The Extreme Music Forum's Top Recommended Albums Lists
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Funerary_Doom
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Interesting list. I got to admit, I was totally taken aback when I first heard Lykathea Aflame's Elevenfris album. However, I do like the Middle Eastern fusion (as I love ME music) some of the songs have in it. But I guess for the most part it is a pretty predictable list, which isn't a bad thing at all. It would be interesting to expand on this list into other genres, sub genres and or genre fusions to see what others consider the top picks, though.
I plan to have votings for heavy metal, doom metal, and thrash metal at some point. As for genre-fusions...I don't know. Someone else could probably take that on. Also, someone requested a version of the BM list with doubles (ie no 4 Darkthrone albums) removed...had some Aeternus, Ulver, Absu, etc. on there, if that makes anyone feel better.
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The Ozzman
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I love how Mort brings out the hypocrite in himself with threads like this. We call something overrated and he bitches about it, but when we make fun of him for liking No Doubt or Rilo Kiley or whatever, he whines about how intolerant we are about his taste.
HamburgerBoy
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tbh "X is far from overrated" is well-within the confines of ordinary, non-bitchy music discussion.
I do have to wonder if he still considers Pain of Salvation to be a progressive metal band, however.
I do have to wonder if he still considers Pain of Salvation to be a progressive metal band, however.
Mort Divine
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I've honestly not seriously listened to them in the longest time, but what I have heard of their recent output I wouldn't call prog. metal at all.
There is a difference between finding something overrated and calling someone a faggot or whatever over liking pop music. I've got no problem with people disliking things, but its the way in which it gets approached that is often the problem.
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I'm talking about their early stuff too. Pick whatever you consider to be their most progressive metal album, and I kind of doubt that it would pass the same standard you apply to avant-garde/BM crossovers, industrial metal/music, country music, alcoholic beverages, exotic Italian fabrics, etc.
Mort Divine
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Fair enough.
Something like this I think is still fairly metal in the same sense that bands like Dream Theater and other "prog metal" acts are, and I still do enjoy it though mostly because they played such a huge part in my musical journey over the years.
It wouldn't pass my recent standards if I just found out about the band, but I don't really dislike it.
Something like this I think is still fairly metal in the same sense that bands like Dream Theater and other "prog metal" acts are, and I still do enjoy it though mostly because they played such a huge part in my musical journey over the years.
It wouldn't pass my recent standards if I just found out about the band, but I don't really dislike it.
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HamburgerBoy
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See, this is what I'm talking about. I only referred to genre previously as do you whenever you make those kinds of posts, but now you're conflating that with your enjoyment of the music (unless of course you operate by some code which obligates you to only enjoy archetypal/"proper" examples of a given artistic style/concept).
Mort Divine
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I don't really operate by some kind of code, haha, I mean it isn't as if I only listen to traditional forms of each kind of music I enjoy. Some of my favorite metal albums aren't exactly traditional in nature...
Ascension's Consolamentum, Negura Bunget's OM, Agalloch in general, Primordial's Spirit The Earth Aflame, etc.
I think part of the reason I might come off otherwise is that I find the forced inclusion of experimentation with other styles of music into an already established base to be incredibly off putting. If it works naturally (or rather as I perceive it to be 'naturally') I don't take issue.
Ascension's Consolamentum, Negura Bunget's OM, Agalloch in general, Primordial's Spirit The Earth Aflame, etc.
I think part of the reason I might come off otherwise is that I find the forced inclusion of experimentation with other styles of music into an already established base to be incredibly off putting. If it works naturally (or rather as I perceive it to be 'naturally') I don't take issue.
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Alright I have to ask already, what is so great about Like an Everflowing Stream that almost everyone everywhere loves it? I can barely get through a single song without cringing because of how naive and predictable everything comes out. The sound was pretty original when the album came out but hasn't that 'Iron Maiden in death metal'-sound aged pretty terribly?
I'm not trying to be smug, if someone can help me hear the album from a different angle I'd be happy.
I'm not trying to be smug, if someone can help me hear the album from a different angle I'd be happy.
The Ozzman
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I've never even listened to the album. It's probably as overrated as most early death metal tends to be given the general reactions of people here to the early material for the genre.
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I like the DM list. I will take to the fucking grave that in terms of all time METAL albums, Death has a lot of contenders that deserve high marks, but in terms of "death metal" they don't. It'd be like putting Motorhead on the top thrash albums. Awesome band, classic albums, forefather to the sound, but not an example of the sound itself.
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TechnicalBarbarity
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I swear, you come up with some the most fucking retarded analogies i've ever heard.
edit: Krow beat me to it.
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Yeah I agree, I think it's pretty boring. Definitely not worthy of a spot in the top 25 IMO.
I'd rather just put on Left Hand Path.
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Does that apply to the Possessed, Massacra, and Atheist albums featured as well?
TechnicalBarbarity
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Like an Ever Flowing Stream is Swedish death metal perfection. Much better album than Left Hand Path(which i really like). The album just rips from top to bottom, not a single weak track, which is more than can be said about the overrated LHP ... it deserves to be on every list of top 25 death metal albums.
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