/metal/

>Riffless "DUDE, WEED" albums

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>Why yes, I do regard Imaginations From the Other Side as Blind Guardian's best album while acknowledging that it is for good reason that Nightfall in Middle Earth is their most popular work, how could you tell?

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>riffless
get a load of this guy

funeral..................d..ooom.......
youtube.com/watch?v=ydNL6O1QVBg

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For years, Nuclear War Now!’s forum has been the haven for life dropout D&D neckbeards searching for some form of friendship and community. But according to website tracking metrics, the site has seen a massive decline in it’s traffic over the past 6 months. While viewership of metal sites can rise and fall unpredictably on metal sites, the above statistic should frighten anyone who cares about keeping their site relevant. Sites with active forums should be doing much better than your the average blog-style metal site, so the numbers above show an unforgivable descent into irrelevancy.

But given that the site is predominantly frequented by war metal fans that have no regard for actual music, the crash in interest also proves something far bigger: war metal, as a sub genre, is in its last days.

This is a welcomed revelation as war metal was the nu metal of black/death metal and was ultimately worthless. With virtually no innovation, creativity, or direction for over 20 years, war metal became the lowest IQ form of extreme metal. The fact that Beherit was more interesting, creative, and musically varied than every single band to follow it throughout the decades to follow is an absolute disgrace to every band that’s followed in their footsteps.

NIGHTFALL
QUIETLY CREPT IN AND CHANGED US ALL

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finndeath>all
change my mind

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'ate Metallica
'ate Mercyful fate
'ate Bathory
'ate Celtic frost
love Slayer
love Motorhead
love Amon amarth
love Behemoth

simple as

While the surface-level viewer might see war metal as “the most underground/kvlt/extreme/unlistenable of all genres,” the truth is that it was only marketed as such and done so very effectively as the bank account and new production facility of Cali basedboy Yosuke Kanishi will clearly indicate. By offering a product that appears “totally not mainstream haha!” Kanishi was able to efficiently trick kvlt status seeking basement dwellers into mass consumerism using the same marketing tactics as thrift shops. Essentially this created a record label and forum that was ultimately the thrift shop of metal– reissues (refurbished releases) of random bands from 20 years past that could be marketed as super underground when really they were just empty of creativity and technique. By assumingly being “not trendy” war metal became one of the trendiest metal genres of our time and the go to for the metal derivatives of the modern hipster.

“Bu… But war metal is evil!” Really, then why does Nuclear War Now! have an Instagram account?

Musically war metal is a hilarious deception because if you alternate the grooves of their atonal power chord riffs, you’ll get nu metal riffs. Most bands even match the nu metal guitar tuning of A! But war metal fans have no idea they’re listening to nu metal with different drums and vocals because they only care abut the aesthetics. In all reality most of Black Witchery’s riffs were originally on Korn’s Life is Peachy which subconsciously tickles the nostalgia of their fans without them realizing how or why.

>has only two clear references to weed in the whole album
>lyrical subjects vary from riding a dragon to flying a spaceship into the sun
>has this sweet fucking riff youtu.be/effUB0_T1pE

You've either never listened to Holy Mountain or you have the wrong number of chromosomes.

I did one more post on the War Metal thing last thread btw.
Does Infernal Coil really count tho?

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>Behemoth

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In an age where Von is taking big money for rock star tours, where Blasphemy albums are marketed as vintage thrift shop essentials, and where black metal shows feature 90% war metal bands, any prestige or credibility war metal and it’s original bands once had is gone. War metal fans are the modern equivalent to the JNCO jeans wearing clowns of the 90s. They are the permavirgin autistis of metal that grew from infants that would have been left in the woods to be eaten by wolves in the Pagan times.

Celebrate the death of war metal, repent if you ever liked this garbage, and enjoy some classic war metal riffs below:

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youtube.com/watch?v=wYUfsaqLnvs First thrash full lenght!

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>'ate Mercyful fate
>'ate Bathory

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>Does Infernal Coil really count tho?
If this isn't war metal, then what the fuck is it?
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I like the old school death scene from finland.
youtube.com/watch?v=p9JBxJ5xkEo

Name a more based American doom guitarist.

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Al Cisneros

>There was a moment when Behemoth was part of the first wave of bands to get Polish extreme metal recognition outside of their homeland
>now they're regarded as tourist shit

I don't like them, but I can't help but feel a little bit sad when I think of this. Also, you faggots should listen to Kat. Unironically the best metal band Poland ever produced.

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He's a bassist.

