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The ultimate anthem for these English forerunners of industrial rock/metal:
An alt-rock/metal tale of drug usage (say no to drugs!), keeping me awake after the album's opening one-two slump:
I meant the album: https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/becoming-the-archetype/the-remnant/
In Metal Archives and Discogs, it is listed as an album under the band's earlier name The Remnant.
A weak love ballad that marked a poor letdown of a closing track for Rammstein's breakthrough album:
The ultimate anthem for the leading band of Neue Deutsche Härte:
A playlist I've made with my favorite songs from those essential releases: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3MwevI05ua7UhQmrvkKQaT
The ultimate closing epic of chaos for this offering of mathcore insanity:
A masterpiece highlight of the more hardcore metalcore revival from the early 2010s:
Godflesh has a few albums deemed sludge metal, Daniel, but I understand, since you have objected to those releases having that genre tag.
Impressive, Rex! I've also been listening to metal for 11.5 years now, and the amount of metal albums I've heard is in the thousands, though it's literally 99% of all music that I've chosen to listen to during that time period. Yeah, I'm more focused on metal than any other music genre.
What better way to commemorate the 20,000th Metal Academy post with a new album from one of my outside-world friends who's a talented metal musician? No it's not Danny Ultrawiz, he's been out of the metal picture for years now. It's my new friend Arezz who goes by the name "Rust". He made his own album titled U Suk! It's a really awesome work of art inspired by classic speed/thrash/first-wave black metal bands. I think it would be really helpful if any of you can please check out that album and spread the word about it. With all you guys' help, maybe he can gain enough exposure to have more fame and confidence and even join this site, and it would all be thanks to me and fellow supporting Metal Academy members. Here it is:
Also available on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/34ZKHMMeM0IAf6uHH1Bsk5
Update to my list:
1. Ryujin - Ryujin [melodic death/power metal]
2. Job for a Cowboy - Moon Healer [technical death/progressive metal]
3. Trail of Tears - Winds of Disdain [symphonic/gothic metal]
4. Unleash the Archers - Phantoma [power metal]
5. Madder Mortem - Old Eyes, New Heart [progressive metal]
6. DragonForce - Warp Speed Warriors [power metal]
7. Amaranthe - The Catalyst [trance/symphonic/melodic metalcore]
8. The Ghost Inside - Searching for Solace [metalcore/hardcore]
9. Imminence - The Black [metalcore/alternative metal]
10. High on Fire - Cometh the Storm [stoner/sludge metal]
And my wishlist:
Black Veil Brides - Bleeders (EP)
Wage War - Stigma
Crossfaith - ARK
Neaera - All in Dust (I'm up to exploring this band of melodeath/metalcore)
Sumac - The Keeper's Tongue (EP) (it's been a while since I've last kept track of post-sludge, so I'm up to exploring this band too)
In Hearts Wake - Incarnation
Powerwolf - Wake Up the Wicked
Hirax - Faster Than Death (looking out for some more underground thrash bands)
Mushroomhead - Call the Devil
Falling in Reverse - Popular Monster (I enjoyed the new single "Ronald" so much that I'm up for the rest of the new album and this band)
Within the Ruins - Phenomena II
Wintersun - Time II (how can I not look forward to one of the most anticipated albums in all of metal?)
