the occasional thread for mean, nasty, ugly, evil metal that doesn't smell good and that takes itself way too seriously

It seems sort of silly to get annoyed at that chart -- I mean, it's just a tally of what people have in their collections. No big surprise that a lot of metalheads have a bunch of Opeth albums.

any metal list where any opeth album beats out reign in blood is obviously wrong.

latebloomer, who are those deadbeats? nice vw bros.

here, go vote in this stupid poll:

BARBATOS song title POLL

Black Sabbath Paranoid is the 38th most popular metal record of all time? Umm...

J3ff perhaps you're not aware of the effect Opeth has on our man Siegbran.

Has anybody here heard the Voetsek album? It has one of the best sleeves of the year, and kicks ass, and has an hc/thrash version of "Strange Fruit."

also if I haven't said it enough times this year AURA FUCKING NOIR.

THINGS I HAVE ENJOYED RECENTLY THAT FIT IN THIS THREAD:

sacramentary abolishment - river of corticone
pre-axis of advance/revenge/rites of thy degringolade black/death/grind stuff like a more bizarre beherit/blasphemy thing. or like the bands they eventually became. weird, weird sci-fi/post-apocalypse concept lyrics.

barbatos - rocking metal motherfucker
street punk metal from japan. dumbb.

dr. shrinker - grotesque wedlock
80s death metal dumbassery with early grind influence. pretty good WISCANSIN stuff.

also been listening to manilla road a lot. still. they're not really nasty or evil, maybe a little mean and ugly. but definitely metal. their first album was called METAL, man.

just listening to ROTD.
fun stuff

Blackwinds - Flesh Inferno has some pretty rad symphonic black metal a la Emperor or Dimmu Borgir. Gets kind of samey towards the end, but fun while it lasts.

Today I'm only listening to Clandestine Blaze
i used to listen to all kinds of things, now i only like black metal
with some occasional death metal
i don't know whats going on

new midnight 10" on nuclear war now is killer. athenar/jaime whatever is an endless font of fucking great punk-metal tank/venom/motorhead riffs and satanic bullshit. the "die hard" version comes with a bonus 7" has a great bonus track + a live performance that ends abruptly when something pyrotechnic happens and the club manager (i think) loses his mind and starts yelling. (they get kicked out in the end.)

btw i will keep mentioning midnight until like one person says "oh yeah those guys are alright."

Just heard Sabbat for the first time a couple days ago. How the fuck did I miss out on THIS for so long?

sabbat japan? s'gotta be. yeah, i think everyone missed out on them for a long time. back when i first got into metal the only japanese bands i remember hearing about were gastunk and casbah, and some of the hardcore bands. (well, and loudness/ezo/etc. but they're not superrelevant here.)

but yeah, they're great. the early singles comp on time before time is really cool and crude

The album I listened to, Evoke, is pretty weird. It's kind of all over the place. there's of course some old-school black metal, some more traditional metal songs, and even this extremely long death/doom sort of song. It's really a fun record

that's more or less the template for most of the albums i've heard, and they're definitely a fucking fun band to listen to, makes me wish i knew metal dudes so i could share their awesomeness. oh well.

looking at their nightmarishly huge discography - i think boris would be envious - it doesn't look like they've done a proper album since karmagmassacre in 2003! tons of live albums though.

i like midnight! or at least the thing i had on shifty. which is all i've heard, but i liked it a bunch.

not ugly enough for this thread, but i am digging the new album by WINTERFYLLETH on profound lore. and i don't feel like finding the other metal thread right now. u.k. doom guys making "English Heritage Black Metal". one of the dudes is in Atavist, and I dig them too. nice atmosphere. nice chanting. sorry for the non-ugly shout-out though. Winterfylleth make bedtime lullabies as far as black metal goes.

this live footage of sabbat (japan) is awesome:

(i like the u.k. sabbat too. though a whole 'nother thing entirely.)

(well, not a WHOLE 'nother thing, come to think of it...)

need more covers on this thread. i hope these show up. i found a great page for death stuff.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_H9F1DlCd0bY/SE8t0M4ITVI/AAAAAAAACxI/wxyPSbG_tuo/s1600/Inhume%2B-%2BIn%2BFor%2BThe%2BKill%2B-%2BFront.jpg

okay, guess not. that's sad.

are you guys familiar with the band MINCING FURY AND GUTTURAL CLAMOUR OF QUEER DECAY? i dig them. if you are a fan of DESTRUCTIVE EXPLOSION OF ANAL GARLAND you would probably like them.

http://www.myspace.com/mincingfury

Listening to this:

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Really amateurish crude poorly-recorded black metal! I love stuff like this!

http://static.metal-archives.com/images/3/3/7/1/33710.jpg

that would be Armatus - Blutvolk
i'm retarded today

i've got a stupid question. what else sounds like 'reign in blood'? or what should i get next if i love it? metal is so huge, idk much about the sub-genres. i haven't really heard any of the classics, not even metallica! i love the fuck-you lyrics on RIB and the fact that i can still understand them. growls are cool but i need to ease into them. something else nasty and unhinged but not self-conscious about it. and evil. i like 'south of heaven' too, it kicks ass but it's more uh melodic i guess.

