record.
I'm reading about Eye's various music projects just now
can't stop laughing at the monikers 'MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse' :'''D i think i've been on the computer too long.
oh wow
:DDDDD
it's not a great leap from DJ Carhouse to DJ Carphone Warehouse to DJ Kwik Fit, and fucking hell where we go from there I do not know
only Eye knows
wait til you actually HEAR MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse bringing it
It's very funny. As is the Destroy 2 album - it's him on vocals and feedback and the drummer from Corrupted playing hardcore punk. In the most ridiculous way possible. With a Beastie Boys cover. It's 46 songs in ten minutes or something. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
possibly cos the intro
sounds like a moog eating doritos
but also the main part of the song
is basically just red-noise munching. I can't describe it any better than that. Spicy chili Doritos.
i'm listening to Onanie Bomb RIGHT NOW
Lick'n Cock Boatpeople!
Would be interested to hear if this is better than Pop Tatari
because Pop Tatari is a beautiful, hysterically funny hour-and-a-bit spent in the company of the craziest musicians on Earth doing precisely the first thing that comes into their minds. ONETWOTHREEFOUR!!!TELEVISION!!!TELEVISION!!!
although my favourite bit is probably WITH...GOD......NOISEBZZZBEEBSCHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
can't believe i forgot
Harvey Milk - Special Wishes
i've got a looooovvvvvve (for this album, and a hell of a lot of it)
fuckit
Earth - Phase 3: Thrones and Dominions (i'm going to stop now)
Phase 3 over Earth 2?
Interesting.
Early Earth over later Earth?
Hex and Bees/Skull are even heavier than the early stuff, IMO, in their own stripped-down way (obviously they're not sonically heavier, but I find them heavier of emotional import). I'd also recommend Legacy Of Dissolution for the Mogwai remix alone, which remains my favourite Mogwai-related piece of music. Not to mention a slightly-improved Coda Maestoso, courtesy of Autechre, and some quality Broadrick/Sunn O))) tweaking.
Definitely Phase 3 over Earth 2
but i have to admit i know a lot more about early Earth than their more recent stuff, only just got my sticky paws on The Bees... a few months ago and i don't have Hex. Maybe it's like above, i know Phase 3 the best and have grown to love it the most.
btw Extra-Capsular Extraction was the first metal album I bought!
Ouroboros Is Broken came on my iPod Shuffle recently, was a good moment. One of the better pieces of metal minimalism (although Orthrelm's OV is pretty definitive IMO) and it'd be silly for anyone to overlook it if they fancy getting into Earth.
I've never heard Orthrelm
but when the description mentions grindcore and terry riley in the same sentence i think i'm onto a guaranteed winner.
That's a pretty great first metal purchase. My introduction to the louder side of the force was probably through something like Linkin Park. yeah, i'm that cool. I did buy Teeny Shiny by Melt Banana when i was about 16 though and it blew my tiny little mind.
Oh christ, Melt-Banana at 16!!
*crosses self*
Cell-Scape is the only one I have, and of course it's amazing, but I'm not sure their recorded stuff lives up to the time I stood precisely one foot in front of them at the Cambridge Soul Tree two years ago and proceeded to have my face melted off. One of the greatest live bands ever - not my favourite studio act but when I bought their T-shirt at the end I fucking meant it. They're all superhuman. Drummer is an octopus. Singer is a Miyazaki character gone haywire (and genuinely one of the most attractive frontpeople in rock). Bassist is smaller than her bass, but gets some motherfucking groove out of it. And there's some other dude but he isn't very good iirc.
;)
Please let me know how you get on with OV!! Also, we all thought 'In The End' was a good song at some point during out teenage years. IT'S TRUE ADMIT IT EVERYONE
haha, yeah they're pretty immense
of the few times i've seen them i think the best was on that same tour you're talking about. It was Leeds Brudenell Social Club (my favourite ever venue i think) and the support was Rolo Tomassi and That Fucking Tank. the stuff of dreams!
I will, i've put it on the end of my 'things i need to buy when i actually have money' list but i'll probably have a sneaky illegal listen before then :)
I know all the lyrics to all the rap parts of that album. fo serious.
The support at the Cambridge gig was Bearsuit!
I liked Bearsuit and saw them again last summer at Offset (the xx were playing the next tent and you can guess what I made of them). Both times the only thing that actively pissed me off was that 'punch from a foxy boxer' song but DAMN did it piss me off. :D
Also, sneaky listens are fine if they're Spotify. Finer still if you've just completed a postgrad course and have no money! (Your old man didn't get involved, in the end :( but I did wind up dandy so all's well!)
Also, looool at that last fact :D I can only come back by confessing that I used to know most of the lyrics to Feeder's 'Echo Park'...
And I need to get into Rolo Tomassi, especially since they're apparently big Cardiacs fans.
I was at that Cambridge gig
:D
WHY DID WE NOT SHAKE HANDS AND QUAFF TODDY
oh wait I didn't post to DiS then, alas innocence
insane moshing though, I was in fucking bliss! at one point the singer even fell in amongst us. proper fucking show.
'twas a beaut, and no mistake.
The one and only time I've ever been to the Soul Tree.
Sincerely and absolutely
the only time you needed to go.
I went a few other times, for my (abominable) sins. What a fucking dump. OH UNDERGRADS, YOU SICKEN ME - I SICKEN ME
my dad's a big flake
nevermind eh, glad you got it all sorted in the end! I'll berate him when i next see him. I'm just about to start a postgrad, does that count?
I've just added OV to the side of my spotify bar, it looks like a nighttime album to me.
Ahh, i love Bearsuit! What a great choice of support too :) Foxy Boxer is definitely one of their worst songs, but oh do Hey Charlie Hey Chuck, Itsuko Got Married and Rodent Disco make up for it.
Rolo Tomassi are on spotify! http://open.spotify.com/album/3zmB0mBCgxKfeELVMrANmD
Rolo Tomassi are wonderful live.
Them with Throats supporting = one of the best gigs I've been to in the last few years.
About to start a postgrad is the time you MOST need to save
trust me! wish I'd done it a little more... :/
also ty, I was quite happy with it. irritatingly it is 2MB over the sendspace limit, otherwise I'd have already posted it for DiS' perusal. when you are designing Kew Gardens in 3 years I hope you cast a thought towards the fact my final project was almost puny enough to fit on fucking Sendspace.
like I say, I was really surprised how much I loved Bearsuit (have we possibly had this discussion before? something about norwichxtweecore?), and aside from that one song they really had something going. both them and RT can consider themselves added to a prospective list of forthcoming acoleuthic spins, along with Converge and god knows who else.
oh lolololol
SMALL WORLD INNIT
but yeah the point remains
that Melt-Banana live really dwarf their studio stuff. You have to watch the magic happen to really believe it. Fuck me that guitarist. Oh my. Oh sweet Clytemnestra.
I'll always like Pentastar for the oddity of Dylan singing.
I don't really find myself comparing modern Earth to 90s Earth as I think they're both awesome. Earth have also released more amazing live albums than any band has any right to. Live Europe 2006, Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars and Live Hex are up there with any of their studio releases.
I agree with not comparing early Earth and new Earth
they're completely different bands played with what is essentially the same ethic. Personally, i prefer Hex/Bees to the earlier stuff, but earth2 is pretty solid as one of the heaviest albums ever made...
see also:
Sleep - Jerusalem
Sunn O))) - oo Void
Opeth - Deliverence
Swans - Public Castration Is A Good Idea
Converge - No Heroes
Jesus Lizard - Liar
Jesu - Heart Ache
Melvins - Lysol
listen to Drone music cause it's really heavy when you turn it up
AMAZING list
although Atomizer > Songs About Fucking, amirite guys? Still, they both qualify.
Nah Songs about Fucking rules
It is by a band called 'Big Black' though, not 'Black Flag'.
:P
ha, indeed.
yeah i noticed that after i'd posted it :)
Not wanting to nitpick, but...
...'American Don' really doesn't fall into the "heavier music genres" in my book.
re-listening to it now
you might be right, i just always group them in with Tomahawk/Helmet because of Battles. I'd still class them broadly as 'rock' though which i think makes them applicable to this thread still :D plus it's an awesome album and people deserve to hear it :)
Between The Buried And Me - Colours
Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
Murder of Rosa Luxemburg - Everyone's In Love....
Down I Go - Tyrant
Tool - Lateralus
Protest The Hero - Kezia
Thursday - Full Collapse
Glassjaw - Worship And Tribute
tyrant
BIG THIS
Everyhting You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence > Worship and Tribute
Absolutely, totally and embarassingly WRONG.
Quicksand
I am disappointed and ashamed no one has added Quicksand to this list. Either/both albums are gems.
cult/iconic stuff (1990s)
obviously assuming the classics like Sabbath, Metallica, Maiden, Priest, and Slayer are all givens, and that if we're being honest with ourselves this decade was a little barren in terms of great new metal, and not wandering too close to 'punk' or 'hardcore'.
I'd recommend starting with, in no particular order . . .
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Sepultura - Chaos AD
Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun
Down - NOLA
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
Clutch - Clutch
Mastodon - Leviathan
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Deftones - Adrenaline
White Zombie - Astro Creep
Sleep - Holy Mountain
Korn - Korn (yeah, fuck you)
I'd rate Clutch - Elephant Riders over the S/T myself
Apart from that this is almost spot on!
such a good list
GUITARSMASH
Strapping Young Lad - City
Akercocke - Chronozon
Genghis Tron - Board up the House
Wildildlife - Six
Clutch - The Elephant Riders
Fantomas - The Director's Cut
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Masters of Reality - Deep in the Hole
And a lot of those mentioned above.
massive this to Directors Cut
City is fucking monster
a^
The Room 429 cover is so so so so very good
that I end up not listening to the rest of the album. Maybe I will now.
nice list
ignoring the more obvious picks
meshuggah - destroy erase improve
american heritage - millenarian
rwake - if you walk before you crawl...
keelhaul - II
helmet - strap it on
pantera - vulgar display of power
today is the day - willpower
city of caterpillar - s/t
intronaut - prehistoricisms
electric wizard - come my fanatics
throats/the network split
swarm of the lotus - sirens of silence
meantime is so much better than strap it on
whyioughta
it maybe (maybe) has better songs but strap it on is angrier and looser and awesomer. let's just agree that helmet are victorious at rock.
NOOOO unthis request.
I think meantime is well overrated.
