Recent favourite albums?

[MadTinus]

What are the albums you're listening to mostly recently? Like, the last couple of days, week?

Mine:

- System Of A Down - Mezmerize (<== now playing)
- lots of Porcupine Tree
- Sentenced - The Funeral Album

[HiTeck Demon]

The Funeral Album is amazing, I'm going to miss Sentenced.

I've been listening to:

The Project Hate - Hate, Dominate, Congregate, Eliminate
Bathory - Nordland I
Paradise Lost - Symbol of Life
Stratovarius - Stratovarius
VnV Nation - Empires
Cage - Movies for the Blind

[MadTinus]

I was on a sudden Paradise Lost wave Tuesday night :). I just got a mood for the Gothic album (I bought the vinyl on the Wâldrock festival last weekend) and also played my Harmony Breaks VHS tape, feckin' great!

I'm not really into their stuff after One Second (which itself ain't all that great..), but the last album sounded like they're somewhat on the right track again.

[HiTeck Demon]

I like all of their stuff. Draconian Times and Gothic are probably my favorites. But Symbol of Life was a great cd. They were better as a doom metal band though.

[MadTinus]

I'm a big fan of Paradise Lost's first 5 albums, really some of the best stuff I own. Draconian Times, Icon, Shades Of God, Gothic, all frickin' awesome albums. Lost Paradise ain't all that bad either, though technically inferior of course, it has atmosphere.


NP: Soilwork - Figure Number Five

[HiTeck Demon]

I'm unfortunately missing most of Paradise Lost's doom/death metal stuff. :( So I've only heard Gothic.

[MadTinus]

Originally posted by HiTeck Demon
I'm unfortunately missing most of Paradise Lost's doom/death metal stuff. :( So I've only heard Gothic. Definitely try to get your hands on Icon and Shades Of God, can't miss out on those! Classic songs like Ember's Fire, True Belief, As I Die, Pity The Sadness, Mortals Watch The Day...

[HiTeck Demon]

Originally posted by MadTinus
Definitely try to get your hands on Icon and Shades Of God, can't miss out on those! Classic songs like Ember's Fire, True Belief, As I Die, Pity The Sadness, Mortals Watch The Day...

Yeah, it's hard to find those kind of cds in america because they're really not distributed at all. So I basically just have to deal with downloading all my cds. :( Unless I wanna pay like...$30 for an imported cd, then another $10 for shipping and handling. It gets hard buying cds from bands over there...so alot of the cds I have I just have to download. But I'm slowly buying them when I have money. :)

[MadTinus]

Originally posted by HiTeck Demon
Yeah, it's hard to find those kind of cds in america because they're really not distributed at all. So I basically just have to deal with downloading all my cds. :-( Unless I wanna pay like...$30 for an imported cd, then another $10 for shipping and handling. It gets hard buying cds from bands over there...so alot of the cds I have I just have to download. But I'm slowly buying them when I have money. :-) Check it out (http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=307&item=4726623767&rd=1&ssPageName=WD1V), an Icon CD for $8.99 plus $2.50 shipping from the Metal Blade Records store :). And here (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=307&item=4717095792)'s Shades Of God for $11.99 for only $0.50 extra shipping, that's dead cheap.. ;)

[HiTeck Demon]

Originally posted by MadTinus
Check it out (http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=307&item=4726623767&rd=1&ssPageName=WD1V), an Icon CD for $8.99 plus $2.50 shipping from the Metal Blade Records store :). And here (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=307&item=4717095792)'s Shades Of God for $11.99 for only $0.50 extra shipping, that's dead cheap..

Haha, ebay is fun. I've spent alot of money on there that I shouldn't have. :confused:

[MadTinus]

Originally posted by HiTeck Demon
Haha, ebay is fun. I've spent alot of money on there that I shouldn't have. :confused: Tell me about it ;). It's dangerous, they've got all kinds of feckin' great, rare stuff there!

Bought some nice rare stuff, for good prices on a festival last weekend though, a Gehenna - Seen Through The Veils Of Darkness LP for €15 ánd this Paradise Lost - Gothic LP for €12.50 :-).

[HiTeck Demon]

If I was rich, I'd buy just about everything I saw on ebay. Like "ooooh, gimme!"

