This is metal!!!

[W. Rabbit]

One of my all time favorites

[battlefields]

I can't remember if this was posted or not, but it should have been considering the film clip has two martial arts legends in it. Also, Sepultura.

[Naszir]

This is the new goodness. Pallbearer are out of Little Rock. They remind me of a more brutal Candlemass. This record is so sick.

[akhileshneo]

Sounds good.

[yli]

Naszir, do you have any idea how much I fucking love you? (No homo).

[hpr]

C-C-C-Combo breaker. Let's do something a bit different.

ARK (not the Swedish pop band but the Norwegian prog metal group) put out an awesome CD called Burn the Sun back in 2001.

This is the title track.




Freak Kitchen is a Swedish prog metal / hard rock band. Let's lull you a bit with a slower song. It helps that it's awesome though.



Here's more pretty damn progressive stuff from my friend's band, Depth Beyond One. Not sure if they are doing anything anymore, but all of them are talented as hell.



More Swedish goodness, Pain of Salvation with Scarsick:



Finally not to ignore Finnish proge metal completely I'll end with a high note: the hit track from Stam1na's latest album (Nocebo), Valtiaan uudet vaatteet (with a great video!)

[WoodyCorpus]

Ah, Pain of Salvation, a huge influence on my own band.

Currently covering this Swedish gem though

[W. Rabbit]

[Hiro Protagonist]

Today's Blind Guardian night for me:

[Neo Sigma]

My drastically increased running schedule here in Thailand means I need a lot of stuff to keep me moving. This has led to my rediscovering my love for melo-death. I know that's typically European territory, but The Absence shows that American metal can be more than grunting, chest-pounding wannabe alpha male stupidity.