Metal Reviews

Seriously dude aside from Blind Guardian your list is complete shit.

I take it you do not like Hip-Hop?

Good idea for a thread but I cannot figure how to make it work on WMA...

You mean Windows Media Player? Just go to Play--> Shuffle or press Ctrl+H.

Another one, this time with comments

1.Cynic-How Could I: They had to cut this from their set when I saw them due to time constraints. Made me sad.

2.Yakuza-Perception Management: Totally forgotten how this song goes. Great band though, hopefully we'll see a new one soon.

3.Protest The Hero-The Dissentience: Off a great album, spun this a bunch last year.

4.Port O' Brien- In Vino Veritas: Nifty folk-rock lot who deserve bigger things. The chorus of this is <3

5.Sapremia- Through Sight Beyond: Got this as a promo, not listened in ages although it's pretty nice old-school DM.

6.Yakuza-Steal The Fire: This band fucking crush when they want to.

7.Dream Theater- In The Presence Of Enemies: The instrumental prologue of this is soooo awsum.

8.Cryptopsy-Resurgence Of An Empire: Yuck.

9.Colour Haze-Turns: One of those bands that is very nice to listen to, but I never really have an urge to hear them.

10.Genghis Tron-Board Up The House: I wish the whole album was as awesome as the intro :(

11.Dream Theater- The Ministry Of Lost Souls: Ick. Totally bogs down Systematic Chaos.

12.Neutral Milk Hotel-Avery Island/April 1st: A fairly fillery interlude from a great band.

13.Slint- Nosferatu Man: Classic shit, yo.

14.Protest The Hero- Limb From Limb: The second half of this album never seems quite as good as the first.

15.Cynic-Adam's Murmur: Nu-Cynic is still just as good, in my opinion.

16.Neutral Milk Hotel- Two Headed Boy pt.2: This song makes me :( in a good way.

17.Death In June-He's Disabled: Spun this album a ton, then went off it a bit.

18.The Flaming Lips-In The Morning Of The Magicians: Very nice if I'm in the right mood, but they've done better.

19.Mutiilation-Through The Funeral Maelstrom Of Evil: I loves me some horrifically sloppy black metal.

20.Moevot-Zurghaptre: Chant D'eternitie pt.1: Gives me the fucking creeps, especially at this time of night.

21.Protest The Hero-Wretch: Kind of sick of PTH coming up now.

22.Amesoeurs-Recuillement: Still can't decide really what to make of this band.

23.Protest The Hero-Bloodmeat: *sigh*

24.Nile- Annihilation Of The Wicked: Nile are the shit in small doses.

25.Maudlin Of The Well- Girl With A Watering Can: This song is insane.

More diverse genre-wise than my first one, but too many of the same artists.

1 - The Beatles "I Am the Walrus"
2 - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians "Little Miss S"
3 - Judas Priest "Love Bites"
4 - Whitesnake "Woman Trouble Blues"
5 - The Beyond "One Step Too Far"
6 - Beirut "Cliquot"
7 - John Zorn "Contempt"
8 - Hammers of Misfortune "Almost (Left with You)"
9 - Morphine "Do Not Go Quietly Unto Your Grave"
10 - Ark "Heal the Waters"
11 - Charles Mingus "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting"
12 - Priestbird "Smoke and Pain"
13 - Rush "Digital Man"
14 - Alain Bashung "L'Apiculteur"
15 - Albert Marcoeur "Si les Jours Fument..."
16 - English Dogs "Five Days to Death"
17 - Fugazi "Cashout"
18 - Lyle Lovett "Here I Am"
19 - Roberto Rodriguez "Ellis Island"
20 - Laura Veirs "Tiger Tatoos"
21 - Unorthodox "Road to Ruin"
22 - King's X "It's Love"
23 - The Flaming Lips "The W.A.N.D."
24 - Thin Lizzy "Waiting for an Alibi"
25 - 4 Hero "Loveless"

I genuinely thought I was the only person here who listened to Beirut.

