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Gorguts come to mind. Their last album Colored Sands was amazing, and they released an EP earlier this year that consists of one 30 minute song. Pretty atmospheric and technical, but not overproduced like so much technical death metal is these days. They're a great example of a band who just...

Agreed! That's what I love about the bass, it's so versatile when played well. It can help the drums keep rhythm while also adding to what the guitars are playing (and horns, keyboards/pianos etc. in a jazz setup).

I love the guitar soloing, and that bass line in the background is really hypnotic. I'll check out some more of his stuff. And thanks for the Mahavishnu Orchestra recommendation, I enjoy some of Billy Cobham's solo stuff so I'll be interested to check that out.

Thanks, I'll check him out!

Snake is great. I consider Voivod more of a prog metal band than thrash, but he's a great vocalist anyway.

I prefer Trout Mask Replica 1000 times to Safe as Milk, but I see why you say that. They're both fantastic I reckon, just personal preference

Feeling a bit overwhelmed. Here I am, in the middle of an OE and I find out that my grandmother has pretty serious form of cancer. What makes it worse is that my grandfather also has cancer, and has had it for a while too - he's okay for now but it's looking like 2 of my 3 remaining grandparents...

My favourite modern thrash band and one of the most unique sounding out there. These guys are pretty fucking cool too. Good atmospheric death metal straight from a Canadian cavern.

Trout Mask Replica dude! That album kicks ass.

Formation of Damnation is one of their best in my opinion. Maybe not for solos, but definitely for riffs.

I've been making my way through Seventh Son recently, I haven't really had time to sit down and listen to it in full since I've been busy lately (as can be seen from my lack of activity here), and holy shit it's amazing... Moonchild kicks ass, it's got to be one of Maiden's best opening songs...

Seems about right to me. Certain bands like RATM seem to have a strong political influence akin to many metal bands, but I think it's more of a punk influence than a metal one. On a side note I've heard people calling grunge a style of metal in the past. Particularly guys from Seattle and DC...

Bad Brains are pretty badass.

Thank you for that, I've been intending on checking out Voivod for a while but for some reason never got round to it. I'm gonna need to listen to some more now, any recommendations for good albums?

Wikipedia should never have gotten rid of the jokes... :tickled: