My new love for Metal

mean_liar · Post by **mean_liar** » Tue May 19, 2009 4:57 pm

Watching Metalocalypse reignited the part of me that loves screamo bands and so I compiled a short list of bands I really liked for the sole purpose of putting them on a list somewhere.

This is that list.

MASTODON
Any band with a concept album based on Moby Dick is awesome. The new album Crack the Skye has a pisspoor concept, the sort of hodgepodge crap that is facepalm bad but it sounds good so fuck it. Blood Mountain was all about the Hero's Journey so that gets an A- pass too.

INTRONAUT
They opened for Mastodon on the most recent tour and I snobbishly passed up on going - doors @ 6:30 means mean_liar shows at 8pm. Kicking myself for missing it.

BARONESS
Heavy, thick sound. You can probably skip their EPs and go right to their first LP, the Red Album.

BLACK MOUNTAIN
Not a screamo band... sort of. Uses brass. I was pleased with the melodies. Dave Matthews for a harder crowd?

EYEHATEGOD
The name is groaningly bad and so is the screaming but their music still manages to be about half good, half ugh.

GOJIRA
Total screamo. I keep wanting to like this and almost succeeding. I doubt it'll stay on my mp3 player much longer.

SUPERJOINT RITUAL
If they can keep Phil Anselmo from his lameass cadences they sound great.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Tue May 19, 2009 6:23 pm

Age of Evil is actually pretty good. They look like an Emo band, but they play speed metal with the best of them. Their cover of Ballistic's They Call Me Evil is better than the original.

And who can forget Lordi, winner of the 2006 Eurovision song contest.

Lordi's Biography wrote:Mr. Lordi's father was a Demon of the South and his mother a Goblin of the North. The Demons invaded Lapland and raped the Goblins. As a bastard son of both, Mr. Lordi received the supernatural powers of them and during centuries appeared as several historical figures, such as Genghis Khan and Vlad the Impaler. After defeating the Demons and Goblins, as the Lord of Lapland, he rode in a sleigh, given to him by Puuhkalakki, pulled by flying zombie reindeer.

According to one theory, Mr. Lordi has spent centuries searching for His One True Love, but hasn't found her. Kalmaged the Time-traveller tells that Mr. Lordi has integrated himself to the magnetic field of the Earth and thus controls the whole planet and can now travel between different dimensions effortlessly.

-Username17

mean_liar · Post by **mean_liar** » Wed May 20, 2009 4:01 pm

Lordi might as well have billed themselves as, "Shitty GWAR Tribute Band".

Ugh.

NineInchNall · Post by **NineInchNall** » Thu May 21, 2009 2:55 pm

I went through a matallophilic epiphany last October. A whole new world of music opened up.

These are the albums that I suggest you give a listen:

(Artist - Album)
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Agalloch - The Mantle
Graveworm - Scourge of Malice
Windir - Arntor
Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin
Destroy Destroy Destroy - Devour the Power
Disarmonia Mundi - Fragments of D-Generation

koz · Post by **koz** » Sat May 23, 2009 11:25 pm

Being the bizzare power metal fan that I am, I have to recommend Catharsis. This song in particular is awesome, although it comes from their Russian-language album.

Draco_Argentum · Post by **Draco_Argentum** » Sun May 24, 2009 1:01 am

If we're talking power metal I like Tad Morose.