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I'd like to thank all of you for taking the time to read this. In response of all of your support I've uploaded our entire album to the following link where you can download it for FREE!

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/a6j29od7bt0ap/Before_the_Dawn

> Was wir für uns selbst tun, stirbt mit uns. Was wir für andere tun, verbleibt und ist unsterblich.

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others remains and is immortal

edit: weirdly enough, it appears that this is a german translation of a quote from Albert Pike. According to Wikiquote, the original is "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

Hey guys, I'm finishing up the final editing for my 3rd novel (a scifi horror in the vein of Event Horizon and The Thing) and have set down a lot of the setting, characters and themes for my 4th, which I'm aiming for a kind of a blend of King's IT, Lovecraft's Shadow Over Innsmouth, and Stranger Things.

However, I'm looking to set the story in 1993, at the tail end of the "Satanic Panic" and moral panic which kind of culminated with DOOM, Manson, Eminem, the Parental Advisory stickers and Columbine in the late 90s (yes, I'm totally buying into the resurgence of nostalgia lately with shows like Stranger Things, but I grew up in the 90s, I dont remember the 80s).

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had any reccommendations for good books (or, failing that, articles) on the topic, specifically in the time period of 85-95. It's not really essential for my story, I'm not using the time period as a crutch, but I figured it would be helpful to better understand the times, since I was too young to really understand it.

Edit: as requested, link to the book and the e-book on Amazon.

Pyre is kind of the ancient monster mythology of Anne Rice meets the surreal body horror of Hellraiser (dont worry, no vampires). No advocating of purchase, I'm proud of my work but commercial sellers overprice hard copy books and takes ages to deliver because its independent print on demand. Just for the curious.

http://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html

>The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

Simillarly look at how AntiFa/leftists are both fascists who oppress speech, shut down shows with violence, go to rallys to attack people and control all public institutions but are also pink haired trisexual keyboard warriors who'd get destroyed in a fight, in the eyes of the far right.

Sabaton is a good band and great live, but they're starting to heavily repeat themselves in slightly altered riffs and patterns. I think they peaked with The Art of War and have since been coasting off their success

Look at this fucking tracklist

The last song is a great one, and the whole CD is awesome as well, but goddamnit, what a waste of effort. I have deleted all those empty tracks from my copy. Oh, and that last song? There is only about 2 minutes of song there. the other 9 minutes are EVEN MORE SILENCE.

>They then proceeded to blow $75,000 of their record advance on guitars, custom amps and presumably cannabis, while recording their hour-long stoner rock magnum opus.

I love love love love how Guitarworld leans on dispelled rumor and hearsay instead of fact. This is from Precious Metal, when Decibel interviewed the band. Though its funnier to think of the band as stoner children, a working band with bills is less cartoony

> I think they peaked with The Art of War

I don't know, I personally really enjoyed Heroes. IMO, it has some of the best songs they've ever done ("Night Witches", "No Bullets Fly" and "Resist and Bite" being standouts for me), and while their lyrics are still kind of the same as they've always been, something about focusing on individuals rather than battles and armies made it a lot more interesting.

edit: changed "No Witches Fly" to "Night Witches", hehe

Define "Big 4" because it really means best selling and most popular. Do you mean essential or genre defining? All three of them would be very different lists.

Popular Black:

1. Burzum
2. Ulver
3. Dissection
4. Emperor

According to this

Essential Black: Based on the idea that these bands are essential to the understanding of the genre and its overall development.

1. Bathory
2. Sarcofago
3. Darkthone
4. Mayhem

Genre Defining: Based on the idea that these bands carved out the sound for each of its developments.

1. Hellhammer
2. Bathory
3. Blasphemy
4. Burzum

EDIt: Rethinking the difference between Essentail and genre defining. I feel that Essentials are pillars of the genre where genre defining are the influences of particular subgnres. Blasphemy is not essential but they are important as the genesis of what would become bestial/war. I think there can be some overlap between those two lists.

Edited to address this. You're confusing it for "melodic metalcore", which (according to some sources I agree with) is separate from "real" metalcore. The clean singing/autotune stuff like Killswitch, Shadows Fall, Unearth, God Forbid, etc are melodic metalcore. "Real" metalcore is Converge, Botch, Burst, etc. A difference most people wouldn't (and probably shouldn't) worry about, but if you're into one and not the other, it is sometimes necessary to specify.

We're running a survey to see what people want us to do about that.

I've had one idea. Commonly posted bands will be added to a list and assigned a day of the month. On that day people are allowed to post their songs, but for the rest of the month they get removed.

That way we have a list of "popular" bands people can check out, fans can still occasionally get their fix, but the rest of the subreddit gets 29 days without that band being posted.

What do you think?

These are game changers

Good luck finding Death Metal with clean vocals, as that doesn't make sense, but in regards to black metal, there isn't much, that I know of, but

• Alcest - Escailles de le Lune and Les Voyages de l'Ame. They are black metal like, mostly clean vocals with a little distorted
• Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I. Progressive black metal, with a mixture of clean and distorted
• Ihsahn - angL, After, Eremita. Very progressive black metal, again with a mix of clean and distorted

Now, if I may, if you want to listen a long to stuff may I suggest power and progressive metal?

