***OFFICIAL*** FFA Heavy Music Thread - No banal, anodyne "Dad Rock" BS here.. (2 Viewers)

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

As I Lay Dying's Tim Lambesis admits the band wasn't actually Christian for a great deal of their career and that a majority of the Christian bands he toured with weren't either.

its all schtik. just like the satanic bands, non of them worship the devil either.

BTW I think metal is having a bit of a renaissance, Im hearing alot of new stuff and liking it

Volbeat

Avenged 7X

stone sour

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plus I still routinely listen to the sword, wolfmother, anything clutch does.

Alice n chains has put out 2 really decent albums lately.

KEEP ROCK ALIVE!!!!!!!!

 

[jamny]

I've always heard a lot about Opeth and recently heard a really good song on Sirius. I decided to check them out and am listening to Damnation on youtube and the whole album is mellow. What should I listen to from them?

 

[Evilgrin 72]

I've always heard a lot about Opeth and recently heard a really good song on Sirius. I decided to check them out and am listening to Damnation on youtube and the whole album is mellow. What should I listen to from them?

Blackwater Park, Still Life, Ghost Reveries.

 

[Amused to Death]

I've always heard a lot about Opeth and recently heard a really good song on Sirius. I decided to check them out and am listening to Damnation on youtube and the whole album is mellow. What should I listen to from them?

Blackwater Park, Still Life, Ghost Reveries.

And I'd add "My Arms, Your Hearse" just for the songs "When" and "Demon of the Fall". "Damnation" is a pretty fine album though.

 

[jamny]

I've always heard a lot about Opeth and recently heard a really good song on Sirius. I decided to check them out and am listening to Damnation on youtube and the whole album is mellow. What should I listen to from them?

Blackwater Park, Still Life, Ghost Reveries.

And I'd add "My Arms, Your Hearse" just for the songs "When" and "Demon of the Fall". "Damnation" is a pretty fine album though.

Thank you both. I did like Damnation and listened to the whole album.

 

[Amused to Death]

I've always heard a lot about Opeth and recently heard a really good song on Sirius. I decided to check them out and am listening to Damnation on youtube and the whole album is mellow. What should I listen to from them?

Blackwater Park, Still Life, Ghost Reveries.

And I'd add "My Arms, Your Hearse" just for the songs "When" and "Demon of the Fall". "Damnation" is a pretty fine album though.

Thank you both. I did like Damnation and listened to the whole album.

Damnation was produced and heavily influenced by Steven Wilson, who is also very much worth listening to. Recommend poking around his extensive catalog and see if anything grabs you. Particularly the later Porcupine Tree releases.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I've always heard a lot about Opeth and recently heard a really good song on Sirius. I decided to check them out and am listening to Damnation on youtube and the whole album is mellow. What should I listen to from them?

Blackwater Park, Still Life, Ghost Reveries.

And I'd add "My Arms, Your Hearse" just for the songs "When" and "Demon of the Fall". "Damnation" is a pretty fine album though.

Thank you both. I did like Damnation and listened to the whole album.

All good choices.

One off of GR that I always liked: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGATQaNJ5O8

 

[jdoggydogg]

Posting this here because it's amazing and I can't stop watching it:

Gojira "Backbone" live

 

[Freelove]

How do we feel about Animals As Leaders?

 

[jamny]

Posting this here because it's amazing and I can't stop watching it:

Gojira "Backbone" live

Another band I need to listen to. Everything I hear, I like.

 

[jamny]

How do we feel about Animals As Leaders?

I heard a song from them the other day, remember the name of the band. I liked it and definitely wanted to check them out. Thanks for the reminder.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Posting this here because it's amazing and I can't stop watching it:

Gojira "Backbone" live

Another band I need to listen to. Everything I hear, I like.

I'm new to the band, so I am not an expert on their discography.

But I highly recommend L'enfant Sauvage.

 

[MC Gas Money]

As I Lay Dying's Tim Lambesis admits the band wasn't actually Christian for a great deal of their career and that a majority of the Christian bands he toured with weren't either.

its all schtik. just like the satanic bands, non of them worship the devil either.BTW I think metal is having a bit of a renaissance, Im hearing alot of new stuff and liking it

Volbeat

Avenged 7X

stone sour

5 finger dp

avatar

plus I still routinely listen to the sword, wolfmother, anything clutch does.

Alice n chains has put out 2 really decent albums lately.

KEEP ROCK ALIVE!!!!!!!!

The difference with the satanic bands is that they dont pretend its anything more than performance art and dont pretend its real to sell.

Outside of a nutcase here or there.

 

[MC Gas Money]

I think there is one question we really need to answer....

Is metal just a sound or the spirit of the musicians?

AC/DC is always the big question mark. In my opinion their sound is unequivocally hard rock but their spirit is totally metal. They transcend that boundary.

Same with GnR in many ways as well.

