Metal Reviews

One album at a time, all the songs, always?

Do you skip around?

Favorite songs only?

Describe how you enjoy your music, and under what circumstances if the experience varies.

I like to stick to one genre at a time. Kinda like phases. Black for a week. Thrash for a month. Death/Grind for a month and a half. Power metal always is welcome, if it's one of my cherished albums... But, usually I don't mix the death, black, or thrash. I feel robbed if I don't listen to an entire album, whether it is start to finish, or picked up at song 3, and continued through to song 2. You never know when the mediocre song will become a favorite. Anyhow, that's me. Sampling through MP3's is different, but then again, when I'm looking for more to buy, these small tastes are all I can go by aside from suggestion.

Listening to metal while driving pisses me off, lest I'm the passenger, and it's a long trip. I'd rather focus on the metal, but driving safe is obviously a necessity. Cassette's only. Car CD players ruin CDs.

Your turn.

Sometimes I will listen to an album straight through, then some days I will just skip around.

A good advice would be to make backups of cd's to use in a car stereo.

Anyway, I mostly listen to some songs when I feel a sudden urge to hear a certain song or album. Not necessarily going it all the way through. And most of the time my concentration isn't good enough to carry through a long album, I blame the coffee.

Right now I have an MP3 player in my truck so I've made a bunch of MP3 CDs for a bunch of bands. Those I just put on shuffle unless they're a band that's been out for a long time, shuffle sucks when listen to CDs that came out in 1983 and 2005 unless they've been remastered. Those I'll just listen to each folder, maybe shuffle the folder.

Usually I just pop the CD in and let it roll. I listen to music at home, in the truck and at work so I got this shit going all day long.

One album at a time. Preferably when not doing anything else. I don't own, and never will own an ipod or any other mp3 player.

Always the entire CD in numerical order. Always.

The same. I always listen to mp3 (The fist think I do with any CD I buy is saving a copy in the hard disk, and, when I got 4Gb, a security copy in DVD) . Every day I prepare a reproduction list of 7,8 cd, trying to mix styles and bands. I never relisten a record the same day, but sometimes I repeat two or three songs that I really like of a certain record.

Thanks for the advice. I own a shitty comp incapable of anything but internet travel. Anytime I had MP3's, it was on a roommates comp in college. I prefer buying CD's, and having a reason to sit and listen, though sitting usually becomes headbanging and pacing. Solitude with my metal. Beautiful.

Back to your advice... Next time I visit my old school, I'll bring some CD-Rs, because what I really need is back-ups (more like 'front-ups') for my LPs! You don't exactly wanna see the quality of Mutiilation's Remains of Dead Cursed Soul decrease because it's a solid record... In fact, in its incredible condition, I feel it's my responsibility to pass this relic on to another generation. Whether it be my children, or a kid I meet 15 years from now. Damn straight.

Me too, but first I must give every song it's moment. I'd be lying if I said I didn't re-visit fav's.

I usually start the morning with fast and heavy albums to wake up and get pumped up like SYL or Pig Destroyer's Terrifyer. Then after school I open the pc and find a record that I havent really paid attention to and listen to that. Then my daily bm routine starts with classic albums and unknown ones. Then I usually go around metal-archives and find an unknown band and dload and give them a shot. When it's bedtime I usually pick a slow relaxing album like a funeral doom one or Velvet Cacoons Genevieve to help me sleep.

I always listen to one album at a time. And I always make back ups, I once lost everything I had in the pc, never again, it still hurts and I haven't found all of what I lost back then.

CDRs are the way to go in your car or truck. If I remember correctly, when I first joined the review team, one of the reviewers had their entire collection stolen from their car. I have had that happen to friends, too. You know, they put their CDs in those Case Logic binders and whatnot. I have one, but it's all CDRs. I may bring a CD occasionally as I don't want to burn every CD I own, but if it's one of my favorite bands that I listen to all the time, CDs that'll likely be in my car a lot, they get burned. I'll be fucking pissed if someone steals those CDRs let alone the real thing! Hahaha.

And seriously, stereos in your car that can play MP3s/WMAs are AWESOME! There's nothing like being able to pull out one CD with a bands entire discography on it and being able to play, put it on shuffle or whatever.

I also listen in waves, right now I've been listening to suicidal/ambient black.. and until I'm really familiar with an album, I'll listen to it all the way through.

also I tend to be guilty of accumulating music faster than I can appreciate it.. I must cut down on teh internets

I listen music only in my CD/CDR player with my headphones on. I can sample a song, but I will only sample it. I also listen to the whole album, without skipping any tracks. And if I listen to music then I concentrate on listening completely without doing anything simultaneously.

I'm kind of strict to myself when it comes to music. 8)



This goes to me too.

Depends. I normally just listen all the way through, whatever the style.

9.98 times out of ten its the full album, all the way through. Discrepancies occur when the track is unlistenable anti-music (Manowar have a few of these - The Warrior's Prayer, all the damn endless bass solos......Pleasure Slave :roll: ) or if I'm rushed for time in the morning and can only squeeze a few favourites in.

Usually I start listening to music on the bus on way into work on my minidisc player (yes they still exist :x ), listen to a few mp3s through the day on bandsites or myspace, another album and a bit on the way home and then spend the rest of the night spinning a few CDs or listening to yoinked albums as mp3s, depending on what else I'm doing.

What style I listen to depends entirely on my mood at the time (or what minidiscs I have on me). Yesterday I listened to The Hell of Steel (Manowar best-of) and Sonata Arctica's Ecliptica on the bus, and when I got home Character by Dark Tranquility, Grand Materia by Morgana Lefay and Gallows Gallery by Sigh (mp3s).

I don't get to listen to as much music as I used to lately. :cry:

Most of my music listening is done in the car with my many cd-r copies. Otherwise it's usually something 80s and fun like early Maiden when I'm doing the housework, or something mellow like now when I get home from work and unwind on the computer (Vangelis, Sarah Brightman, Hero soundtrack).

The whole album, I rarely skip around...

Nearly always entire albums at a time, unless I'm on a long car trip. I like to set my iPod to shuffle and play "what band is this?" It entertains me while driving from Mass to Virginia and back again. I tend to want to listen to several genres in a day, though; I'll go from Morbid Angel to HammerFall to Immortal quite happily.

Listen to the whole thing all the way through, unless one of the songs suck. I listen to music any chance I get. I make cassetes to listen to in the car. At home it's the original albums. I do have CD-R's and MP3's and the like, but I try to get the actual albums. I can also go through several genres in a day, but sometimes I get stuck on Minimalist BM mode.

I can only listen to an entire album. I cannot see how people put their CD players/stereos on shuffle or whatever. I can't do that.

I listen to music on my way to school and back from school (usually an hour in total), then I'll just listen to music sometimes in my room.