What Are You listening To V.III Metal!

The Batlord · 10-30-2018, 09:08 PM

Kinda not but I dig a bit of them. rEVOLVLEr was my **** back in the day though.

Unitron · 10-31-2018, 12:22 AM

One of the most addictive hooks ever.

Unitron · 10-31-2018, 05:24 PM

It's Halloween, that means White Zombie marathon for me starting with:

~~MicShazam~~ · 11-01-2018, 12:08 PM

Jinjer - Words of Wisdom

Great!

Jinjer - Just Another

Even better!

Amaranthe - Maximise

I'm gonna be humming that hook for a week straight at least.

The Dark Element - The Ghost and the Reaper

Like the catchiest Nightwish songs, but without the boring symphonic stuff.
This whole album is basically power metal.

Arch Enemy - The Eagle Flies Alone

Best Arch Enemy album, pretty much. They really did improve with Alyssa on board.

Unitron · 11-01-2018, 12:31 PM

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Arch Enemy - The Eagle Flies Alone

Best Arch Enemy album, pretty much. They really did improve with Alyssa on board.

Nope. Arch Enemy with Alyssa blows. They now sound like every modern female-fronted metalcore band, complete with a lack of memorable riffs. Angela Gossow was actually a death metal vocalist.

Doomsday Machine is the best Arch Enemy album, from when they actually were a death metal band. Not every band can have such a heavy and catchy groove while having a stark mechanical atmosphere:

Plus Asmodina, the band Gossow was in prior to Arch Enemy, is better than most of Arch Enemy's albums. Pure raw and crushing classic death metal:

~~MicShazam~~ · 11-01-2018, 12:36 PM

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Nope. Arch Enemy with Alyssa blows. They now sound like every modern female-fronted metalcore band, complete with a lack of memorable riffs. Angela Gossow was actually a death metal vocalist.

The thing is, that at first, I agreed with you. You know, back when the first album with Alyssa came out.

But having listened to those two Alyssa albums a lot over the last few years, they've grown on me a lot. Basically, I think the songs are more memorable, the production better and that Alyssa is a more versatile and expressive vocalist than Angela. I still think Wages of Sin and Khaos Legions are good albums, but I listen to the two newest albums far more these days.

EDIT: Although it has to be said that that bendy main riff in My Apocalypse is really cool.

Unitron · 11-01-2018, 12:50 PM

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The thing is, that at first, I agreed with you. You know, back when the first album with Alyssa came out.

But having listened to those two albums a lot over the last few years, they've grown on me a lot. Basically, I think the songs are more memorable, the production better and that Alyssa is a more versatile and expressive vocalist than Angela. I still think Wages of Sin and Khaos Legions are good albums, but I listen to the two newest albums far more these days.

EDIT: Although it has to be said that that bendy main riff in My Apocalypse is really cool.

I think the new albums are incredibly overproduced and way too polished, and the only song with Alyssa I can remember how it goes is the one you posted, and that's because of how bad it sounds. I guess "more versatile" works, but that's only because Alyssa does clean vocals which have no bearing on quality.

To each their own though, I just don't get the appeal. It just sounds too watered down and not very metal.

~~MicShazam~~ · 11-01-2018, 01:05 PM

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I think the new albums are incredibly overproduced and way too polished, and the only song with Alyssa I can remember how it goes is the one you posted, and that's because of how bad it sounds. I guess "more versatile" works, but that's only because Alyssa does clean vocals which have no bearing on quality.

To each their own though, I just don't get the appeal. It just sounds too watered down and not very metal.

Across those two albums, there's precisely 1 song with clean vocals. The way in which I think she's more versatile entirely has to do with her approach to harsh vocals.

And I think the two new albums sound much like the ones with Angela, but they come out nicer in terms of the bass and drum sounds on my stereo. Seems more balanced and warm sounding to my ears.

I probably don't like Arch Enemy for the same things. I find overly "brutal" bands boring. You can only go with that mood for so long before it all blends together.

Unitron · 11-01-2018, 01:28 PM

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And I think the two new albums sound much like the one's with Angela, but they come out nicer in terms of the bass and drum sounds on my stereo. Seems more balanced and warm sounding to my ears.

They sound nothing like Doomsday Machine at least, and that's really the only Arch Enemy album that I LOVE. They have more good albums, but Doomsday Machine has such a unique sound that I've honestly never heard quite replicated. I think it's something to do with the atmosphere it has.

~~MicShazam~~ · 11-01-2018, 01:33 PM

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They sound nothing like Doomsday Machine at least, and that's really the only Arch Enemy album that I LOVE. They have more good albums, but Doomsday Machine has such a unique sound that I've honestly never heard quite replicated. I think it's something to do with the atmosphere it has.

Not my favorite metal band by any means, but I like to listen to their best few albums now and again. I don't personally have much of a relationship with Doomsday Machine. Maybe I would feel it was something special if I'd listen to it a lot more.
Back in the day, It tended to collect dust while I was listening to a few of their other Angela fronted albums instead. I can name good songs from it though.

The only AE album with Angela that I don't like at all is Rise of the Tyrant.

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~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,634	Jinjer - Words of Wisdom Great! Jinjer - Just Another Even better! Amaranthe - Maximise I'm gonna be humming that hook for a week straight at least. The Dark Element - The Ghost and the Reaper Like the catchiest Nightwish songs, but without the boring symphonic stuff. This whole album is basically power metal. Arch Enemy - The Eagle Flies Alone Best Arch Enemy album, pretty much. They really did improve with Alyssa on board.