 

[jdoggydogg]

I think there is one question we really need to answer....

Is metal just a sound or the spirit of the musicians?

AC/DC is always the big question mark. In my opinion their sound is unequivocally hard rock but their spirit is totally metal. They transcend that boundary.

Same with GnR in many ways as well.

Good question.

I think AC/DC is 100% hard rock. They do have a punk rock / metal sensibility - there's no doubt. But metal has to be about the sound. AC/DC - much like Led Zeppelin - has a sound deeply rooted in blues chord progressions. The blues inform a lot of hard rock, but the blues don't really shape the sound of any major metal bands that I can think of off-hand.

Guns 'N' Roses is a little more difficult, because they have riffs that definitely feature a metal sound (Welcome to the Jungle comes to mind). However, almost every Roses song I hear makes me think of hard rock - not metal.

 

[MC Gas Money]

I think there is one question we really need to answer....

Is metal just a sound or the spirit of the musicians?

AC/DC is always the big question mark. In my opinion their sound is unequivocally hard rock but their spirit is totally metal. They transcend that boundary.

Same with GnR in many ways as well.

Good question.

I think AC/DC is 100% hard rock. They do have a punk rock / metal sensibility - there's no doubt. But metal has to be about the sound. AC/DC - much like Led Zeppelin - has a sound deeply rooted in blues chord progressions. The blues inform a lot of hard rock, but the blues don't really shape the sound of any major metal bands that I can think of off-hand.

Guns 'N' Roses is a little more difficult, because they have riffs that definitely feature a metal sound (Welcome to the Jungle comes to mind). However, almost every Roses song I hear makes me think of hard rock - not metal.

Blues to me is more dependent on the tone of the compositions rather than a specific sound. You can infuse a blues sensibility within many different musical genres. All rock is essentially based on the groundwork laid out by the old bluesmen. I hear a lot of blues in metal, but the heavier it is the more difficult it is to pick up as the heavy death/black bands are heavily influenced by classical as well. Some of the compositions are so mind bending there is no main genre inspiration.

Although personally metal to me is more about the spirit than it is the sound. That may just be be because im a musician in the more extreme genres.

 

[jdoggydogg]

I think there is one question we really need to answer....

Is metal just a sound or the spirit of the musicians?

AC/DC is always the big question mark. In my opinion their sound is unequivocally hard rock but their spirit is totally metal. They transcend that boundary.

Same with GnR in many ways as well.

Good question.

I think AC/DC is 100% hard rock. They do have a punk rock / metal sensibility - there's no doubt. But metal has to be about the sound. AC/DC - much like Led Zeppelin - has a sound deeply rooted in blues chord progressions. The blues inform a lot of hard rock, but the blues don't really shape the sound of any major metal bands that I can think of off-hand.

Guns 'N' Roses is a little more difficult, because they have riffs that definitely feature a metal sound (Welcome to the Jungle comes to mind). However, almost every Roses song I hear makes me think of hard rock - not metal.

Blues to me is more dependent on the tone of the compositions rather than a specific sound. You can infuse a blues sensibility within many different musical genres.All rock is essentially based on the groundwork laid out by the old bluesmen. I hear a lot of blues in metal, but the heavier it is the more difficult it is to pick up as the heavy death/black bands are heavily influenced by classical as well. Some of the compositions are so mind bending there is no main genre inspiration.

Although personally metal to me is more about the spirit than it is the sound. That may just be be because im a musician in the more extreme genres.

I've played in large bands of all kinds of genres, but I'm not sure that's necessarily relevant here. Objectively, I believe the majority of critics would agree that AC/DC is a hard rock band without a moment's thought.

 

[MC Gas Money]

I think there is one question we really need to answer....

Is metal just a sound or the spirit of the musicians?

AC/DC is always the big question mark. In my opinion their sound is unequivocally hard rock but their spirit is totally metal. They transcend that boundary.

Same with GnR in many ways as well.

Good question.

I think AC/DC is 100% hard rock. They do have a punk rock / metal sensibility - there's no doubt. But metal has to be about the sound. AC/DC - much like Led Zeppelin - has a sound deeply rooted in blues chord progressions. The blues inform a lot of hard rock, but the blues don't really shape the sound of any major metal bands that I can think of off-hand.

Guns 'N' Roses is a little more difficult, because they have riffs that definitely feature a metal sound (Welcome to the Jungle comes to mind). However, almost every Roses song I hear makes me think of hard rock - not metal.

Blues to me is more dependent on the tone of the compositions rather than a specific sound. You can infuse a blues sensibility within many different musical genres.All rock is essentially based on the groundwork laid out by the old bluesmen. I hear a lot of blues in metal, but the heavier it is the more difficult it is to pick up as the heavy death/black bands are heavily influenced by classical as well. Some of the compositions are so mind bending there is no main genre inspiration.

Although personally metal to me is more about the spirit than it is the sound. That may just be be because im a musician in the more extreme genres.

I've played in large bands of all kinds of genres, but I'm not sure that's necessarily relevant here. Objectively, I believe the majority of critics would agree that AC/DC is a hard rock band without a moment's thought.

Its relevant to my personal opinion. I know the difference between the different soundsbut the metal attitude no matter the music does help attract me to it

 

[jdoggydogg]

I think there is one question we really need to answer....

Is metal just a sound or the spirit of the musicians?

AC/DC is always the big question mark. In my opinion their sound is unequivocally hard rock but their spirit is totally metal. They transcend that boundary.

Same with GnR in many ways as well.

Good question.

I think AC/DC is 100% hard rock. They do have a punk rock / metal sensibility - there's no doubt. But metal has to be about the sound. AC/DC - much like Led Zeppelin - has a sound deeply rooted in blues chord progressions. The blues inform a lot of hard rock, but the blues don't really shape the sound of any major metal bands that I can think of off-hand.

Guns 'N' Roses is a little more difficult, because they have riffs that definitely feature a metal sound (Welcome to the Jungle comes to mind). However, almost every Roses song I hear makes me think of hard rock - not metal.

Blues to me is more dependent on the tone of the compositions rather than a specific sound. You can infuse a blues sensibility within many different musical genres.All rock is essentially based on the groundwork laid out by the old bluesmen. I hear a lot of blues in metal, but the heavier it is the more difficult it is to pick up as the heavy death/black bands are heavily influenced by classical as well. Some of the compositions are so mind bending there is no main genre inspiration.

Although personally metal to me is more about the spirit than it is the sound. That may just be be because im a musician in the more extreme genres.

I've played in large bands of all kinds of genres, but I'm not sure that's necessarily relevant here. Objectively, I believe the majority of critics would agree that AC/DC is a hard rock band without a moment's thought.

Its relevant to my personal opinion. I know the difference between the different soundsbut the metal attitude no matter the music does help attract me to it

Right. I'm not saying your opinion is invalid.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

What about these cats?

 

[Quint]

how about Brown Sabbath ?

 

[jdoggydogg]

Metal?

 

[dickey moe]

What is metal?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Metal?

The Pitt-Jolie Family Band?

 

[jdoggydogg]

Murder-For-Hire Charge Dropped Against AC/DC Drummer

There would have been one upside had he gone to prison: he could have learned to play the drums.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Actually don't care what EG72 says.

These guys are metal as f###

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Actually don't care what EG72 says.

These guys are metal as f###

Bump

 

[Evilgrin 72]

Actually don't care what EG72 says.

These guys are metal as f###

Bump

Thanks for bumping, I missed this last time around.

Verdict : SO metal. This is fantastic.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Actually don't care what EG72 says.

These guys are metal as f###

Bump

Thanks for bumping, I missed this last time around.

Verdict : SO metal. This is fantastic.

It really is. Too bad they didn't cover a good band.

 

[Evilgrin 72]

Actually don't care what EG72 says.

Slayer is the soundtrack to Hell. At least I'm used to it. It's going to be rough on you, bro.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

Beefcrotch?

Did we get an answer here?

 

[Evilgrin 72]

Beefcrotch?

Did we get an answer here?

Don't even have to exist to be metal.

 

[jamny]

RIP AJ Pero

Huge fan of Twisted Sister, especially in their early years. Such a great show.

Under the Blade

 

[Tick]

Metal?

Dear god, I beg you to watch this.

Awesome.

What just happened?

 

[TheAristocrat]

I just don't think the guy on the trumpet brings it like the rest of the band.

 

[Quint]

i think there's room in metal for a horn section.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Metal?

Dear god, I beg you to watch this.

Awesome.

What just happened?

A huge cup of awesome.

 

[Tom Servo]

The people who down-voted that video just don't understand awesome.

 

[Tick]

Unmetal:

https://youtu.be/gZa4yre0uEk

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Unmetal:

https://youtu.be/gZa4yre0uEk

Songs least likely to be covered by Motorhead for 1000 Alex.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

How metal is this guy?

(read the description)

 

[Evilgrin 72]

Verdict: metal.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I'm going to circumvent EG all together and declare this kid metal as ###k.

 

[Evilgrin 72]

Wow.

 

[Quint]

PPL MVR ?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Check out the kid's channel. Shreds pretty much everything.

 

[Tick]

I'm going to circumvent EG all together and declare this kid metal as ###k.

I wonder if he could fix the drums on Death Magnetic.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=EelMDHXbKQw#t=108

 

[raidergil]

I'm going to circumvent EG all together and declare this kid metal as ###k.

Thanks - just killed my entire lunch hour watching this kid. Unreal.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I'm going to circumvent EG all together and declare this kid metal as ###k.

Thanks - just killed my entire lunch hour watching this kid. Unreal.

I love the way the kid is so casual about it. "YYZ?..OK...piece of cake. "