Yet another occurance of big bands not understanding that nobody wants to hear every single note they ever played. Why are you recording and releasing every single one of the shows you're playing?

It's because people will buy the shows that they are at. My brother bought the shows we went to this summer, and the show he saw on the St. Anger tour. It definitely makes their MA page annoying, but there are other bands that do this sorta thing. Just not that many metal bands because there isn't enough demand for it.

I have no problems with bands going down the Pearl Jam route. If only Maiden could do the same.

So I'm listening to Sigh's Scorn Defeat to celebrate it's 30th anniversary, and when I pull it out I notice that the CD copy I have is the 2011 version, ergo not the cover I have on iTunes with the Japanese fellow in corpsepaint and the katana.

I refer to this:



The funny thing is when I open the digipak and read Mirai's notes, he talks about an artwork kerfluffle with the original artwork, and even more shocking he talks about this...



...which I didn't even know existed up until this point. I just always thought it was the katana corpsepaint picture.

My question is, what's the story with the 2011 artwork on the CD digipak I have? There's no reference to it in the liner notes whatsoever. It honestly doesn't even look like Sigh artwork, (not helped by the logo and the album title not being on it it looks like some other 2010s Season Of Mist band artwork.

Is Ghost the last metal band that made it to become big?

Edit: Grammar (still not sure if the question is well written or not)

I have no problems with bands going down the Pearl Jam route. If only Maiden could do the same.

1. Who wrote the lyrics to Black Sabbath's Eternal Idol album?

So, when it comes to death/doom metal, its a bit of a hit and miss track record with me:

Katatonia: Dance of December Souls- LOVE IT. 10/10 one of my favorite records of all time.
Katatonia: Brave Murder Day- Decent, not as good obviously. Can't remember a lick of it right now.
Cathedral: Forest of Equilibrium- Didn't hold up to me on a recent re-listen. Infinitely prefer Ethereal Mirror and Carnival Bizzare where they excised the death metal out of their sound
Winter: Into Darkness- Solid, but only because it knows when to speed up and it doesn't forget the solos.
Thergothon: Stream From The Heavens- boring and forgettable to me
Hooded Menace: Forgettable except for The Tritonus Bell (8/10) and Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed is ok I guess.
My Dying Bride: ATFW is cool, everything else not so much.

My random question is: Will I like diSEMBOWELMENT?

It's not that I don't like the death side of death doom, its that super slow death metal gets boring really quickly to me unless there is something extra to it, like DODS brilliant use of upper string riffs and synths, Winter knowing when to speed up/play leads, and in the case of Tritonus Bell, more midpaced tempos and grooves rather than super slow tempos.

Lost Paradise by Paradise Lost is the best death/doom album that I have heard.

Well disembowelment is definitely not super slow, and it speeds up quite a bit, so I would say give them a shot.

My random question is: Will I like diSEMBOWELMENT?

Disembowelment definitely heavily influenced fundoom but its not a fundoom album itself. It is absolutely an unique album that you have to hear for yourself.

It's the first time I ever read this genre named shortened to fundoom, and I think it might be a bit missleading for people unfamiliar with it

It's the first time I ever read this genre named shortened to fundoom, and I think it might be a bit missleading for people unfamiliar with it

Trying to think of a band I can call "fun doom."

Metal album covers that features mermaids, selkies, or some other similar feminine humanoid aquatic mythical creatures? I know Perils of the Deep Blue by Sirenia.

May be kind of a stupid or obvious question, idk, but what are the defining characteristics that make a band "slam"? I'm more of an OSDM guy, (Suffocation, Immolation, Incantation, CC, etc.) but am liking some Devourment and Kraanium lately. And Defeated Sanity and Dying Fetus are bands I've been very much into for some time.... So where is that "line" exactly? Is it strictly the breakdowns and slam style riffs? Is it a certain quantity of these traits that push it into the "slam" category? And also, do all slam bands qualify as metal or are some excluded from the archives for lacking in other "metal" characteristics?

Slam Death Metal is a subgenre of Brutal Death Metal that focuses on slow or midtempo (as well as breakdown-style) sections built on chromatic, palm-muted riffs - so called "slams". Compared to brutal death metal's basic songwriting aesthetics, blast beats and guitar solos are less important, though blast beat/tremolo riff sections are frequently applied. The visual aesthetics are quite similar, though slam death metal usually takes the macabre and violent look of brutal death metal to its extreme.

The genre has its origin in the 1990s New York death metal scene (which in turn brought in influences from the sound, attitude and aesthetic of New York Hardcore), where bands such as Suffocation pioneered the use of slam riffs. Devourment and Internal Bleeding are often considered the first true slam bands, as they popularized many of the genre's songwriting conventions and visual aesthetics. Other notable "slam" bands include Cephalotripsy and Short Bus Pile Up. The vocals normally consist of extremely low-pitched, unintelligible death grunts, frequently featuring Hip Hop-inspired vocal rhythms. Hip hop elements often appear in the drumbeats as well.

The genre is sometimes compared to or confused with Nu Metal due to the use of chugging atonal riffs and rap/hip hop influences, and Deathcore due to the guttural vocals, focus on breakdowns and general "tough guy" aesthetic. However, true Slam Death has few real connections to these subgenres apart from certain hybrid bands such as Waking the Cadaver.

Dying Fetus is not slam, but Devourment is, and Defeated Sanity kind of has some slam death elements, without going all in.

I like the definition of RYM for Slam death:



The last paragraph I disagree a little with though. Deathcore and slam death share similarities because of the breakdowns, low gutturals, mid-tempo simple chugging riffs, but they are still distinct, as there really aren't hardcore elements in slam, and the building blocks are mostly death metal.

This section is very accurate though: "...subgenre of Brutal Death Metal that focuses on slow or midtempo (as well as breakdown-style) sections built on chromatic, palm-muted riffs - so called "slams". Compared to brutal death metal's basic songwriting aesthetics, blast beats and guitar solos are less important, though blast beat/tremolo riff sections are frequently applied."

Sometime between when I started listening to metal in the 90s and the present I've been noticing fairly recently people talking about something called 'breakdowns'. Someone want to help me out with a definition? When did they come into being, or have they always been around and I just haven't been up to date with the lingo?

Sometime between when I started listening to metal in the 90s and the present I've been noticing fairly recently people talking about something called 'breakdowns'. Someone want to help me out with a definition? When did they come into being, or have they always been around and I just haven't been up to date with the lingo?

May be kind of a stupid or obvious question, idk, but what are the defining characteristics that make a band "slam"? I'm more of an OSDM guy, (Suffocation, Immolation, Incantation, CC, etc.) but am liking some Devourment and Kraanium lately. And Defeated Sanity and Dying Fetus are bands I've been very much into for some time.... So where is that "line" exactly? Is it strictly the breakdowns and slam style riffs? Is it a certain quantity of these traits that push it into the "slam" category? And also, do all slam bands qualify as metal or are some excluded from the archives for lacking in other "metal" characteristics?

Sometime between when I started listening to metal in the 90s and the present I've been noticing fairly recently people talking about something called 'breakdowns'. Someone want to help me out with a definition? When did they come into being, or have they always been around and I just haven't been up to date with the lingo?