Metal topic? (partly for Booch)

[gunxsword]

Originally Posted by Balu`

I'd say keep. Sabaton is a pretty great band, unique within the genre.

Also sorry for not posting for a while, I've been pretty busy/tired lately. Anyway, I'm back with full speed! And I have some pretty great recommendations for you later today.

Oh ok... you might want to point me to the uniqueness of the album though...

Oh I've been worse. Caught a cold and the headaches + blocked nose is hindering everything (should be gone by tomorrow).

I don't want to admit it, but in my current condition, I find the vast majority of my extreme metal songs unejoyable (don't even ask why). It's been power metal, goth, symphonic, folk and some mathcore for the past few days.

*Edit: Two Orden Ogan albums worth buying? Loved the song you showed me and the iTune previews sound pretty good.

Just to let you know, Australians are being ripped off badly by Apple's music store. I can get ~50% off album purchases if I bought an album in the American iTune store with an American iTune gift card on special. Apparently, a reform is coming but that could take years .

[gunxsword]

A small bump (need to get all those youtube clips off this page! They're lagging my browser)
http://songs.to/#!pl=7bb0612c0c4475e...d72064aa611976
What do you think of the song/album?

[Balu`]

Originally Posted by gunxsword

Oh ok... you might want to point me to the uniqueness of the album though...

Oh I've been worse. Caught a cold and the headaches + blocked nose is hindering everything (should be gone by tomorrow).

I don't want to admit it, but in my current condition, I find the vast majority of my extreme metal songs unejoyable (don't even ask why). It's been power metal, goth, symphonic, folk and some mathcore for the past few days.

*Edit: Two Orden Ogan albums worth buying? Loved the song you showed me and the iTune previews sound pretty good.

Just to let you know, Australians are being ripped off badly by Apple's music store. I can get ~50% off album purchases if I bought an album in the American iTune store with an American iTune gift card on special. Apparently, a reform is coming but that could take years .

I don't see how you can't find Sabaton unique for a power metal band. Their vocalist is clearly different from the usual high-pitched singer, the instrumental parts can be heavily influenced by traditional metal and their lyrical themes are also unorthodox (even though they became somewhat repetetive after a few albums).

Well, I hope you're better now! :>

That sounds like good news to me, but that might be because you're getting closer to my taste. ^^

Yeah, definitely!

You're not alone with this, we Europeans get screwed pretty badly with all digital distributors. On Steam, it's $1 = €1, on iTunes it's almost completely random. And we don't even have Euros in my country. >.<

That song wasn't bad (in your next post), but the vocals aren't... well, good. :>

[gunxsword]

Oh I see...

Yup better now, getting back to my usual death/black/thrash/metalcore mix .

WOW Orden Ogan is great! Love their folk influences in some songs! Probably your best recommendation in recent times .

That sounds confusing as heck... better hope someone is going to do something.

I found the vocals a bit outlandish but the chorus was a saving grace. The rest of the album I did not like so... meh.

[LiamAtDevour]

I don't get along that well with most of you guys's metal opinions, but I'm going to post anyway :P I've just realised i've spent about half my life as a metalhead now and burnt through most common sub-genres. So i tend to explore for interesting sounds that surprise me and invoke new emotional responses or whatever.

Lately i've been stirring through a lot of this new fandangled "blackgaze" scene, various forms of avant-garde/prog black metal and whatnot. Some of my favourites:

Sleeping Peonies - Mist And Sea Spray, Mermaids Singing Far Away.
Atmospheric, ambient, black, shoegazey, etc. The vocals are more of a backing instrument, which i always appreciate. And they go for dreamy mythical themes, both lyrically and texturally, which makes a pretty unique sound.

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Hail Sprit Noir - Haire Pneuma Skoteino.
These guys claim to be Psychadelic, progressive black metal.. I can sort of relate to old school psych rock instrumentally, but the overall song itself doesn't really have the psych feel imo. It's almost like folk metal with a different instrument set. Although, again it's a pretty interesting sound. And they're Greek, greek black metal tends to be interesting.

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Cold Body Radiation - A Change Of Pace
One of the most consistently awesome bands i've come across in a long time. Very peaceful, generally slow-paced, shoegazey, post-black goodness. Lots of subtle high-pitched melodies that you can't appreciate without a reasonable set of speakers/headphones.

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Anyways, i'll keep popping in from time to time. Might dig up something you guys find interesting one of these days :P


edit: forgot the hail spirit noir vid

[Balu`]

Originally Posted by LiamAtDevour

I don't get along that well with most of you guys's metal opinions, but I'm going to post anyway :P I've just realised i've spent about half my life as a metalhead now and burnt through most common sub-genres. So i tend to explore for interesting sounds that surprise me and invoke new emotional responses or whatever.

