Metal Reviews

I was reading Opeth's album journal for Still Life and they said they heard a ghostly cough during the recording of The Moor that neither Akerfelt nor Lindgren did, but it showed up on the recording anyway...spooky. Anyone know at what time that is in the recording?

How 'bout the 10 long intro to the 1st song off of Winds' Reflections of the I/other album CD? Who's heard that? Its weird electronica stuff. Check it out by rewinding the cd to before the 1st song.

Same deal for Mayhem's Grand Declaraton of War...there's a secret song before the 1st track. What's that one like? Anybody know?

Why does Opeth's Serenity Painted Death end so abruptly with that guitar outro (that I think is supposed to fade out). Is this a production error? Who will look into this and gimme a responce?

Guys...find more easter eggs/production errors/secret songs and post them here!!!

That's my favorite Opeth song and it is intentional. Opeth does that on several tracks which, due to the late hour, escape my head but I'm pretty sure that Closure is one of them.

There is a major mistake in the title track of Windir's Soknardalr. A guitar note is accidentally hit out of nowhere, completely out of key, and it somehow missed production, or Valfar just didn't care.

On the original pressing of Lemuria by Therion, the first track, Typhon, has an audio glitch in it where there is a quarter second of static inserted in the middle of the track. All the unsold copies were recalled and you can mail in your defective CD for a return.

In addition, the first 4,000 copies of Iced Earth's Dark Genesis box set had the wrong artwork stamped on the wrong CDs.

I have that pressing of the Therion album. I was going to send it back for a new one, but I have never bothered. To be honest, I never listen to the "Lemuria" disc anyway, and that's probably at least partially why I haven't / keep forgetting about it. I suppose I really should do that soon though if I'm going to at all.

-Tyrion

In the Dissimulate album by The Berzerker there's a hidden track before the first song, you can hear it by rewinding the first track.

Dodheimsgard - 666 International has 66 tracks; tracks 10-65 are silence, track 66 has like a minute and a half of music and then like another ten minutes of silence.

Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale has a hidden pre-track before the first song.

Those are the ones that I remember...if I remember more I'll post them later.

Hey, Jay@MetalReviews, if you remember why, please let me know, because I need help understanding it!!!

If you like abrupt ends like that, xheck out Type o negative's album Life is Killing me. Like, half the full songs end like that!!! Its irritating, I find.

Any more eastereggs?

How bout what I hear that Pink Floyd's Echoes song was written to correspond with the trippy dimension traveling in 2001: Space odyssey movie? Is that true???

Probot has a great hidden track with the singer of Tenacious D handling the vocal duties. It's probably the heaviest thing on the album, and the riff is pretty damn good too. Starts at 8:56 on Sweet Dreams.

Dunno about Pink Floyd, though.

This one is quite nice:

Diabolical Maquerade's Death Design album is supposed to be the soundtrack to a horror film with the same name that was never released.

Up to date it isn't known if this is true or just a hoax, but it seemed quite interesting.

What the hell's with the 4 minute pause after "by the pain I see in Others" off Opeth's Deliverance?

Why would they friggen do something that irritating and pointless, and furthermore, what are those backwards vocals there (and why are they there?)? :evil: I heard that they were vocals from "Master's Apprentices." Anybody else?

Honestly, Opeth are such an artistc group of guys, so what could this strange and seemingly out-of-place silence at the end of the album contribute to the artistc vision they had for it? Honestly. :?:

Actually, I beleive the final vocal in Queen's "One Vision" is not in fact one vision, but "fried chicken" and it brings a smaile to my face each time I hear it.

Sorry, its not metal, but Queen is great (if only because they can be considered to have influenced Blind Guardian recently).

They never managed to raise enough money to make the movie...

Interesting thread I'm going to resurrect. 311 were the only band that I knew to put a secret song before the first song. On Transistor if you rewind at the start of the first song you will eventually come to a 3-minute instrumental they used to use to open shows around that time. I've always thought that to be pretty cool, and I've always tried this on other CDs, but found nothing. It's cool to see another band has done this.

On Ani Difranco's Knuckledown album—or is it Educated Guess? Not sure, could be both!—many songs will finish and then go into a negative time like -1:13 and there are short little poems or instrumental tracks. You can't find these tracks unless you let the song end, you can't advance to these tracks. I always thought that was pretty neat.

Anyone got any others?

The only one I can remember is on Limp Bizkit's C.S.A.T.H.F.W if you keep listening at the end there's a conversation and shit...

(That was a HELLUVA long time ago)

There is a drumming mistake on Iron Maiden's The X Factor. I think its on Sign of the Cross, but I forget when. Its very easy to miss, but it sounds like Nicko accidently clips the rim of the snare drum.

Also, during one of the choruses of Die With Your Boots On after the backing vocals "If you're gonna die/(if your gonna die)" you can here Bruce muttering "Die" in a ridiculous cockney accent, I'd imagine taking the piss out of Steve and H.

hmm... well there is a long silence on the outro track on Akitsa's Soleil Noir and on about 18 min part there starts some punk cover. Dont know what it is but it's really groovy. Could be their own track also, dont know for sure...

I'm all for secret tracks at the end of CDs, but goddammit! Would band's stop adding secret songs 20 minutes AFTER the final song making that sound 35 minutes long! So irritating. Who needs 20 minutes of silence?

My neighbors. :twisted:

"Aw, I fucking missed it!"

The soundtrack to the X-Files TV show (not the movie).. I think it's called "Songs in the Key of X"... has an excellent Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds song as a hidden track before the first song... it's something like ten minutes before the first track.

I think They Might Be Giants have a secret song a few mintes before the first track on one of their albums, but I can't remember which one.