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Anything Goes / Re: The heavy metal topic!
« on: December 02, 2010, 01:00:12 PM »
GREEN METAL BRO!  Now it is time for the long overdue reply! It will be a seperate comment so you'll know the topic is updated. :p I'm guessing this reply will be brief. As much so that it will feel unnecessary that I took my time as I did. But whatever!

Strangely enough, usually (not always) the vocals makes or breaks a song for me as well. But yeah, I've grown to love these harsh ones, so I judge them on their own merits; bad screaming cripples the song, good screaming elevates it. Makes sense, I guess? And yeah, the scream is absolutely ridiculously long.

I hadn't heard that Red Alert one before (because I haven't even played the game, I guess... *covers his head* No, don't slap me!). It does indeed sound a bit like that, though! Pretty good.

The Grim Reaper song is, as expected, very nice! And, on that note...

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:p

That Helloween song is a bit silly, but still nice.

As for Disturbed, I used to listen to those guys. Good band. My favorite song is probably... Uhm... Err... *checks Spotify* ..Erhm... Guarded or Voices, maybe? Have you listened to their latest album yet, by the way? Asylum? It seems pretty good, even if it's a bit different.

Ah... Nightwish! An old-time fan of that band. I don't listen to any of their new stuff, but yeah, one of the first metal bands I loved. Oceanborn is still one of my favorite albums.

As for the pun, I don't think I actually noticed that. I love puns. XD

I know of Sonata Arctica. I like some of their stuff, but a lot is almost...too commercial for my tastes. I know I said poppiness isn't a big deal, but there's always a limit. :p Lol.


Have a good one. o

EDIT: Wait. Right. You made another post too. I'll get to that one in a few.

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Anything Goes / Re: Random art.
« on: December 02, 2010, 11:33:31 AM »
Quote from: "DoomThroughDoom"
Why do landscapes have to be so awkward to draw. I wish I could draw them well.......

*practices*

Remember to start out with guidelines to keep the perspective intact (like so: http://attachments.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=392149&stc=1&d=1213587927).

Probably not required for all landscapes, especially not completely natural ones, but if you're thinking of doing something similar to he did, then I would think so.

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Anything Goes / Re: The heavy metal topic!
« on: November 30, 2010, 11:35:25 AM »
A VERY BRIEF INTERVENTION!

Here's an epic song by Epica:



Apart from the regular symphonic metal, this has a part that sounds like black metal (thankfully instrumental), a part that sounds like something Opeth would do, and as usual, some death metal mixed in. Some calm parts, some really heavy stuff. Quite a bit of variety. A mixed bag to be certain. I love Epica. Although there ARE some parts I don't like...the stupid dialogue sections.


I'll get back to you real soon, I promise :p Just listened to this (not for the first time, mind you) and wanted to share it.

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Anything Goes / Re: The heavy metal topic!
« on: November 28, 2010, 12:49:15 PM »
Green metal bro: dats a lot of text. I'll get to you later! :D


Quote from: "KillerChair"
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I take your Korpiklaani and raise it with the far less silly, and quite frankly superior, Eluveitie:

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In my opinion, of course. :)

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And if you like Dio aswell as Killswitch Engage.

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Not a HUGE fan of Killswitch Engage, although I do like them, but that one is very good!

EDIT: Rofl. That music video is great. So cheesy. XD I love when the guy pokes the other guy's guitar. Also when that guy looks inside of the book and goes like "what?!". It might just beat The Black Dahlia Murder's bowling video!


EDIT 2: Has anyone seen the Spider-Man movies? Epica's rendition of the score gives me goosebumps.

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And I think everyone have seen the Star Wars movies.

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Anything Goes / Re: The heavy metal topic!
« on: November 27, 2010, 03:19:45 PM »
Hah, yes, even I think he could've done the In Flames one better. Although I think In Flames have musically gotten worse in recent years, I do think Anders Fridén's vocals have improved (a rare opinion). His screaming is a lot better, and he sings every now and then now (although his singing gets a lot of criticism for being "whiny", which I mostly do not agree with).

Here's my favorite song from the album before their latest:

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Very improved screaming, and I personally love his cleans.


But yeah, I understand if you don't like screaming. I was also there once, after all. That's not to say you will ever approve of it just because I eventually did, but yes, it's hard to say you wrongfully dislike growls when I used to dislike them myself! It's all good. It's an acquired taste, truly. My mission is to make you overlook these vocals for the sake of the music, rather than like them -- although the latter wouldn't be bad. :P


As for Allegaeon, I can definitely see why that one wouldn't be your cup of tea! But anyway, that part at the 4 minute mark is awesome. Reminds me a lot of Mega Man. In fact, I thought it was a direct rip-off of some Mega Man 2 tunes at first, but as I listened to those I realized it wasn't. So it was just in a similar vein. :)

As for the Katatonia/Opeth deal, yeah, some of Opeth's calm stuff is very reminiscent of Katatonia (or vice-versa). And yeah, I think Opeth's singer is far too similar to Katatonia's. Funny thing is that Opeth's singer was once IN Katatonia, although as a growler. But I guess he could have heard him SING at times (at rehearsal, or maybe they're friends, or whatever), and that style might have rubbed off on him! Or vice-versa.

