this is a good recommendations list it largely overlaps with the huge amount of stuff De Subjectivisten recommended to me when i started a metal/hardrock listening project. (http://onvermijdelijkemetal.blogspot.com/) (just check out the pictures ;) ) (or my 14 favourites: http://onvermijdelijkemetal.blogspot.com/search/label/Onvermijdelijk
my favourite from the list is Mercyful Fate's Don't Break the Oath.
― Ludo, Sunday, 23 August 2009 12:50 (fourteen years ago) link
my favourites strangely (..) correlate with softer melodic records, like Death Angel's Act II (which is awesome)
― Ludo, Sunday, 23 August 2009 12:51 (fourteen years ago) link
To make this list, does the album simply have to be great enough or are you also judging based on whether the album has reached a certain critical mass with underground fans?
This list was done together with friends some old bandmates etc. The idea was that it needed a critical mass of followers yes, the definitive top 100 canon of "metal for die-hard metalheads" - no crossover prog/hardcore/goth bullshit, no retro or clone bands, nothing too far into the kvlt-limited-to-66-tapes sub-sub-subgenre labyrinth etc.
Lots of my personal favourites are not on it (And The Forests Dream Eternally, Wolf's Lair Abyss, Orkblut The Retaliation, Vampires of Black Imperial Blood, Gorefest-False, Battles In The North, Individual Thought Patterns etc).
This is a good recommendations list it largely overlaps with the huge amount of stuff De Subjectivisten recommended to me
― Siegbran, Sunday, 23 August 2009 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
i'll make a note of it. next on the list is Slayer's Seasons of the Abyss. (after the summer-break, i don't think metal is much of a summer genre)
― Ludo, Sunday, 23 August 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Been listening to With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness a lot lately. Awesome. Slowly dawning on me that I prefer Death Metal to Black.
― 123456789 (jim), Monday, 24 August 2009 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Darkspace II but not III? III is mind-melting.
― You are Rebels! You are all yankees (country matters), Monday, 24 August 2009 00:41 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^ real motherfucking talk
― Man Is Nairf! (J0hn D.), Monday, 24 August 2009 00:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I want to start listening to some more metal.
Can any of you tell me what the best metal magazines and blogs/websites are?
― kshighway, Monday, 24 August 2009 04:22 (fourteen years ago) link
www.metalsucks.net is pretty good and funny. blabbermouth nowadays is full of too much rubbish and the comments section is nearing youtube levels sometimes.
― Jamie_ATP, Monday, 24 August 2009 07:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm a fan of Metal Inquisition myself. As for magazines, Terrorizer is a good all-round read. They get most of the popular genres covered and have a good balance between the trad and the hip. They sometimes do nice genre specials, the punk one they did some years ago was really good.
― no-nonsense, Monday, 24 August 2009 11:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm going to check out all of those pubs. Thanks, guys.
― kshighway, Monday, 24 August 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
They sometimes do nice genre specials, the punk one they did some years ago was really good.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 24 August 2009 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I wish I could find it. :(
― Alex in SF, Monday, 24 August 2009 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link
"Can any of you tell me what the best metal magazines and blogs/websites are?"
Pitchfork has a metal blog ya know!
;)
― Alex in SF, Monday, 24 August 2009 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
you can order the black metal special direct from http://www.terrorizer.com/blackmetal I think
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 24 August 2009 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah if I don't find it in the next week or so, I think I'll end up going that route.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 24 August 2009 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Borders is your best bet.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 24 August 2009 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I would have thought that Aquarius was my best bet, but when I called earlier last week the guy on the phone was like "WTF are you talking about? I've never even heard of that."
― Alex in SF, Monday, 24 August 2009 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually he was very polite and said that he was sure they would try to stock it since they stock Terrorizer.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 24 August 2009 17:56 (fourteen years ago) link
As far as internet metal goes, this is of course the grandaddy
― Siegbran, Monday, 24 August 2009 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
90% sure that my work isn't letting me get to that site.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 24 August 2009 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
This is the metal mag I subscribe to (and very infrequently write for):
http://www.ampmagazine.com/img/Slayersmall.png
― Mordy, Monday, 24 August 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
it really does exist???
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 24 August 2009 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Belatedly working through this helpful list. I'm curious, what would you add to/subtract from it now, Siegbran?
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
Great, I'm happy that this is helping people. Wouldn't really subtract anything, I'd say it's still a pretty good list of the canonical stuff until 1999/2000. Maybe I'd pick another Voivod record but the first few are all great. I'd probably add Gorguts <i>The Erosion Of Sanity</i>.
For more recent stuff, this was my ballot for the 2000-2015 metal poll: https://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=6056022&boardid=41&threadid=104546
― Siegbran, Thursday, 15 June 2017 11:52 (six years ago) link
Thanks! Much appreciated.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 15 June 2017 12:39 (six years ago) link