Strap it on>>Betty>>Born Annoying>>Meantime>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Everything else
I like this list
it has Meshuggah in it
which automatically makes it RAWK IN EXCELSIS
OK HERE IS THAT VERY IMPORTANT METAL THREAD
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4257956
Here are the albums from my list I'd consider MASTERPIECES, in roughly descending order of quality:
Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood
Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
Shining - Blackjazz
Orthrelm - OV
Darkspace - Darkspace III
Dodheimsgard - 666 International
Kayo Dot - Choirs Of The Eye
Sunn O))) - Monoliths And Dimensions
Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
Ocean Machine (Devin Townsend) - Biomech
Here is a metal album I've since discovered to be a pube-singeing masterpiece:
Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders
Here is an album by a once-metal band that isn't so metal but is one of my very favourite albums ever:
Ulver - Blood Inside
And here a load of heavy albums that aren't strictly metal, which I completely fucking love:
LAPSUS FUCKING LINGUAE - YOU GOT ME FRAICHE
would just like to pause for a moment to reflect on how good Lapsus Linguae are/were
Foetus - Hole
^^^that fucking album
Oceansize - Effloresce (or Frames, or Everyone Into Position)
Mr Bungle - Disco Volante (or California, or Mr Bungle)
Soundgarden - Superunknown (or Badmotorfinger)
Dälek - Absence
^^^that last one is basically noise-hop, and is just as awesome as you could imagine it to be
more when I can think of them, unless you want me to stfu
OH FUCK I FORGOT
THE BOREDOMS - SUPER ROOTS 7
^^^this is one of the best things ever in any genre except it isn't really in a genre except a hypothetical one called 'communing-with-the-actual-fucking-cosmos-core'
"Here is a
metal album I've since discovered to be a pube-singeing masterpiece:
Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders"
I want a pube singeing masterpiece. I shall check it out purely because any album described as a pube-singeing masterpiece must have something going on worth hearing!
"Mr Bungle - Disco Volante (or California, or Mr Bungle)"
Yes, I have them all and I'm proud of it!!
Oceansize are awesome as well. I had some interest in Dalek but some cunt put me off it, I'm going to spotify right now!!!
And please do add more if the hit you. I'm going to write all the albums from the thread on a list and look through them all to narrow it down a bit (read take out System Of A Down albums) then start buying them until I fucking conquer this world of "Heavy" and emerge a true man. A real man. With an overdraft and poor hearing.
:D awesome!
Bear in mind that every other album I've named there is at LEAST AS GOOD as the AAL. Bear it in mind. ;)
(I made a thread for AAL, actually: http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4259269 )
Oh
It's on Spotify as well. Near enough everything seems to be now. Makes me feel dirty. I'm still doing it though, still *FUCKING* doing it.
I admire your resolve
and pray for your financial buoyancy!
If you do listen to everything suggested in this thread, you'll have been a demon in the best possible sense. And you'll suddenly have a great taste in heavy music! ;)
haha
I like the implication that I probably don't already have a great taste in heavy music. Which, in fairness would probably be a reasonable suggestion.
http://www.last.fm/user/j-ham
My last fm. Not a massive amount of metal kicking about my boards. 3 cheers for Stebmo?
compatibility = super
lets be friends
Aww, yeah!
Lets be friends.
Aw, that's why I threw in a SAFETYWINK of course!
I wouldn't criticise your or anyone's taste unless it had Scouting For Girls in it.
Best track on the Dalek album is Opiate The Masses imo, although don't expect me to keep policing your last.fm habits ;D
Oh man, if you're a DEP fan you'd bloody BETTER love AAL! :D I've been listening to DEP today actually (completely independently from all this!) and fuck me Dead As History is a song.
Oh I spotted your SAFETYWINK don't worry Guv
Ahh ok, I'll fire it on. I have a situation of amazing music overloads so i'm just trying to fit in a bit of everything.
Yeah it truly is a great track. I'm that evil bastard that got into TDEP/DEP through Ire Works. You know the one that "sellout" album. And I love it, in fact it's probably still my favourite Dillinger album even over Miss Machine. Did I just admit that on DIS? Surely not.
Ire Works is by far my favourite DEP of what I've heard
and I'm not in any way ashamed to say that - although that has a lot to do with the adrenaline-rush glitch-neuron orgasm that is Dead As History, dodgy singing-saw bit or no dodgy singing-saw bit :D
Helmet - Strap it on
Godflesh - Godflesh
Brutal Truth - Need to Control
Nailbomb - Point Blank
Fudge Tunnel - Hate Songs in E Minor
Ministry - Psalm 69
Jesus Lizard - Liar
Cathedral - The Ethereal Mirror
Today is the Day - Supernova
Hammerhead - Into the Vortex
Cows - Cunning Stunts
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Nomeansno - Wrong
Anal Cunt - Top 40 Hits
Entombed - Wolverine Blues
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
HELLO THIS IS THE 90S CALLING: TURN IT UP MOTHERFUCKER
NAILBOMB
oh man. |I wish I was at dynamo in 95
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgBBK9UKkPE
by the moonlight we ride
Ten thousands side by side
with swords drawn held high
our whips and armours shine
hail to thee our infantry
still brave beyond the grave
all have sworn the eternal vow
the time to strike is now
who are the manlier men:
manowar or saxon?
do you like in the breakin the law video when they take over the bank with the power of rock
I do like that.
but not as much as I like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ5rllUvx2E
that was real awesome
i mostly like metal to be more homoerotic than that usually but idk
\m/
THE ANSWER IS AYREON
Check THIS shit out for overblown awesomeness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr0OvPyoisw
It's like a cooler Jeff wayne
:D dude you NEED to hear the last 3 minutes
it's like the music that will soundtrack the apocalypse, in a scenario where Robin Williams is the accidental bringer of end-times
I CAN'T MAKE IT THAT FAR! Sorry, I'm watching bluetip videos now.
Man I love bluetip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLx9lLjz9jA
THERE'S JUST TOO MUCH MUSIC
Will give that a spin when I'm done with oneforghost's Afritronica
No rush!
But do remember to check them out: probably second most underrated band of the 90s. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful band.
WHO'S FIRST
God, there are so many contenders - 'underrated 90's bands' is kind of my specialist subject :D
OK this lot seem pretty damn kickass
The American Wildhearts! :D
I'm listening to fudge tunnel now.
Still brilliant.
at first I was like oh pretty_vacant got most stuff that I would add
I'll just post Wrong, Cunning Stunts and Into the Vortex, but then I saw them here.
Absolutely love....
Ministry- Psalm 69....good call!
THROBBING GRISTLE just all of it
COIL just all of it
Oh, How I love this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8klW9trVTQ
It's the greatest moment of anything ever.
And I love Cosey. Sigh.
Mudhoney
Superfuzz bigmuff!!
I'm watching GWAR videos now.
Hope you're all pleased with yourselves
stuff I haven't seen
KARP - Self Titled LP
Six Finger Satellite - Severe Exposure
Swans - Cop
Unsane - Unsane
There isn't enough industrial in this thread
KMFDM - Angst
Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
NIN - The Downward Spiral/ The Fragile (I always alternate between which of these I like best so I just go for both)
Ministry, Throbbing Gristle, Coil as mentioned before
Pigface to top this all up, don't know which albums to choose... perhpas A New High in Low
Too true!
Foetus is a badass, should've mentioned him
here's another one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAUo_AY_HHM
There's a Foetus album tucked away in my massive post upthread!
Namely Hole. It deserved more prominence, so I'll give it some here. SICK MAAAAAAN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A3ytffCMS4
One of the great albums.
I need to hear more KMFDM, only have the debut album - really amateurish but it has 'Me I Funk' which is dark & hilarious enough for me to consider more.
KMFDM IS A DRUG AGAINST WAR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4-bUYU3BH8&feature=related
AWESOME
especially that video - had no idea their album-cover chic extended into full exposition! :D
Head Of David.
Not their greatest tune, but there's not much out there in cyberspace.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9bko5DKch4
here we go
Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders (thank you LJ)
Sodom - Agent Orange
Kreator - Extreme Aggression
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Sepultura - Roots
Soulfly - Primitive
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
Spineshank - Height of Callousness
Mudvayne - LD50
Slipknot - Slipknot
Darkthrone - Transylvanian Hunger
Satyricon - Nemesis Divina
The Jesus Lizard - Shot
Genghis Tron - Board up the House
Hellhammer - Demon Entrails
Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
Deicide - Once Upon the Cross
SOil - Redefine
August Burns Red - Constellations
The Ghost Inside - The Ghost Inside
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Set Your Goals - Mutiny
Hatebreed - Satisfaction is the Death of Desire
The Offspring - Smash
Black Flag - Damaged
The Dwarfes - Blood Guts and Pussy
Terror - Lowest of the Low
Happy Face - Le Tigre
Emmure - Felony
Throwdown - Haymaker
Brutal Truth - Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses
Melt Banana - Cell-Scape
Eluveitie - Slania
Amon Amarth - Twighlight of the Thunder God
Tyr - Land
Helloween - Walls of Jericho
Element Eighty - Element Eighty
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Everclear - So Much for the Afterglow
Bad Brains - I Against I
Minor Threat - Out of Step
Cro Mags - Before the Quarrel
Myrkgrav - Trollskau, Skrømt og Kølabrenning
Misery Singls - Mirrors
Leftover Crack - Mediocore Generica
Taake - Nattestid Ser Porten Vid
Strapping Young Lad - City
Moonspell - Irreligious
Ligeia - You Ghost is a Gift
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Pearl Jam - VS (chose that over Ten to fit the 'not so famous')
Enslaved - Ruun
Venom - Welcome to Hell
Carnivore - Carnivore
Naer Mataron - Discipline Manifesto
Cadaver - Necrosis
Cadaver Inc - Discipline
Limp Bizkit - Hot Dog Flavoured Water
Gorerotted - Mutilated in Minutes
Ill Nino - Revolution Revolucion
The Protomen - The Protomen
Therapy? - Troublegum
Vintersorg - Sollens Rotter
Cows - Whorn
Anterior - This Age of Silence
Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
Nattefrost - Blood and Vomit
Paganizer - Promoting Total Death
Adrenalin O.D. - Sentimental Abuse
a lot of those artists could have had multiple entries but yeah
LEFTOVER CRACK!
:DDDDDDD
FROM ALL THE WAY AT THE BACK OF THE FOOD STAMP LINE AND STRAIGHT OUTTA MOTHER FUCKIN' REHAB! IT'S THE GOOD! THE BAD! AND THE LEFTOVER CRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKK
:D
jesus christ you know a lot about metal :D
Especially death metal, which I need to get into more. Although curiously you've left off the one death metal album I really HAVE gotten into, namely Gorguts - The Erosion Of Sanity. Which, if you haven't heard it, is a flaming awesome record and a grotesque omission from my Big Post. It only just occurred to me.
:D
a good place to start for you in particular would definitely be Atheist - Unquestionable Presence. It's death metal but it's really progressive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtdhgoGCh2Y
I haven't actually heard that Gorguts album yet, will check out!
It's on Spotify and I'm rocking it AT THE PRESENT MOMENT
and can confirm that it is enormously kickass.
Atheist get a LOT of love from my trusted metal sources so yeah will jump on that! When I've finished with Gorguts. And when I've checked out that Ghost Inside stuff too :D
also one of the tracks is called Odors Of Existence
MEHODORS OF EXISTENCE
:D
Also, I'm quoting from the biggest metal fan I know on a different website (a really cool guy with a broad taste):
"in my opinion some other death metal albums that should be heard by anybody with an interest are Death's Symbolic, Unquestionable Presence by Atheist, Onward to Golgotha by Incantation, and (this may be a controversial pick among purists as it's a very late entry compared to all those pretty indisputable classics*) King of All Kings by Hate Eternal.