Void of Vision - What I'll Leave Behind (I've heard a few songs by this band in the earlier Revolution playlists, and I've been meaning to check out more of them including their upcoming album)
Here's my updated list, and since we already have a "metal in 2024" thread, I don't need the "albums I'm looking forward to getting" thing in this thread anymore:
Beginning oldies (1975-1989)/B.M. (Before Metalcore):
1975: Scorpions - In Trance
1976: Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
1977: Riot - Rock City
1978: Scorpions - Taken by Force
1979: Riot - Narita
1980: Scorpions - Animal Magnetism
1981: Riot - Fire Down Under
1982: Scorpions - Blackout
1983: Metallica - Kill 'Em All
1984: Voivod - War and Pain
1985: Watchtower - Energetic Disassembly
1986: Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
1987: Voivod - Killing Technology
1988: Voivod - Dimension Hatröss
1989: Voivod - Nothingface
Golden hit classics and millennium transition highlights (1990-2004)/Metalcore's humble beginnings and light of day-seeing classics:
1990: Rorschach - Remain Sedate
1991: Coroner - Mental Vortex
1992: Sadus - A Vision of Misery
1993: Alchemist - Jar of Kingdom
1994: Circle of Dust - Brainchild
1995: Waltari - Big Bang
1996: Red Harvest - HyBreed
1997: Illdisposed - There's Something Rotten... In the State of Denmark
1998: Embodyment - Embrace the Eternal
1999: Madder Mortem - Mercury
2000: AP2 - Suspension of Disbelief
2001: Eternal Tears of Sorrow - A Virgin and a Whore
2002: Norma Jean - Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child
2003: Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
2004: Turmion Katilot - Hoitovirhe
Modern favorites (2005-2019)/Rise of the full Revolution:
2005: Trivium - Ascendancy
2006: Mercenary - The Hours That Remain
2007: Becoming the Archetype - The Physics of Fire
2008: In This Moment - The Dream
2009: Trail of Tears - Bloodstained Endurance
2010: High on Fire - Snakes for the Divine
2011: Trivium - In Waves
2012: Tremonti - All I Was
2013: Alter Bridge - Fortress
2014: The Acacia Strain - Coma Witch
2015: Intronaut - The Direction of Last Things
2016: Insomnium - Winter's Gate
2017: Unleash the Archers - Apex
2018: Alien Weaponry - Tu
2019: Northlane - Alien
The best of the most recent (2020-present)/A greater new uprising:
2020: Code Orange - Underneath
2021: Trivium - In the Court of the Dragon
2022: Lorna Shore - Pain Remains
2023: Mutoid Man - Mutants
2024: Ryujin - Ryujin
A killer industrial metal blend of Health's usual electro-industrial and the groove/thrash metal of Lamb of God:
And here's Black Sabbath's "Heaven and Hell", in which its verses come to my mind when I hear the verses of that Trident song:
Good suggestion, Rex! I've just added it in to replace their Hosannas album.
And here's another coincidence. Listen to the intro riff melody that kicks off this Amorphis classic:
And then the piano melody in this Trail of Tears interlude at 0:40:
Although it can be considered a coincidence, I can totally understand if Amorphis left a profound influential mark in Trail of Tears' sound.
It's been a while since this thread was last active, and I have a couple crazy coincidences to talk about here. Let's start with a couple album cover arts. Take a look below at the cover art for Eternal Tears of Sorrow's 2001 album and the cover art for Taylor Swift's 2010 album. This has got to be a sheer coincidence, because I highly doubt Taylor Swift has ever listened to Finnish symphonic melodeath. Of course, I know that doesn't mean other female pop stars don't listen to metal. It's no secret that Demi Lovato used to listen to metalcore/deathcore before starting her Disney Channel/pop star career.
Oh wow they really do sound so similar! And the verses in the Trident song sound almost like the verses of Black Sabbath's "Heaven and Hell". This can be considered a coincidence, but I would be surprised if it wasn't highly influenced by Dio. We have a special thread for these kinds of strange coincidences, just letting you know, Zach: https://metal.academy/forum/23/thread/1950
I remember listening to Ayreon's albums a long time ago, and from what I heard, Into the Electric Castle is quite a prog-metal album to me. In fact, it was one of the first ever albums to get me into prog-metal 10 years ago! I can still find some metal in even the more rock-ish songs, helped out by some of the guest vocalists including Sharon den Adel and Robert Westerholt (Within Temptation), Anneke van Giersbergen (ex-The Gathering), and Damian Wilson (ex-Threshold), except in the softer songs of course. You have mentioned only half the amount of songs being metal, but again, even the more rock-ish parts sound metal to me, and this at least brings the amount of metal up to at least 40%, the bare minimum for an album to be considered metal. The Ayreon albums I would consider non-metal are Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer (the prog-rock side of the Universal Migrator duo of albums) and The Theory of Everything (more of a prog-rock opera album of smaller tracks that are part of 4 long suites covering different genres, despite many guest vocalists coming from metal bands). So I'll have to vote NO for this Hall entry, Rex.
I think it was One More Light, their final album with Chester Bennington, when the band dropped pretty much all of their rock/metal aspects and sounded like a boy band, though they still played their greatest hits in the final tour.
Another song by Jeris Johnson, this one being a spooky blend of Avenged Sevenfold-style heavy metal and trap. If you're wondering if that chorus melody sounds familiar, it's that Arabian riff! It also me reminds of Kesha's "Take It Off" which uses the Arabian riff in the chorus as well.
