What Metal Are You Listening To?

[mac1]

I just found this in a new interview with Ernie C, with reference to a 4th Bodycount album.

know something I want to do, personally, is put some more guitar solos in there. That’s something that’s missing from a lot of hard rock and metal nowadays. You have some great players, but a lot of them do just rhythm, and they’re great at it, but no one really does solos anymore. People don’t understand that that’s how a guitar player expresses himself. Those are his emotions coming out of that, and it’s been missing. So I think I want to bring the old feeling of guitar playing back and combine it with the newer, heavier style.

I am sold already. I am so glad that Ernie has realised he needs epic solos in his stuff, it was something sadly lacking from Born Dead and Violent Demise. Apparently Bodycount are also making a track for the Resident Evil 2 movie.

The full article can be read here if anyones interested -> http://www.411mania.com/music/featur...features_id=83

[mac1]

More Bodycount stuff I've just found.

A new interview with Ice-T.

http://www.411mania.com/music/featur...features_id=84

I liked this quote a lot

MM: Let me ask also, how does what’s going on politically – has that been a determining factor in the band wanting to get back together?

Ice: It’s hard to really be angry when Clinton’s in power. That m*therf*cker gets high like we all do! [Laughs] But now we’ve got Bush, we’ve got the Anti-Christ back. M*therf*cker came right in killing m*therf*ckers. Yeah, Body Count works better under pressure.

and part 3

http://www.411mania.com/music/featur...features_id=86

[Dead Riverdragon]

Knivesout- I've got a mix of the new and older Nile, I think 'Wrought' for example is one of their oldest songs, and while the musicianship's not quite so breathtaking as on some of 'In Their Darkened Shrines', I prefer the broader variety of instrumentation and the epic feel of the earlier stuff. The tracks I have from Darkened Shrines are all short and relentlessly heavy. While this is still amazing stuff (I mean in technical musicianship this is on a par with Dream Theater) I'm hoping to find some more varied tracks to download.

Coincidentally, my bandmate was just yesterday getting me hooked on Dark Tranquility. I loved a lot of the stuff off 'The Mind's I'; as a fan of In Flames it's right up my street. I'm actually listening to more melodic death than really brutal stuff like Nile, simply because there's only so much of the latter I can take in a sitting!

Regarding Dream Theater: they are a massive bone of contention among my friends. I realise they're almost unrivalled in technical ability, but for me they have very little emotional content or connection. I think that's a combination of their often excessive technical playing and LaBrie's voice (which I think is pretty dull), having said that, I like bits and pieces of their music, but rarely a whole album. I did go through a phase of listening to cd2 of 'Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence' during one summer a year or 2 ago-found it to be good cruising music.

Oh and Tool rock too. I was going to vote on the favorite album poll but I can't choose between Aenima and Lateralus- While I think the amount of filler in Aenima works against it, Aenema will always be one of my favorite songs, somehow the first couple of riffs remind me of playing Golden Axe many years ago

[I, Brian]

Woot!! Golden Axe!! I remember...thanks for reminding me about that game!

[knivesout]

Riverdragon, what you said about Dream Theater pretty much sums up my cavils with them. I do have a few songs by them that I really like, too, btw.

Well, I discovered some more cool stuff over the weekend, will oog back in and post on them when I recall the names!

[knivesout]

Green Carnation: Light of Day, Day of Darkness. Apparently, the Emperor bassists own band. This concept album is basically one sonmg extended over an hour, Thick As a Brick style, going through a variety of musical moods and parts. Very exerimentalm prgressive and also highly trippy.


The Chasm: Forgot the album name. Very good death metal, fast brutal but also with a satisfying musical depth.

[littlemissattitude]

Originally Posted by Bigmacscanlan

More Bodycount stuff I've just found.

A new interview with Ice-T.

http://www.411mania.com/music/featur...features_id=84

I liked this quote a lot


and part 3

http://www.411mania.com/music/featur...features_id=86

Cool links, mac. Thanks. Ice-T fascinates me, although I really don't know his music that well. I think he gets dismissed as a gangster and nothing else by a lot of people, especially after the whole "Cop Killer" controversy, but he seems to be a lot more than that. I especially find it interesting that he acknolwedged from the stage (see the link to part 3) the inherent contradictions in having done that song and then going on to play a cop in "Law and Order: SVU".

Personally I really recommend the lyrics to the song included in the part 3 link; I think they're right on the mark in a lot of ways. I also love his statement about doing what you want, not what other people want you to do.