Absu "Tara"

"what else sounds like 'reign in blood'?"

Not the same, but similar in quality and importance: try Voivod Killing Technology and Dimension Hatross.

Also recommended as it has the exact qualities you seem to be looking for (big hooks, evilness and understandable vocals):
Samael "Ceremony Of Opposites"

Does anyone know if Samael still performs any of that classic old material? They are playing my fest here in Portland next month and I'm not quite sure what to expect...

"what else sounds like 'reign in blood'?"

nothing. but check out epidemic - decameron.

Two of my favorite Slayer-iffic albums are Necrophobic The Nocturnal Silence and Vader The Ultimate Incantation. But both channel it into death or black/death and the vocals sound accordingly...

i was listening to satan today. i love this album. nwobhm gives thrash a big wet kiss.

http://www.vinylrecords.ch/S/SA/Satan/Suspended/satan-suspended-20.jpg

um, that is not a response to the slayer question.

every time i hear a new nu-thrash album that sounds slayer-ish i always like it, but then i listen again and realize how much further most bands would have to go to REALLY sound like reign in blood or whatever. that blood tsunami album with faust on drums comes to mind. it's good and all, but there is really no comparison.

i enjoyed some of Entombed's latter-day Slayer impressions. morning star and inferno are cool records. just don't get the last album, whatever it was called. pretty stinky. and you can understand all the words for sure!

this track is from inferno:

one thing about that last album though! and this is sad, but it opens with the totally killer slayerific title-track "Serpent Saints" and then gets suckier after that. which is a shame, cuz if all the songs were half as great as serpent saints the album would have ruled.

here's a live serpent saints:

Samael still play Baphomets Throne and Black Trip if I recall correctly.

Just get Entombed "Left Hand Path" then, it doesn't sound like a Slayer copy but is ten times better than any recent Entombed. Can't imagine any Slayer fan disliking that. The guitar sound alone flattens whole city blocks.

speaking of Satan, here's a cool live clip from 1986:

everyone should own left hand path. this is true. i was just being specific as far as the question went. i'm actually a fan of early/middle/late when it comes to entombed. i love left hand path, clandestine, wolverine blues, uprising, and morning star. which is a pretty good stretch of time. (and if you go back to nihilist stuff, then an even bigger stretch of time)

speaking of the nwobhm, why don't i own any tank albums? i love that shit. i better get my act together.

there's a metal mind box set, dude! i've got the first one on LP, some euro press where the vinyl's a little bit thicker than a flexi.

i enjoyed some of Entombed's latter-day Slayer impressions. morning star and inferno are cool records.

second this. esp. "morning star," "inferno" has some rilly dumb lyrics and the production's a little crap.

metal mind spams me every day, but they will never send me anything no matter how much i beg. their release schedule is fucking nuts.

Another perfect companion to Reign In Blood:
Sepultura - Beneath The Remains

When they still looked like this:
http://www.hardrockhouse.com/Interviews/Sepultura6.jpg

okay, so i knew grave were back together. and i knew they had a new album or five out. but i didn't know that "back from the grave" had a second disc with all of their 80s demos on it, so i bought the shit out of it wednesday. and it brings back memories, man, hearing them after listening to nihilist (pre-entombed) demos for like a year straight and then "anatomia corporis humani" kinda blowing those out of the water for guttural basement creep. scandinavians really had death metal locked down for a while there. then they had to go and ruin it with "melody."

funebre, from finland, were pretty good too. i always wondered why euro guitar tones were just so evil back then. i think they made their guitar pedals out of bog bodies and uranium or something.

(was gonna post this in rolling metal but they're too busy pretending the new enslaved is GREAT and then there's the amon amarthing.)

haven't even listened to "back from the grave" yet, btw.

i came home from a long day of mopping up blood and hauling laundry and the new stuff from willowtip made my day. phobia, kill the client, maruta. viva the 22 minute album! those bands will give people a reason to keep on living. the new kill the client is nasty in all the right ways.

Sweet, I just heard the latter two bands on This Comp Kills Fascists. Grind is very much alive and well (although this trend of grind bands sans bassists is a little bit White Stripes for me. One Pig Destroyer is plenty, thank you very much).

On second thought, my appreciation for Discordance Axis completely undermines my point. I'll get my coat.

Tonight we rock.

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/3953/fullwp2.jpgThis album fucking rules.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drh400/h412/h41226wf0fd.jpgAnd of course you can't go wrong with this.