Here's my top 10 of 1992:
1. Sadus - A Vision of Misery
2. Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of Violence
3. Ministry - Psalm 69
4. Waltari - Torcha!
5. Samael - Blood Ritual
6. Red Harvest - Nomindsland
7. Godflesh - Pure
8. Neurosis - Souls at Zero
9. Dark Angel - Decade of Chaos: The Best of Dark Angel
10. Voivod - The Best of Voivod
Expansive production and rhythmic complexity are also what I look for in genres like progressive metal, deathcore, tech-death, and tech-thrash, or a combination of the 4 (all 4 together would be quite wild).
I'm Blasting In Waves right now. First album of Summer as school's out.
Glad you like that Trivium album despite the issues you have found, Zach. With that, here's another Trivium song I would recommend to you, from their follow-up album Vengeance Falls. In that special outside-world event earlier today, there were some music performances going on, and that included some local rock/metal musicians (extreme metal allowed to be played in the public outdoors, who knew!?), then a few people, including myself, were given the opportunity to sing our own songs. One of the songs I covered was this Trivium song, and I've done the singing and screaming quite well, if I say so myself:
Needless to say, the other song I was singing was Linkin Park's "Friendly Fire", as a tribute to the late Chester Bennington, and that song is much softer, in contrast to Trivium's heaviness.
Exception 2: Theatre of Tragedy - And When He Falleth from Velvet Darkness They Fear (1996).
Even though the follow-up to the their debut full-length (which I hold dear to my heart) was quite a letdown for me, I have a soft spot for this track and I cannot imagine it without the lengthy dialogue samples taken from the 1964 classic The Masque of the Red Death.Caution! Contains beauty and the beast vocals and some questionable gothicy recitations.
I used to be a fan of the more melodic gothic death-doom bands like Theatre of Tragedy, and this was one of my favorite songs by the band. I agree that the lengthy dialogue samples are the best part of the song. The only other time I've heard Vincent Price in a song is that spoken-word outro of Michael Jackson's "Thriller".
1. Gateway playlist - 4.5/5 (number of songs commented: 13)
2. Infinite playlist - 4.5/5 (number of songs commented: 11)
3. Revolution playlist - 4.5/5 (number of songs commented: ALL 31)
4. Sphere playlist - 4.5/5 (number of songs commented: ALL 25)
For the clans I've made the monthly playlists for, I've listened to the entire playlists! I'm grateful to Saxy and Daniel for their playlist works. I really dig the tracks I've reviewed in the Gateway and Infinite playlists made by Saxy, and I'm glad the playlists I've made have paid off. I recommend them to any fan of the clans' respective genres and anyone who isn't into those genres but wants to get into a great start in enjoying them. Thanks, Daniel, for accepting these playlists, and good work all!
THE GATEWAY: Of Mice & Men - Tether (2023) 4.5/5
THE INFINITE: Star One - Space Metal (2002) 4.5/5
THE REVOLUTION: The Ghost Inside - Rise From the Ashes: Live at the Shrine (2021) 4.5/5
THE SPHERE: Fear Factory - Fear is the Mindkiller (1993) 3/5
Although the Sphere feature release is not really up my alley but still decent, the feature releases I've nominated for my other 3 clans are all excellent gems that I would recommend to fans of their respective genres. Keep up the good work on the feature releases, all! I look forward to more...
A perfect rocker with optimistic vocals and harmonic nostalgia for both heavier metalheads and rock listeners:
Killer new track by experimental alt-metal masters Mushroomhead from their upcoming album Call the Devil:
Cool game! As soon as I buy a White Box from a game shop that sells it, I'll give it a go.
I spent 2 years reading up and learning game design. I can help you design one if you want, but I'd like to get your thoughts on the one I've been developing too.
Sounds great, thanks Zach!
Game shops sell this thing called "The White Box" it comes with all kinds of dice, tokens, markers, etc. Along with a book on how to design and market a TTRPG or Board Game. Ask you're local shop about it, or you can google it. It's a loooong road, and there will be set backs, and you've got to have a strong ego.
Definitely something cool to have in D&D and any other TTRPG. I'm up to testing out yours, but let's see what the other members think of the idea first.
A high-quality climatic piece of industrial dance-metal from this side-project of Turmion Katilot vocalist MC Raaka Pee:
You know the Metal Academy clan map that I've made (https://metal.academy/forum/23/thread/271)? I made it a few years ago in case anyone here who's good at game designing wanted to make an MMORPG based on Metal Academy. That never happened, though it was fun making that map.