*though most people will send you to Scream Bloody Gore by Death instead of Symbolic"
so yeah if you're BOTH calling Unquestionable Presence I've kinda gotta get on this shit
he then adds the following
also Obituary - Slowly We Rot and Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
also Autopsy - Mental Funeral
great stuff
I'll get that on spotify then. Hate Eternal might not be the best starting point, they're almost unlistenably heavy haha but great nonetheless. Also, on The Ghost Inside, Fury and The Fallen Ones is in my top 5 albums of all time, it's really that good. They're so overlooked.
that The Ghost Inside song was good
it reminded me of so much angsty teenpop metal except yeah it was just done a lot more convincingly - with all the pop somehow retained
I wouldn't say Hate Eternal was controversial because it was late.
I'd say it was controversial because it was dull. Typewriter drumming at its most flat and mediocre.
^ for the album Fury and Flames I'd have to agree with that
they push heavy so hard and fast that the whole thing becomes a blur and it can get boring. 'I, Monarch' on the other hand is a great album with all heavyness retained.
holy SHIT omgggg Atheist!!!
This song is KICKASS MELODIC GRANDSTANDING PROG-DEATH AWESOMENESS
\m/ mhn
seriously it's like some sort of death-metal Fiery Furnaces, I AM ENTHUSED
HELL YEAH \m/
another band that do prog death really well http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA4oq7DBU8E they're not as interesting as Atheist but they bring sheer death
lol it is amusing how clean-cut the dude looks
compared to what he is playing and singing
I like this stuff, it is not as thrilling as Atheist but it pummels and buffets like anything - a full assault experience
and that breakdown is sweet
Gigantic this for Cows.
oh oops, missed out
Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick
either or
Been listening to Symphonies of Sickness again...
...for the past few days. Cannot be beaten. The end.
...
Abruptum - 'Evil Genius'
Portal - 'Swarth'
Fear of God - 'As Statues Fell'
Negative Approach - 'Totall Recall'
Nations of Ulysses - 'Plays Pretty for Baby'
Prurient - 'Cocaine Death'
Big Black - 'Rich Mans Eight Track Tape'
Merzbow - 'Merzbird'
Isis - Oceanic always and forever
Goatsnake - Flower of disease
Kyuss - Welcome To Sky Valley
Om - Pilgrimmage
YOB - The Great Cessation (if only for Burning At The Altar which is stunning)
Fu Manchu - In Search Of ...
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Rosetta - Wake/Lift
That's enough
Full marks
simply for mentioning Rosetta. I would have gone for Galilean Satellites though
Can't believe Oceanic is this far down the thread!
Good thread though, lots for me to checkout this weekend!
Quality thread, loads of absolute gems mentioned already.
Harvey Milk - The Pleaser
Clutch - From Beale Street To Oblivion
MAd Capsule Markets - OSC-DIS
Arncorps - The Greatest Band Of All Time
Rocket From The Crypt - Scream, Dracula, Scream! (Had to give a shout for this, incredible album)
The Bronx - The Bronx (III)
G.U. Medicine - G.U. Medicine
THe Martini Henry Rifles - Superbastard
Rammstein - Mutter
SPineshank - Height Of Callousness
Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
Down I Go - This Is Disastercore
Fu Manchu - California Crossing
Minus - Halldor Laxness
Amen - Amen
Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
This thread is awesome.
I don't think there's too much I can add that hasn't already been mentioned.
But after a quick scan:
Icarus Line - Penance Soiree
These Arms Are Snakes - Easter
Drive Like Jehu - S/T
Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun
Bardo Pond - Lapsed
Melvins - A Senile Animal
Juno - A Future Lived in Past Tense
Quicksand - Manic Compression
Boris - Feedbacker
can't believe i forgot about Bardo Pond
Dilate would definitely be in amongst my top 10
haven't heard Icarus Line mentioned on here for YEARS, i remember getting 'up against the wall motherfuckers' on a rock sound compilation about 6 years ago :D those rock sound comps were mega!
Snap Dilate best track poll!
Despite The Roar for me. Out-Earths late-period Earth. The sound of the desert, the sound of sweaty, slow-motion langour. And then, at the end, mortality is confronted. But yeah, the whole album's got this wicked, horizontally-desperate vibe to it, like they're keening for a life lost, but too whacked-out on various substances to get up and express it conventionally.
Here's Despite The Roar for anyone intrigued (god, 22 views, put up last week!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si-boN7yQ6M
Two Planes is my favourite
sometimes i start playing the album and have to just keep skipping back and listening to Two Planes again and again, it's just so lovely and melancholy. Despite The Roar is a close second though, hot and trippy.
Two Planes WAS the one I kept returning to repeatedly
because it was like some perfect intersection of Mogwai and GY!BE, and because it was, yes, so very melancholy (when I had an iTunes playlist called 'Melanchole' it was quite near the top). it sounds like a disappearing hope.
those two are obvious standouts and I think they get the balance right but the noisier AND the more acoustic stuff is pretty cool as well
Thrice - The Artist In The Ambulance
Shame on you all for not mentioning this album.
Lots of old albums on here
What are the new bands in the genre that are releasing shit hot albums who I should follow. Feel from reading this website my taste is getting slightly softer all the time. Good to see a thread like this flying in here. Time to get my balls back.
Gulaggh for new heavier stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-N9flAxrW4
That Animals As Leaders record
came out last year
and 2007 was a *phenomenal* year for metal - not gonna list everything that was good about it but wow jeez dude. a load of that stuff is in this thread, just gotta sift properly.
this said it often isn't easy to determine what's a 'masterpiece' until a few years have passed
I dunno if you mean shit hot in terms of coverage or quality but in terms of quality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-63ccY-9TQ these guys released the greatest album of 2008 and just released a new one this year that will actually send you into cardiac arrest from the heavyness. It's like metalcore for adults, no gimmicky shit.
Whoop
Good stuff that, reminds me of Machine Head a bit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHG-7QkY_yE
LET FREEDOM RING WITH THE SHOTGUN BLAST!
also, this band are the new limp bizkit
they exist just to be hated. I want to hate them so much but just can't help loving them. That's the limp bizkit formula right there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r93CoC1N_SA
Oh my god.
Incredible scenes. He's like a cross between Durst, and a really pissed off bear.
WROUGHT
that's about the only word I can use to describe it
ulcerate - everything is fire
would go on my list if had owned it more than a couple of months and intronaut are about to release a new record that WIIL BE AWESOME. both heavy as fuck.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9eebFfDjkE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWSeN4BHIW4
also
throats have written some of my favourite heavy tunes of the last 5 years http://open.spotify.com/track/69dXVZYeDGJYRtWP6DZoA5
Opeth
Blackwater Park.
The definitive prog-metal masterpiece, absolutely cannot believe no-one has mentioned them or this album yet.
Would dispute calling Opeth the definitive anything
If I could choose from all their albums, I'd put together 80 minutes that MIGHT have a tilt at that crown, but they're spread a tiny bit too thinly IMO. That said, Blackwater Park has some amazing songs, namely The Drapery Falls and Blackwater Park itself, whose acoustic interlude is one of the most haunting passages of music I've heard.
I think Watershed MIGHT be the best Opeth album in terms of consistency and listenability, really I do. Although, my favourite Opeth song is on Ghost Reveries (The Baying Of The Hounds) and indeed that record is pretty damn underrated.
The 10/10 review it got on here
encouraged me to buy it having never heard any Opeth before (http://drownedinsound.com/releases/4220/reviews/13088-), awesome album, but I still prefer Blackwater Park, the track Funeral Portrait blows my socks off every time!
CAVE IN - Jupiter
no-one's mentioned this yet?
Also, check out
Comeback Kid - Wake The Dead
Poison The Well - You Come Before You / Tear From The Red
Garrison - Be A Criminal
Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart
Grade - Under The Radar
JR Ewing - Ride Paranoia
Snapcase - Progression Through Unlearning
Narrows - New Distances
Transistor Transistor - Erase all Names and Likeness
Good shout on Jawbox.
Will need to check out more stuff on this list!
That Transistor Transistor record
Kicks all kinds of ass
Eden Maine- To You the First Star
I can't find my copy of it though :(
Wow!
This thread has really taken off! Which is pretty awesome if you consider how shit my sort of introductory spiel actually was. So cheers folks, I'll try my best to give as much of this awesome music as possible a good seeing to. Cheers for being all nice n that, it's seen as a bit of a rarity on the internet these days. Especially on DIS...
For consistency purposes;
shut up, prick.
Aww, thats man.
I feel more at home now. You cunt.
*thanks
Baroness - Blue Record
SPAZZCORE
A made-up genre, the definition of which is: music that makes you want to dance like a velocirator. Some masterpieces which may or may not be included are:
Daughters - Hell Songs
Blood Brothers - Crimes
The Murder of Rosa Luxemburg - Everyone's In Love And Flowers Pick Themselves
Every Time I Die - Hot Damn!
PRE - Hope Freaks
Bullet Union - Ruin's Domino
Circle Takes The Square - As The Roots Undo
Bear vs Shark - Terrorhawk
Melt-Banana - Cellscape
Fear Before the March of Flames - Art Damage
Gay For Johnny Depp - Blood: The Natural Lubricant
Hot Cross - Risk Revival
The Locust - Plague Soundscapes
The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower - Dissertation, Honey
These Arms Are Snakes - Tail Swallower and Dove
Who didn't smile the first time they read
"Gay For Johnny Depp - Blood: The Natural Lubricant"?
Seems to be decent as well!
Starts with a dirty sailor's shanty
Ends with a fucking kazoo!
Oh yeah and the songs are really good too.
How much of this can you listen to in a day?
For me it's about one album, 30-40 minutes max. Just blowing out crazy and then no more, just not possible.
30-40 minutes
equals about 2 of these albums, maybe 3 at a push. I'm a big fan of shorter lengths when it comes to this type of stuff.
I know Swing Kids
are pre-Locust but I don't know the others. I'm putting them on my "to investigate" list.
Crimes wins!
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Thanks to this thread I've just spent a bunch of my pocket money ordering some new stuff to listen to..
*shakes fist*
*bangs head* surely?
Maybe both at the same time?
there isn't much i can add at this stage
but agalloch's 'the mantle' has some very good instrumental tracks on it
Their best song by a goddamn street
is 'Not Unlike The Waves' off Ashes Against The Grain - that song alone should be listened to by anyone with an interest in heavy music
and here it is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuPz7cMD3qs
\m/ \m/
It's not that well known, but Chickenhawk's self titled album is totes heavy and rad
so i recommend that also. Plus the vocals are well gnarly and one of the songs is called 'My Name Is Egg'.
Chickenhawk are awesome, i really love that album
not sure it's quite 'masterpiece' status though
damn
that was me, oops
I didn't see these though I probably missed them
Between The Buried And Me - Colours (an absolute beast of an album)
Cynic - FOCUS
Edge Of Sanity - Crimson/Crimson II
Mastodon - Crack The Skye (their best by a long way and ALL their records are the shite)
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Tool - Lateralus
Big Business - Mind The Drift
Genghis Tron - Board Up The House
<Code> - Resplendent Grotesque
Oh almost forgot some of my favourite records of all time somehow
Isis - Wavering Radiant
Neurosis - Times Of Grace
Kayo Dot - Choirs Of The Eye/Dowsing Anemone...
