Amph Amphitheatres' Metaltropolis (Trial Version 1.0)

Pretty sure you could say the same thing about a lot of threads. I'm sorry you didn't get your own thread but like I said I asked to have this unlocked before you made yours.

I'm super keen to hear Marcus' reasoning. Bring out the crayons and butcher's paper.

EDIT: BF2K1, even still, it was a bafflingly stupid decision. Hence the Senny comparison.

To quote @Ender_Sai 's "To much Cradle love" from the other metal thread - that was years ago, before they started to suck.

Anyhow, not that there is an active place to discuss metal, what are people here mostly into? I mean, what is your favourite subgenre?

No, good work Marcus.

Amon - if I had to pick, it would be post-metal. ISIS' Panopticon has been a favoured album since maybe 2006.

I actually haven't listened to much of it. Mostly Downfall of Gaia and Agalloch. Thought I'm not sure if they could count as the real post.... more like avant garde metal (also how Encyclopaedia Metallum defines them). Also the Finnish underground Mandragora (bordering doom).

ISIS blew me away first time I heard them. It's like a lot of metal - there's not one track you can listen to and go "yep, in" - you need to go through the journey of the album. I would recommend getting Panopticon, which is as close to a perfect album as I can imagine. The standout track is "In Fiction", which only has clear vocals (no growls) but still manages to soar to epic metal heights.

Other good post-metal bands worth checking out are

Rosetta



and Cult of Luna.

I'm also enjoying BTBAM and Baroness. Yellow & Green is much less metal than previous records but still an immersive listen. Plus, I got the digipack and John Baizley's artwork is simply out of this world.

Wow, bad modding contributes to Trop's resurrection? Shock.

I'm all prog lately. Enslaved's new album and To-Mera's new album are pure sex, and Diablo Swing Orchestra's new one is the best album I've heard in a good two years.

Diablo Swing Orchestra are sick.

Still mainly listening to power metal I guess but I've been listening to a lot of different stuff on Songza which has a few great metal playlists, even if they do miscategorize some of the bands.

ha! Like metal needs more issues with subgenre classification.

Do any of you "like" I f***ing love heavy metal on Facebook?

lol

i like certain metals, like burzums. my favorite album is dunklehite.

MEAT
SANDWICH

I'm eating one right now! Tastes like Jesus.

anybody listen to darkthrones? when did those guys become like a scuzzy punk rock band? i mean, i feel like it happened right under my nose and i didn't even smell it!

Crust punk and black metal have always overlapped.

i mean yeah i suppose in the most general kind of way ender. are there other bm bands that have crossed over to crust and vice versa?

yeah, i see what you're getting at. but that crust band still sounds like poo-poo to me!