Metal Month II is coming...

Unknown Soldier · 09-22-2014, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

For me to call a genre extreme metal there has to be a general consensus that all of the bands in the genre must play extreme metal. Like, I wouldn't call thrash metal an extreme metal genre, since much of it was made up of bands like Anthrax, Annihilator, Metallica, etc, even though bands like Slayer and Kreator would qualify (I'd use "extreme thrash" to make the distinction.) But, for the most part, any death metal or black metal band is at least encouraged to play extreme metal. Many bands experiment with non-extreme metal forms of music, and some even dispense with extreme metal altogether at times, but as a status quo, those genres are explicitly concerned with being "extreme", rather than potentially less hardline concepts like "aggressive" or "hard" or "fast" or whatever.

Groove metal bands in general are more of the thrash metal mindset, where they're "badass", but aren't necessarily out to actually be extreme metal. So I'd consider the bands at the heavier end of the spectrum, like Pantera and Machine Head, to be flirting with extreme metal, even though their music might actually be more extreme than many actual extreme metal bands (Although I sometimes go back and forth with those two bands, depending which albums we're talking about.) A vague distinction perhaps, but it makes sense in my mind. Lamb of God though, at least their first two albums, I'd definitely consider extreme metal, since they were obviously going for extreme. I wouldn't be surprised if they played a few blast beats back in their early early days.

Agree with most of that and thrash is probably the dividing line between what is extreme and what is not with the bands you've mentioned. I was thinking along similar lines for when I go into thrash in my journal.

Trollheart · 09-29-2014, 01:04 PM

Just a quick reminder, Metal Month II starts on Wednesday! Hope to see you all there. Drop in for a pint and a blistering guitar solo; we'll keep a seat for ya right up front!

Trollheart · 09-29-2014, 07:59 PM

Another update:

Mastodon --- Blood mountain
Cavalera Conspiracy -- Inflikted
Sigh --- Imaginary sonicscape
Znowhite --- Act of God
Draconian --- Arcane rain fell
Cryptopsy --- None so vile --- reviewed but has been seconded to the new section "The Batlord's Torture Chamber"
Mondstille --- Seelenwund
Urfaust -- Geist ist teufel
Conan --- Monnos
Reinxeed --- 1912
Forefather --- Steadfast
Finntroll --- Nattfodd
Wintersun --- Wintersun
Night sun --- Mournin'
Pantera --- Metal magic
Gallowbraid --- Ashen elaidon
Dissection --- Storm of the light's bane
Arcturus --- La masquerade infernale
The Chasm --- Farseeing the paranormal abysm

Mondo Bungle · 09-29-2014, 08:09 PM

Are you going to review all those and the three top tens?

Trollheart · 09-30-2014, 03:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle

Are you going to review all those and the three top tens?

And a whole lot more! Everything in red has been reviewed already; I just have to upload the reviews during next month. I still have tons of other stuff to do (two more countries to sort out for The International Language of Metal, Triple Boxset, more 2014 albums etc) but I'm getting there. I've done Janszoon's top ten, Plankton's and yours to go...

Trollheart · 09-30-2014, 10:44 AM

For those interested, all future updates, including any added to the list, will be made at post 103. There's no point in my continually writing the same thing each time in a new post, so if you want to see if your album has been reviewed yet check back there.

(New update today by the way...)

Trollheart · 09-30-2014, 02:46 PM

I've decided to keep this thread going through Metal Month II. As I have no real chance yet of getting back to the Weekly Journal Update thread, and certainly not while this is going on, I'll keep a basic update of what happens each day in the journal here.

Starts tomorrow! You won't want to miss it! Be there or be somewhere else...

Trollheart · 10-01-2014, 06:29 PM

We've opened with two new albums from the "Freshly forged in '14" section, with the latest release from Panopticon, "Roads to the north", and Savage Messiah's "The fateful dark", while also starting off on our short world tour with "The International Language of Metal". We start our journey in Brazil, where so far we've reviewed "Legacy of humanity" by Anubis.

Lots more to come tomorrow, and we'll be revealing who our Featured Artiste is. You may be surprised!

Drop in if you feel like it. The beer is always cold, and free, and the women? Well they're not cold, nor free, but ... you know ...

Pet_Sounds · 10-01-2014, 10:03 PM

The folk metal album I'll be reviewing in my journal is also by a Brazilian band. I couldn't have even named a Brazilian band a couple weeks ago, and here we are both starting with one. Talk about coincidence!

The Batlord · 10-01-2014, 10:23 PM

So is it just gonna be the one band from Brazil or are you covering the country more in depth?

09-29-2014, 01:04 PM	#102 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,994	Just a quick reminder, Metal Month II starts on Wednesday! Hope to see you all there. Drop in for a pint and a blistering guitar solo; we'll keep a seat for ya right up front! __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

09-29-2014, 07:59 PM	#103 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,994	Another update: Mastodon --- Blood mountain Cavalera Conspiracy -- Inflikted Sigh --- Imaginary sonicscape Znowhite --- Act of God Draconian --- Arcane rain fell Cryptopsy --- None so vile --- reviewed but has been seconded to the new section "The Batlord's Torture Chamber" Mondstille --- Seelenwund Urfaust -- Geist ist teufel Conan --- Monnos Reinxeed --- 1912 Forefather --- Steadfast Finntroll --- Nattfodd Wintersun --- Wintersun Night sun --- Mournin' Pantera --- Metal magic Gallowbraid --- Ashen elaidon Dissection --- Storm of the light's bane Arcturus --- La masquerade infernale The Chasm --- Farseeing the paranormal abysm __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018 Last edited by Trollheart; 10-04-2014 at 08:00 PM.

09-30-2014, 10:44 AM	#106 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,994	For those interested, all future updates, including any added to the list, will be made at post 103. There's no point in my continually writing the same thing each time in a new post, so if you want to see if your album has been reviewed yet check back there. (New update today by the way...) __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

09-30-2014, 02:46 PM	#107 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,994	I've decided to keep this thread going through Metal Month II. As I have no real chance yet of getting back to the Weekly Journal Update thread, and certainly not while this is going on, I'll keep a basic update of what happens each day in the journal here. Starts tomorrow! You won't want to miss it! Be there or be somewhere else... __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

10-01-2014, 06:29 PM	#108 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,994	Metal Month II: Day One We've opened with two new albums from the "Freshly forged in '14" section, with the latest release from Panopticon, "Roads to the north", and Savage Messiah's "The fateful dark", while also starting off on our short world tour with "The International Language of Metal". We start our journey in Brazil, where so far we've reviewed "Legacy of humanity" by Anubis. Lots more to come tomorrow, and we'll be revealing who our Featured Artiste is. You may be surprised! Drop in if you feel like it. The beer is always cold, and free, and the women? Well they're not cold, nor free, but ... you know ... __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

10-01-2014, 10:03 PM	#109 (permalink)
Pet_Sounds Remember the underscore Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: The other side Posts: 2,488	The folk metal album I'll be reviewing in my journal is also by a Brazilian band. I couldn't have even named a Brazilian band a couple weeks ago, and here we are both starting with one. Talk about coincidence! __________________ Everybody's dying just to get the disease