Speaking of metal... i'm looking for new music.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 5:43 pm

Ok. I've been listening to Children of Bodom for over a year now...

Does anyone know anything like that that might interest me?

Valgar · Post by **Valgar** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 5:50 pm

Kalmah for sure...

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 6:07 pm

Whoa... maybe your right. Listened to "Infernal Death' and 'Bitter Metallic Side'

sethsez · Post by **sethsez** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 6:09 pm

Yeah, Kalmah is basically what you buy when you have all the Children of Bodom albums and want some more.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 6:11 pm

They are sounding very similar...

Are they rip offs? I mean... do they keep integrity?

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 6:12 pm

Not that they're comparable, Teen Cthulhu is an interesting band that uses the whole symphonic keyboard bit. http://www.lifeisabuse.com/mp3.html

Valgar · Post by **Valgar** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 6:25 pm

Not sure if they are a rip-off, they only have 3 albums but they are all great stuff. Listen to HADES!

Children of Bodom is my favorite band too, other than Kalmah and them I have The Gallery by Dark Tranquillity. At least listen to the song "Punish My Heaven" !

A bit different but check out Slaughter of the Soul (album) by At The Gates. I also have Jester Race (album) from In Flames. Don't listen to the newer In Flames. Stick to Jester Race or Whoracle. You may not like it though.

Icecap Veiwin · Post by **Icecap Veiwin** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 6:43 pm

Uh, Sonata Arctica?

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 7:17 pm

Listen to Valgar.

I can't recommend Dark Tranquillity enough. The Gallery, The Mind's I, Projector, Haven, Damage Done and Character are all top albums.

And, as Valgar said, The Jester Race and Whoracle (and also Clayman) by In Flames are also fine.

TWITCHDOCTOR · Post by **TWITCHDOCTOR** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 7:24 pm

All of these forementioned bands are good, but I would also like to add Gardinian's cd "Soulburner".

russ · Post by **russ** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 8:01 pm

Valgar wrote:I also have Jester Race (album) from In Flames. Don't listen to the newer In Flames. Stick to Jester Race or Whoracle. You may not like it though.

Amen to this. I feel the same way that you do - their two newer albums have sort of lost it, so stick to the old stuff. I pretty much like everything they've got up to Clayman. Good stuff.

As for other stuff, circuitface, I highly recommend checking out Nightrage, Imperanon, Warmen, and like mentioned before, In Flames. Warmen has a bit more classic, instrumental feel to it, so I'm not sure if you'd like it alongside Children of Bodom. Regardless, all the stuff just listed is among my favorites.

black mariah · Post by **black mariah** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:27 pm

Definitely check out Hypocrisy if you don't know them already.

theevilfunkster · Post by **theevilfunkster** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 10:42 pm

Listen to the Akercocke albums The Goat of Mendes and Choronzon.

Awesome Black/Death metal band from London. I've seen them live quite a few times and they are seriously mindblowing.

You should also check out Kataklysm.

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 8:04 am

Here's another one: "Natural Born Chaos" by Soilwork. I don't care at all about the rest of their albums, but on that particular one they pretty much got everything right.

And just as Twitch mentions them: "Two Feet Stand" by Gardenian is also worth checking out.

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 5:19 pm

Cannibal Corpse. Totally. The best Death Metal ever. Give "Eaten back to life" a go.

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 5:00 pm

pablo wrote:Cannibal Corpse. Totally. The best Death Metal ever. Give "Eaten back to life" a go.

Post Barners Cannibal Corpse sucks ass. Everything pre-Bleeding is ace though. Personally, I prefer the old New York school of death metal i.e. Voracious Contempt and Extinction of Benevolence era Internal Bleeding, Pyrexia and Deaden.

shadowstar · Post by **shadowstar** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 5:53 am

Herr Schatten wrote:Here's another one: "Natural Born Chaos" by Soilwork. I don't care at all about the rest of their albums, but on that particular one they pretty much got everything right.

Holy hell, you were right. I had "A Predator's Portrait" and thought there were a couple of good songs while the rest were merely decent. I'd heard good things about this album before, but since I've agreed with you on a lot of music in the past (Dark Tranquillity: DD and Anathema, for example), you put the last nail in the coffin. Bought it on the way to work today, and it is excellent from start to finish.

FRO · Post by **FRO** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:48 pm

Check out Demon Hunter or a band called The Showdown. Good stuff.

sjewkestheloon · Post by **sjewkestheloon** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:19 am

ever checked out any entombed? i don't think they've thrown anything out that's too great recently but their album 'to ride, shoot straight and speak the truth' is great. some of the lyrical content is a bit shite but they are swedish

the guitar sound blows me away and they were one of the loudest and evil bands i've ever seen live (supporting a great pre hip hop influence shit machine head, what a gig)

theevilfunkster · Post by **theevilfunkster** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:36 pm

sjewkestheloon wrote:ever checked out any entombed? i don't think they've thrown anything out that's too great recently but their album 'to ride, shoot straight and speak the truth' is great. some of the lyrical content is a bit shite but they are swedish the guitar sound blows me away and they were one of the loudest and evil bands i've ever seen live (supporting a great pre hip hop influence shit machine head, what a gig)

I saw Entombed a couple of years ago in Manchester and they were awesome. And Machine Head have pretty much gone back to awesomeness, their last album is one of their best and they're certainly one of the best metal bands I've seen live.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:56 pm

Synergy

its children of bodom only with one of the guys girlfriend on vocals..