[Nouk]

Let's get BACK on topic here :p

Soilwork - Stabbing the Drama
Opeth - Blackwater Park & Deliverance
Cradle of Filth - Nymphetamine

I'm the living proof that one can like all kinds of metal :D

[Uphobia]

My current favs'

-Pain of Salvation- BE
-Soilwork-Stabbing the Drama
-Necrophagist-Epitaph
-Omnium Gatherum-Years in Waste
-Cardamon-unfinished album :p

[Choronzon]

Been on a roll with a lot of progressive/technical (death) metal lately:

Cynic - Focus
Pestilence - Spheres
Control Denied - The Fragile Art Of Existence
Theory In Practice - Armageddon Theories
Theory In Practice - Colonizing the Sun
Watchtower - Control & Resistance

[MadTinus]

Playing once again...

PORCUPINE TREE - Deadwing

Album of the year! Definitely so far, only the new Opeth album might possibly challenge it...

[Mr. Lapin Kulta]

Stone - Stone
Whiplash - Insult to Injury
Forbidden - Twisted Into Form
Agent Steel - Unstoppable Force

Nothing but old school thrash/speed for me lately...

[lucifer1126]

For me..it would be:

Darkane - Layers of Lies
Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin
Scar Symmetry - Symmetric in Design
Kreator - Enemy of God

[MadTinus]

Originally posted by Nouk
Hmmm... I thought the album of the year would be Portals to Uphobia?????? ;) Ehh, of course! :D I just don't wanna rub it in to all the people here that we already have the album and they still have to wait for some months for it ;-). Isn't that considerate of me..?

[Nouk]

Originally posted by MadTinus
Ehh, of course! :D I just don't wanna rub it in to all the people here that we already have the album and they still have to wait for some months for it ;-). Isn't that considerate of me..?
Aaah... I see!! How could I be so blind!!!!



But don't we love it?! :p

[God Forbid]

Nile-Annihilation of the Wicked
Nightrage-Descent into Chaos
Dark Tranquillity-Character
All Shall Perish-Hate.Malice.Revenge

[Mr. Lapin Kulta]

Yesterday I listened through Moonsorrow's "Verisäkeet" album 5 times in a row and was reminded of what a stunning masterpiece it is. Breath-taking...

[WhoCares]

recent new things getting lots of spins in the "Sex to 9" household:

Scar Symmetry - Symmetric in Design
Deadlock - Earth.Revolt
Mors Principium Est - The Unborn

only just arrived the other day:

Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine

[brianwilliams82]

The new Darkane. I dare say it's their best yet!
Also the new Dew-Scented, sorry to say it's the weakest of their Nuclear Blast albums. Still, it's pretty fun to listen to.

NP: Therion - Sirius B

[MadTinus]

Originally posted by WhoCares
only just arrived the other day:

Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine What about it Micah? I listened to it for the first time yesterday and thougnt it sounded quite alright, but I have to listen more.

[Beardy]

The albums I've listened to most recently are:

The Firstborn - The Unclenching Of Fists
Blood Ritual - Black Grimoire
Sentenced - The Funeral Album

The new Reverend Bizarre's pretty good too...

[Uphobia]

Been listening to that Senteced album as well lately...

[WhoCares]

Originally posted by MadTinus
What about it Micah? I listened to it for the first time yesterday and thougnt it sounded quite alright, but I have to listen more.

I can't truely make up my mind... It's a great album if you like guitar virtuoso type stuff, to me it's only an average AE album... it's hard to top WOS, and in my ears AOR was stronger than this album. It is a good album, but I can't see much of the tracks making it's way into a setlist.

[Uphobia]

Originally posted by MadTinus
.... but so far it cannot even pose the slightest threat to Porcupine Tree's Deadwing as my album of the year 2005. Shame, cause it was pretty much the only album I deemed capable of challenging it.

Detonation-Portals to Uphobia????HHMMMM???:p

[MadTinus]

Originally posted by Uphobia
Detonation-Portals to Uphobia????HHMMMM???:p So far I'm quite sure Portals will be above Ghost Reveries in my list of favourite albums of 2005 :).

[Uphobia]

Originally posted by MadTinus
So far I'm quite sure Portals will be above Ghost Reveries in my list of favourite albums of 2005 :).

Ahhh Tinus, you're sooooo nice:o

[MadTinus]

Originally posted by Uphobia
Ahhh Tinus, you're sooooo nice:o I was being totally serious and bloody honest! :)

;)

But the question was, what's your opinion on the new OPETH album?

