Hog Posted September 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 You misinterpret me, my comment wasn't a direct accusation towards anyone, I was merely commenting upon the general tone of the thread. It's absurd to complain about how a musical genre is or has become shit; rule of thumb dictates that within any genre there is going to be a large percentage of garbage, whether that is subjectively or universally. Best thing to do is block out the shit and listen to the goodI see what you mean.It is more that the media are trying to portray bands like Bullet for my Valentine, Trivium etc as some kind of metal saviours.There is nothing exciting like Demanufacture by Fear Factory, Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia by Dimmu, City by Strapping Young Lad, Vulgar by Pantera etc etc You know? Like a classic (perhaps not the best word) for 2007.Please don't tell me that the recent MH album is it:down: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skull Commander Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Devildrivers newest album has been cruelly overlooked this year. Those of you looking for a great metal album should give it a spin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fast Caz Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Lobotmized in the moorings end of this month. Probably the best metal gig in Aberdeen in 2007 I reckon.Without a shadow of a doubt ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norseman Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Totally agree about the Devildriver album, quality piece of work. Also very taken with the new Turisas album. Looking forward to the new Nightwish and Overkill albums next month and Exodus shortly after that.Got to say as well that I am very impressed by the last albums from Motorhead, Saxon and Maiden, shows they still have a trick or two up their sleeve while still retaining their "sound". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HairyScaryMark Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Also very taken with the new Turisas album.They are playing at Glasgow Cathouse a week today. Assuming there are still tickets available, I will be there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 I caught some of the Kerrang Awards while browsing through Freeview channels. I saw the guy from Busted giving a lifetime achievement award to Deftones, "the best f**king band in the f**king world" and I laughed and laughed. I also laughed at Scott Ian's beard and at men in their 30s acting like teenagers. Metal is funny to me. I do like a good riff though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sloth Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 I agree that Mainstream 'metal' is shit. bands like Lamb of God, Trivium, Atreyu, Bullet for my valentine....etc. etc.I also agree with the Machine Head comment. IMO all their albums loosley followed certain trends. There are so many other good heavy bands that don't change to fit in with trends! This month alone there are albums being released by High on Fire, Today is the Day and Down (among others im sure). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mora-Treat-Guru Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 There is nothing exciting like Demanufacture by Fear Factory, Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia by Dimmu, City by Strapping Young Lad, Vulgar by Pantera etc etc You know? Like a classic (perhaps not the best word) for 2007.If every year had a classic album the term 'classic' would become null and void. To be honest I found Deathspell Omega's 'Fas -- Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum' to be positivly the best metal album I've heard in a very long time, possibly the best metal album in that style since Emperor's 'In the Nightside Eclipse'. I also have high hopes for the new TITD album. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul G Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 I second the Deathspell Omega recommendation. Possibly better than Kenose. You should download "Mass Grave Aesthetics" if you can, off a comp on Northern Heritage - my personal favourite and fucking ace.There's always been an interesting lunatic fringe (not referring to DSO here) somewhere in heavy metal. It's a durable, flexible old beast. If you look hard enough you will find.But aye, Machinehead are/were gash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepeep Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 no joke, I'd rather go see Enter Shikari than something like Bring Me the Horizon. I don't actually mind "Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour". There's far worse out there.I get the feeling that is like choosing between drowning in shit, or drowning in vomit....not really a choice...is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan G Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 I can understand why it's easy to dislike enter shikari's music, but there are a lot of comments on here that are utter bullshit in regards to them.They got where they are through 2 or 3 years of getting in a van and constantly playing shows anywhere and everywhere with a work ethic that I have never seen from another band. And at least they sound entirely different to all these indentikit shit metal bands that everyone is complaining about...Granted, the above doesn't automatically make them a good band - but is at least a more worthy accolade than playing gigs in kef and the moorings once every few months and then pissing and moaning on a message board about other bands making it big by daring to do something different and working their balls off.(that was directed at no-one person in particular) I might add, I don't enjoy them on record, but the live show is pretty spectacular. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fast Caz Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 I guess alot of people are just pissed because they have exposed themselves to bands who have clearly worked 110% and have given it their all and seemingly got nowhere, where as from an outsiders view you see enter shikari posters / flyers / videos plastered everywhere without seeing the hard work from the band but from a record label or street teams / groupies / whatever.p.s Metal has become pretty diabolical,regardless of commercialism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hog Posted September 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 I can understand why it's easy to dislike enter shikari's music, but there are a lot of comments on here that are utter bullshit in regards to them.They got where they are through 2 or 3 years of getting in a van and constantly playing shows anywhere and everywhere with a work ethic that I have never seen from another band. And at least they sound entirely different to all these indentikit shit metal bands that everyone is complaining about...Granted, the above doesn't automatically make them a good band - but is at least a more worthy accolade than playing gigs in kef and the moorings once every few months and then pissing and moaning on a message board about other bands making it big by daring to do something different and working their balls off.