The Metal Thread Genre • Page 5

well i shaved last week

 

I was thinking it'd be fun to rank some of the prog/tech/djent metal bands that're tearing it up right now.

Animals as Leaders
Scale the Summit
Polyphia
Intervals
Plini
ERRA
Cloudkicker

Sure there's a bunch in there I'm leaving out.

 

All empires fall is fucking dope

 

speaking of ERRA

 

Speaking of Plini and Intervals, both bassist and guitarist in Plini, played in Intervals when their set started. Weird

 

Intervals and Scale the Summit are consistently great. I feel like Erra has been getting worse. Same with Northlane. Not a fan of the new vocalists in either of them :/

 

Really looking forward to this one. Awesome that Necrolord is doing the artwork again.

 

Bought the new Amon Amarth because it was $8.99 at Best Buy. Solid stuff. More memorable than their last couple of albums and I can see myself revisiting it a lot more. Don't like it as much as With Oden On Our Side, but that's hard to top.

 

Yeah, I like the new Amon Amarth. Every album is pretty much the same but they're fun and consistent so I'm cool with them never really experimenting ha.

 

I dug the new Amon Amarth myself as well. First Kill among others is a fun as hell track.

Also enjoyed the new Black Tusk, which surprised me since the last time I tried to get into Black Tusk they legitimately gave me a headache for some reason, lol.

I'm also rather bummed that the entire website of AP.net has been Death Star'd - just, erased from accessibility (at least as far as I know). I used to dig around in the backlog of ancient threads for recs. This one especially. Ah well, life goes on.

 

Pumped that everyone is liking this new Amon Amarth album. Having never listened to them before, I'm excited to give it a spin.

 

I know! I especially feel bad for theagentcoma's 100 metal albums thread. I was planning on reading through all of his reviews eventually because there's so much gold in there (like how some albums may need 3-4 listens before you see how good it is). Hoping he has his blurbs saved elsewhere.

 

Really looking forward to the new Death Angel album out next month. The one track they've released is good shit, and their last album ripped.

 

I wish :/

I can recall bits and pieces of each review, but they're lost forever.

 

russian bands are killing it these days

 

that was one of the best releases of last year

 

too excited for new Nails I think about it often

 

+1

 

I can tell we are all going to get along really well in this thread. Loving all the similar tastes!

 

same for real

 

the tombs album is pretty cool. not exactly the direction i saw them heading in. i think savage gold is a near perfect record and the new one isn't what i'd call the best follow up for it. it's still a good record and im going to sit with it more and hope it grows on me. and i think it will.

edit: well i didnt even realize its just an EP so its not really a follow up. interesting. wonder when a full length is c oming? will it be in this vein?

 

def video games thread lol

 

Oh, man, I LOVE the new Erra songs. Luminesce and Drift in particular are up there with my favorite stuff they've ever done. I feel like the whole album is going to be a little less metal and a little more post-hardcore, which I get will turn off some, but I think it's a great direction for these guys.