hey guys are there any good bands now that do FM radio AOR type 81-83 keyboard metal/hard rock?like: Joe Lynn Turner era Rainbow, "Rainbow in the Dark" by Dio, etc― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown)
like: Joe Lynn Turner era Rainbow, "Rainbow in the Dark" by Dio, etc
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown)
How important are the keyboards? Because Joe Lynn Turner literally has a band right now with Carmine Appice and the other guy from Blue Murder.http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/rated-x-featuring-joe-lynn-turner-carmine-appice-tony-franklin-this-is-who-i-am-video-released/
In a related question, how important is the "good"?
Also, Domains and Emptiness sorely lacking in Db list. And much as I'd love for Mayhem to make my, or anyone's, year end list, it probably shouldn't. I just gave it another shot the other night and oof. They went from Ordo Ad Chao, maybe my favorite album of the post-2000 era, to ... whatever Esoteric Warfare is. Now I really want to hear, if true, the allegedly DMDS-type album they recorded then scrapped before coming up with what became EW.
Heh, EW.
― tongues flowering (Devilock), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
i'd like a few keyboards but i'll check out joe lynn's new band
i'd prefer good haha
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 19:45 (nine years ago) link
any of these 8 zillion bands i've never heard of any good?http://rateyourmusic.com/list/huskerchief21/best_melodic_rock_metal_aor_albums_of_2014/
The band is called Rated X, which makes for a fun googling. The song I heard last night, "Lahsa," is I assume the album's "epic" number. It has that "Kashmir/Stargazer/Valley of the Kings" vibe.http://youtu.be/Wj9485YEf_A
I'm sure there's a lot better, more inspired AOR out there; I just happened to catch a JLT/CA interview on Eddie Trunk's show last night so I figured I'd chime in. This really isn't my specialty.
If you don't mind a bit of a cheese glaze, the new Axxis is surprisingly great.http://youtu.be/tVMk6ZfQmtA
edit: the only thing from that list that I've heard is Accept, which is good, yes. It's very ... German. Nightingale seems to be loved by many but I hate Dan Swano's breathy vocal melodrama. He ruled when he roared in Edge of Sanity and on Moontower. Nightingale makes me cringe. But, again, others dig 'em.
― tongues flowering (Devilock), Tuesday, 18 November 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
OK, working through the Decibel list I just heard the Horrendous album for the first time. Wow. Thou will be up next, although maybe I already heard that. Then Vallenfyre.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 01:49 (nine years ago) link
i love that horrendous record
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 01:55 (nine years ago) link
yeah it's incredible
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 02:41 (nine years ago) link
Add me to the list of Horrendous lovers. That and the Dead Congregation album are my favorite death metal of the year.
― Bloody Pelt Found Near the Scene of the Crime (Skrot Montague), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 04:04 (nine years ago) link
And note my use of a capital "H" in Horrendous (I'll let my wife decide on the truth of the sentence with a lowercase "h").
― Bloody Pelt Found Near the Scene of the Crime (Skrot Montague), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 04:05 (nine years ago) link
gotta listen to that horrendous album some more. remember really liking it but I can barely remember it at this point. too much music >_<
gridlink still prob my #1
― original bgm, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 05:08 (nine years ago) link
disentomb album is a lotta fun btw, thanks for the recommendation upthread
― original bgm, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 05:11 (nine years ago) link
yeah! it's probably my favorite of the year, but i'm still (always) catching up. maybe it's not very imaginative but it's everything i like about brutal and kinda technical death metal executed well
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 05:28 (nine years ago) link
at least a few times a week I typically get into this headspace where I need straight up comfort food death metal that just delivers the damn goods and the disentomb has definitely been that album since I first heard it
― original bgm, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 05:34 (nine years ago) link
I'm still not completely sold on the Horrendous album. It's very promising, but it feels like a great big deal is being made out of an extreme underground band that's only just learning to write classic heavy metal riffs.
― A. Begrand, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 05:58 (nine years ago) link
that's part of the appeal, i think
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
Adrian if you listen to their previous one it really sort of puts the new one in relief - I think they've been working toward a style and they've got there
I'll tell you what though I've been revisiting the Morbus Chron album all week and that's the one I'm just loving the most of my year-enders right now. so good.
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
Same. It's also easily the album I've played the most this year (three or four times a day at one point).
I need to listen to the Morbus Chron some more. It's a really interesting sound, but the songs haven't exactly stuck in my head.
― jmm, Wednesday, 19 November 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
on that rym "melodic rock" list linked upthread is the human contradiction by delain, if you have a taste for gothic symphonic metal a la within temptation, it's a total blast
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:01 (nine years ago) link
also just remembered i haven't even touched the new devin townsend double album (!)
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
yeah kind of breezes by, maybe i'm looking for at least more of a tech-deathy rigid crunch, but so far i've felt like the songwriting/riffwriting is kind of indistinct
― j., Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:24 (nine years ago) link
imo the riffs are less indistinct than extremely lean but i get being underwhelmed by it, i only locked into the record in the second half
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 19 November 2014 22:39 (nine years ago) link
could be in the drumming, too, who knows so far - i feel like the remainder of the sound is correspondingly light because the drum style is so snare-heavy somehow
put it on the day after i listened to the new bloodbath, tho.