Maudlin Of The Well - Part The Second/Bath/Leaving Your Body Map
Virus - Carheart
Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
Ephel Duath - The Painter's Palette
Harvey Milk - Courtesy and Good Will...
Today Is The Day - Sadness Will Prevail
Everything by Oceansize
Hi old username, how's it going?
Might as well add a few more just in case someone reads this
Weakling - Dead As Dreams (The only BM album you REALLY need)
Ved Buens Ende - Written In Waters (weird depressing semi BM)
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus (Just awesome prog-blackness)
Agalloch - The Mantle (Ditto but for different reasons)
Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante (covers almost every musical genre... OK it doesn't but it's pretty eclectic, in fact the 'metal' quotient is fairly low)
Combat Astronomy - Dreams No Longer Hesitate (Massively downtuned fretless bass+free jazz horns=???)
Mutyumu - Il Y A (Bizarre Japanese post-rock/BM/Pop hybrid)
Shining - Grindstone (I prefer this to Blackjazz)
A Forest Of Stars - The Corpse Of Rebirth/Opportunistic Thieves Of Spring (Sounds to me like Lo-fi BM with hints of Godspeed & Comus!)
Strapping Young Lad - Alien/City (Electronic-infused AGRESSION with the odd soaring melody)
Woburn House - Monstrous Maneuvres In The Mushroom Maze (German kind of dreamy doom (?))
Klaubatamann - Merkur (Awesome German Prog BM)
Ehnahre - The Man Closing Up (avant-death made up of some of the members of Kayo Dot from the 'Dowsing...' era: kin of sounds like that record without the more ambient parts and has shades of Portal)
Alcest - Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde (French shoegaze metal with lovely melodies)
Shiner - The Egg/Lula Divinia (Kickass 90s heavy Math-Rock)
ASVA - Futurists Against The Ocean (My favourite drone/doom band)
Krallice - Dimensional Breakthrough (fuck Liturgy, this is truly transcendental BM)
Averse - The Endesque Chants (Charming French prog metal with great acoustic guitar playing, think a less repetitive Opeth)
Gnaw - This Face (Harrowing stuff)
...so yeah, there's them as well
Some new CDs arrived today!
So far, A Sun that Never Sets by Neurosis is THE SHIT.
XDDDDDD
FAAAAAAALLLLLLL INNNNTOOOOOOOOO
A WOOOOOORLLLLD
UNNNNKNOOOOOOOWNNNNNN
my favourite track on that album is 'From The Hill' but it's seriously great all the way through - last three (not including Resound) are also mind-mashingly brilliant
It's seriously good.
Only listened to it on headphones so far as well, can't wait to get it home, play through speakers and feel some air move. They've got quite a big back catalogue to explore as well..
If you merely turn your eyes upthread
you'll notice that one of their previous albums is my favourite metal record ever :D
A Sun That Never Sets was my first Neurosis and it blew my head off. Then I heard Through Silver In Blood. Goodness I am excited for you.
Just about to go and run around town looking for any more!
I got Given to the Rising when it came out actually, I'll have to revisit that too..
FROOOOOOMMM THHEE HIIIILLLLLL
what a great album
Miles Davis has some heavy live album masterpieces
Esp the Dark Magus or Live At The Fillmore East 1970. Plenty of really heavy head fuckery on those two. But discount them (at your peril) if you only want a list of heavy gee-tar bands albums only. I'll leave under cape and mask if this thread is a jazz free zone.
To be honest..
I'm just honoured that Mr Al Swearengen would turn up on this thread. I won't discount them, in fact someone gave me very similar advice recently in a totally unrelated conversation so it feels like fate is pushing me towards Miles Davis, especially Dark Magus. But anyway, yeah when I said heavier I didn't really mean just heavier but I think most people know what I mean when I say it. Like some electronic music(Or Jazz) is a lot heavier and harsher than some metal but it gives you a different feeling and sets a different tone. So yeah I was looking for that feeling which you get when you hear this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5afykytX60
or even this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g9Zj-A38Ww
Some recommendations
Above else:
The Jesus Lizard - Liar
But I want to skip the more well-known bands and add some of these:
XBXRX - Sixth in Sixes
Black Eyes - Cough (these guys now formed the band "Mi Ami", which is equally great)
Double Dagger - Ragged Rubble
Young Widows - Settle Down City
Arab On Radar - Yaweh or the Highway
Silver Daggers - New High and Ord
Mika Miko - C.Y.S.L.A.B.F.
None of them are metal, but are still great.
As you want to stay in the metal genre, then maybe I can recommend Velvet Cacoon.
Any of the Orchid albums
but probably Chaos is Me. If you don't own that I can't recommend it enough. So in your face it hurts.
Infest - No Man's SLave - oooh, it's fast!
Cortez - Initial. Hardcore band with loads of epic, 'Isis-esque' monging bits with loads of shouting also.
Eyehategod - Dopesick
Will Haven - WHVN or Carpe Diem - hard to choose. I's all one riff anyway!
Born Against - Patriotic Battle Hims - big influence on Refused I believe if you were digging them.
Ink & Dagger - either album
DOwn - Nola - it's all about the riffs baby.
SLipknot - the first half of the self titled is well heavy. Believe!
World Demise by Obituary
Iiiii dooooonnnnnnnn CARRRRRRRE
Ossum.
Aaaaaaargh what a massive long impenetrable list!!1
AAARGHHHH
After you've checked out the other 50000 albums mentioned try
Sperm Whale by Thrones - unique album with massive riffs! He mixes the heavy metal with synth/drum machines/vocoder and it's a bit of a masterpiece. First I just thought it was weird but it's a real grower, sounds better every time I listen to it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XacI2AknauM
Kingdom Come by Sir Lord Baltimore - ridiculously rocking proto-metal with singing drummer shouting about womaaaaan!!! and how womaaan is a hell hound! etc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7mJbGb-pLg
THROOOONES
man i always forget how awesome Thrones is(are?) because i don't have any of his recorded stuff. Live he is immense. IMMENSE. Sperm Whale has been duly added to my list, thank you for reminding me about it!
nee probs!
There's another track from the album here over the top of some manta ray footage (? It works anyway)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aek_6ZGOjsw
So i bought Day Late, Dollar Short in Fopp yesterday
for only 8 pounds, awesome!
It is awesome!
There are a couple of synthy tracks on that one that own most people who do synthy tracks full time. And BLACK BLADE. N-JOY.
WOOOOOMMMMAAAAAAAANNN
get in son
I know there's eee-vul
in the wake of the wicked wind!
If your mind still hasn't been torn to shreds enough by this excellent thread
And just because I'd like to fill in the gap and recommend the following:
Cursed III- Architects of Troubled Sleep
Beecher- This Elegy, His Autopsy [so full of ideas- industrial, doom, sludge, straight-forward hardcore and their own futuristic thrash, but it comes off so well]
The Mirimar Disaster- Volumes [staggeringly heavy and schizophrenic, but also really beautiful in parts]
Cave In- Until Your Heart Stops [how has this not been mentioned here before? Noise, thrash, space metal, weird breakdowns, riff after riff after motherfucking riff]
The Fall of Troy- S/t and Doppelganger [youthful exuberance and noisey riff madness to the max]
Let Our Enemies Beware- Against Karate [this is seriously the best album of the last year. It's so titanically heavy and deranged and original. Check it out]
Sika Redem- Entheogen [progressive, uncategorisable madness- songs that stretch for eleven minutes but never stop evolving]
That's it for now!
YES TO CAVE IN AND BEECHER!
shit man, I need to get that Let Our Enemies Beware album
also yes to the Fall of Troy
Pussy Galore - Right Now!
or Dial M For Motherfcker
Possibly.
I'm all about Sugarshit Sharp.
This thread is amazing
incredible scenes all over it
^this times a million.
Ugly Kid Joe?
maybe?
and on a more serious note
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking and Ritual De Lo Habitual
FUCK I FORGOT RITUAL DE LO HABITUAL
THAT ALBUM
worth it for 'Three Days' alone but yeah listen to it everyone who hasn't - in fact listen to the last four tracks first because they're where the money's at
Yes!
I have it and YES it's really really fantastic. I listened to it on a bus journey once start to finish and I felt pretty fantastic afterwards. As you could imagine. One of those "maybe live is worth living" moments. If only to experience more music like that.
Heavy?
Dunno if they'd be considered classics
but I'd like to add High On Fire, listened to Snakes For The Devine on Spotify and got Death Is This Communion off eMusic last night. Not heard much of them before but they're both pretty damn good.
I liked Snakes for the Divine.
But next to Blessed Black Wings the production seems pretty toothless. I'd recommend you get that one next, the drum sound is one of the best I've ever heard on a metal album.
Yeah, Blessed Black Wings and Death is this Communion sound much meatier than Snakes for the Divine.
One of my fave 'solos' on this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89h-X-tZa_w
Sounds good
cheers, I will search it out.
Will have to check that Youtube link when I get home, blocked at work.
no one has mentioned Norma Jean!
Bless the Martyr Kiss The Child
is just such a great album, the original and best imo (of theirs)
this to lots of other stuff already mentioned too..
ctrl+f 'Wolves in The Throne Room'
OK i know, I know, but cmon guuuyyysss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ibBdXJ3Jg
Totally
My mate is raving about them right now. They make that ATP line up look even more tasty than it already would have. I wish they would play Glasgow like Godspeed are in December.
The Wildhearts - Endless Nameless
Album about drugs while the band were taking vast quantities of crack and smack. It's tuneful while being tuneless due to the continuous waves of feedback and distortion drenching everything. 10/10 on DiS and occupying a weird middle ground between metal, hardcore, rock, industrial and beatles-esque pop - a totally unique album
I *really, really, really* fucking have to hear this album
I love The Wildhearts but have never gotten my hands on this - from every description I've read it appears to be an absolute brainblower
Thats a few mentions of The Wildhearts now..
I really wish I could work out a top 5 from this thread in terms of priorities. I would go and buy them tomorrow. Then I could crack on with working out the next top 5. And then I could get a loan out to purchase them. And then...
Begone non-metal type from 2009
Your presence is not needed here
I love you
you silly, silly cunt.
Maybe you should try the new Uffie album instead. I hear it's a beezer.
I also hear that Asda are selling a compilation CD comprised entirely of twee songs from phone adverts.
dude i reckon there'd be a few things on this thread that you'd like
maybe Scream, Dracula, Scream! and you might like Directors Cut by Fantomas. Maybe.
My two cents
There's a bit of noise and drone as well as metal in here...
Envy - A Dead Sinking Story
Aluk Todolo - Descension
Robedoor - Raiders
Hair Police - Certainty of Swarms
Godflesh - Street Cleaner (roll on Supersonic!)
