The Metal Thread Genre • Page 182

general recs I'm hitting everything I can

 

As elitist as r/metal can be from time to time, I've found this list to be helpful in the past:

Essential Heavy Metal Albums: As Selected by YOU! • r/Metal

 

the metal subreddits are actually pretty dope

 

compared to a lot of music subreddits

 

I was gonna say Celtic Frost and it's on that list. Not really classic though.

 

Hooded Menace cover Celtic Frost on their new record.

 

Morbid Tales and To Mega Therion are classics though IMO. The influenced those two records had on all subgenres of extreme metal is pretty much undeniable.

 

Gotta second this. When I started seriously getting into metal, I devoured this list and branched out from there

 

actually looking at that list is a good start but man there are so many things that could be added. I can dig up my old list of 100 metal albums I did for a listening experiment if anyone is interested. But out of that list, my personal top 5 I'd listen to first are:

Bolt Thrower - Realms of Chaos (they're not even on the list, tragic)/death
Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane/melodic black
Manila Road - Crystal Logic/epic heavy
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness/death
Sodom - Agent Orange (instead of Persecution Mania)/thrash

 

This doesn't matter. No one cares.

ya I was just gonna say...I've found a lot of great hits there, just gotta sift through the garbage posts.

 

Godflesh - Streetcleaner

 

I blame the faceless for the saxophone solo, this better not be a trend in tech death

why hasn't this been posted yet (or did I miss it)? I'm hearing bits of anti-flag in there and I love it.

I got knocked out by a dude in a calbian shirt at a show once, he was really sorry about it afterwards

 

I have to admit, there were a number of albums on the posted list that are considered essential that I did NOT enjoy after an initial listen. Everything from Exodus, Dissection, Darkthrone, and this album included. This one in particular I hated at first but I gave it additional listens because it was intriguing and far outside my comfortable listening zone

 

Adding on to releases for this year:

New Ihsahn in May. I'm one of those guys that instantly love/hate an album...I hated arktis but man did it grow on me. That means something.

The Ocean with new shit in late 2018 early 2019

New Psycroptic? But they're touring heavily this summer so we'll see

 

Yeah it’s certainly not “enjoyable” but I enjoy how terrifying it sounds. I prefer Jesu but I like both

 

This is a really an all-encompassing list. So glad it includes terrorizer. I love their whole discog.

 

Streetcleaner is good but Pure is the best Godflesh record imo. That being said, I've always enjoyed Jesu a lot more than Godflesh. Justin K Broadrick is a goddamn genius either way ha.

 

Justin has never put out a bad record imo

 

i was curious and checked out the first few pantera albums wow theyre so bad lol. cowboys from hell through the great southern trendkill is a great run of albums though

 

lol yeah I don't blame Pantera at all for wanting to keep that era buried.

 

Back when they were straight up glam metal haha

 

Yeah those glam records are not great.

I think reinventing the steel is really underrated. It not their best by any means but it is a very solid release.

What’s everyone’s fav Pantera album? Mines Trendkill, I love all the southern influences that really shone through on that album and it’s ridiculously heavy in some places.

 

Gotta be Far Beyond Driven for me. Trendkill is close. “Floods” is a masterpiece. Those two album go to some pretty eerie and unsettling places both musically and lyrically w/r/t Phil’s addiction.

Plus, the breakdown in “Strength Beyond Strength” is hard as hell

 

here's the street sects song, it's wild

 

this thread is really a treasure, thanks to everyone!