Ben's Forum Replies

Hi Ben,

Please add The Red Widows, Karyn Crisis' Gospel of the Witches and Year of the Cobra.

All done!

Ben, please add At War (USA) & Attitude Adjustment (USA).

Done.

Edenbridge (2019 Release)

Kobra and the Lotus (2019 Release)

Visions of Atlantis

Thanks!

Done

The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 14th/15th of November, 2019:

1. Year of the Cobra (FALLEN) - requested by Sonny92

2. Ascariasis (HORDE, INFINITE) - requested by Daniel

3. Satariel (HORDE, NORTH)

4. Diabolic (HORDE)

5. Dark Funeral / Infernal (NORTH, HORDE)

6. Tartaros (NORTH)

7. Parnassus (NORTH)

8. Attitude Adjustment (PIT) - requested by Daniel

9. At War (PIT) - requested by Daniel

The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 12th of November, 2019:

1. Ascension (NORTH) - requested by Daniel

2. Ellende (NORTH)

3. Midnight Odyssey (NORTH)

4. Defleshed (PIT, HORDE)

5. Uniform / The Body (SPHERE, FALLEN)

6. Arch / Matheos (INFINITE)

7. Azarath (HORDE)

8. Internecine (HORDE)

9. Em Sinfonia (FALLEN)

10. The Red Widows (FALLEN) - requested by Sonny92

11. Karyn Crisis' Gospel of the Witches (FALLEN) - requested by Sonny92

12. As They Burn (REVOLUTION) - requested by Daniel

13. Visions of Atlantis (GUARDIANS) - requested by Xephyr

Invicta

Lich King

Striker (Canada)

White Wizzard

Mostly Speed Metal, thank you!

All done.

The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 11th of November, 2019:

1. White Wizzard (GUARDIANS) - requested by Xephyr

2. Sinbreed (GUARDIANS)

3. Alas (GUARDIANS)

4. Striker (GUARDIANS, PIT) - requested by Xephyr

5. Die Apokalyptischen Reiter (HORDE, NORTH, GATEWAY)

6. Antichrist (NORTH, HORDE) - requested by Daniel

7. Fell Voices (NORTH)

8. Ash Borer (NORTH)

9. Ash Borer / Fell Voices (NORTH)

10. The Ravenous (HORDE)

I'm a big fan. Alien is great too!

By the way, I spend hours looking for the best possible artwork for each album cover, and then you fill the forums with shitty ones like this. Do your brother a favour and use the art from this site. 

The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 8th/10th of November, 2019:

1. .Gif From God (REVOLUTION)

2. meth. (REVOLUTION)

3. Antediluvian (HORDE, NORTH) - requested by Daniel

4. Thanatos (HORDE, PIT)

5. Skyfire (HORDE, GUARDIANS)

6. Antropofagus (HORDE) - requested by Daniel

7. Demoncy (NORTH)

8. Lich King (PIT) - requested by Xephyr

9. Invicta (PIT) - requested by Xephyr

10. Lion's Share (GUARDIANS, INFINITE)

11. Argus (GUARDIANS, FALLEN)

12. Hourglass (INFINITE)

Fragments of Unbecoming

Ghastly

Inferi

Infernal Coil

Lantern

Mammoth Grinder

Nailed To Obscurity 

Pyrrhon

Carnifex (2019 Release)

Thank you!

All of these have been added. Cheers!

The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 7th of November, 2019:

1. Angel Eyes (INFINITE, FALLEN) - requested by Daniel

2. Jex Thoth (FALLEN)

3. Daylight Dies (FALLEN, HORDE)

4. Anhedonist (FALLEN) - requested by Daniel

5. Blaze (GUARDIANS)

6. Pyrrhon (HORDE, REVOLUTION) - requested by Xephyr

7. Octinomos (NORTH)

8. Viking Crown (NORTH)

9. Cruachan (NORTH)

Ben, please add Crumbsuckers (USA) & Allegiance (Australia).

