1001 Metal Albums you should hear before you die

The Batlord · 02-05-2015, 09:56 AM

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I listened to a bit of Cattle Decapitation back in the day when they only had like two albums out, and they just sounded like a second-rate Suffocation. Good to listen to if you had that itch, but not much to call home about. Have they evolved since then?

LoathsomePete · 02-05-2015, 11:17 AM

77. Rosetta - The Galilean Satellites (2005)

I've written about this album before in my 101 Albums... thread so this will be more of a summation of that particular post (you can read the full thing here).

This is easily one of the most ambitious debuts of a band I have ever had the fortune to hear. Essentially it's a double album, with one disc being the harder metal, and the other being ambient noise. When you sync bother albums you get an incredibly heavy and atmospheric album that really feels crushing with the right headphones. The "Post-Metal" term is pretty nebulous, and this band in particular have not endorsed it or considered themselves to fall under the umbrella, however sometimes people have a way of making things stick, and enough people in the metal community have tried there hardest to make it a real genre label. Whatever you want to call it, if you like sludgey metal with a deep wall of sound and lyrics about exploring the cosmos, Rosetta's debut album definitely deserves your attention.

Spoiler for Rosetta - Departe (synced version):

Primeval Scum · 02-05-2015, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

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I listened to a bit of Cattle Decapitation back in the day when they only had like two albums out, and they just sounded like a second-rate Suffocation. Good to listen to if you had that itch, but not much to call home about. Have they evolved since then?

Leaps and bounds. I disliked their early material. They've really come into their own on the last two albums though. Their music has more progressive and melodic elements than before, while somehow becoming even more brutal at the same time. Try songs like The Carbon Stampede, Your Disposal, Lifestalker and Kingdom of Tyrants for a taste of what CD does now.

The Batlord · 02-05-2015, 12:30 PM

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Leaps and bounds. I disliked their early material. They've really come into their own on the last two albums though. Their music has more progressive and melodic elements than before, while somehow becoming even more brutal at the same time. Try songs like The Carbon Stampede, Your Disposal, Lifestalker and Kingdom of Tyrants for a taste of what CD does now.

I'm currently in a metalcore phase, so I won't be checking them out today at least, but what would you compare their current sound to? It's hard to get a handle on what you're talking about, but I am definitely intrigued and will be listening to that album pretty soon (my metalcore phase is concerned with only the most brutal of bands ATM, so I may very well transition into death metal soon if I hear of anything that interests me, such as this.)

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LoathsomePete Cardboard Box Realtor Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Hobb's End Posts: 7,648	77. Rosetta - The Galilean Satellites (2005) I've written about this album before in my 101 Albums... thread so this will be more of a summation of that particular post (you can read the full thing here). This is easily one of the most ambitious debuts of a band I have ever had the fortune to hear. Essentially it's a double album, with one disc being the harder metal, and the other being ambient noise. When you sync bother albums you get an incredibly heavy and atmospheric album that really feels crushing with the right headphones. The "Post-Metal" term is pretty nebulous, and this band in particular have not endorsed it or considered themselves to fall under the umbrella, however sometimes people have a way of making things stick, and enough people in the metal community have tried there hardest to make it a real genre label. Whatever you want to call it, if you like sludgey metal with a deep wall of sound and lyrics about exploring the cosmos, Rosetta's debut album definitely deserves your attention. Spoiler for Rosetta - Departe (synced version): __________________ Last.FM 101 Albums That May Not Change Your Life, But I Really Like And You Might Too