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 3:03 am

I got the three Kalmah albums... well worth it. These guys are really great. After a couple of listens through each album i realized that these guys have a similar process as CoB but are so different it's unbelievable. Honestly, since my first few listens not much has reminded me of CoB except for the few synth parts on each album. I really dig 'They Will Return' and 'Burbot's Revenge'. Awesome songs.

I will check out the other stuff mentioned as soon as i can - it's hard to do over a public pc though! Still - any suggestions you can make for me will be greatly appreciated. I can't believe i liked the first band someone responded with! Thanks, Valgar!

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:33 pm

Entombed aren't that great.
Burzum and Darkthrone, pure Norwegian black. Also look into some Regurgitate, swedish grind.

Btw, Dark Tranquility and Children of Bodom are quite honestly some of the worst bands that ever sold more than thousand copies of the a album of the last ten years.

janrodricks · Post by **janrodricks** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:59 pm

Old Man Gloom is really awesome. I'd recommend Seminar II or Christmas - the other CDs are just as awesome, but they're less accessible. But Seminar III is really awesome - it's just one 27 minute song

shadowstar · Post by **shadowstar** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 8:57 pm

Old Man Gloom is made up of members of Isis, Cave In, and Converge, three bands I would highly recommend.

Entombed does have some great stuff, by the way; a good chunk of "Wolverine Blues" is pretty awesome and "Clandestine" is regarded a masterpiece on the same level of "Slaughter of the Soul" by At the Gates by some.

Also, I can understand if you don't like certain bands, pablo... but you don't have to outright flame them; I'm sure there's people out there who would say negative things about the bands you listed.

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 1:12 pm

shadowstar wrote: Also, I can understand if you don't like certain bands, pablo... but you don't have to outright flame them; I'm sure there's people out there who would say negative things about the bands you listed.

You're right. Sorry, I was in quite a bad mood.

Don't forget the Haunted. (also Swedish) Great liveband and all their records are worthwhile.

adam76 · Post by **adam76** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 2:30 pm

theevilfunkster wrote:I saw Entombed a couple of years ago in Manchester and they were awesome. And Machine Head have pretty much gone back to awesomeness, their last album is one of their best and they're certainly one of the best metal bands I've seen live.

I too saw Entombed play live a few years ago(think it was '93, touring wolverine blues) and they rocked. They supported Napalm Death and they blew. them. away. Napalm are a good band but those first three LP's by Entombed are something else. 'Wolverine Blues' is probably the heaviest LP ive ever heard. If i remember rightly, they encored with 'Left Hand path' and it nearly took the roof off. Ferocious stuff.
Alot of the early Earache(entombed's record label) stuff is of a pretty high quality-Brutal Truth, Cathedral, Terrorizer, Morbid Angel, Carcass and Sleep are some other bands i spent my (arguably mis-spent)youth listening to!

sjewkestheloon · Post by **sjewkestheloon** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 10:34 am

yeah wolverine blues rocks but i'm mostly partial to 'ride...' as it actually has more tunes with the brutality. not too keen on their most recent record though. seemed more steel slide than metal....

as for machine head they'll never beat songs like blood for blood and violate now. when you say their newest album is that supercharger? if so i listened to it and really didn't like it at all. it just seemed overproduced and crap. that's just me though, each to their own and that.

anyone here into british punk, abnd that sort of raw sound? i love my buzzcocks and pistols etc. also i'm well into a lot of the earlyish new york side of it including patti smith and television etc. those bands have done some brilliant raw albums that don't suffer from the over produced sound that many metal bands seem to sucumb to in their quest to appeal to tiny hoody wearing kids.

theevilfunkster · Post by **theevilfunkster** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 12:29 pm

sjewkestheloon wrote: as for machine head they'll never beat songs like blood for blood and violate now. when you say their newest album is that supercharger? if so i listened to it and really didn't like it at all. it just seemed overproduced and crap. that's just me though, each to their own and that.

Oh god no, Supercharger was shite. Their last album was Through The Ashes Of Empires and is almost on par with Burn My Eyes.

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 5:19 pm

sjewkestheloon wrote: anyone here into british punk, abnd that sort of raw sound? i love my buzzcocks and pistols etc. also i'm well into a lot of the earlyish new york side of it including patti smith and television etc. those bands have done some brilliant raw albums that don't suffer from the over produced sound that many metal bands seem to sucumb to in their quest to appeal to tiny hoody wearing kids.

It doesn't get any rawer, or louder, than Guitar Wolf. The japanese punkrock-noisers with more heart than mind, more balls than fingers, and less music than distortion. C: I recommend 'Jet Generation' as a good introduction. (or the zombie-documentary Wild Zero)