Speaker Demo - Anyone here listen to Metal?

metal83

So who here listen's to metal, anyone?

I'm personally into all kinds, death metal, black metal, grind/thrash, etc. Anything from old Metallica and Pantera to Cannibal Corpse, Hypocrisy and beyond..:p I like a lot of the Scandanavion metal scene as well. I tend to stray from the mainstream though. I'm not much into the pop rock radio stuff that claims to be metal, with a few exceptions of course. And i do like classic rock, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, The Doors, just to name a few.

Anyways, for those of you who listen to Metal (please don't say lincoln park, Mudvayne, Inflames, or something of that nature lol), i'm curious as to what CD's you have with good quality recordings that you use to demo your speakers?

Fongolio

I'm into all kinds of music including some metal but I'm more into vinyl than cd. For Christmas I bought my son (13 year old) a vinyl copy of Slipknot's Iowa. I have very little metal on vinyl but do have Metallica's Ride the Lightning, And Justice For All, and Death Magnetic on vinyl. I also have a couple Black Sabath LP's. Any of these LP's on my system completely blows away the cd versions. I heard stuff on those Metallica LP's I never knew was on the cd version. Even though I don't have any on vinyl I am a fan of Disturbed and like some Mastedon. On the fringe of metal was Canada's Out of Your Mouth which I liked. They are now disbanded and the lead singer formed the band Neurosonic which I don't think is as good.

metal83

Fongolio wrote: »

I'm into all kinds of music including some metal but I'm more into vinyl than cd. For Christmas I bought my son (13 year old) a vinyl copy of Slipknot's Iowa. I have very little metal on vinyl but do have Metallica's Ride the Lightning, And Justice For All, and Death Magnetic on vinyl. I also have a couple Black Sabath LP's. Any of these LP's on my system completely blows away the cd versions. I heard stuff on those Metallica LP's I never knew was on the cd version. Even though I don't have any on vinyl I am a fan of Disturbed and like some Mastedon. On the fringe of metal was Canada's Out of Your Mouth which I liked. They are now disbanded and the lead singer formed the band Neurosonic which I don't think is as good.

That's cool, man i'd love to hear some Metallica on vinyl!
There's a couple songs from Mastedon that i've heard and thought were pretty good, can't name them off the top of my head though. As far as Disturbed, i don't mind their first album.

I've never heard Out of Your Mouth, i'll have to google them and see what comes up.

Toolfan66

Metal Church
Accept
Metallica
Anthrax
Slayer
Testament
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
ECT.ECT,ECT,ECT. i could go on.

I love old school Metal.
Did you know Pantera was a hair metal band at on time. TRUE VERY TRUE.LOL

WHITE ZOMBIE
NIN
TOOL LOL

metal83

TOOLFORLIFEFAN wrote: »

Metal Church
Accept
Metallica
Anthrax
Slayer
Testament
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
ECT.ECT,ECT,ECT. i could go on.

I love old school Metal.
Did you know Pantera was a hair metal band at on time. TRUE VERY TRUE.LOL

WHITE ZOMBIE
NIN
TOOL LOL

Nice list, some good old school stuff there. Yes Pantera was definetly a hair metal band at one time, they went through quite some changes during their career lol.

There are definetly far to many bands that i like to list, i've got at least a few hundred metal albums, it would take me a while to type them all lol.

strider

Fongolio wrote: »

I'm into all kinds of music including some metal but I'm more into vinyl than cd. For Christmas I bought my son (13 year old) a vinyl copy of Slipknot's Iowa. I have very little metal on vinyl but do have Metallica's Ride the Lightning, And Justice For All, and Death Magnetic on vinyl. I also have a couple Black Sabath LP's. Any of these LP's on my system completely blows away the cd versions. I heard stuff on those Metallica LP's I never knew was on the cd version. Even though I don't have any on vinyl I am a fan of Disturbed and like some Mastedon. On the fringe of metal was Canada's Out of Your Mouth which I liked. They are now disbanded and the lead singer formed the band Neurosonic which I don't think is as good.

Hey Kelvin,

The Metallica albums you listed, are they the new, remastered, releases?
If so, 45rpm or 33? What are your thoughts on them?

BTW, if you're looking for more Metallica on vinyl, the sale at Elusive Disc has a couple titles included in it.

Cheers,
Ben

Toolfan66

metal83 wrote: »

Nice list, some good old school stuff there. Yes Pantera was definetly a hair metal band at one time, they went through quite some changes during their career lol.

There are definetly far to many bands that i like to list, i've got at least a few hundred metal albums, it would take me a while to type them all lol.

