Thread: Northman's 2015 Metal Album Ratings

Everything I've heard from Fear Factory's new album has been sick. Same with Black Dahlia Murder and Children of Bodom. Lots of good new metal coming out.

Originally Posted by SR

Everything I've heard from Fear Factory's new album has been sick. Same with Black Dahlia Murder and Children of Bodom. Lots of good new metal coming out.

Yea, ive never been the biggest BDM fan but they songs that are alright. Fear Factory is strange for me because early on they were one of my favorite bands. And the new album hits me strange because i really only love the last 4 songs yet they are more of a departure from the first 2 records that i love the most so thats weird within itself. The last 4 songs are a cross between Burton's Ascension of the Watchers project and Remanufacture which was basically a techno styled remix of Demanufacture.

Originally Posted by Northman

Yea, ive never been the biggest BDM fan but they songs that are alright. Fear Factory is strange for me because early on they were one of my favorite bands. And the new album hits me strange because i really only love the last 4 songs yet they are more of a departure from the first 2 records that i love the most so thats weird within itself. The last 4 songs are a cross between Burton's Ascension of the Watchers project and Remanufacture which was basically a techno styled remix of Demanufacture.

A couple weeks ago I mentioned here that Fear Factory was one of the bands that got me in to metal about 15 years ago and I hadn't really listened to them much since maybe '03-'05 but lately I have been. Their music is so much different than any other metal band that it's almost hard to NOT like them.

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Ghost - Meliora
Raising The Veil - Bosonic Quantvm Phenomena
Chronocide - Meditations
Pyogenesis - A Century In The Curse Of Time
Bullet For My Valentine - Venom
Soulfly - Archangel
Wombbath - Downfall Rising
Disturbed - Immortalized
Hate Eternal - Infernus
Avoid The Light - Spleen
Hatecrowned - Newborn Serpent
Myrkur - M

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The Sickening - Sickness Unfold
Ahab - The Boats Of The Glen Carrig
Lynch Mob - Rebel
Ashes Of Nowhere - Emptiness
P.O.D. - The Awakening
Black Fast - Terms Of Surrender
Pentagram - Curious Volume
Kraanium - Chronicles Of Perversion
Butcher Babies - Take It Like A Man
The Sword - High Country
Bon Jovi - Burning Bridges
Act Of Defiance - Birth And The Burial
Extinction A.D. - Faithkiller

New FF and LOG are great records, but the one I'm having a hard time turning off is Kataklysm. Loved Prevail, but the two after that were so-so. Of Ghosts and Gods is straight amazing.

Originally Posted by CoachChaz

New FF and LOG are great records, but the one I'm having a hard time turning off is Kataklysm. Loved Prevail, but the two after that were so-so. Of Ghosts and Gods is straight amazing.

I thought the latest Kataklysm was ok, Lamb of God was solid and the new FF could of been a lot lot better for me. But, when it comes to the material of all those bands im generally more in love with older work from them so there is that. But LOG and Kataklysm were decent enough for later releases.

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The Murder Of My Sweet - Beth Out Of Hell
Soilwork - The Ride Majestic
Theory In Practice - Evolving Transhumanism
Catalepsia - World Of Cliché
Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls
Tad Morose - St. Demonius
NYN - Equivalence
Motörhead - Bad Magic
Sewer - Vomiting Into The Mouth Of Satan
Mgła - Exercises In Futility
Nile - What Should Not Be Unearthed

With Kataklysm, I'm more comparing it to their previous 2 releases. It's nice to see them get back to what made them good with Prevail and earlier stuff

At this point LOG are what they are. At some point it just can't get much better...but at least it's not worse. I can hear a lot of Ashes of the Wake in the new one and that was my favorite LOG record.

Fear Factory is another. They've gone though so many phases and sounds. Just nice to see them stop experimenting and going with something that always worked for them.

Originally Posted by Northman

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Just out of curiosity, why only a 4 for Iron Maiden?

Originally Posted by Northman

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And nice to see a good review for Nile.

Another record I can't stop listening to is Cattle Decapitation. Still a very underrated band

Originally Posted by CoachChaz

Just out of curiosity, why only a 4 for Iron Maiden?

The biggest problem for me with the new Maiden is the lack of Power and Ooomph. I found like 2 tracks that i really like even though the others have nice moments in them. Just to melodic and slow for me. I like the more aggressive and up tempo type of Maiden songs.

Originally Posted by CoachChaz

And nice to see a good review for Nile.

Another record I can't stop listening to is Cattle Decapitation. Still a very underrated band

New Cattle Decapitation is fantastic. Love that record.

Originally Posted by Northman

The biggest problem for me with the new Maiden is the lack of Power and Ooomph. I found like 2 tracks that i really like even though the others have nice moments in them. Just to melodic and slow for me. I like the more aggressive and up tempo type of Maiden songs.

FWIW, I don't like iron maiden at all.

Originally Posted by Northman

Originally Posted by CoachChaz

Just out of curiosity, why only a 4 for Iron Maiden?

The biggest problem for me with the new Maiden is the lack of Power and Ooomph. I found like 2 tracks that i really like even though the others have nice moments in them. Just to melodic and slow for me. I like the more aggressive and up tempo type of Maiden songs.

I can see that. Not a lot of the typical Maiden power metal, but the arrangements are amazing. With all the songs being so long, I expected myself to get tired of them and skipping forward, but instead found myself surprised that an 8 or 9 minute song was already over. Personally, I think I'd give it a 7. Just me.