Amph Amphitheatres' Metaltropolis (Trial Version 1.0)

No he does, but a lot of two hand tapping and stuff.

This track has been redone from the Animals As Leaders version to a duet with Kelela Mizanekritos on vocals. It's not heavy but his playing is astonishing. Using an effects pedal to loop some verses.

 

Tosin Abasi with Misha Mansoor of Periphery





And Periphery

 

@duende, Sunbather. Thoughts?​

EDIT: By which I mean the deafheaven album.

 

check the listening thread for my thoughts on duffhaven.

 

here's a cover of burzums dunkelheit by now-defunct finnish doom band reverend bizarre:

 

duffhavens: black metal crossed with shoegaze, with neither genre's greatest strengths in evidence.

i think i like this description better than my last one.

 

IDK man, I really enjoy it. The BM vox add a lot of raw emotion that compliments the music well, but I love Mogwai and Explosions in My Pants The Sky.

I also went back and listened to Fear Factory's last good album, Demanufacture. I remember when this came out, it was a game changer. Doesn't sound it now, but if you consider you had standard death metal from your Morbid Angels or Cannibal Corpses; some grind/grove stuff like the Entombed wolves album and stuff but this? This was something else.

 

i love mogwai too, but i shouldn't. there's just something about them. explosions in my balls i find to be boring. i never listened to fear factory, i just figured they were like part of the new wave of butt metal back in the day. and i would not call morbid angel standard death metal - that guitarist is a frickin' pioneer, or was anyway. nobody could touch him in terms of raw creativity and imagination.

i think part of my problem with duffhaven is i've heard so many dudes saying "man, i hate metal but i really love that duffhaven album. now THAT'S metal i can get into." skinny, nerdy dudes wearing striped shirts and thick glasses and mustaches.

 

LOL yes well said. I remember my somewhat hipsterish friend texted me saying, "I think my favourite album of the year might be a black metal album." Of course I was like "What??" and then found out about Sunbather. I've only heard one song and I actually dug a little bit of it but the amount of love for the album from non-metal people is kind of hilarious.

 

Oh yeah for sure; I wasn't aware of the hype until after I heard Dreamhouse (first song on album). But I got the same response I get when I'd introduce people to ISIS or Rosetta - "Oh yeah I love the music but the vocals are too much".

Trey Azagoth is a pioneer, sure, but in 1995 what MA were doing wasn't innovative anymore. I mean this is the time that the big albums in metal were still Chaos AD (Roots hadn't come yet); Far Beyond Driven etc.

 

true, but they came back with formulas fatal to the flesh, which was a ravenous, incredible album and possibly my favorite ma.

 

Ender Sai

check it: i found this death metal band started by this guy that plays a microtonal guitar. it's totally fuggin sick!

 

http://arts.nationalpost.com/2014/0...rformed-as-oderus-urungus-dead-at-50-reports/

Well, crap.

 

how many gwar people have died now?

 

i'm listening to the complete works of a finnish band called moonsorrow. normally i don't go for this cheesedickish kind of stuff, but i'm really digging these guys. very ambivalent about the stupid gnomefolk bits though.

 

Oh I remember them from when black metal first got big in the 90s, when Varg was all in jail and stuff.

 

oh yeah? they're not really black metal though, like almost not at all.

 

They're more like epic folk metal. This song's good:

 

so is "epic metal" a distinct subgenre? because it makes me think of power metal. i don't think of this band as power metal though because the vocals are not operatic.

 

Yeah a lot of the "epic" stuff is usually power metal but you can find elements of it in other subgenres. Perhaps you could substitute epic with "atmospheric" in this case.

 

I don't know their music sorry but they were definitely part of the BM movement, or maybe just at least rode its coat-tails. I remember they used to be in Terrorizer quite a bit.

 

they probably did ride its coattails. there's probably hundreds of moon bands though.

 

http://www.metalinjection.net/lates...cks-themselves-in-tiny-box-in-the-name-of-art

Does anyone else just think Dethklok?

 

gonna be in and out in 30 seconds.

 

varg has a youboons channel: