(Un)Official Metal Thread

[SRN]

Babymetal are superb. So much Japanese rock and metal is fucking brilliant, dating back decades, because there's not as much cultural stigma attached to different genres. There never seemed to be the idea that if you like one thing you can't possibly like the other, or sticking rigidly to one genre, as there has been so often in the West, so you end up with amazing mish-mashes of styles that you'd hardly ever see in the US or the UK or wherever.

It's a shame it has to be someone gimmicky like Babymetal that got people noticing it, rather than someone like Sigh, for example, but they're still fucking great.

This.

The synth hook on that "MEGITSUNE" track is scary catchy, though.

[Ant]

New Fozzy.

[DFF]

New Judas Priest!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhkoNQ-7uRw

[Liam]

[Nikki]

Mastodon is so fucking good. Best metal band of the last 14 years hands down, imo.

Also, that Babymetal thing was insanely weird. And great.

[Liam]

http://www.allmusic.com/blog/post/advance-album-streams-from-the-black-keys-down-swans-and-more

Includes streams of Down's new album (EP? can't remember >_>) and Killer Be Killed, who have Greg Puciato, Max Cavalera, Troy Sanders and Dave Elitch. Bit of a supergroup, sounds pretty cool what I've listened to.

[Skummy]

Babymetal are doing a (brief) world tour.

[SRN]

Of course no Danish dates. Not that I expected it either.

[Liam]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7EGCaANPNI#t=73

[MalaCloudy Black]

Dave Brockie's cause of death was a heroin OD.

[LUKIE]

Skalmold is all kinds of wonderful.

[TheLastInLine]

Falconer have released a new album last week and it kicks all kinds of ass:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y595heHNifs

[LUKIE]

Calico Jack is amazing.

[TheLastInLine]

Wow, that was terrible. I'd take Running Wild or Alestorm over these guys any day of the week.

[LUKIE]

Your face is terrible :@

[Gazz]

People actually listen to Pirate metal?

Not as a joke?

[LUKIE]

I'll figh... oh you already tapped.

[TheLastInLine]

People actually listen to Pirate metal?

Not as a joke?

I can understand people not taking Alestorm seriously, but in the 80s and early-to-mid 90s Running Wild used to be a force to be reckoned with. Then Rock'n'Rolf decided to fire everyone, hire some musician-mercenaries, use a drum machine (which is really obvious but he still denies to this day) and produce all the albums himself which pretty much ruined the band. But that is a different storie for a different day.

Your face is terrible :@

It just doesn't appeal to me. Alestorm do the same thing, Christopher Bowes is the better singer (I never thought that I would say this as he is the weak point of the band if you ask me) and their music is a hundred times more engaging than this.

[LUKIE]

Your face can't sing :@

[TheLastInLine]

And have I mentioned that this is the worsed cover artwirk I've seen in a while? This is how it is supposed to look like:

Every band should have cover artworks drawn by Andreas Marschall...

Also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08wDeWQqWnw

and this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIm6y7qTvwg

These have nothing to do with the argument. Just felt like posting them here.

Edited June 24, 2014 by TheLastInLine