Rock and Metal Society

Ok so it's recent Lamb Of God you're into? You got any of the earlier stuff? Sacrement is an awesome album but Ashes of the Wake is at least as good. So you want straight up metal, with less hardcore? And not too fast? Try Killing Peace by Onslaught, it's pretty thrashy. Or Immersed by Sinai Beach, dunno if they're quite your thing but worth a shot.
And don't any of you let Malefice slip through your fingers!

Failure to acknowledge Carcass as the pinnacle of modern music will not be tolerated

Yes, those two albums are exactly similar in sound. The title Frozen In Time is meant to refer to Obituary's sound, i.e. that it has not changed over the years (although I disagree, one of the middle albums sounds almost as gay as The Haunted).

That's the only Byzantine album I've got aswell.

I am not sure why you just recommended Sinai Beach. They are just a mediocre metalcore band. I tend to find new bands by searching the underground metal review sites or even by looking at friends lists on myspace, if you keep looking for a while you do find some rather good bands.

On this Malefice band notice one of their reviews is from Kerrang... my opinions on this magazine are well documented... this review claims that they sound like Arch Enemy in parts. wtf? The only comparison I can draw between these two is how synthetic the vocals sound ( i am sure you know how much Angela Gossow's vocals are altered....) so I will reserve judgement until i see a live performance. The first track on their myspace sounds more like the heavier stuff by it dies today. Check out the first track on their myspace too..

Of course I would be up for doing some promoting. And in answer to your comment on bebo check this out. Even with the rubbish sound quality of cameras it sounds good. Can't wait to see them live. Notice that her vocals are actually organic unlike Gossow's...

The Haunted are good, I've heard some stuff by them and they sounded alright

Finally someone talking sense! Not the best band in the world but still good

Some of Sinai Beach's stuff is pretty good and fits a little more with what Xulfer was looking for. It dies today - now there's a classic band! . They have 1 good song (Severed Ties...) but i prefer Malefice to them any day. Forever in Terror are another band i reckon are alright, though again Keeno will probably find something wrong with them . These are small bands and have not refined their sound yet, stick with them.

Lol well you're right about the sound quality anyway...
Yeah, she does sound pretty good actually, hopefully we'll get to see them live and judge then. Shame she didn't look all that hot there
Lol i love Angela Gossow to bits don't go slagging her off . Although on the live dvd she sounds totally different to on cd, i'll give you that much at least

To all the rest of you lot: Do you promote ace underground bands and stuff when they come to you're city?

They aren't a bad band my any means, it's just they write pretty boring run-of-the-mill metal songs. They seem to be part of this Century Media/Nuclear Blast/Roadrunner collection of just boring, bland and unexceptional metal bands, which is a shame as those labels used to (and still do) have some excellent bands on their roster.

In fairness to Roadrunner though, with Opeth, Porcupine Tree and Dream Theater on their roster now they look a hell of a lot better than they did a few years ago.

To all the rest of you lot: Do you promote ace underground bands and stuff when they come to you're city?

True, but on the subject of ATG, do you guys prefer the earlier material such as the Red in the Sky is Ours, or Slaughter of the Soul? Me personally, I love The Red in teh Sky is Ours, great bend of death metal and violins

unfortunately we dont have the initial cash to put on bands.. we do support them though, and we often get in free cause the bands all like meeting us anyway, or we'll be doing distro. My boyfriend and I are pretty well known in the UK underground scene, at least one band at each gig we go to know who we are and alot invite us along... In return we do their merch stand, buy a handful of copies of their record for our distro, and keep in contact to support them in the future.

Municipal waste are overrated, i saw them with Rainyday****parade who seriously blew them off stage.

Roadrunner/Century etc have been going downhill for a long time IMO (although century media do sock our stuff in europe so ill give them a little credit) Earache have done the same... the one metal label to be seriously successful and still release **** hot bands IMO is Relapse.... Minsk, Baroness.. mmm

Totally agree. The Haunted were briefly exciting when they first appeared, good to see the Bjorler brothers back on the scene after ATG but as you say they quickly began sounding very routine. There is so much dross coming from Europe at the moment, it is a bit sad.

In fairness to Roadrunner though, with Opeth, Porcupine Tree and Dream Theater on their roster now they look a hell of a lot better than they did a few years ago.

What are your views on Nuckear Blast and Metal Blade?

never been much of a fan of the bands on either..