Ultimate top 10 metal album ever.

[muzmaze]

And as Pyramaze make a great singer shine even more - in my opinion Lance and Matt did their best jobs ever with Pyramaze - I guess it would be very interesting to hear Urban!

I completely agree!

Take nothing away from Matt or Lances performances in thier other projects or bands...but they have never sounded better as with Pyramaze.

Now that the band has another very solid release and growing even more with credibility in the metal community...I think other singers would wish and want to sing for this band in a second?

Maybe its to a point now, were on thier next release, they could recruit different big-name metal singers to each have an input on different tracks? Far fetched or bad idea... maybe? It could also be potentially very promising. Though, first wish would be to continue on with Matt (doesn't look like it'll happen), or add a guy like Urban for full vocal duties.

 

[Iced Dog]

Maybe its to a point now, were on thier next release, they could recruit different big-name metal singers to each have an input on different tracks? Far fetched or bad idea... maybe? It could also be potentially very promising.

Like an Avantasia type project...I'd rather Pyramaze stay as a normal band and maybe have Michael do a side-project like that...maybe even get Tobias Sammett to guest on it

 

[BurntOfferings666]

In no particular order as I listen to soooooooooooooo much music:

Iced Earth - Alive in Athens
Evergrey - In Search of Truth
Balance of Power - Perfect Balance
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Sanctuary - Into the Mirror Black
Pyramaze (fuck it all their albums are tied lol)
Soilwork - A Predator's Portrait
Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell

Honorable Mentions

Mercenary - Architect of Lies
Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
Judas Priest - Jugulator (Cathedral Spires is what saved this album)
Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World
Beyond Twilight - For the Love of Art and the Making
Metallica - Ride the Lightening

 

[Olddoggie]

Thanks Olddoggie for starting this thread! I'm now going to check out all the stuff I don't know yet... and as everyone is talking about Urban breed right now, I thought I could start with Tad Morose. I already listened to the short bloodbound-samples that BurtOfferings posted, but didn't listen close enough. As soon as I heard "Anubis" of Modus Vivendi, wow, I was infected with the Urban-virus! Up to now I wanted to hear Matt or a completely unknown vocalist on the next album, but now I guess Urban would perfectly fit as well. He's got a great range and emotion in his voice, really great!

And as Pyramaze make a great singer shine even more - in my opinion Lance and Matt did their best jobs ever with Pyramaze - I guess it would be very interesting to hear Urban!

You're welcome RedCriss and it was one of my intentions to discover in this way some 'new' bands, which are considered 'among the best' by other people. I will certainly check these bands out and probably be taken on a very nice musical trip.

One of the things that strike me in the replies is the frequency that Queensrÿche and Dream Theater are mentioned...these are my absolute favorite bands and it makes me kinda happy that many other people on this forum can 'feel and understand' the music of these 2 fantastic bands too....

As for Pyramaze, they really do bring out the best in the singers, don't they...makes me even more curious about the 'next' vocalist and i hope this one will stay...otherwise it will be very difficult to ever see Pyramaze performing live... some day, one day!!!

 

[korruption]

• Metallica - Master of Puppets
• Fear Factory - Demanufacture
• Symphony X - V
• Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond
• Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Beethovan's Last Night
• Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings and Horror Show
• Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory
• Seventh Wonder - Waiting in the Wings
• Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
• Biomechanical - The Empires of the Worlds

----- Honorable mentions:

• Strapping Young Lad - City
• Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient

In no particular order.

 

[EyeballKid]

No order:

Armored Saint - Symbol of Salvation
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Dio - Holy Diver
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Symphony X - The Odyssey
Corrosion of Conformity - Wiseblood
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Anthrax - Sound of White Noise

 

[Re-Aligned]

I was infected with the Urban-virus! Up to now I wanted to hear Matt or a completely unknown vocalist on the next album, but now I guess Urban would perfectly fit as well. He's got a great range and emotion in his voice, really great!

And as Pyramaze make a great singer shine even more - in my opinion Lance and Matt did their best jobs ever with Pyramaze - I guess it would be very interesting to hear Urban!

I agree with the Urban thing as well! He's a bad ass vocalist, and if Matt doesn't stay in the band, well, he'd be the one I'd like to see step up to the plate!

I definitely dig the Lance King-ish voices out there, but in all honesty, I really don't want another high pitched "screamer" to replace a vocalist like Matt. I think that deeper, emotional voice fits the music that Pyramaze presents to us perfectly!

But either way, the guys haven't let us down yet. So here's to 'em....

