So, if you're not familiar with Between the Buried and Me, their last album Colors was one of the best pieces of progressive extreme metal in a while. Their new album, The Great Misdirect is slated to be released at the end of October, and it sounds like it might be even more, well, everything, than Colors. You can stream the entirety of their new song "Obfuscation" for free. Be warned, you have to enter an e-mail address to get the widget to work, so it's probably going to sign you up for some mailing list or something.
Here's another one of their new songs, "Mirrors."
I am very excited for this album.
EDIT: The widget is not needed. You can hear both songs on Youtube.
Thou's new album, Through The Empires of Eternal Void, features four sludge interpretations of Black Sabbath, with black metal vocals. DL, 320 kbps. Highly recommend. Here's Into the Void.
Nile's newest album, Those Whom the Gods Detest, has been leaked. It's all over the tubes.
This album is far stronger than Ithyphalic, and may be better than Annihilation of the Wicked. It's much angrier and more firey and aggressive than Ithyphalic, but it still has that characteristic massiveness that Nile does so well. It's a lot more focused than their last offering, I would say, and it benefits from that tremendously.
If you don't like very aggressive, technical, and crushing death metal, you will not like this album. There's no "melodic" element to cut the harshness down. It's unadulterated brutal technical death metal.
Funny thing about Queens of the Stone Age (aside from that I saw them open for Bad Religion in 98 or something before anyone had heard of them, and they had a very old man on turntables) is that, while I generally enjoy their music, I've never been able to make it all the way through one of their albums. I do like a bit of Mastodon. I'll check out some Isis.
Easy mistake. Snarlyow's tastes in sludge/drone/doom are pretty similar to mine. The album he probably posted was Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull. Stick to newer Earth if you like that, older Earth is a lot more like SunnO))) than simply long-form metal.
If you end up liking Isis, you should check out Pelican.
I just found out that two of the Skull Branded Pirates were in my housemate's(P.s - it's a new housemate, not the hambeast) band before the Skull Branded Pirates came about, and is still good friends with them.
I do not like this new Baroness very much. They seem to have lost all the sludginess that made First and Second so great.
But if you're into this, Funfetus, I second Pelican and Isis, good cross-over sludge/post-metal. Harvey Milk plays brutally thick sludge. Earth is super slow doom/stoner metal, Bees Made Honey and Hibernaculum are their best. Dopesmoker by Sleep is an hour long stoner/post-metal track, one of my favorite metal albums. Om is just the bassist and drummer from sleep, and they made a great drone/stoner/post-metal record, Pilgrimage. Goatsnake are a southern-sounding sludge/stoner-metal band. Killdozer are similar sort of muddy pigfuck southern metal.
Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. I think my metal status is going to remain at "listen to one song once in a great while when the mood strikes me, then move on to something else." I don't know. It all just gets boring to me after 3 minutes.
Heh. Don't like grindcore either. Let me be clear, though -- it's not a matter of not liking long songs. It's just that I feel like I get all of what I could want from most metal in about 3 minutes. It sounds good, but I'm done with it pretty quickly. I certainly can't listen to a metal album all the way through, unless it's old Metallica.
Nile's newest album,Those Whom the Gods Detest, has been leaked. It's all over the tubes.
This album is far stronger thanIthyphalic, and may be better thanAnnihilation of the Wicked.It's much angrier and more firey and aggressive thanIthyphalic, but it still has that characteristic massiveness that Nile does so well. It's a lot more focused than their last offering, I would say, and it benefits from that tremendously.
If you don't like very aggressive, technical, and crushing death metal, you will not like this album. There's no "melodic" element to cut the harshness down. It's unadulterated brutal technical death metal.
Oh my God, I had no idea. I am pumped.
EDIT: I listened to the new track on their Myspace. Now I am double-pumped.
I also thank you all for the recommendations. With the talk of doom, sludge, stoner and drone metal you have given names to almost everything (everything but symphonic metal) I enjoy about the broader genre.
I also thank you all for the recommendations. With the talk of doom, sludge, stoner and drone metal you have given names to almost everything I enjoy about the broader genre (everything but symphonic metal).
I'm glad someone's with me on this. I can't listen to any of the more brutal stuff. Mastodon is pretty much the limit for me, with a few bands like Nile being notable exceptions.
I saw Mastodon, Dethklok, High on Fire, and Converge last night and it is now what I will compare the awesomeness of a situation to. The only band I didn't like was Converge, as their vocals literally sounded exactly the same from song to song, but their guitar was pretty sweet. Over the course of the concert, I ended up being in around 9-10 different moshes (most of which I was protecting a rather attractive girl behind me, only to find out after the set that she had a boyfriend) and had a crowd surfer fall on top of me and my friend, Bryce. It was freaking epic.
I saw Mastodon, Dethklok, High on Fire, and Converge last night and it is now what I will compare the awesomeness of a situation to. The only band I didn't like was Converge, as their vocals literally sounded exactly the same from song to song, but their guitar was pretty sweet. Over the course of the concert, I ended up being in around 9-10 different moshes (most of which I was protecting a rather attractive girl behind me, only to find out after the set that she had a boyfriend) and had a crowd surfer fall on top of me and my friend, Bryce. It was freaking epic.
Yeah, I've heard such good things about that tour. The show here is still two weeks away, but I don't think I'll be able to go. I agree with you a lot about Converge, they're pretty acclaimed but I don't really see what's so special about them. Also, it's just a fact of life that most girls at any sort of concert are there with their boyfriends. It's a sad, awful truth, but concerts don't often end up being good places to meet the ladies.
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Here's another one of their new songs, "Mirrors."
I am very excited for this album.
EDIT: The widget is not needed. You can hear both songs on Youtube.
This album is far stronger than Ithyphalic, and may be better than Annihilation of the Wicked. It's much angrier and more firey and aggressive than Ithyphalic, but it still has that characteristic massiveness that Nile does so well. It's a lot more focused than their last offering, I would say, and it benefits from that tremendously.
If you don't like very aggressive, technical, and crushing death metal, you will not like this album. There's no "melodic" element to cut the harshness down. It's unadulterated brutal technical death metal.
Didn't Sail post something by a band called Earth like 8 pages back? That was pretty good.
EDIT: It was snarlyow on page 8.
If you end up liking Isis, you should check out Pelican.
But if you're into this, Funfetus, I second Pelican and Isis, good cross-over sludge/post-metal. Harvey Milk plays brutally thick sludge. Earth is super slow doom/stoner metal, Bees Made Honey and Hibernaculum are their best. Dopesmoker by Sleep is an hour long stoner/post-metal track, one of my favorite metal albums. Om is just the bassist and drummer from sleep, and they made a great drone/stoner/post-metal record, Pilgrimage. Goatsnake are a southern-sounding sludge/stoner-metal band. Killdozer are similar sort of muddy pigfuck southern metal.
(from Sleep's Holy Mountain)
EDIT: I listened to the new track on their Myspace. Now I am double-pumped.
Earth's most recent album was so amazing.
Florida is the birthplace of death metal, so I'm good. It's also the birthplace of Cynic, which everyone should listen to.