What are you listening to? - Page 224

Blackraven · 10-18-2009, 03:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Heavy Metal Hero

Yay for punk bands decrying needless consumerism by putting out Top 40 hits! Irony abound!

I'm not sure what you mean by that hehe. I just saw them on MTV Asia and another music video channel yesterday and I thought that it sounded quite neat to me (instruments and vocals). I'm not that much into rock music anyways so these bands are new to me.

Anyways:
Scandal - Sakura Goodbye
YouTube - SCANDAL - SAKURA GOODBYE

Beer Can · 10-18-2009, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Blackraven

I'm not sure what you mean by that hehe. I just saw them on MTV Asia and another music video channel yesterday and I thought that it sounded quite neat to me (instruments and vocals). I'm not that much into rock music anyways so these bands are new to me.

He means that while the band pretends to be a punk group, they're really just a hollow shell, designed to make songs that sound "rebellious" to satisfy, well, the MTV-watching crowd. It's the mainstream subversion of something that was created to run against the mainstream.

YouTube - Destruction - Nailed to the Cross
Destruction are incredible. 25+ years, and still going plenty strong. They put on one of the best live shows I've ever seen, and played for nearly two hours... much to the complaint of the venue's manager.

Heavy Metal Hero · 10-18-2009, 09:41 PM

"Strange Highways," Dio

This is seriously a great song.

**helix eternal** · 10-18-2009, 11:22 PM

Sota Fujimori - "Look to the Sky (True Color Extended Mix)"

DELICIOUS HOT COCK · 10-18-2009, 11:33 PM

dazzlin' unicorn

Beer Can · 10-19-2009, 05:51 AM

Front 242: "Triple X Girlfriend"

Anyone who says that Pulse was not a fantastic return to form for Front 242 is dumb. ): I'm just waiting for the next album...

MadDogBV · 10-19-2009, 01:57 PM

Nickelback.

Not willingly, mind you.

I'm planning to plug in some headphones to my Laptop and tune out to some Beneath The Massacre.

Edit: "Entrepreneur" by Dead Will Rise. Another short-lived grind band I found on Pandora. Pretty good stuff, though.

Beer Can · 10-20-2009, 11:40 AM

YouTube - MASON WILLIAMS - CLASSICAL GAS

I love this song.

DPWHERE? · 10-21-2009, 11:15 AM

Fuseboxx - Animated (Live @ Ten02 Bar)

NEW LINEUP!!! Can't wait to see them this Saturday.

Beer Can · 10-21-2009, 12:11 PM

Destruction: "Devolution"

I love this band's riffing style. Still very thrash, while maintaining a strong individual identity. Anyone who says thrash is a stagnant or limited genre has not heard this band.

(edited for adding youtube linkage... I own the CDs for pretty much everything I list in this thread, but links are good in case anyone is actually interested.)

MadDogBV · 10-21-2009, 09:36 PM

As Blood Runs Black - "My Fears Have Become Phobias"

How many breakdowns can you fucking squeeze into four minutes?

Heavy Metal Hero · 10-21-2009, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by MadDogBV

As Blood Runs Black - "My Fears Have Become Phobias"

How many breakdowns can you fucking squeeze into four minutes?

EVERY SONG NEEDS BREAKDOWNS GUYS

EVERY SONG

listening to random shit on my youtube favorites right now its YouTube - MasterHMH's Channel and then YouTube - MasterHMH's Channel

Beer Can · 10-22-2009, 12:42 AM

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Originally Posted by MadDogBV

As Blood Runs Black - "My Fears Have Become Phobias"

How many breakdowns can you fucking squeeze into four minutes?

If the answer is anything more than one, it is synonymous with "too goddamn fucking many."

It's one thing if we're talking a classic NY style thrash/crossover breakdown, because that just involves playing a different riff at a slightly slower speed before going back to the 160 BPM thrashing. But this whole "brutal" death metal crap with ridiculously slow and simple chugging... I'd call it overused, but it was never a good idea in the first place.

Diamond Plate: "Relativity"
Okay, the song is not up on youtube, but that's not all surprising. They're a Chicago area local group, and the members are still in high school... no signing to a label until they've graduated. So for now, I've just linked to their myspace. They're a bunch of pretty cool kids and worth your time if you like thrash metal at all.

DPWHERE? · 10-22-2009, 02:27 AM

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Originally Posted by MadDogBV

As Blood Runs Black - "My Fears Have Become Phobias"

Fast forward to around 3:30 and we have over 9000 "ZOMG IMBA DOUBLE BASS EVA!!!" YouTube comments. Actually, I play the first three tracks of that album consecutively (Intro, In Dying Days, this song) as a warm-up in the studio.

Porcupine Tree - The Incident album.

Wilson has upped the ante on this album compared to Fear Of A Blank Planet. Very dark and creepy in some parts but that's his formula.

Beer Can · 10-22-2009, 11:39 AM

YouTube - Morbid Saint - Assassin

RIFF RIFF RIFF RIFF RIFF RIFF RIFF SOLO SOLO SOLO RIFF RIFF RIFF RIFF RIFF RIFF RIFF

True story: the band had to tell their guitarist to stop adding riffs and more parts to the song. Had they not stopped him, the song would be over twice the length it is. Personally, I would have loved to see that, and I'm disappointed that they didn't go all out, considering the whole album is under 40 minutes as is. But hey, Jim said that he wouldn't mind a reunion sometime in the future, so there's still hope of seeing them pull it off live.

Spectrum of Death remains one of my favorite albums of all time. Not just thrash albums, not just metal albums, but albums in music as a whole. It's been reissued on Power Play records. Pick it up. If you like fast, loud, aggressive music, you should hear this.