The HEAVY METAL thread!

[lpguitar]

Mastodon is awesome! Pure genius. Proof that metal doesn't have to be extremely fast to kick some ass. :mrgreen: I've been getting a lot into High on Fire, Candlemass and Orange Goblin these days.

Thread reviver! I agree man, started listening to Mastodon like a few days ago?

 

[EugeneSmasher]

Been listening to them on and off for quite a while, actually, just never got down to buying their CDs (I haven't bought any CDs recently. Whoops!). I don't usually buy CDs but I might decide to get a Mastodon album, quite sure I won't be disappointed.

 

[lpguitar]

hmm...review states that their new album "crack the skye" is good.

music hunting time!

 

[fluffyasskid]

Nile isn't progressive. They're technical / brutal death metal.

Haha. I always get confused. How to differentiate tech death and prog death.

 

[EugeneSmasher]

I think prog death has a lot more different influences, like jazz, blues even, so they sound very apart from other death metal bands. Also consider the many tempo-changes, clean passages, etc. Technical death is very similar (if not the same) as brutal death, in that it is much faster and there is a lot of alternative picking, sweep-picking and arpeggios, as compared to 'conventional' death which is slower and uses powerchords and inverted powerchords with some alt-picking and arpeggios.

I'm not quite sure myself, my definition is based on what I hear when comparing Nile, Krisiun and Necrophagist and comparing with early Dying Fetus, Obituary and Malevolent Creation.

 

[empihsrow]

I like Mastodon's Blood Mountain. Nice music.

To me. technical death and brutal death sounds alike to me. :O But technical death has a lot of weird time-signatures, syncopation, polyrhythm, etc. Thus, technical. Lol.

But sound-wise, sounds like brutal.

 

[optisailor2002]

Been listening to them on and off for quite a while, actually, just never got down to buying their CDs (I haven't bought any CDs recently. Whoops!). I don't usually buy CDs but I might decide to get a Mastodon album, quite sure I won't be disappointed.

the limited edition album which includes the DVD is going for 22 bucks at HMV, pretty good deal i say.

 

[infekcion]

Sepultura, Soulfly, Lamb Of God, Meshuggah ftw!