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New Behemoth seems decisive. I can understand why, seems like Behemoth has gone commercial. I like it, but it's an easy listen. Probably prove to be shallow after a few spins.

Svavelvinter is dope. Quality harsh and clean vox.

Last night I found these while browsing the Apple Music metal page. Apologies is they’ve already been mentioned here.

New Deicide album.

New Revocation album.

Jazz, metal, rock’n’roll and classical thrown into a blender and shredded into a chunky milk shake.

That Alex Skolnick Trio is straight up jazz to my ears, for categorical purposes. They could easily go on jam band tours.

Still, that song was hella fun. Gonna check out more.

Yeah, Skolnick leans that way for sure - and his bass player and drummer are insane to boot.

I only mentioned Skolnick because he was the og guitarist of Testament. That new album does span many genres from song to song. I’m pretty sure at least one of them qualifies as prog metal.

d4m0 wrote:

Anyone heard Liquid Tension Experiment? They are circa late 90s/early-2000s. It's most of the members of Dream Theater with a couple other people too, and it's like take DM and boost the bloat by 200%. Just about all instrumental.

I forgot about LTE! Great album, been listening to it for the last half hour.
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It's when you start listening this kind of music that you realize how much crap you hear on the radio
Running Man wrote:

I forgot about LTE! Great album, been listening to it for the last half hour.

Glad you like it! I actually owned both of their studio albums back in the day on CD. It has been a LONG time since I've listened to them.

Alex Skolnick is awesome. That is all.

There has been so much great new stuff coming out in the last few weeks. The Necromancers released their new album last Friday. Great for those that like the classic rock feel with modern sensibilities. Also Satan.

I was there and it was goddamn amazing.

Is the 500 error part of the joke, or......?

Indontgetit

Wink_and_the_Gun wrote:

Is the 500 error part of the joke, or......?

Indontgetit

That was YouTube being down earlier today.

I didn't realise Blood Stain Child had a new album. I sorta fell off with their latest stuff veering too much into auto-tune and techno-y stuff. Looks like they have returned to their old style with a touch more melodic death metal.

It's a goofy band for sure, but I've always had a soft spot for them.

And for something a bit more serious (eh, who am I fooling? This is goofy too). A crossover thrash band called Trappist who sings about...traditional brewing methods and anti-big corporation beer. But goddamn if this doesn't fuse two of my passions. Honestly, this may take the top spot on my album of the year list so far.

Oh, Trappist, where were you when I still drank? Lol

Earthless’s Black Heaven has been in constant rotation for me this year. Today they released a live album called From the West and they it’s clear that room of people left with their faces all melted off. Live mix is good too.

Track 1:

Good gawd that was nonstop!

The new SOULFLY is GREAT!

They’re way on down the road at this point, but I’m finally seeing Metallica tonight for the first time in my life and I’m really excited. Such a huge band for my lifelong love for heavier music! \m/

WizardM0de wrote:

They’re way on down the road at this point, but I’m finally seeing Metallica tonight for the first time in my life and I’m really excited. Such a huge band for my lifelong love for heavier music! \m/

Enjoy! They rocked my world on the Binge & Purge tour way back when, and were also pretty good at Lollapalooza.

Fun story: One of my best friends, who helped get me into Anthrax and metal in general, started to leave that first show after Metallica left the stage the first time. I was like "Dude, are you kidding? They might play multiple sets of encores! They haven't even played One yet!"

At Lollapalooza they played the intro to Detroit Rock City and I started jumping around and going crazy. My friends didn't know the song nor why I was suddenly frothing at the mouth. Sadly, they didn't follow through. A few weeks ago when I saw Exhumed (with Revocation), they played a condensed version of it with a couple choruses and the solo. I was in heaven.

Fun fact: The leader of Exhumed's favorite band? Metallica.

Leaving the Binge & Purge show...I just can’t even...I wore those 3 CDs out from Mexico City - that must have been amazing!

WizardM0de wrote:

Leaving the Binge & Purge show...I just can’t even...I wore those 3 CDs out from Mexico City - that must have been amazing!

It was pretty great. Like Lollapalooza, it was in a big field a decent ways away from downtown. I recall they played Disposable Heroes.

The former had the advantage over the latter that they hadn't released a bad album yet. I consider The Black Album to be good, if different.

I picked up Opeth’s Sorceress album a couple of days ago. I’ve been going through some tough personal stuff, and I saw it on iTunes for 5.99 so decided to pick it up. Holy Moly! I had no idea how much I needed this album. I can’t stop listening to it. I’ve always liked their harder stuff and wasn’t sure whether or not I liked their more proggy stuff, but this has easily become the only thing I am listening to right now.

Congrats on finding new music you love that much! I was like that with Gatecreeper for weeks. Sorry about the tough times; good luck with that!

Toddland wrote:

I picked up Opeth’s Sorceress album a couple of days ago. I’ve been going through some tough personal stuff, and I saw it on iTunes for 5.99 so decided to pick it up. Holy Moly! I had no idea how much I needed this album. I can’t stop listening to it. I’ve always liked their harder stuff and wasn’t sure whether or not I liked their more proggy stuff, but this has easily become the only thing I am listening to right now.

Nice! Try out Pale Communion and Heritage too if you dig it. Those and Sorceress are October staples for me at this point.

I was out sick on Friday and slept the day away, so I missed out on this. The first Ocean song that was released was a bit of a letdown for me, but this song is on point.

A few days ago (on Monday) was the 10th anniversary of Shadow Gallery's lead vocalist Mike Baker. I've been listening to them quite a lot in the last 10 days or so.

One of my all-time favourite bands and definitely one that enriched the progressive genre.

The weeks when I have to travel for work and put in long hours on-site tend to crystalize for me which recent albums are truly my go-tos.

Thou's Magus is indisputably awesome. Shove complaints about it being a brutal 75 minute marathon with less sonic variety than Heathen. These are the weak mewlings of sissy men. Every slow tortored pummel of it is exquisite.

Anachronism's Orogeny is going to be the album that I am going to scream and shout about when all the metal pubs put out their year-end lists and nobody has them on. I think they're gonna be one of those bands that signs with a bigger metal label for their 2nd or 3rd full length album and suddenly everyone discovers they are amazing.

Morne's To the Night Unknown might have the best first two tracks of an album this year. Heavy sludgey doom that is just full of memorable riffs and vocals. Rest of the album keeps up too.

liquid wrote:

A few days ago (on Monday) was the 10th anniversary of Shadow Gallery's lead vocalist Mike Baker. I've been listening to them quite a lot in the last 10 days or so.

One of my all-time favourite bands and definitely one that enriched the progressive genre.

Never actually heard of them, but that's not a surprise as they seem to be more in the Dream Theater and Symphony X end of things.

So, I've never really been exposed or very into metal music. If you were to recommend something to someone who is VERY unfamiliar with the genre...what would it be? Maybe something that can ease me into it. If it's available on amazon prime music, even better.

astralplaydoh wrote:

So, I've never really been exposed or very into metal music. If you were to recommend something to someone who is VERY unfamiliar with the genre...what would it be? Maybe something that can ease me into it. If it's available on amazon prime music, even better.

This is a very wide open question. The sub-genres of metal are vast. You should tell us what metal bands you like, or what sub-genres you’re most interested in.

Check out new stuff by Ghost and tell us what you think. If it’s not on Amazon you will be able to find it on YouTube.

I would also suggest Marty Friedman. If only because you’re asking in a Goodjer forum.

Yeah, a good place to start is "what do you listen to?"