Are there any prog-metal bands other than like opeth, black metal bands, and BTBAM? I'm thinking Mastodon's last album surely wasn't the first to sort of mix sludge with progressiveness and rock or whatever.

There are lots of progressive metal bands depending on what you're looking for because the term is generally pretty vague and meaningless at this point. If you're into the real melodramatic, concept album thing there's bands like Riverside ([I]Second Life Syndrome [/I]) and Pain of Salvation ([I]The Perfect Element[/I], [I]Be[/I]). If you like Opeth, you'd love Gwynbleidd's [I]Nostalgia[/I]. Subterreanean Masquerade have a really unique sound that I can't quite explain, but [I]Suspended Animation Dreams[/I] is a favourite of mine. !T.O.O.H.!'s [I]Order and Punishment[/I] is a great progressive death album if you're looking for something really quirky and technical. If you want something with a bit of wank and a melodramatic vocalist who doesn't sound like an effiminate weirdo, Symphony X might apply, as might Psychotic Waltz ([I]Bleeding)[/I]. Two of Sculptured's albums ([I]The Spear of the Lily is Aureoled[/I]) or [I]Embodiment[/I]) are great for something a little off kilter. Orbs' [i]Asleep Next to Science[/I] features Dan Briggs of BTBAM and it's a pretty bizarre but still good progressive metal album. Then you can get into the pretentious stuff like maudlin of the Well ([I]Leaving Your Body Map[/I] or [I]Bath[/I]).

That should keep you busy for a while.

that will most definitely keep me busy for a while. thank you much. I'm really digging !tooh!.

rec me stuff in vein of pissed jeans, please.

pissed off/hateful stuff.

Total Abuse - Mutt
Drunkdriver - Drunkdriver
Sex Vid - Communal Living
Slices - Cruising
Brainbombs - Obey

thanks :)

Radiohead- High And Dry clocks in at 4:20. Nuff said.

And you're telling us this why?

i need dark ambient/drone

Throbbing Gristle - [I]In The Shadow of The Sun[/I]
23 Skidoo -[I] The Culling Is Coming[/I]
Halo Manash - [I]SYoMA[/I]
Zoviet France -[I] Popular Soviet Songs & Youth Music[/I]
Maeror Tri - [I]Hypnotikum I[/I]
Mz.412 - [I]In Nomine Dei Nostri Satanas Luciferi Excelsi[/I]
Toroidh - [I]European Trilogy[/i]

burial hex - initiations

[QUOTE]Burial Hex is a one-man black noise project by Wisconsin's Clay Ruby, who throws together homemade oscillators, scraps of metal, various effects and organs (presumably more of the Hammond variety than spleen and liver, but who knows?!). As dark ambient, ceremonial noise goes, this is of the very finest order, sounding genuinely unsettling and sonically adventurous, while being absolutely soaked in atmosphere - right down to the creepy artwork and packaging. Production wise, Burial Hex is a more developed and varied sounding clamour than most, from the incinerated orchestral racket of 'Will To The Chapel' through to the vicious, grunting electronic drone of '8 Pentacles', there's plenty of depth here, and even if it all gets a bit over-the-top on the trance-inducing percussion and sinister whispering games of 'River Of Los', the sheer blackness of 'Bo-II-NE' will win over even the most insatiable noise followers. Highly recommended.[/QUOTE]

thanks guys

Okay, serious question:

Microcastle or Halcyon Digest?

rebuilding my music collection

what are the best immortal albums to get?

drudkh too

idk man i don't even like early immortal i only like heart of winter and northern darkness

all drudkh is good forgotten legends is my fav microcosmos was really good too

okay mitch

Drudkh - [I]Krov u nashykh Krynytsyakh (Blood in Our Wells)[/I]
Drudkh - [I]Autumn Aurora[/I]

Immortal - [I]Sons of Northern Darkness [/I]
Immortal - [I]Pure Holocaust[/I]
Immortal - [I]At the Heart of Winter[/I]

[QUOTE=MalleusMaleficarum;18333287]Okay, serious question:

Microcastle or Halcyon Digest?[/QUOTE]

both

but if you need only one then halcyon

okay now:

Highly Refined Pirates or Planet of Ice?

