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^ you could probably dig a lot of power metal if you like Painkiller era Judas Priest, but i'm sure someone else would be better at recommending that stuff.

but some other stuff you might like:

Angel Witch
albums to get: Angel Witch first, then Screamin' and Bleeding and Frontal Assault
Manilla Road
albums to get: everything up the 90's, but start with Crystal Logic, Metal, and Out of the Abyss
Medieval
albums to get: Medieval Kills, although they're pretty obscure and you might have some trouble getting your hands on it even if you download, it's a forgotten gem of 80's traditional metal though imo.
Sanctuary
albums to get: Refuge Denied
Cirith Ungol
albums to get: Frost and Fire, the rest of the stuff is more down tempo and doomy from what i've heard.
Agent Steel
albums to get: Skeptics Apocalypse, but that's the only one i have so i can't comment on the rest.

some Bay Area thrash might suit you well enough too:
Heathen
albums to get: Breaking the Silence, Victims of Deception, Evolution of Chaos
Forbidden
albums to get: Forbidden Evil, Twisted Into Form
Death Angel
albums to get: The Ultra Violence

hopefully there's something along all of these you'll dig.
 
I'm not really a metal head as such, but I'm definitely a Maidenhead!
EDIT: actually scratch that,while I am not a metal head per se, I do like my NWOBHM and some classic metal (e.g. Manowar,and I do realise how cheesy they are). I love bands like angel witch and praying mantis. Anyone else like NWOBHM?
 
I've never been a big fan of black metal, but then I listened to Emperor's "In the Nightside Eclipse" album and it just blew me away. Can anyone give me a list of other good symphonic black metal albums/bands?
 
Limewire said:
I've never been a big fan of black metal, but then I listened to Emperor's "In the Nightside Eclipse" album and it just blew me away. Can anyone give me a list of other good symphonic black metal albums/bands?
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most people i know who like symphonic shit in metal love the band Sigh, i hate them personally but what do i know

in general there's only one thing in metal that's symphonic that i really enjoy at all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrufkkhg_U8
 
I have been listening to Bloodgasm's album and I am fucking floored. Here is a quick sampler, really really groovy death metal. Though I've listened and liked Death and Atheist before, but they didn't really open the door for me to death metal - this has opened the door for me.

(Thanks for the rec popemobile)
 
thread necro

A challenger has finally stepped forward to contest Disma's Towards the Megalith for best death metal album of year.

Antediluvian - Through The Cervix Of Hawwah
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Heavy as fuck. Reminds me a bit of Mitochondrion, if anyone has heard of them. Just really great, really heavy death metal. Probably not QUITE as good as Towards the Megalith, but that's a very high standard to live up to.

I am 90% positive I'll be posting here soon with some more November albums, it's been a pretty packed month for metal. This album, new Leviathan, new Panopticon, new Vektor, new Bastard Priest off the top of my head. Anyone else got anything good that came out recently?
 
Alan said:
I've been really addicted to "Painkiller" by Judas Priest and I was wondering if anyone had any tracks that sound similar to this. What with the big vocals, fast guitar and killer solos and wicked drum tracks.
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Listen to all of Judas Priest's studio albums from 1974 to 1990. There are a few albums I'm not to big on (Point of Entry, Turbo, Ram It Down), but you should give them a listen anyway to see if you enjoy them or not. Judas Priest's best three albums are Stained Class, Sin After Sin, and Sad Wings of Destiny, the latter being the best album Priest ever made.
 
Ivan_Starr said:
Listen to all of Judas Priest's studio albums from 1974 to 1990. There are a few albums I'm not to big on (Point of Entry, Turbo, Ram It Down), but you should give them a listen anyway to see if you enjoy them or not. Judas Priest's best three albums are Stained Class, Sin After Sin, and Sad Wings of Destiny, the latter being the best album Priest ever made.
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Painkiller #1 Stained Class #2 Sad Wings #3. Sin After Sins' best songs are THE best Priest has ever written, but the two ballads ruin it for me. Also, as an aside, British Steel is not only the most overrated Priest album but one of the most overrated metal albums of all time.
 
doomvendingmachine said:
Painkiller #1 Stained Class #2 Sad Wings #3. Sin After Sins' best songs are THE best Priest has ever written, but the two ballads ruin it for me. Also, as an aside, British Steel is not only the most overrated Priest album but one of the most overrated metal albums of all time.
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I agree that British Steel is pretty damn overrated, but I enjoy it as much as I enjoy Hell Bent for Leather. Hell Bent for Leather has some sweet songs like Delivering the Goods, the title track, and the Fleetwood Mac cover of The Green Manalashi, but everything else is rather okay or average or is just really uninteresting, such as: Evening Star, Take On the World, Before the Dawn, Evil Fantasies.

British Steel is about the same consistent as Hell Bent for Leather in my opinion, United is about the only song on there I don't care for. The best songs on Hell Bent for Leather beat Breaking the Law any day though.
 
Zoro said:
Those guys are excellent. After a 20-year hiatus, they still put out excellent music.
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Well, technically the band never put out any studio music during the 80's. The only thing they put out was their 1982 demo which was released later as their first album Volume 1 in 1998. The 1982 demo tapes were the only ones that still worked, the other music the band recorded was long gone because of the bad quality of the tapes. The band just re-recorded their old songs for what would be their second album in 2004 (The Lords of Hypocrisy) and their third album in 2006 (Mythical & Magical). If Pagan Altar's re-recorded work for those two albums were that phenomenal I could only imagine how the originals they recorded on those tapes sounded. Regardless of all this chatter, I can not wait for their new 2012 album Never Quite Dead.
 
I had more written but I accidentally closed the tab so oh well

Vallenfyre - Desecration
Pretty good Death Metal with some Doom influenced sections occasionally and a very good vocalist.

Convulse - World Without God
A really nice Finnish Death Metal band who put out 2 albums (1 of them a pretty shitty Death 'n' Roll album) during the scene's heyday, then got a bit forgotten until Relapse Records reissued their first album back in 2010. Remind me a good amount of seminal Finnish Death Metal band Demigod.

EDIT: I dislike how little feedback there is in this thread so I'mma just say @ TheValkyries Cormorant is pretty cool
 
i've always thought Convulse's second album is one of the better death n roll albums (as much as i dislike that term :/). that's not saying much though i guess.

better than most of Entombed's stuff in the same style, anyway.

do you like Rippikoulu? i usually find Finnish death metal a bit tedious in terms of full albums/eps/whatever since they always have like 1-3 fantastic songs and the rest is just kinda... there but their two demos are seriously great death/doom. wish they would have put out more.

also Convulse reformed. dunno if they're going to record anything though.

i don't post much here and haven't posted in smogon anywhere else for a year but just dropping in to say i've been digging the following a lot the last few months:

Inquisition - Into The Infernal Regions Of The Ancient Cult (raw black)
Coffins - Buried Death (death/doom)
Merciless - The Awakening (death/thrash in the style of early Kreator, kinda close to a thrashier version of Bathory's first album too idk)
Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus (doooooooooooooooom)
Grotesque - In The Embrace Of Evil (death metal with some black metal leanings, i don't want to call it blackened death though because fuck bands like Behemoth)
Nifelheim - Servants of Darkness (black/thrash)
Grave - Into The Grave (death)
Reverend Bizarre - II: Crush The Insects (doom)
Divine Eve - As The Angels Weep (death/doom, like Celtic Frost with Entombed production/guitar tone)

already knew most of these but they just clicked more lately.
 
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