METAL

[parson]

i been listening to danzig albums lately

AND IF YA WANNA FIND HELL W/ MEEEE

I CAN SHOOOW U WHAT ITS LIIIIKE!

[murk_dweller]

Venom

dude, venom suck balls

i'd rather listen to almost anything else


but, if we're making lists, here's what on my hard-drive:

acid bath

black sabbath [first 4 albums]

brujeria

burzum

death

earth

'gummo' soundtrack

hawkwind

high on fire

ISIS

mastodon

morbid angel

slayer

sleep

spazz

sunn o)))

today is the day

etc.

[COURT]

vex red (if you call it metal)
deftones
nin


however we must always remember

iron maiden...





suck balls! haha

[bandshell]

i love metal, fav metal bands deffo pantera and slipknot

[rynke]

Destroyer 666

i also listen to a fair bit of crust'ish metal punk

[alexchuck]

Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave

[ben freeman]

I wish Slayer would headline..... I saw them in 94' and Biohazard opened up for them. The first song was "punishment" and the whole joint erupted into the biggest mosh pit ever. I swear it was at least as big as a football field. If you were at that show, you were in the pit, and you were fighting for your life. That set the tone for the rest of the concert. Pure insanity. Now they open up for shitty bands I don't give a shit about like System of a Down, and Marilyn Mason....WTF. Slayer should be fucking headlining cause they are the ULIMATE METAL BAND. Fucking "Reign in Blood" is the best metal album of all time, ask any true metal head Grrrrrr.....

Angel Of Death to all pussyrockers!!!!

[my_war]

lots of slam
lots of crust

[wooda916]

all about machine head!

what about phil demmell collapsing on stage in sheffield!

i smell an OD!

they canceled rest of tour with slipknot, got to see em in brum tho last sunday so all good for me, hope he recovers tho, sick guitarist.

[edd]

loving enslaved and rammstein atm. thats about it though, unless u call system and paradise lost metal

[godflesh fiend]

My fav Metal/Punk/Rock bands are........

Melvins
Godflesh/Jesu
Swans
Killing Joke
Ministry/Lard/Revolting Cocks
Bad Brains
Big Black
Rezillos

And a few others........

For the guy who's girlfriend didn't get Slayers "Angel Of Death".......I have an Amon Tobin remix he did called "Angel Of Theft" which is devastating!!! She may get that????

[godflesh fiend]

on the topic of this thread - check out Techno Animal for metalheads turned to digi... they are seriously awesome. I'll try get something from their Brotherhood of the Bomb album on the stream on sunday.

Now you're talking.....I wouldn't call Techno Animal "Metal" though....it's more Apocalyptic Dub Hip Hop Industrial Noise. I'm sure you know TA is comprised of Justin Broadrick (Godflesh/Jesu) & Kevin Martin (Bug/God)......If you want TA type metal check out Godflesh. They're were the most brutal band on the planet (apart from Swans)...."Us & Them" was Godflesh's Hip Hop/Jungle/Sludge Metal type album......"Songs Of Love & Hate" was their full on Dub Sludgey Rock effort (only album Godflesh used with a real drummer apart from their last.... and a Dub album was also made from it).....the rest were sludge industrial beasts classics......although for some reason Godflesh were labeled as Grindcore??????

If you like TA you NEED to check the Ice album "Bad Blood"...that makes "Brotherhood Of The Bomb" sound like a Justin Timberlake record. Ice is Justin Broadrick & Kevin Martin once again but on the album "Bad Blood" it also features the talents of DJ Vadim, Blix Bargeld (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds), El-p, Toastie Taylor and a few other awesome artists......anyway this album is the most bad-ass album on the planet.

Here is a review which describes Ice's "Bad Blood" to a tee and is quite amusing...........

as reviewed by Nin Chan

In my continuing efforts to expose Rap Reviews readers to the bizarre, obscure gems of my worryingly large record collection, I have now taken it upon myself to spare some ink to this record, one which has had more influence on my own artistic output than damn near anything I can think of.

Before I embark on a self-indulgent tirade of ceaseless superlatives, I should probably provide some form of introduction to this criminally overlooked outfit and the illustrious artistic pedigree that they possess. Spawned from the fertile imagination of one JK Broadrick, Ice is essentially Mr Broadrick's premier full-fledged excursion into the unhallowed depths of dark, ambient, trippy hip-hop. To those of you in the know, JK Broadrick's lengthy resume includes a brief stint in Napalm Death, one of the most rabid, nauseatingly fast heavy bands of our time, a similarly short tenure with Head of David and a legendary career with electro-metal legends Godflesh, a band that over a 16 year career convinced me that few experiences in life can rival a Godflesh record. Fusing the downtuned guitars, barbarous, bloodcurdling screams and bloodthirsty indignation of grindcore/metal with the syncopated rhythms of jungle and hip-hop, Godflesh managed to absorb electronic and metal influences to create something wholly unique and distinctly grotesque, a monolithic beast altogether more gruesome than anything that had preceded it. To think that such unearthly sounds could be concocted from a primal base of electronic beats and downtuned, sludgey guitars is uncanny.

