Random old metal you are loving

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Zeke are dope. I love how all their songs sound the same, it actually works for them.

A little cock rock influence amidst the Motorhead too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23rnAs9BHkk

only really started getting into death metal last year, getting into the classics after the fact has been really wonderful.

Gorguts - Obscura
Such an insane tech death onslaught. The drumming on this album is something else.

Demilich - Nespithe
Just classic tech death here, what an amazing album.

Incantation - Diabolical Conquest
Death brutality!!

**Bonus random non-DM im into rn***
Hell - Hell
Sludgy kinda raw doom.. vocals get raspy/kinda BM-y

That Demilich is truly a unique piece.

Yeah, I'm not even a metal guy and I dig that Demilich...

Diabolical Conquest is such an unbelievably heavy album. Love it.

Underrated in their ouevre.

Amazing album cover too.

It was the first album of theirs I ever heard, so it's always been a favorite. That 17-minute song at the end is just absurdly glorious.

Misread thread title as "random old men you are loving"

can't it be both

judging by the audience at most of the shows I go to it is

I find it really funny when fans of dark and/or heavy music describe music in ways that sounds almost insulting, like:
"that bassline is pure evil"
"that riff is absolutely despicable"
"that guitar solo is reprehensible"

You have to know they like the music to see the compliment but it tickles me

I found a bunch of old gig tickets. Good times.

https://i.imgur.com/OfuDgkl.jpg

those are some primo shows. thanks for sharing!

totally forgot about PItchshifter.

Looks like I saw them twice in 1994! Big live band.

that Prong ticket font should've been their official logo

Dug up Vattnet Viskar’s «Settler» from 2015. That’s a beautiful record.

I forgot about them. They blew me away when I saw them open for 1349

I'm going through the Obituary catalog in reverse chronological order in preparation for the new album, which comes out next Friday. The 2017 self-titled album rules so fucking hard.

https://obituary.bandcamp.com/album/obituary

I actually haven't listened to much beyond music videos on youtube but I've always liked what I heard. I thought he must be better known for his film work but in one of the concerts it looks like a big audience, so maybe not. Also fronted a band called The Mad. Altogether he doesn't have a huge discography.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRF9jLIG8cs

The Mad have huge gaps of years in their discography. A late 70s CBGBs band too.

Very much enjoying the old punky Motorhead speed metal vibes from this Dum Dum Bullet demo collection; it sounds like shit but it rules.

https://cameleonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dum-dum-bullet

I was in a metal mood today, I didn't really find the spot immediately but now I've put on Samael - Ceremony of Opposites. It's a good companion to Rotting Christ, which is my go-to for mid-tempo metal grooves with hooks and gothic atmosphere.

Ceremony of Opposites is one of my all time favourites.

Yeah that's a great one!

Desultory - Into Eternity
Swedish death metal from 93, melodic and intense with some remnants of thrash, totally wins me over

It's heartbreaking there wasn't a few more Watchtower albums after Control And Resistance with the same line-up.

i'm finally digging into eagle twin - 'the thundering heard: songs of hoof and horn' from 2018. they are hometown heroes. this is so fucking great. i should have gone to a lot more of their shows. craving a metal show tonight tbqfh.

this over and over and over. cuz sooooo friggin' awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzHwtnvhdag

I guess it's not really super old, but I've been listening to and appreciating how great old Leviathan and Lurker of Chalice were today; and really wishing guy had not gone off the deep end and turned out to be a total dick.

Speaking of him, I just recently saw this tidbit in Wikipedia about the old NES game, Skate of Die 2. I had no idea.

The skater seen on the cover art is Jef Whitehead, who would years later become known for being the sole member of the black metal project Leviathan.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fb/Skate_or_Die_2_Cover.PNG

That is weird and hilarious

lol the FUCK?

ho-leeeey SHIIIIIT

classic child star trajectory, I guess?

I seen someone tweeting that a lot of later albums by beloved metal bands get a ridiculously overdue reappraisal and people eventually come around and say that those later albums were actually great all along. Is this a real thing? Is it a resistance to stylistic changes?

Maybe, but that's not specific to metal? At some point every single long-running artist will have some eloquent writer passionately challenging the canon.

The passage of time also gradually blunts the cultural impact of the breakthrough material of bands - someone today discovering the Rolling Stones, they don't care about what they meant in the cultural landscape of the day. If the 60s rock revolution means nothing to you, "Sticky Fingers" and "Steel Wheels" are both just blues rock records by a the same guys.

I feel like in the music culture I grew up with (NME and Uncut kind of music) it was expected/encouraged that good bands changed a lot* and when I was getting into metal it seemed like there was some expectation that if you want to make a real departure you start a side project.

* I don't think this was entirely good because some artists can fruitfully milk a style for a longer time, changing style each album is an extremely artificial and potentially repressive way to do things

The passage of time also gradually blunts the cultural impact of the breakthrough material of bands - someone today discovering the Rolling Stones, they don't care about what they meant in the cultural landscape of the day. If the 60s rock revolution means nothing to you, "Sticky Fingers" and "Steel Wheels" are both just blues rock records by the same guys.

This is a key factor and something I think about a lot. Every Metallica album is someone's first Metallica album. If your first Metallica album was ReLoad, you're gonna receive Kill 'Em All very differently — if you ever bother listening to it at all.

2023 has been the year i discovered sepultura, specifically roots. what an insanely great album. i see the brothers cavalera are coming to my city early next year. i might have to check that out. anyone know anything about that?

i keep trying with metallica but i just can't do it for some reason. maybe next year.

The Cavalera Brothers show this year was my favorite of the year. Playing Morbid Visions/Bestial Devastation in its entirety.

If that's the tour, definitely go.

awesome, thanks.

2023 has been the year i discovered sepultura, specifically roots. what an insanely great album.

best best best album, welcome aboard

not old but the last mentions i see are from the 2019 metal poll

warforged - i: voice

so epic

another 2019 thing so not old but this is doing a lot for me, it sounds amazing and it's just so good at what it does, a lot of depth to it, perfect album

Immortal Bird - Thrive On Neglect

Yes! That is such a good record.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8VWhn0nNwg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9ORe9a3VVg

Couple of things I've been re-visiting recently: Clutch - I Have the Body of John Wilkes Booth from Clutch and Entombed - Chaos Breed from Clandestine.