Metal thread: /soc/ edition
Talk about songs, discuss bands, ask for recommendations, post youtube links, tell us about your local bands, etc...
Here are some dumb questions you can answer if you want to:
>A/S/L:
>Long hair?
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
>What is the best metal song ever?
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
Are you into black metal? Have you always wanted to check out Venom who influenced all those early bands but you couldn't handle the low production quality, rawness and weird echoes? Have no fear, The Melvins are here! This cover of Venom's 'In League With Satan' is faithful to the original while being slightly more approachable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFukyBA98Cg
"Look out! Beware! When the full moon's high 'n' bright!"
>>23677881
Black Sabbath. Iron Maiden are over rated.
>A/S/L:
19/M/UK
>Long hair?
too curly desu, would if I could
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
Soilwork, Amorphis and Before The Dawn
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
Melodeath mostly, sometimes more folky and power metal too. Fookin' love me some Alestorm
>What is the best metal song ever?
Welp I ain't gonna say there's a best one ever because music tastes is entirely subjective but my personal favorite is Insomnium's In The Groves Of Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP8G3sFk08I
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
I dunno, never really listened to either, I don't usually stray too far outside of my preferred subgenres
I found this band a few days ago and they're weird as fuck but pretty funny. Dunno if technically metal but I like it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVWfqOSdzs4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADCvlqc_6ws
Pic related is muh favourite shirt
30/f/MO
Long hair on some guys is hot as fuck. I wear mine short and undercut. Favorite metal band lately has been Black Fast. They thrash so hard and are so technically skilled. Their show blew me away. Oh, and Black Sabbath :)
>A/S/L:
23/m/us
>Long hair?
oh yeah, longest ive ever had it
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
my top 3 are Sabbath, electric wizard, and Iron Maiden, but I'm listening to different shit all day especially new stoner bands
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
stoner, doom, and i suppose what you could call classic?
>What is the best metal song ever?
thats an unanswerable question theres too many greats
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
what kind of question is that, why not both?
metal culture doesnt need shitty band/console war type bullshit
>A/S/L:
M/20/Bay Area (Fuckin thrash)
>Long hair?
I'm black but I have an afro, if that counts.
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
Carcass
Section 5150
Slayer
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
Thrash is my main, hands down. Also really into Black & Death Metal. But really as long as it's metal, I'm game.
>What is the best metal song ever?
Silent. Fucking. Scream.
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
Sabbath
Pic Related, I play drums in a thrash metal band. Give us a listen? Let me know what you think of us? Always looking to improve. Album's getting recorded this year.
Bandcamp: https://phantomthrasher.bandcamp.com/releases
Facebook: /831ThrashMetal/
>A/S/L:
26/M/WA
>Long hair?
Always
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
Iron Maiden, Yngwie Malmsteen, Edguy
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
Power, Thrash, and melodeath, mostly. Some specific folk metal bands I really like, but no genre is off the table.
>What is the best metal song ever?
Impossible to answer, even without taking other people's opinions into account.
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
Maiden. I saw them a few weeks ago in Tacoma. Never thought I'd get the chance. Now I can die happy
Favorite band is Avantasia or Edguy. Anything with Tobias Sammet really. Where I'm at literally no one I've met has heard of either. I have no clue why they're not more popular.
>>23678700
You better be voting leave this summer.
>A/S/L:
19/Male/Aus
>Long hair?
Not anymore. Cut for work.
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
Northlane
In Hearts Wake
Architects
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
Mostly core, if you couldn't tell. Hardcore/Metalcore are big for me at the moment, although I lean more towards melodic elements. Thrash/Groove/Melodeath I can also get into, but not quite as passionate about. I've always found it kinda hard to get into the older styles of metal. Probably because I'm too young.
>What is the best metal song ever?
Yeah there is no answer to this. Depends on my mood.
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
Maiden.
>>23677881
>A/S/L:
88/F/City of Angels
>Long hair?
Yea
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
Dream Theater, old school Metallica and Panters, Steel Panther
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
Prog, Thrash, Glam
>What is the best metal song ever?
pass. Tend to listen to albums, not songs
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
Eh. Couldn't get into either.
Who Tool in here?
>A/S/L:
19/M/USA
>Long hair?
