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imapiratearg:
I don't know, Deja Entendu would win for me on the basis that it ends with "Play Crack the Sky," which is a fucking fantastic song and Jesse will never write anything quite like it.
Each of their albums possess a different kind of charm. Your Favorite Weapon has a youthful energy and some really great hooks, Deja Entendu has got some great catchy pieces and a real bleeding-heart romanticism to it and is more subdued sound, whereas The Devil and God are Raging Inside of Me is more bitter and dark and at times is loud and chaotic ("Welcome to Bangkok"). I haven't listened to these albums in forever, though, so I am going from memory.
Catacombs:
I've never listened to their first album, and the last album starts off well but by half way thru I usually lose interest and go with something else. So I'd have to go with Deja Entendu being my favorite.
EDIT for stupid typos.
kyleg:
Less known metal acts:
Amorphis- Tales of The Thousand Lakes
Amorphis has done albums of differing styles over the years before settling on a more HIMesque brand of music starting with the album Am Universum. Tales is far from this. Amorphis was put on the map of the metal world with this album with its blend of folk music, doom metal with alternating death growls and "clean" vocals.
Katatonia- Last Fair Deal Gone Down
This is very gloomy music. The album is very simple and well arranged. The lyrics are very soulful while not over the top(bottom?). If I was to pick 3 metal albums for the indy rock fan to listen to, this would be one of them. The others include Neurosis' A Sun that Never Sets and...
The Gathering- Mandylion
Very moody and atmospheric. The singer's vocals are stunning and awe inspiring. Some tracks are heavier than others, but in a very pleasant way. This is one of the few bands that have been able to take dissonance and spin it in a way that is beyond novelty. Highest of accolades to the Gathering for this album especially.
el_loco_avs:
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Didn't these guys cover Jeff Buckley's Nightmares by the Sea? Sounded like a pretty solid band. I shall proceed to "check out" this band yes.
dancarter:
Skinny Puppy - Last Rights
This was a tough one because the album is so difficult to begin with. A better starting out choice would probably be Too Dark Park, but this one means more. It's just so dense And scary. There's a quality here to the music that is not found in any other Skinny Puppy disc, one of depseration, I suppose. THis is the end and they're really going to be taking everyone with them....violently, but oddly quietly. I mean that because it's a very intimate album. Key keeps that steady by being a madman on what has been termed "drumosaurus", a gigantic mishmash kit of analog and triggered drums that's been built and re-built many times over. His programming and mixing are top notch as well, but I think a lot of the credit for the overall denseness, the mass of sound, goes do Goettel, who joined the band with Cleanse, Fold and Manipulate and his touch is so apparent here you immediately notice his absence now that he's sadly passed on.
Ogre's lyrics are particulary inward, which is odd for him. He's usually more politacal in his mindset as he's prone to tackle issues of animal rights or ecological abuses. This was also one of the few albums where he refused to have the lyrics printed in the tray insert, which only added to the mystiqe.
This is sort of the height of the Key/Goettel/Ogre days of excessive drug use and it definitely shows throughout. There is a story that follows that on the track Knowhere?, Ogre fell into an drug enduced seizure that was later processed through filters and kept in the track.
Tracks to hear at least once would be Love in Vein, Killing Game, Knowhere?, Mirrorsaw, Scrapyard (probably my favourite track), Lustchance and Dowload but I encourage just a dark room and a rainy night and some headphones to enjoy the hole thing. Mutiple listens will be rewarded.
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