HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ALBUMS

Jude said:
Yeah I like how not being familiar with other death metal bands makes you less of an Opeth fan

it doesnt. nor was i implying that. did you even read what i was replying to? he stated that everyone here thats familiar with Opeth, should also be familiar with the band "Death"s catalog. not death metal in general.
 
Dominion III - A Dead Heart In A Dead World
Check this industrial metal album - no. one in industrial metal scene for me.
Also Diablerie - Seraphyde is great.
 
RDreamer said:
There are a few:

Bathory- Blood Fire Death
Death- Sound of Perseverance
Lacuna Coil- Comalies
Katatonia- Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Horde- Hellig Usvart
Crimson Moonlight- Veil of Remembrance
Amon Amarth- Fate of Norns
Celtic Frost- To Mega Therion
Group X- Stepping on the Crowtche of your Americain Praisident
Isis- Oceanic
King Crimson- In The Court of the Crimson King
Mastodon- Leviathan
Porcupine Tree- In Absentia
Rammstein- Sehnsucht
Tool- Lateralus
Trivium- Ascendancy

Trivium are utter shit!false metal!
 
NineFeetUnderground said:
it doesnt. nor was i implying that. did you even read what i was replying to? he stated that everyone here thats familiar with Opeth, should also be familiar with the band "Death"s catalog. not death metal in general.
Yeah I did. I also know who the band Death are (although I've never heard anything by them). I've already explained this.

02murlam said:
Trivium are utter shit!false metal!
:lol: I love how whenever a metalhead doesn't like a band his first response is "They're NOT REALLY METAL!"
 
FUCK I hate this computer!
I wrote long descriptions of five albums and pasted their cover pictures, then this machine decided to send it all off to cyberspace.

Oh well, I guess I'll just list the albums and let you folks do the rest.

Alamaailman Vasarat - Käärmelautakunta
Kingston Wall - II
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans
Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per Un Amico
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History


And btw, false metal isn't exactly a new genre...
 
annt said:
FUCK I hate this computer!
I wrote long descriptions of five albums and pasted their cover pictures, then this machine decided to send it all off to cyberspace.

Oh well, I guess I'll just list the albums and let you folks do the rest.

Alamaailman Vasarat - Käärmelautakunta
Kingston Wall - II
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans
Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per Un Amico
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History


And btw, false metal isn't exactly a new genre...

How would you rate "songs of darkness, words of light" compared to Turn loose the swans?
 
froghawk said:
dredg - El Cielo: This record is simply transcendant. It's not exactly rock, but it is very artsy, and often forays into multiple other genres. Wonderful songwriting, excellent flow, and beautiful climaxes.
I can't agree enough. El Cielo is one of the greatest albums ever written. There's nothing quite like a band that wants to meet you as much as you want to meet them, too. They're well-rounded. A drummer who will play piano with one hand and drums with the other. A singer who plays the lap steel in a way you've never heard before. A guitarist who is brilliant but melds into the band like most great bassist. A bassist who drives a completely different rhythm from the guitarist, but makes it fit. Not just that, but the singer and bassist are wonderful painters as well.
 
froghawk said:
dredg's first one, Leitmotif, is MUCH more unpolished. The whole thing ALMOST flows as one big track - it's a very short album, with only 5 vocal songs and an instrumental between each one. The production is nowhere NEAR as good as their other two discs, nor are the vox. It's also more metal-based, and contains a few screams. It's a quirky but cool record. This one's concept is a man's journey for morality.
Leitmotif was self-created. They actually made the album before they were signed and got signed off of the buzz that was created by all the self-produced albums they were making. I personally think they should get the hell away from Interscope ASAP, but I know how the music business can be. I would love to see Steven Wilson produce their next album.
 
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream: my favorite PT album.

Blackfield - Blackfield: Steven Wilson and Aviv Geffen; softer than most PT

Jeff Buckley - Grace: Beautiful only starts to explain his voice. It's a shame he only made one real album

Sigur Ros - Ágætis Byrjun

Team Sleep - Team Sleep: Chino finally makes an album I can listen to all the way through.

Nine Inch Nail - Pretty Hate Machine: We've all heard it

Blind Melon - Soup: Another great band cut short. It's not often that you find a singer with the passion that Shannon had. I also GREATLY recommend their self-titled album and the b-sides album Nico.

Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine: Could she be any more sexy? Her voice drives me to masturbation.

Sepultura - Chaos AD: Right there with Orchid as my favorite metal album of all time.
 
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i could spend half of this review telling you about how wild and crazy ULVER’s history has been, but that’s been done more than a million times. Let’s just say this – this is a band that has done a lot of stuff. Lots of people like them, lots of people hate them and lots of people do both.



“Blood Inside” is a puzzling release. I don’t mean to say that it’s inaccessible, but rather that it’s one of those records that you’re going to listen to while sitting there on your bed, flipping through the liner notes and soaking it in, trying to put all of the pieces together and make sense of what exactly this is supposed to be. The minimalist yet elegant artwork compliment the abstract lyrics and there are plenty of themes that pop up over and over in those lyrics. Amazingly, ULVER is able to capture and embody these abstract themes in their compositions, giving each piece its own distinct feeling. Not just distinct from each other, but distinct from anything else. This music sounds like a hospital. It sounds like a telephone. It sounds like religion and it sounds like blood.



The cautious listener might be scared away, but when it comes to the music, “Blood Inside” is an immediately rewarding album. The songs pulse, ebb, flow and linger, but they also pound and pummel their way out of the speakers. “Operator” is the soundtrack of panic and no, it’s not Metal, but it sure is heavy. “Blinded By Blood” paints a macabre portrait of childhood and “For The Love Of God” drips with an aura of blasphemous bliss. The songs, while retaining their own character, come together to paint a cohesive picture, a gestalt of electronics, ambience, Jazz, Classic Rock. Garm’s wonderful vocals are the icing on the over-used metaphor cake, flowing in and out just like the other instruments, but adding that extra punch where most appropriate.



ULVER isn’t for everyone and “Nattens Madrigal” this is not. Then again, ULVER wouldn’t be ULVER if they repeated themselves and for anyone who finds that truth about the band appealing, your ears – and brain – will thank you for giving them “Blood Inside.” (Online January 23, 2006)(metal-observer.com}

amazing album by a unique band its like some one is operating a surgery to ur brain but in this case u ar awake if u like ARCTURUS buy this album and it really needs some time