Used to. Cut for practical purposes.
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
Tool
Mastadon
Starting to listen to all of Metallica recently.
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
Prog, speed, whatever the hell Tool's categorized as, thrash, etc.
>What is the best metal song ever?
That's a hard one since I stick to listening to whole albums.
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
OUT IN THE MADNESS, THE ALL-SEEING EYE
FLICKERS ABOVE US, TO LIGHT UP THE SKY
https://youtu.be/CGtdkaremDM?t=679
>>23679164
>88/F/City of Angels
>88
Grandma got hardcore.
ERhh sure
>A/S/L:
29/M/Canada
>Long Hair
Yes
>>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
Katharsis, Urgehal, Dodsengel
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
Black Metal, Funeral Doom, some Death Metal
>What is the best metal song ever?
Way too many goo ones to pick just one
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
That is a tough choice. Honestly haven't listened a lot to either
Pest is always good if you have an extra 20 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAMaCxw9Utw
>A/S/L:
22/M/Denmark
>Long hair?
yes
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
sólstafir (my favourite band, but gotten more hooked to their first album than I used to), Judas Priest, Accept
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
80's metal, black metal, post metal
>What is the best metal song ever?
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
tough one, but I'm gonna pick iron maiden due to the fact I've been listening to them since I was 12, and never grew tired of them
>>23680425
also forgot
>What is the best metal song ever?
I honestly don't know, depends what kind of mood I'm in. This song is definately one of my favourites though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es0CP2YC-M4
>A/S/L:
24 maine
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
Gorgoroth, Abbath, Narjanaham
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
95% of the time black metal. Sometimes death but rarely.
>What is the best metal song ever?
Arntor Ein Windir. always and forever
Honorable mention more recently Ad Omnipotens Aeterne Diabolus by Gorgoroth
>A/S/L:
23/m/USA
>Long hair?
Used to have really long hair, didn't care. It's growing back now.
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
Always love The Black Dahlia Murder
Between the Buried and Me
Megadeth!!! I just sa them in Minneapolis and the show was so amazing it melted my face.
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
Melodic Death Metal and Thrash
>What is the best metal song ever?
Anything Megadeth or any 80-90s Thrash hard to pick one song.
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
Iron Maiden
>A/S/L
19/M/Aus
>Long hair?
Och ja
>Three bands you have listened to a lot recently
Tool,Kyuss,Three Inches of Blood
>Subgenres you're into?
Started off with sludge and doom then moved into into black. These days I pump a fair bit of the progressive stuff
>What is the best metal hymn?
Each to their own man but my favourite has to be "Pendulous Skin" by Mastodon. "Neslepaks" - Isengard gets me all tingly for warlock antics.
>Sabbath or Maiden
The wiiizard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAFsAeI7kPM spills a few Sabbath covers so I will have to go with them.
>A/S/L:
32/m/KY
>Long hair?
Uh no
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
Katatonia, Dio, Heaven and Hell
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
I'm mainly into older metal, somewhat power metal.
>What is the best metal song ever?
Hard to pick. Heaven and Hell
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
Sabbath obv, even Dio Sabbath was better than Maiden
>>23679012
I'm undecided on my vote, all I can really find online is scaremongering from both sides, which isn't exactly helpful.
Also need to figure out how I'm gonna vote because I'll be up in some uninhabited bit of northern Scotland looking at rocks on the day of the referendum
>>23679615
only good one in thread
>>23680451
>>23680425
decent
>>23679321
What's you're favourite Tool album man? Aenima is like potato chips; you just can't stop listening to it.
>>23677892
Dude, this is delicious.
Thanks for the recommendation.
If you live in Brisbane bro the core scene is fairly large here . I have a mate in Exiled In Eden.
>>23678897
What's you're favourite Electric Wizard Album? I'm torn between "We Live" and "Let Us Prey"
Speaking as the biggest Black Sabbath fan I've ever met, metal heads are almost as if not more faggy and lame as punks. I'd rather hang out with dead heads... At least they have drugs.
Have fun growing out of metal when you get older, faggots.
>>23678907
>>What is the best metal song ever?
>Silent. Fucking. Scream.
