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okay, i know nearly nothing about metal. but i feel i should at least give it a go and have some knowledge of it rather than skipping it altogether, as i have done until now. whats something that might break the stereotype of metal in my mind? something stimulating rather than just pure energy and power maybe. i think i may be too much of a pacifist for it altogether. but start recommending.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Saturday, 12 June 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

okay - here is a great metal compilation I made a while back just as I was discovering metal:

1. Zimmer's Hole - This Is Metal
2. Nightwish - Wishmaster
3. Bal Sagoth - The Blazon Of A Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath The Blazon of a Hyperborean Empir (Part III)
4. Enslaved - Starre En TIl Tyrgre Erin
5. Morbid Angel - Sworn to Black (Laibach Mix)
6. The Great Kat: Metal Messiah
7. Katatonia: Sweet Nurse
8. Opeth: By the Pain I see In Others
9. Electirc WIzard - I, The Witchfinder
10. Nevermore: Dead Heart In A Dead World
11. Botch: O Fortuna
12. Emperor: Thus Spake The Night Spirit
13. Arcturus: For To End Yet Again
14. Manowar: Courage

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 12 June 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Remission by Mastodon is one of the only contemporary metal albums that's stuck out to me. Seems like most rock fans who have largely ignored its genre would appreciate it. It's got a lot more emotional dynamics than your typical "must destroy your fucking face" metal album.

― F Ath, Saturday, 12 June 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Shit - you should also check out "Konerak" by Macabre; "Black Seeds Of Vengeance" by Nile; "Power Of The Dragonflame" by Rhapsody and "Iconoclasm in the 4th Desert" by Sigh

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 12 June 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.download.com/byzantum

― Vas Djifrens (latebloomer), Saturday, 12 June 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

How about just, like, a Black Sabbath album? You know - to start off with, if you've never owned one. Have you, Tom?

― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 12 June 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

broheems OTM. buy paranoid & master of reality and proceed accordingly.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Saturday, 12 June 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

make sure you check some of the zillion good threads that are filled with recommendations too:

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/searchresults.php?board=2&q=metal&mode=threads

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 12 June 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I always meant to follow Chaki's intructions here-

Siegbran's "totally kick your ass with awesome shit" metal mix

but I never did. Maybe today.

― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 12 June 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Voivod's first album gets the reissue treatment for next week, 3-Disc version...

Also, Chuck Klosterman's "Fargo Rock City" is a funny, opionated look through 80's-90's pop metal. Worth a read I suppose.

― pher (pher), Sunday, 13 June 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Dog Latin's mix is fantastic. Nightwish 4eva.

― adam (adam), Sunday, 13 June 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but if you're going to check out Voivod, do you want to start with the first album? I'd recommend the Nothingface album by Voivod, Tom. I think Voivod was tremendous (possibly still are? haven't heard them now with Snake back in the band).

― Tim Ellison, Sunday, 13 June 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I listen to too much doom metal and left field weirdo metal stuff, so I'm generally reluctant to issue advice, since few of the bands I listen to are really repersentative of the genre as a whole. Is there any specific elment, besides intelligence or stimulation, you'd like? Any particular emotion are assthetic?

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Sunday, 13 June 2004 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Assthetic. Heh heh- great new word.

Should be aesthetic, but I like assthetic better!

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Sunday, 13 June 2004 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

representative! element! I really should read my messages before I post them.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Sunday, 13 June 2004 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Siegbran's "totally kick your ass with awesome shit" metal mix

I'm sharing those tracks on slsk at the moment (in the "metal mix" folder), if I can get my webspace up and running again I'll put them up for download. Although those tracks only span a couple of years (1990-1996) I think it's a very good introduction to 'modern metal'.

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 13 June 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

What do you have on that Siegbran?

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Sunday, 13 June 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

anathema - kingdom
amorphis - black winter day
behemoth - forgotten empire of dark witchcraft
bolt thrower - for victory
burzum - det som engang var
cryptopsy - phobophile
darkthrone - quintessence
dissection - night's blood
emperor - i am the black wizards
enslaved - norvegr
entombed - left hand path (the song, not the album)
gorgoroth - profetens åpenbaring
immortal - blashyrkh
katatonia - brave
mayhem - pagan fears
my dying bride - the songless bird
samael - baphomet's throne
summoning - farewell

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 13 June 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Just buy Motorhead's "No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith." If you don't get metal after that, you never will.

― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Monday, 14 June 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey folks. Long time listener, first time caller...

Here are some classic metal albums that transcend their respective sub-genres:

Ulver - Nattens Madrigal
Harvey Milk - Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men
Discordance Axis - anything
Assuck - Anything
Head Hits Concrete - Thy Kingdom Come Undone
Bolt-Thrower - War Master; Realm of Chaos
Leviathan - Verrater
Weakling - Dead As Dreams
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Crowpath - anything
Khanate - S/T
T.O.O.H. - Pod Vladou Bice
Gorguts - Obscura
Human Remains - Where Were You When
Squash Bowels - No Mercy
Enslaved - Frost, Monumension, Eld
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Sepultura - Schizophrenia, Beneath the Remains
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Pig Destroyer - Prowler In the Yard
Cephalic Carnage - Lucid Interval
The End - Transfer Trachea...
Corrupted - Paso Inferior, Illendose de Gusanos
Mortalized - Absolute Mortality
Boris - Amplifier Worship

and on and on and on

― Johnny Splash, Monday, 14 June 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Byzantum - Beneath the Haunted Moon you must add to list of yours.

― Vas Djifrens (latebloomer), Monday, 14 June 2004 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

When it is finished this fall i mean that by.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 14 June 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, shite, astral energies low again!

― Vas bloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 14 June 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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