Metal Recommendations

As for Converge, get Jane Doe. These are the dudes who produced early Black Dice. They're really a hardcore band though. Similarly, Orchid.

all of this screams "GO BACK! WRONGNESS AHOY!" but for some reason i enjoy this album greatly.

http://www.splendidezine.com/review.html?reviewid=326305713658078

neurosis
kyuss
katatonia

Jane Doe makes the millions of skinny hardcore kids copping metal riffs somehow OK.

Best metal album I've heard so far this year: new Enslaved. New Negura Bunget is also quite solid and much more experimental if that's what you're looking for. The 10mins or so of drone that bookend the last track (track 4, ha!) is very beautiful.

Shit, another promising band down the drain. When will bands realise that WE DON'T NEED ANY MORE SHITTY EXPERIMENTAL NOODLING!!!!! It's NOT daring or innovative, it's an artistical dead end and a major cop-out, just fucking admit you're trying to get laid with goth girls and/or tap into the Marilyn Manson demographic. There's a whole world of opportunities for minimalist, droning ambient METAL and nobody except a meagre handful of doom/sludge bands (and Countess maybe) are going there. What the fuck is wrong with this planet?

I'm planning on checking out Neurosis sometime soon.

Kyuss was a good band.

electric wizard's dopethrone is epic and stoopid and grand

Best metal album I've heard so far this year: new Enslaved. New Negura Bunget is also quite solid and much more experimental if that's what you're looking for.

yeah, enslaved keep getting a little further out with each release. i would actually kind of disagree on the new negura bunget - "maistru sfetnic" seemed alot more experimental and thought-out, with some pretty bizarre sounds filtering through (like that odd whistling/theremin sound on the 2nd or 3rd track). the new one's alright, it just seemed a little thinner in both mix and material.

You think? I thought Monumension was tame by comparison to Eld.

Actually, this is the first NB record I've heard so you may very well be right. Your description makes it sound ineresting, tho. I'll seek it out. But the mix on the last one is definitely a little weak. The levels of all the different instruments seem a bit too all over the place.

Still, I definitely enjoy the record and especially the second half. New Enslaved is joyous, however.

I'm in a metal mood, but my tastes have grown very specific in my old age. My favorite metal bands of the past five years are WOLD, Bone Awl, SQRM, Pig Destroyer, The Body, Sissy Spacek, and Portal. Generally, I like metal that doesn't sound like other metal. I have an affinity for bands with two vocalists for some reason. Please no stoner / doom, no thrash, no Agalloch or other artsy prog metal, no noise (yes I like WOLD and yes I'm well aware of Hospital Productions and the black metal / noise hybrid stuff), but modern hardcore that uses either My War or Jesus Lizard as a jumping off point, or is considered 'power violence' (outside of the well known stuff - Charles Bronson, etc) is a-ok. I'm also way into the Youth Attack label right now.

I feel a little like I just walked into an adult video store and started getting a boner while inquiring about videos that cater to my super specific proclivities or something. That's a poor sentence but you get my meaning. Anyway, help if you can, ILX metal militia! Thanks!

sounds survey of the opposition from april 1979 (the same month that barton coined the term NEW WAVE OF BRITISH HEAVY METAL iirc):

American Metal, Ten of the Best by Geoff Barton in Sounds 7th, April 1979. @GregRenoff @pkmonaghan pic.twitter.com/mRv7vh6AOt

— Sounds Clips (@SoundsClips) April 7, 2022

all too swiftly swept away. i recognise four of these names (presumably from bad reviews in nme, which at this stage detested and deplored metal): THE GODZ, MOLLY HATCHETT, APRIL WINE and MAX WEBSTER