\m/(~_~)\m/ Bring the Metal! \m/(~_~)\m/

I know I gotta write it up.

Worst video and song ever.

The songs they've released from the upcoming album are all really good. Can't wait to see them in April!

Sounds like it's time for me to get into Evergrey.

As an aside, I love they all still look exactly like they did 20+ years ago. The drummer's epic long locks especially.

Recreation Day was one of my favorite albums when I was getting into metal in college. My tastes have gone in a largely different direction since then, but as far as that sort of power-prog-metal that, well, belongs on stage at ProgPower, they're good.

The Inner Circle, In Search ofTruth and Recreation Day are great starters. Hymns for the Broken too, which is also their best album since 2004.

It's a little too clean for me, generally, but Weightless is really good. We'll see how far down the rabbit hole I go.

Danny Carey says the new TOOL album will release in mid-April of this year.

*Legion* wrote:

Danny Carey says the new TOOL album will release in mid-April of this year.

I'm gonna be in Jacksonville for "Welcome to Rockville", which Tool is scheduled to headline (first date of their tour, methinks). If it does drop in April, I'll have had time to digest the new record and figure out whether I like it or if it can go the way of 10,000 Days.

brokenclavicle wrote:
*Legion* wrote:

Danny Carey says the new TOOL album will release in mid-April of this year.

I'm gonna be in Jacksonville for "Welcome to Rockville", which Tool is scheduled to headline (first date of their tour, methinks). If it does drop in April, I'll have had time to digest the new record and figure out whether I like it or if it can go the way of 10,000 Days.

I have a feeling it'll be another 10,000 Days.

New Soen is out. New Within Temptation is out.

Oh, and this:

I think I'll have to spin it a few more times before giving my thoughts.

New Astronoid is also out today, if you'd like some more dreamy, melodic, major key metal. I liked the debut a lot, and this picks up where that left off.

Ah, thought that was just another single release and full album was later. Thanks for the reminder!

Watch the first video so you understand what he's planning. Pretentious?!?!? We shall see.

Interesting that Alice in Chains EPs SAP and Jar of Flies are better than most full-length albums in any genre. That's my "bug on the windshield" thought at this moment.

You guys see this:

garion333 wrote:

You guys see this:

Seen it... not sure how to feel about it, honestly. Feels odd to see this get the Hollywood treatment, meaning it will probably be a bombastic, highly fictionalized and warped depiction of the events.

I know Varg isn't happy about it, but, obviously, for all the wrong reasons hahahaha

Oh, Varg doesn't like it? I should probably watch it then!

Except it looks like absolute trash to me.

I think the origin story of black metal is a bunch of losers that accidentally made an interesting musical idea that got better once it grew beyond their little grasps.

Just discovered this band. These guys are really great if you love some really sludgy stoner metal. Bonus: all their songs are about space and aliens and wizards and magic.

I dig it. The lyrics are boss.

Edit: I've changed my mind after listening to more of their stuff, I don't dig it, I f*cking love it!

Maynard says new Tool album will release between mid-May and mid-July, already delaying the album from Danny Carey's claimed release window.

Apparently, High on Fire won a Grammy, which is neat. Better than another Jethro Tull incident. Hell, the list was pretty decent and fairly metal:

Between the Buried and Me – "Condemned to the Gallows"
Deafheaven – "Honeycomb"
High On Fire – "Electric Messiah"
Trivium – "Betrayer"
Underoath – "On My Teeth"

Thou is still nowhere to be seen, which is correct. #shotfired

Devy is letting his freak flag fly again.

omg omg omg it's so gooooooooooooood

Fredrik_S wrote:

omg omg omg it's so gooooooooooooood

Edit: Listened to it a couple more times and it's amazing. I need to stop myself from wearing it out until full album is released.

I found iMonolith today. They have only released one song, but I am digging it a lot and no wonder. Look at this line up!

* Jon Howard (THREAT SIGNAL) - Vocals
* Jed Simon (VIMIC, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, SCAR THE MARTYR) - Guitar
* Brian "Beav" Waddell (DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT) - Guitar
* Byron Stroud (STRAPPING YOUNG LAD) - Bass
* Ryan Van Poederooyen (DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT) - Drums

That song sounds like something from 2000 or so.

A lot of people exorcising DT from their lives.

garion333 wrote:

Better than another Jethro Tull incident.

After that I vowed to never watch the Grammys again, and that's been easy to uphold over the last few years. I can hold a grudge long after I stop caring about the band (Metallica) itself.

New Soen is out.

Cool, but I'll give it a listen before buying. Nothing they've done since has topped Cognitive.

That new Devin Townsend is pretty great. I'm not a huge fan of his stuff, but that song has me enough where I'll definitely check out the album when it comes out.

I remember a while ago someone was looking for bands that sound like Tool, and I just happened to hear this one on a podcast. The catch is that the lyrics are in Spanish. Maybe you're bilingual?

It's awesome though. Most of my own non-English listening is with scream vocals that you can't understand anyway, but I'm enjoying this band. I don't know Spanish myself.

Anyone heard The Loom of Time? These guys really remind me of bands like Anciients and Dvne, and their lyrics (English this time) are amazing and all about crazy philosophical and science stuff. They do a similar mix of clean and "unclean" vocals, but you can understand the unclean stuff anyway. And hey, I just gave them their first like on youtube for this video!

That first band is just a wee bit like Tool.

People who write music that sounds like Tool weird me out. It's not the riffing and drum bits that I like about Tool, but the composition of the tracks and so many bands just take the riffs or drums. This band gets it, but they also only use Tool riffs. *sigh*

Give me complexity with heft without sounding like Tool. WHY CAN'T ANYONE SEEM TO DO THIS?!?! IT'S GOTTA BE EASY!