Most Embarassing Music

Swan · 04-16-2008, 02:38 PM

I really don't listen to enough Blind Guardian or Sonata Artica, though the stuff I have heard blew my mind.

I dig Hammerfall as well because there videos are just so over the top and fantastical. Blood bound they are on top of a giant friggin' war hammer in the middle of a frozen waste land. You just can't beat that.

And Dragonforce is just plain old fun. Fast, powerful and .....welll fast. They put on quite a good live show as well even though they are all drunk off their asses

jeepnut · 04-17-2008, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Swan

I really don't listen to enough Blind Guardian or Sonata Artica, though the stuff I have heard blew my mind.

I dig Hammerfall as well because there videos are just so over the top and fantastical. Blood bound they are on top of a giant friggin' war hammer in the middle of a frozen waste land. You just can't beat that.

And Dragonforce is just plain old fun. Fast, powerful and .....welll fast. They put on quite a good live show as well even though they are all drunk off their asses

Yeah, I saw them open up for Killswitch Engage. They come out for the first song and Sam, one of the guitar players, totally flubs the opening riff and Herman, the other guitar player, is just making this face like "God, that's awful." They definitely don't take themselves too seriously which makes them a lot of fun despite the fact that they are really sloppy live.

Do you guys listen to any other metal or just power metal?

P.S. I think A Night at the Opera is going to be my next Blind Guardian purchase. I currently have Nightfall and A Twist in the Myth. I like Nightfall the best of the two.

Dyne · 04-17-2008, 02:29 PM

I listen to Amon Amarth and have been to a concert - I don't consider it embarassing, though.

My brother's a metalhead though and he could probably rattle you off every band ever. I basically leave the metal to him.

Swan · 04-17-2008, 05:03 PM

Yeah I went to the Amon Amarth concert late last year. Quite kick ass.

I would have to say my favorite metal band would be Mastodon. Korpiklaani (I probably spelled that wrong) is pretty bad ass as well.

I don't listen to much new mainstream metal though.

jeepnut · 04-17-2008, 06:48 PM

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Yeah I went to the Amon Amarth concert late last year. Quite kick ass.

I would have to say my favorite metal band would be Mastodon. Korpiklaani (I probably spelled that wrong) is pretty bad ass as well.

I don't listen to much new mainstream metal though.

Yeah, I like me some Amon Amarth. The only CD of theirs I have is "With Oden on Our Side." Do you recommend any of the others?

And if you guys like technical stuff, I highly recommend Becoming the Archetype and Aletheian.

I have yet to get into Mastodon. I think I listened to one or two of their songs a long time ago and they just didn't catch with me. Maybe I should give them a second shot.

As far as mainstream metal goes, not really into it either. Killswitch Engage is about as mainstream as I get.

Dyne · 04-17-2008, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Swan

Yeah I went to the Amon Amarth concert late last year. Quite kick ass.

I would have to say my favorite metal band would be Mastodon. Korpiklaani (I probably spelled that wrong) is pretty bad ass as well.

I don't listen to much new mainstream metal though.

Yeah, that's the one I went to. Nice!

Jeepnut: All the albums are good, except for their first demo, "Thor Arise", that they released in 1993. I could do without that one.

Swan · 04-17-2008, 11:36 PM

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Yeah, that's the one I went to. Nice!

Jeepnut: All the albums are good, except for their first demo, "Thor Arise", that they released in 1993. I could do without that one.

Yeah I thought that I saw you, I wasn't fully sure but I thought right I guess. Great show. Rocked my face off

And as for Mastodon I suggest checking out this song. Easily one of my favorite songs of all time.

I still can't decide which album I like more though, Leviathan or Blood Mountain. They are both so damn good

KillerGremlin · 04-17-2008, 05:45 PM

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Do you guys listen to any other metal or just power metal?

I'm not up to date on my metal these days, but I listen to all sorts of metal. I have a lot of rap and hip-hop on my ipod at the moment, but Metallica is always in my rotation. I keep a couple of stoner metal bands on my ipod, usually Clutch or Bongzilla, and I always keep some technical stuff on there like Dillinger Escape Plan or Mastodon or Meshuggah. I enjoy post-rock and drone metal, so I'm a frequent listener of Isis and Pelican, recently I've been listening to a lot of Earth and Boris, both pretty sweet bands. And I keep some alternative metal on there, As I Lay Dying is great workout music. So yeah, gotta stay well-rounded with the metal.