• Dream Theater - Images and Words, Awake, Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory, Train of Thought, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, Octavarium, Systematic Chaos, Black Clouds & Silver Linings, A Dramatic Turn of Events
• Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy, Twilight in Olympus, V: The New Mythology Suite, The Odyssey, Paradise Lost, Iconoclast
• Queensryche - Rage For Order, Operation: Mindcrime, Empire
• Angra - Fireworks, Temple of Shadows, Rebirth
• Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side, Nightfall in Middle Earth, A Twist in the Myth, At the Edge of Time
• Demons & Wizards - s/t
• Firewind - Days of Defiance
• Rhapsody - Rain of a Thousand Flames
• Sabaton - Primo Victoria, The Art of War, Carolus Rex
• Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica, The Days of Grays, Silence
• Stratovarius - Visions, Polaris, Elysium, Infinite

> So I'm looking for any and all bands that have a female vocalist (not like Eluveitie or Kylesa where the female vocalist shares with a male vocalist). Primarily I'm interested in extreme metal.

Enjoy!

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/drowned_scars/the_ladies_of_black_metal/

also this user has lists for every style of female fronted metal / music. It is an A-Z list of every band without curating so enjoy the info dump.

> Super difficult to find a CD printing too

What are you talking about? You can buy them from fucking Walmart's website, hahaha.

Quite possibly one of the greatest thrash songs of all time.

It's an amazing song live too, if you can go back in time to the late 80s, check them out. If you can't time travel, definitely check it out on, Raw Evil, an excellent live CD they did, back when Russ still had the chops!

Chalice of Blood (Live) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZE3ZZQC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_ZRYqCb5KKN9Q8

Funny you posted this. The other night I came across the Beavis and Butt-Head video where they watch Grim Reaper. It cracked me up how every time the singer came on the screen, it scared the boys.

Stayed up all night working on my first Rateyourmusic list for my top 30 albums of 2017. It's mostly metal, but there's some Space Rock and Ritual Ambient in there that might appeal to metal fans too.

(https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Draehl/top-30-albums-of-2017-metal-space-rock-and-ritual_dark-ambient/)[https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Draehl/top-30-albums-of-2017-metal-space-rock-and-ritual_dark-ambient/]

>Picked it up at the show recently, it's the newest addition and I love the style.

Reminds me of those old Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark books I used to read in grade school.

Soilwork - Asylum Dance (A Predator's Portrait)

Scar Symmetry - Deviate from the Form (Pitch Black Progress)

Scar Symmetry - Pariah (Dark Matter Dimensions)

Scar Symmetry - Carved in Stone (Pitch Black Progress)

Opeth - Still Day Beneath the Sun (Blackwater Park)

Opeth - Remember Tomorrow (My Arms, Your Hearse)

Sabaton - Swedish Pagans (The Art of War)

EDIT: Whichever couple of people are downvoting everyone: stop it. It's rude.

Top 15 List With Short Explanations

1. TrenchRot- Necronomic Warfare

2. Domains- Sinister Ceremonies

3. Diocletian- Gesundrian

4. Death Fortress- Among the Ranks of the Unconquerable

5. Cruda Sorte- Innozenz

6. Dead Congregation- Promulgation of the Fall

7. Howls of Ebb- Vigils of the 3rd Eye

8. Blood Farmers- Headless Eyes

9. Aenaon- Extance

10. Ripper- Raising The Corpse

Best EPs: Bolzer, Necros Christos, Vermin Womb

Albums that probably would have been on this list if I'd hit them more: Swallowed's newest, maybe Horrendous, Doctor Smoke, Sementales Salvajes, Blood of Kingu, Triumphant's new one, John Gallow, StarGazer, Plebaieanagg Grandstand

Hardest exclusions: Cormorant- Earth Diver, Ageless Oblivion- Penthos, Slough Feg- Digital Resistance, October 31- Bury The Hatchet, Exmortus- Slave To The Sword, Lvcifyre, Artificial Brain

Will have albums editted in the bottom two categories as I remember albums I only hit a couple of times but really liked.

Easiest picks for instant metal cred: Teitanblood, Lvcifyre

Biggest disappointments: Triptykon, Anaal Nathrakh

Nonmetal AOTY:

1. Cynic- Kindly Bent To Free Us

2. Run The Jewels: RtJ2 (fuck you, haters, I liked it)

You want direct influence, Mercyful Fate and Slayer are all over Tormentor's demos.

As for Kat, look at the bands on this tribute album from 20 years ago and you'll have some idea of how important they were for black and death metal in Poland.

1. Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory - Dream Theater

2. The Odyssey - Symphony X

3. Ride the Lightning - Metallica

4. Master of Puppets - Metallica

5. Rust in Peace - Megadeth

6. The Blackening - Machine Head

7. Versus the World - Amon Amarth

8. Visions - Stratovarius

9. Nightfall in Middle Earth - Blind Guardian

10. Scream Bloody Gore - Death

11. Those Once Loyal - Bolt Thrower

12. Severed Survival - Autopsy

13. Melissa - Mercyful Fate

14. Ace of Spades - Motorhead

15. De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas - Mayhem

16. Under the Sign of the Black Mark - Bathory

17. Paranoid - Black Sabbath

18. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

19. Blackwater Park - Opeth

20. Powerslave - Iron Maiden

21. The Number of the Beast - Iron maiden

22. Leviathan - Mastodon

23. Operation: Mindcrime - Queensryche

24. Reign in Blood - Slayer

25. Feel the Fire - Overkill

26. The Ultra Violence - Death Angel

27. Hatebreeder - Children of Bodom

28. Holy Diver - Dio

29. Rising - Rainbow

30. Wintersun - Wintersun

31. Victory Songs - Ensiferum

32. The Black Halo - Kamelot

33. Karkelo - Korpiklaani

34. Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment

35. Cosmogenesis - Obscura

36. The Art of War - Sabaton

37. Hell Awaits - Slayer

38. Silence - Sonata Arctica

[Desire to know more intensifies]

That's something really cool. I've never really got into how big the heavy metal scene has been in Japan (I've always wondered how's that there are so many special Japanese editions), but I always thought that it started to grow in the nineties. Now this game comes from the end of the eighties full of references.

Also, the profile of the game in Mobygames says a bit, mostly that it was made by the Irem Corporation, the guys who made games like R-Type and Hammering Harry. We are not talking about three guys making some funny game, but an actual corporation that is still operating nowadays.

Then, the other day I learned that Commander Keen and Dangerous Dave were made fueled by Judas Priest's Painkiller. Hell yeah!

http://bandcamp.com/tag/stoner-metal

I started with Red Fang, then got Gandhis Gunn, Incarnadine, Iron Giant and KOMATSU. Awesome shit. Disperse the Curse is pretty cool too.

See also: /r/stonerrock and /r/stonermetal

Always upvote Aspid. Was reading a Russian interview with them from a year or two ago where two of the members claimed that another member had attempted to usurp the entire band by claiming that he came up with the name and attempting to establish his own version of the band where he'd have full control. Seems as if the two bandmembers interviewed were actually quite keen about putting together new material and had been working on some, but this development had derailed the chances of new stuff coming out.

EDIT: Interview is here for Russian-speakers. It was actually the drummer (who played little role in the writing) who suddenly attempted to take control, and through all the headaches the other members lost interest in continuing the band.

I wouldn't know it was a metalcore shirt if you didn't mention. It looks a bit too modern for my taste though.
Admittedly as someone with a very brief interest in typography, it does look nice.

I personally like black and white images on shirts, especially those with quasi-woodcut styled prints on them. I just found this, and it looks right up my alley.

Another issue though is how many bands print their merch on really cheap, thin shirts that don't fit well.

Beware, it is a gateway drug.

Some immediate advice: keep a bash script with all the packages you install ala "sudo apt-get install ..." and any setting changes so it is even easier to reload the machine.

Also, I recommend getting an old desktop, loading your favorite distro, and then running it as a server. I use mine as a backup (with rsync and ssh, which you can set up cron jobs for), website (with LAMP [Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP] and a bootstrap webpage), as well as a media server (with samba for file browsing and Emby for a slick web interface).

Finally, an absolute must: Handbrake for ripping DVDs, but learn how to install it by with the ppa.

Lots of RYM lists with extremely specific themes, like this one on colorful black metal albums. I also just spend a lot of time here to find new stuff, and I get a lot out of browsing users' LastFM collages and picking out stuff that looks interesting.

Despite my flair, I don't actually listen to a lot of deathcore, so I wouldn't be the best person to draw a line in deathcore. But I do know for a fact that deathcore is as rooted in hardcore as metalcore is. If you listen to some of the bands on this list, you'll find that a lot of bands from the early days had a lot of NYHC/old school metalcore influence. Even the more recent stuff like Suicide Silence or Whitechapel (10 year old bands aren't really recent but whatever) are rooted in hardcore ie. gang shout choruses, breakdowns, mosh grooves etc. There is an undeniable metal influence, especially in the tech-death/slam-death influenced bands, but really what these bands are doing in throwing metal riffs over hardcore song structures. Kind of like alt metal stuff like Faith No More or Slipknot where there's metal riffs/double bass drumming but the underlying song structures are alt rock.

That said, deathcore and to an extent metalcore has evolved so much from the early days that I don't think it's useful to categorize them strictly as hardcore or metal bands anymore. Kinda like how it no longer became correct to call metal bands hard rock even if early bands were hard rock bands.

Bal-Sagoth and Nile are pretty great about this sort of thing. Also have a fondness for Ne Obliviscaris' badass sentence fragment titles like "Of Petrichor Weaves Black Noise"

The true champions, though, are slam and goregrind bands. Basically everything on this album is brilliant. And this classic too.

Not sure about metal specifically, but in general I can't recommend the Audio Technica ATH-M40x's enough. Some of the most commonly praised headphones are the M50x's, and the M40's are very similar. The specs are listed on that Amazon link, but basically the range sounds practically identical to a casual listener so there's no need to worry about a loss of frequency response unless you're looking to do some professional mixing. They're also lighter than the M50's so they're more comfortable to wear.

I listen to a fairly wide variety of music, metal included, and I'll tell you that the M40's are a very good value for only being $100. Do your own research and get plenty of opinions, but the M40's are a very good option for the price.

