OOT modern extreme metal thread
We've had a metal thread that was mostly hardcore, and then there was a thread about some concert tour featuring some washed up old dudes who play ****ty music now.
This thread is for discussion of modern death/black/grind etc. metal. Or, in other words, if your idea of good metal is the new metallica album then gtfo.
I'll start with possibly my 2 favorite songs of all time, from the latest Nile album, Those Whom The Gods Detest. This is the sickest **** ever, especially the drumming. Before this album I'd never really been into Nile even though it was obvious the drummer was a freak.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc-A5zSdY...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XW51VorK...
My tastes cover a wide range of sub-genres, although I hate getting into retarded arguments over which genre(s) a certain band belongs to, which is a disturbing trend on forums and youtube comments.
I like some grindy/wanky ****, like Psyopus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJn2wMWcu...
^That's a great one to piss off hippies with.
In terms of black metal, I'm not a snob. I don't insist on only listening to black metal from Norwegian bands from 1992 or whatever. I like some more melodic catchier black metal. Chthonic is probly my favorite, they're from Taiwan. Even though they list COF as among their strongest influences, I really can't stand COF. The vocals make me want to hurt kittens.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66YNWi_nD...
A mainstay in my listening rotation is Black Dahlia Murder. The odd thing about them is that I absolutely love 3 of their albums, but Miasma was just flat and I can't get into it at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLlSiFYGE...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rZG2aMAK...
Best album of 2010 so far imo is Fear Factory, Mechanize:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jq7WnF-g...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpyrLTn1E...
I'm interested to hear what songs/bands really got people into metal. For me, it was Meshuggah. When I heard this for the first time on a local college radio station: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A_tSyJBs... it was a total mind****. It was unlike anything I'd ever heard before. All the mainstream bull**** would never interest me again.
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First full length from Scour drops today
Probably an odd thread to dig up, but since even this last page, there has been some great extreme **** released. And luckily for me, from quite a few of my favorites.
Converge has released 2 albums in year alone. Love Is Not Enough is definitely the better of the 2, but they always bring it.
Nails had one in 2024 that was perhaps a little more accessible than their others, but still vicious as ever. That guitar tone is something else...
I think the band that has grabbed the most this year has been Cattle Decapitation. I never really bothered until around the time that Monolith came out and although that was great, I completely forgot about them. Then, while on a lengthy YouTube scroll, I stumbled upon the documentary that Metal Blade release for Terrasite and decided to check that album out. That was in April and I think I've listened to them every day since. Not necessarily the full albums but at least a handful of tracks. They've become my daily errand running soundtrack.