They're pretty different. Planet of Ice is the better album but Highly Refined Pirates is probably their best "quirky" album. It's fun and there's cool tapping but it isn't as good of a listen.

Recomedations?
 

Lately I've been listening to a lot of Metallica, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Black Sabbath, Pantera, Black Label Society, Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne. In short I'm looking to move beyond the big names in metal and don't know where to start. Based on what I listen to now do you guys have any recomendations? Thanks!

[QUOTE=subliminalnirvanaist;18354222]Lately I've been listening to a lot of Metallica, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Black Sabbath, Pantera, Black Label Society, Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne. In short I'm looking to move beyond the big names in metal and don't know where to start. Based on what I listen to now do you guys have any recomendations? Thanks![/QUOTE]

I take it you're already familiar with Iced Earth. Their early works are up your alley. I think you might like Grand Magus (in particular [i]Iron Will[/i]) and Mastery ([i]Lethal Legacy[/i]). Perhaps you might also like Darkthrone's latest album, [i]Circle the Wagons[/i].

[QUOTE=subliminalnirvanaist;18354222]Lately I've been listening to a lot of Metallica, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Black Sabbath, Pantera, Black Label Society, Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne. In short I'm looking to move beyond the big names in metal and don't know where to start. Based on what I listen to now do you guys have any recomendations? Thanks![/QUOTE]

you might want to move on to the more extreme genres of metal, seems you've hit a nice area of traditional/thrash metal. Try some of the heavier thrash bands (mainly from Germany) like Sodom, Destruction and Kreator. If you like those, you could likely move onto some early death metal which was very thrash based. Black metal is tough to get into as it can be very abrasive, but the big names there are Mayhem, Darkthrone and Burzum if you're interested.

Alternately, you can keep exploring the sort of realm you're in now with bands like Slough Feg, Manowar, Nevermore, Mercyful Fate, Dio, Symphony X, Doomsword and Mastodon.

I'd give doom metal a shot too, from the school of Black Sabbath. Bands like Candlemass, Electric Wizard and Saint Vitus should all be agreeable to you.

hey dudes, recommend me some music you think I'd like, I've sort of hit a slump music-wise

I am <-----------------------> this open-minded

James Blake, Jamie Woon also.

[QUOTE=SlightlyEpic;18361448]hey dudes, recommend me some music you think I'd like, I've sort of hit a slump music-wise

I am <-----------------------> this open-minded[/QUOTE]

I checked these on your RYM to see that you didn't have them rated.

Peste Noire - Ballade cuntre lo Anemi Francor (bm)
Peste Noire - La Sanie des siècles - Panégyrique de la dégénérescence
Low - I Could Live in Hope (slowcore)
Blood - O Agios Pethane (old school death/grind)
Murder by Death - Who Will Survive and What Will be Left of Them? (indie rock)
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Etiquette (indie pop)
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Vs. Children
Vasaeleth - Crypt Born and Tethered to Ruin (dm)
Mitochondrion - Archaeaeon (black/death)

[QUOTE=SlightlyEpic;18361448]hey dudes, recommend me some music you think I'd like, I've sort of hit a slump music-wise

I am <-----------------------> this open-minded[/QUOTE]

since you dont listen to hip hop get Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

idk you might get into the genre

and get Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma , you might also get into more electronic stuff, who knows.

[QUOTE=SlightlyEpic;18361448]hey dudes, recommend me some music you think I'd like, I've sort of hit a slump music-wise

I am <-----------------------> this open-minded[/QUOTE]

Absolute Body Control - [I]Absolute Body Control [/I]

kate bush - hounds of love

I have most of those recs berkay and I don't know what gives you the impression that I don't listen to hip hop or flying lotus, mike but I'll check out the ones I haven't heard, cheers dudes