Metal Music General - All Sub-Genres Welcome

@SquiggyBomb  
Ah, Alestorm.

Lmao wow, I haven’t paid attention to Alestorm in a few years and that’s what they’re up to. Beautiful.
 
I need to work on learning an instrument at some point. Panopticon consistently inspires me to try something ambient and folky to one day infuse with black metal. But here I am getting older and doing nothing but writing lyric passages to one day use, and slowly working on harsh vocals. Shoulda started all that 15 years ago.

@EquusStorm  
From personal experience, just jump right in and do it.
 
I’m amateur as hell but I just stick with the basics of recording and production that I’m familiar with. It’s all the result of years of DIY improvisation and experimenting.

@Labyrinthine  
I’m thinking about borrowing my brother’s guitar and amp next time I’m up. Kinda wanna also mess around with some ambient stuff. The Finnish act Nest has always inspired me to dabble in neofolk and I’ve wanted a kantele for a good while now since it’s not a thing that one can really find around here ahaha. It’d be fun to experiment with genres until something sounds good.

@EquusStorm  
I first started out in 2013 recording guitar and vocals through a headset microphone. It was shit-tier noisecore but I had so much fun doing it. Since then I’ve done hardcore techno, hip-hop and powerviolence (the latter which was done with a friend of mine). It took a painful 5 years before I started taking things more seriously.

@Labyrinthine  
I guess it’s all a process… having fun while doing it is good though. I just wish I’d started earlier in life.

@EquusStorm  
Don’t regret starting late, appreciate the fact you’re getting yourself to start at all. At least that’s how I feel. if I didn’t record absolute trash as a teenager I wouldn’t have gotten the idea to record black metal in a serious environment years later.

@Labyrinthine  
True! Having a super sheltered childhood and early teen-hood certainly helps with the starting late part. I didn’t even discover metal at all until I was 17.

I’m not a huge fan of Alestorm, they’re one of those bands I wanted to like but just couldn’t find myself really enjoying.
 
I feel that they don’t have enough catchy courses or memorable melodic guitar hooks, which is essential for a power metal band.

I think Running Wild did the pirate theme a bit better tbh

@EquusStorm  
Same, Running Wild is very, very good.

Over the last 16 months or so, I have just become absolutely obsessed with Pentagram. I knew them for years because Cathedral covered a song of theirs but only when I hit absolute rock bottom did I look them up. Honestly it was the most appropriate time to get into them.
 
It’s some of the most menacing, miserable doom metal I have ever heard. ESPECIALLY the later albums when Bobby Leibling was essentially a basement dwelling drug addict. The bleak nature of the lyrics and music just shines through.
 
If you’re by any means a fan of doom metal, then get it on it now

I’m getting into doom more these days… I entered the more extreme side of metal through thrash so it took a while to adjust to the slow crushing atmospheres. I do like Cathedral though. Addin’ to the list.

@EquusStorm  
Check out Agalloch, A Pale Horse Named Death, Gorement and October Tide. They are nice doom bands.

I’m a big fan of Agalloch. Was one of my intros to the doomier side of metal. Ironically I’ve had some nice internet correspondence with the guy that did much of their earlier albums’ cover art, Aslak Tolonen (and his neofolk act Nest is pretty nice too)

Polish independent label Via Nocturna emailed me inquiring about distributing my demo. They basically asked me to give a quick run down on my project and how many copies I want. I suggested about 100-200 copies since I don’t expect a huge amount of hype/interest from people. Still pretty pumped though, I’ve had a shit experience trying to contact labels about distribution the last few months so its nice someone came to me instead.

@Labyrinthine  
Ever heard of Leather Leone?

@Badheart  
Not too familiar

@Labyrinthine  
You could probably contact her.

Had a discussion with my friend how we both feel Starlight Glimmer is the pony version of Myrkur.

@The Glim Glam  
This song makes me think of Glimmy

@Labyrinthine
 
I can see that too.

@Yakoushi  

 
I love them so fucking much ❤️.

@The Glim Glam
 
@Yakoushi
 
 
I’ve been into them for about 9 years. Hypothermia is pretty fucking good too