From Gojira's facebook: "A lot happened since our last message so we wanted to give you some news today and let you know we are still alive! We know you are all eagerly awaiting the Sea Sheperd EP release. We are sorry for the delay. Some of the material was on a hard drive that crashed but we are nearing the end of a long and difficult recovery process. Now the Good news: the new Album is ready! All the music and lyrics are waiting to be recorded. Joe is already in NY to check out the Studio and make sure everything is sorted so we can begin to record next month. A new website is being built and we are working on ways to improve the communication between the band and our fans. You guys fucking rule! Thanks!"

I would say start with bands that people tend to consider to have metalcore influences but still be metal. Try The Black Dahlia Murder, Abigail Williams, and maybe Amon Amarth. If you can find them, my buddy's old band Badon Hill is the shit too. Actually here they are: https://myspace.com/badonhill1

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/skunkspritz/first_wave_of_black_metal_timeline_and_bands/

First wave black metal are the bands that musically and thematically influenced the black metal bands to come without being black metal in the modern sense themselves. Midnight is a throwback to those bands (Venom in particular), and the entire style of filthy speed metal that they play in (Venom, Bulldozer, NME, Hellhammer, etc, etc) is generally called black/speed.

Bathory's first album is somewhere between black/thrash and black/speed. Motorhead influence aside it's not exactly super close to the genre Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Diamond Head, etc, played in.

The last time I saw In Flames (MOTHERFUCKING IN FLAMES!!) in concert it was like this, my friends and I actually got in a fight for trying to start a circle pit. Saddest day of my life. What is happening to our metal shows? I am thinking shreddit flash mob circle pit at this concert or another metal concert soon.

Ghost and Mastodon both typically use D standard (sometimes drop C for Mastodon) if their stuff interests you. Also, some tab sites allow you to filter by tuning, like this list of popular intermediate tabs in D standard on Songsterr.

Here ya go. That site has tabs for virtually anything, so just search for any others.

Nu metal is a subgenre of alt metal, but it's not the same. From rateyourmusic:

> Nu Metal is a form of Alternative Metal that began around the mid-1990s. Musically, there is a large emphasis placed on rhythm. The guitar is often used almost exclusively as a rhythm instrument, relying more on techniques like syncopation, palm muting, drop-D tuning and power chords than the more intricate lead guitar work of traditional Metal styles. The rhythm section frequently displays elements of Funk, Hip Hop, and Metal, and often eschews techniques more prevalent in extreme Metal such as double bass drumming in favour of a more groove-oriented sound.

As for SoaD not falling under nu metal, the alt metal page on rym happens to mention them by name:

> By the mid 1990s Alternative Metal's sound became more standardized, thus resulting in what is now called Nu Metal, however, some bands are still classified as Alternative Metal today (such as System of a Down). This is typically due to them being closer in sound to Alternative Rock or their lack of the Hip Hop influences associated with Nu Metal.

I tend to agree with just about all of that.

https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/Alternative+Metal/

https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/Nu+Metal/

Right, except that sound has been reproduced by more than thirty bands in the last three years.

Amon Amarth is called viking metal because Amon Amarth fans are illiterate.

Hold on. That's Attila Csihar (Mayhem) singing. This was performed at Dømkirken Cathedral, in Bergen, Norway ("black metal capital of the world" according to the AllMusic review). Also, guitars come in for the rest of the album and it's a pretty metal affair after that. This track may not be very metal on its own but it's definitely of interest to metal-heads. It's also good music, so I have no trouble up-voting this submission.

I actually used to do just that! It was more of a hobby though, and I've lost touch with the site that I used to write for - it wasn't well managed and I'm fairly certain they closed up shop. If you're interested, the radio station that I run put out a zine recently which you can view here, I wrote a retrospective about one of my favorite albums on pg. 38.

Judas Priest - Painkiller

Iron Maiden - Seventh son, A Matter of life and death

Metallica - Ride the Lightning

Slayer - God Hates Us All

Anthrax - Sound of White Noice (No Among the Living, sorry)

Megadeth - Endgame (I prefer the newer albums)

Death - Human

Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side, A Night at the Opera

Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal

Meshuggah - ObZen

Behemoth - The Apostasy

Devin Townsend - Addicted!

In Flames - Clayman, Reroute to Remain, Soundtrack to your Escape

Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse, Ghost Reveries

Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side, Fate of Norns

Gojira - From Mars to Sirius

Turisas - Battle Metal

Mgla - With Hearts Towards None

Bathory - Blood Fire Death

Type O Negative - Life Is Killing Me, Bloody Kisses

Burzum - Filosofem

Kreator - Hordes of Chaos

Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse

Sabaton - The Art of War, Coat of Arms, Heroes

Follows are a few corrections to how to enjoy Sulphur Aeon. Follow 1 - 3 as written, replace 4 - 6 with this:

1. Make a playlist containing Swallowed By the Ocean’s Tide and Gateway to the Antisphere. Enable repeat.

2. Begin reading. Or, alternately, for the cheap bastards in the house, begin reading. I particularly recommend Nyarlathotep to start, and of course Dagon and The Call of Cthulhu.

3. Madness. Ia!

edit: Redundant periods were making me twitch. Removed them.

Temple of Blood - [Huntsville, AL / USA]

Intense melodic power/thrash metal influenced by Megadeth, Annihilator, Judas Priest, Dark Angel, Forbidden, etc.

