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Song from new WYRGHER album which got released today.
Wyrgher play Black Metal and I haven't heard the new album but their prior releases had a nice Leviathan/Lurker of Chalice vibe.
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Song from new WYRGHER album which got released today.
Wyrgher play Black Metal and I haven't heard the new album but their prior releases had a nice Leviathan/Lurker of Chalice vibe.
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I've started to enjoy metal lately, but anything after 1980s sound like shit with the loudness war, Early metallica and megadeth stuff sounds amazing compared to their newer releases.
Any good tips for nice sounding albums?
Any good tips for nice sounding albums?
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Not sure what you mean. 1st Metallica album was 1983, 1st Megadeth 1985, 1st Voivod 1984, 1st Anthrax 1984 I think, 1st Testament was later.
1st Witchfinder General album (Doom Metal) is from 1982. 1st Manilla Road (Power/Epic Metal) from 1980 or 1981, 1st Candlemass aalbum(Doom Metal) was 86 or 87. Even Manowar only released their 1st album after 1980 (in 82). Mercyful Fate/King Diamond started in the 80s. 1st Bathory album was 84 and I'm pretty sure "nice sounding" is not something I would slap on this album haha Slayer's 1st album was 1983.
1980 seems an odd mark for metal and "nice sounding" albums
Before 1980 there were Judas Priest, Saxon, Kiss, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Motörhead, etc. And of course Black Sabbath. And Iron Maiden but their 1st album was released in 1980.
Like I'm not sure how much the bands before the 80s boom qualify as "metal" (me personally, I don't care). Or if the sound of their albums is better/more"nice sounding" than the 80s (and later) stuff.
But to be honest before-80s is not really my field. Or at least not that much that I could give some recommendations that you wouldn't know about.
What I can recommend though are the Brown Acid compilations. But they are more about proto-metal and psychedelic stuff and stuff that had more influence on later Doom Metal/Stoner Metal and Desert/Stoner Rock than on Heavy/Thrash/Power/Death/etc Metal.
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Not sure what you mean. 1st Metallica album was 1983, 1st Megadeth 1985, 1st Voivod 1984, 1st Anthrax 1984 I think, 1st Testament was later.
1st Witchfinder General album (Doom Metal) is from 1982. 1st Manilla Road (Power/Epic Metal) from 1980 or 1981, 1st Candlemass aalbum(Doom Metal) was 86 or 87. Even Manowar only released their 1st album after 1980 (in 82). Mercyful Fate/King Diamond started in the 80s. 1st Bathory album was 84 and I'm pretty sure "nice sounding" is not something I would slap on this album haha Slayer's 1st album was 1983.
1980 seems an odd mark for metal and "nice sounding" albums
Before 1980 there were Judas Priest, Saxon, Kiss, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Motörhead, etc. And of course Black Sabbath. And Iron Maiden but their 1st album was released in 1980.
Like I'm not sure how much the bands before the 80s boom qualify as "metal" (me personally, I don't care). Or if the sound of their albums is better/more"nice sounding" than the 80s (and later) stuff.
But to be honest before-80s is not really my field. Or at least not that much that I could give some recommendations that you wouldn't know about.
What I can recommend though are the Brown Acid compilations. But they are more about proto-metal and psychedelic stuff and stuff that had more influence on later Doom Metal/Stoner Metal and Desert/Stoner Rock than on Heavy/Thrash/Power/Death/etc Metal.
Sorry, i meant 1980s in general, by the late 80s, CD's and tape decks started appearing on cheaper cars, boomboxes, kitchentop radios, etc, those small ass speakers couldn't output loudly, so the studios decided to wreck all sound quality for loudness up until the hi-fi craze of the 2010's.
Metal seems one of the worst genres affected, Metallica had 3 famous albums that were completely shit sounding (Justice for All, St anger, death magnetic)
It's something i've realized when i used some half decent earbuds (you can get a audiphile grade earbud and usb-c audio jack for 30$ combined nowdays).
in 2008 Guitar hero released a metallica DLC which came with the death magnetic album, but somehow a intern shipped the wrong version, the mastering tape from the studio version instead of the CD version, which is compressed, you can notice the sound quality immediately.
I love Ride the lighting, it's by far their best sounding album in my opinion, it's crisp and wide sounding, sadly commerical interests overuled sound quality concerns.
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I can rec some stuff I enjoy but when it comes to tips I put them in the sperm bank. Some stuff I might've previously posted.
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I know what you're talking about with the loudness war, but it's not really a huge issue anymore. Black Sabbath's 13 (produced by Rick Rubin) is the last album I can think of that really had this issue and that was ten years ago. Even by then the idea of brickwalling everything to hell and back was pretty antiquated, it was a technique only still being employed by overpaid retard producers (aka Rick Rubin).
Also, if you start to get into the more extreme end of metal you're probably gonna stop caring about dynamics pretty quickly.
Since you mentioned liking a few thrash metal bands I'll give you a few recs. If you like any feel free to let us know, I'm always willing to namedrop more albums I like.
Overkill - Feel the Fire
Riot - Thundersteel
Razor - Evil Invaders
Exciter - Heavy Metal Maniac
D.R.I. - Dealing with It!
Savage Grace - After the Fall from Grace
Bulldozer - The Day of Wrath
Venom - Welcome to Hell
Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death
Malokarpatan - Nordkarpatenland
Sodom - Persecution Mania
Grim Reaper - See You in Hell
Sabbat - Satanasword
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I think a better starter album to get into Sodom would probably be Tapping the Vein or Code Red. Also worth noting that in their 40 year anniversary album they did a good re-recording of songs like Sepulchral Voice and Electrocution.
Viscera is a good deathcore band, they toured with Lorna Shore previously. They have Jamie Graham who was one of the vocalists of Sylosis.
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Gonna check but I really don't like deathcore in general, thats why Lorna Shore is a bit special to me, I'm more of a black metal guy.
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Old Nick slap. Seems like I can't bring them up anywhere without getting called soy though.
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I'm the same way with black metal, I'll listen to early Opera IX or 1914 but that's it for that particular subgenre.
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A new CLANDESTINE BLAZE album has been released.
It's Black Metal; for those unaware of the band.
It's Black Metal; for those unaware of the band.
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One of my all time favorite black metal songs. Malaysian black metal.
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That is an incredibly underrated country for black metal. A ton of great little bands that next to nobody has heard of. Lots of NS bands too which I'm sure at least makes some sense within the greater context of Malaysian politics, but admittedly seems a bit bizarre to me from the outside looking in.
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I think black metal just has a kind of nativist, folk quality that can be applicable to anywhere. What’s interesting is how different countries are able to put their own slant on the sound. You can feel the difference between something like Goatmoon and a Malaysian band.
There’s a band called ‘Majestic East’ who did a tape called Exorcism Corpse, way too rare to get a physical copy but I still look from time to time. I’m also trying to track a release by a Malaysian band called Penanggals, only one track of it on YouTube.
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Nah, Malaysian NS band don't make sense. It can be explained, yes, but in context of what NS originally was it doesn't make sense. Even Slav NS bands don't make sense. NS has two core lessons and one of it is the supremacy of the Aryan race (the other is that the Jew is the eternal enemy of the Aryan). Slavs aren't Aryans.
Everything else non-Aryans may see as a netpositive in NS is in fact facism.