[Music] Metal

[Duilliath]

I need a new leather jacket. Sad thing is they're crazy expensive.

Also, something slightly more appropriate to the thread than The Black Heart Rebellion which I linked above.

If you like your dissonants, check this out:

[rock4ever]

Is it me just getting older or metal nowadays is boring and overated? I'm 35 and still listening to 80s-90s metal and maybe a few early 00s most of the time.

I'm 39 and agree with this somewhat. The older bands...the ones still around anyway, their releases are becoming less frequent, and there doesn't seem to be much high quality stuff coming out from the younger acts.

Megadeth's Super Collider was absolute trash IMO.
Opeth doesn't really do metal anymore.
Dream Theater feels really tired to me now.

Blind Guardian, Devin Townsend and Nightwish are good. Kamelot is all right. Alter Bridge is ok.

Periphery's Juggernaut was a nice surprise and much better than their other ish. I ordinarily wouldn't go for that sort of stuff.

Some of the newer metal acts I cant get into- death metal(opeth being an exception) doom, lamb of god, killswitch engaged and other growly crap.

[hellhamster]

I'm 39 and agree with this somewhat. The older bands...the ones still around anyway, their releases are becoming less frequent, and there doesn't seem to be much high quality stuff coming out from the younger acts.

Megadeth's Super Collider was absolute trash IMO.
Opeth doesn't really do metal anymore.
Dream Theater feels really tired to me now.

Blind Guardian, Devin Townsend and Nightwish are good. Kamelot is all right. Alter Bridge is ok.

Periphery's Juggernaut was a nice surprise and much better than their other ish. I ordinarily wouldn't go for that sort of stuff.

Some of the newer metal acts I cant get into- death metal(opeth being an exception) doom, lamb of god, killswitch engaged and other growly crap.

It's like you are looking at paintings of 5 year olds and are wondering what happened to art. I tire from saying this again and again ad infinitum, but metal is more than those 5-10 bands you mentioned.

[thewallofsleep]

I'm 39 and agree with this somewhat. The older bands...the ones still around anyway, their releases are becoming less frequent, and there doesn't seem to be much high quality stuff coming out from the younger acts.

Megadeth's Super Collider was absolute trash IMO.
Opeth doesn't really do metal anymore.
Dream Theater feels really tired to me now.

Blind Guardian, Devin Townsend and Nightwish are good. Kamelot is all right. Alter Bridge is ok.

Periphery's Juggernaut was a nice surprise and much better than their other ish. I ordinarily wouldn't go for that sort of stuff.

Some of the newer metal acts I cant get into- death metal(opeth being an exception) doom, lamb of god, killswitch engaged and other growly crap.

Give the band Argus a try. Fantastic heavy metal in the classic style but with a good bit of traditional doom thrown in for good measure. Some definite Maiden and Candlemass influence. If you're into classic 70's and 80's stuff you may dig them. No growly nonsense, and the singer is fantastic. These guys aren't exactly "young" though, as they are all at least in their late 30's I believe.

[hellhamster]

30 minutes well wasted. This was done regardless of personal genre favoritism, so ignore whatever you want to ignore and head towards the next album. Oh and it's one album per band obviously, otherwise this list would become tedious. I added genres, so that may help.