Done

The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 6th of November, 2019:

1. Time to Burn (INFINITE, FALLEN)

2. Miscarriage (FALLEN, HORDE)

3. Nailed to Obscurity (FALLEN, HORDE) - requested by Xephyr

4. Ictus (REVOLUTION)

5. Infernal Coil (HORDE, NORTH) - requested by Xephyr

6. Dimmu Borgir / Old Man's Child (NORTH)

7. Tulus (NORTH)

8. Verdunkeln (NORTH)

9. Dead Silent Slumber (NORTH)

10. Murg (NORTH)

11. Crumbsuckers (PIT) - requested by Daniel

12. Allegiance (PIT) - requested by Daniel

The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 5th of November, 2019:

1. Tumulus / Mock (NORTH)

2. Haunter (NORTH, HORDE, INFINITE)

3. Negative Plane (NORTH)

4. Antaeus (NORTH)

5. Trelldom (NORTH)

6. Manes (NORTH, FALLEN)

7. Mammoth Grinder (HORDE, FALLEN) - requested by Xephyr

8. Lantern (HORDE) - requested by Xephyr

9. Takafumi Matsubara (HORDE)

10. Pijn (INFINITE)

11. Conjurer (FALLEN)

12. Pijn / Conjurer (INFINITE, FALLEN)

13. Witch (FALLEN)

14. Alice Through The Windshield Glass (REVOLUTION) - requested by Daniel

Ben, please add Agnostic Front (USA).

Done

A couple more to add, since it seems you've completed my main list a few posts above:

Obscuring Veil

Fejd

Massemord

Mirrorthrone (also Infinite)

Myrkur

Thulcandra

Also, the new Alcest album! It came out this weekend!

All added!

Ben, please add the Adversarial/Antediluvian split album as well as Aeon of Horus (Australia).

Done

Ben, please add Abnormality (USA) & Abominable Putridity (Russia).

Done

The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 3rd/4th of November, 2019:

1. The Gault (FALLEN)

2. Skumring (FALLEN)

3. Savage Circus (GUARDIANS)

4. Old Funeral (HORDE)

5. Agoraphobic Nosebleed / Converge   (HORDE, REVOLUTION) - requested by Daniel

6. Aephanemer (HORDE)

7. Ghastly (HORDE) - requested by Xephyr

8. Inferi (HORDE) - requested by Xephyr

9. Ishtar (NORTH)

10. Carpe Tenebrum (NORTH, HORDE)

11. Obscuring Veil (NORTH, INFINITE) - requested by illusionist

12. Thulcandra (NORTH) - requested by illusionist

13. Flamen (NORTH)

14. Agnostic Front (PIT) - requested by Daniel

15. Inherit Disease (HORDE)

Gonna assume that they're not getting back together because someone told them to do it. After all, they've been pretty clear in the past that they're not going to do what anyone tells them to do.

Ben, please add HIM (Finland).

I know they're more of a gothic rock band than metal, but the band has some metal in some albums. So please add the albums Venus Doom (which already has Gothic Metal on the top of its genre list in Rate Your Music), Love Metal (even though none of the metal genres that describe this album are on top of its genre list, the album and its title help describe the band's musical genre, so please at least put it in The Fallen and/or The Gateway), and Dark Light (non-metal album between the two aforementioned albums).

Well, one album met the criteria.

Ben, please add Admiral Angry (USA).

Done

Ben, please add these new albums:

Oh, Sleeper - Bloodied / Unbowed

The Contortionist - Our Bones (not in The Revolution but the band used to be, please put that EP in The Infinite)

Betraying the Martyrs - Rapture

Done

The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 30th of October / 1st of November, 2019:

1. ShadowStrike (GUARDIANS)

2. Aeon of Horus (HORDE) - requested by Daniel

3. Fragments of Unbecoming (HORDE) - requested by Xephyr

4. Vastum (HORDE, FALLEN)

5. Mattias Eklundh (INFINITE)

6. Mirrorthrone (NORTH) - requested by illusionist

7. Denial of God (NORTH)

8. Nyktalgia (NORTH)

9. Myrkur (NORTH) - requested by illusionist

10. Xasthur / Leviathan (NORTH)

11. Bifrost (PIT)

12. Desekrator (PIT)

13. HIM (FALLEN) - requested by shadowdoom9

I agree with that last comment. I could have spent all of my time recruiting, but instead decided that the best thing to do is spend that time adding content. That way when people do visit, they have a more positive experience.

