Metal, Stuff that sounds amazing.....

JoshK · « **Reply #20 on:** 6 Nov 2008, 11:54 pm »

I don't own any DVD-A's...

Bob in St. Louis · « **Reply #21 on:** 7 Nov 2008, 12:34 pm »

You should try some Josh. They would go well with your HT......
By the way; Sorry man, I lied to you guys. The Dream Theater isn't a DVD-A, its a regular DVD.
It's a 20th anniversary Live with the Octavarium Orchestra

But regardless of what it's called the sound quality is horrible.

Bob

JoshK · « **Reply #22 on:** 7 Nov 2008, 12:44 pm »

I was just watching that the other day. I only watched the first 1/3. I don't remember the sq being bad. I'll have to watch it again soon.

nathanm · « **Reply #23 on:** 7 Nov 2008, 05:42 pm »

The DVD-As of Metallica "s\t Black Album" and Megadeth "Killing Is My Business…" do sound good, but surround sound metal\straight rock type bands just doesn't do anything for me. There's too much stuff going on in the rears and it's distracting. A mostly-front mix with just a bit of ambience in the rears would be fine, but nobody wants to sell you subtle enhancement, you want the flying-around-the-room sounds you paid good money for, dammit!

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JoshK · « **Reply #24 on:** 7 Nov 2008, 05:55 pm »

I'm very much in agreement with Nathan.

gixxerific · « **Reply #25 on:** 8 Nov 2008, 07:57 pm »

Slipknot: Snuff. Off the new album starts off with acoustic than breaks into hard ass bass drum Not to mention a most awesome male vocal. Getting further into the song about midway through there is a very faint but powerful pulsating humming electro bass sound that could test a speaker pretty good.

This will be one of the songs on my test cd. Funny thing the low but powerful bass i talked about earlier doesn't show up on my PC 5.1 though I can defnitely hear it\feel it in my truck.

Adding to what Nathan and JoshK said music in surround is just wrong, unless meant to be that way like perhaps DSOTM (Pink Floyd). I come from a car audio background. I do have aftermarket speaks in the rear but they are NEVER on. Why? Because they distract from the most awesome front stage. With the rears on it is way too confusing not to mention cancelation and all that good stuff.

JoshK · « **Reply #26 on:** 8 Nov 2008, 08:01 pm »

I'll admit the song "waiting to bleed" by slipknot is a guilty pleasure, except the recording is s**t, its all clipped to hell and sounds like it.

gixxerific · « **Reply #27 on:** 8 Nov 2008, 08:07 pm »

Quote from: JoshK on 8 Nov 2008, 08:01 pm

I'll admit the song "waiting to bleed" by slipknot is a guilty pleasure, except the recording is s**t, its all clipped to hell and sounds like it.

You should check the new album "All Hope Is Gone" song 11 Snuff one of my favs on that album.

Feisal K · « **Reply #28 on:** 14 Nov 2008, 02:11 pm »

Porcupine Tree

In Absentia DVD-A (this sounds OK, but reveals itself to be a bit harsh compared to the two newer releases)
Deadwing DVD-A
Fear of a Blank Planet DVD-A

The SQ of Porcupine Tree's live DVD Arriving Somewhere is to die for.

Feisal K · « **Reply #29 on:** 14 Nov 2008, 02:12 pm »

Ok, checked out Trivium's Shogun release

Music = 80's Maiden (very very good - there are melodic breaks that remind me of early Iron Maiden)
Vocals = small amount of growling (uhm... don't like so much, but there's only a bit of it)
Sound = good (typically loud 21st century mastering, but no distortion)

Shogun (the song) is a 12 minute epic in the style of Rime. highly recommended.