Boris - Pink
The Angelic Process - Coma Waering
The Dead C - Future Artists
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Prurient - PLeasure Ground
Khanate - things Viral
Desalvo - Mood POisoner
A Forest of Stars - The Corpse of Rebirth
Corrupted - Paso Inferior
Mouthus - The Long Salt
Demons - Evocation
Gnaw Their Tongues - An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood
Jesu - Conqueror (or Silver) (or anything really)
The Goslings - Occasion
KTL - IV
Sugar - Beaster
Yellow Swans - At All Ends
Goatsnake - Flower of Disease
Wolf Eyes - Human Animal
Pantera - Far beyong Driven
Sepultura - Roots
Menace Ruine - The Die Is Cast
Porn and Merzbow - And The Devil Makes Three
Lullabye Arkestra - Ampgrave
Swans - Cop/Young Cop
Diebold - Listen to my Heartbeast
Fantomas - Fantomas
Gnaw - This Face
Nadja - Desire in Uneasiness
Skullflower - IIIrd Gatekeeper
Greymachine - Disconnected
Jesus Lizard - Goat
Wolves In The Throne Room - Two Hunters
Merzbow - Almost anything though Merzbird or Age of 369 are faves
Khlyst - Chaos is My Name
Zu - Carboniferous
Therapy? - Troublegum
Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
UFOmammut - Eve
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Melt Banana - Cellscape
Pelican - The Fire in Our Throats...
Sunn o))) - Flight of the Behemoth
Asva - What You Don't Know is Frontier
Napalm Death - Fear, Emptiness, Despair
Whitehouse - Asceticists 2006
Yeah
Noise and drone is always welcome. And this is a pretty nice list.
Zu's Carboniferous has been on my mind for a while now, I've only heard it via spotify so far but I imagine its a 1000x tidier hammering out your stereo via cd or vinyl.
Two Hunters has become a priority for me now.
Carboniferous is ace. Get it!
You can get it on Itunes believe it or not.
Apparently since they hit it pretty big with Carboniferous some smaller labels have started to reissue stuff as well though.
I'd hoped Ipecac would reissue more of their stuff by now
The track Zu did with Dalek on ipecac (i think) was pretty good too.
Zu and Dalek?!
WANT
Alright
I will.
Priorities:
Two Hunters, Carboniferous, Trouble Gum.
Also Wildhearts of some form and Botch of some form.
Anything else I should make a priority? As in it's so essential that "There’s no excuse for not having this landmark album in your collection." sort of thing.
Of course after I get the above I will come back and work out whats next. This thread is awesome but kind of impenetrable.
If you like Zu you should give The Thing a go as well
Mats Gustaffson on Sax kicks all kinds of whatever.
He did a really good album with Thurston Moore called Original Silence as well. And I just remembered he did a live show with Sonic Youth and Merzbow that Sonic Youth released on their own SYR label.
As for noise - anything Merzbow, Prurient, Kevin Drumm, Whitehouse, Yellow Swans, Masonna, CCCC, Incapacitants, Keiji Haino....
I wouls ay that Monoliths and Dimensionss is the best Sunn0))) album
then White1 for the opening Cope section.
I'd probably agree with you there.
I think Monoliths.. is a good gateway record to Sunn o))), after listening to that I found it easier to go back and listen to the other stuff.
Black one is worth getting too.
Monoliths And Dimensions
is a terrifyingly brilliant piece of music - and words cannot express what that final track does at around the 10-minute mark
it would sure be cool if somebody with time on their hands would make a spotify playlist out of this thread...
yeah?
HI!
unfinished, but whatevs
http://open.spotify.com/user/peevee/playlist/4joWk7lCm02QzHlQRM574B
HAHA OH YOU
awesome, awesome work
I'll still make one of my own choices, though. Maybe this is the best way to do it.
please linky linky once you've made one!
I am working on it RIGHT NOW
will be done before I sleep!
Did you get on OK with OV/Arvo? (Both of which being in their own fine ways exceedingly heavy)
yes! i will get back to your note once i'm done battling with photos on facebook :D
OV was pretty intense stuff
YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE HOW LONG IT JUST TOOK ME
to choose ONE Oceansize track
also I am completely unsure as to whether I should tack OV on the end of my playlist
Part of me says 'yes, it's brilliant and everyone should hear it'
Part of me says 'no, it completely bollockses the balance of the playlist'
I shall compromise for now by leaving it off but posting a link here. For the brave and the bold: http://open.spotify.com/track/4sEwZpp32i8931Eb6MDGyE
wickedcool
Needs more Quicksand!
That's one feckin' good playlist.
LIKE
<3 Luau
<3 On A Rope
<3 Cuckoo For Caca
<3 MYSTIC FREAKIN DECADE
if i say so myself
it's fucking awesome. Listening to it now, and every time a new track starts it's like, TUUUNE :D
Just noticed you put Gay For Johnny Depp in there
\m/\m/\m/\m/\m/\m/\m/
cannot get over how amazing that DLJ track was
how have I gone almost 23 1/2 years of my life without knowingly hearing them?
like, I'm now halfway thru that Lightning Bolt song (and hey it's better than I remember them being!), not to mention three other actually-pretty-fabulous* songs later, but I'm still thinking to myself 'WHAT WAS THAT'
here's to more incredible discoveries
*Already knew this about the Fantomas one but who's keeping score?
pausing for the night after Botch
but this is thoroughly listenable shit - holy hell, Flipper is a lot better than I thought
Luau is fucking AWESOME
unfortunately nothing else in their back catalogue will ever beat it, but it all comes pretty close. Yank Crime is an immense album. YOU NEED IT IN YOUR LIFE.
Also Mega Ghost is my all time favourite LB track purely for the section between about 3:35 and 3:55 (you need to listen to it on headphones or goodish speakers to get the full BASS EFFECT)
^this
Gotta love Luau. Here Come The Rome Plows is brilliant as well, mostly because of the sound the guitars make.
I'll do a playlist tonight \m/ I'm pretty sure Down I Go are on spotify. :D
oh god :D
i'm proper excited to hear yours, ESPECIALLY now i know it'll feature Down I Go ;)
Rome plows!
EEEE AAAA EEEEEEEE AAAAAAAAA EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
<3
s'all about the chewy, see-saw guitars.
ah good effort
wondered how the hell I was going to get a chance to listen to all this stuff. Spotify evening ahead (along with the football)
massive amounts of respect
for the first track alone
LET'S DO THIS
I'll do it. PM me the tracks YOU want to see in the list (be VERY selective - no more than one per artist, no more than, ooh, 5 artists) and I'll listen to + order them. :D
Christ I need a job.
IGNORE THIS
Man...
If you make a spotify playlist based on the suggestions you have made on this thread plus other suggestions you agree with I would subscribe to that shit SO QUICK that you wouldn't know what hit you. Also I would owe you my life. Think about it.
AND HERE IS THE AMAZING ACOLEUTHIC AKA LJ PLAYLIST OF HEFT
http://open.spotify.com/user/louisjagger/playlist/2GOvTJZYrjapETFU02esz8
LISTEN AT YOUR OWN RISK
way fewer tracks than p_v's but makes up for this with some TOTALLY EPIC TRACK-LENGTHS
sbscrbd
imma make one too.
Please do!
I shall give it a good fucking listen.
I'm going to chronicle a response to p_v's one somewhere on this thread - suffice it to say for now that that Drive Like Jehu song is killing me right now - its sly melodic sensibility and rollicking wrongness are pushing all sorts of happy buttons
HAVE AMENDED THE SECOND TRACK OF MY PLAYLIST
from the utterly brilliant although not-so-heavy opening track of Shining's very good album
to the brilliant and slayful and heavy-as-fucking-fuck opening track of their MASTERPIECE
will have to queue up these playlists
too much music, not enough time, aarrgh!
I've just reversed that decision
after literally an hour and a half of deliberation
literally an hour and a half spent choosing between In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster (5:40) and The Madness And The Damage Done (5:20).
heaven help me
the thing was, they both bring something unique to the table. but In The Kingdom... is more 'me', and is also the best track on its album, whereas The Madness... while being completely kick-ass, isn't. I often find myself craving ITKOKYWBAM - not so TMATDD.
The sheer sound of Blackjazz is astonishing, however, and I recommend listening to it whichever way you can. Really annoyed they took it off Spotify...
(oh and on principle I refuse to put two songs by the same band in my playlist - that's CHEATING)
DECISION RE-REVERSED
TMATDD is getting even better with repeat listens, and it's just more appropriate (in that it's from The Masterpiece) - ITKOK will have to wait for another playlist, even if it is one of my favourite tracks of the 00's.
Plus, the middle bit is like a mini-OV!
There will be no more changes now.
I'm ok with two tracks by the same artist
as long as they're not next to each other! They've got to be spread across the playlist for me, no more than two though, that's not only cheating but lazy!
mine, probs more noise rock than HEAVY. still...
http://open.spotify.com/user/fuck_this_band/playlist/2uIrpG05qhksj318Qrps3u
also, compilation so far:
http://open.spotify.com/user/fuck_this_band/playlist/2RLCOkNaPqMtMP4L7mk411
One track per artist, decided on a FCFS basis (mostly). Will try to keep up to date if there any more playlists. Or I could make it collaborative, but they don't usually end well, idk.
Nice
I'll queue it :D
Not sure if a bootleg could be classed as a masterpiece but...
Les Rallizes Dénudés' Heavier Than A Death In The Family seems pretty fitting here.
It is!
I'm not going to buy the new bootlegs tho, that guy is ripping off loads of people by the looks, even if Les Rallizes doesn't care
i've only heard it once so i'm making no claims about masterpieces
but the austerity program EP i just got is wicked cool, they reallllly like big black and so do i.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1hOTM4c03I
Quick look through the thread
No ATD-I? Relationship of Command was great.
Boris, Drive Like Jehu, Merzbow, Melvins & Swans are all great though.
IF WE'RE DOING SPOTIFY LISTS THEN
http://open.spotify.com/user/carolemo/playlist/6ZXzOoLSe2R7P5VYcuzgKX
this is just my metal one, i'm not doing a favourite ever ever ever thing.
Consider yourself in a queue for MY EARS
HUGE list, but again, average song-length pretty short! Here's to learning all about short metal!
short & stupid is the way forward
except for scale the summit
short and CHEESE is the way forward
*Insert Dio-based joke here*
best heavy metal ever:
job for a cowboy's first release- DOOM. it is a masterpiece of death metal. all of their subsequent albums are good, but pretty generic. DOOM is mind-bendingly good.
also, steal this album is a masterpiece. and none so vile, by cryptopsy.
I'll second the City of Caterpillar/Circle Takes the Square/Melvins/Jesus Lizared/Karp mentions.