Website: http://www.facebook.com/ToBMetalBand Website: http://www.reverbnation.com/templeofblood

We're currently rehearsing the material for our 3rd album and I cannot wait to get this released to the public and see what the reaction is!

Mortius [Nashville, TN] We call ourselves death-thrash. We're huge fans of both genres and we like to inject as much of both into our music as we can. We just love making heavy music. We've been described as "old school groovy death metal" with heavy influences from Cannibal Corpse and Bloodbath. We're going to start playing gigs come the end of the year, so if you're around here and see us on a bill, come check us out!

ReverbNation

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here's an interesting exercise i found on RYM: take the list of top rated albums from metal and its subgenres and choose your top 10 albums, with one album from each interval of 100. my choices:

1-100: Autopsy - Mental Funeral

101-200: Demilich - Nespithe

201-300: Summoning - Stronghold

301-400: Holy Terror - Mind Wars

401-500: Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape

501-600: Mgła - With Hearts Toward None

601-700: Manowar - Hail to England

701-800: Witchfinder General - Death Penalty

801-900: Thergothon - Stream from the Heavens

901-1000: Sarcofago - I.N.R.I.

edit: for lists of just one subgenre you might want to try 1-500 and splitting up by the 50s (i.e., 1-50, 51-100, 101-150, etc) or 1-750 by 75s (1-75, 76-150, 151-225, etc), otherwise you might get too many classics clogged up at the top of the charts

The style is Melodic Death and the below link are the more popular melodic death albums but coming off of Deathklok, you prbally want to go to Amon amarth first since it is like viking themed melodic death that still has the fun aspect

https://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=top&type=album&year=alltime&genre_include=1&include_child_genres=1&genres=Melodic+Death+Metal&include_child_genres_chk=1&include=both&origin_countries=&amp...

Just eyeballing it, black seems to be a good bit more popular on here, while their chart has bit more melody and color on the whole. Makes me wonder if I missing something in black - I like the Mgla record fine but it doesn't really blow my mind, and that Misþyrming release does nothing for me.

An interesting point of point of comparison would be RateYourMusic's 2015 metal charts, which rather splits the difference (their list shares our number 1 but ranks MetalStorm's number 1 at number 2).

The virtue that the RYM list has over the other two is the prominent position it gives to Soilwork. Y'all missing out.

I prefer physical media. Current stats ( https://rateyourmusic.com/~RevolvingImages ) :

2,223 CDs 211 vinyl 114 music DVDs

It's all ripped and kept in my media player:

29,600 songs 288.2 GB 2,573 hours

Here is the schedule for the live feed (Sadly most of the acts are left out, I would have loved to see sets from The Sword, Black Tusk, Baroness, Sepultura, and Suicidal Tendencies.)

Saturday, June 23

Lucero

5:30PM – 6:30PM

The Gaslight Anthem

6:30PM – 7:30PM

Modest Mouse

7:45PM – 8:45PM

Metallica (Ride The Lightning)

9:00PM – 11:00PM

Sunday, June 24

Best Coast

5:30PM – 6:30PM

Eric Church

6:45PM – 7:45PM

Metallica (The Black Album)

8:00PM – 10:00PM

Current time at the festival

https://open.spotify.com/user/11143612713/playlist/65T2z0JUs0liOyvFkXlJkR I've got a playlist of my favourite songs in the order I think go best, but if you're talking albums, I started on The Art of War and went from there

While they might not be quite as harsh or dark, The Carolean's Prayer and Long Live the King are chilling in their own right, and they're from Carolus Rex, their second most recent album. Heroes was decidedly about celebration, as evidenced by the title.

Really though, I feel like all of Sabaton's albums have a strong uniting theme, or are just outright concept albums. Cliffs of Gallipoli and The Price of a Mile are both from The Art of War, which might be their darkest album anyway.

• Seventh Wonder's Mercy Falls and The Great Escape The latter isn't a concept album, but it features a 30 minute track based on the Swedish sci-fi poem Aniara)

• Opeth. They have a few concept albums, or close-to-concept albums (My Arms, Your Hearse, Still Life, Ghost Reveries)

• Ayreon. All of their albums thus far have been in relation to a single story. Their upcoming album will be another rock opera, but I believe it's disconnected from the other story.

• Rhapsody (of Fire). All of their albums are based on a couple fantasy stories of their creation.

• Avantasia. All of their albums are rock opera, but with a few different stories. The Metal Opera Pt. I and II is a fantasy story, The Wicked Trilogy is more of a take on life and its woes, and The Mystery of Time returns to a more fantastical story.

• Kamelots Epica and The Black Halo are parts 1 and 2 of a concept album adaptation of Faust. Silverthorn is a concept album about a wealthy Victorian family which undergoes a tragedy.

• Dragonland has several albums based on a fantasy story of their creation.

• Fairyland's Score to a New Beginning is another fantasy-based concept album.

• Angra's Temple of Shadows is a concept album about a man in the crusades.

• Symphony X's Paradise Lost and Iconoclast are both concept albums.

• Sabaton's The Art of War is a concept album based on the work by Sun Tsu, and their Carolus Rex album is based on the history of the Swedish Empire.

