Best Ever Albums

Re: Metal Thread

haiduk — Mon, 13 May 2019 11:08:43 GMT

Author: haiduk

Posted: 05/13/2019 15:08

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cosmic blackened death metal

Haiduk
'Death Portent'

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Re: Metal Thread

Fischman — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 12:04:12 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 02/20/2019 17:04

LedZep wrote:

A pretty great prog rock/alt metal album, have been enjoying it lately.

Lotus by Soen

Wow. That may well be my new fave of the year. Thanks for the rec!

Re: Metal Thread

LedZep — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 09:22:39 GMT

Author: LedZep

Posted: 02/20/2019 14:22

A pretty great prog rock/alt metal album, have been enjoying it lately.

Lotus by Soen

Re: Metal Thread

elo269megv — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 21:24:35 GMT

Author: elo269megv

Posted: 02/19/2019 02:24

Im the hardest rocking m'fer in my band but I've got a sweet spot for softies

Re: Metal Thread

elo269megv — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 21:22:32 GMT

Author: elo269megv

Posted: 02/19/2019 02:22

Skinny wrote:

My knowledge of metal doesn't stretch very far, and the sonic range of the stuff I like is very narrow. I have a lot of time for Burning Witch, Sabbath, Sleep, High On Fire, Melvins, early Earth, Bong, Sunn O))), Ufomammut, Electric Wizard, Ghold, Conan, Monolord, Saint Vitus, Bongripper, Dopelord, Khanate, Nadja, Boris. If anyone has any recommendations based on those artists, I'd be highly appreciative.

Type O Negative
Candlemass
Swans
Pallbearer
Carcass

Re: Metal Thread

Anti — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 14:03:40 GMT

Author: Anti

Posted: 02/17/2019 19:03

Fischman wrote:

Anti wrote:

In The Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend by Reverend Bizarre

May be up your alley, very slow and heavy traditional doom metal

Well, I'm taking a liking to it. Thanks for the rec!

Glad I can be of service 😄

Re: Metal Thread

Fischman — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 18:55:11 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 02/16/2019 23:55

Anti wrote:

In The Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend by Reverend Bizarre

May be up your alley, very slow and heavy traditional doom metal

Well, I'm taking a liking to it. Thanks for the rec!

Re: Metal Thread

Anti — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 15:18:17 GMT

Author: Anti

Posted: 02/16/2019 20:18

Skinny wrote:

In The Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend by Reverend Bizarre

May be up your alley, very slow and heavy traditional doom metal

Re: Metal Thread

svk4ever — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 13:46:42 GMT

Author: svk4ever

Posted: 02/16/2019 18:46

Skinny wrote:

Don't know all of the artists you mention… but it seems, that Doom could be your subgenre… so you might check out CANDLEMASS

Re: Metal Thread

Skinny — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 00:50:04 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 02/15/2019 05:50

My knowledge of metal doesn't stretch very far, and the sonic range of the stuff I like is very narrow. I have a lot of time for Burning Witch, Sabbath, Sleep, High On Fire, Melvins, early Earth, Bong, Sunn O))), Ufomammut, Electric Wizard, Ghold, Conan, Monolord, Saint Vitus, Bongripper, Dopelord, Khanate, Nadja, Boris. If anyone has any recommendations based on those artists, I'd be highly appreciative.

Re: Metal Thread

mickilennial — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 23:16:54 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 02/15/2019 04:16

Tha1ChiefRocka wrote:

I wasn't necessarily talking about the overall chart. More like, their are 3 metal albums in their top 10 currently for 2019, and at least 30 in the top 100.

rym has more users and a more dedicated amount of metal users who listen and interact with the community -- i think it has more to do with that, the metal regs of her are either semi-retired or kinda gone outside of those here

Re: Metal Thread

Tha1ChiefRocka — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 22:35:45 GMT

Author: Tha1ChiefRocka

Posted: 02/15/2019 03:35

I wasn't necessarily talking about the overall chart. More like, their are 3 metal albums in their top 10 currently for 2019, and at least 30 in the top 100.

We have zero in our top 10, and, I think 7 in our top 100. It's a pretty big gap.

Or, an album like Rust In Peace is almost in the overall top 100. I think it's somewhere around 400 on here.

And no, I don't have anything on the site. I can only keep up here 😄

Re: Metal Thread

haiduk — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 19:04:56 GMT

Author: haiduk

Posted: 02/15/2019 00:04

Always great to read how people got into metal and fav bands. Didn't expect this many heavy fans here.

I grew up with metal as far back as I can remember.