And add:
Kidcrash "Jokes" & "I Haven't Had A Date in 4 Years Goldie Hawn Goldie Hawn Goldie Hawn"
L'antietam "Family" & "Arthur Carr"
Wolves "art.culture.work"
Ampere "All Our Tomorrows End Today"
The Angelic Process "Weighing Souls With Sand"
Lion of the North "The Compass Calls"
Bucket Full of Teeth "III"
Orchid "self-titled"
Blood Brothers "March on Electric Children" & "This Adultery Is Ripe"
D.R.I. "Dirty Rotten LP"
Daitro "Laisser Vivre Les Squelettes" & "Daitro/Raein split"
Daniel Striped Tiger "Condition"
A Day in Black and White "My Heroes Have Always Killed Cowboys"
Envy "A Dead Sinking Story" & "All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead"
Funeral Diner "The Underdark" & "Difference of Potential"
GOSPEL "The Moon Is A Dead World"
Heroin "self-titled"
Angel Hair "Pregnant With the Senior Class"
Harriet the Spy "Unfuckwithable"
Have a Nice Life "Deathconsciousness"
I Would Set Myself on Fire For You "self-titled"
Indian Summer "Science 1994"
iwrotehaikusaboutcannibalisminyouryearbook "discography"
Jerome's Dream "Completed"
Rodan "Rusty"
Julia "self-titled"
Kolya "self-titled"
La Quiete "La Fine Non e La Fine"
Loma Prieta "Last City"
Louise Cyphre "Discography"
A Minor Forest "Inindependence"
Nation of Ulysses "Plays Pretty For Baby" & "13 Point Program"
Native Nod "Today Puberty, Tomorrow the World"
Off Minor "The Heat Death of the Universe"
Pg. 99 "Document 8"
Portrait "Discography"
Portraits of Past "Discography"
Pyramids "self-titled"
Nadja "Untouched" & "The Bungled and the Botched"
Raein "Il N'y A Pas D'Orchestre"
Sed Non Satiata "Le Ciel De Notre Enfance"
Sinaloa "Fathers & Sons" & "Footprints on Floorboards"
Stop It!! "Self Made Maps" & "This Is What It Sounds Like When Doves Cry"
Storm the Bastille... I believe if you look up their website, you'll find their entire discography as of now. Definitely worth checking out.
Transistor Transistor "Erase All Name and Likeness" & "Ruined Lives"
Ulver "Bergtatt"
Yaphet Kotto "Syncopated Synthetic Laments for Love"
just when you thought it was safe to take the earplugs out
I've never heard that Pyramids album but eventually I'll buy it for its awesome cover.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VRoc5160rcY/Su8Pc3nj0qI/AAAAAAAAAX0/XSFYZTXHIFY/s400/Pyramids+-+Pyramids.jpg
holy
shit
that's incredible :D:D
They did a great album with Nadja recently
Deathconsciousness ^5
that angelic process record is amaaazin
oh shit, didn't see that there! YES IT SO IS!!!
Especially Million Year Summer - that shit is beastly beautiful, RIP Kris
Chaos is Me
over the self-titled Orchid surely!?!? SOme of the screaming isn't as good on the s/t, a bit more polished. CHaos is Me just rips your face off.
Otherwise I agree with that list a lot, Raein, Pg99, Gospel, Heroin, Daitro, and...well, loads of it actually
oh, I forgot
Swing Kids and Antioch Arrow
yeah
Gravity ist sehr gut. You know, I also forgot the powerviolence scene. Charles Bronson, Das Oath, Dropdead, Spazz, Man is the Bastard, Crossed Out, etc. I love love love Charles Bronson.
Ed Gein - It's a Shame a Family Can Be Torn Apart by Something as Simple as a Pack of Wild Dogs
listen to this anal cunt version of killing yourself to live
http://open.spotify.com/track/7F5saz6gUFG2EhEM0KDoer
BUMP FOR OUR AWESOME PLAYLISTS
Here is MINE, now with added BLACK METAL DANCE (IT EXISTS) in the form of DODHEIMSGARD: http://open.spotify.com/user/louisjagger/playlist/2GOvTJZYrjapETFU02esz8
Here is PRETTY_VACANT'S which has a STORMING OPENING TRACK and remains AWESOME after that: http://open.spotify.com/user/peevee/playlist/4joWk7lCm02QzHlQRM574B
Here is CODPIECEFACE'S which I HAVEN'T HEARD YET, NAUGHTY ME: http://open.spotify.com/user/carolemo/playlist/6ZXzOoLSe2R7P5VYcuzgKX
please feel free to MAKE YOUR OWN and ADD THEM HERE
\m/ \m/
not forgetting FUCK_THIS_BAND'S surely STONKING playlist which I will surely HEAR SOON
http://open.spotify.com/user/fuck_this_band/playlist/2uIrpG05qhksj318Qrps3u
smy favourite one
not that i've got more than halfway through any of them. stupid work. quite a lot of bands i haven't heard before too.
FYI
just added/removed/rearranged quite a bit. might want to re-queue or something. pretty happy with it now.
I think it automatically changes for us when you change anything!
Will put it on tomorrow, it will make a good soundtrack to my CV rewrite
Oh cool, so it does
I didn't even realise you could queue playlists like that.
yeah i'll be doing quite a lot of rearranging
i never put as much thought into spotify playlists as i do into mixtapes, i think this one'll be the exception
don't worry acoleuthic, Luau will stay number 1 ;)
I might do one of these tomorrow.
I had a look at P_V's the other day, 'twas the bomb.
Aww shucks
This is some fine work from all of you guys. Truly my kind of soldiers.I really need to get round to hearing all of these start to finish. I start on one and then I end up going "Need to hear more of this band" and I forget all about the playlists. I find myself sitting two hours later in a dark cold room watching Gay For Johnny Depp singing about Fucked Up. This was not how my life was supposed to be.
WELCOME TO
THE TWILIGHT ZONE
"What a letdown
I was convinced that I'd be living in hotels and breaking into houses by now.
I was under the impression that I'd be partying in Rio on yachts with my white suit on"
Surfing "the DIS" gives me this feeling a lot. Or spending hours trailing from band to band, album to album on spotify without any real objective. But then, you stumble across a perfectly chosen One Out Of None or Luau on a well crafted spotify playlist and everything feels a bit more worthwhile.
re: your playlist
This track by Shining is incredible, i think i'm having a 'moment'. RIFFAGE!!!
:D Now imagine this turned up to 'global apocalypse'
You have just imagined Blackjazz Deathtrance
i will find it somewhere! i will!
Extra Life sound like Dirty Projectors if Longstreth listened to more Sludge Metal :D
I prefer to think of it as a 'pop' version of Kayo Dot ;)
Gonna grab some eats then I will be ALL OVER FTB's playlist
i've just started on it
Sweat Loaf is always a good way to start a playlist.
holy FUCK
I think I might need some serious quality time with Butthole Surfers
fuck that
spend some quality time surfing buttholes instead.
(They are good though!)
WHAT THE HELL IS THIS XINLISUPREME MECHA-INDUSTRIAL EUPHORIA
AND WHY HAVEN'T I HEARD IT BEFORE
Nobody has any objections if I liveblog my response to these playlists, right? I don't want to overdo it :/
I mean can't we just assume that I am going to spend every minute of the next couple of hours
going 'OMG KYLESA FUCK OMG' or whichever band it happens to be?
That said, Kylesa really is kicking my ass. Was told about 'em a while back but never did owt - I oughta listen when peeps be recommendin'...
NEWS JUST IN
DRIVE LIKE JEHU 2 FOR 2
NO
I have no money, and it is on Spotify
^the mantra, repeat after me
btw everything from New Zealand in FTB's playlist
is kickass, marginally prefer the Bailter Space track (how fucking intense! that bass guitar!) but given how much adulation The Dead C get I'd be well advised to hunt their shit down, right? RIGHT?
Yes!
I would say Trapdoor Fucking Exit is a good starting point, although harsh 70s Reality is rad too.
That Bailterspace track is indeed ace, it's like their awesome take on nu-metal or something. It's not really THAT representative of the rest of their stuff, although their album Vortura is pretty heavy.
Cool! Will be on that (at some indistinct point). Favourites of the subsequent tracks I've heard
are Jesus Lizard (again, a band I needed to hear after many positive testimonies) and Flower Travellin' Band (whom I've never ever heard of).
Although that said My Disco just did something mad to my mind...
ah, good stuff
that Flower Travellin' Band track has one of my fav intros of ALL TIME.
and yeahhh, My Disco have an amazing mastery of repetition and minimalism, totally hypnotic. Such a well recorded record too, courtesy of Mr. Albini.
going to friend's to play/watch football
will report back on rest later...
i'd just like to step in here to second your
"OMG KYLESA FUCK OMG" sentiments
the drumming, THE DRUMMING! Guuuuhhhhhh
dear spotify, stop advertising MIA when i am trying to listen to Kylesa over and over again plz thanks
*inhales helium*
CLUBLAND 17 IS FINALLY HEEEEEERE
BEST THREAD EVAH
what about...
suicidal tendencies - lights, camera, revolution
the first three entombed albums - left hand path, clandestine, wolverine blues
ministry - psalm 13, filth pig (totally underrated)
nuclear assault - handle with care
morbid angel - blessed are the sick
now you got some classics there!:-)
To be honest Shoot straight...is a amazing Entombed album!
Damn deal done for godsake!
^This
And also vthat (LastAstronauts post).
I was just listening to the Nihilist demos on spotify
Man Nihilist were good. I like it better than actual Entombed maybe
nihilist on spotify? really??
dude, need to check that out!!!
Good call on Psalm 69!
"Thorazine, need the Thorazine, aaaagghhhh" duh duh duh duh!
haha... where did the psalm 13 come from?:-)
yeh, 69 of course! jesus, how I loved 'jesus built my hotrod'! or just one fix, or scare crow. or or or... pure classic!
dingadangdang, dingadangdingdong...
What marvellous lyrics. What a marvellous song. If I wasn't at work I'd listen to 'Jesus Built my Hotrod' right now. =)
Awesome thread
I can't add much except the following stoner albums need more love:
Sixty Watt Shamen - Seed of decades
Solace - 13
Fu Manchu - The Action is go!
Unida - Coping with the urban cayote
And this thread is tragically short on White Zombie. But then I am a sucker for b-movie samples and crunchy riffs.
Also here's a playlist I made earlier while I'm here:
http://open.spotify.com/user/colossalhorse/playlist/3Dkx4hGF9KGGF7nOgtgIfT
Keep up the good work guys.
I really like that Unida album
shame it never got the attention it deserves. Garcia's other projects have been a bit weak though.
Sadly that is true
The first Hermano album was pretty good, but I'd rather not think about what came after.
The Slo Burn e.p. was all kinds of awesome (as was the assorted live tracks that have been floating around file sharing sites for years) but sadly they stopped before they'd really started.
But yeah, Urban Coyote is his only post Kyuss 'classic'.
That Sixty Watt Shamen album is awesome, I'm surprised anyone remembers them!
Probably been mentioned...
But ISIS - Oceanic
it has, but good shout!
a quick ctrl+f finds it about half way down ;)
great work so far guys
I'm gonna listen to the playlists while I work this afternoon/evening. Just updated the compilation playlist btw.
Just in case you didn't have ENOUGH dance-metal in your lives
I've unceremoniously stuffed another fine example of this great art-form in the middle of my list
and now I've removed it again
because no matter where I put it, it ruined the flow
don't you just hate it when that happens? :(
FUCK IT
it's going in. I think I've just about gotten away with interrupting the Rose Kemp - Trail Of Dead segue *crosses fingers*
actually wait NO FUCK YOU CHROME HOOF, FUCK YOU
for making me WASTE AN HOUR OF MY LIFE and for TRYING TO RUIN MY BEAUTIFUL PLAYLIST
here's the link but this can only be heard in isolation http://open.spotify.com/track/1gXCSdKZPKuCnLCNL4sRDC
how fucking embarrassing
It probably calls for another thread and another playlist...
just for dance-metal/doom disco/ or whatever it's being misappropriately labelled.
