The Batlord

@Ant - Ew god, ****ing Soilwork?

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Anteater

Bjorn Strid is a great vocalist. Way better than what most melodic death metal groups have to work with. For a guy who likes his Katy Perry hooks I'm surprised you hate 'em.


Kiiii: Yeah, Ocean Machine just seems to get better and better for me the more time passes. The recording process behind it is a fascinating story too.

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Anteater's 21 Fav Albums Of 2020

Anteater's Daily Tune Roulette

The Batlord

Their hooks have just never stuck in me that much. And their sound is so watered down, stale, and polite that you can almost hear the producer turning the nobs down, and that goes double for the singer. If I want poptastic melodeath then I'll go to Clayman.

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Anteater

Hey man, you can't tell me Bush did 9/11 when we both know it was the Illuminati Deep State.

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Anteater's 21 Fav Albums Of 2020

Anteater's Daily Tune Roulette

The Batlord

The difference is one band is a bandwagon-hopping group of boring plebs, while the other are innovators with far better musical instincts. It makes all the difference when listening to two bands play the same sound.

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The Identity Matrix

Alright I'll throw this up on here. This is a rough draft and more of a representation of the genres I have been listening to frequently. I'm still relatively young so I have yet to digest a lot of fantastic albums out there.


I think I may post updates to this every once in a while

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Enter the Domain - The Identity Matrix Domain

"I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on." - David Bowie

Neapolitan

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The Batlord

Niiiiice. Hella props on Slaughter of the Soul, Colors, Bathory, and Bonded by Blood. And other stuff, but we have too much crossover for me to list it all.

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The Identity Matrix

Thanks man. You and a bunch of other guys on the metal threads introduced me to quite a few of these. Generally speaking these albums made an immediate impression on me and continued to get better with each subsequent listen. I think I may have put colors a little low though. I also wanted to ask you about your thoughts on Slaughter of the Soul. I have recently been seeing major criticism of the record for it being too poppy or over polished. I am assuming you do not share these thoughts?

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What is infinite yet always equal to one?

Enter the Domain - The Identity Matrix Domain

"I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on." - David Bowie

The Batlord

It gets a lot of hate because of all the ****ty metalcore and melodic death metal bands that were somewhere down the road influenced by it. It was a watershed album for a dubious subgenre or two and gets treated unfairly by many as a result.

But as for actual criticisms of the album, I mean yeah it's more polished than a lot of metal, with slicker production than is the norm for many bands, and the songwriting has been pretty streamlined from their beginnings as a death metal band, but those are its strengths. The production is oppressive and mechanical, making it even more nihilistic than it would have been with a more straightforward production job; and the songwriting is pretty brilliant as it takes the aesthetics of extreme metal and arrives somewhere near thrash, except whereas thrash going for death metal generally tries to sound extra raw and obnoxious, At the Gates going from extremeness to melodicism gives them sort of an interesting assbackwards approach which achieves brutality while accentuating the more accessible aspects of metal. But god forbid extreme metal not sound like back alley chainsaw surgery.

And regardless of what people may think of the aesthetics of the album, the songs are simply top notch. So **** all that ****.

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