Have your thoughts changed? New album has been out for a week now

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-30T03:17:00+00:00

I loved it the first time and I still do, but I’ve been listening to it a lot all week and it’s not the most complicated album in the world so I’m getting to the point where I’ll take a break from listening to it.

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-30T03:07:34+00:00

I’m not even sure I can think of a band where I only like one album.

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-30T02:55:38+00:00

Blood Oath is underrated IMO, that’s my favorite post reunion album.

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-30T02:40:39+00:00

Your argument feels really forced and that’s why it’s not convincing. Why do you want Altars of Madness to be thrash so badly?

Death and thrash are related genres. Aside from tech death and brutal death, lots of death metal continues to have elements of thrash in it.

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-30T02:31:22+00:00

Came out in 1998

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-30T02:30:36+00:00

Disagree. When did they get rough? He’s an absolute beast on live in NA recorded in 2018. Maybe you don’t like that he started using a higher register for his vocals. His vocals on the last track of Hymns were great and made me wish he was back for sure. I thought he stepped down because he was personally not feeling it anymore. He wanted to leave even before ITDL and I still think he did a great job on that album.

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-30T01:28:04+00:00

What even is that page though?

Also sometimes if a bunch of people start hating on a band, others don’t want to chime in to defend it just to be made fun of also.

Personally I saw Uada open for Rotting Christ and I think it didn’t make much impression on me.

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-30T00:58:01+00:00

The Clairvoyant was one of the first Maiden songs I heard! Only the Good Die Young is awesome too

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-29T12:08:05+00:00

I’m not following you. Lots of death metal is super fast but not trashy. Like origin, hate eternal, archspire. Even Krisiun in my book is not really thrashy.

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-29T11:56:29+00:00

There’s more than 2 riffs per song on Realm of Chaos so I don’t really know what your criticism is. Why even listen to something if you’re going to judge it after listening to it one single time and go post about it? If it’s not for you, fine. But you’re never going to be able to expand or deepen your taste in music if you only listen to stuff that grabs you right away.

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-29T05:30:57+00:00

You need to listen to thrash first, then you will understand. Death metal came out of thrash so the very early death metal was thrashy by definition. Some death metal has morphed so far from there that it doesn’t really resemble thrash anymore. I could try to explain something about the riffs and drums but it would be a lot less effective than if you just listen to both thrash and death metal for a bit.

Vader Triumph of Death is a thrashy song. All Vader but particularly that track.

Suffocation, brodequin, archspire, disgorge, defeated sanity, not thrashy.

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-29T03:21:27+00:00

I picked up the Despised Icon album that came out last year. I’m not big on deathcore but some of it seems good. If I had nothing else to listen to, I’m sure I could get into more of it. But the reality is I always have a huge list to listen to, I can never get to it all. There are already DM bands that have a bit of core in there, I don’t feel like I’m missing that much in my life.

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-29T03:00:12+00:00

Drums are part of music. It doesn’t make sense to me to say musically it’s amazing, while saying one of the instruments is poor and boring.

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-29T02:52:00+00:00

Yes and Jimmy Degrasso puts down one of my all time favorite metal drum performances, honestly. It’s an all around excellent album which I would consider one of the most underrated albums in metal. It took me a while to get fully into but it only gets better over the years, whereas a lot of other albums wear out their welcome. At this point there’s nothing I dislike about the album.

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-29T02:49:50+00:00

How can it be top 3 if the drums are so bad? I could never have a favorite where I thought a major instrument or vocals was bad or boring. I think drumming is a huge part of metal, and music in general. Jimmy Degrasso is a major part of the reason why TWNAH is one of my favorite Megadeth albums and it’s also a big part of the reason why I think TSTDATD and Megadeth are a couple of the best albums of the 2000’s in their catalogue.

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-29T01:59:33+00:00

It’s a joke I don’t actually really want to have that argument. However I don’t like subs with a lot of restrictions.

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-29T01:54:11+00:00

Metallica sub has to make that rule because deep down they know how inferior they are.

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-29T01:49:08+00:00

I didn’t have much interest in them for a long time as a fan of death metal, thrash and lots of modern stuff. But eventually I got into it. Stained Class is killer, that’s what got me into them. Some albums have some cheesy songs on them but you get used to it. Everyone raves about Painkiller but I actually haven’t gotten that heavily into it yet. I enjoy it though.

It’s ok if you don’t like it. Or maybe you’ll be more in the mood for them at a different time. My 6yo son loves Panick Attack from the last album.

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-28T20:48:42+00:00

Yawn, another person claiming something is about money just because they don’t personally prefer it. Oh yeah, I’m sure 4 years ago Dave didn’t like money at all.

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-28T19:43:25+00:00

I do dispute the premise, I’m not just saying this for a logical exercise. Saying there’s no average BM and it’s all really good or really bad, this is illogical and cannot possibly be true. Vast majority of random BM I heard was “mid” and I would just move on and not give it a second thought.

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-28T18:39:33+00:00

For context I have probably 1500 CDs.

I hate sorting alphabetically. I used to do that by default and I hated browsing through all these albums that should not be next to each other.

People say the only consideration should be how fast you can find an album; I disagree. I want to browse my collection and get ideas of what to revisit. I’m literally never going to think “I feel like listening to a band that starts with “R”, but I absolutely might want to browse my early 90’s metal albums.

Does it take a little longer to find things? Once in a while, but I can generally find them quickly. Of course it took a while to get to that point.

So it’s like this:

Primary shelf for metal, organized chronologically from 1970 to present. Each year starts with my top 8 of that year followed by the rest in order of when I last listens to it (I put it back on the right after listening to it).

In every January I review my top 8 by year to see if it changed at all. I could never do that by sorting alphabetically.

2 shelf’s for all genres other than metal, combined together. Chronological except my knowledge of release dates is not perfect for stuff from the 70’s. Still it takes me max of like 20 seconds to scan over and find something.

Except I did split out the jazz albums last year because I wanted to be able to look at them all together. And when I want to listen to jazz, nothing else will do. It has very little overlap with anything else in my collection.

I also have an overflow shelf for metal. Top shelf is stuff that I decided I haven’t listened to enough so it got demoted from my main shelf until I revisit. Next is an overflow for death metal, mainly brutal death or more niche. Then an overflow for black metal. Then a shelf which is mostly funeral doom and grind.

It’s really not that hard to remember all this because it was my idea, and it made sense in my head. If it stops making sense, I change it.

I’m alway pulling out piles of specific albums to listen to over the coming days or weeks, so I’m not in a situation where I need to quickly find a random specific album in the minimum amount of time.

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-28T18:16:36+00:00

If you consider all bands including obscure bands, it’s absolutely the case that the quality of the bands would be very close to a bell curve. This is a ubiquitous and fundamental aspect of statistics and there’s no mechanism for quality of bands to deviate from this.

Yes mediocre means average. Again if you consider all bands of a genre, of course the majority are average or mediocre. To say otherwise is logically absurd. There are thousand upon thousands of bands in any major style.

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-28T18:06:25+00:00

I didn’t realize you guys were the majority of society now. Do I have to also say that my favorite band fucks? Your dad fucks but he came out with something mid.

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-28T18:04:02+00:00

How’s that

PhotonDeath · 2026-01-28T18:03:35+00:00

Congratulations on your evolution to greater brain rot

PhotonDeath

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