Metal For The World - Metal Reviewed
 

!METAL FOR THE WORLD!

"As long as there are kids who are pissed off and have no real way in venting out that anger, heavy metal will live on," - Ozzy Osbourne

This is basically going to be a thread for metal albums/songs/bands that I have come across, that deserve some sought of mention whether it be good or bad, well-known or not, anything goes. Mods, hopefully this could stay in this section and not the journals, I don't feel it is necessary to go there, but suit yourselves. Thanks.

A brief history on metal and I:

I got into metal at around 11, first hearing Iron Maiden and falling in love with them as many others did, progressing onto the rest of the bands you would expect: Dio, Sabbath, Judas Priest ect and then when I joined MB my whole musical outlook changed, and have branched out into many different areas of music, especially metal, that I never knew existed before.

Hopefully this thread can act as a guide to some cool metal for metalheads like myself and those not so in love with the much-hated genre of METAL to maybe get introduced to the genre.

First entry up in a bit. Guy.

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Band: Trinacria
Album: Travel Now Journey Infinitely
Year: 2008
Genre: Black/Ambient/Noise Metal

The band is comprismised of the heavyweight line-up of Grutle Kjellson (Enslaved), Arve “Ice Dale” Isdal (Enslaved, Audrey Horne), Iver Sandøy (Manngard, Emmerhoff & The Melancholy Babies) and Espen Lien (Barbie Bones, Slut Machine). "Travel Now Journey Infinitely," is the only release of the bands so far that I am aware of, and I for the love of metal they should definitely work on another release or two.

The record sounds much like your normal Enslaved records would, with a few twists. The guitars from Ivar and Dave are nothing out of the regular, as are those deathly, demon-like screams and howls of Grutle's who fronts the band. The one aspect that veers from the Enslaved sound is the drumming, Ivar keeps everything so out of structure that it manages to be in structure, weird eh?

"Turn Away," is the first song on the album and straight away you know exactly what you are in for, repitition, repitition and repitition. (Sounds like The Fall song) My favourite track of the album comprimising of the monotonous drum patterns, riffs and scary, estranged sounds echoing in the background.

Not to say once you have heard one, you have heard them all because that would be a terrible mistake, although the same pattern surrounds the whole album, fresh twists and around every drum beat or rif.

What more could you ask for? Maybe some dangerous women playing some crazy metal? If so, Maja and Hild, the two ladies from the Norweigan noise duo "Fe-Mail," are on hand to provide all the noise any one person could possibly handle.

Overall: 100/100

This album is most probably my favourite metal record, most certainly the best blackish/ambient album I own.

Wow, I'm impressed by that song. Thanks for sharing!

I only listened to the first couple of minutes but I'm sold, I will definetely give this album a try! Thanks for the recommendation and looking forward to more.

Cheers, if either of you need a link, just shout. You definitely won't be disappointed! Next review up soonish, depends if I can make myself stop jamming or not, we'll see.

The song starts good, but it becomes too repetitive as it goes on. It has a lot of My Dying Bride moments, but I would always choose My Dying Bride over it.

That is the thing with much atmospheric black metal such as Trinacria, Drudkh ect is that the repition can either be painstakingly boring or hypnotic... I guess it just depends on where you fall in-between.

Need to get another review up here. Expect something in the next few days. (No prizes to anyone who guessed it is going to be black metal)

This has potential... I'm anticipating some more reviews.

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