Ben's Forum Replies
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 15th/16th of August, 2019:
1. Cain's Offering (GUARDIANS) - requested by DippoMagoo
2. Cellador (GUARDIANS) - requested by DippoMagoo
3. Kobra and the Lotus (GUARDIANS) - requested by Xephyr
4. Leaves' Eyes (GUARDIANS, FALLEN, NORTH) - requested by Xephyr
5. Falls of Rauros (NORTH)
6. Hypnosia (PIT, HORDE)
7. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (PIT, FALLEN)
8. Jucifer (FALLEN, GATEWAY) - requested by Daniel
9. sHEAVY (FALLEN)
10. Naevus (FALLEN)
11. Sally (FALLEN)
12. Witches of God (FALLEN) - requested by Sonny92
13. Asterisk* (HORDE)
14. Garden of Shadows (HORDE)
15. The Callous Daoboys (REVOLUTION)
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 13th/14th of August, 2019:
1. Vinnie Moore (GUARDIANS, INFINITE)
2. Katana (GUARDIANS) - requested by Xephyr
3. Frozen Crown (GUARDIANS) - requested by Xephyr
4. Gordian Knot (INFINITE)
5. Disciples of Mockery (HORDE, FALLEN)
6. Introrectalgestation (HORDE) - requested by Daniel
7. Fleshcrawl (HORDE)
8. Revelation (FALLEN)
9. Penance (FALLEN)
10. Mourn (FALLEN)
11. Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard (FALLEN)
12. Maestus (FALLEN, NORTH)
13. Istapp (NORTH) - requested by Daniel
14. Kampfar (NORTH)
15. Evildead (PIT)
A big welcome from me too! I'm very happy that you accepted the invitation.
Let us know if you think of anything that could add more value to the site.
Ben (The Trickster)
Moonfog list is complete. Rise Above Records is next!
Ben, please add High Tension (Australia).
Done
Hi Ben, if I may suggest a few neo-thrashers:
Antiverse
Crucified Mortals
Sins of the Damned
Sepulcher
Defiatory
Division Speed
Subtype Zero
All done!
Ben, please add Imperium Dekadenz (Germany).
Done
Thanks!
More stuff:
3 Inches of Blood
Adagio
Amberian Dawn
Ancient Bards
Black Majesty
Blazon Stone
Civil War
Also, the newest album from Sabaton: The Great War
All done!
Ben, please add The Grotesquery (Sweden/USA).
Done
Hi again, Ben. Could you please add:
Atavisma
Hexer
The Slow Death
Coffins
And a few bands with only a single release (so far):
Epitaphe
Gorge (US)
Ashtar
Burial in the Woods
Doom Snake Cult
Thanks in advance...
All done!
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 12th of August, 2019:
The Slow Death (FALLEN) - requested by Sonny92
Civil War (GUARDIANS) - requested by DippoMagoo
Sabaton (GUARDIANS) - requested by DippoMagoo
S.O.B. (HORDE)
Excruciating Terror (HORDE)
Gates of Ishtar (HORDE)
Vircolac (HORDE)
Fuming Mouth (HORDE, REVOLUTION)
Khold (NORTH)
Disiplin (NORTH)
Covenant (NORTH)
Aoratos (NORTH)
Imperium Dekadenz (NORTH) - requested by Daniel
Sins of the Damned (PIT) - requested by Sonny92
Subtype Zero (PIT) - requested by Sonny92
I'll be doing the same as DippoMagoo, here's the first wave of bands that were missing as I was moving my ratings over:
Avantasia
- Wicked Symphony
- Angel of Babylon
Damnation Angels
Delain
DGM
Dionysus
Dragony
Ex Deo
Icarus Witch
Iron Fire
Iron Savior
Jorn (Solo Albums)
All done.
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 8th/9th/10th of August, 2019:
1. Acrimony (FALLEN)
2. Hexer (FALLEN) - requested by Sonny92
3. Breach (FALLEN, INFINITE, REVOLUTION)
4. Gorge (FALLEN) - requested by Sonny92
5. Jorn (GUARDIANS) - requested by Xephyr
6. Black Majesty (GUARDIANS) - requested by DippoMagoo
7. Blazon Stone (GUARDIANS) - requested by DippoMagoo
8. Thornbridge (GUARDIANS)
9. Iron Fire (GUARDIANS) - requested by Xephyr
10. Fredrik Thordendal (INFINITE)
11. Nocturnal Depression (NORTH)
12. Storm (NORTH)
13. Gehenna (NORTH, HORDE)
14. Mesarthim (NORTH)
15. fluoride (HORDE)
16. Grotesquery, The (HORDE) - requested by Daniel
17. High Tension (REVOLUTION) - requested by Daniel
Sure. I'll do that next.
