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Having just discovered Katatonia, I have moved on to Tonight's Decision and...

Fuck, I am definitely buying this one. This is a fucking great album so far, and I'm only two songs in. How did I miss this band all this time?

Resident_Hazard wrote:

I've been a metal fan for almost 20 years, and Katatonia is a band I've never gotten into. I've only ever heard The Great Cold Distance, Night Is The New Day & Dead End Kings start-to-finish and a few tracks from earlier records, so I haven't heard any of the big classics in full. I don't know why I've stalled on getting on that. Maybe I will this month.

Ministry - Houses of the Molé
Not as awesome as Rio Grande Blood, but the lunacy and intensity I love are there. Very solid record.

Burzum - Joln
Umskiptar is a plodding, atmospheric album that has taken a while for me to come around to. Not as hard-hitting or loud as the other heavy albums, but still riddled with chilling tremolo runs and other exciting passages. Varg's 'narration' style vocals become hypnotic over the riffscapes. This is a trance-inducing black metal album perfect for yet another stormy morn.

(2017) Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar and (1995) Ulver - Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler on my way to work.

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The Chasm - The Spell of Retribution (just the whole fucking album)

I just started this thing, haven't played it in maybe a month or two. I'm psyched up about their new release and wanted to go back to some faves. Is this one of the greatest album intros ever? That swirling lead builds so much tension as the rest of the band slowly creeps to life. And then they just break through everything with the sickest little half-gallop. Hail Daniel Corchado. Utter genius.

Monolord - Rust

BOOM.

The Chasm - Conscious Creation from the Isolated Domain

Beautiful and destructive. Utter classic metal riff mastery and the songs work super well as instrumentals - you really don't need vocals for this one, the songs are done well without them and having more traditional vocal structures would just hamper the ideas and the long-form writing.

You know, I've heard their name a ton but have never really looked into them too deeply. What song would you recommend a prospective fan?

Bergtatt is so short, so one always has time for it!

All killer, no filler! Haavard's playing is so inspiring

Arcturus - Moonshine Delirium
So-so album, but the solo in this song is pure high level tasteful shredding!

Enslaved- E
Currently on "Sacred Horse". I am speechless so far. In the good (very good) way.

The Ocean - Orosirian: For The Great Blue Cold Now Reigns.

Whole of Precambrian is as good as it gets, but this song just crushes it on a whole different level.

Seventh Avenue - Terium

This album might be power metal perfection. Are you into these guys, Kerrick?

Author:	~Guest 417309 [ Wed Oct 11, 2017 10:55 am ]
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Sacramentum - Beyond All Horizons Raining here this morning so this is perfect.

Author:	Resident_Hazard [ Wed Oct 11, 2017 11:01 am ]
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After giving Anathema's The Optimist a try (it was okay, but kind of petered out over the last half of the album), YouTube was all, "hey, how about Katatonia?" in one of the suggested videos. I've never actually listened to them. So I'm giving The Great Cold Distance a listen. This band just might fill the Doom-Death mood I've been in, that has largely been focused on Desultory and Paradise Lost lately.

Author:	Resident_Hazard [ Wed Oct 11, 2017 12:11 pm ]
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Having just discovered Katatonia, I have moved on to Tonight's Decision and... Fuck, I am definitely buying this one. This is a fucking great album so far, and I'm only two songs in. How did I miss this band all this time?

Author:	Empyreal [ Wed Oct 11, 2017 12:42 pm ]
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Divinity Compromised - Terminal This is interesting so far. Not as direct or punchy in that Tad Morose/Dark at Dawn way like I was hoping, but they seem like super ambitious songwriters and try new, interesting shit on every track I've heard thus far. Groovy, proggy riffs, a bit of old Metallica-style thrashing every now and then, emotive deep vocals and some sophisticated, Kamelot-esque keys here and there, and lots of twists and turns. Dunno if this is a great album but I think they definitely have potential as they keep going.

Author:	BasqueStorm [ Wed Oct 11, 2017 2:19 pm ]
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(2012) Peste Noire - Les Démos on my way back from work. I like this. Interesting.

