New Wave of NWOBHM and classic traditiona metal REBORN!!!!

[Diabolik]

I'd call them traditional metal with a heap of doom influences.

good call Lee!

 

[TribunalRecords]

what's your band called?

i am the vocalist of KILLWHITNEYDEAD

www.myspace.com/killwhitneydead

 

[Jasonic]

I'd call them traditional metal with a heap of doom influences.

Hrmmmm..... That's more Manilla Road dude.
Grand Magus are a bit more lower end, but who giveth a shiteth about labels!
Good tunes are good tunes!

 

[Diabolik]

I just picked up the new Dark Black disc that Stormspell Records put out....very good mix of trad and some doom influence. Worth checking out. I was going to the a few others but I already had 9 disc to buy. Next week I am going to grab Midnight Priest.

There is also a new record label called Metal on Metal. They put out traditional and trash. They just put out 6 new disc this past week. I picked up the new Metal Law and I was going to get the Skelator disc but held off till next week. way to much stuff to get.

 

[AeonicSlumber]

i am the vocalist of KILLWHITNEYDEAD

www.myspace.com/killwhitneydead

haha I know you! I am on your mailing list!

 

[Pellaz]

Bob - A couple of the Cirith Ungol guys are performing classic Ungol tunes under a different band name now (Whose name escapes me).

Minas Morgul? Dagorlad? Barad-dur?



--And Robert Garvin still owes me a CU sticker from, like, 1992 or something. :hotjump: :Smokedev:

 

[axehomeyg]

Minas Morgul? Dagorlad? Barad-dur?



--And Robert Garvin still owes me a CU sticker from, like, 1992 or something. :hotjump: :Smokedev:

Haha! Isn't there a band called Angband or something? JRR Tolkien would have been into Traditional Metal if he was alive in the 80's.

 

[Pellaz]

Haha! Isn't there a band called Angband or something?

If not, Ang Lee should bloody well start one.

JRR Tolkien would have been into Traditional Metal if he was alive in the 80's.

If not, well...he would have to be swept up and carried into the scene.
The number of Tolkien-based or influenced bands...metal, rock, whatever...is truly staggering.

Cirith Ungol is kinda weird in that they have a Tolkien name, but some of their songs -- and most, maybe all of their album covers -- are from Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné.

 

[dcowboys311]

i am the vocalist of KILLWHITNEYDEAD

www.myspace.com/killwhitneydead

hahaha no shit
I used to listen to you guys all the time back in high school

 

[dcowboys311]

Iron Age is another really cool "retro" band you guys should check out. They might be a bit hardcore/punk for your tastes, but I love their latest album. Really well done thrashy oldschool vibes with just the right amount of real hardcore/punk influence to make it cool. Much preferred over Municipal Waste, actually!

http://www.myspace.com/ironagetexas

YES

I've been plugging these guys to everyone I know recently. Great band, and I'm not sure why they don't get more recognition in the metal scene. They're just a bunch of hardcore kids who grew up in the hardcore scene, playing hardcore shows, but they're a metal band. A friend of mine mentioned to me that they sound like a sped up Crowbar, and another one said they have RTL-era Metallica type riffing.

Can't wait to see them with Baroness and Px.

 

[TribunalRecords]

hahaha no shit
I used to listen to you guys all the time back in high school

thanks. glad you gave us some time of day. we appreciate it.

 

[J. Golden]

I know most of you hate doom (But then again you all hated folk metal until Glen booked some, right???), but the new Gates of Slumber moves into even more of a traditional metal approach.

Great band, and really nice guys too. Check out Apostle of Solitude if you don't know them already.

 

[Wyvern]

I know most of you hate doom (But then again you all hated folk metal until Glen booked some, right???),

Wrong on both counts.

I have been into doom since...Black Sabbath what do you know? . Doom is one of my favorite sub-genres, not only classic bands like Candlemass, Saint Vitus, Witchfinder General, but also newer bands like Forsaken, Memory Garden, Thunderstorm, Doomshine, Minotauri, Orodruin, etc.

BTW, the new Count Raven album ("Mammons War") slays everything! After 13 years the band came back dooming like if no time has passed since MOC. Along with the new Candlemass and Forsaken albums this has been a great year for doom IMO.


As for folk, I've been into Skyclad before I even knew that a PPUSA show existed (and still long to see them at the festival), and of course Tuatha de Danann, Falconer, Tyr, Alestorm all have found space in my collection.

 

[J. Golden]

I love the fact that this traditional metal thing is in fashion now. Some really good stuff is coming out of it; Cauldron, White Wizzard, Enforcer, etc. However it is a bit bitter sweet seeing this occurrence. I just wonder were these bands are going to be in a year’s time, hopefully doing well. What seems odd about this is now the press and bigger labels are just now taking notice. How long will it last? This will be nothing like the thrash metal second coming just because the N.W.O.B.H.M. movement wasn’t that big the first go round. It did not become as huge until years later when every band in the UK that sounded like Maiden to Bad Co. had the tag stamped on them.
So with this push from the press and labels what I see as ironic is that the stuff was already here, why are they just now catching on. Sure it is good these bands are now getting attention but Twisted Tower Dire, Icarus Witch, Aska, Widow (Tribunal Records and others have been around for some time now. So seeing the Metal Hammer article I could not help to think that some of the press is really clueless towards the metal scene.
Raleigh alone has had traditional metal bands for sometime now; Twisted Tower, Widow, Viper, Praetorius, now Colossus. Actually I can’t think of anywhere in the U.S. that as a similar pocket of “traditional” sounding metal bands The first time seeing Widow to hearing that first album I always thought they sounded like Angel Witch. Praetorius bring the first two Saxon to mind, and the newest TTD has a lot of Thin Lizzy and UFO in there. Good stuff.
By the way I suggest the first Widow album ‘Midnight Strikes’ to anyone who likes traditional and N.W.O.B.H.M sounding bands. The album has gotten difficult to find.

 

[J. Golden]

Bob - A couple of the Cirith Ungol guys are performing classic Ungol tunes under a different band name now (Whose name escapes me).

Never say never, but the likelihood of a full blown CU reunion is slim to none.

Is it Falcon?

 

[J. Golden]

No, not Falcon. What he's talking about is essentially an Ungol tribute band that just happens to have one or two actual Ungol members.

Falcon rules though.

Yeah you see that stuff a lot with bands.
Have yet to hear the Falcon way behind on that one.

 

[Diabolik]

couldnt get into Falcon at all.

 

[Jasonic]

Wrong on both counts.

Not really my friend.
I said "most of you" not ALL of you.

 

[Jasonic]

Oh, and TWISED TOWER DIRE owns big time!

 

[TribunalRecords]

By the way I suggest the first Widow album ‘Midnight Strikes’ to anyone who likes traditional and N.W.O.B.H.M sounding bands. The album has gotten difficult to find.

attempting to work on a deluxe reissue with the guys since the original version has been out of print on Tribunal for some time now.