The first 100 metal releases have been added for both Avantgarde Records and Napalm Records.
Next Label List will be... Moonfog! Yes, I love black metal. If you'd like me to focus on a different label / genre, then please ask away. I'll just keep doing the ones I want to in the meantime.
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 7th of August, 2019:
1. A Canorous Quintet (HORDE)
2. Ex Deo (HORDE, GUARDIANS) - requested by Xephyr
3. Imprecation (HORDE)
4. Nahar (NORTH)
5. Drowning the Light (NORTH)
6. Nightbringer (NORTH)
7. Gardsghastr (NORTH)
8. Nefilim (FALLEN)
9. Nightstalker (FALLEN)
10. Doom Snake Cult (FALLEN) - requested by Sonny92
11. Epitaphe (FALLEN) - requested by Sonny92
12. Magic Circle (FALLEN, GUARDIANS)
13. Amberian Dawn (GUARDIANS) - requested by DippoMagoo
14. Icarus Witch (GUARDIANS) - requested by Xephyr
15. Ancient Bards (GUARDIANS) - requested by DippoMagoo
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 5th/6th of August, 2019:
1. Blood Farmers (FALLEN)
2. Big Brave (FALLEN, INFINITE)
3. Hjarnidaudi (FALLEN)
4. Kobong (INFINITE)
5. Adagio (INFINITE, GUARDIANS) - requested by DippoMagoo
6. 3 Inches of Blood (GUARDIANS) - requested by DippoMagoo
7. Dionysus (GUARDIANS) - requested by Xephyr
8. Dragony (GUARDIANS) - requested by Xephyr
9. Shihad (GATEWAY, PIT)
10. Living Death (PIT) - requested by Daniel
11. Division Speed (PIT) - requested by Sonny92
12. Defiatory (PIT) - requested by Sonny92
13. Fleshrot (HORDE) - requested by Daniel
14. Spite Extreme Wing (NORTH)
15. Den Saakaldte (NORTH)
16. Departure Chandelier (NORTH)
17. Vargrav (NORTH)
Ben, please add Entrails Eradicated (Australia) & Fleshrot (England).
Done
Ben, please add Living Death from Germany.
Done
The debut studio album from female-fronted German outfit Holy Moses is generally regarded as thrash metal but I disagree. There's really only one song that sounds like your classic thrash sound while the rest vary between speed metal & traditional heavy metal. I propose that the subgenre tag is changed to speed metal & the album is added to The Guardians on top of its existing position in The Pit.
Submitted to the Hall for judgement
Bulldozer's 1986 sophomore album "The Final Separation" is generally regarded as a thrash metal release but I feel that there's just as much speed metal included so we should give it a dual tagging. There's some genuine black metal about a couple of tracks but it's not consistent enough to warrant it going into The Horde.
Submitted to the Hall for judgement
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 1st/2nd/3rd/4th of August, 2019:
1. Siegfried (NORTH, GUARDIANS, FALLEN)
2. Hades Almighty (NORTH, INFINITE, FALLEN)
3. Sadness (NORTH, INFINITE)
4. Sühnopfer (NORTH)
5. Crucified Mortals (PIT) - requested by Sonny92
6. Antiverse (PIT) - requested by Sonny92
7. Dew-Scented (PIT, HORDE) - requested by Daniel
8. Cianide (HORDE, FALLEN)
9. Entrails Eradicated (HORDE) - requested by Daniel
10. Lurid Panacea (HORDE)
11. DGM (INFINITE, GUARDIANS) - requested by Xephyr
12. Beseech (FALLEN)
13. Sirenia (FALLEN, GUARDIANS)
14. Impellitteri (GUARDIANS)
15. Delain (GUARDIANS) - requested by Xephyr
I'll try and post some power metal bands I notice missing, as I check through, though I'll keep in short bursts, to avoid overloading you too much. Some I've noticed so far:
Bloodbound: Guardians (Power Metal for everything except In the Name of Metal, Heavy Metal for Tabula Rasa, Unholy Cross and In the name of Metal
Brainstorm: Guardians (Power Metal for everything, Heavy Metal for Metus Mortus, Soul Temptation, Memorial Roots, On the Spur of the Moment, Firesoul, Scary Creatures and Midnight Ghost)
Hibria: Guardians for everything, Infinite for Moving Ground (All albums have Power Metal, and Moving Ground has Prog Metal.)