Lately i've been stirring through a lot of this new fandangled "blackgaze" scene, various forms of avant-garde/prog black metal and whatnot. Some of my favourites:

Sleeping Peonies - Mist And Sea Spray, Mermaids Singing Far Away.
Atmospheric, ambient, black, shoegazey, etc. The vocals are more of a backing instrument, which i always appreciate. And they go for dreamy mythical themes, both lyrically and texturally, which makes a pretty unique sound.
YouTube: video

Hail Sprit Noir - Haire Pneuma Skoteino.
These guys claim to be Psychadelic, progressive black metal.. I can sort of relate to old school psych rock instrumentally, but the overall song itself doesn't really have the psych feel imo. It's almost like folk metal with a different instrument set. Although, again it's a pretty interesting sound. And they're Greek, greek black metal tends to be interesting.
YouTube: video

Cold Body Radiation - A Change Of Pace
One of the most consistently awesome bands i've come across in a long time. Very peaceful, generally slow-paced, shoegazey, post-black goodness. Lots of subtle high-pitched melodies that you can't appreciate without a reasonable set of speakers/headphones.
YouTube: video


Anyways, i'll keep popping in from time to time. Might dig up something you guys find interesting one of these days :P


edit: forgot the hail spirit noir vid

I guess I'll have to check some of these out tomorrow, but I have really no idea what to expect. I've never tried more "blackgaze" than the obligatory Alcest and related stuff.

And yeah, our tastes are quite different, but that's no problem at all imo. Plus, I haven't been listening to metal that much lately, more of post-rock, ambient and similar stuff, that's most enjoyable when one is insanely tired. >.<


@gunxsword:
Sad to hear. I thought for a second that you were on the right track. >.<

And yeah, it's confusing. What's even stranger is that some sites (like my favorite game distributor, gog.com) manage to do it right - there, everyone from anywhere pays the equivilent to the same USD price.

[LiamAtDevour]

I listen to Alcest and similar bands like Les Discrets and Old Silver Key pretty often, but they're a really different sound. They're more of a post-rock shoegaze, rather than post-black. So there's quite a bit of difference both in the vocals and the overall sound. Alcest is recorded very cleanly.

[Balu`]

Originally Posted by LiamAtDevour

I listen to Alcest and similar bands like Les Discrets and Old Silver Key pretty often, but they're a really different sound. They're more of a post-rock shoegaze, rather than post-black. So there's quite a bit of difference both in the vocals and the overall sound. Alcest is recorded very cleanly.

Les Discrets and Old Silver Key really are post-rock/shoegaze, the former with some neofolk added, but Alcest has some strong black metal influences (especially on Écailles de Lune).

Anyway, the songs you posted weren't bad, though the vocals in the first one were quite a bit annoying. The second one was unlike pretty much everything I've heart, but still, the third one is my favorite out of the batch.
However, I don't hear much black metal influence in any of them, except for the vocals in the first one.

Also, the messy production of the first two didn't really help the experience. I'm a big fan of clean production jobs.

[gunxsword]

Originally Posted by Balu`

Also, the messy production of the first two didn't really help the experience. I'm a big fan of clean production jobs.

*Cough* production jobs that flatten things so they don't sound 'busy'.

I don't hate you or anything, but I really want to post this song to kill off a few braincells. Hope you don't suffer too much from it:

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Young bands + metalcore = post traumatic stress disorder for the listener, most of the time.

Btw Balu`, you know more bands that sound like Orden Ogan?

[LiamAtDevour]

Originally Posted by Balu`

Les Discrets and Old Silver Key really are post-rock/shoegaze, the former with some neofolk added, but Alcest has some strong black metal influences (especially on Écailles de Lune).

Anyway, the songs you posted weren't bad, though the vocals in the first one were quite a bit annoying. The second one was unlike pretty much everything I've heart, but still, the third one is my favorite out of the batch.
However, I don't hear much black metal influence in any of them, except for the vocals in the first one.

Also, the messy production of the first two didn't really help the experience. I'm a big fan of clean production jobs.

Ahh, the messy production is half of the appeal to me. I figure that the low quality (a.k.a "raw") production quality is where the black influence is most prominent. Seeing as that's one of the most common and unique characteristics of black metal.

I'll have to check out some more Alcest to hear their blacker stuff. Atm, I only have Les Voyages De L'Âme.

Also, take my genre classifications with a grain of salt :P I piece it all together pretty loosely based off what bands claim to be and what just makes sense in my head. I organise my iTunes library into genres and sometimes forget what makes sense to me could be way off an accurate genre.