Welcome, Karl! Hope you have a good time here.
In Waves is what first got me into metalcore and other heavier more modern metal genres. Here's my review for the album for the whole story, and I look forward to seeing your thoughts about the album, Zach: https://metal.academy/reviews/5677/5352
Yeah, what a shame we don't get to hear Cathrine Paulsen outside of Trail of Tears, though according to Metal Archives, she was also in symphonic black metal band Lucid Fear that only made a couple demos. For the other two female vocalists, Helena Iren Michaelsen was also in Epica (when they were originally named Sahara Dust) and Ailyn was also in Sirenia. But those two bands are more focused on symphonic metal and therefore not the right bands for you, Zach. Anyway, the best Trail of Tears album to start with for Cathrine's captivating vocals is Bloodstained Endurance.
So today's the 5th anniversary of me first joining Metal Academy (as of my introductory post: https://metal.academy/forum/26/thread/101), and I thought this would be the perfect (and possibly only) chance for me to see if there are any releases that came out on that day and any other releases I like celebrating their 5x-year anniversaries today.
Today is the 15th anniversary of Voivod's Infini, the final album with recordings made by guitarist Piggy before his 2005 passing. RIP... The only album released on the day I first joined Metal Academy is this album by Japanese alt-/power metal band Mary's Blood. Like I said before, it might be hard for me to listen to and review an album from a practically unknown band with lyrics of a different language, even though I sometimes like that aspect, so I'll pass on that one.
Most of my exceptions to deal-breakers are bands and specific releases rather than songs, since my deal-breakers are metal genres. Here are some of those exceptions:
The majority of black metal - There are several black metal bands over the years I've enjoyed before turning my back on them after a while. A band that I've revisited a couple months ago is Samael, via their second album in their black metal era, Blood Ritual, when it was a feature release. I ended up enjoying that album more than I thought I would, slightly more than a couple of Samael's industrial metal albums that I reviewed. The only other North release I still have a rating for is Underoath's Cries of the Past, but I object to that album's position in the clan.
Brutal/slam death metal - I seem to like a bit of brutal death metal more when mixed with deathcore in some occasions. Sometimes it works (Despised Icon's Consumed by Your Poison), sometimes it doesn't (Abnegation's Verses of the Bleeding). I also enjoy the album At Damnation's Core by Daniel's former band Neuropath. If you haven't listened to that Neuropath album, I highly recommend it, Zach.
The more brutal deathcore bands - Similarly with that Despised Icon album, I enjoy a few deathcore bands/releases that are brutal to cross over to the Horde clan as long as they're not highly fixated on gory violence. These include Deformity's Murder Within Sin, Embodyment's Embrace the Eternal, and bands The Red Chord and Rings of Saturn. Damaged's Token Remedies Research and Deformity's Misanthrope also qualify in that category, though they don't work as much.
Drone/funeral doom - N/A
Grindcore - Not all of it is awful. I love The Red Chord and their mix of deathgrind and deathcore. And a few other releases are good or average similarly to Damaged, such as the Agoraphobic Nosebleed/Converge split The Poacher Diaries, Atka's Untitled Album, Genghis Tron's Cloak of Love, OLD's Old Lady Drivers, and PainKiller's Buried Secrets.
I have so many heavy metal green lights, but here's a few of them I could think of:
Epic buildup intro - Totally different from your "fast starts" green light (which I can also relate), Zach, but I like when the instrumentation slowly builds up before beginning its heavy marathon. For example, Trivium's "Kirisute Gomen".
Breakdowns gone all-out brutal - Particularly in deathcore, with the most crushing guitars and demonic screams. Since you also like breakdowns and dirty vocals, Zach, I would recommend the popular ending breakdown of Lorna Shore's "To the Hellfire".
Slow guitar solo followed by fast one - That's one reason why DragonForce is one of the only power metal bands I still listen to today. And this also occurs in many metal songs from Metallica's "Blackened" to the title track of Trivium's In the Court of the Dragon.
Extreme metal gone symphonic - The amount of heaviness and symphonics should be in the right balance, enough to spawn symphonic death metal masterpieces like Waltari's Yeah! Yeah! Die! Die! and Dethklok's The Doomstar Requiem, along with bands like Trail of Tears and Lorna Shore.