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Author:	TheWaltzer [ Thu Oct 12, 2017 2:17 am ]
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Resident_Hazard wrote: Having just discovered Katatonia, I have moved on to Tonight's Decision and... Fuck, I am definitely buying this one. This is a fucking great album so far, and I'm only two songs in. How did I miss this band all this time? Which albums have you heard? Tonight's Decision is a good one to get early, IMO. And I agree with you - "For My Demons" and "I Am Nothing" is a huge opening duo. NP: Ministry - Houses of the Molé Not as awesome as Rio Grande Blood, but the lunacy and intensity I love are there. Very solid record.

Author:	~Guest 417309 [ Thu Oct 12, 2017 8:45 am ]
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Burzum - Joln Umskiptar is a plodding, atmospheric album that has taken a while for me to come around to. Not as hard-hitting or loud as the other heavy albums, but still riddled with chilling tremolo runs and other exciting passages. Varg's 'narration' style vocals become hypnotic over the riffscapes. This is a trance-inducing black metal album perfect for yet another stormy morn.

Author:	jimbies [ Thu Oct 12, 2017 9:53 am ]
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Resident_Hazard wrote: Having just discovered Katatonia, I have moved on to Tonight's Decision and... Fuck, I am definitely buying this one. This is a fucking great album so far, and I'm only two songs in. How did I miss this band all this time? I've been a metal fan for almost 20 years, and Katatonia is a band I've never gotten into. I've only ever heard The Great Cold Distance, Night Is The New Day & Dead End Kings start-to-finish and a few tracks from earlier records, so I haven't heard any of the big classics in full. I don't know why I've stalled on getting on that. Maybe I will this month.

Author:	Xymosys [ Thu Oct 12, 2017 1:02 pm ]
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jimbies wrote: Resident_Hazard wrote: Having just discovered Katatonia, I have moved on to Tonight's Decision and... Fuck, I am definitely buying this one. This is a fucking great album so far, and I'm only two songs in. How did I miss this band all this time? I've been a metal fan for almost 20 years, and Katatonia is a band I've never gotten into. I've only ever heard The Great Cold Distance, Night Is The New Day & Dead End Kings start-to-finish and a few tracks from earlier records, so I haven't heard any of the big classics in full. I don't know why I've stalled on getting on that. Maybe I will this month. I would strongly recommend Last Fair Deal Gone Down and Viva Emptiness albums. The pure essence of that band.

Author:	Red_Death [ Thu Oct 12, 2017 1:55 pm ]
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Organ Dealer - Exasperated Off their latest split with Birdflesh. As expected, OD side rips.

Author:	colin040 [ Thu Oct 12, 2017 3:16 pm ]
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Prajna - Killing the Vice Pretty energetic speed metal here. Not crazy about it but I can see this band/dude becoming better in some short years to come.

Author:	demonomania [ Thu Oct 12, 2017 5:06 pm ]
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Monolord - Rust BOOM.

Author:	frostyj66 [ Thu Oct 12, 2017 10:58 pm ]
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Nazghor - Infernal Aphorism (2017) Just released today. Man these guys are quite prolific - 6 full length albums in 5 years! Pretty typical Swedish melodic BM. The guitar riffs are the absolute highlight and are as killer as they are numerous. Such a pity the vocals and drumming are very bland and uninspiring. Some iffy songwriting brings it down too (quality not quantity boys) but a decent enough distraction while Naglfar are MIA I suppose.

Author:	Wilytank [ Fri Oct 13, 2017 12:37 am ]
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Primitive Man - Caustic Pure misery. I thought "Commerce" was bleak as fuck, but once the album reaches the interlude "The Weight" everything goes straight to the darkest parts of Hell and that's the way this album stays until the close.

Author:	Napalm_Satan [ Sat Oct 14, 2017 7:42 am ]
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Opeth - Damnation Much better than anything else they've done. Hell, I'd even call it good.