 

[muzmaze]

Yes...the deeper-emotional voice fits well. But please Pyramaze, no stupid death-growl vocals, your music is too good for that...Matts low registers at times are just right and low enough.

 

[Thorns On My Grave]

Hah hah... to each their own and all that jazz, but "no stupid death growls" is a pretty ignorant thing to say. A HUGE chunk of the best music out there has "stupid death growls."

 

[Daybreaker]

Judas Priest - Stained Class
Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys pt II
Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side
Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
Pretty Maids - Future World
Overkill - The Years Of Decay
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Edguy - Theater Of Salvation
Running Wild - Death Or Glory

 

[muzmaze]

Hah hah... to each their own and all that jazz, but "no stupid death growls" is a pretty ignorant thing to say. A HUGE chunk of the best music out there has "stupid death growls."

Well...not trying to be ignorant, but my point is not to criticize the style of music that features death growls. I like much of the music and would probably purchase more...its the vocals that turn me away. I consider a voice as an instrument-so to speak, and I can't listen to any instrument if I think it sounds like crap...as you say "to each thier own."

 

[pyramazekeyboardist]

Well...not trying to be ignorant, but my point is not to criticizing the style of music that features death growls. I like much of the music and would probably purchase more...its the vocals that turn me away. I consider a voice as an instrument-so to speak, and I can't listen to any instrument if I think it sounds like crap...as you say "to each thier own."

Death/Black metal vocals, if executed properly by a skilled throat, can add an aggressive and rhythmic element to the music. It also creates a dynamic within the contrast of clean/power vocals and the aforementioned style. However, each his own

 

[Thorns On My Grave]

I understand your point entirely, don't get me wrong. I just often feel like a lot of people are too critical of death growls. I understand why people don't like them, but I find calling them stupid, or in many people's cases, talentless, to be pretty tasteless. I myself thought the same thing about a good old ripping falsetto (ala Ripper, Halford, and occasionally, Dickinson), having began my descent into metal with bands like Cryptopsy, Suffocation, Obituary and Cannibal Corpse. My tastes were changed when I bought Battle of the Ivory Plains by Dragonland, but it took me months to get into the album (having bought it because the cover looked awesome, hah).

I just think everything has a place, and there are MANY talented growlers/screamers out there who in their own right are just as killer as the best clean vocalists.

 

[muzmaze]

I understand you guys.

Though, I don't like growling vocals...I should have just eliminated the word "stupid" in my original statement, unnecessary on my part. "if executed properly by a skilled throat" as J-mentioned... then I can see others liking it.

 

[RedCriss]

I guess it's all just a matter of taste, there are some styles of music you like/dislike and there are some vocalists you like/dislike... I'm listening to Immortal's "At the Heart of Winter" right now and I like the vocals on this record, though there are not many death/black metal vocalists that I like. But for me it's the same with the so called power metal: most of the vocalists sound so similar and boring to me... I'm pretty open minded and listen to all kinds of metal, a good band 'just' needs to have creative musicians and emotional vocals, something that makes them unique. I don't distinguish between power/death/black/whatever-kind-of metal anymore, I just say "I like it" or "I do not like it". And everyone has a different taste, that's why so many bands are out there. And we have the freedom to choose the bands we want to hear.

 

[Iced Dog]

It also creates a dynamic within the contrast of clean/power vocals and the aforementioned style.

That's the scenario where I most enjoy growls...the juxtaposition to clean vox often works extremely well (Opeth, Epica, Orphaned Land, etc.)

 

[muzmaze]

That is the beauty of metal...all the different styles, and all full of conviction.

Most my age started off listening to heavy stuff, then end up listening to lighter-mello stuff.

Its funny, its been somewhat of a backwards process for me over the years.

My tastes have gone from liking pop-rock, rock, hard rock, classic metal, melodic metal, prog metal, heavy metal, thrash, and now to more power-epic / new thrash metal. At this rate who knows whats next...by the time I'm 40 I'll probably be into death-hardcore metal?

 

[Thorns On My Grave]

Maybe some Nu-Deth-Electro-Post-Hardcore-Pop-Polka-Trance Metal?

 

[muzmaze]

...yeah, that will do it!
wait, is that pre or post Industrial!

 

[Daybreaker]

The first time I heard Cannibal Corpse I thought the dude was singing with a mouthful of Whataburger. I never thought I'd like vocals like that. Bodom and In Flames were the first two bands to make me start leaning more towards harsh vocals. Well, almost but not quite deathy. I liked "harsh" vocals like Testament shit but not really growls. Now I listen to and can understand a ton of these bands that used to sound like they're singing with a mouthful of burg.