Have you listened to From the Ashes? Well let me correct this they are called Another Black Day now. when they were getting signed they found out there name was taken so they had to change it. my CD has their old name on it.


http://www.anotherblackday.net/

TouchOfEvil

I listen to a fairly wide range of music but in the metal genre i do like some
Machine Head
Judas Priest
Metallica
White Zombie
Testament
Slipknot
Disturbed
Iron Madien
Metal Church
Accept
Korn
Pantera
Black Sabbath- not just stuff with ozzy
Entomed
Fight
Halford solo
Widowmaker
King Diamond.....the list could go for days.
I have very little vinyle but what i do have i enjoy. =]

Face

No Sepultura? And you guys call yourselves metal heads...

TouchOfEvil

Face wrote: »

No Sepultura? And you guys call yourselves metal heads...

I have two of their albums lol.:cool:

comfortablycurt

I'm into some metal. No where near as much as I used to be though. I used to listen to nothing but screaming raging death metal/black metal all the time...to say the least, my tastes have mellowed out a bit. I very rarely listen to metal anymore.

I still have a bunch of it though.

All of the Metallica CD's.
A bunch of Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir...some Mayhem. Six Feet Under, Decapitated, Slayer.

I probably haven't listened to any of those CD's in close to two years though now...except for Metallica from time to time.

And sorry to those who said they like them, but Disturbed=fail.

It seems like every single song they have ever written, was the same as the last song they wrote. A few weeks ago, I was in a car with one of my friends who is a Disturbed fan. He popped in what apparently was their newest CD, which I didn't know at the time. After a couple songs had played through...I said "wow, I haven't heard this CD in years". He looked at me and told me that it had just come out recently. Wow...it sounded exactly like every one of their other songs. Disturbed is very, very far from being good metal IMO.

metal83

Face wrote: »

No Sepultura? And you guys call yourselves metal heads...

Sepultura is awesome dude, but only Sepultura with Max Cavalera (Roots, Chaos AD, Arise, Beneath the Remains, Schizprhenia, Morbid Visions). After he left, that band took a big ****, i hate the new vocalist (well he's not new anymore but never the less he still sucks IMO).

His other band Soulfly, well they have had some pretty bad albums, but the self titled first one, and last two are pretty decent, Dark Ages and Conquer.

He also has a side project called Cavalera Conspiracy, it's basically a reunion album with him and his brother Igor Cavalera (drummer), it's pretty good.

metal83

comfortablycurt wrote: »

Disturbed is very, very far from being good metal IMO.

That's because they are not Metal, they are rock.
Actually, most of the things heard on the radio are not metal, but people think it is, so they think they are metal heads lol. Not that it matters, i mean to each his own, i just find it funny when somone says they are a metal head, and proceeds to only list radio music lol.

Here's a small list, but it's not even scratching the surface, there a thousands of good metal bands and would be impossible for me to list them all lol.

Abigor
Abomination
Abruptum
Absu
Absurd
Abyss, the
Acerbus
Agathocles
Adramelech
Adversary
Amebix
Amorphis
Ancient
Ancient Rites
Angelcorpse
Antaeus
Arcturus
Asgard
Asphyx
Atheist
Atrocity
At the Gates
Autopsy
Auzhia
Avenger
Averse Sefira
Axis of Advance
Baphomet
Bathory
Behemoth
Beherit
Belial
Black Goat
Blasphemy
Blazemth
Bloodbath
Blood
Bolt Thrower
Brutal Truth
Burzum
Cadaver
Candlemass
Capharnaum
Carcass
Cartilage
Cathedral
Celtic Frost
Cenotaph
Centinex
Ceremonium
Christ Agony
Cianide
Corrosion of Conformity
Cryptic Slaughter Cryptopsy
Cultus Sanguine
Dark Funeral
DarkThrone
Dark Tranquility
Dawn
dead horse
Death
Death Strike
Deceased
Deeds of Flesh
Deicide
Deinonychius
Demigod
Demilich
Demoncy
Demonic
Deteriorate
Dimmu Borgir
D.R.I.
Disfear
Dismember
Dissection
Drogheda
Dying Fetus
Emperor
Engrave
Enslaved
Entombed
Eucharist
Exhumed
Fleshcrawl
Frozen Shadows
Gehenna
Godflesh
God Macabre
Gorgoroth
Gorguts
Gotmoor
Graveland
Grotesque
Gutted
Havohej
Hades
Hellhammer
Hemdale
Hetsheads
Hypocrisy
Ildjarn
Immolation
Immortal
Impaled Nazarene
Imprecation
Incantation Infester
Infernum
Inquisition
Intestine Baalism
Kataklysm
Katatonia
Kilcrops
Krieg
Kvist
Lepra
Lord Wind
Luciferion
Magus
Manes
Marduk
Martyr
Massacra
Massacre
Mayhem
Merciless
Mesrine
Molested
Monastery
Monstrosity
Morbid Angel
Morpheus Descends
Mortem
Mortiis
Mortuary
Mysticum
Mythic
Mütiilation
Napalm Death
Necromantia
Necromass
Necrophobic
Niden Div 187
NME
Nox Intempesta
Nuclear Assault
Nuclear Death
Num Skull
Obituary
Oppressor
Ophthalamia
Pentagram
Pervertum
Pestilence
Possessed
Powermad
Profanatica
Prong
Pyrexia Rachel Barton Stringendo
Repulsion
Resuscitator
Revenant
Rigor Mortis
Rise
Rotting Christ
Sacramentum
Sadistic Intent
Samael
Sammath
Sarcofago
Sarcophagus
Seance
Sentenced
Sepultura
Septic Flesh
Setherial
Sinister
Skepticism
Slayer
Sodom
Sorcier des Glaces
Sort Vokter
Summon
Summoning
Suffocation
Swordmaster
Tartaros
Terrorizer
Thanatopsis
Tha-norr
Therion
Thorns
Throne of Ahaz
Torchure
Torturer
Troll
Ulver
Unanimated
Under The Pagan Moon
Ungod
Unleashed
Urgrund
Usurper
Vader
Varathron
Veles
Vilkates
Voivod
Von
Watain
Xibalba
Yamatu
Zyklon-B

