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The MetalEra |OT| We're not in the Stone Age anymore

selfReg

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Song of the Day



Pestilence (NLD) - Dehydrated

Consuming Impulse was one of my earliest obsessions as a death metal fan. Martin van Drunen's vocals are some of the most signature in the business, and this sophomore effort is simply a rifftastic monument of death metal still in its beginning stages. Amazingly heavy and organic production. Dutch brutality at its finest.

PSA: Hammerheart records has reissued the first four Pestilence albums on killer slipcase 2CD format which includes some nice extra material, and classic LP format. IMO all of the first four are great and worth owning.
 
Bitanator

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selfReg said:
Song of the Day



Pestilence (NLD) - Dehydrated

Consuming Impulse was one of my earliest obsessions as a death metal fan. Martin van Drunen's vocals are some of the most signature in the business, and this sophomore effort is simply a rifftastic monument of death metal still in its beginning stages. Amazingly heavy and organic production. Dutch brutality at its finest.

PSA: Hammerheart records has reissued the first four Pestilence albums on killer slipcase 2CD format which includes some nice extra material, and classic LP format. IMO all of the first four are great and worth owning.
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Malleus Maleficarum is one of my favorite thrash albums and Consuming Impulse might be one of my top five osdm albums.
 
hobblygobbly

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lordxar said:
I have a feeling my wallet is about to take major hit now...a youtuber mentioned this aggregator site that pulls prices from a ton of different websites for metal releases.

http://themetaldetektor.com/
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That's pretty cool thanks for sharing, I'll be using that. It's weird though that it doesn't include Bandcamp? I get so much of my music from there too, since many bands also sell physical releases as well as merch straight through Bandcamp since it's not just digital.
 
Valkyr

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Song of the Day

Judas Iscariot - Gaze Upon Heaven in Flames


Essential and one of the original USBM bands. Heaven in Flames is an absulute classic.
 
selfReg

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Valkyr said:
Song of the Day

Judas Iscariot - Gaze Upon Heaven in Flames


Essential and one of the original USBM bands. Heaven in Flames is an absulute classic.
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agreed. From Hateful Visions is my jam. People like to get on their case for being a Darkthrone clone but that doesn't take anything away from their music. It's difficult to pick a favorite from JI frankly. Lately though I have been playing To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding a ton.
 
Valkyr

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selfReg said:
agreed. From Hateful Visions is my jam. People like to get on their case for being a Darkthrone clone but that doesn't take anything away from their music. It's difficult to pick a favorite from JI frankly. Lately though I have been playing To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding a ton.
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Agreed 100%. There are a lot of Darkthrone worship bands out there but Judas Iscariot are one I come back to again and again. Just great riffs throughout the discography.
 
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lordxar

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Here is some of what came in the mail today. Bolt Thrower and Essence of Datum were separate orders but the rest was from Season of Mist which I also ordered their $20 grab bag and got a stack of another 10 CD's to go through, but I don't really recognize much of it. Morbid Angel's black sheep Illvd Divinvm Insanvs is one of them. Should be fun. I think I've heard this at some point but from comments I've seen people make, its their worst release. Going to be interesting to see if any of the rest of this stack is any good. This makes the third grab bag I've tried and while I can't say any have been something I would call awesome, they are at least fun to see what comes in. I figure worst case scenario its stuff to trade off.

Looking forward to digging into those D666 albums tomorrow, but...how is the Call of the Wild EP? This thing clocks in a little over 19 minutes and I like it, but it's very different than Wildfire. I'm inclined to say that this scrapes much closer to Priest or Maiden in a lot of ways than the ripping black thrash attack that Wildfire was.

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selfReg said:
cool pickups. Realm of Chaos is my favorite Bolt Thrower.
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Used to have the cassette with the original artwork way back in my college days, but I probably traded it and the rest of my collection off for some gaming console along the way. Did quite a bit of purging like that over the years. I kind of kick myself but then again it's been really cool getting some of them again.
 
Bitanator

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Blasting some Sacred Blade tonight




Bonus cut from Metal Massacre IV, I don't know if this version is a bit faster than their 83 demo, but fuck is it just as addictive. That riff is fucking killer!

 
Wolfgunblood

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I loved Altered State. One was good, and Polaris grew on me a bit, but Altered State was fucking amazing. Ashe knows how to create vocal melodies. Same with Voices from the Fuselage, which I'm betting has a kickass album this year. Dan is a decent singer technically but his melodies just aren't catchy or memorable, which you really need with this direction.
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I think Dan's issue is that he doesn't have a cool enough jacket.

Ashe held it down and Altered State was an ok album, but it wore out it's welcome after ten or so listens. Some of the songs are just plain annoying to me. I never want to hear it again. A few of those songs live is still cool.

I thought Polaris would be trash when the preview track was released before the album, but after a few spins I was feeling it. It's my favorite of theirs now. I have a feeling this one will be the same way. Smile has that early Vildhjarta/Monuments sound which got me pretty hyped. Hopefully there's some more of that.
 