Anyway, I digress. It is common knowledge amongst Godflesh enthusiasts that JK Broadrick was rather vocal about his passion for hardcore rap, asserting that Godflesh had far more in common with Public Enemy than grindcore contemporaries like Extreme Noise Terror, Sore Throat and Nausea. While he had previously explored hip-hop and dark dub with exploits like Godflesh's Slavestate EP and the remix project Songs Of Love & Hate In Dub, it wasn't until this landmark record that he truly indulged his overwhelming affinity for rap music. Yet, this is far from a predictable listen- eschewing the artistic complacency of so many contemporary rap records, this is a sinewy, brooding, malodorous monster of a record, one that is as much a visceral statement as it is a musical experience.

If you have never heard a Godflesh, Final, Head of David or Curse of the Golden Vampire record, it is quite likely that this record will stagger and confound you upon first listen. While it sounds wholly unlike any other rap record you've likely heard, it is remarkably predictable in the sense that it sounds exactly like a JK Broadrick take on hip-hop should sound- the omnipresent low-end rumbles like a seismic wave, while Broadrick ornaments the sparse drum patterns with walls of oppressive, disorienting white noise. Opener "X-1" builds upon a foundation of live percussion and a plodding bassline, swirling into an apocalyptic, cathartic maelstrom of blips and disorienting, reverb drenched effects. "The Snakepit" employs a similar formula, driven by a mechanical, stuttered rhythm that pulses beneath Toastie Taylor's manic, breathy toasting. As the track progresses, subtle nuances are progressively introduced into the track- tablas faintly echo in the background, as Toastie's vocals and Blixa Bargeld (what the hell is he doing on this record?) are layered on top of each other, creating a suffocatingly dissonant effect that gives the song a uniquely claustrophobic feel.

Elsewhere, like-minded sonic terrorist El-Producto makes a memorable experience on "Trapped In Three Dimensions," delivering a scattershot, stream-of-consciousness verse that sprawls all over the bhangra drums. 30 seconds into the track, A-Syde proceeds to deliver a verse atop El-P's, his vocals panned to the right as El-P waxes poetic on the left. WHAT THE FUCK? Eventually the double-tracked vocals fade to give way to a glorious downtempo breakdown that sounds like prime Massive Attack, Justin Broadrick's sparse guitar plucks drowning in a jet-black, worryingly spacious sea of ominous, gnarly bass and deliberate, leadfooted drums. Only JK Broadrick could succeed in making downtempo trip-hop so deliciously demonic. While Portishead/ Massive Attack used downtempo to convey feelings of loss and melancholy and Wax Poetic transformed it into viable lounge music, Ice injects it with venomous, caustic bile and barbed sarcasm. A note must be spared here for the laudable use of live percussion throughout the record, courtesy of one Lou Ciccotelli. The live percussion gives the record a warm, organic, human feel that juxtaposes beautifully with the otherworldly electronics and droning, cruel basslines used so liberally throughout the record.

I can almost guarantee that you have never heard a rap record quite like Bad Blood. Twisted, uncompromisingly dark and vile, this is a record that you will either adore or detest. For that reason alone it is worthy of your attention- in an age where few records inspire anything beyond casual nods of the head, where much music has no greater purpose beyond being mere background noise, this is a record that will inspire fear, disgust and general uneasiness as it ventures into territory that no rap record has ever dared to traverse. If you consider yourself a fan of music and already have a jones for stuff like Dalek, DJ Vadim, Company Flow, Silver Bullet, The Bug, Soundmurderer etc., you need to give this a listen.

[wubstep]

Pantera
Down
Exodus
Testament
Devildriver
LoG
Corrosion of Conformity
Superjoint Ritual
Strapping Young Lad
Throwdown

All that good shit. I probably listen to more metal that dubstep, though the tables are turning.

[joni_speedbass]

the most metal song ever must be iron maiden - hallowed be thy name
brucie fucking d !!!!!

[my_war]

The Partisan Turbine.
do it.

[kminus1]

Yep! Love a bit of distortion in my life..much nicer than 'perfectly' produced cack.



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[tomre]

Gojira 'From Mars to Sirius' stays a favourite of mine. The track 'Global Warming' is a special one. Cd builds up very nice.

The last time I'm listening much to My Dying Bride. I'm not saying I like everything from them, but that man feels his music so much and I like that.

Love metal, know something of it, but to be honest not that much. Still lots to explore for me. But that's nice imo. My brother knows very much about metal, he's a metal head and I'm more into electronic music.

Will be going to Graspop this year as Slayer and the top 3 of doom metal are coming with more goodness. Really nice line-up, like always though. http://www.graspop.be/


I didn't see much metal live yet, but the ones I saw where very good. Brujeria, Earth, Sunn o))), Isis and Soulfly. Born from Pain is not really metal I guess (can be wrong). But that's it till now.

[Sterling Mastif]

Metal is my first love, like Metal is my wife, but Dubstep is my mistress. Been shreddin for nearly 17yrs now, so I propa love Metal. For me it is all about Deftones. Steph Carpenter is a riff machine.