Plus it's actually really fun adding bands / releases. 

We would appreciate any "marketing" effort by any members, so would be more than happy for you to give that a go. Daniel and I decided at the outset that we'd make a website that we both personally wanted to use, and we've achieved that, but it would obviously all work much better if we could get the word out and build a bigger community.

Cheers!

Looks like a great list!

One day I will give Power Metal a serious go. I might even devote a month or two to really delving into it and seeing if I can make the connection that has eluded me so far. The themes are right up my alley, being  a big fan of fantasy and science fiction. I just have a constant struggle with the lack of darkness and the abundance of cheese.

Finnr's Cane

Hermóðr

Rhadamanthys

Strigae

Ulsect

Veldes

Waylander

Zornheym

Finsterforst

Thank you!

All done!

Ben, please add The Accused (USA).

Done

The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 28th to 29th of October, 2019:

1. Nocturnal Breed (PIT, NORTH)

2. S.V.E.S.T. (NORTH)

3. Zornheym (NORTH) - requested by Xephyr

4. Hate Forest (NORTH)

5. Ceremonial Castings (NORTH, HORDE, PIT)

6. Callenish Circle (HORDE)

7. The Accüsed (PIT) - requested by Daniel

8. Space Odyssey (INFINITE, GUARDIANS)

9. Lost in Misery (GUARDIANS, FALLEN)

03. Deathspell Omega - "Kenose" E.P. (2005)

02. Burzum - "Filosofem" (1996)

01. Slayer - "Reign In Blood" (1986)

Deathspell Omega at number 3! Kenose should have made a show in my list too. Wasn't thinking about EPs.

IMO, it's the greatest EP in all of metal. High quality throughout, close to album-length, and none of the material appears elsewhere, plus I think the track "II" is their finest moment. It set the bar for EPs and hasn't been beaten.

In fact I edited a couple My Dying Bride albums to play at a 2x faster tempo so they wouldn't sound too slow and doomy for me. 

Blasphemy! 

Also agreed! I'm going to suggest that Funeral Doom would not gel well with shadowdoom9's tastes. 

Of their modern era, Viva Emptiness is my go-to. It has a bleak urban feel to it that pairs well with the crime/noir lyrical concept.

Agreed.

This has finally been fixed. You can now search for either Dillinger Escape Plan or The Dillinger Escape Plan (or any other format you can think of). I'm very pleased, as this has been bugging me for a while.

As well as Katatonia. They're a band I definitely need to spend more time with, I listened to The Great Cold Distance and The Fall of Hearts and really enjoyed them but never really went back.

Katatonia's discography is fairly eclectic, so there's no guarantee that you'll enjoy their early work based on your experience with their modern output. Brave Murder Day is an absolute classic though, and I'm not surprised to find it on Daniel's list as well. If you've ever heard and enjoyed Rapture's Futile, Slumber's Fallout or Enshine's Origin, then it's a no-brainer that you'll love the album that sound originated from.

My list is surprisingly recent, with 11 of the 25 being in the 2010's, which makes sense given my listening habits. Kinda neat. 

Mine is very 90s heavy. I think there would be a lot more modern releases, but I just haven't listened to recent stuff anywhere near as much as early metal. Now that Daniel and I have put the Metal Academy podcast on hold, I hope to remedy that.

Very happy to see Fallujah and Bell Witch on your list. There's two bands that I need to spend more time with.

And I forgot about Devin Townsend's Ocean Machine.

