Even The Devil you Know beats the shit out of Technical Ecstasy and Never say Die... I'll go further saying that Dio Sabbath, Tyr and Headless Cross are even better than Sabotage.
Wrong on all fucking counts.
Even The Devil you Know beats the shit out of Technical Ecstasy and Never say Die... I'll go further saying that Dio Sabbath, Tyr and Headless Cross are even better than Sabotage.
Of the first 3 full-lengths, Ashes Against the Grain is Agalloch's best. This might be controversial, but I don't care. Yes, it's not really metal in any meaningful way, and sure it's not terribly original. I don't care. It flows beautifully. Pale Folklore and The Mantle just strike me as unfocused and long-winded exercises in pretentious bullshit, but Ashes really hits the spot for me.
I'm pretty sure nobody here that actually listens to Pantera (we are very few) appreciate FBD or GSTK appropriately enough. How could anyone who likes Pantera not enjoy these tracks?
Yeah, for some reason Pantera gets a whole lot more bad press than they deserve from fans of extreme metal. I have no idea why. I grew up on "vulgar display of power", "far beyond driven" and "the great southern trendkill". Really good stuff"
Pantera certainly has their place, and it is preferably in a back alley gutter.
Over the years of constantly dealing with fanbois that think Dimebag was the greatest guitarist to ever walk the planet, and worshiped him like he was a fucking God, it fucking pissed me off...
I hate people that say they love Black Sabbath and when I ask them their favorite song and they say crazy trainI like Heaven & Hell and Dio Sabbath, but it does not compare to Master of Reality or the previous two Sabbath albums. And back in the day Ozzy could sing. Old Sabbath is better than Dio anyday.
Wasn't really trying to make a joke
Wat? Orion is a fucking killer song.. one of the best on the album.
Master of Puppets is the greatest metal album of all time in my opinion. Nothing you've said about it makes any fucking sense at all, but whatever.
Wrong on all fucking counts.
Of the first 3 full-lengths, Ashes Against the Grain is Agalloch's best. This might be controversial, but I don't care. Yes, it's not really metal in any meaningful way, and sure it's not terribly original. I don't care. It flows beautifully. Pale Folklore and The Mantle just strike me as unfocused and long-winded exercises in pretentious bullshit, but Ashes really hits the spot for me.
Ozzy was important on the early efforts because his singing didn't get in the way of the riffs. He let the riffs breathe which was so damned important, I don't see that working out the same way with Dio or the others. That said, I'm a big fan of their later material as well.
I know, I just find it funny that you're so adamant and eager to point out someone's poor taste in music or whether or not a band is shit despite having some pretty suspect taste in music yourself. You can like what you want obviously, and I'm not going to rag you for it, but it is a bit like a pot and kettle situation.
Ashes is what the band should be doing now and expanding on, but they're not. Agalloch already peaked and sounds past their prime.. And it's really to bad because they have not been around to long. I was expecting the band because they seem to take their time when writing material to put out amazing material for years to come. It's like they are out of ideas and basically had to change their sound, but what they are doing now is not really much of anything at all. It's not even a continuation or progression of what they were musically doing. I just don't really understand at all. I was really into their first three albums.