Those brief momwnts which encompass all you love aboout metal
That "Owwwwwwwwwwwww!" about 22 seonds in, over that fucken riff. Jesus it's everything I want in a Metal tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcp3Pf6rqHw
That bit near the end of 'The Majesty of the Nightsky' where Ihsahn shrieks, "Now I am one with the night sky majesty!". :abbath:
I've said it many a time, but Reifert's delivery of "amputation for your rations" at 2:08 is the greatest vocal in death metal.
53 seconds into Moloko Mesto by Sepultura.
What's it gonna be then? Hey!
The transition from 3.05-4.00, one of my all time favourite moments in metal...
Quote from: The Great Cull on November 12, 2024, 07:29:38 PM53 seconds into Moloko Mesto by Sepultura.
What's it gonna be then? Hey!
Good fuckin call!!! Sometimes I forget how ripping that album is. It's the definitely the most vital of the Greene albums for me. Like I've a real soft spot for Against but they were very much their own band on this one
Nothing in the world of metal gets me going more than a slick soaring heavy metal vocal melody that just hits the right spots in my brain. The opening verse in this comes to mind. Incredible.
I need to start a USPM thread one of these days..
Maiden's most underrated tune IMO. It encapsulates all that is great about classic, traditional heavy metal at it's most strident and exuberant. Inspiring, uplifting and fun without being twee or silly.
Everything I personally love about 90's death metal. Particularly the chugging riff that comes in around 42 seconds.
The riff that comes in around 2.05. The first time I heard it as a young lad I almost jumped out of my skin. It still makes me grin from ear to ear.
Another morbid Angel one is when Fall from grace opens on BATS, still gives me goosebumps, I can't even begin to imagine what it would have been like to have gotten that album on release and the blasts start. The gaf would have been wrecked. Insane.
Wanting to move beyond calling out specific moments in songs (even though I'm gonna do it myself), but a well placed EUGH!/ARGH!/YAAH! is a satisfying something that you don't get in any other music style. Celtic Frost are the obvious leaders, but this week I was listing to both Eternal Champion and House of Atreus who have two class examples.
The opening roar is good, but the YEEOW! at about 30secs in is perfect -
https://youtu.be/tHZkq8u-dII?si=3IEcNa2ELKV3Vihg
Nearly 2mins of zero vocals until we get a HYEEH!
https://youtu.be/uZRi_9HwMbE?si=DpJvMtjXdissgt_2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LxgQmV_OsU
The transition into the gallop on Tankards Dont Panic always gave me an instant steel boner at 1:48
It hasn't happened in forever, but it was always really satisfying to recognise a few distorted notes playing in some ad or TV show.
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I remember thinking that there must have been a metalhead working in RTE around 2005 or 2006, as a travel show that was doing a piece on Egypt used Nile's Dusk Falls upon the Temple of the Serpent on the Mount of Sunrise to accompany the intro footage.
The closing solo in The Oath, one of the most satisfying solos ever
The "Unholy black metaaaaal" shout in "In The Shadow of the Horns"
I know it has came up here somewhere before but a well time EUGH can really bust in a song. One I came across lately is on Couch Slut's The Weaversville Home For Boys (https://youtu.be/abEfc-yj_uw?si=UIgLRTlMwIWewvR5) at about 3:20 - whole song meanders into something more cohesive just before here and the build up is needed for effect but the one little pin of vocals pivots the riff around. It's lethal. The whole song is lethal. The whole album is lethal but I love little touches like this on things.
You say you've got the answers, well who asked you anyway?!
That bridge riff at around 6.10:
Lee Morris' drumming on Paradise Lost's Draconian Times. Absolutely sublime.
Quote from: Naraka on November 29, 2024, 05:38:14 PMLee Morris' drumming on Paradise Lost's Draconian Times. Absolutely sublime.
I remember reading a review of that album before they were actively mocking the drumming. Can only assume that the reviewer had hearing and/or brain damage.