>kat
They’re so good, love their blackened thrash style. Also Behemoth is still good, /metal/ just hates them for being popular

I hadn't heard it in a while, you right.
Dave Chandler.

>Behemoth is downright shi-
youtube.com/watch?v=_398zp6vW1g

>Listen to Holy Mountain instead.
re-listened to it recently. garbage.

Yes, and? A bass guitar is a guitar that plays in the bass range.

/metal/ isn't the only place I've seen them get hated on as being tourist/poser. I suppose it's inevitable for any metal band formed after 1985 that gains mainstream success (after all, we all seem to conveniently forget that Judas Priest sold out pretty hard in the 80s). It makes me feel old whenever it's a band that I can remember not being particularly huge. You can tell some are kiddies who have literally only experienced certain bands after they achieved massive fame.

Is there such a thing as tech grind?

Judas Priest also went on to drop the GOAT in the 90s.

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>In all reality most of Black Witchery’s riffs were originally on Korn’s Life is Peachy which subconsciously tickles the nostalgia of their fans without them realizing how or why.
loudwire.com/black-witchery-public-assassin-steve-tregenda-childers-dies-49/
>RIP in peace

Touche.

Technically yes, but I think it's accepted enough in comman parlance to refer to one type as just bassists and the other as just guitarists that the distinction doesn't need to be made. That said, Al Cisneros is great. I'm pretty sure that somewhere in this Om song he actually hits the brown note and makes people shit themselves. youtu.be/kKqoNrZ00Bg

Listen to Defeated Sanity.
youtube.com/watch?v=jWldg3k3RZ4
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Is this supposed to be heavy?

They do probably have the greatest redemption of any metal band in history. Still, it feels like Judas Priest gets surprisingly little flack for a string of significantly more commercially oriented albums. Starting with Killing Machine you get much less thoughtful lyrics and songs that are clearly far more oriented for radio play. Every single album seems to have some mandatory "everyone sings along" song like United or Take On the World. Maybe these albums are really just that good that most metal fans don't really get mad, except maybe at Turbo. I know that I love their more mainstream stuff just as well as I love Sad Wings or Painkiller. It just seems weird to me that a lot of bands will achieve far less commercial success and get disregarded as tourist trash and have their classic albums shit on by /meal/ but everyone just ignores that time when Priest did it.

>youtu.be/kKqoNrZ00Bg
Bass on this sounds cool, but it sounds just like Sleep and has terrible vocals.

Probably not? Heavy isn't really the vibe that Om goes for, but if you play this song with any decent sound system the BWOMWOMWOM of Cisneros' bass is pretty fucking rad.

Surprisingly good, didn't expect that

Behemoth has had bland vocals, just-okay riffs, and gaudy production on par with Dimmu Burger for most of their career.
Boy am I glad Nergal went through cancer so he could experience some level of hardship enough for them to push out a decent album (The Satanist).

Defeated Sanity is one of the best active metal bands around. They know how to balance their stuff with the right amount of weedly dees and slams without sacrificing songwriting. They also have every instrument very prominent in the mix which is rare for that type of music. They picked up where Suffocation left off.

>'ate Mercyful fate
>love Behemoth

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T.O.O.H. and Gridlink

What is even going on here?

I saw Dummy Booger open for Danzig. Their touring soundboard guy was so bad I couldn't hear anything standing directly behind him. Sounded like a jumble of mush. Why would I ever listen to them again after that?

Got near the front when I saw them live. Major chad energy, that guy had.

Discordance Axis kind of

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Thats because Judas Priest remained consistent after they sold out. Eveyone still likes The Sentinel, Rock Hard Ride Free, Turbo Lover, Heading Out to the Highway. How many NWOBHM bands were even redeemable by the mid 80s. Their longetivity is actually pretty impressive.

FAR FAR BEYOND THE ISLAND

ummm is that a brain I see? unacceptable. not caveman enough

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His name is Michael and he’s infamous on Yas Forums for being a massive autist about resident evil

>How many NWOBHM bands were even redeemable by the mid 80s.
Maiden

WE DWEALT IN SHADES OF TWILIGHT

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>MFW listening to Jungle Rot

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>Listening to Dickinson Maiden

Faggot

Micheal seethe threads are some of the funniest threads I've ever been in.

I agree, their sellout material is pretty great. I guess I just wanted to point out the dichotomy between them and bands who don't necessarily even sell out, but still get branded as touristy just for being successful. It seems to largely depend on when the band was founded.

Love me some Michael threads.
'Ate Barry threads.

Simple as.

Well yes, but other than the literal GOAT band of the entire genre, can you name even three?