Morrowind-inspired death metal made by a friend
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going back through this thread before i joined the forum and i saw @golok already posted many of these bands. just payin my respects 
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Did anybody here catch Boris while theyāre touring the US? I got to see them a couple weeks ago and it was really cool. They had a second drum set for the vocalist to play in between his growling which is a kind of ātime to lean, time to cleanā attitude I can get behind. There was this really profound moment where the whole band went silent except for the vocalist playing these hand cymbals. Somehow the crowd stayed silent for this part, too, while he just rang these cymbals and waved them around for like a full minute before the band came roaring back in. They were selling signed guitar pedals at their merch table, a really unique idea. My buddy bought it and itās a fixture on his pedal board now. Iāll admit, I only checked them out a bit before the show, but Iām glad I went.
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@neezybasa saw them. but yeah, super awesome live band. really diverse catalog too.
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I hope I get to see them again some day because this was their celebration of Amplifier Worship so they played mostly stuff from that. I was really digging the more energetic punkish stuff on some of their other records so that would be cool to see.
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was a highlight! kuruimizu is one of the best things about that album. seeing it live, you saw in an instant how theyāve sonically mutated over 25 years, i bet that new live record is really good (like @MoH said, very cool that the same band that made the heavy rockses & megatone made their mid-oughts stuff like mabuta no ura and the quieter parts of rainbow)
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Did I ever share this goofy song? I donāt usually like this type of ātoo many notesā mathy technical death metal but for whatever reason this one works for me.
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this song seems fine but this genre of music is like the ulimate example of when your coworker finds out you like the heavy stuff and they show you this
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All-timer level cover right here, I rediscover this every couple years and I just love that this exists.
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november:
nachlich - raw, atmospheric, and catchy bm from canada. three things that are hart to hit at once.
warmoon lord - has that melodic, melancholy finnish sound akin to satanic warmaster but a bit more operatic and sweeping.
sort vokter - the recording quality here always makes me check to make sure my speakers are working. something special going on.
imprecation - heavy
beherit - a legendary record that always puts me in a bit of a trance. very occult.
suhnopfer - this is like if curtanād wall was a real band (tho i do love curtanād wall)
disembowelment - in some ways this is standard (and good) dm, but in other ways it does stuff iāve heard no other band do.
emperor - i love emperor but for some reason whenever i feel like listening to them now i reach for the demos
necromantia - the best guitar tone iāve heard in a long time. this has been one of my favorite surprise discoveries in recent memory.
watchtower - prog metal is only good in small doses imo, but this is a lot more fun than something like control denied
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New Veilburner album out today. Need to get on that.
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Re: that Necromantia album. The guitar tone sounds so wild because itās a bass guitar!
Iām new here and stoked thereās a fairly active heavy music thread. If I had to recommend something in the heavy music universe, it would be Radical Research Podcast. It focuses on weirder bands, and has quite the backlog. Both hosts have impressive credentials, one being the current drummer of the band Agalloch.
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ahhh that makes sense, but slightly disappointing lol.
iāll check the podcast out, seems awesome!
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Deleted previous comment because I forgot to reply to you. Havenāt used a forum in a decade sorry.
Didnāt know it was an 8 string, neat. It says rhythm guitar so I suppose they still had a lead. Cool band though - the 90s Greek black metal scene was pretty killer and also not overwhelmingly full of bigots to my knowledge
lol no sweat weāre pretty lax on netiquette here.
to your point, yeah rotting christ seem pretty legit. tbh they always sounded a bit too languid for me and varathron never excited me, either. necromantia is the only other band from that scene i can say iāve listened to and they really got their hooks in me. listened to both those early albums again today.
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I realised I hadnāt listened to the Ulcerate record that came out earlier in the year. Fixing that now, but itās not grabbing me like the last one.
Might be a slow-burner.
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New Opeth album dropped yeserday. Itās a concept album about a family torn apart after the patriarch passes as they scrambled to claim what they can. It has growls for the first time since likeā¦ Watershed in 2008?
I love this band. They went from death metal to progressive death metal. To progressive death metal with classic guitar tossed in to just progressive rock, to whatever this new record is
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One more top up on that, this is how I introduce people to Opeth. The song that introduced me to the band back in 2010:
I think this is just one my favourite songs period.
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opeth is awesome. Havenāt listened to much of anything after ghost reveries but always thought what they were doing was cool, similar to how I feel about Ulver.
My friends are reviving an old project of theirs so Iāve been listening to it. The old tape is only on reverbnation which is pretty funny:
https://www.reverbnation.com/jccmp666/song/12101498-phantasmic
Itās very good tho. Somewhere between carpathian forest and the punky darkthrone records.
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