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i'm just listening to this old favorite of mine, a kind of symphonic death metal album from 2001. it's by one austrian dude, mainly. i marvel over this. it's so epic, it's silly. it's the kind of music that doesn't take itself seriously by taking itself way too seriously. obviously, the lyrics are in this weird dictionary patchwork style that's all about making a chain of impressive sounding words, but i kinda like it here. and it has this anthemic quality all over it. really good melodies, and then some parts which are even sort of punk. like, really hard thrash metal parts that don't get overly technical but just kick ass. and it occurred to me that i don't really dig this genre in general, but there obviously must be more notable exceptions. i'm not talking strictly death metal, but more about the bulk of stuff i don't really know. i haven't followed metal closely in about 10 years, and i mostly listened to thrash metal back then. i think another thing is, i'm sort of picky about the timbre of singers. in this case, it just works for me for some reason. the growls sound more like some senile sage spouting nonsense. idk, it has a unique character to it when i compare it to the more standard growling in death metal and such. like, i wouldn't really like slayer if i didn't like araya's voice so much. i would like megadeth more if mustaine's voice wasn't so hit or miss to me. metallica is more about hetfield's voice than hammet's solos to me. and i love solos, don't get me wrong. i'm just noticing how important a good voice is to me. and that mostly means, a voice that sticks out. i can't really pinpoint a "genre" of singing i definitely prefer, but to be vague about it, i like "ballsy" voices more than "hair metal" voices. not that there aren't any ballsy hair metal voices. ew. little addition: the other growling band i listened to was opeth, but i mostly liked them for the non-growling parts

Are you interested in more FE7 tracks? That game has a stellar soundtrack. If the answer is yes, don't sign me in yet though, but count me as super interested haha.

1) I wanted both to be displayed at the same time 2) The link doesn't work. "You do not have permission to change your display name."

Why were the messages we deleted from way back get saved? Over the last several years? How/why were those messages saved instead of deleted? Also how come we're getting messages now from the past that never went through? I really don't understand that -- they didn't reach their destination until now, what kept them from going through? But despite that they were saved

needs songs from the Mother series

I actually signed up for an account here just to say.. I think this remix is amazing.

Congrats, Rob. 'Bout time.

My kinda thread. Anyway, here is the title track from my favorite melodic death metal album in recent years.

Playlist, 'Animals As Leaders "The Joy of Motion"': https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH22-xSMERQpG4M9HshhXUJ9OKMNlwU8T This is very good. Imagine the harmonic tendencies of jazz fusion with the instrumentation and aggresiveness of metal, with the complex rhythmic behavior shared by each.

Equilibrium's Uns'rer Floten Klang

Strapping Young Lad "AAA" from the album "City" (It's not Heavy Metal, it's Devy Metal) Powerwolf "Cardinal Sin" from the album "Preachers Of The Night" (Power Metal) Orden Ogan "F.E.V.E.R." from the album "Ravenhead" (Power Metal)

no, i just heard the name b4! this was before youtube, so the most obscure things i heard were anthrax and children of bodom, maybe. not very obscure at all, in other words i'm quite surprised you know hollenthon at all, actually. i thoroughly recommend a full listen of this album, i think it's a brilliant one. no other hollenthon tunes i found on yt later grabbed me the same way. anyway, i'll check out artillery. right now i'm giving in flames a try, who i was indifferent about back then. they're decent. seems like they're one of the better things that came with this whole emo wave. i mean, this whole combination of heavy and soft thing that hit hard with SOAD and folks. in flames seem influenced by that a bit.

Yo! Huge metalhead here, so it's cool to see this as the first post right after I made an account Hollenthon is some pretty cool stuff. I haven't listened to them very much, but I dig how they mix the symphonic elements with actually good riffage. Too many bands fail to do that. It sort of reminds me of some of Therion's stuff. The vocals sometimes remind me of Dark Tranquility too. Anyway, if you're looking for some metal recommendations for bands you might not have checked out, you should try listening to the thrash band Artillery! It isn't similar in any way to what you posted, but people have generally been pretty favorable when I recommended them in the past. You said you used to listen to thrash though, so maybe you've already heard them. The vocals are vaguely operatic with some grit to them, and the riffs are just technical enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5nl4P4CUkI

If IPB has some method of having partially concealed text (like "spoiler" tags that don't load their content immediately), could that be a default for YouTube embeds? If a link is posted that has a valid embed (youtube, soundcloud, etc.), a "spoilers" collapsible item could appear around the embed, letting forum users decide on whether or not to actually load the embed, thus speeding up initial page load times, as the extra resources are loaded manually. Kind of like this. text test text holy shit it works. Media tag doesn't seem to support Soundcloud yet, or else I can't figure it out. real question is, do the resources within the [ spoiler] tag load with the page, or after the tag is opened? Damn. Really, really got used to that ass-backwards layout over the past few years. Gotta conform to the standards now!