A female member of a band performs occasional vocals - This time I'm not talking about a band with a female co-vocalist (e.g. Trail of Tears), I mean a female band member performing an instrument occasionally singing. I agree that she should sound METAL, though I don't mind her being operatic. Examples: Make Them Suffer, Skillet
Vocals that you can't understand. Cookie monster vocals. If I can't understand you then I assume you are not proud of what you say and it's not worth me hearing.
How about lyrics in a language you don't speak?
i personally think foreign language stuff is cool, but I do like having an English translation if it’s real good.
Same here, though I'm not into a lot of bands that entirely rely on foreign language stuff with little-to-no English (e.g. Neue Deutsche Härte bands).
Down tuned extended range guitars. It's not the guitars but how these types of bands use them. The tone has become so generic and bland. Every production sounds the same.
As much as I enjoy modern metal/djent and its common usage of downtuned guitars, I agree that the tone and production sound the same and can therefore be monotonous and tiring. We need more than just tuning the guitars so earth-quakingly low. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think the idea of tuning up a semitone or two higher than the standard E tuning should catch on, like how Vektor used to have guitars tuned up to F. Maybe even F# or have 7-string guitars tuned up to C or C#, that would be something. Of course, we have the risk of a string breaking. But never mind, any tuning, no matter how tired I am of it, is a good deal for me.
Vocals play a massive part in music for me and are probably the thing most likely to get me hitting the off button, so:
1. Shouty hardcore-style vocals where the singer sounds like a three-year old throwing a tantrum in Tesco.
2. Power metal vocals where the singer thinks Bruce Dickinson is OK, but is far too restrained in his delivery.
3. Gothicy vocals where the singer wants you to believe that he really is a romantically melancholy vampire rather than some sad act in a leather trenchcoat. Chances are Andrew Eldritch has already done this ten times better.
I never usually have any problems with vocals when it comes to different styles. For me, it's the strength and timing that matters. I don't really like when the vocals sound weak (Lars Eikind in some Before the Dawn songs) or are completely different from the main style of the album and in an odd place (5 minutes of female operatic chanting in the middle of Green Carnation's Light of Day, Day of Darkness that almost made cross off a half-star from my perfect 5-star rating for that album/suite).
Hidden tracks are NEVER a good idea. Thankfully they were related to the length of CDs, so hopefully are gone now.
I rarely ever enjoy cover tracks, unless they match the feel of the rest of the album. On that note, I dislike tracks that have a really different production to the rest of the album too.
I actually like a few hidden tracks like the one at the end of the original 1995 Zao debut All Else Failed and the long sludgy closing instrumental of Gaza's He Is Never Coming Back, but yeah, there are some hidden tracks that I would certainly give a thumbs-down to. The cover tracks I prefer are ones that stay true to the band's sound and are much better than the originals. The ones that just follow the song's original style (especially a non-metal genre) without much of their own are a total no-no for me.
I can't be the only member of this whole site that has these. What am I talking about? Deal breakers, Bad Omens, and Empending Doom (not the fun kind). The shit that makes you tap out, turn the dial, give ya the ick as the kids say.
LOL. I almost thought you were going to rant about two of my favorite Revolution bands there.
I'm going to start compiling a list. Here's what I got. Keep in mind we all have them, these are just mine.
1) "Airy" female soprano... she's not in the band, it's a backing track. The same backing track every band that does this shit uses.
2) Track on the METAL album has no METAL elements. This shit pisses me off, I grew up very poor, deep in the country, in the bible belt. Getting Metal was a once a year oppourtunity. You just spent $20 on an album. The album has 9 tracks. One of them is a 3-5minute string and piano piece. BRINGS MY PISS TO A BOIL!
"Im going through changes..." Yeah Ozzy I wish you'd change to some shit I paid to hear. Tony Iommi is in your band. He's a pretty fuckin' good guitar player. Let him play it!
3) Beauty and the Beast Vocals-"Airy" female Soprano's evil twin. He says GRRRRR, she says "Ah--ahh-ah". Zero says fuck this shit.
Based on those three, symphonic metal will definitely never be the metal genre for you, Zach. I used to enjoy symphonic metal a lot 10 years ago, but then I started tapping out in favor of heavier, more modern metal genres. Still I enjoy some bands with symphonic elements. One of those bands is Trail of Tears which also has those 3 pet peeves of yours; female soprano (Helena Iren Michaelsen/Cathrine Paulsen/Ailyn), Beauty and the Beast vocals (when Ronny Thorsen growls alongside the female soprano), and a track with no metal elements (e.g. "Illusion?" from Disclosure in Red, "Countdown to Ruin" from Profoundemonium). The only album from that band that doesn't have any of your pet peeves and I would recommend to you is their fully metal male vocal-only 2005 album Free Fall Into Fear. Everything else from that band, NOT IN YOUR HOUSE.