1) Canldemass -- The Edge Of Heaven
2) Primordial -- The Heretic Age
3) Tom Waits -- Dave The Butcher
4) Meshuggah -- Organic Shadows
5) Ensiferum -- Little Dreamer (Väinämöinen Part II)
6) Old Man's Child -- The Dream Ghost
7) Sigur Rós -- Heysátan
8) Dir en grey -- The Pledge
9) Napalm Death -- Pledge Yourself To You
10) Lacuna Coil -- Humane
11) Meshuggah -- The Paradoxical Spiral
12) A Perfect Circle -- The Outsider
13) Black Sabbath -- Rat Salad
14) Mr. Bungle -- Platypus
15) Exodus -- Piranha
16) Nevermore -- Narcosynthesis
17) Godflesh -- Life Is Easy
18) At The Drive-In -- Enfilade
19) Light This City -- The Collector, Part I: Muse
20) Iron Maiden -- Infinite Dreams
21) Black Sabbath -- After Forever
22) Gorillaz -- Every Planet We Reach Is Dead
23) Aphex Twin -- Girl/Boy (£18 Snare Rush mix)
24) Korn -- Lost
25) Current 93 -- The Seahorse Rears To Oblivion (Demo 2)

1. Razor - Challenege the Eagle
off to a very nice start

2. Iced Earth - When the Night Falls
have not listened to this is a looong time

3. King Diamond - Behind These Walls
see #2

4. Tankard - Mechanical Man


5. Ministry - Ass Clown
Ass Clown!!!! You're Goin Down!!!

6. Destruction - Killing Machine
simple yet effective

7. Manowar - Metal Warriors
If you are not into metal, you are not my friend! Heavy metal or no metal at all!

8. Autopsy - Severed Survival
holy shit, awesome tits

9. Manowar - Each Dawn I Die
pretty damn cool

10. Judas Priest - Rapid Fire
pounding the world like a battering ram!

11. Mortification - Terminate Damnation
god rulz

12. Cynic - Endless Endeavours
see #'s 2 and 3

13. Devastation - Freewill
whooda thunk that a band could suck so hard on their debut, then kick ass on their sophomore effort?

14. Judas Priest - Electric Eye
my lasers trace your every move... my tearless retina can take pictures that can move

15. Anthrax - C11 H17 N2 O2 Na
well, the first weak track of my list?

16. Demilich - The Sixteenth Six-Tooth Son of Fourteen Four-Regional Dimensions (Still Unnamed)
um wow, that was a bitch to type, crazy vocals ever?

17. Annihialtor - Burns Like A Buzzsaw Blade
fakkin awesome, this song does burn

18. W.A.S.P. - Sleeping (In the Fire)
meh

19. Therion - Revelations (Maiden Cover)
pretty damn good cover, too bad the recording quality isn't that great

20. Immaculate - MechaNukeThrashZilla
shitty new thrash

21. Vexed - Nuclear Babylon
who? pretty good though

22. Hellwitch - Mordirival Dissemination
old school death metal ftw!

23. Mortification - At War With War (demo)
as if these guys came up twice

24. Iced Earth - Something Wicked (Part 3)
pretty damn cool

25. Various Artist - (666) The Number of the Beast
no idea who these 'various artists' are

so, for the most part, my list kicks all kind of old-school ass. Some weak moments, but all in pretty damn good.

I'm going to give this another go but know that I have a lot of classical and soundtracks on my iPod too.

#1) Nightwish - Cadence of Her Last Breath
[well if you like female fronted symphonic rock this is a good start]

#2) Yo-Yo Ma - Morricone Cinema Paradiso: Looking For You
[how could you ever go wrong with Yo-Yo?]

#3) James LaBrie/Tim Donahue - Feel My Pain
[Great proggy metal]

#4) Spheric Universe Experience - Lost Ghost
[ah additional proggy metal]

#5) Sarah Chang - Vivaldi's Four Seasons : Concerto No. 1 Spring
[She's an incredibly talented violinist and equally as hot]

#6) Janine Jansen - Schindler's List : Main Theme
[yet another great female violinist who is hot]

#7) Renee Fleming - Abends will ich schlafen geh'n from Hansel und Gretel
[she's probably the most reknown opera singer in the world]

#8) Cradle of Filth - Dinner at Deviant's Palace
[what a follow up to Renee!! ]

#9) Halo Soundtrack - Suite Autumn
[I never ever get tired of playing the game or listening to the OST]

#10) Pyramaze - Legacy In a Rhyme
[With Barlow at the helm this cd kicks ass]

#11) Scar Symmetry - Hybrid Cult
[Awesome material from SS's first cd!!]

#12) Amberian Dawn - Kokko- Eagle of Fire
[I need to give this cd a few more listens before I pass judgement]

#13) Nightwish - If I Had An Angel [Live]
[The last performance with the incredible voice of Tarja Turunen]

#14) Metallica - Suicide & Redemption
[overdriven production but I still really like the latest from Metallica]

#15) Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes To Midnight [Live]
[ a great track from the remarkable Live After Death tour]

#16) Kamelot - Lost and Damned
[Kamelot...nuff said]

#17) Heaven and Hell - Lady Evil [Live]
[does it get any better with Ronnie singing these classics again?]

