Your Favorite Metal Releases.

[bitewerksMTB]

"Filth Hounds Of Hades is one of the best"

Agreed.

I have a Pestilence tape, I think. Not the rel pictured, probably their debut. Has a man's face covered in ants or something like that. I'm assuming it's the same band.

[RyanWreck]

Yea it is the same Pestilence. The one I posted was their first LP the one you have is their second full length titled "Consuming Impulse" and is regarded by most as being their best album and is pretty much when they went to full on Death Metal and ditched a lot of their Thrash tendencies of the material in the first LP which was the one I posted. Both LPs are great but I prefer their Thrash, first wave DM sound.

You guys a fan of Scream Bloody Gore? The best Death album is my opinion and I know a lot of people disagree with me citing Leprosy which I don't listen to much at all. SBG is, like the Pestilence and Sepultura albums, a little more Thrash oriented and has a primitive feeling but not because of production, which is actually quite good, but in the atmospherics. The S/T Master LP is a great piece of early Death Metal too. Never really got into Necrovore's Divus De Mortuus tape like everyone else seems to love. I mean it is good but they seemed to be trying to toss one too many things in all at once while somehow still being repetitive.

[ARKHE]

PESTILENCE were elite all the way through; even Spheres had its moments. They managed to balance their space-progressive leanings with their aggressive death/thrash origins like few others (if only they'd skip all the intros on Testimony) - much like early MONSTROSITY or GORGUTS, to name two slightly younger bands. They still rip the heads of the competition live these days, Mameli's voice is one of the rawest in the genre, but I was disappointed by the faceless riffs & clinical production of the newest album.

[bitewerksMTB]

Still own "Scream Bloody Gore" LP I bought in Killeen TX. "Leprosy"  was good too. I think I had the tape but it's long gone. "S.B.G." is definitely their best.

I use to know one of the members in  Necrovore. Spoke to him on the phone a few times. I had the demos back then but they've been traded away. I do have a boot cd with them & someone else. Recently saw a LP that looked nice; I think it said masters were used? Someone else I knew said Necrovore's Latin was waaaaaaay off.

Agree on Master too. I have the LP From Beyond released in early or mid-2000's.

[Ashmonger]

How about Tank, you like them? Filth Hounds Of Hades is one of the best NWOBHM/Speed Metal albums from the early 80's.

I only know their 'Laughing in the Face of Death' track which is on the Metal Battle compilation and remember I liked it. Maybe I should visit a second hand vinyl store again after years and look for that album you're talking about. That Metal Battle compilation is really nice by the way, should play it again. Don't think it has any exclusive songs, but still, having Raven, Anvil, Venom, Satan... and being released in '83 it can't be bad of course, hehe.

[RyanWreck]

Speaking of NWOBHM bands with Speed, any fans of Acid? The second LP Maniac is so fucking catchy all the way through. I can really only think of a handful of great female Metal singers (Battlefield and Sacrilege are the only I can get off the top of my head right now) and the chick from Acid is the best. Maybe it isn't for everyone, especially if you are into rasp/growls and not clean vocals.

I only know their 'Laughing in the Face of Death' track which is on the Metal Battle compilation and remember I liked it. Maybe I should visit a second hand vinyl store again after years and look for that album you're talking about. That Metal Battle compilation is really nice by the way, should play it again. Don't think it has any exclusive songs, but still, having Raven, Anvil, Venom, Satan... and being released in '83 it can't be bad of course, hehe.

Yea I would suggest you at least download that one or listen to some tracks on youtube ("Turn Your Head Around" is a pure classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4rK4jE-gOA ). Speaking of compilations anyone like the Warfare Noise series? The first one was great but II had Aamonhammer and Magthrash. I swear Brazil and Germany were fucking masters, what the hell happened there?

[bitewerksMTB]

I have the Warfare Noise cd but did not know there was a 2nd volume.

It's too bad there are not more metal comps with exclusive tracks nowadays. A friend was trying to do something basd on Gilles de Rais but couldnt' get the few acts he wanted to get their shit together. It was going to include a small bag of dirt from de Rais castle (he got me a keychain from the gift shop!).

[RyanWreck]

I have the Warfare Noise cd but did not know there was a 2nd volume.

It's too bad there are not more metal comps with exclusive tracks nowadays. A friend was trying to do something basd on Gilles de Rais but couldnt' get the few acts he wanted to get their shit together. It was going to include a small bag of dirt from de Rais castle (he got me a keychain from the gift shop!).

A GDR comp would be fucking great! That is a shame it never came too. Oh well.

Yea the second Warfare Noise album was put out in 1988 on the same label and featured Witchhammer, Megathrash, Aamonhammer and Mayhem (obviously the Brazilian Mayhem). Witchhammer is my favorite, they have an "Obsessed by Cruelty" sound to them (and they are named off a track on that album) and they play pretty tight, some sloppy moments like their solos but for me it adds to the atmosphere. THe Brazilian Mayhem is decent too with fast, open riffing but the teenage yapping "vocals" get on my nerves a bit.

