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I kind of stumbled upon Throwdown's Venom and Tears album and wow... I really like it. Especially Holy Roller and Hellbent, anyone else heard it?
 
Blackbird.
I kind of stumbled upon Throwdown's Venom and Tears album and wow... I really like it. Especially Holy Roller and Hellbent, anyone else heard it?
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Wow, can you say Pantera clone? Not that that's a bad thing, but they sound exactly like Pantera.
 
CDailey
Wow, can you say Pantera clone? Not that that's a bad thing, but they sound exactly like Pantera.
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A local band around this area is the real Pantera Clone. Name's Turbid North. They were from Alaska or something of the sort but moved down here to Dallas. They're good but a definate clone. The singer even looks like Phil Anselmo when he would shave his head.
 
:lol: Vodka toothbrush?

The vocals seems to sound real nice. I’ll wait for the album to be released, but this both new vocalists seem to do the job pretty well.
 
Yeah, the vocals sound a lot better than the live videos they posted from their tour in Spain earlier this year. I'm sure the new vocalists were still getting used to performing with them and learning all the lyrics at that time.

Some bands I've been listening to lately...Most are melodeath, but some are more progressive or hard.

Anterior
Engel
Figure Of Six
Illdisposed
Into Eternity
Lyzanxia
Mnemic
MyGRAIN
Naildown
Nuclear Blast Allstars CDs (all songs were written by Peter Wichers, the lead guitarist from Soilwork)
Raintime
Seventh Avenue
Skyfire
Sonic Syndicate
Sybreed

Anterior, Figure Of Six, and Naildown are my favorites out of the list. Naildown sounds a lot like Soilwork, so I really recommend them if you like Soilwork.
 
I just know some few of that list, and heard about another few of them.

Mnemic is great. They are currently working on a new album also, and I am pretty anxious to hear what it is like, especially after this statement from their myspace:
Why is this taking so long you may ask? Because we want to be 100% satisfied with this release and not put out an album we just worked on two months in advance prior to the recordings.
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They’re latest, Passenger, was a little "poor", in comparison with the early albums, and I dare to say, a bit metalcorish (though I don’t mind metalcore). I saw in a interview Mircea (the guitarist) saying the album was rushed, because of the delays in finding a suitable new vocalist.

I heard they are also working in a projection system to be implemented in their live shows, to become more dynamic. It would be something interesting to follow
 
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Yep. I had a (crappy, unmastered) copy a few weeks before it was released. I'm not a huge DT fan, but I love the new album. 👍
 
I grabbed it and I like it. Then again I could listen to every DT album start to finish back to back.

The new Killswitch, however, I'm a bit meh on. Not horrible but not amazing either.
 
CDailey
Yep. I had a (crappy, unmastered) copy a few weeks before it was released. I'm not a huge DT fan, but I love the new album. 👍
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The new album just has soo much energy in it... Specially the first CD. I pre-ordered it a few months ago... And when I first listened to it.. It was really hard to contain any kind of excitement... It was just so epic at points.



Right now I'm pretty PO'd so I'm going back and listening to some 80's trash. Just listened to Rust in Peace... Polaris by Megadeth, such a crazy amazing song.
 
The real DT aka Dark Tranquility is so much better :p

I listen to some of Dream Theatre songs on youtube, and well, the guitar work is pretty good, but the overall sound is a bit soft.
 
Speedy Samurai
I suggest people check out Maximum the Hormone

It's pretty good. Some growly parts, some harmonies, some parts where the female drummer sings.

Here is their profile from their myspace page
"How does the music composed of the essential factors from Loud Rock, Hard Core and Heavy Metal sounds? What does it sound like if growl, horribly fast rap and pop tune come together?
The answer is the sound MAXIMUM THE HORMONE bangs out! The lyrics written by MAXIMUM THE RYOKUN -guitarist and singer- are Japanese that most of the Japanese hardly understand. Songs are full of word games, humor and sarcasms. It sounds funny superficially, but venomous inside!"
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Old quote, but I just found out about them (the deathnote band, lol) and they're awesome.
 
Icarus25
The new Killswitch, however, I'm a bit meh on. Not horrible but not amazing either.
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I went on the website real quick to listen to Starting Over and Reckoning and from those two they don't give a good impression on the album. I'm feeling the same as you Icarus. Maybe some of the other songs will be a bit better?
 
Omnis
Old quote, but I just found out about them (the deathnote band, lol) and they're awesome.
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Yes, they are awesome. And for more Maximum fun, check this out.