comfortablycurt

metal83 wrote: »

That's because they are not Metal, they are rock.

Close enough. **** rock then.

I don't really worry to much about what technical genre a band is. If I like them, I listen to them.

I only listen to swedish viking power sludge metal. Has anyone else noticed how many hundreds of ridiculous genres there are when it comes to metal? Pirate metal? wow...how does that work exactly?...lol

metal83

comfortablycurt wrote: »

Close enough. **** rock then.

I don't really worry to much about what technical genre a band is. If I like them, I listen to them.

I only listen to swedish viking power sludge metal. Has anyone else noticed how many hundreds of ridiculous genres there are when it comes to metal? Pirate metal? wow...how does that work exactly?...lol

Yeah they do have tons of different silly genre's which i tend not to concern myself with either LOL, but that's mostly just people making $hit up and it's all very subjective.:p

For me it's Death Metal, Black Metal, and then the Thrash/Grind Metal. There are definetly clear differences between these types of music. Everything else is just a mix of the above, and anything else they feel like throwing in, and people like to make up names for all of it! lol

P.S. Just my opinion of course.

comfortablycurt

Yeah....when it comes to metal those are basically the same genres I like. Not that I listen to them much at all anymore, but mainly death/black and thrash.

One of my good friends is a hardcore metal head though. He listens exclusively to black metal. He won't even give anything else the time of day. He thinks that Slayer is little pansy metal...lol

metal83

comfortablycurt wrote: »

Yeah....when it comes to metal those are basically the same genres I like. Not that I listen to them much at all anymore, but mainly death/black and thrash.

One of my good friends is a hardcore metal head though. He listens exclusively to black metal. He won't even give anything else the time of day. He thinks that Slayer is little pansy metal...lol

Haha, i used to be like that when i was younger, but it was Death Metal i was exclusive with instead of black metal, then i opened my mind quite a bit.

I always did prefer Death Metal over Black Metal though, i like the low growls more then the high pitched shrieks (but i like those too!:p). Or even the mixture of both i rather enjoy, only thing i don't really like is when a band growls or shrieks real good, but then decides to start singing clean like the backstreet boys half way through the song...that irks me and ruins my jam sesion lol (there are exceptions though, but few and far between for me).

comfortablycurt

metal83 wrote: »

Haha, i used to be like that when i was younger, but it was Death Metal i was exclusive with instead of black metal, then i opened my mind quite a bit.

I always did prefer Death Metal over Black Metal though, i like the low growls more then the high pitched shrieks (but i like those too!:p). Or even the mixture of both i rather enjoy, only thing i don't really like is when a band growls or shrieks real good, but then decides to start singing clean like the backstreet boys half way through the song...that irks me and ruins my jam sesion lol (there are exceptions though, but few and far between for me).

lol...I'd have to agree with that. When I'm listening to death metal, I wanna hear the guy straight up roaring...what the hell is this singing nonsense?:p

I always was kinda picky with black metal though...the vocals annoyed me a lot of the time with all of the shrieky, choking weasel, balls in a vice singing styles...lol . I was always way more into death metal than black metal.

metal83

comfortablycurt wrote: »

lol...I'd have to agree with that. When I'm listening to death metal, I wanna hear the guy straight up roaring...what the hell is this singing nonsense?:p

I always was kinda picky with black metal though...the vocals annoyed me a lot of the time with all of the shrieky, choking weasel, balls in a vice singing styles...lol . I was always way more into death metal than black metal.

Man, someone that agrees with me about the singing BS in Death Metal, finally lol.

I agree with you on the Black Metal, i too am very picky when it comes to the shrieking nut squeezing squeals lol.

