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Joan Baez singing in German = bliss.

Here you go with the best song ever...you gotta go through that one completely, of course..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQR2FvWbCfU

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Probably of no interest to 99% of you, I bring you US technical melodic death metal from Allegaeon. I've been following them for years and they're just hitting the big time. This video is particularly funny for any metal fans, it's a wonderful middle finger to those idiots who get into genre wars on youtube comments (I'd imagine most of the fashion statements would mean nothing to non-metal fans). Aside from that, the 8-string guitars, insane drums & bass, and lyrics about the golden ratio these guys are frankly amazing (and don't take themselves too seriously)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErhgZhhXPvA

Got to spam another metal track I'm afraid - in my opinion the best metal act to come out of the UK since Iron Maiden - Sylosis (at least since their second album Edge of the earth)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tocEwt4HHOg
For those of you guitarists out there who want to see some of the cleanest and best sweep picking skip to 0.50 (and there's videos on youtube of him doing it live too so no trickery)
They're a wonderful mix of thrash and modern metal - and they even tune to E which is a rarity these days. They label themselves 'Justice for All-core' which will make sense to any Metallica fans I'm sure.

jamesmsv wrote:Probably of no interest to 99% of you, I bring you US technical melodic death metal from Allegaeon. I've been following them for years and they're just hitting the big time. This video is particularly funny for any metal fans, it's a wonderful middle finger to those idiots who get into genre wars on youtube comments (I'd imagine most of the fashion statements would mean nothing to non-metal fans). Aside from that, the 8-string guitars, insane drums & bass, and lyrics about the golden ratio these guys are frankly amazing (and don't take themselves too seriously)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErhgZhhXPvA

I saw Allegaeon live once. They were boring in concert. Musically they are very talented, but not my cup-o-tea. I prefer the old school stuff like Suffocation, Morbid Angel and Dying Fetus.

ophion1031 wrote:I saw Allegaeon live once. They were boring in concert. Musically they are very talented, but not my cup-o-tea. I prefer the old school stuff like Suffocation, Morbid Angel and Dying Fetus.

That's a shame to hear - maybe they were having an off-day. I went to a Dimmu Borgir a few years ago, a gig that everyone said would be amazing going by past performances and they were shit. Amon Amarth were on before them though and were bloody amazing so I found a new band that night at least.
Funny you mention these old school death bands (I guess they are traditional death?) , I grew up with 80's/90's metal but could never get into that side, stuff like Allegaeon is about as deathy as I get.
Did you check out Sylosis?

I listen to alot of doom metal like Saint Vitus, High tide, May blitz and my favorite band Church of misery which I bought there early works vinyl triple album a few weeks ago.

jamesmsv wrote:

ophion1031 wrote:I saw Allegaeon live once. They were boring in concert. Musically they are very talented, but not my cup-o-tea. I prefer the old school stuff like Suffocation, Morbid Angel and Dying Fetus.

That's a shame to hear - maybe they were having an off-day. I went to a Dimmu Borgir a few years ago, a gig that everyone said would be amazing going by past performances and they were shit. Amon Amarth were on before them though and were bloody amazing so I found a new band that night at least.
Funny you mention these old school death bands (I guess they are traditional death?) , I grew up with 80's/90's metal but could never get into that side, stuff like Allegaeon is about as deathy as I get.
Did you check out Sylosis?

Amon Amarth is pretty cool. Yeah I like Sylosis. They remind me of another band but I'm having a hell of a time remembering which band lol. It's an underground band from Canada, that is all I can remember.

Time traveler wrote:I listen to alot of doom metal like Saint Vitus, High tide, May blitz and my favorite band Church of misery which I bought there early works vinyl triple album a few weeks ago.

YES!!! I love doom metal, and also stoner metal, which is pretty similar. Sleep, Bongzilla and bands like that. Have you heard of the French band called Ghost? Not really doom, but has some doom influence to it. They are pretty good.

ophion1031 wrote:

Time traveler wrote:I listen to alot of doom metal like Saint Vitus, High tide, May blitz and my favorite band Church of misery which I bought there early works vinyl triple album a few weeks ago.

YES!!! I love doom metal, and also stoner metal, which is pretty similar. Sleep, Bongzilla and bands like that. Have you heard of the French band called Ghost? Not really doom, but has some doom influence to it. They are pretty good.

Just looked Ghost up they do sound good