Quote from: Naraka on November 29, 2024, 05:38:14 PMLee Morris' drumming on Paradise Lost's Draconian Times. Absolutely sublime.
Was only a few years later I discovered what a splash cymbal was.
He was a grand drummer alright. Didn't he play on some Irish release recently? The past few years, I mean.
Quote from: Carnage on November 29, 2024, 08:03:43 PMHe was a grand drummer alright. Didn't he play on some Irish release recently? The past few years, I mean.
How could anyone forget Creations Tears? You're such a falser!
I always love the mad "Eughlaul" hairball noise in this at 1.17 :abbath:
Quote from: Naraka on November 29, 2024, 05:38:14 PMLee Morris' drumming on Paradise Lost's Draconian Times. Absolutely sublime.
Yup it is great.
Related pleasure: the kick in at the start of forever failure is one of the absolute best ever, instant goosebumps every time.
Quote from: The Great Cull on November 29, 2024, 04:40:42 PM
You say you've got the answers, well who asked you anyway?!
YES!
Quote from: ochoill on November 29, 2024, 09:24:55 PMQuote from: Naraka on November 29, 2024, 05:38:14 PMLee Morris' drumming on Paradise Lost's Draconian Times. Absolutely sublime.
Yup it is great.
Related pleasure: the kick in at the start of forever failure is one of the absolute best ever, instant goosebumps every time.
Agree on both the overall drumming and on Forever Failure. A masterpiece of a song.
Quote from: The Great Cull on November 29, 2024, 08:33:11 PMQuote from: Carnage on November 29, 2024, 08:03:43 PMHe was a grand drummer alright. Didn't he play on some Irish release recently? The past few years, I mean.
How could anyone forget Creations Tears? You're such a falser!
The tone suggests shiteness. I dunno, I just heard some murmuring...
Autopsy's "Severed Survival". The whole lot of it. Reifert is a rabid animal on vocals. Best death metal album ever recorded to my lug holes. :abbath:
Just before 6 minutes where they return to a simplified version of the main riff and the bass is just belted quarter notes. Beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uATR1QkL4Nk
Yep, if you can't bang your head to that you're most likely clinically dead.
Honestly barely listened to a note of Overkill in me life, but that was pretty fucking cool. What's their go-to album?
Years of Decay or Horrorscope. Also have a soft spot for Taking Over and Under The Influence. For a heavy slow, heavy, floor shattering, track try Skullkrusher although it's more an exception rather than a rule in the Overkill canon
The best overkill is Feel the Fire!
Yeah, as above, Years of Decay and Horrorscope are the peak but the first 5 albums are all quality, for me. After that, you don't really need to hear another note, to be honest.
Weirdly I've been listening to YOD all morning, fucking great record.
White Devil Armory is as good as any of the classic albums.
Quote from: Thorn on December 01, 2024, 02:49:13 AMYep, if you can't bang your head to that you're most likely clinically dead.
I'm alive!!!!
Overkill have been on a run of very solid, if unspectacular, albums since probably The Electric Age
There's nothing wrong with any of them, but if you've heard one or two you don't need to hear any others
I'm another one to completely ignore Overkill!,I better fix that!
Quote from: Trev on December 01, 2024, 08:22:18 PMOverkill have been on a run of very solid, if unspectacular, albums since probably The Electric Age
There's nothing wrong with any of them, but if you've heard one or two you don't need to hear any others
Never got into them at all but absolutely can't argue with the bit in question. Back in the mental drawer good luck and thanks.
Usually when I say something like that though I end up extolling the virtues of it soon after
What happens between 10:19 and 10:55 in this. Particularly in the bits where the guitars drop out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADByOipYy0w
Arguably one of the most ridiciulous moments in metal, but I fucking love it.
Quote from: Pentagrimes on December 01, 2024, 11:25:06 AMWeirdly I've been listening to YOD all morning, fucking great record.