Hopefully it'll avoid all of the poor quality ebm which sounds like it's euro trance from half a decade ago with some bald bloke singing 'deep stuffs' instead of some binty woman singing about 'teh loves' and 'getting hiya'.
YES LET'S DO THIS
although I can't think of THAT many appropriate songs beyond Chrome Hoof and Dodheimsgard...
do you know what
i'm going to add fate of norns - amon amarth. i've been listening to it a lot recently after a long while and it's really good
FTB's Playlist Part 2 has begun with three straight fucking bangers
namely Made Out Of Babies, Nomeansno and Hammerhead
dude I bow to you
*GENUINE EYES-WIDE-OPEN SHOCK*
at this Fucked Up track
like, jeez, why don't people fucken TELL me - I've heard of them before, paid 'em little mind mostly because of their name, wasn't disabused
hahahahahahaha @ XBXRX
so ludicrous, so truly excellent - music to throw watermelons out of skyscrapers to
Cows!
Would go bloody wild at one of their gigs
OK that's all for your CRUMMY playlist, who's next... ;)
My my, hey hey this god like thread is here to stay....
Well I'm a way to shitty T In The Park tomorrow(worst line up ever)
However I'd like to take this opportunity to state how awesome this thread is. Probably my proudest internet achievement ever aside from adding Patrick Stickles as a friend on Facebook and turning all my friends onto the amazing videos of him at Christmas playing such classics as 'Ignition' and 'War On Christmas' with his family. Anyway, you guys are the best! *happyface* I'll check in on this shit on Tuesday and see how it all ended. Or maybe it will just rage on forever...if it survives all the way 'till Tuesday it will truly earn the title "The Neil Young of DIS threads" in my mind anyway.
P.S wish me luck trying not to punch someone in the face during Eminem.
Well, Surfs Up sent my Endless, Nameless by The Wildhearts
and guess what?
IT'S ABSOLUTELY TRULY UNBELIEVABLY INCREDIBLE
like, SEVERAL degrees better than I thought it might possibly be - it's MONUMENTAL.
if you have any sort of interest in noise-rock at all, please get hold - it is a masterpiece
curlewpandie?
Also Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer/Prowler in the Yard
everybody
should get their hands on
eagle twin - the unkindness of crows
seriously... get it right now!!
Lots of great suggestions in this thread
Here's some more!
Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin
Textures - Drawing Circles
The Arusha Accord - The Echo Verses
Oceano - Depths
I hear Arusha Accord are calling it a day.
Bit of a shame I would like to have caught them live.
why has no-one...
mentioned some truly classic celtic frost albums yet? like to mega therion or into the pandemonium?
or obituary - slowly we rot and cause of death
again some true classics!
MOTHERTRUCKIN PLAYLIST!
http://open.spotify.com/user/shuckscore/playlist/2YfgyFEOkTqzHVBFeqWgEO
apologies for delay, etc.
looooooooooool @ Rammstein 'Pussy' being in there
those crazy Germans - best/worst video of the 00's obv
Rammstein = greatest band ever.
\m/
Hell Skull Wagon - crushing mid 90's doom
http://tinyurl.com/29x7qck
stuff I got last week
couple of classic/influential albums, a lot of lovely new stuff
Darkthrone-Circle The Wagons
Gallhammer-Ill Innocence
Pentagram-Relentless
Coliseum-House With A Curse
Jucifer-L'Autrichienne
Amebix-Arise
Coffinworm-When All Became None
Crowbar-Odd Fellows Rest
Acid Bath-Demos '93-'96
L'Autrichienne is awesome!
also
for anyone who's mentioned Entombed, Autopsy and Dismember, I can't believe there's been no mention of the Black Breath album. probably my favourite release of the year so far.
It's really, really class.
It's in my top 5 of 2010 (so far)
Totally agree, but it isn't a masterpeice
it's just fucking amazing :)
It would be my album of the year if it wasn't for High Violet.
Give Up The Ghost's "We're Down Till We're Underground"
Pretty much flipped the whole early 2000's hardcore scene on it's head, much like Fucked Up have done recently.
Wes Eisold (Cold Cave) stamped his place of one of the best lyricists/vocalists in hardcore/heavy music for years. The hardcore scene up until then was fairly unified but this totally polarised fans of the band and the genres as a whole. I think I heard it being referred to as 'Metaphorcore'...which nearly made me sick.
Oh god yes, Give Up The Ghost <3
they were incredible. Brilliant lyrics from Wes. Love the stuff he did in Some Girls/XO Skeletons.
Will have to check this out..
I went to the Converge gig in Glasgow last night
Bought the Kvelertak album and a T-shirt.
Every band was awesome, totally awesome. Annoyingly though, the vocals were really low for every band other than Converge but I guess this is to be expected at heavier gigs.
Also, is the frontman from Gaza like 9ft tall or did someone spike my drink?
attended this too
that guy is stupidly lanky. and his band were shite.
I felt that Kvelertak got a shitty reception, probably just because they started at 6.30 or something ridiculous like that. I thought they were excellent, regardless of the inaudible vocals.
I'd always thought Converge were over-rated and never really got what all the fuss was about until last night, they fucking blew me away. I'm guessing from their setlist last night I should start with either Jane Doe, You Fail Me or Axe To Fall?
Hmm...
I thought Gaza were pretty good. Yeah the time situation was a real bummer, totally unfair to put them on as soon as the doors opened. They were really great all the same.
Yeah, I'm not really the man to go to about Converge, I like them a lot but I'm not a superfan or anything. Jane Doe and Axe To Fall are the stand outs in most peoples minds I think. Particularly Jane Doe but Axe To Fall is the latest obviously and it's really strong.
I was going to go to this in Plymouth.
But it clashed with the World Cup final, and I decided Converge would be back before the World Cup. Still disappointed I missed it though, I've seen Kylesa once before and they were brilliant.
SO MUCH AWESOME IN THIS THREAD
is at the point that i'd go broke tracking down half the shit thats been reccomended here that i want.
Yeah,
this thread is the king of "go-to lists" when you feel like buying a new heavy album and want ideas but it's a fucking disaster for your bank balance.
Agreed, it's nice it isn't just DiS Metal i.e Isis, WITTR, OM
COMRADES, WE ARE UNDER ATTACK
hahaha their loss, the cunts will never know how awesome metal is
lololol
apart from Rolo Tomassi, who you did mention, who are right good.
seeing as it's been bumped and i don't wanna start a new thread
recommend me some metal in a major key
Torche!
The Wildhearts!
Torche:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9dB1MyC2zc
The Wildhearts (noisy):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK_trE9qdfY
The Wildhearts (rollicking):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s28tQUwE_qQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scvmD41UJWg
idk wildhearts are pretty lame, like someone's turned the gain up on standing on the shoulders of giants
torche though \m/... i spoilt my appetite for them a little bit last summer and they've not had an airing this year, i'll put meanderthal in the car.
hahahaha ignore the first wildhearts link then!
Endless, Nameless is a spectacularly awesome record but if you don't dig mega-distorted glam stomping then it probably isn't your thing!
Would still recommend the um more 'tuneful' Wildhearts songs.
Will try to think of some more examples now...
Oh check this thread out!
Still refusing to die I see.
Heavy music has come back to wake DIS up after all this chatter of Mercury awards and festivals recently. Thank fuck.
It's 'coz there's that fuck-awful 'worst genre' thread
and every other cunt is saying 'metal'
this is a good one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb5t4w0K1Ds
melodeath is fun
i think this is in a major key too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gYdYMRIA8s
awesome
This thread always seems to renew my faith in everything,
so bump.
I've been listening to Gravitar's Now the Road of Knives recently
Brilliant spacey noise rock with the emphasis on noise. Really great stuff.
Whoa Gravitar are awesome
The album on Spotify is like slugdy slow Melvins + The Dead C IN SPACE!!!11
http://open.spotify.com/album/69fp71SOLgw2Iqhejd1g3H
I reckon I should put this here
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4274676#r5769909
Just in case anyone has this bookmarked and is coming back to it and just sort of wishes they had a few more suggestions.
These are essential in my opinion
The Bronx - The Bronx
Against Me! - The Eternal Cowboy
Biffy Clyro - Blackened Sky
YESSS
and any of the Biffy's first three albums will do!
SPEAKING OF JANE DOE
this dude is my hero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=429SwFgbalw
Well...
hero, or a bit of a fanny.
Cherubs - Heroin Man
Beats Unsane if you like that 'hateful noise rock with dead people on the album cover' style. Some people do.
I know I do.
bumpin' for '11
ctrl+f Fugazi = no hits
wut
not HEAVY enough.
I really like In On the Kill Taker
as the guitars on it are a bit more amped than the other records. Rend it!
yeah, IOTKT is pretty terrifying
Has anybody listened to The Men's 'Leave Home' yet?
Really looking forward to hearing it. I mean, just listen to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VKsjmFD-bk
Brutal.
yup, good stuff.
also, Drunkdriver are even more visceral.
link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qExhuRNrnFQ
enjoying the fuck out of this
I am listening to some Trap Them
Siezures in Barren Praise is essential. Grind, Sludge, D-beat, horrendously quick and pulverising non-stop destruction with brilliant lyrics and a possessed vocalist spitting out every word like his life depends on it over one of the most brutal guitar tones ever.
You need this too. Sorry.
This thread's made me go back and listen to my playlist again
thanks, thread.
Have some Slabdragger:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibpCxtzVaEQ
This is the best new doom I have found recently...
Pallbearer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTevoL-owBY
Like the now defunct UK doom band Warning with Ozzy on vocals, Wicked shit.
The last Darkthrone album is a ridiculously fun listen as well, just one massive riff after another.
I've been throwing this around alot
but it is like my favorite record: Hidden World http://www.last.fm/music/Fucked+Up/Hidden+World
Finding myself back on this thread again..
So much to work through but anybody got any fresh fish worth adding? Either from 2011 or discovered in 2011.
"bumpin' for '11"
Aw man i remember this thread
I'd basically never listened to heavier stuff apart from the cheese, and I decided that if such a bunch of pretentious, hipster and damn good music taste people as DIS thought Jane Doe was amazing, then damn well I'd try and see where they were coming from. Took me about 10 listen, of which during the first 5 my ears were just telling my brain that they were receiving horrendous noise.
Downloading Dopethrone now (after my mastodon leviathan download failed) as Funeralopolis blew my mind.
Ah ha something to get my teeth into...
There has been some excellent recommendation so far, if i duplicate any it will reaffirm their status!
Mayhem - Wolfs Lair Abyss, Deathcrush & De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Sunn O))) - Everything they do
Napalm Death - From Enslavement to Obliteration, Scum, Leaders not Followers 1&2 Time Waits For no slave
Earth - Extra Capsular Extraction & Earth 2
Sasquatch - II
Todd - Big Ripper (album of the decade!!!!)
Zeni Geva - Maximum Money Monster
Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments/ everything they've ever put out because they are the greatest band going!!!
Narcosis - Romance (the reinvention of grindcore in the fact that old school grindcore fan go...'whoa what the hell was that!')
