* The Metal Thread *

Illuminist · 12 Jul 2019 at 19:15

Aztec2Step said:
Tool have an album called 10,000 Days...

Saga rings a bell though. Don't they sell insurance or something for the discerning pensioner?

I find saga by accident because of the album name, that one album is amazing by them, selling life insurance on the side really paid off

Aztec2Step · 12 Jul 2019 at 19:52

Illuminist said:
I find saga by accident because of the album name, that one album is amazing by them, selling life insurance on the side really paid off

HAHA! Furry muff, I'll check them out.

EDIT: Their guitarist looks like a cross between Mark Hamill and Anthony Hopkins!

EDIT 2.0: Pretty cool stuff, I see the Rush/Dream Theatre comparison (two bands I should start checking out more).

Illuminist · 12 Jul 2019 at 20:10

Aztec2Step said:
HAHA! Furry muff, I'll check them out.

EDIT: Their guitarist looks like a cross between Mark Hamill and Anthony Hopkins!

EDIT 2.0: Pretty cool stuff, I see the Rush/Dream Theatre comparison (two bands I should start checking out more).

The song on that album, track 3 or 4 around that has a funny spiky riff that sounds like a chicken blew my mind, it sounds so 80s but somehow even more awesome and modern, they are strange but glad I found them

Aztec2Step · 12 Jul 2019 at 20:54

Illuminist said:
... like a chicken blew my mind, ...

Yeah, yeah... Of course...

0_o

EDIT: Track 4, Can't You See Me Now?, has a wicked riff like a metal chicken clucking... Is it that one you're on about?

Illuminist · 12 Jul 2019 at 22:56

Aztec2Step said:
Yeah, yeah... Of course...

0_o

EDIT: Track 4, Can't You See Me Now?, has a wicked riff like a metal chicken clucking... Is it that one you're on about?

Book of lies, bokka booka bouk, boukka boukka bouk
Listening to track 4 there is a certain chickeness to that riff too

Aztec2Step · 13 Jul 2019 at 01:40

Illuminist said:
Book of lies, bokka booka bouk, boukka boukka bouk
Listening to track 4 there is a certain chickeness to that riff too

HAHA! I think I hear it...

neviditelny · 19 Jul 2019 at 07:58

At the moment I'm listening through the new Sabaton album. This far I would put it at a 7/10. Will see how it holds up after a few more listens

styuR · 19 Jul 2019 at 20:45

I don't think I've had an album have more playtime for me this year than Grand Magus - Wolf God. A Hall Clad In Gold gets played plenty on my commute.

Bassmansam · 19 Jul 2019 at 21:12

randal said:
Don't suppose anyone was at the Ghost gig at the London Palladium a couple of years back?

That was one hell of a gig.

I was , really great show. Didn’t like the last album much but may go to the Wembley gig.

Aztec2Step · 21 Jul 2019 at 18:12

Woke up this morning, had this songs intro on repeat in my head. Loves me a bit of Byzantine. So much so that they randomly start playing in my head!

ShiWarrior · 27 Jul 2019 at 18:28

current listening to

Rammstein : Liebe ist Fr Alle Da

GTAMADDOG · 28 Jul 2019 at 21:51

Can't get enough of this band at the moment, probably won't be most people's jam. Same vocalist as in Harakiri for the Sky. Most lyrics in Austrian (older albums in a particular Austrian dialect that even Google Translate struggles with), but the feelings and atmosphere these songs give off is what I like most.

One from the previous album, a bit more heavy and menacing after a slow start:

slipperydave · 28 Jul 2019 at 23:47

being a big fan of trance, and Dream Theater, this suits me. the drop is outstanding.

(i hate lyric videos though)
Live:

Somnambulist · 7 Aug 2019 at 10:04

opethdisciple · 10 Aug 2019 at 00:23

New Slipknot album is defo the best I've heard from them.

ShiWarrior · 10 Aug 2019 at 08:52

New Tarja song, album in the raw is due end of month

Song is called tears in rain

Somnambulist · 10 Aug 2019 at 09:31

David Vincent (ex-Morbid Angel) – Vocals
Rune ‘Blasphemer’ Eriksen (Mayhem) – Guitars
Flo Mounier (Crytopsy) - Drums

Somnambulist · 10 Aug 2019 at 09:55

opethdisciple said:
New Slipknot album is defo the best I've heard from them.

It's definitely better than the last one (and the one before perhaps) but they'll never be able to recapture the raw energy they had on their first two albums when they were (angry) young men. IMO. I miss the ever-waning influence of Mick as well, since sneaking his death metal influences into a more accessible sound was one of the things I liked most about them, rather than being the Corey and Jim Stone Sour mk II show.

opethdisciple · 10 Aug 2019 at 11:54

Somnambulist said:
It's definitely better than the last one (and the one before perhaps) but they'll never be able to recapture the raw energy they had on their first two albums when they were (angry) young men. IMO. I miss the ever-waning influence of Mick as well, since sneaking his death metal influences into a more accessible sound was one of the things I liked most about them, rather than being the Corey and Jim Stone Sour mk II show.

I'm very new to Slipknot. I only started listening to them a few months ago. I would say I like about ten of their tracks from their entire back catalogue, but the new album is strong from start the finish.

For me it's their best.

ShiWarrior · 10 Aug 2019 at 18:16

kindai said:
More Yannis mastery:

i can just about hear him doing Disneys Frozen !