The only album of theirs I ever really listened to as I got it back when it came out and started pivoting to death metal pretty sharpish after that. Still love it, still no interest in investigating anymore by them.
Horrorscope is great IMO. Think they have some great moments here and there.
The Electric Age was cool I thought?
The breakdown at 5:10 in this Gorefest tune always got me. Still remember when I heard it first and audibly gasped ha ha
Overkill are like the Motorhead of Thrash!
The classics are, well... classics!
Everything after is still great, but rather interchangeable.
And yes! All their most recent few albums have been killer.
Ironbound is a ripper of an album as well, the releases after are good but they haven't topped it.
love the electric age
Quote from: Barrytron on December 03, 2024, 07:05:50 AMHorrorscope is great IMO. Think they have some great moments here and there. The Electric Age was cool I thought?
The breakdown at 5:10 in this Gorefest tune always got me. Still remember when I heard it first and audibly gasped ha ha
Mention Gorefest, the first thing comes to mind is the solo in this.
I think Overkill have been on a hell of a run of albums since 2010. Okay, there was a slight dip with The Grinding Wheel and Wings of War (Still bloody good), but Scorched is up there with the likes of Ironbound.
Quote from: Barrytron on December 03, 2024, 07:05:50 AMHorrorscope is great IMO. Think they have some great moments here and there. The Electric Age was cool I thought?
The breakdown at 5:10 in this Gorefest tune always got me. Still remember when I heard it first and audibly gasped ha ha
Always loved the way Jan-Chris just stared the camera out of it there ,looking Metal as fuck.
Quote from: Thorn on December 05, 2024, 09:58:04 PMQuote from: Barrytron on December 03, 2024, 07:05:50 AMHorrorscope is great IMO. Think they have some great moments here and there. The Electric Age was cool I thought?
The breakdown at 5:10 in this Gorefest tune always got me. Still remember when I heard it first and audibly gasped ha ha
Always loved the way Jan-Chris just stared the camera out of it there ,looking Metal as fuck.
Such a great tune. I loved that vid back in the day.
The entire solo/guitar break in Bathory's Call From The Grave. In retrospect, I think that album was pretty much my gateway into really appreciating the lower-fi end of metal.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on December 06, 2024, 11:45:03 PMThe entire solo/guitar break in Bathory's Call From The Grave. In retrospect, I think that album was pretty much my gateway into really appreciating the lower-fi end of metal.
I've just stuck Black Mark on reading this. All lights are off, looking at a glass of merlot and the glow of the fire.
Fuckin' beauty :abbath:
:abbath:
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on December 06, 2024, 11:45:03 PMThe entire solo/guitar break in Bathory's Call From The Grave. In retrospect, I think that album was pretty much my gateway into really appreciating the lower-fi end of metal.
Was a relative latecomer to proper Bathory due to hearing Octagon first and thinking they (he) were shite.
It was actually hearing Call From The Grave on GTA IV:the lost and damned dlc that hooked me. Straight on to the rapidshare blogs after that.
Black Mark is a fucking masterclass in atmosphere. Like I normally buzz off the technical stuff, and some of this album could be from a "my first riff/drum beat" class, but it's some of the best music ever recorded.
Quote from: Ducky on December 07, 2024, 01:23:06 AMBlack Mark is a fucking masterclass in atmosphere. Like I normally buzz off the technical stuff, and some of this album could be from a "my first riff/drum beat" class, but it's some of the best music ever recorded.
And liberally nicking stuff off early Manowar😂
Quote from: Sworntothecans on December 07, 2024, 01:34:26 AMQuote from: Ducky on December 07, 2024, 01:23:06 AMBlack Mark is a fucking masterclass in atmosphere. Like I normally buzz off the technical stuff, and some of this album could be from a "my first riff/drum beat" class, but it's some of the best music ever recorded.