― j., Wednesday, 19 November 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
man, the first disc of the new devin townsend record rules, maybe the most straight up gorgeous thing he's done since accelerated evolution
unfortunately the ziltoid zequel kinda zucks
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 20 November 2014 09:22 (nine years ago) link
Saw 1349 last night, they kicked butt. The new stuff sounds great - especially the drumming. I didn't really like Demonoir very much but will def check out the new one. Picked up deluxe reissue of Beyond The Apocalypse - not sure it needs to be a double album with only 9 songs but I guess it was stretching the length of a single LP a bit.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 20 November 2014 09:37 (nine years ago) link
After announcing tour dates earlier today, Fear Factory now cancelled their entire European tour in order to finish their ninth studio album.
lol
― proper maoist (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 20 November 2014 17:19 (nine years ago) link
Wow. That's got to be a cover story for something right?
Also NINTH?! I know this is classic "I stopped listening to this band and they still exist?!" but I really thought they had quit back around Demanufacture.
― Temple of Infinite Grohls (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 20 November 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
So the Primordial record is good? It seems like it from the couple songs that have come out.
― jmm, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link
I love the new Primordial. Alan's at his vocal peak and the guitars have a fire they lacked on Redemption.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 24 November 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
If anyone needs some blunt force black metal of the classic second wave disposition, the newest Old Wainds, which I've just checked out after seeing varied but oddly synchronous praise for, should do the trick. Harsh but melodic. Trance-like and triumphal. Etc. They're from Russia.
http://digital.negative-existence.com/album/old-wainds-nordraum
Also I do need to hear that new Primordial. They have a good, shivery, "winter is coming" sound.
― tongues flowering (Devilock), Monday, 24 November 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
And if you want black metal that's a little less orthodox, Inconcessus Lux Lucis has this rip roaring EP out. I keep playing the song "Crux" over and over -- halfway through it turns into black metal Diamond Head.
http://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/crux-lupus-corona
― tongues flowering (Devilock), Monday, 24 November 2014 23:55 (nine years ago) link
gonna spend some more time with this one before the most wonderful time of the year (i.e. listmaking deadline) i think
DEAD CONGREGATION - Promulgation of the Fall http://youtu.be/PrVusQx1x7s
― j., Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
Great choice, that one is shaping up to be my favorite death metal record of the year.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
thanks for the tips Devilock!
― Dominique, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link
I'm steadily revisiting the 110-odd records from 2014 I liked. Lots of enjoyable music, but I'm a bit disappointed that there are only a small handful of clear standouts so far.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 23:32 (nine years ago) link
I was just thinking last night that there's been a lot of good but very little great. Domains and Emptiness are the two that tower over the rest (for me, anyway). Behemoth, Hail Spirit Noir, and Artificial Brain, which I initially thought were second comings of various deities, have sort of withered over the weeks. Still good, just not massive.
I am still holding out hope that Lost Soul's Atlantis finds a label before year's end.
There's been a ton of stuff that I'll hear once, make a mental note to come back, then forget about.
― tongues flowering (Devilock), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 23:47 (nine years ago) link
thanks for the tips Devilock!― Dominique
― Dominique
No problem, you're welcome. Happy hunting.
Also I still need to hear that Spectral Lore.
― tongues flowering (Devilock), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link
I think this Primordial record is going to be a year-end highlight for me. I really really like it. It's perfect for dark, chilly, blustery November days.
― jmm, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 00:14 (nine years ago) link
Behemoth is actually growing on me. Coincidence or not, Polish bands are extremely strong this year: Behemoth, Kriegsmaschine, Vader, Furia, and Neoheresy are all top 10 contenders.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
Furia hasnt been named much but it's impressive stuff, has a bit of a Ved Buens Ende feel and very different from what you'd expect from a Massemord sideproject.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 00:17 (nine years ago) link
there's also a few somewhat exotic bands that i've been following that started to deliver the goods this year. Dub Buk from Ukraine always bored me but now that they've reinvented themselves as a gruff thrash metal band they're great fun. And there's this Chinese band called Tenggan Cavalry who do the slightly goofy folk metal thing with a Mongolian horsemen theme which on paper sounds like the worst idea ever, but now that they're a couple albums into it, it all starts working.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 00:27 (nine years ago) link
I like that Tengger Cavalry thing (I just found it on Bandcamp) - kinda Yat-Kha meets galloping thrash-death-whatever. Nice!
― from the straining pagan waistbands (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 08:51 (nine years ago) link
Need to check out the Primordial. Speaking of year-end highlights, will there be a metal poll? It's been one of the best things about ILM IMO.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 17:26 (nine years ago) link
i could actually participate this year as i've listened to more than two metal records
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
how many countries, that's the kvlt test
― j., Wednesday, 26 November 2014 17:58 (nine years ago) link
Speaking of kvlt, the new Goatpenis is, as expected, recommended listening.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
~~~ End Of Year ILM Metal - Albums & Tracks Poll- Nominations 2014 (Ends friday11.59pm UK time Dec 5th) ~~~
― Cosmic Slop, Thursday, 27 November 2014 12:56 (nine years ago) link
Goatpenis is, as expected, recommended.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, November 26, 2014 1:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 November 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link
Anyone listened to Ketch's self titled ep? There a pretty heavy and dirty sludge band from Colorado.
― afroslack, Saturday, 29 November 2014 21:25 (nine years ago) link
took me long enough but I finally checked out the last kriegsmaschine. holy shit man, it's so good.
― original bgm, Saturday, 29 November 2014 23:47 (nine years ago) link
Told ya. Best drumming on any metal record since Wolf's Lair Abyss.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 30 November 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link