Fongolio

strider wrote: »

Hey Kelvin,

The Metallica albums you listed, are they the new, remastered, releases?
If so, 45rpm or 33? What are your thoughts on them?

BTW, if you're looking for more Metallica on vinyl, the sale at Elusive Disc has a couple titles included in it.

Cheers,
Ben

Ride The Lightning is a half speed re-mastered 33 rpm 180g version.
Death Magnetic is 2 LP 180g 33rpm.
And Justice For All is an original 33rpm release.

Ride The Lightning sounds superb. Every detail and nuance is clear and the rapid fire drumming though prominent doesn't drown out the rest.
And Justice For All was equally detailed. There were details on the LP that I'd never noticed on cd before. Excellent recording on vinyl.
I confess I still haven't opened Death Magnetic yet as I have it on cd but I'm very soon going to do a sit down comparison.

comfortablycurt

I've only heard a few songs off of Death Magnetic...I wasn't to terribly impressed though. IMO everything Metallica made after The Black Album was pretty bad, aside from a few songs here and there. I don't even really like The Black Album that much...

Kill 'em All through And Justice For All are some of the greatest metal albums ever written IMO though.

mantis

I've been into Metal since it came out. I started with Kiss then Van Halen , Black Sabbath , Ozzy Led Zepplin then the 80's hit and the doors got blown off. Dokken , Ratt , Scorpions , White Lion , Great White , White Snake , Quite Riot , Twisted Sister , Loudness , La Guns , Iron Maiden , Metallica , Megadeath , Anthrax , just to name a few.
In the 90's I really got into Alice in Chains and they became one of my all time favorite bands.

I don't listen to metal as much today as I did back then. I still enjoy it as I play guitar and prefer to play metal when I play. I own a Jackson and a ESP guitar and I have a Krank Revolution 1 amp so I'm metal all the way.

I purchased my current speakers over B&W as I felt they supported more types of music. I didn't like Heavy metal on B&W speakers, they are not forgiving enough and a lot of metal is recorded like ****.

I keep up with the harder music today like Bullets fo my Valentine , Nickelback Seether and such. It's great music and I'm angry some of the time so it works.

Dan

metal83

Lasareath,

As i said above "Here's a small list, but it's not even scratching the surface, there a thousands of good metal bands and would be impossible for me to list them all".:eek:
And that list is just a list of some of the Underground Metal and Black Metal for the most part.

LOL

Toolfan66

Toxic waltz !!!!!!!!!! Exodus!!!!!!!!!

metal83

Death!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh wait, i think they are already in that list i posted, lol.

mmadden28

TOOLFORLIFEFAN wrote: »

Toxic waltz !!!!!!!!!! Exodus!!!!!!!!!

"Kick your friend in the head and have a ball..."

BlueFox

comfortablycurt wrote: »

Kill 'em All through And Justice For All are some of the greatest metal albums ever written IMO though.

Pushing 60 I don't listen to much metal, R&R, and rap much anymore, except maybe around 3AM on Saturday morning when I am in the right mind, so to speak.

However, I always like "And Justice For All", especially "One". That song reminds me of the book "Johnny Got His Gun". They must have read it, and wrote the song. What a book. It still affects me.

rallyshark

Well as far as demos go, I have found Pantera(Far Beyond Driven) is a particularly good one to make those who haven't heard my speakers open their eyes:D I have 11ts and it really shocks people when I tell them the speakers were made in '87:D They can't believe how good my old speakers sound with metal! I can't begin to imagine how awesome it would sound on some of the better vintage polks:eek:

mmadden28

BlueFox wrote: »

Pushing 60 I don't listen to much metal, R&R, and rap much anymore, except maybe around 3AM on Saturday morning when I am in the right mind, so to speak.

However, I always like "And Justice For All", especially "One". That song reminds me of the book "Johnny Got His Gun". They must have read it, and wrote the song. What a book. It still affects me.

You'd be right too. Did you ever see the video? Its all scenes from the Movie

metal83

rallyshark wrote: »

Well as far as demos go, I have found Pantera(Far Beyond Driven) is a particularly good one to make those who haven't heard my speakers open their eyes:D I have 11ts and it really shocks people when I tell them the speakers were made in '87:D They can't believe how good my old speakers sound with metal! I can't begin to imagine how awesome it would sound on some of the better vintage polks:eek:

That album actually does sound pretty good, i was listening to that a few weeks ago!

BlueFox

mmadden28 wrote: »

You'd be right too. Did you ever see the video? Its all scenes from the Movie

I have now. Thanks.

Don't tell Metallica their video is on YouTube, or they will be sueing them. I got tired of Metallica complainig about Napster, so I installed Napster and downloaded every Metallica song I could find. I really miss Napster. It was a great program. The other file sharing programs just seemed to be a conduit for malware and other crap.

Of course, the record companies and Metallica do have a valid point about theft.