Anyway, I have a few deal-breaking metal genres to show that my expanding taste in metal has limits:
The majority of black metal - I tend to avoid the Satanic bands of the genre and definitely the neo-Nazi NSBM. Though I've enjoyed some black metal bands before that never relied on Satanism for the most part.
Brutal/slam death metal - I'm not really into the gory violence of those two subgenres and some of the more notable bands of standard death metal. Though I still enjoy subgenres like melodic/symphonic/progressive death metal.
The more brutal deathcore bands - Same issue as brutal/slam death metal. Though just like death metal, I like bands that are more melodic/symphonic/progressive.
Drone/funeral doom - So slow, long, and depressing that it's hard for me to pay attention nor resist speeding up the tempo to 2x.
Grindcore - The total opposite of drone/funeral doom, fast and short, but that's also an issue for me, along with a lot of bands of that genre having highly offensive lyrics and band names (such as A.C.). I definitely say no to subgenres like goregrind/pornogrind. In fact, I've listened to and reviewed a few releases by grindcore bands (F*** the Facts, Gigantic Brain, Bologna Violenta, and PainKiller's debut), and they're a few of the only releases in which I've given each of them a rating of less than two stars. I pretty much had a similar "knock it after trying it" attitude to your half-star reviews when writing this one, Zach (keep in mind that almost every other review I've made that's currently up is much more positive and less rage-filled than this): https://metal.academy/reviews/28695/3144
Welcome, Max!
Here are my sneak peek submissions for the July Sphere playlist:
Celldweller - "Soul Parasites (Northlane Remix)" (3:23) from Satellites (Remixed) (2023)
Deathstars - "Cyanide" (3:55) from Termination Bliss (2006)
Dodheimsgard - "Final Conquest" (5:59) from 666 International (1999)
Fear Factory - "Self Immolation (Liquid Sky Mix)" (6:06) from Fear is the Mindkiller (1993)
Gothminister - "Battle of the Underworlds" (5:22) from Pandemonium II: The Battle of the Underworlds (2024)
Strapping Young Lad - "Oh My Fucking God" (3:34) from City (1997)
Total length: 28:19
Here are my sneak peek submissions for the July Revolution playlist:
As I Lay Dying - "The Truth of My Perception" (3:06) from Shadows are Security (2005)
August Burns Red, Will Ramos - "The Cleansing" (8:00) from The Cleansing (2024)
The Ghost Inside - "Split" (3:11) from Searching for Solace (2024)
Shai Hulud - "Reach Beyond the Sun" (3:00) from Reach Beyond the Sun (2013)
Underoath - "Moving for the Sake of Motion" (3:15) from Define the Great Line (2006)
Unearth - "The Great Dividers" (4:02) from The Oncoming Storm (2004)
War of Ages - "Famine" (4:13) from Dominion (2023)
Total length: 28:47
Here are my submissions for the July Infinite playlist:
Amorphis - "My Kantele" (6:49) from Magic & Mayhem – Tales from the Early Years (2010)
Edge of Sanity - "Incantation" (3:01) from When All is Said/The Best of Edge of Sanity (2006)
Meshuggah - "New Millennium Cyanide Christ" (5:35) from Chaosphere (1998)
Rivers of Nihil - "The Void From Which No Sound Escapes" (6:43) from The Work (2021)
Voivod - "Killing Technology" (7:33) from Killing Technology (1987)
Total length: 29:41
Here are my submissions for the July Gateway playlist:
BOI WHAT - "The Both of Us" (2:41) from The Both of Us (2024)
Crossfaith - "Godspeed" (3:16) from Godspeed (2024)
Dog Fashion Disco - "Tastes So Sweet" (3:18) from Sweet Nothings (2014)
Jeris Johnson - "Ode to Metal" (3:57) from Ode to Metal (2024)
Memphis May Fire - "Misery (feat. Atreyu)" (3:12) from Misery (feat. Atreyu) (2023)
Nik Nocturnal, Ankor - "Unforgiven" (2:59) from Unforgiven (2023)
Northlane - "Miasma" (4:18) from Mirror's Edge (2024)
Of Mice & Men - "Tether" (3:55) from Tether (2023)
Total length: 27:36