Nasum - Inhale Exhale
Ramesses - Take the Curse
Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics
Sleep - Jerusalem and Holy Mountain
Corrupted - Se Hace Por Los Suenos Asesino
Dazzling Killmen - Face of Collapse
Caspar Brotzman Massaker - Der Abend Der Schwarzen Folklore
Death - Human
Deicide - Stench of Redemption
Cobalt - Gin (Mr Cronin may disagree)
Carcass - Heartwork
Harry Pussy - What Is Music
Ihsahn - After
Khanate - Things Viral
Ministry - Psalm 69
Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
Obituary - Slowly We Rot
Venomous Concept - Retroactive Abortion
Bear vs. Shark - Right Now You're in The Best of Hands
Just a few I think a few of you will like
Most will already know Rapeman but Two Nuns and a Pack Mule has one of the greatest opening tracks ever, Steak & Black Onions. Driving whilst listening to it on full blast is a sure way to get yourself into trouble. Kim Gordon's Panties and Budd are amazing too. Great album.
A year ago or so I stumbled upon Mountain Man. They've got a brilliant album called Grief. A concept album I suppose about the five stages of grief.
Mountain Man were formed after the break-up of Last Lights which have another cracker called No Past No Present No Future. Check it. Lots of you will love this I'm sure.
Apologies if these have already been mentioned but cmd+f didn't throw anything up.
This..
is such a good post
Thanks, man
Such a tragedy about Last Lights. I can't imagine how much great stuff they could have produced by now. It's so sad.
This year I've been really impressed by Wreck and Reference
who play a sort of guitar eschewing atmospheric sludge with an avant rock twist.
EP is streaming (and also free for download) from here:
http://wreckandreference.bandcamp.com/
This!
Was very good, glad you mentioned it.
Tool - Lateralus
Tool - Aenima
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste
Ministry - Animositisomina
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days
Kyuss - Welcome To Sky Valley
Monster Magnet - Dopes To Infinity
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Clutch - Clutch
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Filter - Title Of Record
Lard - Pure Chewing Satisfaction
Live - The Distance To Here
God Machine - Scenes From The Second Storey
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Screaming Trees - Dust
Warrior Soul - Drugs, God & The New Republic
Warrior Soul - Salutations From The Ghetto Nation
Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
AC/DC - Back In Black
cheers on the Monster Magnet nod..
was waiting to see someone mention them.
i would probably nominate Spine of God
Band from Leeds called Wiht..
Have made one of the best doom releases of the year for me with their new EP "Harrowing Of The North".
http://wihtleeds.bandcamp.com/
Men of Unitus - Gland of hope and Glory
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpgEGJvz14M
Criminally under rated band who seem to have disappeared
Also
Can't be arsed to see if they've been mentioned above but you really need to get hold of High on Fire's albums The Art of self defence and Blessed black Wings. 'Crushing' as they say.
Kiss - Creatures of the Night
Black Sheep Wall - I am God Songs
Celeste - Morte(s) Nee(s)
Masterpiece
Relationship of Command by At The Drive-In.
Bathory- Blood, Fire, Death
Black Sabbath Vol 4
Assfactor 4 - Sports (fast!)
Breach - Kollapse (amazing)
cavity - Laid Insignificant (dirty swampy sludge)
Dead Language - S/T - (new powerviolence record on Iron Lung recs - mint)
Dusted Angel - Earth SIck Mind (bluesy stoner rock...pretty heavy sounding)
Omega Massif - karpatia - (instrumental heavy goodness)
Pine Barrens - )crusty black metal hardcore - best new thing I've heard in 2011 I reckon - essential)
The Ergon Carosel - super fast super heavy super great.
Shikari - 1999 - 2003, or The Robot Wars ep - (if you've never listened to them just go now and do it. Totally savage metallic screamo/hardcore. Unreal how intense it it - pulverising. The Robot Wars ep is amazing. The discog has all you need.)
Weakling - S/T (big influence on the modern day US black metal sound, really really great album.)
Will Haven - Carpe Diem (hard to pick an album but I've come round to this over the last few years as maybe being the best.)
The new Ampere record is really, really good also.
I got that Omega Massif album yesterday
only one listen in so far, but it's pretty great. Very heavy, and quite distinct from the less interesting Pelican inspired instrumental metal stuff.
I also saw Ufommamut live last night, and they were incredible. Their album from last year, Eve, is well worth mentioning here; a huge psychedelic doom masterpeice, one album length piece that has a dynamicism rarely really foind in doom, and which makes it even heavier.
Ah yeah, Karpatia is fantastic. Crazy heavy.
First album, Geisterstadt, possibly just edges it though.
I haven't got the first album - I need to rectify that,
I've got a nice 12" pic disck with two tracks that are ace also. It is indeed really heavy, pretty crushing.
Been meaning to check out Ufommamut for ages, they sound ace. I'll get on it!
haven't heard any of these mentioned they probably fall in to the don caballero /shellac/ richter collective camp more than any other but worthy of mention
Turing Machine - Zwei
A voice like rhetoirc - ethos
faraquet - the view from this tower
bygones - by-
oxes - oxes
cienmachinica - martial arts
smart went crazy - con art
pinback - summer in abbaddon
rumah sakit - obscured by clowns
sweep the leg johnny - tommorow we will run faster
other men - wake up swimming
piglet - lava land
90 day men - it (is) it critical band
bats - red in tooth and claw
victor fix the sun - retractable claws
antelope - reflector
six gallery - breakthroughs in modern art
as great as they are I don't think Pinback fit into "Heavier Music Genres" - goblin cock maybe though!
That Fraquet album is amazing, and Smart Went Crazy, and definately Sweep the Leg Johnny - possibly the best live band I've ever seen.
i completely agree about pinback, thought that as i wrote it, probably antelope as well
but they are just so damn good, amazingly synced in and there is a certain level of meatyness to each chord and beat that even though the aesthetic is more peaceful it was impossible for me to disregard it.
sadly never did see Sweep the leg..., but yup all good stuff
Lately I've been rinsing
an album called Regressions by Cleric, it's awesome technical stuff tem,pered with atmospheric floaty bits, it's all very cerebral and arty but very BROOTAL at the same time, with lots of harsh/weird electronics popping up. It's prettty long but it holds my interest for sure. They have but one album released on Tre Spruance's Web of Mimicry label so you know it's pretty odd. One for DEP fans I reckon.
While I'm at it I'll push Ehnahre too, who I think I mentioned way upthread somewhere. They have a couple of discs out now, I think they occupy the same weird/atmospheric Death-sludge bracket as Portal/Mitochondrian/Gigan. They are made up of some of the members Kayo Dot haemmoraged after the Dowsing Anemone album, if that helps.
aaaand finally there's ASVA who released an album a couple of months back; arty drone-metal stuff. S'really good. Cheggidout.
Ehnahre are really good
sadly, very overlooked
Thanks to whoever suggested 'Trap Them' ^
listening to Darker Handcraft a lot today. Amazing stuff. Like a darker Kvelertak. Kind of.
They are more Entombed based than Kvelertak.
Make sure you check out Black Breath as well.
if you dig Trap Them...
check out these, can't be arsed reading to see if they've already been mentioned.
Nasum - Inhale/Exhale
Victims - Killer
From Ashes Rise - Concrete and Steel
Tragedy - Vengeance
Rotten Sound - Exit
Skitsystem - Gra Varld/Svart Tankar
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream
Cursed - II
for your assorted crusty, buzzsaw-tone, grindy bullshit needs
Thanks kindly
lots to get my teeth into there....
1fuckingpence
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Call-Me-Armageddon-Power-Glory/dp/B00022LJI8/ref=sr_1_5?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1317763612&sr=1-5
really
If you like a bit of cheese with your doom
get Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus.
Bit of a cult classic and features some great riffs.
http://youtu.be/woe_4gkS4XU
And the album art is a skull on a stick-cross. I like that.
My 2 pennys worth
Earthtone9 - For cause and consequence (Not as heavy as stuff they did before they split, but still awesome)
Jimmy Chamberlin Complex - Life Begins Again (Jazz/rock, the drumming is awesome)
Ashes Divide - Keep telling myself its alright (If you like A Perfect Circle, you'll love Ashes)
Living Colour - Vivid (Not sure if this is right here, but it's a damn fine piece of funk/punk/rock)
Finger Eleven - Them vs you vs me
Symposium - One day at a time (Just a complete mixture of rock with straight up punk)
Little Hell - Demonic Advisory Centre
Puddle of Mudd - Famous (You can insult me really badly for this, but it's a guilty pleasure)
The Answer - Rise
Auf Der Maur - Auf Der Maur (yes, the bassist from Hole)
Queen Adreena - Taxidermy
In this moment - The Dream
Sevendust - Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow (soulful singing in a heavy way)
Skindred - Roots Rock Riot (Absolutely brilliant rock/punk/reggae music, with great vocals)
I'm sure I've missed some, so will add more later when I remember them.
Hit and miss list
For every Symposium there's a Skindred.
DOWNSET
Downset - Downset
OK so not as heavy as Carcass, SLayer, etc but this album is a lost classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6IQxhkVIEw
Also nowhere near as heavy but couple more lost masterpieces
Quicksand - Slip
Paw - Dragline
Downset!! I loved Do We Speak A Dead Language? Cracking album.
I have to say I can't agree with most people's Helmet album choice, I thought that Betty was their masterpiece.
De-loused in the Comatorium - The Mars Volta
Heavy enough? It's definitely a masterpiece and still their best, but Frances The Mute and Bedlam In Goliath go way close.
Another playlist if anyone wants one. Not had one in this little round of posts.
Only an hour long. Lots of stuff people will like. Particularly the first few...
http://open.spotify.com/user/stormcrow/playlist/0yG7DeP1VjNVLyqLwCOlQL
Thumpermonkey Lives! - Whateley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCT7kioyXSU
It's quite hard to ascribe any kind of genre to this gorgeous fuckery, but it's probably best located vaguely near the intersection between THC-soused American stoner-doom and hyper-melodic English prog. If such an intersection exists, has existed, or should exist.
I fucking live this song.
*bump*
I just listened to 'The Destroyers of All' by Ulcerate from last year.
breathtaking technically, with thrilling rhythmic twists and turns and a complex & savagely beautiful melodic sensibility. also bastard heavy. brutal with three 'o's.
it made me feel like I was seventeen again, and made me wonder what I've been missing, metal-wise, in recent years.
help a brother out.
<3 ulcerate \m/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT8dagdvGYw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1FA-m0C_iI
i'm don't really like portal myself but that manic rhythm stuff is def in there. mitochondrion are the absolute tits.
this is the stuff :D
Mitochondrion sound ace, Portal even more so. I'll have to investigate further. cheers!
Blue Oyster Cult
1st 4 albums. I was in the supermarket the other day & the muzak was playing "Cities On Flame With Rock & Roll"! It sounded great! Honestly, at one time they were pretty boss, until punk pushed them down in the playground.
This thread keeps on giving:
reminded me to check out Baroness.
Lovely lovely stuff.
Someone mentioned Lapsus Linguae earlier in this thread
...which was nice for me because I was a member of this band. Our second album is coming out posthumously later this year, and it should be a lot better than "You got me Fraiche" which is the one that acoleuthic mentioned back in 2010. Some previews of the preceding ep here http://lapsus-linguae.bandcamp.com/ and you can get to all our other pish from there or reply to me, ta.
Really surprised there's no White Pony here.