That song is fucking great
Dave Lombardo goes to town on those drums after the solo at the 2 minute mark
>>23680425
>sólstafir (my favourite band)
Aww yeah, I saw their last couple of blackmetal shows and their first few shows after they morphed into a Fields of the Nephilim inspired band (I like both phases though)
>>23681047
thx4bump
anyways:
>A/S/L:
30/m/iceland
>Long hair?
yes
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
Manowar, Mayhem, Deströyer 666
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
at the moment it's Stoner/doom, Blackmetal, 80s trash, NWOBHM
>A/S/L:
25/M/Aus
>Long hair?
used to about 5 years ago, got the short slicked back look now
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
Parkway Drive, Bullet For My Valentine, Killswitch Engage
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
Groove metal, Nu metal, Metalcore, Gothic metal
>What is the best metal song ever?
too many to choose from to pick one good song but so far really digging Stricken by Disturbed
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
Saw Sabbath live on tuesday night, def one of the best shows ever
also looking to find some new music, i got the latest Parkway Drive, Killswitch Engage, Stone Sour, BFMV albums but also want some new bands around those lines to listen to, any recommendations?
>>23681266
>Aww yeah, I saw their last couple of blackmetal shows and their first few shows after they morphed into a Fields of the Nephilim inspired band (I like both phases though)
daamn, nice one! I got introduced to them in 2010 or smth. I like all their stuff, even though ótta can't compete with svartir sandar, which is my favourite album of all times.
Iceland has an amazing metal scene desu, I enjoyed a lot of great bands in 2013 (I think it was that year) that I went to Iceland
>A/S/L:
27/m/canada
>Long hair?
you know it
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
Parkway Drive, Protest the Hero, and Woods of Ypres
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
I'm not really picky. Ill give anythign a listen
>What is the best metal song ever?
Impossible question
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
Cant answer. Both bands are awesome
>>23681334
forgot to mention that the bands I saw was at Eistnaflug. Amazing festival with great people and awesome music. Will definately be back there again someday
>>23680838
That's a very though call man. Ænima IS fucking amazing, but Salival shows their quality doing live shows. But Lateralus is in a tier of it's own.
I'd have to settle on Salival 'cause of Pushit.
>>23681362
>Eistnaflug
I really wanted to go this year since Misþyrming are playing but both my friends who were likely to go are busy that weekend, RIP. I listened to their album a few times but it didn't really click until I saw them live and now I can't get enough of them. Fucking fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RFkNeI-pJ8 <-Misþyrming
Anything happening in the metal scene in Denmark? It feels so weird that the only Danish metal bands I can name are King Diamond and Iniquity
>>23680852
>What's you're favourite Electric Wizard Album?
Mine is probably Dopethrone with Come My Fanatics as a close second
>A/S/L:
24/M/Los Angeles
>Long hair?
Yes. Would feel weird without it.
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
Lately it's Agalloch, Cough and Bolt Thrower
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
Doom metal is my thing. I dip into old school death alot. However, I listen to anything good.
>What is the best metal song ever?
Shot in the Dark by Ozzy for me is the best metal song ever.
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
Black Sabbath. Of course. Grandfathers of doom
>>23681266
Dave lombardo is my fuckin savior
Love that guy, I try to emulate his sound in my playing
>asl
18/male/louisiana
>long hair?
just starting to reach my shoulders so yes, long hair. just long enough to go against the dress code at work (managers don't give a shit tho)
>three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
if we count non-metal bands, then i've been listening to circa survive, neutral milk hotel, and johnny hobo and the freight trains. if we're talking about just metal, then it's baroness, kvelertak, and megadeth
>metal subgenres
doom, sludge, stoner, progressive
>what's the best metal song ever?
argh, this is so hard. i'm just going to say edge of sanity - crimson because i've listened to it like 40 times.
>black sabbath or iron maiden?
black sabbath. i feel like they make more consistent albums compared to iron maiden. iron maiden is still great ofc
>A/S/L:
29, Male, Mexico
>Long hair?
if I iron it, it looks like this.. gonna let it grow a little more then reeval if I need it cut
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
Ghost, Maiden, Sabbath
>>23678907
>Bandcamp: https://phantomthrasher.bandcamp.com/releases
>>23682061
I checked out your bandcamp and it's pretty good. Definitely has that 'local' sound but the early thrashmetal vibe is great.