[WhoCares]

Originally posted by Uphobia
blah blah blah ...the next Detonation album will be twice as fast.......

Only twice?

:p

[Uphobia]

Originally posted by WhoCares
Only twice?

:p

Yeah instead of 40 minutes it will be 20 minutes total playing time....:p

[MadTinus]

What about the new Opeth Micah?

[WhoCares]

Originally posted by Uphobia
Yeah instead of 40 minutes it will be 20 minutes total playing time....:p

I'll be sure to pickup the LP version and play it at half speed :p

[MadTinus]

Originally posted by WhoCares
I've only listened to it about 2 times, I'm pretty much the same as you, it's good, it's typical Opeth, but there's nothing that really grabs me.

I've felt that way about quite a few albums lately :( I've felt that way about quite a few albums over the last 5 years... I always see/hear people everywhere that mention a list of 15-20 albums each year that they think are totally awesome when I usually even have trouble coming up with just 3 or 4... I guess that when you grow older (blah.. blah..) and have heard more and more music, it simply takes more to really get overwhelmed or blown away, but Opeth was definitely a band I considered capable of doing that.. Maybe it's a grower (Deliverance took a loooooooong time to grow on me), but it'd better start growing fast!

[MadTinus]

Review of the new Opeth by Roy Kristensen and yours truly, here (http://www.imhotep.fi/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=819&Itemid=79&lang=en).

[Uphobia]

Originally posted by MadTinus
Review of the new Opeth by Roy Kristensen and yours truly, here (http://www.imhotep.fi/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=819&Itemid=79&lang=en).

Nice review. Pretty much sums up my opinion...

[Nouk]

I've heard the album for about 10 times now and it's not a 'grower' to me. It was there al the time, since the first time I heard it! What a GREAT album!!! I especially love the lyrics on this one. Blackwater Park has always been my favourite Opeth album, but Ghost Reveries took over the first place. I don't think I ever played BWP 3 times in a row on the same day...

Ghost of Perdition, The Baying of the Hounds and The Grand Conjuration are beauties in my opinion. I love the clean vocals and the 'deepness' of the grunts.

So I guess I have to consider it as my new found duty to convince the world of the sheer beauty of this album ;)

[lucifer1126]

recent favorite album??

it has to be

DETONATION - PORTALS TO UPHOBIAAA

man...seriously i must say GREAT FUCKING JOB too all you guys + Tinus. i love this new album, totally made me happy cuz it lived up to the previous album. I really can't wait to buy the real cd.

is The End stocking the limited edition digipak??? cuz i really would like that version.

other recent favorite is just Hypocrisy - Virus, best hypocrisy to date in my opinon.

[Uphobia]

:) Nice to hear!

I think The End will have some digi's as well, if not...send us an email and we'll make sure you get one ;)

[MadTinus]

Originally posted by lucifer1126
other recent favorite is just Hypocrisy - Virus, best hypocrisy to date in my opinon. Yeah, I gotta say it's pretty good indeed, Andreas and Horgh definitely made Hypo's sound gain in power incredibly!

[MadTinus]

Probably because I'm seeing them twice next week, but it's Opeth all the way again the last week or so, not just Ghost Reveries, but also other albums.


NP: Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk :devil:

[Nouk]

Yep, all Opeth for me this week. 2 gigs nest week and 2 days after the last Opeth show I'm going to see Nevermore. So I'm also listening to Dead Heart in a Dead World and This Godless Endeavor a lot :emot-danc
Really looking forward to all these gigs!!

[brianwilliams82]

Recent shit that impressed me a lot was the new Destruction album, Trivium's 'Ascendancy' (hey, fuck you!) and the demo by Dublin based 'Bay Area thrash band' Mass Extinction. This stuff really makes me think it's 1987.

[PyroVesten]

I pre-ordered 'Ghost Reveries' on vinyl as soon as I could. Good album. Well worth the price I paid for it (from The End Records) anyway.. but nothing can top 'Still Life'. Overall it could have been quite a bit better, but like I said, worth buying.

Here's what I've been listening to most the past couple of weeks:

Abramelin - Deadspeak
Agalloch - Pale Folklore
Agalloch - The Mantle (Vinyl)
Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Detonation - Portals To Uphobia
Dio - Holy Diver
Edge Of Sanity - The Spectral Sorrows (Vinyl)
Edge Of Sanity - Unorthodox (Vinyl)
Elegeion - The Last Moment
Exodus - Shovel Headed Kill Machine
Kreator - Pleasure To Kill
Melechesh - Sphynx (Vinyl)
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Pathogen - Bloodline
Portal - Seepia
Psycroptic - The Scepter Of The Ancients
Vanishing Point - In Thought

[MadTinus]

I have the Ghost Reveries vinyl and CD. Ordered the vinyl right away as well, I have all Opeth albums on vinyl (and CD), except Blackwater Park.. Funny to see that people already bid pretty high amounts of money for the GR vinyl on ebay, when it's still available from many regular outlets..

[PyroVesten]

People are just ignorant. Just because it's not in their local music shop they think the only place they can find it is on eBay. I see the same thing happen all the time, which is actually why my Opeth vinyl collection consists of:

Morningrise
Morningrise (Double Picture Disc)
Still Life
My Arms, Your Hearse
My Arms, Your Hearse (Double Picture Disc)
Ghost Reveries
Orchid
Orchid (Double Picture Disc)

I'm going to sell the doubles on eBay Australia sometime when I am in need of money.

I've never used eBay to re-sell (only to get rid of secondhand stuff) but if I have the time it will be good to try.

I have all of the Opeth albums on CD as well...but some of them sound bloody unreal on LP. 'Still Life' especially.

[Alexandra]

Opeth : Damnation

[¢HÅا]

Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
Detonation - Portals To Uphobia ;)
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Forefather - Ours Is The Kingdom
Hatesphere - The Sickness Within
ARSIS - A Diamond For Disease EP
Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
Riverside - Out Of My Self
Anathema - Natural Disaster
Meshuggah - Nothing

Plus some other cds unsigned or small label bands as well.

[Nouk]

Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Hypocrisy - Virus
Old Man's Child - Vermin
Hypocrisy - The Arrival
In Flames - Whoracle
Detonation - Portals to Uphobia

[MadTinus]

Opeth : DamnationI must compliment you on your choice Alexandra! :emot-nod:

EDIT: check out the Damnation piano version: http://zak.neapel083.server4free.de/Artists/lenin01/Opeth

Haven't heard it myself yet, but I read several times that it's not so bad..

[Alexandra]

Thanks MadTinus !!!
:)

[MadTinus]

Current favourite is the new acoustic Green Carnation album "The Acoustic Verses", beautiful album!

I'm also anxiously awaiting the new Daylight Dies album "Dismantling Devotion", which, judging by the sample, should be quite excellent.

[Uphobia]

Katatonia- The great Cold Distance
What a great album!

[Jaja]

I already got the new Kataklysm Album. It's A Killer!

[MadTinus]

After reading some good reviews, I downloaded that album, but I still have to listen to it.

[Beardy]

I enjoyed the Kataklysm quite a bit, it's even got something approaching a decent drum sound as well ;) :lol:

[Jaja]

the drums of kataklysm are amazing. Serenity in Fire was loads faster, but this one is heavier somehow.

[Beardy]

It's heavier because the trigger sound is much better. The drum sound on "Serenity In Fire" was way way too clicky for me... had the same problem with Vital Remains' "Dechristianize" actually - fantastic album but a horrible horrible drum sound.

[Alexandra]

The magnificent The Acoustic Verses - Green Carnation
One of their best.

[Nouk]

I recently bought the latest album of a local band from Utrecht: Dis. Meal combined with an electric violin. Quite nice! A little Opeth-ish but they really have their own sound.

[¢HÅا]

I recently bought the latest album of a local band from Utrecht: Dis. Meal combined with an electric violin. Quite nice! A little Opeth-ish but they really have their own sound.

Interesting do they have a website? I am currently listening to RadioHead Ok Comp which i downloaded it is pretty good.

[WhoCares]

ATM we're loving "Diablo - Mimic47"

great stuff from these Finns!

[MadTinus]

Interesting do they have a website?www.disbrotherhood.nl

But it seems to be offline...

[Uphobia]

It's www.disbrotherhood.com nowadays....

[MadTinus]

Juust! Thanks :)

[Nouk]

Ahaaaaa. I wanted to post the address of the website too but found it to be offline (I forgot the name of the album :D) But thank heavens, Koen knows everything ;)

And BTW, the album is called 'Escape to Reality' ;)