Thanks to all you guys, who helped me on my search for "triumphant / fanfare-like" music!

And another great "Thank you" I have to sent in the direction of blood_and_fire for starting his thread for "happy depressive black metal" and then Snowgrave for pointing him (and me) towards Svarti Loghin - what brilliant music... I'm nearly speechless!

No problem. Glad you like them!

Thanks to HamburgerBoy for his recommendation of Tension in the "Looking for something Overkill-esque" thread. Great band!

Someone recommended me Gojira about 18 months ago. I came in asking for stuff that was "progressive, but heavier than your usual prog band". I was recommended Gojira. Right since then, They've remained my favourite band of all time. So thank you, whoever you are!

I guess it's only fiting that my first post be a thank you.

Thanks to the guys who recommended the following:

Carcariass (much better than expected)
Coromorant (same)
Withered Beauty
Searing Meadow
The Fifth Sun
Mercenary
Zonaria

One can never have too much metal, and I've been sorely lacking in new melodeath bands, so thanks.

I remember someone recommended me Desultory a while back when I wanted melodic death metal that wasn't the gothenburg kind, I knew about the band but hadn't bothered looking them up. Now they are one of my favorites from my favorite scene. Thanks whoever you are!

Thanks to STORMM for his recommendation of Sear Bliss!

Your welcome mate, glad you liked them, forgot to tell you to try Forest Silence, a side project of the band, also excellent stuff.

I have to thank whoever recommended Crystal Viper and Shadowside. I am sure it was two different users though not entirely sure.

Empyreal, thanks for recommending me Tad Morose (among many other power metal bands). I knew there was a band in the genre that would be my gateway drug, and so far they're proving themselves capable of the task.

Thanks to Hunger4HumanFeces for reccing me Hour of Penance and Asphyx. Those bands truly kick ass, and have kept me listening to them for a long time.

Thanks again bro.

It takes awhile (a few months) to get the vibe of this place (Metal Archives) but if one reads enough threads for enough consecutive days it's possible to make out some semblence of intelligence within this maelstrom of metal.

BIG THANKS TO THOSE WHO RECOMMENDED THESE BANDS (Yes I do read & value your valuable insights):

Portal. Holy jeezus shit. I picked up Swarth the other day on the simple basis that M-A (you people out there on the internets) raves day & night about them. And you guys were right. It's total nonsense guitar noise which ironically resembles the content in Encyclopaedia Metallum Forums. I fucking love the stereo mix on the guitars. Exceedingly brutal vocals are interspersed throughout the recording in the same way that raw meat is interspersed into a crowded fish tank of pirana fish. People keep asking where can extreme metal go? It goes through this Portal and comes out sounding like Swarth.

Skeletonwitch. Both albums are speedy, blackened, thrashy kick ass frenzy of riffs & both are now in my collection due to those people writing some good, objective descriptive snapshots here on M-A. This is some very exciting song writing with sweet production values. The second cd gives a more "live room" sound , with emphasis on the ;'warmth' because this band is hotter than hell on these back to back silver platters, Beyond the Permafrost & Breathing the Fire. Now I need to see them live in concert to ssatiate my lustfull greedy appetite for all Skeletonwitch products. My predictionis that a Skeletonwitch concert t-shirt is in my 2010 future.

[opens another PBR and keeps typing away..]

Mayhem DMDS. Reading this site convinced me that my metal collection was incomplete. A long time ago a friend of mine tried to get me to listen to this and I just couldn't tolerate it. Today, as I write, I have seen Mayhem live and listened to DMDS numerous times. The record itself is a real metal object of art. Somehow Mayhem has managed to record guitars that, like lazers, slice through the brain at microscopic intervals, creating an infinite number of planes of existence, as experienced through the expression of the audio mixture of Mayhem with the Mysteriis of Sathanas. Does DMDS make the rest of my black metal collection obsolete? No. Does DMDS make my collection complete? No. Black metal is merely the entrance to an eternal abyss of nothingness... best expressed by black metal.

[wow that sucked but i'm drunk and i'll go for another one]

Nile. Goddamn. I totally ignored Nile until I registered at M-A. I'd see a few remarks here and there... the reviews sounded pretty tasty.. I picked up Legacy of the Catacombs first because it's like a greatest hits. Now I'm just going back to buy all the albums anyway because the albums are albums and need to be listened to as such. This is the only way to capture the fucking essence of Nile, album by album. So fare I have AOTW and FWTGD which are crushing me on the commute to work every day. Nile will be in Seattle this month at El Corazon and that is going to be some crushing shit. Holy fucking Egyptian mythos. The dude is serious about his liner notes like Nergal is.

