Your Favorite Metal Releases.

[RyanWreck]

thrash metal:
-Kreator - basically all albums till Extreme Aggression.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYL8QJgiIdk

I like the first 3 release, just up until Pleasure to Kill.

-Sadus, basically all. Fast technical.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTTAkxnFDwQ

Illusions (Chemical Exposure) is such a good album. Didn't really like much after they signed to Roadrunner.

Death Metal:

No Bolt Thrower or Possessed?

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Both Thrower is good from start to... well, hard to say where exactly, but at some point it felt it is good, but repeating very much the same pattern. Possessed, two first vinyls of course.

As said, every category could have dozens of good names more... except pagan/viking?? hah..   In old death metal, it's nearly endless source. Asphyx?  Formerly unreleased first album still blew my mind when it came just handful of year ago, but worshipped since early 90's. Pestilence? Early Convulse? Dismember? Necrosanct? Pungent Stench? Couple early Edge Of sanity? Amorphis first 7"? Rippikoulu demos. Especially the first. But 2nd that came out on LP/CD last year is good too. Messiah early stuff is brutal thrash, "Choir of horrors" good clean death metal... As said, list could go on worth of forum of it own...

[ARKHE]

When we're on the subject... anyone here who performs or has performed in a metal band of any kind? Besides the obvious mr Aspa of course.

[moozz]

Asphyx?  Formerly unreleased first album still blew my mind when it came just handful of year ago, but worshipped since early 90's.

Thanks for the tip! Never heard of this one before. The Rack was a great album but already the second one a disappointment so I didn't really pay attention to releases that came out after that. Gotta check out Embrace The Death now.

[drunk]

aer you insane??
Last one on earth is some of the heavist shit ever!!_¨

[RyanWreck]

What does everyone think of Power Metal? In general I don't like it. However, the USPM scene that was happening in the early 80's-mid 90's was great. USPM has a different sound than most Power Metal, generally these bands tended to have strong undertones of speed and thrash in their music, sometimes even "proto-Death", without being Thrash/Speed/Death Metal. The lyrical content tended to stray from the Dungeons & Dragons stuff to Satan and beer. Early Laaz Rockit, Helstar, Satan's Host, Liege Lord and Attacker are some of the more popular examples. Of course Europe has this style too, you can't really talk about Thrashy PM without thinking of early Helloween. And in Japan the band Crowley is a great example.

Been listening to quite a few good USPM bands from the 80's.







And my favorite...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2b9foDD9XQ

[narcolepsia]

great call on stormtrooper, that record is incredible.

[bitewerksMTB]

I remember alot of the power metal from the '80s but most of it I didn't like due to the vocals. Now, I kind of like it but none of it I'd listen to very often. Not sure if they fall into the power metal genre but that LP on NWN from KAT is pretty awesome.

I remember having this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0TRvPJBQFA&feature=related

Didn't like it back then b/c of the vocals...

[RG]

I didn't like due to the vocals

Ditto. I'll have to investigate some of those groups that Ryan mentioned because they may be more to my liking, but for lack of a better term I've always thought Power Metal was really fucking gay. Haha. Clean operatic singing, over-the-top epicness that becomes cheesy, and of course guys with long permed hair wearing colorful silk tunics. Right or wrong, I also associate it with lame shit like hyper-speed finger tapping solos and being overly technical just for the sake of showing off

[ARKHE]

The only modern power metal band anyone would ever need.

[RG]

I bet those guys trade hair care tips while at band practice.

[Bleak Existence]

lol

[Andrew McIntosh]

The term Power Metal was definitely something different before now. I first read the term on the sleeve notes of Venom's "Possessed" album ("Power Metal/Neat Music Publishers"). I seem to recall a band called Liege Lord calling themselves Power Metal as well.

[ARKHE]

Yes, in the reissue of Black Metal you see a quote where it says to call Venom black metal or power metal - heavy metal was at that time for fags I guess, wankers like Def Leppard and Van Halen had probably usurped the term at that point. Don't know when thrash and speed metal labels entered the common metal parlour. Too bad evil metal (Death SS) and witching metal (Sodom) didn't catch on.

[RyanWreck]

I remember alot of the power metal from the '80s but most of it I didn't like due to the vocals. Now, I kind of like it but none of it I'd listen to very often. Not sure if they fall into the power metal genre but that LP on NWN from KAT is pretty awesome.

Kat is fucking great. I don't know what it would really be either. I guess just Traditional Heavy Metal for the most part, although a lot of people consider it to be part of the First Wave of Black Metal but I don't really agree with that (same with Mercyful Fate being labeled as such).

I remember having this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0TRvPJBQFA&feature=related

Didn't like it back then b/c of the vocals...

I hate those vocals too. Another band with horrid Power Metal styled vocals and great music was Blood Money (close names too):

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