Crimsonfires Metal Appreciation Thread

[crimsonfire]

This is a thread for metal. By metal I meanMehhhtuuuuhhhhhllllI'll post a couple of albums each week or two (or whenever I feel like it because that's a metal attitude to have) to showcase the range of sounds you can get in this wee genre and how there is a metal album for everyone.

 

First up:

 

Strapping Young Lad - City

 

 

 

Notable tracks: All Hail The New Flesh, Detox and AAA.

 

Devin Townsend the lead singer has to be one of metals most underrated musicians. He has fingers in a lot of pies and SYL is the tip of very large iceberg. He's also funny as hell and takes the piss out of metal bands who take themselves way too seriously (which is most of them).

 

Now for something far more Swedish and angry:

 

Meshuggah - ObZen

 

 

 

Notable tracks: Combustion, Bleed and ObZen.

 

A fine example of technical death metal. It's not the best album by Meshuggah but it's a good intro to their sound. It's the most accessible example of their unique off-kilter sound. It may sound like repetitive noise to the uninitiated but on repeat listens you start to appreciate the incredible skill and technicality of the music.

Edited January 18, 2015 by crimsonfire

[the division of joy]

Prog metal ♥

 

http://youtu.be/4H6FA1Kmzc8

 

[crimsonfire]

Opeth are odd considering they shook off the whole black metal sound after their first few albums.

 

Russian Circles are simply awesome.

[the division of joy]

I would've never said what Opeth did was black metal. But the lines of metal genre's are more blurred than what Robin Thicke was on about.

 

I'd consider bits like this,

 

 

and

 

 

and this, (fucking love this, as opposed to the other two which aren't my cup of tea really)

 

 

to be black metal.