Tha1ChiefRocka wrote:

Metal is underrepresented on this site, but it's over represented on rym.

BTW, I checked out this Haiduk guy's album, and it actually wasn't half bad.

Thank you for giving it a listen, Tha1ChiefRocka!

Re: Metal Thread

mickilennial — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:29:55 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 02/14/2019 18:29

RYM consistently does decent marks for death metal, black metal, and some niche variations inbetween (blackgaze, for example) but generally outside of "canon classics" you won't see many albums breaking the overall.

Re: Metal Thread

LedZep — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:39:58 GMT

Author: LedZep

Posted: 02/14/2019 16:39

Fischman wrote:

Hipster metal? Wow. I would have never guessed there was such a thin. Seems like an oxymoron.

Oh yeah, metalheads dislike hipsters. And vice versa. A bit like this

Link

Re: Metal Thread

Fischman — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 10:53:55 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 02/14/2019 15:53

LedZep wrote:

Tha1ChiefRocka wrote:

Metal is underrepresented on this site, but it's over represented on rym.

BTW, I checked out this Haiduk guy's album, and it actually wasn't half bad.

Yeah, I wouldn't say it's over represented on RYM. There were 5-6 metal albums in the top 100 last time I checked, and they were all unsurprisingly by Black Sabbath and Metallica. Which is ok since they're some of the most important bands in metal, but it shows that metal surely isn't overrepresented on RYM since they're pretty basic metal picks, and also they're not very high in the charts. If anything, it means not enough metalheads vote and participate in RYM community, otherwise Death, Megadeth, Opeth, Slayer, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest would all be higher than at least a few of those Black Sabbath and Metallica records. My favourite site for ranking and discovering metal would be Metal Storm, I like their rankings most of the time. They do tend to dislike "hipster" metal bands though (Deafheaven etc.)
http://www.metalstorm.net/bands/albums_top.php

Hipster metal? Wow. I would have never guessed there was such a thin. Seems like an oxymoron.

Re: Metal Thread

LedZep — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:12:54 GMT

Author: LedZep

Posted: 02/14/2019 14:12

Tha1ChiefRocka wrote:

Metal is underrepresented on this site, but it's over represented on rym.

BTW, I checked out this Haiduk guy's album, and it actually wasn't half bad.

Re: Metal Thread

mickilennial — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 22:43:49 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 02/14/2019 03:43

Tha1ChiefRocka wrote:

Metal is underrepresented on this site, but it's over represented on rym.

BTW, I checked out this Haiduk guy's album, and it actually wasn't half bad.

if you think its overrepresented on RYM i don't know if you actually interact with the culture on RYM at all. even amongst the charts it is not the most significant genre and only certain subgenres have appeal to the RYM consensus.

Re: Metal Thread

Tha1ChiefRocka — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 20:54:20 GMT

Author: Tha1ChiefRocka

Posted: 02/14/2019 01:54

Metal is underrepresented on this site, but it's over represented on rym.

BTW, I checked out this Haiduk guy's album, and it actually wasn't half bad.

Re: Metal Thread

Fischman — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 18:10:37 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 02/13/2019 23:10

svk4ever wrote:

Well... I grew up with Metal… 😁

Back in '78 our local radio station had listener's album charts… and they we're dominated by hard and - for that time - heavy music. Rainbow, Ufo, The Scorpions...

Then happened the real thing! The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal… Each monday three or four kids from school entered their local record store and bought each and every new album and 7" from the UK... Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Vardis, Diamond Head, Demon. A II Z, Tank, Praxing Mantis, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Angel Witch, Fist, White Spirit, Dark Star, Witchfynder General, Girlschool, Witchfynde,... Saxon... and of course as well bands from other countries like Accept, Krokus, Loudness, Trust, Mercyful Fate…

And there were two important live events. Iron Maiden supporting Kiss in Germany and blowing them from stage. I was very much into Kiss at that time, but Iron Maiden were much more impressing without pyros and big show effects. The other one: Saxon on tour with Judas Priest... amazing.

Well, the rest is history... 😁

And today we have such a great variety of different metal styles. Something for every taste... 😉

My favorites today are Primordial, Amorphis, Lake Of Tear, Anathema, Katatonia... a lot of the female fronted symphonic metal bands like Nightwish, Epica, Within' Temptation, Leave's Eyes... a lot of progressive Metal like Dream Theater, Threshold, Queensryche, Symphony X, Subsignal, Vanden Plas...

Hooray for another Symphonic Metal fan! Pretty hard to find, especially stateside.