The 'Araya scream' in the beginning of the first song kinda missed it's mark though hahah
Otherwise it's all good
Speaking of Silent Scream and screaming, the next song on the South of Heaven has a pretty good 'Araya scream' at 2:10 after a nice gradual buildup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAUQirWk3-4
>A/S/L:
26/F/US
>Long hair?
Yes
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
Oceano, Gorod, Inhume
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
Black, Tech/Death, Grind, Math
>What is the best metal song ever?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Ubctz2ywA
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
Don't listen to either.
>Other bands I like
Alcest, Peste Noir, In Flames, Liquid Tension Experiment, Amaseurs, Atheist, Blut Aus Nord, Gojira
>>23679040
Those three bands! My nigga. Heard Equinox EP yet?
>A/S/L:
28/m/EU
>Long hair?
Nope, always had short hair
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
Gojira, Rings of Saturn, The Haunted
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
Any kind of Death, industrial (FF style), some thrash
>What is the best metal song ever?
Very hard to say. Lately, I'm madly in love with "Adoration for None" by Gojira because it has the best drop I've ever heard in it. Otherwise I'ma go with something by Sepultura, probably Refuse/Resist.
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
Neither.
>>23685641
We have some similar taste!
>>23679164
ALL HAIL PANTERAAAAA
>A/S/L:
29/f/ca, usa
>Long hair?
very!
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
peste noire, sombres forêts, 葬尸湖
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-cb9miRLSU
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
black and post metal.
>What is the best metal song ever?
too difficult to choose just one, it depends on my mood.
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
maiden.
a new record store just opened nearby, excited to check it out today.
>>23683892
Working on the album, the demo was very quick & dirty, there's a lot I can look at and say "I couldve done that better"
>>23687203
Are you gonna be selling it or are you gonna release it 'for free' on the internet? Either way, check if there is a metal thread here or make one yourself when it's out dude
I feel like modern thrash has moved too far away from the 80s, and your stuff is what I want more of
>>23683598
>Ghost
Love those guys
There is just something about praising satan while playing 70s hard rock that is very appealing to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pVxx6WfziU
>>23686500
31/M
Refreshing to see a Montreal band in your recent trio. Others in a similar vein to check out are Gris (also from here) or Miserere Luminis (Sombres Fôrets + Gris), if you aren't familiar.
So get to that new record store and pick up a Gris vinyl!
>asl
Old/f/Canadian living in America
>long hair
Yes
>Three bands
Kalmah, Insomium, Death
>Subgenres
Melodic, progressive, tech, doom, death, folk
>best metal song
Ghosts of perdition
>Sabbath or maiden
Dios Sabbath
Everyone, don't be afraid to drop youtube links alongside any songs you mention
most people are a lot more likely to check them out if it's made easy
>A/S/L:
26/m/BC
>Long hair?
bald
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
dorkthrone
Coven from Chicago
uncle acid
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
basically just doom and black metal
>What is the best metal song ever?
don't be stupid by the grow up op's
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
i would have to pretend to like iron maiden
>18/M/US
>Long
>TDWP, Slipknot & Deftones
>Metalcore, Deathcore, Djent, Slam, & Thrash
>Too many to count
>Black Sabbath
>>23679164
i saw steel panther in vancouver at the commodore or the vogue or something. it was pretty shitty because I was sober and I am pretty sure that the music was being played off CD
>>23677881
19/M/Mexico
>Long hair?
Nah, it looks bad on me.
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
Agalloch, Empyrium and Harakiri for the Sky
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
Black, athmo and folk
>What is the best metal song ever?
I don't really have a favorite one, but Falling Snow by Agalloch and the Songs of Moors and Misty Fields album are one of my favs.
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
Don't listen to anything from the 80's so I wouldn't know.
Other bands like the ones I mentioned you recommend me?
>>23685687
WELCOME TO MAYHEM
I'm going to see them live at the tour too.
>>23685687
WELCOME TO MAYHEM
Hell yeah. Going to see them at the tour too! Wbu?
>>23688906
Oh that sucks. It's been a while since I saw them live back at the Key Club in LA, and it was always a fun time (better when tipsy)...
