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When talking Amon Amarth dont forget The Avenger! That is a pretty brutal album from them. Metalwrath has a great intro as well, all in the spirit of angry Norse Gods and their Viking mutilators.

When talking Amon Amarth you can pretty much slam the entire discography right there, every album has their share of blood-boilingly good viking tracks that make you set off and rape England's coastline all over again. Case(s) in point, "Death In Fire" and "Across The Rainbow Bridge" off of Versus The World, or "The Pursuit Of Vikings" and "The Beheading Of A King" off of "Fate Of Norns". Anything, really! Also, another band that needs more love after a period of nothing-doing on my playlists and stereo, motherfucking Moonsorrow. Goddamn I love Scandinavia, let's see Japan or whoever make music THIS awesome about their ancestors.

Also came to post how similar some old-school Benediction sounds to modern-day Napalm Death... Then realized Barney Greenway was the vocalist for Benediction up until "Grind Bastard" or something

My common sense is tingling!

This ought to be damn awesome. Haven't yet seen Reynolds' take on Deadpool, but the more 'pool we get the better.

I could also be of help to this list, with pretty much the same genres that Liam mentioned. I don't think his idea of cribbing from Choosing Death and Lords Of Chaos is that bad of an idea, they both offer a pretty solid write-up of their respective genres' beginnings. Apart from listing some seminal works in the genres, I think we could also use YouTube or Spotify links to certain songs or albums.

Also to contribute to the ridiculously brutal and ridiculously good, probably the best death metal album of 2008 was Crypticus' "They Called Me Mad!". One-man death metal from US with a Lovecraftian theme = awesome.

Two weeks after release and he will be back after having tried to blow up a synagogue or something.

Nice to see he went back to his dreamy "viking boy-toy" look though, he looked like a retard with his Hitler Jugend-style some years back

Reth, yes. Leng Tch'e, yes. Benediction and The (Gore)Rotted, yes. Ackercocke, Origin and Vader. hell yes. Repulsion, FUCK YEAH!

So umm anyway if you're a fan of extreme metal maybe sort of check out DeathFest.

Oh fuck no.

In a totally different tangent... do any of you guys like any prog metal bands? I like all sorts of prog (from Dream Theater through to prog-death bands like Between The Buried and Me). Just wondered if anyone had any recommendations?

I personally dig quite a lot (read: almost all) of the instrumental metal (or otherwise) music I can find, and I bet at least some of those bands could be called prog one way or another. The first names that pop to mind are Canvas Solaris and Don Caballero, the first featuring some awesome riffwork that would sound EVEN MORE awesome in a technical death metal band with drop D tuning, and the latter just being over-the-top musical talent wankery par excellence. The drummer especially is someone to listen out for, he is hypnotic.

Otherwise, dunno how familiar you are with them but the whole post-sludge/post-metal/atmospheric metal (fucking christ I can usually stand the labeling clusterfucks of metal but this particular style seems to attract the worst of the worst) crowd could fit in parts. Callisto, Russian Circles, Pelican, Cult Of Luna, Intronaut etc. might be worth to check your Last.FM/Youtube accounts for, at least.

Anyone who has an invite, PM me one. It's a pain in the ass trying to scout out forums or Facebook for fresh invites that get snatched up in seconds.

Scream Bloody Gore > the rest.

The first official sign-ups for this year's Tuska and Nummirock will start dropping later this week, getting pretty hyped to see what headliners there will be this year. Quietly hoping for Napalm Death (also The Monolith Deathcult somewhere there, two prophetic dreams can't be wrong!)

This is The Night Of The Ultimate Mosh, as Birdflesh so rightfully put it.

Sipping on some home-brewed wine, getting drunk and blasting grind at unholy hours. So far gotten through two Relapse Records grind compilations, the Czech Assault and the Swedish Assault, and now working my way through Gore Beyond Necropsy's "Fullthröttle Chaös Grind Machine" and Pisschrist's "Fucking Singles". If I stay awake long enough, take the most recent Fuck The Facts record "Disgorge Mexico" out for a spin.

Agoraphobic Nosebleed - 99 songs

So, one album then? >_>

Why K, I am surprised you'd be familiar with "Altered States Of America". Makes for a great drinking game, though.