Author:	BasqueStorm [ Fri Oct 13, 2017 4:18 am ]
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TheWaltzer wrote: Ministry - Houses of the Molé Not as awesome as Rio Grande Blood, but the lunacy and intensity I love are there. Very solid record. nekrosonic wrote: Burzum - Joln Umskiptar is a plodding, atmospheric album that has taken a while for me to come around to. Not as hard-hitting or loud as the other heavy albums, but still riddled with chilling tremolo runs and other exciting passages. Varg's 'narration' style vocals become hypnotic over the riffscapes. This is a trance-inducing black metal album perfect for yet another stormy morn. (2017) Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar and (1995) Ulver - Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler on my way to work. and .

Author:	colin040 [ Fri Oct 13, 2017 6:09 am ]
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Pokolgép - A Jel I used to find this album underwhelming for some reason, yet it's growing on me ever since I've been revisiting it this week. Pretty decent Hungarian metal here with unusual but fine vocals.

Author:	~Guest 285196 [ Fri Oct 13, 2017 6:45 am ]
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Satanic Warmaster - Satan's Race Listening to the new compilation. It's on the official YouTube channel. Liking it so far! Finnish black metal is something special. BasqueStorm wrote: (2017) Ulver - The Assassination of Julius Caesar and (1995) Ulver - Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler on my way to work. and . Bergtatt is so short, so one always has time for it!

Author:	~Guest 334273 [ Fri Oct 13, 2017 7:16 am ]
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All killer, no filler! Haavard's playing is so inspiring Arcturus - Moonshine Delirium So-so album, but the solo in this song is pure high level tasteful shredding!

Author:	jimbies [ Fri Oct 13, 2017 9:36 am ]
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Enslaved- E Currently on "Sacred Horse". I am speechless so far. In the good (very good) way.

Author:	Jonpo [ Fri Oct 13, 2017 9:41 am ]
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The Chasm - The Spell of Retribution (just the whole fucking album) I just started this thing, haven't played it in maybe a month or two. I'm psyched up about their new release and wanted to go back to some faves. Is this one of the greatest album intros ever? That swirling lead builds so much tension as the rest of the band slowly creeps to life. And then they just break through everything with the sickest little half-gallop. Hail Daniel Corchado. Utter genius.

Author:	Empyreal [ Fri Oct 13, 2017 9:45 am ]
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Jonpo wrote: The Chasm - The Spell of Retribution (just the whole fucking album) I just started this thing, haven't played it in maybe a month or two. I'm psyched up about their new release and wanted to go back to some faves. Is this one of the greatest album intros ever? That swirling lead builds so much tension as the rest of the band slowly creeps to life. And then they just break through everything with the sickest little half-gallop. Hail Daniel Corchado. Utter genius. It really does work best as a whole unit. Such a good album. The songs are super long but the riffs justify it completely. "Conqueror and Warlord" and "The Eclipse" are particularly savage, lethal, but well written songs. The Chasm - Conscious Creation from the Isolated Domain Beautiful and destructive. Utter classic metal riff mastery and the songs work super well as instrumentals - you really don't need vocals for this one, the songs are done well without them and having more traditional vocal structures would just hamper the ideas and the long-form writing.

Author:	ThePoop [ Fri Oct 13, 2017 9:50 am ]
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demonomania wrote: Monolord - Rust BOOM. This band seems to be getting better with each release... NP: Napalm Death / Melt Banana - Like Piss To a Sting (split) Damn, how did I miss this? I love both bands.

Author:	Jonpo [ Fri Oct 13, 2017 9:53 am ]
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Empyreal wrote: The Chasm - Conscious Creation from the Isolated Domain Beautiful and destructive. Utter classic metal riff mastery and the songs work super well as instrumentals - you really don't need vocals for this one, the songs are done well without them and having more traditional vocal structures would just hamper the ideas and the long-form writing. I agree that almost no one else could pull it off. I sampled just a few minutes of the new one but wasn't really in the right headspace and it's not the sort of thing you can take in with a sample. I'm just going to order it. I didn't see a link for the CD on their bandcamp though, have you spotted that or looked at all? The Spell of Retribution has so many unbelievable riffs. He does that speed-picked thing where they're racing along and then throws in those beautiful melodic little tails to anchor everything. I wasn't sure how the new one would sound with the band pretty much just being him these days but the brief sample I heard still sounded EXTREMELY fleshed out. He knows how to let the guitars have a conversation, so there's no vocals really necessary.