That's it. Thanks for all the good recs.

I don't remeber who did it, but someone reccomended Electric Wizard for me awhile back when I first joined the Archives, and now it's one of my favorite bands.

Thanks to Belial, childrenofthenight, caspian, HumanWaste5150, and Doomsday for their recommendations. I'm really getting into Avrigus (AUS), Sacrilege, Jex Thoth, Mourn, and Blood Ceremony

I owe thomash a pat on the back for the introduction into Ved Buens Ende's world of avant-garde chaos.

No idea who it was, but thanks for introducing me to older In Flames, Project Hate and Sinister.

Back when I ran "The MA Top Folk Metal Albums Survey" (which a lot of people hated), one album stood out to me as a I added up the results. That album was "Trollskau, Skrømt og Kølabrenning" by Myrkgrav. I quickly sought out this record and was amazingly pleased at finding one of the best albums I have ever heard. So I guess my thanks goes out to everyone who participated in the survey - even if they hated the way I ran it...

Thanks to whoever recommended Perversor. I didn't know death thrash like Sarcófago still existed.

Thanks to Sharkuu for reccomending Insomnium and Daylight Dies, they are both one of my top 10 favorites now
Almightyjoey for reccomending Lurker of Chalice, a band in my top 15-ish

I want to say thanks to everyone on here who has ever made a reccomendation for someone else.

Ive lurked for 2 years ish and in that time ive seen recs for all my favorite bands.

Kreator
Destruction
Mystic Prophecy
Firewind
Skyfire

just to name a a couple.

Thanks guys.

Well there was this topic and someone posted a youtube link of Arckanum. Thinking it was from my Kostogher album I clicked it but it wasn't, it came from Fran Marder and I liked it. So I got the Fran Marder album and their demo Arckanum - Trulen which is even friggin better! Can't find the topic, must have been removed like so many other... Anyways thanks dude! Wouldn't have never listened to these without ya.

Everyone in this thread that mentioned Oranssi Pazuzu's "Muukalainen Puhuu"....

this is a really solid record...

I wish i could remember who recommended Morgue's 'Eroded Thoughts' (1993) because that album was a hidden gem. I can't stop listening to it!!

I'd like to thank Adriankat for introducing me to Vehemence. Impossibly brutal, yet amazingly melodic and beautiful in a death metal sort of way.

Someone recommended me:

Watain
Silencer
Tartaros
Grief of Emerald
Lunar Aurora
Lamia Antitheus
Carach Angren

Thanks!

Thanks Humanwaste5150. That is exactly what i was looking for

Thanks to well_ov_mimir for starting the Triptykon thread. That forced me to check them out, and now I have the CD and loving it. Thanks, dude.

Thanks to whoever recommended Hiroshima Will Burn in that one thread about technical wankery death metal. They are fucking amazing.

Guys, at least have the decency to state the username of the person you're thanking. If they've gone through the effort of recommending something good to you, the least you can do is go back to the thread to get their name. Statements like, "Thanks to whoever..." and "Someone recommended me..." just aren't good enough.

My first post on this board was asking for freak/folk recommendations.

Even though this rec. didn't really match what I was asking for (no one seemed to get it, really), I'm so glad that it was mentioned. Thanks AuldAnxiety for mentioning Feathers - Ibex Horn, from the gnomeozoic live EP, is fucking fantastic. perhaps the best psychedelic rock song of the millenium so far.

I looked for the topic but couldn't find it. Sorry I can't live up to your standards, Dad.

Your welcome Son.

I'd like to thank Pwctf for recommending Dream death, in the doom metal thread for everyone. They are definitely one of the fastest doom bands I've ever heard.

My account hunger4humanfeces was banned, so i had to create a new one. But you are very welcome man. It always feels awesome when you help someone with something.

Thanks to CrushedRevelation for recommending Instinct in the Solo "Bedroom" Black Metal thread.

Was that me?

And which tech wank thread? That trigger guys?

Thanks to OlioTheSmall for showing me Dystopia (USA). They're really good and I currently have their material somewhere in the postal system.

Mikey you recommended Ignivomous to someone in death metal help thread and i checked it out too. Can't thank you enough man. That is one of the best death metal albums i've heard in a long time.

I think you may have the wrong person. I've never recommended Ignivomous, only because I've never heard them. Sorry, mate.

My bad, i must have mistaken you for someone else. I need to go back and see who recommended them.