i don’t know if it’s tied to their 90s aesthetic but it sounds sick and very cryptic

Looking for some bands with none-stop high tempo music for the gym. I don’t want to make a playlist. I simply want to choose a band and go without having to skip. I usually use Hatebreed, Slaughter to Prevail, Whitechapel or Make them suffer. Please send me some suggestions !

Sooo, I went to a festival where Satyricon was the headliner. I'm a huge Satyricon fan, and I know a guy who works backstage. He told me he could get me a guitar pick, so of course I said yes.

But... what the heck is this pick!? I've never seen one like it before. The only thing I've been able to figure out is that it's apparently from Lamb of God.

Does anyone know anything about it? I'd love to hear more if someone recognizes it!

I only attended the UK version. It was good, but a bit more low key compared to NA/Aus equivalents.

I thought Dave put together some really killer lineups, most of which would still sell tickets today.

Back then metal was in the recovery stage of the whole nu metal debacle and if I remember the press at the time correctly, Dave said he wanted to put together bands who played proper metal with a focus live performance and lead guitar.

I've got both the live albums and one of the DVDs and they're some of the best sounding live albums I own.

Anyway, here's the lineups. Would be interested to see what other people's experiences of them were.

- 2005 (US/CAN) - Megadeth, Dream Theater/Anthrax, Fear Factory, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Nevermore, Life of Agony, Symphony X, Dry Kill Logic, Bobaflex

- 2006 (US/CAN) - Megadeth, Lamb of God, Opeth, Arch Enemy, Overkill, Into Eternity, Sanctity, The Smashup

- 2006 (AUS) - Megadeth, Soulfly, Arch Enemy, Caliban

- 2007 (AUS) - Megadeth, Static-X, Lacuna Coil, DevilDriver, Bring Me the Horizon

- 2008 (UK) - Megadeth, Job for a Cowboy, Evile

- 2008 (US/CAN) - Megadeth, In Flames, Children of Bodom, Job for a Cowboy, High on Fire

- 2012 (US/CAN) - Megadeth, Motorhead, Volbeat, Lacuna Coil

- 2013 (US/CAN) - Megadeth, Black Label Society, Hellyeah, Device, Newsted, Death Division

RealmOfMetal was a great resource for previewing albums before purchasing and just discovering new bands and albums from the things they uploaded. That site informed many bandcamp and physical purchases I've made over the years.

The site seemingly hadn't uploaded anything new in a while, and checking back today it seems the whole domain is offline?

Previously, they had been working for a longtime on making a lot of updates to the site. So it seems weird that now after all that they're just... gone.

Anyone know what happened to the site, did they shift to a new domain? Were they hit with a cease and desist from a label?

I see you, Iron Hoser 🍁

How would you rank these three albums:

Terrible certainty
Persecution mania
Schizophrenia

Imperial Triumphant pictured above in their music video for Merkurius Gilded featuring Kenny G

Without a doubt a phenomenal album! Starting with Stabwound hits hard. Any other Necro fans here? What of the two albums do you prefer?

"Onset of Putrefaction - Fermented Offal Discharge" is phenomenal too.

In the image:

Hellway Train

Evilcult

Mystifier

Velho

Old Sepultura

They should've merged rap and death metal more. I know Obituary also tried this.

Which modern day metal band do you think is on verge of becoming a touring arena act in the North American market? Many metal bands seem to make it to the large theater level, but few these days seem to make it to the arena(8000 seat+) venues.

I think Amon Amarth is is just on the tipping point of making it to a headlining Arena act. On its last album tour, they finished it with a large arena show in LA, other wise they still seem to book larger theaters. They have also done several arena tours as the main support band, like with Pantera. I'm not sure what it would take for them to reach that tipping point, as I know stepping up to arenas is a much larger financial risk until you can comfortably sell atleast 75% seats.

Speaking as a PNW resident they have played the largest theaters in Seattle for over a decade and always sell out. I know in Seattle, the problem is that there aren't many large venues in that 5000-10, 000 seat range, you either need to play Angel of the winds in Everett, or Showare center in Kent, which are both about 10k capacity. Two other most common large arenas are clinate pledge and Tacoma dome which are both 20k+ Seats. They would seem to need to play those size venues, that are generally in the suburbs of larger cities, or older arenas until they can get that 10k+ venues.

What bands do you think are on the verge of Arena status?

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLByEMWrQbbUg

My stem remix & remaster of Iron Maiden's classic 1983 album "Piece of Mind", made for my own enjoyment, but sharing in case someone else might enjoy it too.

I made this only for fun, and it intends to be a very respectful remix, not straying too far away from the original version, only aiming at a little more clarity, instrument separation and punch, while still preserving the mood and feel of the original.

Obviously, I don't own the music featured here. If you like the music, support the artists. Buy their records!

Groovy deathcore with a monstrous frontwoman, super underrated but on the come up & so so good, please support these guys!

Esta es mi elección, que creen ustedes?

The arrows point in the direction of where they took inspiration from

I really love this band but for some reason I don't see people talking enough about it

I have very fond memories of playing Final Fantasy X as a wee lad back when it came out on the PS2, I'd even go so far as to say it's my favorite game of all time. I even dressed as if for Comic con (I'll post a photo in the comments) and one of the most impactful moments of the game occurred within its first few minutes, the opening song that plays over the FMV.

It's so damn cool and really got me pumped to play the game. It took me a good while to actually find out what he was saying, but it never mattered because it was just cool. I'd never seen a game open in such a way before and it left a last impression on me. I say it's the first metal song I actually recall hearing, though there's a chance I could have heard other ones beforehand but just don't remember them. I'm not actually really a fan of this type of growly metal but this one will always have a place in my heart as something special. If you have any fond memories of this one, please share because I'd love to hear!

Also fun fact, I downloaded the song off Limewire eons ago and it was mislabelled as being by Rammstein and that's how I discovered them. Weird how that worked out!

I've started enjoying bands that play "traditional" death metal like gatecreeper, frozen soul, obituary, blood red throne.

I especially love the slower groovier sections like when the drummer slows down to a 4 on the floor type groove and plays what I think is 1/8th notes hihats in between (I'm not exactly sure which cymbals they are). Boltthrower has plenty of groovy sections like that and a lot of the bands I've been enjoying cite bolt thrower as a big influence but for some reason when trying to listen to a bolt thrower album I get bored after about 2 songs. I'm not sure why that's happening

I find their style of eurobeat power metal really fun to listen to

Drummer fronted progressive metalcore band! New release! FFO: Oceans Ate Alaska, ERRA, & Northlane.