>>23686230
\m/ \m/
Vulgar Display of Power seems to always be in heavy rotation for me
>>23689476
tfw there some chance I might know you in person.
>A/S/L:
21m Canada
>Long hair?
Too long
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
Lifelover
Eyehategod
Acidbath
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
Sludge,black,doom
>What is the best metal song ever?
Forever my queen from Pentagram
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7JTD_73kpI
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
Black Sabbath of course,but both are great
>>23689511
Possible. Am sure we've been to some of the same shows given geography and music affinity
>>23689560
Last show you went to?
>>23689568
Trivium at the Roxy. Periphery and Wovenwar at the Troubadour. Both decent shows.
>>23689594
I wanted to go see Periphery.
Do you play? Go to any local shows?
I do. I won't say what band because reasons haha
>A/S/L:
26/M/Québec
>Long hair?
Long
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
Deviant Process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWA8U_V76Io
Iron Reagan
Anaal Nathrakh
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
Tech Death
Brutal Death
Grind
Thrash
>What is the best metal song ever?
We'll get a team of scientists on that
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
Maiden
>>23688240
thanks for the rec, anon! i actually really like gris and miserere luminis a lot, gris being one of my favorites. do you have any other recs? we seem to have similar taste.
All this really heavy stuff and I'm here listening to Tesseract
>>23681797
Dopethrone is still pretty GOAT. It was my first album by the wiiiizard. Recommended to me oddly enough by my English teacher back in senior high school.
>>23681426
Cool dude, I heard the next album is confirmed for next year but knowing Tool that means 2017 in another dimension beyond reason and thought.
>A/S/L:
20/M/NM
>Long hair?
Yes.
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
Amon Amarth, Arch Enemy and Behemoth
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
Death, usually melodic, black/blackened and the like. Heavy/psychedelic metal.
>What is the best metal song ever?
Something by Dio. Rainbow in the dark maybe.
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
Black Sabboth.
>>23680513
BTBAM yes! almost didnt want to post in this thread cause I thought my music wasnt gonna fit.
>A/S/L:
26 / m / Br
>Long hair?
Almost there
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
Evile, been rediscovering Megadeth and some trippy black metal band with a big name
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
Thrash, classic, melodic
>What is the best metal song ever?
Back in the village -maiden
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
Y not both
>A/S/L
20/M/TX
>Long hair?
looks bad man, clean and like a long short
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
Between the Buried and Me
Ne Obliviscaris
The Ocean (Collective)
Bonus: BabyMetal because im a weeb piece of shit
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
Melodic and progressive. Im a simple man, as long as the guitar is good im in
>What is the best metal song ever?
Peace Sells or possibly Im Broken
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
Iron Maiden
>>23689956
Naw, that's cool. They put out some good stuff. Actually saw them live this year, too. Their fan base is pretty dedicated / high energy.
>>23689628
Don't play, but husband does. Also used to do recording in our basement studio which housed a beast of a 10-piece kit. Had to rent a room for it here in LA, though, ugh.
I love live shows, though. Always keeping an eye on who's coming to town, but wouldn't mind getting to more indie shows. I don't mind if you post additional recs!
>>23685641
>>23688275
shout outs to you two
>>23681317
Thanks for mentioning Parkway Drive. I haven't listened to BFMV or Killswitch Engage in a while, but I do like them. Going to check out Parkway Drive now...
been blasting this local band
GODSLAUGHTER
https://youtu.be/uTk0qlmE1JM
>>23691409
This is good stuff
surprisingly high production values for a local band
>A/S/L:
18/m/ MI
>Long hair?
Nah. Might shave what's left off for the summer.
>Three bands you've listened to a lot recently?
Andrew wk, parkway drive, every time i die.
>What metal subgenres are you most into?
Thrash, stoner, and atmospheric black.
>What is the best metal song ever?
For me, right now, it's raising fear by armored saint. It's got a sick guitar solo.
>Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden?
Iron Maiden. Sabbath is the root of metal, but Maiden was my first metal band.
bumping with some local stuff:
Graveslime - Double Damage (sludge from 2003)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ0s7yQQG_g
Severed Crotch - Human Recipes (deathmetal from 2010)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVqmu9LTXEQ
