What ya been listening too lately? For me it's been

Agent Orange- Sodom
Evangelian- Behemoth
Gods of the earth- The Sword
Butchered At Birth- Cannibal Corpse
Endgame- Megadeth

Anyone been to any show's lately?

No shows but I have been listening to Amon Amoth Twilight of the thunder god and With Odin on our side.

For anyone not familar

I'm a big Amon Amarth fan (Got to meet them once) but I was pretty dissapointed with twilight of the thunder god. I LOVED with odin on our side but Twilight just doesnt seem to have the same quality too it?

goin down to athens on saturday to see Ringworm and Skeletonwitch, should be a rager of a good time.

SHOULD have been in baltimore md this whole past weekend for two amazing showsk. buuuut i decided to grow up a few months ago and cut back on the out of stae/cross country travel for shows and save money to buy a house. still bummed i didnt go

friday night was
THOR - labeled as a canadian metal god, with the band Pulling Teeth as his backing band for that show. only US show
Slumlords
No Redeeming Social Value

sat night was
Integrity
Ringworm
Starkweather
Pulling Teeth
Gehenna
VVegas
and some more bands



playlist of late has been, yeah i know not metal bands, but underground and heavyish so close enough for freehuddle discussions
Strength For A Reason - "blood, faith, loyalty"
Strongarm - "The Advent Of A Miracle"
Martyr A.D. - "the human condition in twelve fractions"
Converge - "jane doe"
Abnegation - "extinguish the sickness"

Tinkertrain wrote: I'm a big Amon Amarth fan (Got to meet them once) but I was pretty dissapointed with twilight of the thunder god. I LOVED with odin on our side but Twilight just doesnt seem to have the same quality too it?

I think it is just what I call the letdown effect. It was not as good as Odin but it is still fun and a good album. I am bias though

Descent, Your always welcome on the metal disscussion's bro!

I've also got to throw out Ohio's very own Skeletonwitch and their new album "Breathing The Fire". This album straight up rules! The early european thrash influence is very evident with skeletonwitch. Just an awesome awesome album from a band that's headed for big things in the metalworld!

Not metal, but some hardcore. For example,
The Ghost Inside - Faith or Forgiveness


Also still digging Protest The Hero (Prog/Mathcore)

(From Kezia)

i remember seeing the band that The Ghost Inside used to be, A Dying Dream, or something like that while i was in baltimore in '07 or '08 or the Earth Crisis reunion show. they werent that good but the members in that band were in the pop punk band Anchorless and they were passing out free 4 song demos, we listened to that demo for 6 hours straight on the way home.

Metallica, Dead Milkmen

just came across the video for one of the new Earth Crisis songs and video that shows the story of a dude who burnt down a meth lab that dealt crap to his brother

Earth Crisis - "to ashes"

On Pandora, listening to The Cryptic Stench by Cannibal Corpse. Now, Field of Heads by Vader.

mastodons leviathan has been getting pretty good rotation with me lately. the next show i get to go to will be shadows fall in dayton with FFDP

My friend saw Metallica, Lamb, and Gojira a few months ago. I didn't know Gojira was there or I'd have gone. I've been listenin' to more punk than metal lately, anyway. For some reason metal is a springtime genre of music for me.....

tcarrier32 wrote: mastodons leviathan has been getting pretty good rotation with me lately. the next show i get to go to will be shadows fall in dayton with FFDP

Hell yes! By the way we need to buy those tickets.

Seen Shadows Fall multiple times, I can take them or leave them.

shadows fall was once a fun show, back in the "of one blood" days. majority of the crowd would be hardcore kids, then ozzfest started picking up on the whole "new wave of american heavy metal" stuff and more and more turds came around and bands put out crappier records. same thing happened to Unearth.

Shadows Fall would be an infinitely better band had they stuck with Phill Labonte.

also just found out this morning that ill be getting to see another 90's hardcore band do a reunion. ENDPOINT will be doin a reunion in may as a benefit for a friend of theirs, in louisville ky. im stoked, they havent played a show since 12/31/94, and since i was 10 that last time they played that motivates me to go. hopefully some other 90's bands join in.

www.myspace.com/endpoint

Tinkertrain wrote: Shadows Fall would be an infinitely better band had they stuck with Phill Labonte.

i liked him on the old shadows fall stuff but never really liked All That Remains

DESCENTdmc wrote:

Tinkertrain wrote: Shadows Fall would be an infinitely better band had they stuck with Phill Labonte.

i liked him on the old shadows fall stuff but never really liked All That Remains

I like All That Remains a lot. Have you listened to the "This Darkened Heart" CD? Its pretty heavy, and about as close to the super old Shadows Fall that ATR got.
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but the old Shadows Fall Stuff with Phil Labonte is pretty sick as well.

For me right now, Dismember's the way to go with the heavier stuff. They've been doing the same style of death metal for about 20 years and it's still kicking ass. Insanely intense vocals with some very good instrumentation behind it.

Falchion is a newer band I enjoy. A couple of songs.





It sucks they split up in 2009

Due to a local music store (in Marion) going out of business, I'm using its final days as an excuse to scavenge through the place.

Today, I bought:
Aborted -- "Slaughter and Apparatus: A Methodical Overture"
Amon Amarth -- "Versus the World"
Iron Maiden -- "A Matter of Life and Death"
Kataklysm -- "In the Arms of Devastation"
Mastodon -- "Crack the Skye"

Probably snag 5-6 more CDs on Saturday.

Heretic wrote: Due to a local music store (in Marion) going out of business, I'm using its final days as an excuse to scavenge through the place.

Today, I bought:
Aborted -- "Slaughter and Apparatus: A Methodical Overture"
Amon Amarth -- "Versus the World"
Iron Maiden -- "A Matter of Life and Death"
Kataklysm -- "In the Arms of Devastation"
Mastodon -- "Crack the Skye"

Probably snag 5-6 more CDs on Saturday.

A matter of life and death is a pretty good cd. My favorite songs on it are probably " Different World" and " The reincarnation of Benjamine Breeg"

Yeah, I'd heard everything on it from last.fm and youtube....I just needed a CD for driving purposes. Off the top of my head, I know I really like "These Colours Don't Run", "The Pilgrim", "The Longest Day", "The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg" and "For the Greater Good of God". I like "Different World" a lot, but not as much as the others. And I haven't listened to the other four songs enough to really form an opinion on them.

For me, pretty much an essential purchase, since I don't recall there being a single song I'd remotely consider a weak link.