Human Fortress: Guardians (Power Metal for everything, Heavy Metal for Eternal Empire)
Iron Mask: Guardians (Power Metal for everything, Neoclassical for the first two albums and Heavy Metal for the third and fifth albums.)
Iron Savior: Guardians (Probably just pure Power Metal for everything.)
I'll list some more I find later.
These have all been added.
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 31st of July, 2019:
1. Nightmare (GUARDIANS)
2. Iron Mask (GUARDIANS) - requested by DippoMagoo
3. Iron Savior (GUARDIANS) - requested by DippoMagoo
4. Damnation Angels (GUARDIANS) - requested by Xephyr
5. The Moth Gatherer (INFINITE, FALLEN)
6. Saviour Machine (FALLEN, GUARDIANS)
7. Eisheilig (FALLEN, SPHERE)
8. Burial in the Woods (FALLEN) - requested by Sonny92
9. Paramæcium (FALLEN)
10. Coffins (FALLEN, HORDE) - requested by Sonny92
11. Supuration (HORDE, PIT)
12. Fetid (HORDE)
13. Thy Infernal (NORTH)
14. False (NORTH)
Ben, please add the following bands:
Dead Beyond Buried (England)
Defeated Sanity (Germany)
Echidna (Greece)
Done.
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 29th/30th of July, 2019:
1. Dark Millennium (HORDE, FALLEN, INFINITE)
2. Cenotaph (HORDE, PIT)
3. Order From Chaos (HORDE, PIT, NORTH)
4. Echidna (HORDE) - requested by Daniel
5. Hibria (GUARDIANS, INFINITE) - requested by DippoMagoo
6. Human Fortress (GUARDIANS) - requested by DippoMagoo
7. Darkwater (INFINITE)
8. Ashtar (FALLEN) - requested by Sonny92
9. Atavisma (FALLEN) - requested by Sonny92
10. Darkwell (FALLEN)
11. Sepulcher (PIT)
12. Forlorn (NORTH)
13. Morgenstern (NORTH)
14. Somn (NORTH)
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 27th/28th of July, 2019:
1. Myriads (FALLEN)
2. Lacrimas Profundere (FALLEN)
3. Heavens Gate (GUARDIANS)
4. Haunt (GUARDIANS)
5. Bloodbound (GUARDIANS) - requested by DippoMagoo
6. Hollenthon (GUARDIANS, HORDE, NORTH)
7. Brainstorm (GUARDIANS) - requested by DippoMagoo
8. Numenorean (NORTH)
9. Ultra Silvam (NORTH)
10. Dead Beyond Buried (HORDE) - requested by Daniel
11. Messiah (HORDE, PIT)
12. Defeated Sanity (HORDE) - requested by Daniel
13. Invocator (PIT)
Ben, please add the following bands:
Castavet (USA)
Celestia (France)
Ereb Altor (Sweden)
All done.
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 25th/26th of July, 2019:
1. ThirdMoon (HORDE, NORTH)
2. Extreme Noise Terror (HORDE)
3. Ereb Altor (NORTH, FALLEN) - requested by Daniel
4. Jute Gyte (NORTH, INFINITE)
5. Diabolicum (NORTH, SPHERE)
6. Odhinn (NORTH)
7. Castevet (NORTH) - requested by Daniel
8. Celestia (NORTH) - requested by Daniel
9. Smoulder (FALLEN, GUARDIANS)
10. Lethal (GUARDIANS, INFINITE)
11. Dreadnought (INFINITE, NORTH)
12. Svartahrid (NORTH)
13. Obliveon (PIT, SPHERE)
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 24th of July, 2019:
1. Otyg (NORTH)
2. Amestigon (NORTH)
3. Vintersorg (INFINITE, NORTH)
4. Warmoon Lord (NORTH)
5. Runemagick (FALLEN, HORDE)
6. Sacrilege (HORDE)
7. Leatherwolf (GUARDIANS)
8. Titan Force (GUARDIANS)
9. Viper (GUARDIANS, PIT)
10. Chevalier (GUARDIANS, PIT)
11. Traveler (GUARDIANS)
12. No Mercy (PIT)
I think all the things you guys didn't enjoy about Helloween, I actually love. Mind you, not when I was a wee lad, I was far too brutal for that, but as I've gotten older I've grown fonder of Euro power metal (the devil on my shoulder would probably suggest that just maybe I just ran out of other metal genres to explore). The cheese factor is a part of the charm I guess, but definitely isn't for those with a lactose intolerance.
I really wish I liked it. I'm actually jealous of metal fans that get into power metal, cause there's so much stuff to get your teeth into. I'm a sucker for fantasy themes, so I feel like I'm missing out.
I genuinely tried to go in with no preconceptions this time and just take the music for what it is, but unfortunately, I can't really control the gag reflex that it triggers in me. It's just not for me, and I can't just flick a switch to change that.
I hope you enjoyed our singing! It's one of my favourite moments in the Metal Academy Podcast journey.
Oh, and you don't need to list the clans / genres for each band. I have a process I go through while adding albums that will set that anyway. Just names will do, and possibly countries in case there are multiple bands with the same name.
Great. I'll get onto them in the next few days.
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 22nd/23rd of July, 2019:
1. Troll (FALLEN)
2. My Ticket Home (GATEWAY, REVOLUTION)
3. Adramelch (INFINITE, GUARDIANS)
4. Beast in Black (GUARDIANS)
5. Rise of the Northstar (REVOLUTION, PIT)
6. Num Skull (PIT)
7. Vendetta (PIT)
8. Heidenreich (NORTH)
9. Malignant Eternal (NORTH, SPHERE)
10. In Battle (NORTH, HORDE)
11. Drastus (NORTH)
12. 3TEETH (SPHERE)
13. Chronic Decay (HORDE, PIT) - requested by Daniel
14. Realm (PIT)
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 20th/21st of July, 2019:
1. Angizia (GUARDIANS, INFINITE, NORTH)
2. Tony MacAlpine (INFINITE, GUARDIANS)
3. U.D.O. (GUARDIANS)
4. Amebix (GUARDIANS)
5. Paladin (GUARDIANS)
6. Morgul (NORTH)
7. Siebenbürgen (NORTH)
8. Zyklon-B (NORTH)
9. Old Man's Child (NORTH)
10. Sinmara (NORTH)
11. Massacre (HORDE)
12. Sins of Thy Beloved, The (FALLEN)
13. Burial Invocation (HORDE) - requested by Daniel
14. Cenotaph (HORDE) - requested by Daniel
15. Krypts (HORDE)
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 18th of July, 2019:
1. Dismal Euphony (FALLEN, NORTH)
2. Ataraxie (FALLEN, HORDE)
3. Spirit Adrift (FALLEN, GUARDIANS)
4. Sacred Blade (INFINITE, GUARDIANS)
5. Sword (GUARDIANS)
6. Fifth Angel (GUARDIANS)
7. Disentomb (HORDE)
8. Setherial (NORTH)
9. Mactatus (NORTH)
10. Obtained Enslavement (NORTH)
11. Einherjer (NORTH)
12. Andavald (NORTH)
Sure have!
How about:
Sortilegia
Dusk (Hungary)
Stworz
The Great Old Ones
Horcrux
Lamentations of the Ashen
Alda
Wędrujący Wiatr
Void Omnia
Old Graves
Old Forest
Wildernessking
These have all been added.
Ben, please add Gotham City.
