Metal Album Survivor [1st Wave Black Metal Division]

The Batlord · 07-08-2015, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

Well I have to vote somebody off and I happen to prefer most of the other albums there.

Like, even over My Dying Bride? I mean, they take ten minutes before they do anything worth listening to. After that it's all good, but they take so long not to suck. I only voted for diSEMBOWELMENT over them to keep the thread going.

Unknown Soldier · 07-08-2015, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Like, even over My Dying Bride? I mean, they take ten minutes before they do anything worth listening to. After that it's all good, but they take so long not to suck. I only voted for diSEMBOWELMENT over them to keep the thread going.

See I really like that My Dying Bride album, even though I haven't heard it in a long time

The Batlord · 07-08-2015, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

See I really like that My Dying Bride album, even though I haven't heard it in a long time

I do too, but the first song could be half as long. It just goes and goes and goes. Kind of kills my desire to listen to the rest unless I skip it. It's like the first two tracks from Manowar's God of War, which is how I judge all albums that start off with self-indulgently long songs.

TechnicLePanther · 07-08-2015, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

I do too, but the first song could be half as long. It just goes and goes and goes. Kind of kills my desire to listen to the rest unless I skip it. It's like the first two tracks from Manowar's God of War, which is how I judge all albums that start off with self-indulgently long songs.

Because you're pressuring somebody else, it's gotta come back around.

How come you chose Celtic Frost over Katatonia?

My main problem with Monotheist is that there's no break. The album is almost constant heaviness, which I personally find lacking in creativity. Brave Murder Day is much lighter and easier on the ears, but there's also more variety with Katatonia. There's a bit of heaviness and a bit of lightness here and there, and the way it's spaced works perfectly in my opinion.

The Batlord · 07-09-2015, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by TechnicLePanther

Because you're pressuring somebody else, it's gotta come back around.

How come you chose Celtic Frost over Katatonia?

My main problem with Monotheist is that there's no break. The album is almost constant heaviness, which I personally find lacking in creativity. Brave Murder Day is much lighter and easier on the ears, but there's also more variety with Katatonia. There's a bit of heaviness and a bit of lightness here and there, and the way it's spaced works perfectly in my opinion.

So did you not make it past the first two songs?

TechnicLePanther · 07-09-2015, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

So did you not make it past the first two songs?

This song is definitely still heavy to my ears.

The Batlord · 07-09-2015, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by TechnicLePanther

This song is definitely still heavy to my ears.

But you don't find it at all a change of pace from the beginning of the album? And calling Celtic Frost uncreative is ridiculous. They were one of the pioneering bands in experimental metal.

From their early days inventing black metal in 1983 as Hellhammer.

To their first stirrings of something more with their first album as Celtic Frost 184.

Onto their leap forward with their second full-length in 1985.

And then a couple years later...