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The best EPs.

Started by koper, July 09, 2021, 09:53:30 PM

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#45 July 22, 2021, 03:33:33 PM
A shame they never got around to releasing a full length.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv_b3UCK5Sg
#46 July 22, 2021, 03:58:47 PM
EPs are great, the right length to include something of substance and rarely outstay their welcome. They're the perfect place for bands to experiment without ruining the flow of an album and sometimes re-record/update older tunes (probably the only context in my book where its fully permissible). Preferable place for cover versions too.

Though they can be totally ruined when there's some godawful and irrelevant dance remixes included. Even worse when its multiple variation of the same tune.

Great ones that spring to mind -

Armoured Angel -  Stigmartyr
Cathedral – Soul Sacrifice and the Static Majik/Cosmic Funeral EP
Entombed – Crawl (best thing they ever did!)
Samael – Rebellion (perfect example of an ep – New track, Cover song, rerecorded tracks and some experimentation)
Aeon - Dark Order (albums never did anything for me)
Cardinal Sin – Spiteful Intents (ex-Dissection/Marduk - pity they never did any more)
Slayer – Haunting the Chapel
Summoning – Nightshade Forests
Paul Chain Violet Theatre – Detaching from Satan
St Vitus – The Walking Dead & Thirsty & Miserable
Autopsy – Retribution for the Dead
Reverent Bizzare – Harbinger of Metal (taking the piss a bit with the EP tag, with a runtime of over 70 mins)
#47 July 22, 2021, 03:59:32 PM
Quote from: vinterland on July 22, 2021, 03:33:33 PM
A shame they never got around to releasing a full length.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv_b3UCK5Sg

Beat me to it as I was typing  :abbath:

#48 July 22, 2021, 04:10:55 PM
Elder's Spires Burn/Release EP is great, it hinted at something a bit more ambitious which they would go on to do with Lore a couple of years later.
#49 July 22, 2021, 04:39:55 PM
Quote from: Noisymute on July 22, 2021, 03:59:32 PM
Quote from: vinterland on July 22, 2021, 03:33:33 PM
A shame they never got around to releasing a full length.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv_b3UCK5Sg

Beat me to it as I was typing  :abbath:

Great minds and all that!
#50 July 22, 2021, 04:44:07 PM
A band in a similar vein who did go on to release a couple of full lengths. Lead singer Henke Forss also did vocals on In Flames' Subterranean. The Swedish title is a direct translation of track number two "Sorrow Flew on Black Wings." A cover version, not untypical to eps is also included as well as an almost obligatory instrumental.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UoMd_HtYZE
#51 July 22, 2021, 05:30:19 PM
Cannibal Corpse - Worm Infested, is a quality EP.
Three cracking Corpse songs and three great covers- Demons Night -  Accept
                                                                                                Confessions -  Possessed
                                                                                                No Remorse - Metallica

Its the one I've listened to most often by a long shot but that said I don't have a whole heap of EPs.

Oddsocks Revival (Sligo band) - East of jacksonville, is fucking brilliant too, on the non-metal end of things.
#52 July 22, 2021, 06:07:12 PM
Has Confessor's s/t EP been mentioned yet? The title track is superb and the two amazing Trouble covers outdo the originals IMO.
#53 July 22, 2021, 06:52:19 PM
It hasn't. Always a controversial mention! The Captain Beefheart of doom metal haha. I agree on the title track, but wouldn't go quite so far about the Trouble covers myself! Might throw it on here now; I bought it off, I think, the boul Goatlord way, way back in the day.
#54 July 22, 2021, 06:53:22 PM
A shout for Dark Tranquillity's "Enter Suicidal Anglels" with three solid tracks before one of the most bizarre outros I've ever come across. Zodijackyl Light hinted at what would turn out to be their magnum opus in The Mind's I.
#55 July 22, 2021, 07:21:04 PM
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on July 22, 2021, 06:52:19 PM
It hasn't. Always a controversial mention! The Captain Beefheart of doom metal haha. I agree on the title track, but wouldn't go quite so far about the Trouble covers myself! Might throw it on here now; I bought it off, I think, the boul Goatlord way, way back in the day.

I've never owned it, bar in a roundabout way - all three tracks are on the Gods Of Grind CD. Superb band, if headache inducing at times. That drummer is a force of nature.
#56 July 22, 2021, 08:03:21 PM
Ah, of course! There's a Gods of Grind tour sticker on the sleeve.
#57 July 22, 2021, 09:40:02 PM
Plenty of great EPs already mentioned.

Dark Funeral self titled EP.
Emperor self titled EP.
Moonspell under the moonspell EP.
Anathema crestfallen,pentecost III EP
Primordial The burning season EP.
Burzum Aske EP.
#58 July 23, 2021, 11:33:55 AM Last Edit: July 23, 2021, 11:35:31 AM by Cosmic_Equilibrium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFMuSI9s8hM

This came out about six years or so ago, I think they were an Australian band. Very good trad HM/epic Pagan Altar type stuff. I don't think they released anything else though.

Speaking of Pagan Altar, The Time Lord EP is another good one.
#59 July 23, 2021, 11:39:37 AM
God shout on The Time Lord. Unreal. I'll have to give Zodiac a spin.
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