#18) Beyond Fear - The Faith
[This is not one of my favorites from this cd but Ripper sounds great]

#19) Epica - Seif al Din (The Embrace That Smothers, Part 6)
[Rather solid stuff from Epica's first cd]

#20) Entwine - Curtained Life
[I have yet to hear a bad track on the 'Fatal Design' release]

#21) Lilly Allen - F*** You
[For you Zad She's fkin' great]

#22) Witchbreed - Eternal Exile
[Female fronted metal that's not your average clone]

#23) Spheric Universe Experience - Stormy Dome
[more prog metal from a killer album]

#24) Within Temptation - Deceiver of Fools [Live]
[Live from the 'Black Symphony'...great performance]

#25) Queensryche - The Killing Words
[a classic QR tune!! I remember buying the cassette on release day/ I'm getting old people ]

meh?! you suck.

Strapping Young Lad-Love
Marduk-Blutrache
Remembering Never-Please dont let my mother read this
Job for a cowboy-Entombment of a machine
Defeated Sanity-Arousal through punishment
The Ghost Inside-Smoke and signal fires
Suffocation-Images of purgatory
Soilent Green-Openless
Mayhem-Freezing Moon
Rise Against-Anywhere but here
Judas Priest-Genocide
Death-Pull the plug
A breath before surfacing-Trainwreck
Fear Factory-descent
Belphegor-Sexdictator Lucifer
Whitechapel-The Somatic defilement
Beneath the massacre-Modern Age Slavery
Venom-Mayhem with mercy
At the Gates-Legion
Marduk-Darkness breeds immortality
Whitechapel-To all that are dead
Dark tranquillity-Zodijackyl light
Savatage-All that I bleed
Heaven shall burn-Echoes
Armored Saint-Envy

Sleeping In The Fire is an awesome W.A.S.P. tune. An absolute W.A.S.P. classic.

I knew you'd have something to say.

W.A.S.P. has always been just a "meh" band to me. Some good stuff and some terribly cheesy 80's stuff.

1 - HORSE the Band "The Black Hole"

2 - Smart Went Crazy "Bullfighter"

3 - 10CC "Life is Like Minestrone"

4 - Arno "Lili"

5 - Charles Mingus "What's Love?"

6 - Black Sabbath "Never Say Die"

7 - Bruce Dickinson "The Alchemist"

8 - Scorpions "Evening Wind"

9 - Cyro Baptista "Malinye"

10 - Cave-In "Decay of the Delay"

11 - Fist in Fetus "Confusion"

12 - Hacride "Cycle"

13 - Zu "Ostia"

14 - Valentin Clastrier "O'Clast"

15 - Mano Negra "Senor Matanza"

16 - Arthur H "Marouchka"

17 - Hallucinogen "LSD"

18 - The Stooges "I'm Fried"

19 - Van Halen "Could This Be Magic?"

20 - Devin Townsend Project "Coast"

21 - Pearl Jam "Why Go"

22 - Frank Zappa "Who Needs Peace Corps?"

23 - Van der Graaf Generator "Darkness"

24 - Igorrr "Putrefiunt"

25 - Fugazi "Furniture"

I guess I'm not a metalhead...

HELLOOOOOOOO

1 - HORSE the Band "The Black Hole"
I love how this band mixes post-hardcore and electronic bits
2 - Smart Went Crazy "Bullfighter"
Some very clever post-punk from Ian McKaye's Discord Records
3 - 10CC "Life is Like Minestrone"
So damn good! Try their album "Original Soundtrack"
4 - Arno "Lili"
Finest contemporary artist out of Belgium
5 - Charles Mingus "What's Love?"
Genius!
6 - Black Sabbath "Never Say Die"
The only good song of a below average album
7 - Bruce Dickinson "The Alchemist"
Need I say more?
8 - Scorpions "Evening Wind"
Beautiful!
9 - Cyro Baptista "Malinye"
Latin avantgarde on Tzadik!
10 - Cave-In "Decay of the Delay"
"Jupiter" is an awesome album, try it
11 - Fist in Fetus "Confusion"
Featuring Stratovarius new guitarist, very funny stuff
12 - Hacride "Cycle"
Best post-metal band from France
13 - Zu "Ostia"
See the review on MR
14 - Valentin Clastrier "O'Clast"
Hurdy Gurdy man doing avantgarde folk
15 - Mano Negra "Senor Matanza"
Entertaining!
16 - Arthur H "Marouchka"
Son of Jacques Higelin, one of the best artist in France nowadays
17 - Hallucinogen "LSD"
Trance!
18 - The Stooges "I'm Fried"
From their final album. Not as good as old Stooges but good enough to have fun
19 - Van Halen "Could This Be Magic?"
Yeaaaah baby Yeaaaaah!
20 - Devin Townsend Project "Coast"
See Bruce Dickinson
21 - Pearl Jam "Why Go"
Good song from a good band
22 - Frank Zappa "Who Needs Peace Corps?"
From 'The best band you never heard in your life", awesomely funny!
23 - Van der Graaf Generator "Darkness"
Grace under pressure
24 - Igorrr "Putrefiunt"
Electronic craziness!
25 - Fugazi "Furniture"
Well, Fugazi motherfuckers!!!