Disclaimer: People may or may not find this funny. People also may or may not be losers
 
Blackbird.
I went on the website real quick to listen to Starting Over and Reckoning and from those two they don't give a good impression on the album. I'm feeling the same as you Icarus. Maybe some of the other songs will be a bit better?
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For you they might be, for me it wasn't much of an improvement. Definitely not an album that will get a lot of play time. Alive or Just Breathing on the otherhand, I could break out a couple times a month.
 
Although alot lot of people will disagree in saying that this is metal; I like bands like Disturbed, Korn, Avenged Sevenfold, Black Label Society, Metallica, Priestess, System Of A Down etc. Alot of people say that band's like Korn/disturbed aren't real metal but I hope no one forgets where metal originated. Band's like Black Sabbath and Led Zepplin were the originators of metal music and the band's I have listed play alot more similar music to them than band's like Dimmu Borgir etc.
 
Silverzone
Sooo.... Cannibal Corpse

Chris Barnes or Corpsegrinder..

go!

Corpsegrinder for me.
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I like Barnes live and Corpsegrinder on recordings. All of George's re-recorded stuff is better though. Chris's Puncture Wound Massacre sucks in comparison. George has a chaotic urgency to his lyrics, but Chris's were just like a creeping death feeling.
 
Cougar23
Although alot lot of people will disagree in saying that this is metal; I like bands like Disturbed, Korn, Avenged Sevenfold, Black Label Society, Metallica, Priestess, System Of A Down etc. Alot of people say that band's like Korn/disturbed aren't real metal but I hope no one forgets where metal originated. Band's like Black Sabbath and Led Zepplin were the originators of metal music and the band's I have listed play alot more similar music to them than band's like Dimmu Borgir etc.
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All of those bands are commonly known as nu metal... Other then Metallica and Black Label Society... which is funny because I'm listening to them right now. Black Sabbath, Led Zep are just early evolutions of metal. I personally think Zep is just rock while Sabbath was much darker and are the "true" pioneers. But before Sabbath was who you know now, they were a blues band. So theoretically, Sabbath wasn't the first... The first people who really did create the deep dark sound sensation were making this kind of music hundreds of years ago. But its considered something totally different nowadays.

I think you should expand your metal horizons by listening to so different stuff... And I think this brings a good question up... How did you guys first branch off into listening to metal? I think I'm going to think about it first before I say anything.
 
Prosthetic
How did you guys first branch off into listening to metal?
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Ok, my uncle is a huge hair metal nerd. Dokken, Striper, Poision, etc. etc. etc. So He'd get me cd's for my birthday or such and get me to listen to it. So my metal adventure actually started with cheezy cheezy 80s hair metal. I moved on from that to early 90's Metallica which got me deeper into it. I took a break from metal for awhile, and then got back into it with Power metal (Iced Earth, Sonata Arctica, etc.) Moved from that to heavier stuff such as Cradle Of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, and Deicide. And right now, I pretty much listen to any metal. I'm still a punk rocker at heart, but Metal is what I cut my teeth on so I still keep it around. It's completely influenced my playing style, and has made me a more versatile guitar player as well.
 
Prosthetic
How did you guys first branch off into listening to metal?
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For me, it was a series of culminations. I always (since kid) liked pop/rock music, especially 60’ Rock and Rock Ballads, with bands like The Mamas and Papas, The Shadows, The Animals, etc. and also Phill Collins, Tina Turner, Paul Simon, The Bee Gees, etc.

After problems I had in school, during my 7th grade, mainly problems in making “decent” friends, and through a game (Jet Set Radio for Dreamcast), I discovered a Band named COLD (one of they’re Music – Just got Wicked – was featured in the game). When I first heard to that music I thought, man, this has to be one of the best music I ever heard, and the lyrics are like they are describing my life right now.
I went to the music store, bought the two CD’s that were available of the band (13 Ways to Bleed on Stage and Year of the Spider), and I liked loved all the music’s inside. I then started to search up for Alternative and Nu-Metal bands that featured some other games I had, like Taproot, Deaftones and Rob Zombie.

Found Punk also very similar (the usage of the same type of instruments plus the distortion guitars) with bands like Offspring and Bad Religion.

Until I went to my cousins home (he lives a bit far from my home) and I asked for some help, if he could lend me some CD’s, and he gladly helped me (since in the whole family only me and my cousin like Metal).