The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 25th to 27th of October, 2019:

1. Doomsword (GUARDIANS, FALLEN)

2. Twisted Tower Dire (GUARDIANS)

3. Place of Skulls (FALLEN)

4. Aura (HORDE)

5. Obsecration (HORDE, FALLEN)

6. Abnormality (HORDE) - requested by Daniel

7. Abominable Putridity (HORDE) - requested by Daniel

8. Postman Syndrome, The (INFINITE, GATEWAY)

9. Infernal Beauty (NORTH)

10. Waylander (NORTH) - requested by Xephyr

11. Veldes (NORTH) - requested by Xephyr

Aaaaggghhhhh....Cynic Focus! I just said it was possibly a top 10 album for me and then forgot to include it. 

I'll do it sometime. For now, I will simply list the first 25 albums that I love that come to mind. Should be an interesting exercise. Like you, I will choose only 1 album per band, otherwise you'll be reading Shape of Despair over and over. 

Slayer - Reign in Blood

Metallica - Master of Puppets

Death - Human

My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress

The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia

Coldworld - Melancholie²

Blut aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God

Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness

Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss

disEMBOWELMENT - Transcendence Into the Peripheral

Ulver - Bergtatt

Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse

Katatonia - Brave Murder Day

Negură Bunget - OM

Opeth - Blackwater Park

Carcass - Necroticism - Descanting the Insalubrious

Summoning - Stronghold

Amorphis - Tales from the Thousand Lakes

Darkspace - Dark Space III

Saturnus - Paradise Belongs to You

Lurker of Chalice - Lurker of Chalice

Sepultura - Beneath the Remains

Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters

...and that's 25. I'm sure I've missed important albums, but the fact that these ones entered my brain first must mean something.

Nice! I think it would take me days to put together my top 25, so I won't attempt that now. You have a number of albums in your list that I'm a big fan of though, so I thought I'd raise my horns in agreement for 5 of them that would at least make my top 100:

#17: Edge of Sanity - Crimson I+II

#15: Tiamat - Wildhoney (1994)

#14: Cynic - Focus (1993)

#12: At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul (1995)

#10: Meshuggah - Catch Thirtythree (2005)

Cynic's Focus is easily top 25 for me too (possibly top 10). Crimson would be there or thereabouts too.

The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 23rd of October, 2019:

1. WarHorse (FALLEN)

2. Thine Eyes Bleed (HORDE)

3. Ulsect (HORDE, NORTH) - requested by Xephyr

4. Eternal Storm (HORDE)

5. Teitanblood (HORDE, NORTH)

6. Vuvr (HORDE)

7. Abhorrent Castigation (HORDE) - requested by Daniel

8. Andromeda (INFINITE)

9. Age of Silence (INFINITE)

10. Ihlo (INFINITE)

11. Mock (NORTH)

12. Abigail Williams (NORTH) - requested by Daniel

13. Strigae (NORTH) - requested by Xephyr

Ben, please add Abigail Williams (USA).

Added

Ben, please add Abhorration (USA) & Abhorrent Castigation (Germany).

Done

Ben, please add Крода (Ukraine).

Added

Here are some more to get through eventually, whenever you have time. Some of these are pretty big bands though.

Atlas Pain (also North for the Folk Metal)

Coven (the one from Michigan - also posted in Fallen since they're right in the middle)

Judicator

Keldian

Lancer

Nocturnal Rites

Persuader

Root (like Coven, also posted in Fallen)

Timeless Miracle

Valhalore (like Atlas Pain, could also be North for Folk Metal)

These have all been added.

Ben, please add 7 H.Target (Russia) & 7 Horns 7 Eyes (USA).

These have been added.

Hi, new guy here! As I was adding my ratings to the site, I noted a few personally significant entries that were missing.

Baroness - Yellow & Green (this is a heavy record and totally has metal on it, but it got left out because the primary tag is Heavy Psych on RYM.)

Coven (Detroit one) - should also fall under Guardians, they straddle Traditional Doom and Heavy Metal with some gothic/deathrock undertones

Kylesa 

Root - should probably fall under Guardians and North too, although I think Fallen should be first

Silent Stream of Godless Elegy - could do under North too, they essentially are a gothic/folk hybrid

Stillborn

Woods of Ypres (one of my favorite bands, please add ASAP)

These have all been added.