[I, Brian]

Because of the mention of metal, and because it's been a pretty stressed out couple of weeks, I broke out the Megadeth "So far, so good...so what?". It's always been one of my favourite metal albums because it manages to keep up a strong tempo throughout out. While other contemporary bands such as Slayer and Metallica had their moments (Raining Blood by the former, and Search and Destroy by the latter), they tended to be a bit variable in terms of quality. 501 and Hook in Mouth are particular favourites on "So far, so good...so what?".

[Dead Riverdragon]

I think 'Seasons in the Abyss' has to be Slayer's high point, I just wish I could get away with stealing that title for a book

[knivesout]

Oddly, 'So far, so good...so what' is my favourite Megadeth album too, although all my tech-happy chums gush over RIP. 'In my darkest hour' and 'Hook in mouth' are my favourites off that album.


I also find myself listening to their previous album, 'Peace Sells - but Who's buying' quite often.

[littlemissattitude]

Originally Posted by Dead Riverdragon

I think 'Seasons in the Abyss' has to be Slayer's high point, I just wish I could get away with stealing that title for a book

Don't see why you couldn't - as far as I know, titles can't be copyrighted or trademarked or anything like that. Anyway, they can't be here in the States, last time I looked.

I mean, there are two completely different songs, both titled "Over the Hills and Far Away" (Led Zeppelin and Gary Moore). If it were not so late at night, I could probably come up with the titles of movies and books that are the same, whilst being completely different films and books.

[knivesout]

Consider the number of songs with the name 'Hold On' that were being churned out at one point!


Many books are named after a line from a poem or a song, which sometimes also serves as a quote at the beginning of the book. There is no real reason you can't do so with a Slayer line. Hmmm...there's a lot of cool names there - Angel of Death, Expendable Youth, Skeletons of Society, South of Heaven...

[silvercloak]

I'm not really into much metal, though I do like Nine Inch Nails (kind of industrialish, I suppose) and the odd Tool song. Right now though the metal band I am listening to most is Rhapsody. They are a wicked power metal band. All the stuff they play and the lyrics are fantasy related.

Some song titles include:


When Demons Awake
Elnor's Magic Valley
Trolls in the Dark
Holy Thunderforce
Triumph for my magic steel
Flames of Revenge
Where Dragons Fly
Black Dragon
Heroes of the lost valley.

I don't know why I like them so much, but they intrigue me. They have a wizard in their band.

[mac1]

Originally Posted by littlemissattitude

Cool links, mac. Thanks. Ice-T fascinates me, although I really don't know his music that well. I think he gets dismissed as a gangster and nothing else by a lot of people, especially after the whole "Cop Killer" controversy, but he seems to be a lot more than that. I especially find it interesting that he acknolwedged from the stage (see the link to part 3) the inherent contradictions in having done that song and then going on to play a cop in "Law and Order: SVU".

Personally I really recommend the lyrics to the song included in the part 3 link; I think they're right on the mark in a lot of ways. I also love his statement about doing what you want, not what other people want you to do.

Yeah Ice-T so often just gets palmed off as just another gangster but he is remarkably intelligent for a cultural rap icon. He has always said and done what he wanted to do, be it stand up against racism and government control, acting and even metal. Whereas most other rappers who ventured into the the rock and metal market (the like of cyprus hill etc) remained decidedly rap-orientated, with Bodycount Ice-T produced true old-skool metal. His comments about Law and Order show that he also has the wisdom to see (and even joke about) those ironys, something many other celebritys would probably try to hide from the public. Personally, I cant wait for the next BC album, from the looks of those lyrics he has really got his bitterness back, and bitter Ice-T writes great lyrics. "Whats a brother got to do, to get a message through to the red, white and blue. Have I got to die, before you realise, I was a n*gg*r with open eyes." Like you say littlemiss, he is indeed much more than just another gangster. He is a patron of free speech and a critic of its failings, as well as a black activist with a quest to destroy racism by both blacks and whites, and a man willing to say and do whatever the hell he wants, regardless of political correctness, public opinion and government imposed media restrictions.

[Dead Riverdragon]

A few changes of lineup in my metal listening. Some of these may have only tenuous metal roots, but I've even heard Rush use double drum pedalling-how much more metal do you need:P

Savatge: In the Wake of Magellan
Ephel Duath: Ruins, The Embossed, Myriad
Rush: Nocturne, The Stars Look Down, One Little Victory, Earthshine
In Flames: Dialogue With the Stars, The Hive
Iron Maiden (make devil horns): Genghis Khan, Murders in the Rue Morgue
Jag Panzer: Twilight Years
Royal Hunt: Day in, Day out
Opeth: Still Life(whole album)