At first I didn’t liked to much the more guttural stuff (growling and scremo) or the most Heavy stuff, it was just noise for me. I could only listen to actual sang staff with clean voice. But slowly attained the taste, and as for today, I can pretty much, listen to every type of Metal, From Nu-Metal to Mathmetal, plus non-metal stuff, like Hard Rock, Rock/Pop, Punk, Hardcore...(almost everything except Hip Hop, Rap, R’n’B and Classic).

I can also say and state that probably one of my favourite sub-genres of Metal has to be Death/ Melodic Death Metal, specifically the one called the Gothenburg Metal, with bands like In Flames (my favorite of all time), Dark Tranquility, At the Gates, Soilwork
 
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Prosthetic
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I grew up in the wonderful 80s, so my first exposure to music was cheesy stuff. There was your Bangles and UB40 and so on. From there I moved on to more alternative stuff like RHCP, R.E.M, and early U2. I was also listening to more "classic" rock like Pink Floyd, Zepp, Steve Miller, etc. Then I borrowed a friends Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction CD, and a metalhead was born. From there I got in to the basics like Metallica and Sabbath and stuck with that for a little bit. After that I found Fear Factory and the Industrial side of metal.

Since then my tastes have been evolving. I'm still not a huge fan of really black or really death, but I can listen to it. I probably listen to stuff that is mainstream or close to mainstream as opposed to lesser known stuff. My collection ranges from Megadeth and Metallica to Dark Tranquility and Mnemic, to Dimmu and November's Doom, to Nightwish and Within Temptation, to Maiden and Sabbath, to Iced Earth and Helloween. Plus In Flames, Children of Bodom, Sepultura (with Max), Slayer, Eluveitie, Sirenia, Paradise Lost. The list goes on.

I still cling to my eclectic tastes though, and it's not uncommon for me to go from Marvin Gaye to Blutengel to Phish to Mozart to The Haunted. I usually just throw my entire library on shuffle and stop on whatever I'm in the mood for.
 
I also grew up in the 80s (and 90s), and used to listen to 'normal' rock bands. Once my grandma heard me listening to some Queen song which was kinda heavy-ish (something like Tie Your Mother Down) and for my following birthday I got the single for Can I Play with Madness, by Iron Maiden (on a 45 rpm record), which's B-side was Black Bart Blues. I remember I heard those two songs all the time. Not long after that my grandma bought me another album: an LP of Metallica's Garage Days Re-revisited, which I liked amazingly and also heard too many times.

And the rest is history.
 
Prosthetic
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My dad started me off by showing me some old Black Sabbath, Led Zepplin etc. and it grew from there. My first metal CD was Korn: greatest hits which was given to me from my cousin. It just grew from there. I listen to mostly all types of metal, except death metal.:yuck:
 
Prosthetic
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Back in 8th grade one of my friends made me listen to more and more metal starting with Slipknot, Killswitch Engage, and bands like that. Than while searching for Black Label Society I stumbled upon a song named Black Label by Lamb of God and that exploded into my current great interest in Lamb of God (currently my favorite band and has been since I discovered them). Than the group of friends I hung out in high school were avid metal fans and gamers so that expanded my interest in metal and the bands I know about and love to listen to.

So basically, metal ****ing rocks! \m/ for life.

Oh and:

Slaves of Yesterday - Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
 
New Scar Symmetry cd info! :D

Dark Matter Dimensions - NEW ALBUM DETAILS
Category: Music
SCAR SYMMETRY - ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM + COVER ARTWORK



Swedish melodic progressive death metallers SCAR SYMMETRY have set Dark Matter Dimensions as the title of their new album, due in October via Nuclear Blast Records.

TRACK LIST:
01. The Iconoclast
02. The Consciousness Eaters
03. Noumenon And Phenomenon
04. Ascension Chamber
05. Mechanical Soul Cybernetics
06. Non-Human Era
07. Dark Matter Dimensions
08. Sculptor Void
09. A Parenthesis In Eternity
10. Frequency-Shifter
11. Radiant Strain
12. Pariah

SCAR SYMMETRY parted ways with singer Christian Alvestam last year due to "business and creative differences and lack of interpersonal chemistry." The band explained at the time, "We came to a point where the band's existence was in jeopardy because of these differences, and the only way for us to continue with an inspired state of mind was to go through with this change in the lineup."

Christian has since been replaced by Roberth Karlsson (lead growl vocals and backing clean vocals) and Lars Palmqvist (lead clean vocals and backing growl vocals).
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I wonder when it will leak. :D
 

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