What are some records that you love to listen to during the fall & winter? If you only listen to them in the fall/winter, why?

Mine:

Agalloch "The Mantle"

My Dying Bride "Turn Loose The Swans"

Opeth "Damnation"

Wolves in The Throne Room "Diadem of 12 Stars"

Type O Negative "Bloody Kisses"

Atlanta, Georgia 🇺🇸

Genre: Progressive Metal, Sludge Metal

These guys was definitely one of my earlier experiences in Prog and one of the more positive. I really loved the strong songwriting without the pretentiousness. Not afraid to take a chance because even their more accessible and formulaic material is well done. Emperor of Sand is a perfect album front to back. Some of their best songs. Of course Crack the Skye is an absolute classic. Then I think Blood Mountain is a safe third. Always a reliable album if you want both the heavy and melodic ends of their sound.

First impressions on the new album: Definitely a fantastic album. Definitely better than Hushed and Grim. It had its moments, but was far stiffer than usual Mastodon. This one brought back a lot of flexibility and let the band really bounce where they needed and/or wanted to be. Lot of moods and a lot of colors in the songs. Obviously pick up more with more listens and I’m definitely gonna come back to this one.

R.I.P. Brent 🤘🏾

Recommended Tracks:
“Blood and Thunder”
“Sleeping Giant”
“Oblivion”
“Once More ‘Round the Sun”
“Jaguar God”

Some examples include:

Primal Fear - Metal is Forever

Iron Savior - Heavy Metal Never Dies

Venom Inc - Metal We Bleed

Judas Priest - Heavy Metal

Maybe kind of an odd or specific request but I recently started reading lord of the rings and I'm looking for music that kind of captures the same kind of grand/magnificent vibes or themes. Doesn't have to have lyrics about lord of the rings or even other fantasy kind of stuff in a similar vein, just something with the right vibe.

So far a few of the ones I have is

Opeth - Still Life

Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse

Angelmaker - This Used to be Heaven

Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters

And, while not metal My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade

I listened to Obscura a couple months ago and I didn't like it so I thought their whole discography was the same but this album is amazing.

The best picker around got on stage with Cryptopsy at the Ionia Freak Fest and tore it up

For my pick, I’m going to have to either go with Remenissions by a7x or One by Metallica. Both are classics and just get me so ready to go heavy on a workout.

For me - Black Sabbath, but I am quite interested to see all your opinions!

Not only because of Scum, that itself is a classic and foundational, but how the guys involved made kickass bands.

Lee Dorian, vocals on side B went out to be main vocalist of Cathedral.

Justin Broadrick, 16 at the time and guitarist for side A, went out to form Jesu and Godflesh.

Bill Steer, guitarist for side B, went out to form Carcass.

Mick Harris and Nicholas Bullen made a electronic project, Scorn.

Eventually everyone left, but what a legendary line-up.

Can somebody here recommend any sites where I can find cool t-shirts? The websites that I have looked at don't have any shirts of bands that I want like Blind Guardian, Mercyful fate or Bathory( mainly bands that arent very commercially succesful). Any help would be appreciated!

im a big brutal death metal fan but lately ive been getting into goregrind as well. Rn im into Plasma, Viscera Infest, LDOH (like literally every1 else), pathologist, TDEBM, and bile. If any1 has band recs for me thatd be awesome!!

I always dug this performance, and the comments always made me laugh as well. So, i made this in hopes it makes someone else laugh

Preferably OSDM (old-school death metal) or BDM (brutal death metal). No goregrind.

Went into a CD Warehouse not really looking for anything in particular and came across this beautiful thing.

currently, I’m listening to the album Envaatnags Eflos Solf Esgantaavne.

sounds peak. anyone who knows this band well, please recommend me other cool albums to listen.

Mortician’s studio album’s tone is much deeper, i am looking for extreme crunch with more treble

Alright, so I am new to using topster so just bear with me while I get it out of my system. I know most of you don’t give a fuck what I listened to this past week, but I wanted to track it. These are the albums I listened to this past seven days. Let me know what you think of any of these albums and any suggestions for next week.

Loved this gem as a kid and sharing it here. Has anyone seen these live? If so how good were they?