(that was directed at no-one person in particular) I might add, I don't enjoy them on record, but the live show is pretty spectacular.Indeed, good on them for working hard and getting somewhere. It is not easy. Just think they have horrible songs etc etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartmaxwell Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 we were in a club in newcastle last week after a gig and the dancefloor was chocka with the whole place going mad to enter shikarinot my thing but i do like the fact that they self release and tell majors to fuck themselves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fast Caz Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Fed up of metal ?Listen to Destroyer Destroyer ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan G Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 "Riders Of The Plague" the new Absence album is pretty good as far as metal is concerned. Also, the new As I Lay Dying album is a cracker, and I know how uncool it is to say you like a 'metalcore' band such as them.But if all else fails, and if you're bored with all current metal... go back and dig out those classic Testament, Forbidden and Death albums. And if you don't own any of them then, then you should be ashamed of yourselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hog Posted September 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 "First an arm and then a leg"...............Go on Dan, I bet you know the album:up: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HateEvent Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Black Label Society has been spinning for me of late - love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonesaw Bazz Posted September 11, 2007 Report Share Posted September 11, 2007 There are far too many OKAY bands and nae enough ACE ones. New release-wise i have yet to be grabbed by anything this year. That includes High on Fire & Down (yes i've heard the new one) whom i am a HUGE fan of. Even the "Back from the Dead" bands such as Obituary, Gorefest are yet to truly excite me by what they have to offer in there new material. It's all paint by numbers, by my tastes anyway.... but i'm clearly too "Elite" for this thread! hahaMetalcore has not & shall not EVER do anything but bore me. But, Classic albums aren't made every year as you say. Be cool to have more than just an okay one now and again though!!Rediscovering old gems or just plain discovering old gems is where it's at really... Unless you fancy following the New Wave of Thrash of course. SSS, Evile and the well established Municiple Waste are worth checking out. Personally i have been adventuring through Grindcore but have yet to find anything that gives me goose bumps likes Inhale/Exhale does. I'll be sure to let ye know if i find it!!!Bazz Ooka Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teabags Posted September 11, 2007 Report Share Posted September 11, 2007 new Pig Destroyer. more metal in a lot of ways than previous albums and will rip your fucking face off.oh and don't forget the new Darkthrone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepeep Posted September 11, 2007 Report Share Posted September 11, 2007 I was just thinking about the "death of metal" (well, the period when it was very popular to NADA)...when the glory days of earache passed and all the excitement and freshness of death metal just evaporated and turned into a pastiche of itself....I remember getting the Korn promo and thinking "WOW....this is amazing" - to see that 5 years (if that) after hearing it..."metal" again ate itself and turned into a dry husk of a copy of a copy.As someone already said (like any "good" music), you just need to know where to look...it's the faddy stuff that is not "the essence" but some piss poor marketing ploy to "get the dollars in", to which most true "metal" fans can sniff a mile away.the heady days of "original grind, death, splatter etc" will never be repeated - but that does not mean to say that some new exciting "genre" will emerge and drive a scene.I look forward to exploring "new" not "recycled" ideas in music. so my advice is, don't just look in one corner of "music world"...blah.peep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Jack Posted September 11, 2007 Report Share Posted September 11, 2007 I was just thinking about the "death of metal" (well, the period when it was very popular to NADA)...when the glory days of earache passed and all the excitement and freshness of death metal just evaporated and turned into a pastiche of itself....I remember getting the Korn promo and thinking "WOW....this is amazing" - to see that 5 years (if that) after hearing it..."metal" again ate itself and turned into a dry husk of a copy of a copy.As someone already said (like any "good" music), you just need to know where to look...it's the faddy stuff that is not "the essence" but some piss poor marketing ploy to "get the dollars in", to which most true "metal" fans can sniff a mile away.the heady days of "original grind, death, splatter etc" will never be repeated - but that does not mean to say that some new exciting "genre" will emerge and drive a scene.I look forward to exploring "new" not "recycled" ideas in music. so my advice is, don't just look in one corner of "music world"...blah.peepSomehow, I can't read that many quotation marks without hearing it said like this - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaced Posted September 11, 2007 Report Share Posted September 11, 2007 Black Label Society has been spinning for me of late - love it! have to say i agree with you, not to impressed with the shot to hell album theres to many mr wyldes on the mix sounds like theres an army of him for every song all doing diffrent pitches with his voice, but saying that they were fuckin ace when i caught them in glasgow:up:oh and the guy with the dr evil pic, classic haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
framheim Posted September 11, 2007 Report Share Posted September 11, 2007 new Pig Destroyer. more metal in a lot of ways than previous albums and will rip your fucking face off.oh and don't forget the new Darkthrone pfft, darkthrone are just a vomitus tribute act... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan G Posted September 11, 2007 Report Share Posted September 11, 2007 Somehow, I can't read that many quotation marks without hearing it said like this -haha superb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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