Church of Australian Metal

[Sophii]

I feel like if they were from anywhere but Australia they would have blown up ,because of the European/American Gothic Metal stuff.

Edit: They remind me of a diet My Dying Bride with a female singer.

 

[Slammed]

Chalice had to grow on me. Glad I found Mournful Congregation through them, however .

Yeah I don't know what it was about Chalice I never really got into them. It could be not listening to them enough but at the same time I don't tend to listen to heaps of gothic/doom stuff and when I do it's more often the same regular bands like Electric Wizard or The Obsessed etc.

 

[Sophii]

I'm not a Gothic doom type of guy, unless it relates to Funeral Doom or directly from Type O Negative.

I'm a Prog Doom guy.

 

[Slammed]

Genres, sub genres, sub sub genres and sub sub sub genres shit me I'll listen to doom when I feel like it but not the rest of the stuff

 

[CiG]

I can't stomach much Electric Wizard these days, but all the clone bands are way fucking worse. Witchsorrow for example.

Although I guess I'd take Witchsorrow over current Electric Wizard these days, the fuck happened to them?

 

[Slammed]

I have moments of Electric Wizard. One album at a time over several weeks and only their early albums is about the best I can manage. I couldn't listen to them solidly, but in the right mood and I do like their stuff.

 

[CiG]

For me their two best records were and still are Come My Fanatics and Witchcult Today, those are the two I still blast every so often. Their latest record is... ass.

 

[Slammed]

I still like Dopethrone and Let Us Prey, but I agree about the latest one, I was disappointed when that came out, it had a good build up and didn't deliver.

 

[CiG]

The one before it stunk too I thought. Just so damn boring and pedestrian, I think Jus is broken down and smoked out at this point. Fat lazy hippies tend to be terribly inconsistent musicians.

 

[Sophii]

I feel like this is all of EW except those early releases.
I purchased Time to Die from that store, then brought it back for a refund the day after

 

[CiG]

Time to Refund.

 

[Sophii]

Its so sad because they have proved in the past they could write killer riffs. That and their female guitarist is damn hot. But I guess thats all they got going for them now.

 

[Slammed]

Maybe you can really only stay shrouded in doom for so long before it starts effecting your ability to do things.

Was listening to these guys yesterday.

 

[CiG]

It's only ever the stoner doom bands that get all bloated and boring in my experience. Drugs make people think they're creating interesting art when in reality it's a musical curry fart.

 

[Slammed]

Haha that about sums it up

 

[CiG]

Blasting some Toxic Holocaust right now.

 

[Slammed]

I'm trying to decide if it's worth doing the Fates Warning Poll.
Not sure if I'm the only metal head that has never listened to them but I'm not overly impressed with what I have heard so far. It's not shit but it's nothing earth shattering either. So far (and I'm willing to allow my mind to be changed) it appears to me their longevity to the metal world is worth more than their music. Maybe i'm not in the right mood to be listening to them

 

[CiG]

Oof. Well, I'm a massive fan myself. Gonna spend all day tomorrow going through their albums, there's a few albums I don't have so going to have to resort to Youtube.

 

[Slammed]

I'm not sold on the singer, some of the music is as good as any of the time but the singer just doesn't appear like he's trying. Maybe he gets better as the albums go on.

 

[CiG]

Which album are you listening to?