Done
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 16th/17th of July, 2019:
1. Korova (INFINITE, NORTH)
2. Extol (INFINITE, HORDE, PIT)
3. Nåstrond (NORTH)
4. Wildernessking (NORTH) - requested by Sonny92
5. Unpure (NORTH, PIT)
6. Wędrujący Wiatr (NORTH) - requested by Sonny92
7. ADX (PIT, GUARDIANS)
8. Inculter (PIT, GUARDIANS)
9. Morgion (FALLEN, HORDE)
10. Intestine Baalism (HORDE)
11. Allegaeon (HORDE)
12. Q5 (GUARDIANS)
13. Warrior (GUARDIANS)
14. Riot City (GUARDIANS)
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 14th/15th of July, 2019:
1. Turbo (GUARDIANS)
2. Shiva (GUARDIANS)
3. Culprit (GUARDIANS)
4. High Power (GUARDIANS)
5. Slomatics (FALLEN) - requested by Sonny92
6. Blood Of Kingu (NORTH) - requested by Daniel
7. Full of Hell (HORDE, FALLEN)
8. Nortt (FALLEN, NORTH)
9. Reverence (NORTH, SPHERE)
10. Bran Barr (NORTH) - requested by Daniel
11. Sortilegia (NORTH) - requested by Sonny92
12. Nocternity (NORTH)
13. Deus Mortem (NORTH)
14. Funereal Presence (NORTH)
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 9th/10th of July, 2019:
1. Winds of Plague (REVOLUTION, GUARDIANS) - requested by shadowdoom9
2. Saracen (GUARDIANS)
3. Demon (GUARDIANS)
4. Praying Mantis (GUARDIANS)
5. Twilight Force (GUARDIANS) - requested by shadowdoom9
6. Schizo (PIT, HORDE)
7. Véhémence (HORDE)
8. Esoctrilihum (HORDE, NORTH)
9. Wyrd (NORTH, FALLEN)
10. Horcrux (NORTH, FALLEN) - requested by Sonny92
11. Lamentations of the Ashen (NORTH, FALLEN) - requested by Sonny92
12. Eternity (NORTH)
13. Batushka (NORTH)
Hey guys! Please add these bands:
DragonForce (The Guardians (all albums), The Pit (Inhuman Rampage), The Infinite (Reaching Into Infinity))
Dragonland (The Guardians (all albums), The Infinite (Astronomy, Under the Grey Banner), The Horde (Astronomy))
Power Quest
Freedom Call
Alestorm (The Guardians, The North)
Battlelore (The Guardians, The North, The Horde)
Dream Evil
Edenbridge (The Guardians (all albums), The Infinite (Sunrise in Eden, Arcana, Aphelion, My Earth Dream, Solitaire)
Elvenking (The Guardians, The North)
Luca Turilli's Rhapsody (The Guardians, The Infinite)
Timo Tolkki's Avalon
Battle Beast
Twilight Force
Gloryhammer
All of these bands have now been added.
"Frizzle Fry" certainly contains its metal moments. But is there enough there to warrant it being labelled as funk metal or alternative metal overall? Or does sit closer to a band like Red Hot Chilli Peppers than it does Tool? Vote "Yes" to have it maintain it's place in The Gateway & "No" to have it included under our "Non-metal" genre classification.
Submitted.
There's no question that "Possessed" includes three or four speed metal numbers but is there enough of that component spread across its thirteen tracks to warrant it being considered as a part of the subgenre? Or is it more of a traditional heavy metal album with a few speed metal leanings thrown in for variation? Vote "No" to remove it from The Pit or "Yes" to have it maintain its place.
Submitted
Ben, please add the following bands:
Anihilated (England)
Korzus (Brazil)
Metreya (Australia)
This was completed.
Ben, please add Avsky from Sweden.
Done
Ben, please add these bands:
AtomA (Sweden)
Periphery (USA)
Done
Hey guys! Please add these bands:
Avatar (The Horde (all albums), The Gateway (Avatar, Black Waltz, Hail the Apocalypse, Feathers & Flesh, Avatar Country), The Guardians (Avatar, Feathers & Flesh, Avatar Country))
Nightrage (The Horde (all albums), The Revolution (A New Disease is Born, Insidious))
Before the Dawn (The Horde, The Fallen)
Mayan (The Horde, The Guardians, The Infinite)
Solution .45 (The Horde, The Guardians, The Infinite)
Parasite Inc.
Thanks in advance! More band requests for other clans coming soon...
All done.
American Head Charge, Godsmack
This was done.
The following bands have been added to Metal Academy on the 8th of July, 2019:
1. Waste of Space Orchestra (FALLEN, INFINITE)
2. Hell (FALLEN) - requested by Sonny92
3. Old Graves (NORTH) - requested by Sonny92
4. Yellow Eyes (NORTH)
5. Azaghal (NORTH)
6. Grey (NORTH)
7. Ad Hominem (NORTH)
8. Dark Funeral (NORTH)
9. Girlschool (GUARDIANS)
10. White Spirit (GUARDIANS)
11. Vardis (GUARDIANS)
12. Threat Signal (REVOLUTION, HORDE) - requested by shadowdoom9
13. Solution .45 (HORDE) - requested by shadowdoom9
14. Periphery (INFINITE) - requested by Daniel