Metal Thread III: Lone Wolf and Metal

[Xray the Enforcer]

I will beat you to death with a bag of milk if you don't take that back right away.

Just bludgeon him with a 2-litre of cheap spruce beer.

Another Canadian band that I can't believe I forgot: 3 Inches of Blood. Snarfy, you seem to like some power metal, so you might want to check these guys out if you haven't yet. Best album to start out with (IMHO) is Advance and Vanquish.

A band I didn't know came from Canada: Unexpect.

Also -- good lineup, Moose. It reminds me that I have to check out Woods of Ypres. I think I even have one of their albums and haven't listened to it yet.

[Snarfy]

I will beat you to death with a bag of milk if you don't take that back right away.

Ill take it back if you can sit through a marathon of every movie of Ann of Green Gables back to back. :P

But yeah i know of 3 inches of blood but for some reason i just can't get myself to like them. Don't know what it is, just can't listen to more than 1 or 2 songs without changing it.

[MercenaryChef]

i love canada i love canadians. hell, i have one! she kicks ass!

one canadian metal band we have missed who i like a great deal is thrash band annihilator.

3 inches of blood is pretty good. i like them a lot. one of the best shows i have seen in recent memory.

[saint777]

The new High On Fire: Snakes of the Divine is coming out this week. The cover is pure metal. For now I need to make due with the myspace page til I get the disc.

Canadian Metal: Strapping Young Lad and Slaughter(the Canadian one not the American one):)

[MinDonner]

one canadian metal band we have missed who i like a great deal is thrash band annihilator.

Oh come on now! I have a lot of affection for Annihilator, but I know full well this is the result of rose-tinted nostalgia specs; they are really little more than a poor man's Anthrax...

[Tsavong Lah]

As for Canadian metal, a lot of my favorites have already been listed. But, sometimes if I'm in the mood for some technical death metal I'll throw on, among other things, a little Gorguts.

I just got High on Fire's new album. Will be listening to it at work today. I actually went on a bit of a binge. I got a couple albums by Orphaned Land as well as:

Ares Kingdom - Incendiary

Dark Fortress - Ylem

Demonic Resurrection - The Return to Darkness

Divinity - The Singularity (A Canadian band, btw, will come back with what I think of it at some point)

Finntroll - Nifelvind

Hellish Crossfire - Bloodrust Scythe

Rage - Strings to a Web

Savage Circus - Of Doom and Death

Sigh - Scenes from Hell

[Morrigan]

Quo Vadis's first two albums, alongside Obliveon's Nemesis, are probably among the best Canadian metal out there. For more recent bands, one of the better newer Canadian bands out there is Talamyus. So far they have two solid albums.

Let's not underestimate Canadian heavy/thrash. Razor, Anvil, Exciter, Abüsor, while none of them are highly original they are certainly competent and very enjoyable live acts.

HAHA well i don't really think too highly of bands from Canada to begin with sadly Blackguard being the only band i like.

That's okay. I won' hold your shitty tastes against you. ;)

And how can you be a CoB clone when CoB weren't original to start with?

When the CoB debut came out it didn't really sound like anything else out there, actually (not saying they are all THAT original either), but if we accept your premise that CoB isn't original, that just goes to prove Blackguard is even crappier. :D

[MercenaryChef]

Oh come on now! I have a lot of affection for Annihilator, but I know full well this is the result of rose-tinted nostalgia specs; they are really little more than a poor man's Anthrax...

poor man's canadian anthrax or not, jeff waters and company penned a song paying homage to everyone's favorite : KRAFT FUCKING DINNER!

his guitar work was always clean and thrash-oriented. the lyrics bordered on political often dealing with social woes like the environment, drugs, drunk driving, getting old. i for one will take annihilator over anthrax most any day.

[lessthanluke]

Thanks to this thread I've been listening to As I Lay Dying again the past few day. Good times! :lol:

[Xray the Enforcer]

I've been meaning to check out Quo Vadis for a long while. Now I have extra impetus.

Also, thank you for mentioning Exciter. I couldn't remember their name for the life of me last night and it was pissing me off. :lol:

I listened to Shining -- Black Jazz on the way to work this morning. That's some offbeat shit -- like if you threw Sleepy Time Gorilla Museum, Soul Coughing, Behold! The Arctopus and Front 242 into a jet engine and then pieced the band back together using the shredded bits, superglue and some of Devin Townsend's hair. I'm not sure how I feel about it just yet. I am digging the track "Exit Sun," and I can see it getting incorporated into a favorite playlist. But I suspect that this will be one of those albums you put on at the end of the party when you want people to get the hell out of your apartment. In any case, if you're of an adventurous bent, you might want to give it a youtube whirl. Those looking for more straightforward metal should probably steer clear.

[Yagathai]

poor man's canadian anthrax or not, jeff waters and company penned a song paying homage to everyone's favorite : KRAFT FUCKING DINNER!

his guitar work was always clean and thrash-oriented. the lyrics bordered on political often dealing with social woes like the environment, drugs, drunk driving, getting old. i for one will take annihilator over anthrax most any day.

Oh man, that was a toboggan ride down memory lane.

[Yagathai]

Please understand that I am a sucker for power metal covers of anything. I own the ABBA cover album that Nuclear Blast put out a few years ago. That is why I love this beyond all logic or taste:

[MinDonner]

Please understand that I am a sucker for power metal covers of anything. I own the ABBA cover album that Nuclear Blast put out a few years ago. That is why I love this beyond all logic or taste:

:lol:

From the related links on Youtube, though, I thought

was better... and in both cases, the vocals were a teeny bit too wimpy for a proper good metal cover... but, I nitpick. :D

[Xray the Enforcer]

You people are gonna pay.

[Xray the Enforcer]

I terrorized my colleagues with those videos yesterday. The retribution will be awful.

[devotee]

A friend of a friend, who I spoke to once, (hah) just joined a dutch little metal band called Incarnate. I checked out the songs they have available online, and I guess the sound isn't that advanced. They havn't quite broken out of the small venues yet, but their heavy thrash, or something, is fairly well done.

Also got the new Borknagar after reading favorable reviews. Gave it a spin, seems solid.

Downloaded Anaal Natrakhs catalouge too, but I don't really know where to start. From youtube, I have listened to stuff from In the Constellation of the Black Widow. Are most albums in this vein?

Lastly, X, thanks for the last.fm add, and while I havn't checked out Amorphis yet, I certainly will.

[Yagathai]

I terrorized my colleagues with those videos yesterday. The retribution will be awful.

Why haven't they built a wall around your cubicle yet? One with no doors or windows.

[Weak With The Dawn]

Why haven't they built a wall around your cubicle yet? One with no doors or windows.

Whose to say they haven't?

But can mere walls contain all that metal?

[Black Wizard]

http://ironmaiden.com/

Iron Maiden have announced they are releasing their new album 'The Final Frontier' (that title sounds too ominous for my liking in late summer. They will be touring the US this year with Dream Theater, a combination I saw at Download 2007 albeit on different stages. Next year they will play in Europe and the rest of the world after doing only festival dates this year, such as Sonisphere UK which I had a discussion about hypothetically going to.

[Xray the Enforcer]

Why haven't they built a wall around your cubicle yet? One with no doors or windows.

They're still stunned. But when they do, I'll be sure to start a thread about it.

Interesting about Iron Maiden. This would be their 15th studio album, yes?

And I see a MSG date on that list. Hmmm. I am willing to bet money that this is the Monday just after the weekend I am supposed to be in Rhode Island. Damn.