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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on May 14, 2016 21:13:37 GMT
I strongly suspect the metalverse on Steve is collapsing inwards on itself.
Also, this album is awesome. Great melodic death metal.
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Post by Siana Blackwood on May 19, 2016 8:58:18 GMT
If by that comment you mean to say we've had Nox Aurea before, the proboards search has let me down. The album gave me a weird sense of deja vu, but searching failed to turn up any hints.
How about so dooming doominess with an added side of doom? Plus you can stream the whole thing on Bandcamp here: 'Belfry' by Messa. So far Messa is what I was hoping Oceans of Slumber would be - the warm, bluesy female vocal backed by the previously mentioned slab of dooming doominess. On Bandcamp, it's described as dark ambient drone fused with vintage heavy occult doom. Feels like the kind of thing you'd dig out of the metal equivalent of a 'golden oldies' bin.
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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on May 19, 2016 21:28:14 GMT
If by that comment you mean to say we've had Nox Aurea before, the proboards search has let me down. The album gave me a weird sense of deja vu, but searching failed to turn up any hints. This is probably why. I really need to link in both places, don't I? If you haven't already, check out The Shortest Way by Evadne. It's like Draconian, except more growly, doomy, and gloomy. Mostly male vocals. I might already have mentioned it before. Realms of the Untold by Vinterblot - enjoyable melodic death metal. I like it.
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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on May 20, 2016 3:29:42 GMT
Spotify recommended this. I like it!
...One Day Less by Before the Rain
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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on May 25, 2016 4:55:40 GMT
Teethed Glory and Injury [Album] by Altar of Plagues
This is some sweet sounding progressive post black metal shiznit. Cool stuff.
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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on May 26, 2016 5:01:35 GMT
O Solitude [Album] by Pantheist
I came across Pantheist's later stuff first, and greatly enjoyed it, but it seemed just a bit too...atonal? I don't even know the word. Don't get me wrong, those albums are freaking sick (!!!) and awesome, but not quite what I was looking for.
O Solitude is their earlier album, and even if I can see traces of the later weirdness, I almost found it more enjoyable. There are bits that are, for lack of a better word, a bit progressive, but that's like saying apples are fruit with skin. Very nice melancholy gothic doom with growled vocals, and bits that somehow break the mold of doom while still inexplicably remaining doom. If that makes no sense, just listen.
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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on Jun 28, 2016 15:28:28 GMT
Spotify told me to listen to Bogefod by Sarke.
Blackened thrashened punkened doomened black metal with the pretty riffs. Darkthrone, Satyricon, thrash, and punk come to mind, though they're more influences than soundalikes. I like it!
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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on Jul 10, 2016 19:27:18 GMT
Deadlight by Before the Dawn Very enjoyable melodic death metal. Good riffs. Not earth shattering, but good clean sound. Mix of clean and dirty vocals. \m/\m/\m/\m/ 4/5 \m/ Holy crap, I love this.
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Jul 15, 2016 15:08:38 GMT
New Goatcraft album, Yersinia Pestis. (Bandcamp link) 'Necroclassical' black/death metal instrumental album consisting of piano and a few ambient sounds. I kind of love it, but at the same time I kind of wish I could combine this with a few other musicians and my favourite vocalist and create the ultimate necroclassical extreme metal band.
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Sept 30, 2016 5:21:10 GMT
New Epica and Opeth albums today (i.e. 30th September).
...not that I've listened to Opeth since Ghost Reveries, so I have no idea if that's worth a listen or not.
Either they've done something weird with their mixing or I should just give up on Spotify, because that's really setting my teeth on edge.
Okay, it might be Epica. This sounds okay. Bit... not-metal... but it's not causing me any particular dental discomfort. If you like doomy prog rock, go for it.
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Oct 22, 2016 1:26:46 GMT
Also Atoma and gratuitous slow-motion headbanging... I mean, The Pitiless. Also, now we know why it's been three years since their last album. They bought a Jeep.
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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on Oct 22, 2016 15:43:14 GMT
I finally got around to listening to the new Epica album.
I've noticed that you can tell what an Epica album is going to be Like based on the quality of the melodic opener. If I love it, the album is going to be great. If it's unimpressive, the album going to have some failings on the whole.
This was...I don't know how to feel. I loved universal death squad the first time I heard it.
I did enjoy divide and conquer in the beginning, though I'm still wearing my poppy metal hat...yup, there it is, it's getting sloppy in the middle.
I like the rawness of the earlier works. This thing is more bombast than metal, Everything metal has been spit shined and then turned into plastic. Also, I've noticed that they've incorporated the poppy sloppy badly blast-over-beast bombast of Haven era Kamelot. In addition, I notice that they're again using some of the musical...things...that made Requiem for the Indifferent so...indifferent. That said, this isn't that bad, but hearing it was not that metal, now upon listening to the whole thing, I can't UN hear it, which kind of ruins it for me. Maybe I might have liked it better had I heard it with no preconceived ideas.
Simone's voice is still beautiful and sounding stronger than last time.
SIMONE. NO. SIMONE. STAHP. STOP HARMONIZING WITH YOURSELF.
Growling was good. More of it. That's good.
I kind of feel Like Epica goes through alternating patterns. They put out one album in which they try New things but they never art it hard enough to polish the composition before release and it gets sloppy. The next one always is better because they actually take the time to get comfortable with the sound. This...was the not so great one. I feel like they wanted to try new influences but then never quite picked one, but then tried them all, but then toned them down. The result was...weirdness. Then again, it may have been my headphones and surroundings, but, I don't know. Who are you trying to be, Epica?
But there were parts I liked unlike RFTI. so I think I need to listen again sometime.
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Post by Danielle Wayland on Nov 3, 2016 14:59:00 GMT
Was listening to a playlist someone made for me for my nano story this year, and Sail by AWOLNATION was on it. Look, I know AWOL wrote the song and I'm not trying to knock them, but I feel that Devildriver's cover was superior by 100 billion points <_< so I wanted to share it, if you haven't heard it before ^^
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Nov 5, 2016 23:55:21 GMT
Not a bad song, but watching that video made me feel seasick . ---- Today's soundtrack: *dreamy, slow-motion headbanging*
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Nov 13, 2016 5:49:36 GMT
I think I've decided the appropriate subgenre for that Dark Tranquillity album is 'mellowdeath'. ----- For some reason, this album and Esoteric's Paragon of Dissonance are my NaNoWriMo soundtrack this year.
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