The last 5-10 albums you listened to

[Blind Guardian]

Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side
Bathory - Twilight Of The Gods
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
FFX Piano Ballads
Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve

 

[ShredHeadJHJ]

Planet X - Universe
Planet X - Quantum
Deicide - The Stench of Redemtion
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Equilibrium - Turis Fratyr
Megadeth - The System Has Failed

Last 6 roundabouts.

 

[Andromidius]

That mood fucking RULES.

Damn straight.

And to show I have some variety in my tastes:

Gorguts - Obscura
Turisas - Battle Metal
Blind Guardian - Battalions of Fear
Gorgoroth - Under The Sign Of Hell
Deicide - The Stench of Redemption (currently listening to)

 

[ShredHeadJHJ]

And to show I have some variety in my tastes:

Gorguts - Obscura
Turisas - Battle Metal
Blind Guardian - Battalions of Fear
Gorgoroth - Under The Sign Of Hell
Deicide - The Stench of Redemption (currently listening to)

Variety...? That's all Metal.

I completely forgot I listened to Skinny Puppy's "Rabies" & Dave Martone's "When theAliens Come" last night. I also listened to Ayreon (soooo good), Allan Holdsworth, U.K., & Daft Punk within' the last 3-4 days.

 

[Belligerent]

Hypocrisy - S/T
October Tide - Grey Dawn
Terrorizor's Prog Special
In Flames - Live Tokyo Showdown
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
Drudkh - Blood in Our Wells
Type O Negative - Dead Again

 

[Andromidius]

Variety...? That's all Metal.

All different sub-genres though. Black Metal, Folk Metal, Avant-Garde, Prog, Brutal Death...

To me that's variety. Though I have some non-Metal if you really want to test my tastes. But then this IS a Metal forum.

 

[General Zaroff]

Arcturus-The Sham Mirrors
Borknagar-The Olden Domain
Xasthur/Leviathan split
Mayhem-DMDS
Gravediggaz-Six Feet Deep
ICP-The Great Milenko
Metallica-Ride The Lightning

 

[Zephyrus]

^^^ Nice run, with obvious exceptions

 

[General Zaroff]

^^^ Nice run, with obvious exceptions

I been in a hip hop mood.

Oh I forgot Emperor-In The Nightside Eclipse

 

[Jreg]

Crimson Massacre - The Luster of Pandemonium
Judas Iscariot - Distant in Solitary Night
The Gathering - Souvenirs
In Gowan Ring - Hazel Steps Through a Weathered Home
Rotten Sound - Exit
Leng Tch'e - The Process of Elimination

 

[Andromidius]

Cannibal Corpse - Gallery of Suicide
Slipknot - Iowa (before you linch me, I was just curious)
Cannibal Corpse - Gore Obsessed
Sunn O))) - White 1
Meshuggah - Catch 33

 

[death metal black metal]

Emperor/Enslaved split
Bruckner's 4th, 2nd - Karajan/BPO
Saint-Saens, Symphony 3, some NAXOS recording
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

 

[Perdition's Light]

Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall (currently listening to)
Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
Nuit Noire - Once Upon A Night + Somewhere in the Nightpast demos
Samael - Blood Ritual
Maniac Butcher - Barbarians
Breach - It's Me God
Grief - Come to Grief

last night + today.

 

[Zephyrus]

Samael - Reign of Light
Dimmu Borgir - Stormblast MMV
Melechesh - Emissaries
Behemoth - And the Forests Dream Eternally
Apostolum - Anedonia
Anaal Nathrakh - Domine Non Es Dignus
Anorexia Nervosa - Drudenhaus
Forest of Impaled - Forward the Spears
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Anaal Nathrakh - Eschaton
Samael - Eternal
Xasthur - Telepathic with the Deceased
Keep of Kalessin - Through Times of War
Various Artists - The World of the Organ by Simon Preston

 

[ShredHeadJHJ]

I never got into Samael, but I've heard a bit of their stuff & it was pretty coo. I need to stop being a bitch & check them out.

 

[Perdition's Light]

Anything before 95 is awesome but I can't say I'm crazy about anything after Ceremony of Opposites (1994). They started experimenting more with keyboards after that and many, including myself, feel they took a nose dive in musical quality. I'm not trying to start an argument here with anyone who thinks new Samael is good. It just really doesn't appeal to me.

edit: of course, when a band's been around 20 years, it's pretty unrealistic to not expect any drastic changes in sound.

 

[ShredHeadJHJ]

edit: of course, when a band's been around 20 years, it's pretty unrealistic to not expect any drastic changes in sound.

I also think it would be pretty stupid to actually want any band to do that. You gotta change it up a little. There are not many bands that put out a real number of albums that all sound the same come to think of it. There are some, no doubt though.

 

[Perdition's Light]

I'm in agreement, although more times than not the music is never again as good as when the band were at the pinnacle of their "classic" sound. I'm sure there are exceptions, but they seem very few and far between.

 

[Zephyrus]

I never got into Samael, but I've heard a bit of their stuff & it was pretty coo. I need to stop being a bitch & check them out.

Everything from Worship Him up through Eternal is excellent stuff, but be aware of the wide evolutionary span through those albums.

Start with Ceremony of Opposites. If you like the black metal aspect better than the industrial nuances, go backwards to Blood Ritual. If you're intrigued by the aforementioned fusion of genres, go forward to Passage.

 

[Vilden]

Fall of the Idols - The Womb of the Earth
Dreaming - II
Memory Garden - Verdict of Posterity
Desiderii Marginis - Seven Sorrows
While Heaven Wept - Of Empires Forlorn
Backworld - Good Infection
Coroner - Grin