• Maegi's Skies Fall - a sci-fi concept album.

For me "The Art of War" is the best stuff Vader ever recorded. It's short and intense so you won't get bored with it too quickly. It doesn't last long, but when it ends, it makes you beg for more.

I also like the intros by Vesania's Siegmar.

You will find Where Owls Know My Name at spot #34 on my yearly listing here, in terms of full-length albums. :) If we include EPs and other minor releases, it's knocked down another few notches.

My phone wallpaper

For pc i have a playlist of around 300 live wallpapers that i downloaded from Wallpaper engine. Mainly fantasy, sci fi, cyberpunk, abstract, nature stuff

In Darkness (Regina, sk, Canada)

We kind of walk that line between metal and rock. The one album we have is mostly rock centred but our second album is looking to be considerably heavier and more orchestral in writing. We've been compared to everything from Pantera to Pearl Jam, Godsmack hell we even heard someone compare us to Sepultura(which I think is a is bit a stretch but whatever)

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/indarknessband

Or you can listen to our entire album at Http://www.reverbnation.com/indarknessband

Based on 5 star ratings from my RYM account

• Cynic - Focus

• Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

• Fleshgod Apocalypse - Mafia

• Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal

• Gorguts - Obscura

1 Megadeth

A. Rust In Peace Polaris

B. Peace Sells

C. Holy Wars Punishment Due

2 Arkona

A. Nikogda

B. Kolo Navi

C. Leshiy

3 Testament

A. Dark Roots of Earth

B. The Ritual

C. Man Kills Mankind

4 Kreator

A. Violent Revolution

B. Phantom Antichrist

C. Riot of Violence

5 Sabaton

A. Primo Victoria

B. The Art of War

C. White Death

I managed to see them 4 times on The Art of War tour 2008-09, and listened to their albums countless times before that, so I got a bit over saturated.

I should probably give the newer stuff a proper listen.

This song title is so close to a derogatory term for British people used in Germany:

https://www.quora.com/English-Ethnicity-and-People/What-do-the-English-think-of-being-called-Island-apes-Inselaffen-by-the-Germans

Autumn has become the Finish Some Dang Household Projects season for my wife and me. You know how there are always little home improvement projects you'd like to do? Small things, like fixing the blinds, reupholstering a chair, donating old clothes and books you don't need, touching up the paint in the bathroom... In the last month, we decided to get serious about checking things off that list, and so far it's been going great. We use an online project management tool called Trello to organize our tasks and track progress, and I can recommend it to anyone who needs a new organization tool for their own tasks. Feels so good to improve one's living space!

FYI BF1 and Titanfall 2 are 50 bucks for both on origin right now. Both are deluxe edition. So if you've been wanting to pick up either you may as well get both. Each are on sale for 30. Link for anyone interested: https://www.origin.com/usa/en-us/store/origin/battlefield-1-titanfall-2-deluxe-bundle/deluxe-edition

Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal https://www.amazon.com/dp/0380811278/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_9STOub1A3KTY4

Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore https://www.amazon.com/dp/193259504X/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_pUTOub10T8719

I once produced this piece of fine art for a friend's crappy grindcore project.

It took a bit of digging around on the internet to find that stupid thing again. I didn't even know he had made a MySpace for it. That should also give you a hint about how long ago this was.

Dance of December Souls - recorded in April 1993
vs.
Thergothon - Stream from the Heavens - recorded in October-November 1992

Not to mention a few earlier EPs and demos from a select few bands. 🤔

Back in like 1996 some guy at a record store gave me these two black metal compilations since I said I was into Beneath the Remains more than Roots.

One was full of gold, the other was pretty meh... but it had this track on it and it instantly clicked with me - just fucking intense and abrasive. Been into them ever since then, weird WW2 fetish period and all.

edit https://www.discogs.com/Various-World-Domination/release/408614

It doesn't seem to be a this-particular-metal-forum phenomenon, though.

Check this out. Whenever it is mentioned, it's either being parodied or complained about.

ed force one

WOOOOOHOOO

You have officially cured my disease after all this time! I have been trying to remember who these guys were for what seems like an eternity now. You can see my post here looking for this exact band!

I FUCKING LOVE YOU!!!

Edit: Well fuck me i just realised I posted that thread a year ago to the day looking for this band. Freaky.

For black prog, try looking into Solefald (I recommend In Harmonia Universali).

I also made a list of prog metal bands a while ago. Haven't listened to everything already, but you may find some bands that could interest you.

I'm not necessarily going to give you a huge list, but, here are some of my personal recommendations/favorites:

Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian

Watchtower - Control and Resistance

Dark Quarterer - Dark Quarterer

Pharaoh - The Longest Night

Most of those are pretty PM-influenced/adjacent, but the hard thing with Prog Metal recommendations is that prog tends to borrow from a lot of genres, so it can really vary as far as what one person might like vs another person. I'd also recommend checking out this list I found a while back. It's really big and there's a lot on there, some of it amazing, some of it not so much, but it's worth checking out.

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/sentenced/frozen/

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Sentenced/162

Sentenced from their fourth album onward (so on Down, Frozen, Crimson, The Cold White Light and The Funeral Album) played gothic metal.

