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I was pretty certain most Slayer concerts in the next few weeks were cancelled due to a band member needing back surgery.
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Oh that sucks. Two concerts in two weeks cancelled? I was so excited.
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I lost major interest in the Behemoth tour when Shining dropped off due to visa complications. Lightning Swords of Death replaced them, and while I like LSoD a lot, they aren't nearly as awesome as Shining. I ended up skipping it to see Oiltanker and Infernal Stronghold instead.
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Most Behemoth bores me to tears, especially recently. I'm not usually a fan of black and blackened metal when it's highly polished. Blackened death is usually not my thing (with the exception of a few bands like Unanimated and Goatwhore), and Behemoth is the opposite of how I like mine. Unrelated, you guys should tune in to my radio show tonight. Seeing as none of you seem to be within normal listening range, you can do it over the internet at WKDU.org. I'm normally on 7-9PM (Eastern) on Mondays, but I'm also covering the show after mine so I'll be going all the way until 11PM tonight. The DJ before me also plays metal, so you might as well tune in at 5PM for 6 hours of blistering, audible hate. |
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I'm doing a variety show that includes a decent amount of metal later this semester though, so "stay tuned"!I passed up a Between the Buried and Me concert the other day and now regret it. While not very metal, there's a Coheed and Cambria concert on campus in a month I'm extremely excited for, which I don't plan on missing. |
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I skipped the BTBAM/Cynic/Devin Townsend/Scale the Summit show last night in Philly. And by skipped, I mean, forgot about. I'm not terribly upset because BTBAM is awful, Devin is a much better producer than he is a musician, and I'm entirely indifferent about Scale the Summit. Would really have liked to see Cynic, though. They need to stop touring with awful bands (Dragonforce, BTBAM, etc.).
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Cynic's performance was incredible.
For lack of a better term, the vibes they gave off were mesmerizing, and left me staring in awe several times throughout their set. |
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Take for instance Infernal Stronghold. Their first LP was recorded in a rather nice studio, and their second was recorded with only 11 mics being played "live." Their second sounds far better, as it fits their "raw" style of blackened crust/thrash. I know the guy who mixed/mastered their second album, and it's not that he just works better with lower production values. He has a really clean, high-end production on his (formerly solo) project, Woe, and that sounds great because it fits the style of black metal he plays in Woe. I tend not to like the really polished styles of black and blackened metal (with some exceptions such as Woe, Shining (Swe), Vreid, etc.). I usually gravitate towards the raw, dirty, and ugly varieties (like Darkthrone, Iskra, Infernal Stronghold, Ork Bastards, etc.). |
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Production values and the use thereof are huge, the first three Metallica albums were the grittiest, and by far the best, Death Magnetic, on the other hand, was crisp and clean and suckish.
I tend to gravitate towards the grittier, more distorted end, esspecially with sludge, drone, and doom metal, though certain bands like Meshuggah, who play highly technical and nuanced music, sound better with crisper sound. A good compromise is Keelhaul, a technical sludge band. |
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Not end all though. St. Anger's kind of the antithesis to that.
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Saint Anger had that tinny drum, and the vocals sucked. It actually had no distortion and was pretty clean, if memory serves. Thrash metal should not be clean.
Distorted is Electric Wizard. |
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This thread needs more Swedish love, as in Soilwork, In Flames, Children of Bodom, Amon Amarth, Dark Tranquility, Opeth, Arch Enemy, and especially Scar Symmetry. I'm sad that Scary Symmetry has two new vocalists (to replace one awesome one), but the new sound stands on its own.
If you want to go old school, you can't go wrong with Megadeth and Anthrax. I never really did get into Slayer. Metallica is Metallica...take 'em or leave 'em. Its just nice to have them all still around (and in top form in Megadeth's case). Do any of you fellow metalheads play? Any singers out there? My band needs a vocalist..though preferably the power metal style rather than death. |
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