And by that last song, do you mean the Shaolin Death Squad one? Lol. On that note, here's another excellent song by them:

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I actually HADN'T heard that particular Judas Priest song, by the way! Pure Priest, right there. Magnificent. I'm pretty sure I have heard the second Priest song, though. But very good also. I especially dig the solo in that one! These guys know how to do it.

And holy crap, I haven't heard of Grim Reaper before! This is some classic shit! I really don't mind "poppiness" in heavy metal; after all, Scar Symmetry is one of my favorite bands. They're heavy as fuck, sure, but most of the choruses are very pop-like and catchy. The first song's chorus reminds me very much of Iron Maiden. It's repetitive in a way I don't mind. The scream at the end kicks ass, too. So freakin' long. Length-wise, it reminds me of a totally-completely-type-of-scream from the beginning of a Graveworm song, and also one at the end of an Annihilator song (also different). See below:

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That second Grim Reaper song was also very nice! I have a new band to listen to. Thank you, green bro of metal! :D


EDIT:



Blind Guardian's speed metal days! I mean, sure, their latest album, At The Edge of Time, is seriously one of my favorite albums of all time. But this is just so awesome. Blaaaaast beeeaats!

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Anything Goes / Re: Where did you get your name?
« on: November 27, 2010, 12:36:37 PM »
Your name makes me think of Terranigma, which stars a boy named Ark.

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Anything Goes / Re: The Ska or Punk Topic
« on: November 27, 2010, 12:35:16 PM »
Quote from: "Snake33AU"
(sorry green bro, I have a lot of videos to watch, lol, that and I have to think of more cool songs to recommend to ya)

No worries. ;)

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Anything Goes / Re: Random art.
« on: November 27, 2010, 11:41:12 AM »
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Why, what you're witnessing is only my magnum opus! I take comfort in the fact that I'll be remembered for Generic Pixel Knight, probably for eons to come. Probably? Definitely for eons to come. In the far-off future, there will be religions formed around the face of GPK. There will be a planet-sized billboard-type thing floating in space, showing only this guy. It will be near-indestructible, but that's an irrelevant fact; no one will ever even think about destroying it, and asteroids and such can't even come close because his high levels of awesomeness; they will be sent flying at a high speed in the opposite direction. Everyone and everything will conform to the epicness and purity that is him.

His name is self-explanatory: he's a generic knight and he's very pixelated. Isn't it a masterpiece of epic proportions?

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Anything Goes / Re: Forum Achievement!! (I couldn't help myself)
« on: November 25, 2010, 06:28:31 PM »
Rofl. I apologize.

EDIT: See what I had to do?

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Anything Goes / Re: The heavy metal topic!
« on: November 25, 2010, 06:16:55 PM »
Nightwish's Ocean Born is one of the first albums I absolutely loved. I remember playing Bucky O'Hare for the NES and listening to Sacrament of Wilderness. <3


How could I forget to mention the avent-garde metal band Shaolin Death Squad, though? These guys are the most genius musicians and lyricists ever! Two examples of their lyrics:

"we hold the key to the cage that we’ve made for our face"
"facelessness is nice here out of the light, but I’m so insecure that I’ve killed my face"

Absolutely marvelous.

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Seriously though, they're extremely talented musicians, even if the themes are beyond goofy. They NEED to make it to the top. I can't allow anything else.

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Ride The Lightning is awesome...

Absolutely.

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Anything Goes / Re: Forum Achievement!! (I couldn't help myself)
« on: November 25, 2010, 05:59:17 PM »
That's how I roll.

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Anything Goes / Re: The heavy metal topic!
« on: November 25, 2010, 05:45:15 PM »
Green metal bro:

Very glad you like some of that! :)

Both Helloween songs are very nice, but I'm especially digging Stratovarius! Could definitely get into that. Much melody! Freakin' love the part at 1:42 of the first song. :D That Queen song is also nice! And historically intriguing.

Random melodeath song time!


The cleans in this one are incredibly beautiful. I think it's a huge shame they couldn't get a better growler. I only like his last screaming part; throughout most of the song it just sounds awkward.

Because every topic needs In Flames:
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Also, to counter Camo Yoshi's "acid metal" mention, I'm gonna post some industrial metal:

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Also, here's a good example of a song that manages to be both extremely heavy, and extremely melodic:
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Seriously one of the most melodic songs I've heard, that's not 8-bit video game music anyways. A huge bonus is that most words are very clear, even though he growls, at least to my ears.




And here we have the most beautiful song ever conceived:
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(It's not quite metal. I'm cheating.)


EDIT: Oh yeah. Metallica kicks ass, by the way. I like most of their stuff, but my favorite era is from Ride the Lightning to the self-titled one.

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Anything Goes / Re: The heavy metal topic!
« on: November 25, 2010, 05:29:11 PM »
Precisely. That song is so metal. :P

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Anything Goes / Re: The heavy metal topic!
« on: November 25, 2010, 05:24:45 PM »
Quote from: "Yellow Devil"
I also 'saw' (sorry) some metalman spoof where he was singing some metal song with stupid lyrics (do you like coffee? real coffee?) but I forgot where I saw it.

The coffee song is from the cartoon Metalocalypse, which is about a death metal band. That song is performed by the fictional band Dethklok (the band the show chronicles).

I think it's called Coffee Jingle or something.

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Anything Goes / Re: Forum Achievement!! (I couldn't help myself)
« on: November 25, 2010, 01:51:50 PM »
Indeed.

You won't like what you see. XD My post there is ridiculously long.

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