Also, some bands that I have a lot of shit from:

Agoraphobic Nosebleed - 363 songs

Amon Amarth - 84 songs

Anal Cunt - 261 songs

Behemoth - 86 songs

Boards Of Canada - 85 songs

Cannibal Corpse - 137 songs

Cephalic Carnage - 72 songs

Decomposing Serenity - 120 songs

Deerhoof - 86 songs

Deicide - 109 songs

Discordance Axis - 73 songs

Dropkick Murphys - 73 songs

Emperor - 108 songs

Fuck The Facts - 73 songs

Last Days Of Humanity - 167 songs

Leng Tch'e - 76 songs

Marduk - 135 songs

Meshuggah - 81 songs

Mindless Self Indulgence - 135 songs

Modest Mouse - 119 songs

Napalm Death - 156 songs

Nasum - 93 songs

Pig Destroyer - 125 songs

Regurgitate - 230 songs

Steve Roach - 74 songs

Summoning - 71 songs

The Berzerker - 118 songs

Therion - 198 songs

Unleashed - 89 songs

Set the cut-off point at 70 songs

Personally, my biggest gripes with the show was that while it could have been a lot better than it was, it pretty much just fell flat on its face at almost every opportunity. The sketches could have worked well, but repeating them in the same order every single fucking time got old even in a half an hour. As said, the lounging-on-a-couch thing really didn't work, plus I thought that the contrast between those pieces and the adventure game rant Yathzee did was about light years. All in all, it has potential, but I think they seriously would need to re-think the pacing of the show as well as the styles of segments they wish to show.

And for the love of fucking christ Yathzee, BREAK EYE CONTACT WITH THE CAMERA FOR A GODDAMN SECOND WILL YOU, IT FUCKING CREEPS ME OUT.

One of my earlier recommendations, Colugo, has come up with another weird ambient/instrumental album. Mixing Dylan-esque guitarplay with video game music produces a hard-on.

http://www.pleasesendhelp.com/music/Colugo...ellow%20Fellow/

Also available from above directory: Colugo's first release "Music For People" as well as unreleased bonus tracks and just plain general weirdness.

Cannibal Corpse's "Live Cannibalism" album. This is the crispest, most well-defined live sound I have ever heard from a band, and it actually doesn't fall too much short of their average gig either. This whole album is "classical Corpse" as I see it: with Corpsegrinder on vocals and the band blasting through pretty much every one of their most crowd-pleasing hits in the most brutal way imaginable.

I am missing way too much new stuff by being in the army/being sick

My favorite genres shouldn't be that surprising to anyone, my Last.FM page will tell most of what is needed to know. Grindcore/goregrind, death and black metal. Although I do ride the waves of metal awesomeness in any direction whatsoever if the music catches my fancy.

And you still love us for it.

I speak for the Nordic countries:

No, we definitively to fuck do not miss that one.

Hey, it's a way to start my weekend.

1. Rammstein - "Adios" - Heh, I have no idea how long it has been since I've even listened to this song. It is one of my favorite Rammstein tracks though, the main riff is awesome and usually gets my head nodding along.

2. Meshuggah - "Sane" - Well this is something I have listened to on a more frequent manner, so to speak. Not my favorite Meshuggah song by any stretch of the word, but the album is fucking ace. One of my fondest memories last year, seeing these guys live after such a long fucking time of fandom.

3. Cannibal Corpse - "Unite The Dead" - Ah, CC. There isn't much to say about the guys over at the Corpse camp: you know what you get when you pick the product up. Again not a song that I'd really rank as one of my favorites from the band, but the difference between a mediocre Corpse song and a good one is kind of iffy at the best of times.

4. Deicide - "Sacrifical Suicide" - Another States-side death metal giant, and one of their best tracks to boot! The problem with Deicide I've always had, besides Glen Benton being an obnoxious asshole, is that the overall level of their material is pretty shitty. Then again, their standout tracks are some awesome cuts of death metal.

5. Anal Cunt - "I Noticed That You're Gay" - It's Anal Cunt. What is there to say? Mostly these guys get the airtime when I am drunk and with friends. Otherwise I rarely listen to them on purpose anymore.

6. The Queers - "I Hate Your Fucking Guts" - Short Music For Short People is a fucking awesome album, and is in my opinion probably the most brilliant example of how to arrange your songs on an album. Never get bored even though it's a 101 different bands, 101 songs type of deal.

7. Modest Mouse - "Bukowski" - The chink in my blackened metal armor! Or one of the many, at least. Good News For People Who Love Bad News was my first touchdown with the band, and something I bought completely on a whim while I was over in the States. Never looked back since. People, take risks outside of what you find good, sometimes it does pay off.

