Metal Reviews

I agree if you don't have Sirens or Hall Of The Mountain King get those first.

I was actually going for Gutter Ballet and Hall of the Mountain King.

Bob Marley & the Wailers - Catch a Fire (deluxe edition)
Dire Straits - Alchemy Live
David Gould - Adonai in Dub & Adonai and I
John Zorn - The Satyros Play / Cerebrusanik
Acid Mothers Temple - Starless and Bible Black Sabbath
John Coltrane - The major works of John Coltrane (because it's the only available recording of Om)

Good choices but make sure you get their pre HOTMK stuff with the exception of Fight For The Rock which is one big steaming pile of crap.

Deep Purple - In Rock
Scar Symmetry - The Unseen Empire
In Flames - The Jester Race
Ensiferum - Iron

Gutter Ballet is fucking awesome. I'm definitely picking it up in the near future.

In Rock is fucking awesome. Everybody should pick it up in the near future.

Fleet Foxes - S/T
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant EP
Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising
Rose Kemp - Unholy Majesty
Tim Christensen - Honeyburst
Moon Safari - Lover's End
Janis Joplin - Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits
Allegaeon - Fragments Of Form And Function
The Lord Wierd Slough Feg - Down Amongst The Deadmen
Magic Pie - The Suffering Joy

Quite a bit of variation in there eh?

Yeah Janis Joplin is the hardest and heaviest thing you got there

Janis Joplin is some heavy shit indeed

I dunno, as i get older i have started to gravitate toward mellower and somewhat softer music, people change taste in music all the time, i don't listen to metal as much as i did when i was younger. I just turned 25 yesterday and i've been a metal fan since i was 10, I still listen to my favorite bands alot though. Anybody else feel the same?

The Devil's Blood - Time of No Time Evermore
James Blackshaw - Glass Bead Game
Magma - Attahk
Septic Flesh - The Great Mass

I listen to a wide variety of music from metal to classical from prog rock to choir/choral.

What I have figured from being a "metal-head" is it is a gateway to a world of different kinds of music (that is if you are an open minded metal-head). Although after some years (for me at least) I have found out that the metal-head label is sometimes a silly label for someone who listens to a whole variety of music. For someone who appreciates and understands different forms of music it is merely a label that is really not necessary to be used all the time. At the end of the day what really matters is exploring new territories of music and I am personally convinced that once loving metal truly one will never grow out of it and will become more in love with it as years pass you by. Becoming distant from metal and listening to the roots of metal music really helps one appreciate and love it more.

People go through phases .. I'm 38 now and I listen to harder music than ever!

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
Ulver - Wars of the Roses

Faith No More - Angel Dust

I intend to listen to this music well into my middle age, nothing is more real than old school black, thrash, and death metal.

Yeah. I'll probably end up getting more into classical as the years go by, but I also listen to more death metal now than I did 5 years ago. When you've been at this metal thing for more than a decade it seems hard to stop.

Indeed, been listening to this stuff for over 15 years now, I see no reason to stop.

It's not so much stopping listening to metal altogether as widening the range of music you listen to. If that happens, you'll eventually end up listening to less metal just because other kind of musics might have partly taken's metal place. That's how it happened for me anyway.