And liberally nicking stuff off early Manowar😂
I was today days old when I learned I should revisit early Manowar 🤣
Quote from: Ducky on December 07, 2024, 01:49:07 AMQuote from: Sworntothecans on December 07, 2024, 01:34:26 AMQuote from: Ducky on December 07, 2024, 01:23:06 AMBlack Mark is a fucking masterclass in atmosphere. Like I normally buzz off the technical stuff, and some of this album could be from a "my first riff/drum beat" class, but it's some of the best music ever recorded.
And liberally nicking stuff off early Manowar😂
I was today days old when I learned I should revisit early Manowar 🤣
Everything up to Sign Of The Hammer is great. Then the cheese kicks in after😂
Big bag of cans and you'll be grand like!
The little bass bit during the chorus of The Prisoner by Iron Maiden.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on December 06, 2024, 11:45:03 PMThe entire solo/guitar break in Bathory's Call From The Grave. In retrospect, I think that album was pretty much my gateway into really appreciating the lower-fi end of metal.
Actually when the main riff comes in on after the intro on "Enter The Eternal Fire" might be one of my favourite things ever
These couple seconds in ,,Compelled to lacerate" filled with only ride cymbal and the moment right after, when guitars slide black into the main riff.
Quote from: koper on December 11, 2024, 09:24:12 PMThese couple seconds in ,,Compelled to lacerate" filled with only ride cymbal and the moment right after, when guitars slide black into the main riff.
I do enjoy the outro lead to that one.
QuoteThese couple seconds in ,,Compelled to lacerate" filled with only ride cymbal and the moment right after, when guitars slide black into the main riff.
It was nice to hear anything that wasn't the same old churning CC thing. I really got off the bus on that album, one or two moments here and there but really dull overall.
Pro Pain always good for a catchy riff:
Quote from: Mithrandir on November 28, 2024, 05:12:39 AMThe closing solo in The Oath, one of the most satisfying solos ever
For 2 similarly epic closing solos, see Mercyful Fate - Is that you, Melissa, from In the Shadows, and King Diamond - Black Horsemen, from Abigail.
When the riff kicks in after the solo in Left To Die
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zQhJNsWBWY&t=1020s
The almost power metal "wwwwaaaaaaaaa!" after "no remorse!" in Emperor's "The Source of Icon E".
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ecug1j2PYY8&t=88s&pp=2AFYkAIB
Quote from: Ducky on December 19, 2024, 02:27:32 PMThe almost power metal "wwwwaaaaaaaaa!" after "no remorse!" in Emperor's "The Source of Icon E".
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ecug1j2PYY8&t=88s&pp=2AFYkAIB
Similarly, the scream let out around the 5.30 mark in Black Horizons by Dissection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MD9e_Ha4AM&themeRefresh=1
Not what I was expecting to hear the first time I heard this tune. :laugh:
TT Quick -
Front BurnerGreat simple riff
That's the Accept guys old band isn't it? Not bad.
Propain....foul taste of freedom
The Speed of Darkness by The Crown. When that Knight Rider riff kicks in.
The main riff in Waking The Dead. Such a groove. Mike Clarke was the man.
Quote from: The Great Cull on December 23, 2024, 03:15:29 PM
The main riff in Waking The Dead. Such a groove. Mike Clarke was the man.
As strong as the ST rhythm sections have been in the last 25 years, Mike & Rocky were absolutely killer and they've never really had a guitar duo that strong since. .
Still great craic live.
In the Shadow of the Horns when the main riff kicks in :abbath: also the part when it speeds up about 4 minutes in :abbath:
It is ha challenge not to headbang or air drum to this song.
Death Angel playing Act III live in its entirety.
For sure. One of the great albums.
The way the first three songs run one into the next, no gaps, no time to think, relentless riffage. Savage.
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nIP8EAF0zIic8XfUT1ckvP53nO2ZYgtWA
Quote from: Bürggermeister on December 05, 2025, 07:18:35 AMFor sure. One of the great albums.
Never thought I'd get to see them play Falling Asleep live. Unreal night.