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SilkCrimsonMoon · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 6:43 am

Thrashtilldeth wrote:

Adveser wrote:

That's interesting. I think it's funny when someone like myself genuinely likes a band like Slipknot and goes out their way to make it known too. What's someone gonna say about it when a lot of people like these bands are loyal to real metal and moreso than most.?

Sorry, could you rephrase? I didn't quite catch your point.

I think what he's talking about is the state of our melancholy compared to the wider spectrum of listeners that for example like Slipknot. Our taste in music Vs say, Adveser's taste. We have been left alone!

Adveser · **Joined:** Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:26 am **Posts:** 2491

I'm saying that I like Slipknot and wear their T-Shirts to annoy the fans of all the other bands I like. I liked their albums when I couldn't have known better and also far after the fact when I did hear everything and everybody.

SilkCrimsonMoon · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 6:53 am

Adveser wrote:

I'm saying that I like Slipknot and wear their T-Shirts to annoy the fans of all the other bands I like. I liked their albums when I couldn't have known better and also far after the fact when I did hear everything and everybody.

I think your first statement was more vivid :lol:

Thrashtildeth · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 6:56 am

I guess I can understand where you're coming from.

My love for metal started when I was a kid with 90s Metallica and I still proudly admit that, and I still spin Load and ReLoad when I feel like it. It's annoying that others think I should hate the music I grew up on just because I now listen to more "proper" metal.

(wow, this thread lasted 2 posts on topic, and then got way more interesting!)

SilkCrimsonMoon · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 7:13 am

I was the complete opposite of you, Thrashtildeath. The first paycheque I got I went out and got all Metallica albums and loved them to death. But that's fifteen years ago. Now, I rarely can bare any Metallica at all as I have grown infinitely away from it. Maybe every two years or something can I play maybe their debut or RtL.

EDIT: I still love that traditional sound in Metal that Sabbath or Maiden created but can't stand Metallica anymore.

Adveser · **Joined:** Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:26 am **Posts:** 2491

The first album I bought was the black album, then MOP and ReLoad. I liked Dio long before even hearing Slipknot. There's just no contradiction IMO because of all the links that make the giant cobweb of music i've ever liked.

Goat · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 9:57 am

Into blackened thrash like (later) Carpathian Forest and Aura Noir? Might be a good way in...

ganeshaRules · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 10:49 am

As Goat says, Aura Noir.
In thrash-black, these two:

Destroyer 666 - Phoenix Rising.
Abigail - Forever Street Metal Bitch

And, as you like prog, try the left hand of black... Sigh, for example.

traptunderice · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 4:09 pm

Umm I don't want to barrage you with albums, but rather than giving you the classic epic list, I'll ramble off what I've loved recently.

Oh my god, bro. You want Nachtmystium. Psychedelic and proggy just how you like 'em. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxSaZ861 ... C13D628FDC

Nachtmystium - Black Meddle Part I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMQKtFw-Ngw
Welkin Dusk - Born in A Dying World (crust-tinged) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AF2yysPfq4
Altar of Plagues - Mammal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi6znr0VOGQ
Khold - Masterpiss of Pain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04wyErtx6a4
Wolves in the Throne Room - s/t demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbexhNeQTMM
Panopticon - Collapse (wait for the 10 min mark for banjo action) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0PjQyVQX0w
Cobalt - Gin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrQkdRIV ... re=related
Krallice - Diotima http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tmIBesxRTU
Drudkh - Blood in Our Wells http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DzTHCRmyKs
Shining - Halmstad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNkiI_LSLjU

SilkCrimsonMoon · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 6:30 pm

Seconding the Aura Noir and Destroyer 666. Also, the recommendations of Trapt are some very good ones.

EDIT: Rotting Christ - Theogonia

SolarSoul25 · **Joined:** Wed Dec 22, 2010 5:14 pm **Posts:** 622

I am glad I looked into this thread, this is a genre I have been needing to tackle for awhile.

Truth is I have spent 10 years working my way up and down Prog, Power, and so on but I have never truly tackled the other side of things. Seems like now is a good time to change that.

As to being a regular poster I should definitely do more. There is a world of information in these forums that I don't take advantage of, and though as Divine mentioned I am pretty busy with family and what not I certainly have time to be more active.

The advertising piece is trickier. Facebook has proven itself to be marginal help at best, because it floods people with so much information that trying to get someone interested in one specific thing is like screaming a message into an active jet engine, your lost in the noise. The best way to get attention of Facebook is to basically post a picture of a puppy playing a guitar with metalreviews.com written on it.

Speaking of which, I need to google search that and give it a try.....

Thrashtildeth · **Posted:** Wed Jul 25, 2012 12:38 am

Thanks for the recommendations, every one. There's a lot here to keep me busy for quite some time, I would have thought.

One thing, I think I need to stop researching these bands as I listen to them. The pictures of most of these guys are doing me no favours at all as I try to take this genre seriously.

A lot of the guys Trapt recommended look less ridiuclous. I appreciate that....

North From Here · **Posted:** Wed Jul 25, 2012 1:02 am

I don't think hardly any bands wear corpsepaint anymore. Trapt recommended a lot of newer bands, but the older bands that were recommended don't wear that shit either anymore.

SilkCrimsonMoon · **Posted:** Wed Jul 25, 2012 4:53 am

The only band that I recommended that wears corpsepaint is Immortal and that's part of music and the appeal that they have stock with for a very long time. It's for show and its also for gimmicks. Immortal has a fictional Kingdom that they have created with their lyrical content which I think is very cool.

Thrashtildeth · **Posted:** Wed Jul 25, 2012 5:05 am

Yeah, it's not just the paint though. It's the whole "Arrrgghghghhg we are scarrryyyyy!!!!!!" approach.

I much prefer if a band just dresses normally - maybe black leather, if they HAVE to - and let their music do the scaring.

But whatever, I'm trying not to let it affect my judgment. And anyway, like i said, I think it's cool that most bands have left it behind in the contemporary scene.

cry of the banshee · **Posted:** Wed Jul 25, 2012 5:12 am

SilkCrimsonMoon · **Posted:** Wed Jul 25, 2012 5:17 am

Holy shit! Nice to see you here again Banshee!

Thrashtildeth · **Posted:** Wed Jul 25, 2012 5:21 am

cry of the banshee wrote:

a few to get started on, and who cares what they look and dress like?

Thanks for the recommendations, man. And as for what they look and dress like, well...

Sure, I don't care what someone looks or dresses like if I'm deciding if I like them as a friend. Such a thing wouldn't matter.

With regards to a band, however, I think that it just distracts from the music, which should always be the primary focus. If you need to dress up in costumes to try and scare people, it doesn't say much about the confidence you have in your music being able to represent you. It just screams of gimmicky bullshit, not to mention the fact that nothing could be less scary than grown men in make up and spikes.

EDIT: haven't had a chance to listen to even a quarter of all these suggestions yet, but so far Trapt's suggestion of Nachtmystium seems to be by far the most appealing to me...

SilkCrimsonMoon · **Posted:** Wed Jul 25, 2012 5:41 am

Speaking of Nachtmystium I must give them a few spins. Have not heard of them in forever. That reminds me that I have to purchase Demise.

SilkCrimsonMoon · **Posted:** Wed Jul 25, 2012 5:43 am

So anything you hear worth of purchasing?

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