Top 10 Metal Albums of 2016

[Dazed and Brutal]

Examples? Most Magma I've heard is really jazz-funky which is basically the opposite of black metal.

Sonically, you could make the argument that their more frenetic moments have an almost feverishly occult sound.

I was think more in the terms of post-second wave visual aesthetics. All their album cover's seem to convey a similar vibe. Sorry I don't have anything more concrete for ya. I'll run through their catalog this weekend and try to make some stronger parallels.

 

[CiG]

I hear much more of Magma's weird tentacles in the sounds of death metal, especially blatantly in a band like Obliteration, who closed out their Black Death Horizon album with an outro called "Churning Magma" which was a blatant wink to Magma.

 

[The Butt]

Garbage like ... Pink Floyd

 

[The Ozzman]

and the best Yes and King Crimson albums would like a word with you.

You're right. The Adrian Belew era albums are all under 41 minutes.

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

I hear much more of Magma's weird tentacles in the sounds of death metal, especially blatantly in a band like Obliteration, who closed out their Black Death Horizon album with an outro called "Churning Magma" which was a blatant wink to Magma.

Gonna have to peep them

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Animals is a decent enough album. It's also half the length of The Wall (which is irredeemable).

You're right. The Adrian Belew era albums are all under 41 minutes.

Not sure if this is sarcasm since 90s KC and beyond are longer, but Discipline is definitely one of their best.

 

[The Ozzman]

The Wall is the greatest album ever released by anyone

And I'm not being sarcastic as I think the Belew era is the best

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

I honestly believe Syd Barrett was the best floyd member

 

[CiG]

Really? I always thought of him more as a cult figure, somewhat overrated as a result.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

What is UM's opinion on Bike? Normies love that song but it's one of the worst things ever to me.

 

[The Butt]

The Wall is the greatest album ever released by anyone

that awkward moment when the wall isnt even the best floyd album

 

[Krow]

The Wall is my wife's favorite PF album. She also likes Korn though. Wish You Were Here and Animals are their best imo.

 

[Baroque]

I don't know how these end up so off-topic but Dark Side of the Moon > The Wall

 

[CiG]

 

[HamburgerBoy]

The Wall is my wife's favorite PF album. She also likes Korn though. Wish You Were Here and Animals are their best imo.

Daddy is more heart-wrenching and emotive than every David Gilmour solo put together. One day people will look back on those early Korn albums and realize what visionary works of brutal honesty they were and reevaluate them as the artistic masterpieces they are.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i don't get the barrett era really, seems totally drug-dependent but idk. i do rather like certain waters era songs, mostly from WYWH, TW and ECHOES, but to me post-barrett they represent the epitome of rich rock star vanity/smarm and a faux- as fuck counter-cultural streak lapped up by people who can't handle actual subversion. although i'm never sure whether floyd actually think they're way cleverer than they are (no wonder crimsonfloyd is half-named after them), or if they just purposefully pander to people like that in order to make a fucknut of money... which is actually pretty clever. either way it's utterly soulless though. and often reeeeeeally
boring.

 

[EspaDa]

No fucking way The Wall is the best PF album.

 

[The Ozzman]

No fucking way The Wall is the best PF album.

You convinced me

She also likes Korn though.

I read this as:

'I'm going to use my wife's shitty taste in music to rationalize why certain people like The Wall as the best PF album'

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

unnecessary ^

 

[The Ozzman]

unnecessary ^

Krow won't care. He'll shrug it off as me being buttmad or something.