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Z06George

2,519 posts

188 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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militantmandy said:
Z06George said:
Digging that! To me sounds very Jester's Race album by Inflames but with much heavier drums.
Cheers man! I'll not tell the guitarist you compared it to In Flames! Drum tracking to be done in September once I've moved house. We're still looking for a vocalist but we'll punt out an instrumental EP if necessary.
Haha understandable! Yeah it took my prog metal band about a year to find a vocalist, it's a proper ball ache.

militantmandy

3,829 posts

185 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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Z06George said:
Haha understandable! Yeah it took my prog metal band about a year to find a vocalist, it's a proper ball ache.
We've had one guy try out but he wash pish. Bassist knows a guy who said he might be interested in trying out but it's like herding cats.

ETA - Another (slightly rougher) tune up now.

Edited by militantmandy on Wednesday 29th July 14:16

militantmandy

3,829 posts

185 months

Saturday 1st August 2015
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This is absolutely great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWJ1EM7r1o0

Reminds me of old Decapitated.

Mastodon2

13,818 posts

164 months

Saturday 1st August 2015
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militantmandy said:
This is absolutely great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWJ1EM7r1o0

Reminds me of old Decapitated.
I always liked this tune of theirs, from an older album. Opens with a great Morbid Angel-esque riff, has some of those fast, jagged riffs that Nile favour and a brilliant chorus which is very much Psycroptic's own. I've never been massively impressed by their vocalist, but as a guitarist I don't really listen to tech death for the vocalists. There's not Trever Strnad in this genre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhBuCy1PAGk

I also really like the production on this, it's a bit old skool with a bit more space in the mix, rather than having everything stacked on top of each other and making it sound super thick, as is the modern trend.

militantmandy

3,829 posts

185 months

Saturday 1st August 2015
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Mastodon2 said:
I always liked this tune of theirs, from an older album. Opens with a great Morbid Angel-esque riff, has some of those fast, jagged riffs that Nile favour and a brilliant chorus which is very much Psycroptic's own. I've never been massively impressed by their vocalist, but as a guitarist I don't really listen to tech death for the vocalists. There's not Trever Strnad in this genre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhBuCy1PAGk

I also really like the production on this, it's a bit old skool with a bit more space in the mix, rather than having everything stacked on top of each other and making it sound super thick, as is the modern trend.
The vocals on the pre-(ob)servant stuff are pretty terrible to my ear. I think he improves as time goes on. They're style has changed a fair bit too, a lot more groove/riffy stuff and a bit slower:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X57nfRehem0


The most recent stuff has an alomost NYC Hardcore sound to the vocals;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2zAmVfAyJU

Personally I quite like it. I'm not as keen on the production of the older stuff but I like my metal to be nice and polished.

Either way, a great band that have somehow totally passed me by till recently.

Mastodon2

13,818 posts

164 months

Saturday 1st August 2015
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I believe they've changed vocalists along the way at some point. Like I say, there aren't many death metal vocalists that I don't actively tune out when I'm listening.

Gompo

4,396 posts

257 months

Sunday 2nd August 2015
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I'm really looking forward to seeing Death 'DTA' at Bloodstock.

Been into Death since the early 90s but realistically was too young to see them live; been listening to Leprosy and Individual Thought Patterns the last week or so, amazing band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_cn9TVSi2o

militantmandy

3,829 posts

185 months

Sunday 2nd August 2015
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Mastodon2 said:
I believe they've changed vocalists along the way at some point. Like I say, there aren't many death metal vocalists that I don't actively tune out when I'm listening.
Haha. Yeah I think I must do that subconsciously!

militantmandy

3,829 posts

185 months

Wednesday 5th August 2015
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Haven't listened to any Decapitated in years. Turns out they've some good new(er) stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Wpo8j1Ta0

strangehighways

479 posts

164 months

Saturday 8th August 2015
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If you like your heavy metal on the melodic side, check out my band.. album out now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDSRCae1ZG8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTfzqRrVqZo

hornet

6,333 posts

249 months

Monday 10th August 2015
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Electric Wizard live at Hellfest :-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkwASLMESuY

Sure some will wonder how on earth anyone can listen to that, but I find that utterly glorious, even when it spins out of control. They're a band who always seem on the edge of imploding and it just adds so much energy to things for me.

militantmandy

3,829 posts

185 months

Tuesday 11th August 2015
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strangehighways said:
If you like your heavy metal on the melodic side, check out my band.. album out now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDSRCae1ZG8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTfzqRrVqZo
You've got, like and actual real band. One day I'll get there! Very impressive stuff.

militantmandy

3,829 posts

185 months

Tuesday 11th August 2015
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hornet said:
Electric Wizard live at Hellfest :-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkwASLMESuY

Sure some will wonder how on earth anyone can listen to that, but I find that utterly glorious, even when it spins out of control. They're a band who always seem on the edge of imploding and it just adds so much energy to things for me.
That's my next hour sorted then. Saw them a few years ago supporting Cathedral. They blew everyone else off the stage.

drumsterphil

474 posts

222 months

Tuesday 11th August 2015
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Derek Roddy gets his old band back together - old school thrash/death doesn't get made like this anymore -

http://youtu.be/KFiuPHNORpk


Z06George

2,519 posts

188 months

Wednesday 12th August 2015
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drumsterphil said:
Derek Roddy gets his old band back together - old school thrash/death doesn't get made like this anymore -

http://youtu.be/KFiuPHNORpk
Quality!
On the topic of old school and drummers. Gene Hoglan played with Dark Angel and Death back to back at Bloodstock. Needless to say I wish I could do that, it was mighty impressive!

drumsterphil

474 posts

222 months

Wednesday 12th August 2015
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Z06George said:
Quality!
On the topic of old school and drummers. Gene Hoglan played with Dark Angel and Death back to back at Bloodstock. Needless to say I wish I could do that, it was mighty impressive!
I was never that impressed with Roddy as he never looked to be having much fun, but on that track he's obviously having a ball.

Talking of Hoglan, he's posted up a DTA drum cam which finally shows how good he really is - simply perfection., I've been a huge fan of his since Individual Thought Patterns -

http://youtu.be/5ZBekMHuCho

hornet

6,333 posts

249 months

Monday 31st August 2015
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Mixed bag of listening in recent weeks. Have suddenly started enjoying "Autotheism" by The Faceless, which surprised me, as not my usual cup of tea. Think getting into Gorod sort of helped. Normal service more or less resumed with new Witchsorrow and Acid Bath.

Witchsorrow - To the Gallows
Acid Bath - Coming Down from Outer Space

Witchsorrow track has a sort of "Cathedral doing Black Metal" feel to it at times. Most enjoyable.

Edited to do some tidying up

New Slugdge :-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JSzgZWvo8g

They also seem to have Spore Ensemble back up, which is just bonkers good. Worth investigating, if only for lyrical universe they're weaving.


Change of mood with Elder - describe themselves as heavy psych rock. Long songs, but never get dull and sound great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYhXBP6rFBk

Edited by hornet on Monday 31st August 19:04


Edited by hornet on Monday 31st August 19:54

JaymzDead

1,216 posts

199 months

Tuesday 1st September 2015
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hornet said:
Acid Bath.
I nearly had kittens then! You mean Acid King?

SilverSixer

8,202 posts

150 months

Tuesday 1st September 2015
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Was at Reading Festival this weekend - there's still quite a bit of metal gets on stage there, they have a specific tent for it called "The Pit". Metallica were awesome headliners, but two bands I saw which I'll be following up on are 'And So I Watch You From Afar' and 'Baroness'.

The former was mostly instrumental, the latter more shouty. Both very enjoyable and I'll pick up some of their studio stuff shortly.

Anyone else on here attend?

hornet

6,333 posts

249 months

Tuesday 1st September 2015
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JaymzDead said:
hornet said:
Acid Bath.
I nearly had kittens then! You mean Acid King?
Acid Bath, Acid King, Acid Reign...too confusing!