8. Bo Hansson - "Lothlorien" - A Swedish composer/songwriter whose prog-influenced theme records are one of my more recent loves of life. His records are on the whole very mellow and smooth, incorporating a wide texture of sound and instruments despite usually only having two or three people at the studio recording it. It's sad that he isn't that well-known outside of his home country.

9. Korpiklaani - "Rise" - The more times I get to see these guys live, the more times I think that they might just be the most energetic live band there is on the face of this Earth. Even with puffed eyes and the day before banging at the back of your skulls, they make you lift your leg and jig like there is no tomorrow, every single time.

10. Blind Guardian - "A Dark Passage" - What the fuck. I don't listen to Blind Guardian.

Fallout 2 takes the cake for me as well as far as insane glitches goes, that buggery pile of bugs that it was when it was initially released. When traveling from Reno to San Fransisco, my character suddenly stopped in the middle of the desert and the game complained that I was carrying too much stuff. Alright, I figured that radiation had worn my strength down... But no. No no no no.

The game decided to spawn a FRIDGE in my inventory that weighted about 18 MILLION POUNDS or something ridiculous like that. I couldn't drop it, equip it or do anything to it, it just sat there and prevented me from taking another step. That was an amusing way of losing a character I guess.

"In the gothic splendour of the chapel of Saint Menesclaus

A golden door with seven locks, seven keys within your hands

Ancient crown of Bohemia placed upon your head, sharpening your spears

The hangman's disciples, vomiting forth death

Murderous power, radiate hate

Harbinger of suffering

The malignance of malevolence

Rises now beyond benevolence

Smite your foes so they may die, scattering blood across the skies

The architects of genocide, in death taking pride

A thousand-eyed angel of death, armed with a flaming sword

Spread your wings, let the killing begin, hunter becomes the hunted

Hangmen also die, morning-red, morning-red

Shines on us the soon to be dead, retaliating from beyond

Killing, bloodspilling,

Made through carnage

Seas of blood, seas of blood,

Morning-red, seas of blood"

Marduk's little ditty to the late SS commander Richard Heydrich, also known as "The Hangman Of Prague". Incidentally the title of the song as well. I enjoy the parables and alliteration drawn between Heydrich's life and religious themes, personally.

Hayaino Daisuki. Get their debut EP now. They're a sort of thrash/grindcore outfit featuring the singer from the now-defunct grind band Discordance Axis. More accurately than that, their sound can be described as playing 80's power and speed metal at triple speeds with guitars wailing all over the place and Jon Chang handling his duties on the mic like a proboscis monkey hopped up on LSD. It's only four tracks long, clocks in at under 15 minutes, and is still one of my personal top 3 extreme metal releases this year.

Other worthwhile bands to look out for:

Mistress (great sludgy thrash from the guys behind Anaal Nathrakh)

Coffins (another great Japanese metal band! Mid-paced death/doom metal that is just fucking PUNISHING)

Wold

Darkspace (Wold is to Darkspace what Darkspace is to Sunn O))) what Sunn O))) is to regular doom metal, pretty much. Insanely isolationist, cold and bleak stuff)

We'll move onwards under the glare of a red skyline set alight by church burnings.

I finally managed to track down more material from a Greek black metal band called Uranus. For the longest time I only managed to obtain the "Clang Of Lances" demo, which wracked my nerves because it is so short and so excellent that I wanted more. "Doctrines Of Immortality" is some of the best folk-influenced black metal I have managed to hear.

Now all I need is to find the rest of their recordings.

I just watched the HD trailer for Square's next game "Infinite Undiscovery", and despite the silly name the intro movie was convincing.

Then they started talking. Oh god.

Also, my gamertag on Live is Johan Gasmask. I'm pretty SOL as far as actual online games go, but maybe someone would like to play some Army Of Two/Crackdown/GTA IV with me.

How is Kiss Me, I'm Shitfaced an anti-anything song? Its a fun drunk ramble about trying to pull a chick.

Well, the tales he tells of the band and his own prowess as a musician/person could very well be considered humorously putting themselves down.

Forgot "Ska Sucks" by Propagandhi. Also "Back To The Motor League" which calls out college rock artists, but the entire song isn't just about the music industry as such.

Napalm Death's album "Enemy Of The Music Business" is pretty self-explanatory.

Dropkick Murphys have "Kiss Me I'm Shitfaced" which is a pretty humorous song from the viewpoint of their guitarist.