post-2000 metal album rankings

1. Primordial - To the Nameless Dead (folk)
2. Isis - Panopticon (atmospheric sludge)
3. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I (progressive)
4. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain (folk)
5. Vektor - Outer Isolation (progressive thrash)
6. The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls with Sand (drone/shoegaze/doom)
7. maudlin of the Well - Bath (avant-garde)
8. Weakling - Dead As Dreams (black)
9. Deathspell Omega - Paracletus (black)
10. Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm (atmospheric sludge)
11. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (stoner/doom)
12. Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice Of Steel (folk/black)
13. Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath (power)
14. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Blood Lust (stoner/psychedelic)
15. Negură Bunget - OM (atmospheric black/progressive)
16. Insomnium - Above the Weeping World (melodic death)
17. Pagan Altar - Mythical And Magical (heavy)
18. Opeth - Blackwater Park (progressive)
19. Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty (folk/viking)
20. Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal (death)
21. Gojira - From Mars to Sirius (progressive death)
22. Disillusion - Back To Times Of Splendor (progressive) (a heads up: youtube quality is shit)
23. Mastodon - Leviathan (progressive sludge)
24. Immolation - Close To A World Below (death)
25. Cult Of Luna - Somewhere Along The Highway (atmospheric sludge)
26. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach (melodic death)
27. Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg (avant-garde)
28. Gris - A L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée... (atmospheric black)
29. Rosetta - The Galilean Satellites (atmospheric sludge)
30. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I (progressive)
31. Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris (technical death)
32. Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire (technical death)
33. Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye (avant-garde)
34. Jesu - Jesu (drone/shoegaze)
35. Windir - 1184 (melodic black)
36. Shining - V-Halmstad (black)
37. Sleep - Dopesmoker (stoner)
38. Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame (atmospheric/symphonic black)
39. Wolves In The Throne Room - Two Hunters (atmospheric black)
40. Blindead - Affliction XXIX II MXMVI (atmospheric sludge)
41. Warning - Watching From a Distance (doom)
42. Slumber - Fallout (melodic death/doom)
43. Leprous - Bilateral (progressive)
44. Darkspace - Dark Space III (atmospheric black)
45. Kamelot - The Black Halo (power)
46. Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor (thrash/heavy)
47. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars (black)
48. Drudkh - Autumn Aurora (atmospheric black)
49. Wintersun - Wintersun (melodic death/power)
50. Enslaved - Below the Lights (progressive/black)
51. Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors (avant-garde)

[Deleted]

Great list . Most of the early 00s stuff I already know & some of them are personal favorites ( like the pos and the evermore album,tho I prefer dead heart ) .Will check soon.

[EllissonWatson]

I was thinking more about running the whole thing as a motif.

[nbm02ss]

New VHÖL album streaming here.

[Duilliath]

New VHÖL album streaming here.

omg omg omg omg omg omg. Are we finally going to see an album replace DHG's for the no. 1 this year? Let's go listen and find out!

Also, this is what I'm interrupting for the Vhöl album, so it had better be worth it (it will, I know )

[hellhamster]

Hi.

[hellhamster]

New Watchtower outta fucking nowhere.



The epitome of the Seinfeld bass in metal is back!

[Feali]

INK are getting better and better and better every song.

[Duilliath]

New Watchtower outta fucking nowhere.

The epitome of the Seinfeld bass in metal is back!

Yea... I saw. Made my fucking week.

[Deleted]

Went to a Solstafir concert again. Great as ever, but the real surprise was their warmup band (or how is it called in English). Mono, a japanese band which was great. I'm not good with genres, but it was a very slow post-rock type of music and it was great.

Also...a friend of mine just forwarded this song to me that we're apparently going to see live.
Worth watching for the videoclip, it's awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsMKOx6fumc

[hellhamster]

It's fucking 13 degrees Celsius, time to rev up the usual suspects:

[Deleted]

Anyone got upcoming gigs to look forward to?

Soilwork, Machine fucking Head; Tesseract and Bring me the horizon in my home town and Ghost in Toulouse in the next few months.

[nbm02ss]

High on Fire in December.

[Duilliath]

Wooh! New Killing Joke streaming in full on Spotify.

[Cairhiin]

Is it me just getting older or metal nowadays is boring and overated? I'm 35 and still listening to 80s-90s metal and maybe a few early 00s most of the time.

Well I'm 43 and I don't agree. While I also love the old 80s metal, nowadays metal has evolved and there are an incredible amount of awesome bands. The 90s were terrible but the 21st century certainly kicked back. If you want to some awesome nowadays metal check out what hellhamster is posting he has a very good grasp on the current metal scene.

[Feali]

Anyone got upcoming gigs to look forward to?

Soilwork, Machine fucking Head; Tesseract and Bring me the horizon in my home town and Ghost in Toulouse in the next few months.

Nightwish in November with Arch Enemy. So fucking hyped!