Don't have any specific recommendations to give off the top of my head, but Wider than the Sky (and The Inside Room in some capacity) are slowcore. So you might want to look into that genre. Rateyourmusic has descriptors as well, so you could check the top albums in slowcore and see if the descriptors seem interesting. Here

Pop hymns, good one. Some of the tunes are catchy, but to call them "pop hymns" is kind of a joke. I think it all comes down to the mixing. Jens Bogren mixed Twilight and all of their post-2001 albums until Deceiver of the Gods, which was produced by Andy Sneap. The guy's production credits are all on albums that I enjoy, mostly Swedish bands but not exclusively: http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jens-bogren-mn0000206707

Andy Sneap is another producer that has big, full-sounding albums. Usually if I find something he produced, I'm going to dig it. Kind of a unique way of finding new artists.

I guess I'll whore myself out since /u/ZeroThePenguin has been doing it for me.

Watch me make a fool of myself as I listen to metal suggestions and comment on them.

Show Nox Mercy

I have only a read a few of his stories but always wanted to really give him a go. Any specific books or stories that i should check out first.

Also Wayne June ( the narrator from Darkest Dungeon) has narrated some H.P. Lovecraft stuff on audible and my god is his narration perfect

Forsakken [New York, NY USA] I'm playing drums in in Forsakken... Female fronted heavy metal band that draws heavily from the Dio era Sabbath sound. I can't tell you specifics about the music because I'm a drummer, but I can tell you we have an aggressive sound. We're playing Queens NY tomorrow night.

http://www.reverbnation.com/forsakken (I've been in the band only a few months, so all the drumming on this page was done by the last guy... I don't wanna take credit from him here)

Descent of a Tyrant - Vancouver, WA

We're a pretty new band, a mix of Hardcore and some metalcore, but we're still sorta finding our sound. We played the Hawthorne Theater in Portland last July! You may have seen us there!.. Probably not 😕... But anyways... Link!! http://www.reverbnation.com/descentofatyrant/song/22865390-end-of-it-all?1336410755

<strong>VO Halloween Mix</strong> -- Oh my goodness, I love this holiday and it is so relegated to be over once Sunday hits. That is okay. Some of you may remember I was making music videos for this mix which really excited me until Youtube shut down the party with copyright claims. I mean, I am not suprised but it is still disheartening. the last one was really cool. In celebration of the new Fallout game, VO is doing a few mixes of atomic godfearing folk and old R&B similar to the soundtracks of the game.

<strong>Pathfinder!</strong> -- We started a new hombrew capmaign back in the same world with 5 new players to RPGs. I love love love the look on people's face when they are 45 minutes into character creation and flip ver the sheet to see more things to fill out. We have a pretty blalanced party with my wfe as an arcane deulist (bard) that is leading the group through the haunted forests of Yuvaulte. The world is where the elves, humans, and halfings are the underclass serving and oppressed by the Orc aristocracy. I wanted a world where Orcs rode arond in nice carriages and held horrible concerts. Since reddit is blocked at work, ?I have been passing the time building the world on Obsidian Portal which is a time sink for GMs. People talked about that site but the wiki feature in that and the origination tools is wonderful as it allows me to put all the backstory and lore in there that would eventually not be explained or completly ignored when the PCs set the village on fire.

VO

So for the past month aside from trying to find a new job in a new area which has been fucking hilarious and not stressful, I have been making a new mix for /r/vintageobscura. This mix pulls together some of the top submissions in VO as well as some of my current favorite radio dramas and blends them into 2 sides of wonder, danger, and future technology. If you enjoy library, surf, rockabilly, funk, soul, and specifically like those genres to be from unkown artists, come on in. On that page is also some of the other mixes we did. The next one will be another Halloween mix.

Side A

Side B

A New PC

I am in the market for a new computer. This is how my computer experience usually goes. Every few years, I buy a mid to high end Dell Studio XPS and keep it until it is no longer reliable. I need my computer mostly for graphics work. I was wondering if me spending 1000-1500 dollars every 5-7 years would be better spent somewhere else.

Lower Back

goddamn it. I think I strained my lower back rowing all last week. It gets better through the day but getting out of bed transforms this handsome body into an 80 year old. It affected my last squat to the point I couldn't do a normal load. I am going to do a lighter deadlift today and have been foam rolling and stretching everyday. It seems like this a common thing for...well...everyone. Please tell me it isn't a terminal disease.

The problem with Metal Archives is that most albums have like 2 or 3 reviews. That's not enough to get a reliable rating of an album. Sites like rateyourmusic are much more reliable because most albums have thousands of ratings from users who know what they're talking about. The cream usually rises to the top (though it's not always the case).

RYM's Onward to Golgotha page for reference.

I think it's this one you're looking for - Compos Mentis.

Never heard of it, but had fun looking at album covers of circa 00s Melodic Death metal bands until I found one that matched your description.

My list for Best Old School Death Metal by Scene is getting pretty close to being done. I have the Florida, NY, Finnish and UK sections complete. I just need to complete the reviews for the Netherlands and Swedish sections, which I am hoping to have done within the next month. I was hoping someone could help me come up for a description best describing the Netherlands death Metal scene. One part of it is Death/Doom while the other I think has more roots in the Florida scene. But i'm not the most knowledge person when it comes to death metal.

