upcoming metal releases

Farlo · Post by **Farlo** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 5:30 am

4/08 - Phantom Limb - Veins Of Unholy Capacity
4/08 - Rite - The Creep Had It Coming - Part 1
4/12 - Mindgrinder - MindTech
4/12 - Thou Shalt Suffer - Into The Woods Of Belial
4/13 - Satyricon - Volcano
4/13 - Joe Satriani - Is There Love In Space?
4/13 - Heathen - Recovered
4/13 - Subterranean Masquerade - Temporary Psychotic State
4/13 - Aina - Days Of Rising Doom - The Metal Opera
4/13 - After Forever - Exordium
4/15 - Necare - Ruin

nailz · Post by **nailz** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 8:38 am

4/19 - Elvenking - Wyrd

Farlo · Post by **Farlo** » Thu Apr 08, 2004 6:25 am

4/20 - dismember - "where iron crosses grow"

nailz · Post by **nailz** » Thu Apr 08, 2004 7:39 am

After Forever's new one is supposed to be one of thier better releases. Has anyone picked it up?

Sean_H · Post by **Sean_H** » Thu Apr 08, 2004 1:13 pm

My favorite releases so far for 2004:

Suffocation - 'Souls to Deny'
DragonForce - 'Sonic Firestorm'
Decapitated - 'The Negation'
Persuader - 'Evolution Purgatory'
Winds - 'The Imaginary Direction of Time'
Ayreon - 'The Human Equation'

Some of these aren't actually out yet, but I've acquired them through downloading and will most likely buy when they are out.

Demilich's 'Nespithe' is available for free, legal download on their homepage, in case anyone didn't know.

I haven't seen much mention of DragonForce here either, check out some of their songs:

http://208.203.139.81/dragonforce/mp3s.html

I'm still very eagerly awaiting:

Ensiferum - 'Iron'
A new Bal-Sagoth
A new album from The Chasm
New stuff from Immolation
HOPEFULLY a new Sadus album
Borknagar - 'Epic'
Vomitory - 'Primal Massacre'

And that's about all I can think of at the moment.

nailz · Post by **nailz** » Thu Apr 08, 2004 2:30 pm

I'd just like to point out to mods that yes, that indeed is a legal link.

Sean_H · Post by **Sean_H** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 12:42 am

The new Threshold album 'Subsurface' is also due out in July. I'll most likely be getting that as well.

Kai Stromler · Post by **Kai Stromler** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 12:51 am

Sean_H wrote:Suffocation - 'Souls to Deny'
DragonForce - 'Sonic Firestorm'

Dates for these releases are respectively 4/27 and 4/19. I can't wait for either.

The reason that DragonForce doesn't get more use around the .org is that nobody's editing prog can keep up with Sam and Herman for seven full minutes. It really boggles me that the song they've released as a single from the new one is both a ballad AND significantly faster than a lot of the material on that ridiculous speed-demon of a first album (which somehow bumped up both tempos and runtimes from their similarly ridiculous demo).

I've said it before, though maybe not around here: if God was a Chinese man with four-foot hair and an Ibanez guitar, his name would be Herman Li and he would play in a band called DragonForce.

--K

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 12:52 am

Ooooh, I haven't heard any of the new Ayreon, how is it?

Sean_H · Post by **Sean_H** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 1:13 am

Kai Stromler wrote:The reason that DragonForce doesn't get more use around the .org is that nobody's editing prog can keep up with Sam and Herman for seven full minutes. It really boggles me that the song they've released as a single from the new one is both a ballad AND significantly faster than a lot of the material on that ridiculous speed-demon of a first album (which somehow bumped up both tempos and runtimes from their similarly ridiculous demo).

I've said it before, though maybe not around here: if God was a Chinese man with four-foot hair and an Ibanez guitar, his name would be Herman Li and he would play in a band called DragonForce.

--K

Heh, yeah you definitely have a point there. I'm not too knowledgable about AMV's in the first place, so I hadn't really thought of that. I remember hearing the VotD'd title track solo for the first time, and thinking "this just defies all logic." I did order the Japanese import version of Sonic Firestorm, because I thought 'Cry of the Brave' was worth that extra twenty dollars (and because I wasn't the one paying for it). I think it's actually out in Japan already, because I got an e-mail today telling me that it shipped.

Ooooh, I haven't heard any of the new Ayreon, how is it?

Excellent. All the vocal roles are played very well (though they could be considered excessive at times), and the music is stellar. One of the best composed concept albums I've heard in a while.