There is even a Warfare Noise III. I haven't heard it and I don't know if I want to. It was released in 1990:  http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Razeforce_-_Grey_Flow_-_Butcher_-_Disease/Warfare_Noise_III/53455 I don't care for any of the bands mentioned or haven't heard them. Disease is the only one I have heard and their Demo the following year sucked ass.

We seem to have pretty similar tastes. What is your favorite Brazilian record/bands, bite? For me "Morbid Visions" as mentioned before is a perfectLP all the way through. I can't think of many other albums that I like more than that LP as far as Thrash and early Death Metal is concerned (maybe "Seven Churches" and "Obsessed By Cruelty" but that's it). And Mutilation's fucking awesome "Immortal Force" is another album that I would not sell from my collection ever. I kinda like "Campo de Extermínio" too and I know a ton of people hate it, but there is something my ears appreciate in that album. But I don't know if it would even be in my top 50 though. I don't like any of the other Holocausto material either. Centurias - "Última Noite" is a pretty nice traditional Metal EP from way back in 1986 Brazil.

There is a Documentary coming out about the Brazilian Metal scene. It tends to focus a lot on the more traditional Heavy Metal and Speed Metal bands but they dive into Thrash and Death here and there too (Sepultura is obviously a huge focus, Korzus, Vulcano and Overdose are some of the more extreme bands talked about in depth). Here is the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YeH1xtXn-c

And the website:
http://www.brasilheavymetal.com.br/

[Human Larvae]

Djent is shit, pretty much coined by Meshugga (other bands are Monument, Uneven Structure and other shit bands). Weird time signatures, progressive but heavier than usual prog. "Named after a guitar tone made when a two octave power chord is being palm muted".


Actually, it was coined by Meshuggah fanboys who masturbate thinking about the thickness of Fredrik Thordendahl's strings. Then people started applying it the past year or two to every band who rip off Meshuggah's trademark sound. Heard a bunch of bands that try to combine what is good with Meshuggah (the cold, mechanical structures) but making it more "musical" (=ripping of CYNIC's lame melodies). They all sucked. And the ones who only go for the technical aspect miss out everything. That is, "djent" is as dumb as it sounds. When I first saw the term I thought it might be related to djembe - a first wave of African metal, with native instruments? THAT would be something. Not this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4h0rlWX5lM.

Meshuggah is still the shit though

[HONOR_IS_KING!]

Djent is shit, pretty much coined by Meshugga (other bands are Monument, Uneven Structure and other shit bands). Weird time signatures, progressive but heavier than usual prog. "Named after a guitar tone made when a two octave power chord is being palm muted".


Actually, it was coined by Meshuggah fanboys who masturbate thinking about the thickness of Fredrik Thordendahl's strings. Then people started applying it the past year or two to every band who rip off Meshuggah's trademark sound. Heard a bunch of bands that try to combine what is good with Meshuggah (the cold, mechanical structures) but making it more "musical" (=ripping of CYNIC's lame melodies). They all sucked. And the ones who only go for the technical aspect miss out everything. That is, "djent" is as dumb as it sounds. When I first saw the term I thought it might be related to djembe - a first wave of African metal, with native instruments? THAT would be something. Not this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4h0rlWX5lM.

Meshuggah is still the shit though

The ending of "Elastic" is monstrous.

[Vehemency]

Meshuggah was the shits indeed when I started discovering more extreme metal, Chaosphere (1998) in particular. Too bad the fanbase has turned into nothing but calculating pseudo-wise philosophers (who also form their trendy djent bands).

Speaking of "Elastic", perhaps this song was a latent trigger in rising my interest in noise, eh? 6:00 and onwards: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uwaw5Mmh-E

[narcolepsia]

some traditional brazilian metal favourites :

VÍRUS :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTkr9DqJdb0&feature=related

SALÁRIO MÍNIMO :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fiVJB0vQmo&feature=related

KAMIKAZE :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnA_hB2o9Lg&feature=related

and here is a very nice documentary for those into the minas gerais scene, some great footage, but unfortunately I don´t think there are any subtitles for this :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXlle0C9lAQ

[Human Larvae]

Meshuggah was the shits indeed when I started discovering more extreme metal, Chaosphere (1998) in particular. Too bad the fanbase has turned into nothing but calculating pseudo-wise philosophers (who also form their trendy djent bands).

every genre has it's turn getting pulled into the dirt by it's fanbase at some point. At least Meshuggah haven't gone to shit with them

[ConcreteMascara]

Agreed

[RyanWreck]

Yea, I mean they aren't all that bad of a band (they know how to play their shit, no one can argue that) but I wouldn't buy their shit. I've always seen being "weird", or technical or "difficult" just for the sake of it, lame. Most of their material is complete "wankery", the epitome of overdramatiscized "talent". The rhythm loves his groovy riffs and triplets, the drummer utilizes poly-rhythms with little bass-drum work (POLKA!) Aimless mathcore stumbling with groove. No thank you.