Wolfgunblood

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It's been kind of a dry spell finding good new shit lately. However I did happen across this this morning:

Schattenvald - V (Germany, Symphonic BM, 2017)
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The melodies are phenomenal. This is the kind of stuff I'm hoping to find when I check out new symphonic BM bands edit: new to me... somehow never listened to them before but they've been around forever). Maybe not quite a breakout album but certainly a must listen for the genre.
https://schattenvald.bandcamp.com/album/v

 
Inkvoterad

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Wolfgunblood said:
It's been kind of a dry spell finding good new shit lately. However I did happen across this this morning:

Schattenvald - V (Germany, Symphonic BM, 2017)
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The melodies are phenomenal. This is the kind of stuff I'm hoping to find when I check out new symphonic BM bands edit: new to me... somehow never listened to them before but they've been around forever). Maybe not quite a breakout album but certainly a must listen for the genre.
https://schattenvald.bandcamp.com/album/v

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Oh shit, this is great.
 
art_vandelay

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I don't post about it a lot but I thoroughly enjoy the greats of heavy/speed/power/thrash so you'd be cool for that.

I most recently was enjoying the first two Agent Steel records.
 
Waffle-Stomper

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tickets for migration fest go on sale tomorrow. bands I'd be most excited for are couch slut, false, krallice, and yellow eyes so I'm considering grabbing a couple

LINEUP

Abyss
Bongripper
The Cancer Conspiracy
Cloud Rat
Couch Slut
Daeva
Deadbird
Derkéta
False (band)
Fórn
Hell (US)
Khemmis
Krallice
Mizmor
Mournful Congregation
Mutilation Rites
The Ominous Circle
Panopticon
Pelican
Pyrolatrous
Scorched
Spirit Adrift
Thou
Tomb Mold
Yellow Eyes
Zombi
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I'm also waiting on trying to snag tickets for the behold... the arctopus and defeated sanity shred competition. been checking once a week for over a month now and haven't been able to get any.
 
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Kvasir

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Hey guys. Apologizes again for missing the Song of the Day for Thursdays. My work schedule has been insane and on top of that my Windows system finally shit the bed. Now that I have a stable computer in place I'll be posting tomorrow and the following Thursdays (unless I've been replaced which is totally understandable lol) for the foreseeable future.
 
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lordxar

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Kvasir said:
Hey guys. Apologizes again for missing the Song of the Day for Thursdays. My work schedule has been insane and on top of that my Windows system finally shit the bed. Now that I have a stable computer in place I'll be posting tomorrow and the following Thursdays (unless I've been replaced which is totally understandable lol) for the foreseeable future.
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Nah your good until you relinquish the Thursday throne lol. Wasn't sure how long you'd be out so this last week I just tossed out an offer for anyone to put up a song.
 
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not bad at all.

would have liked to. The sound for all bands except for Maiden of course was fucked when I saw them last summer. I will be in the city the Sunday following for a totally non-metal show though lol.
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I missed Kreator and Exmortus on the 10th which pisses me off. Exmortus always put on a great show and I have not seen Kreator for a couple years.
 
Kvasir

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Song of the Day



Thy Serpent - Sleep in Oblivion

An underrated EP in general. Though this is a big departure in style from their previous album, I thought it was brilliant when I first heard it. Damn shame that this was their last release.
 
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was listening to a Spotify metal mix and this band caught my attention definitely.
i give you
Ensiferum : For Those About to Fight for Metal !

 
maxxpower

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Tried browsing the Metal Archives forums and it's pretty rough. There's some borderline alt-right shit being spewed over there.
 
Kvasir

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sleepless_swan said:
Since she didn't mention it, I guess it should be mentioned that Morrigan is one of the admins of the metal archives and already knows how to find the site.
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Well considering I haven't been on those forums since the mid-to-late 2000s and I strictly use the site to look up bands from time to time now, I wouldn't have known. Good information to have though ;)
 
Guts Of Thor

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Metal in general I feel is becoming very right wing nowadays. There is a "Fuck antifa" festival in California where Richard Spencer will be a guest speaker and Morbid Angel among some of my other favorite bands are playing at it.

Needless to say I'm done with Morbid Angel...
 
Brian_FETO

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Guts Of Thor said:
Lol. Are you serious? Fuck, that's a relief.
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It has Burzum on it lol

People are making that stuff to troll. I don't care for "far right ANTI-SJW" whatever nonsense those guys are spewing but the Antifa stuff is obnoxious when their targets are nothing more than non-threatening edgelords

There's plenty of problematic bullshit in extreme music but it's hard to take anything at face value when so much of it is about killing people/being evil

I saw Grand Belial's Key at Hell's Headbash a couple of years ago. Went off without any problems so apparently Real Ass Klan Henchmen coming out of the woods for a high profile fest isn't an issue compared to the dungeons and dragons geeks people have decided to go after instead
 
selfReg

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it's very annoying that I can no longer chase an original Mocking the Philanthropist 2LP on Discogs because of those relevant sentiments. Like, come on. What are you honestly putting a stop to? GBK is black metal in a class of its own and I want to buy their fucking records.
 
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