Author:	Empyreal [ Fri Oct 13, 2017 10:42 am ]
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You can get the CD here at their site: http://luxinframundis.com/?i=1 Unless I forgot something, the band has always pretty much been him with just a few guys, so this isn't too big of a change honestly - his riffs were always at the forefront. I dig long, epic riff-laden metal songs so they work for me quite a bit. Soundgarden - Superunknown Still excellent - really well done songs and vocals.

Author:	TrueDynamite [ Fri Oct 13, 2017 12:39 pm ]
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Power Quest - Sixth Dimension Coming home to neverworld Over the mountains and so far away Time has come to stand as one Follow your heart and you'll find better days Serenity - United Both singles have been fantastic. If the rest of the album stays on course, they’re going to knock Aldaria out of the #1 spot.

Author:	hallowed78 [ Fri Oct 13, 2017 12:54 pm ]
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The Ocean - Orosirian: For The Great Blue Cold Now Reigns. Whole of Precambrian is as good as it gets, but this song just crushes it on a whole different level.

Author:	Napalm_Satan [ Fri Oct 13, 2017 3:59 pm ]
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Metallica - 'Spit Out the Bone' This album is good, very good in fact. Most of the songs are strong, and the weaker ones are still entertaining in a black album sort of way. The only real stinker was 'Here Comes Revenge', because that hook is too repetitive for its own good. The performances are better than they've been in a long time and even the production is decent.

Author:	Kerrick [ Fri Oct 13, 2017 4:50 pm ]
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Forsaken - Dominaeon ^In preparation for their new album Pentateuch which was released today. I can't wait to get home and listen to it on speakers better than these crappy computer speakers I've got here at work.

Author:	TrueDynamite [ Fri Oct 13, 2017 4:59 pm ]
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Seventh Avenue - Terium This album might be power metal perfection. Are you into these guys, Kerrick?

Author:	Kerrick [ Fri Oct 13, 2017 5:04 pm ]
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You know, I've heard their name a ton but have never really looked into them too deeply. What song would you recommend a prospective fan?

Author:	TrueDynamite [ Fri Oct 13, 2017 5:09 pm ]
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Kerrick wrote: You know, I've heard their name a ton but have never really looked into them too deeply. What song would you recommend a prospective fan? I’m actually just getting into them as well. I’m listening to “New Era” from this album right now and it’s pretty damn good. I also like Infinite Kings and Tale of the Forgotten Dreams (this might be my favorite song from them so far).

Author:	Kerrick [ Fri Oct 13, 2017 5:28 pm ]
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Cool; I'll check them out!

Author:	BasqueStorm [ Fri Oct 13, 2017 5:58 pm ]
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raumr wrote: Bergtatt is so short, so one always has time for it! Morn Of Solace wrote: All killer, no filler! Haavard's playing is so inspiring Arcturus - Moonshine Delirium So-so album, but the solo in this song is pure high level tasteful shredding! P.S: I like (2005) Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies. jimbies wrote: Enslaved- E Currently on "Sacred Horse". I am speechless so far. In the good (very good) way. Downloaded. (1996) Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill on my way from work.

Author:	ThePoop [ Sat Oct 14, 2017 3:56 am ]
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hallowed78 wrote: The Ocean - Orosirian: For The Great Blue Cold Now Reigns. Whole of Precambrian is as good as it gets, but this song just crushes it on a whole different level. Great song. Great album. I'd say Precambrian is still the best thing this band (/collective?) has ever done. But for me, it's all about "Stenian: Mount Sorrow" NP: Brutus - Burst (album) Yeah, this is easily the best thing I've heard all year. Absolutely floored. You won't hear anything like this band. Female fronted hardcore/mathrock/post-rock with occasional blast beats (!) and a few moments of post-black metal riffing. More than just a hodge-podge of genres and sounds, though. The band is very focused and cohesive. The emotional immensity of this album is stunning. Unmatched debut, hell, unmatched album as far as 2017 goes.