I fail to see where this "high dynamic range mastering" is found on the original version, unless you mean that treble filled shitstorm that would have been the greatest death metal album ever. The remaster balanced everything out quite nicely.
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Anonymous2006-10-12 18:11
Definately Iron Maiden's early albums (like Number of the Beast). For power metal, Blind Guardian (Night At The Opera or Nightfall first) and Sonata Arctica. Symphony X is great, too.
And, of course...DEATHKLOK. It's awesome for a fake band.
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Anonymous2006-10-13 4:32
Ensiferum
Sonata Arctica
are two that I like
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Anonymous2006-10-19 12:47
>>45
Are you listening to the same album? If it's unbalanced at all it's bass heavy, not treble heavy. The "high dynamic range" is exactly that, and it is the result of tasteful use of compression instead of the MAKE EVERYTHING REALLY LOUD ALL THE TIME fuckup of modern mastering techniques.
>>46
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast (great album btw.) also has high dynamic range (at least the version I have does). Pretty much everything recorded in the '80s or earlier does unless ruined with a shitty remaster.
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Anonymous2006-10-22 20:54
BORIS
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Anonymous2006-10-26 17:48
try:
Metallica - Kill em all, Ride the lightning, Master of puppets
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Trivium - The crusade
Pantera - Reinventing steel
All of those bands are brilliant, Metallica (in this case old Metallica)and Slayer being the fast thrash-metal, Trivium being neo-classical, post-thrash, whatever metal and Pantera being riffs that will crush your skull like it was nothing.
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Mr. Fahrenheit2006-10-26 22:24
Pantera
Slayer
Lordi
Iron Maiden
...just to name a few.
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Anonymous2006-10-26 22:52
...you did not just fucking lump Trivium with Slayer. Trivium isn't as bad as a lot of metal fans make it out to be, but it's nowhere as influencial or good as the other bands you listed.
And A Vulgar Display of Power is a much better Pantera album.
Some underrated thrash:
Prong
Overkill
Destruction
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Orakio2006-10-27 10:09
Ignore crap like Lordi and shitty thrash like Ulver.
Of the top of my head some of the good albums and songs if applicable are:
Symphony X - Devine Wings of Tragedy (Sea of Lies, the Accolade)
Morgana Lefay - SOS
Macabre - Murder Metal
Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia (Kings of the Carnival creation)
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes (The coming curse)
Testament - The Gathering (Hatreds Rise, Eyes of Wrath)
Bal Sagoth - Battle Magic (Blood Slakes the sand of Circus Maximus)
Within Temptation - Mother Earth
Opeth - Still Life (The Moor)
Some good artists...
Spiritual Beggars
Dead Kennedys (many people call them punk but musically they are more rock like) - Holiday in Cambodia
Sonata Artica
Rhapsody
Joe Petrucci
Jon Ericson
Steve Vai
Yngwie Malmsteen
Iron Maiden
Machinae Supremacy
Liquid Tension Experiment
dream Theatre
Rotting Christ
There's lots of thrashy death like Bathory, Cannibal Corpse, Anal Cunt, etc which I would avoid for now.
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Anonymous2006-10-29 1:46
>>53
It doesn't matter whether the Dead Kennedys are punk or rock, they're not metal and they don't belong in this thread.
And don't tell people to avoid Bathory. What are you, an idiot? Quorthon pretty much started Viking Metal and heavily influenced Black Metal.
Transient Effects Of Light On Water by This Day Forward
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JPo3102006-11-11 3:34
Iron Maiden, Dimmu Borgir, Arch Enemy, Cradle of Filth, Metallica, Megadeth, Mudvayne, Slipknot, Avenged Sevenfold, System of a Down, Rob Zombie, Rammstein, In Flames, Lamb of God, Pantera, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Children of Bodom, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Alice Cooper.... SO much.... Lol
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Anonymous2006-11-13 23:54
Cradle of Filth, Carcass***, Napalm Death, Tower of Rome, Elysia***, Black Dahlia Murder, Job for A Cowboy***, Cannibal Corpse***, The faceless, Cattle Decapitation, Underneath The Gun, Phalanx, Through the Eyes of the Dead, A Black Rose Burial
>>64
Behold...the Arctopus rule. I wish they had more albums though.
I've been listening to Mountain King a lot recently. Good stuff.
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Anonymous2006-12-06 23:06
Well if you're new you need to start with the basics. Start with Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion I & II,
Metallica - Master Of Puppets + Ride The Lightning + And Justice For All,
and Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind, Killers, Dance Of Death
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
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Anonymous2006-12-08 18:28
>>68
Fuckin signed
Specifically:
Iron Maiden: Killers, The Number Of The Beast, Piece Of Mind
Motorhead: Ace Of Spades (fuck everything else)
Black Sabbath: Master Of Reality, Vol 4, Sabotage (Paranoid is as overrated as it is obligatory)
Also Judas Priest's "Stained Class" and "Hell Bent For Leather" FTW!
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Nohwai2006-12-10 11:42
black dahlia murder! woo ee, definately very enjoyable. I tend to stay away from the death/black stuff though, because a lot of it sounds the same to me. thus i enjoy the more metalcore things because they actually have melodies some what which, is what makes music enjoyable to me