HAPPY?

1. The Absence - Into the Pit
2. Insomnium - Death Walked on Earth
3. Thy Catafalque - Héja-Nász az Avaron
4. Testament - Raging Waters
5. Death - Baptized in Blood
6. Frightmare - Barbecutioner (Donny Don't Dance!)
7. Vintersorg - Matrix Odyssey
8. Green Carnation - Crushed to Dust
9. At the Gates - Legion (Slaughterlord cover)
10. Iced Earth - The Motivation of Man
11. Acid Bath - New Corpse
12. Jimi Hendrix - Sunshine of Your Love (live Cream cover)
13. In Flames - Gyroscope
14. Municipal Waste - Nailed Casket
15. Gorillaz - DARE
16. Gorillaz - Re-Hash
17. Tyr - Rainbow Warrior
18. Iced Earth - Slave to the Dark
19. Tyr - Dreams
20. Cream - Born Under a Bad Sign
21. Judas Priest - Dissident Aggressor
22. The Crown - The Speed of Darkness
23. Iron Maiden - The Fallen Angel
24. Aesop Rock - Float
25. Sonata Arctica - Champagne Bath

Comments ignored out of laziness

1) Pig Destroyer -- Strangled With A Halo
"Butt-fuckingly brutal and goddamn insane lyrics."

2) Cradle Of Filth -- An Enemy Led The Tempest
"Probably all-in-all, my favorite track from Damnation And A Day."

3) Strapping Young Lad -- Centipede
"Bonus track from City. I love it. It's more laid back than the rest of the main album, and really damn catchy."

4) Dir en grey -- Jealous (Single Version)
"My copy of Gauze is a bootleg. :(
I need to get myself a genuine copy. Great song, though. I won't get rid of these 'bonus tracks'."

5) Lacuna Coil -- Aeon
"Just a weird interlude."

6) Dir en grey -- Dokoku To Sarinu
"Reminds me of the heavier tracks from earlier in their career for some reason. Kyo is an amazing vocalist."

7) Coheed & Cambria -- Delerium Trigger
"One of my favorites from Second Stage."

8) Dragonlord -- Until The End
"Never really got into Black Wings Of Destiny..."

9) Pagan's Mind -- The Prophecy Of Pleiades
"Can anyone say 'Learning To Live'?"

10) Coheed & Cambria -- The Suffering
"Very very poppy, but catchy."

11) Light This City -- The Anhedonia Epidemic
"Nice guitar work."

12) Borknagar -- Matter & Motion
"I never could figure out what that noise in the background was. It always sounds to me like someone wrestling with box sealing tape. Good song, though."

13) Nightwish -- Ghost Love Score
"Pompous and melodramatic with a vocalist who sounds like Miss Piggy."

14) Michael Jackson -- Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"
"MA MA SE MA MA SA MA MA COO SA"

15) Dream Theater -- IV. The Test That Stumped Them All
"One of my favorite DT pieces, because of THE GODDAMN CRAZY INTRO. This song is really intense."

16) Borknagar -- Icon Dreams
"I.C.S. Vortex has an awesome voice. Great song."

17) Candlemass -- Witches
"Not one of my favorites from the self-titled... Don't like the chorus."

18) Mogwai -- Travel Is Dangerous
"Gorgeous song, and an awesome music video too. Go watch it. Now."

19) Emperor -- The Source Of Icon E
"The falsetto part is hilarious."

20) Gordian Knot -- Code/Anticode
"Beautiful song, and great musicianship."

21) At The Gates -- Unto Others
"Got this song before. Awesome."

22) Blind Guardian -- Battlefield
"WAAAAAAR AND ANGER SHALL REIGN!!!"

23) Nevermore -- Sell My Heart For Stones
"It always seemed like it was treading the same territory as 'The Heart Collector,' but still, this is a great song."

24) Between The Buried And Me -- Lost Perfection: a) Coulrophobia
"Awesome song, brilliant breakdowns, and that Bluesy part at the end kicks all kinds of ass. I wish the rest of this album was as good as the first four songs."

25) Ensiferum -- Tale Of Revenge
"One of my favorites from Iron."

Comments added because Zad is being a petulant child. Just joking. You know I love you.

I chuckled.