I looked on both web and desktop. I would just experiment with dialing up the base font size and look at the kerning, line heights, padding etc. I would also consider another font as there's tons more readable fonts than Calibri (check out Google Web Fonts). It's most noticeable (to me) on the preview text on the home page. There's also the space between cards on mobile.

It's not wonky - there's just potential to improve readability. Nothing to stress about. Just add it to the list of things to look at when next upgrading your design.

People not experienced in web design tend to cram in the text, it's common!

If any of you falsies want tabs (guitars only) for the Grym Nekrokvlt ov Balthazarageddamon tracks: As Little Elves as Santa's Spies, Levendegjøring (Sønn av ulykke).

/u/IAMNOTINDIAN has tabs for Frostbitten Night on Songsterr as well.

Couldn't find the song on youtube, but Vampire Mooose - Spiderman vs Venom

https://myspace.com/vampiremooose/music/song/spiderman-vs-venom-30730585-26908941

You also have Ozzy's Hellraiser, but I prefer it with Lemmy over Ozzy :P.

<em>Sonic Cathedrals Vol. XLIII</em> is probably my all time favorite, as well as everything by Deathrite.

That one you have there is quite good as well.

For useful Websites you should include RateYourMusic.

I find it better for finding new artist and for understanding the genre more then metal archives does.

Heres a link to there Death Metal page, it includes a description and how the genre formed and shows the top rated albums within the respected genre. If you go down further it includes every release within the genre(sorted by year).

When the TK blog was starting up and we were talking about reviews I really pushed for folks to think of album reviews as a form of art criticism. Its easy to think of Music as more entertainment, but really this is all art.

A real barebones way of looking at it can be found here. Here's another video about it - it's easy to just leave music as being digestible instead of being thoughtful. There are tons of blogs out there of folks just shitting out 40 reviews a week that say "This is War Metal, this is great. YOU SHOULD LOVE IT!" Try to dig a little deeper than that.

Kalmah was one of my favorites when I first got into Metal. I recorded a cover of Hades (without keyboards or vocals) when I was like 17, fairly rough but close enough. Link

I am a big fan of BandsInTown, you can use itunes or spotify to upload a list of all the artists in your music library and it will notify you any time one of them schedule a date in your home city.

I also bookmark the website of every venue that I like near me. If I've got a boring weekend coming up, I go through all of them and see if there are any promising shows.

Nick Lloyd's book on it covers it thoroughly if you're interested. It's not a boring read, by historical book standards.

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https://www.amazon.com/Passchendaele-Lost-Victory-World-War/dp/0465094775/ref=sr\_1\_2

> Buy links?

i bought it from amazon. Not sure if you can buy it anywhere else.

> Bandcsmp?

No.

> Ron Jarzombek?

Yes.

Digital

• Warning - Watching from a Distance (suddenly and inexplicably available for download on Amazon!)

• 40 Watt Sun - Wider than the Sky

Thanks, /u/Kaelrok, for recommending Warning to me a while back (I have you tagged as "Magical Metal Fairy"). It ignited a new obsession.

No problem!

Most VPN’s are dead easy to use these days. I use Private Internet Access and never had any issues. ProtonMail also offer a VPN which I’ve heard good things about. You can even make your own if you’re feeling nerdy.

Tapes :

Hills of Sefiroth - Of Disease and Desperation

Hatework - Thrashers' Attack

Thy Black Blood - Unmerciful Shades

Usurpateur - Métal d'la Mort

Those were all 2€ so yeah.

Also bought a ticket for a Dagoba/Vader/Kreator. Sitting through Dagoba is going to be painful so I guess I'll just get drunk during their set. Vader was basically my introduction to extreme metal when I bought "The Art of War" when it came out and I've never seen them yet so I'm pretty excited.

Weightlifting

• Joint Wraps - Does anyone wrap their knees / elbows?
• Weight Belt - If you use a weight belt when did you start? Was it hitting a specific weight, or was it something else?

Warhammer

• Tapekvlt Discord discussion from this week: Favorite WHFB / WH40K model / unit, and why is it The Great Unclean One?

Misc

• Apparently Duck Tales is coming back. A single news story on it's theme (and ensuring it's close to the original) was enough to get that fucking thing stuck in my head.

Books

• Recently started Edmund Morris' The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, the first in his TR trilogy. What's the most recent non-fiction you've read.

• Edit - Apparently mentioning Teddy Roosevelt was enough to trigger some bot that the Nazi Mods have banned. I didn't see what it said other than "DID SOMEONE SAY TEDDY ROOSEVELT?" If it didn't link to a picture of Tom Berenger I'm going to be disappointed.

Vader - Iron Times

Before listening to this ep yesterday, my only experience with Vader had been their The Art of War ep and Litany. Didn't like Litany much and Art of War took some time to grow on me. I feel the same way about Iron Times as I did with Art of War on my first listen, it's decent but kinda feels repetitive despite being 13 minutes long

Carnivore - Retaliation

Carnivore was a crossover thrash band from New York that released two albums in the 80's before breaking up and it's frontman Peter Steele forming Type O Negative, whom I love. Retaliation was their second album and the one I picked. Found it to be boring outside of the song Race War, which sounds like proto-Type O.