Listen (linked allows you to access the stereo channel on youtube)
Torn Between Scylla And Charybdes
The Calamity
Like Callisto To A Star In Heaven
Insurrection
Down from the Sky

mvwhiting_83 · « **Reply #30 on:** 24 Nov 2008, 07:46 pm »

Some albums that I think sound good, metal-wise...
Queensryche - Empire and Rage for Order.... The drums always sounded so big on their albums.
Metallica - Black on DVD-A is awesome, Ride the lightning for an 84' release, this album sound killer
Judas Priest - Ram It Down, alot Priest fans hate it, it's one of my personal favorite from their more metal days.
Opeth - Blackwater Park, Ghost Reveries... One of the best bands ever! Beneath the Mire of of Reveries is perfect
Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery, for those that want their death metal blasphemous and melodic. The guitar sound on the is album is killer.
Carcass - Swansong.
Tool - All of their albums post Undertow sound great. 10,000 days is absolute top notch, for any demos that I do and anyone who asks for something rockin' I'll just throw on Jambi, and that intro will floor them.

Theogenes · « **Reply #31 on:** 8 Dec 2008, 04:28 am »

Some GREAT recommendations here!! I've gotta throw Meshuggah in the mix though, particularly with "ObZen", which is just BRILLIANT!! That album actually won some kind of audiophile award from TAS, I believe it was... Definitely have to second the Opeth nod, although one of my buddies swears the vinyl versions sound WAY better. APC sounds great (although I haven't cared much for anything after their debut), NIN is almost always extremely well-done, let's see... Oh, the new Cryptopsy sounds really good thus far!! I haven't been able to listen to it on my real setup yet (I'm living out-of-state while looking for a new home atm), but it's sounded pretty darn good where I've heard it so far, and it DOMINATES!! Funny, nobody's mentioned any black metal albums yet... :p

nathanm · « **Reply #32 on:** 8 Dec 2008, 07:46 am »

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Funny, nobody's mentioned any black metal albums yet... :p

Ha! Well yeah, there's probably a good reason for that. Perhaps because Black Metal seems to embrace a deliberately thin and buzzy sound. I like some BM, but it does not strike me as being very Hi-Fiesque. I don't know what they have against bass. I don't mean the instrument, I mean the frequency range. I do have a soft spot for Immortal, though (as you can tell from my avatar). Mayhem "Chimera" has kind of a moderately Hi-Fi sound, but the drums are the worst ever. There could be a thick-sounding BM album out there for all I know, I just haven't heard it personally. They all seem to have typewriter kicks without exception.

cryoparts · « **Reply #33 on:** 8 Dec 2008, 10:06 pm »

My son was blasting some Korn the other day and I was impressed with how well it was recorded. I think it's an older album, it has "Twisted Transistor" on it--whichever that one is.

Peace,

Lee

Airborn · « **Reply #34 on:** 10 Dec 2008, 12:35 am »

Mastodon is amazing sounding metal, imo. Especially, Blood Mountain:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:39fyxqt0ldhe

Folsom · « **Reply #35 on:** 10 Dec 2008, 01:55 am »

So I got two albums recently...

I had listened to A Perfect Circle Mer De Noms and thought it was pretty well recorded. The copy I have now I do not enjoy at all. The ripped to FLAC version of eMotive sounds good but is not a great album.

I also got the MOFI version of Megadeath's Countdown to Extinction. What a piece of shit. Yeah it sounds perfect, and completely unlike a real bad. It sounds like like everything is synthesized. They ran all the guitars through tuners, and did horrible micing of the drums. It does not sound real. You can not hear the strings of anything. Yes it has dynamics and imaging but it sounds fake. It sounds like the most un-intimate piece of shit I have ever heard that is suppose to be a good recording

Imperial · « **Reply #36 on:** 10 Dec 2008, 02:30 am »

One of my more favourite albums to play is:

My favourite track is : Dreamscape lucidity. LINK to u'toob

The great thing about Pagan's mind is the everchanging patterns and rhythm changes...
Also this band has some seriously good PRAT and DRIVE to their sound!!!

I find myself returning to this band more often than any other metalband!

Imperial (who actually has very long ...heavy metal hair Yeah!!!)

diofan56 · « **Reply #37 on:** 10 Dec 2008, 02:55 am »

Ronnie James Dio's album Lock up the Wolves is recorded quite well plus it is one of my all-time favorite albums. I usually take it with me when I am auditioning equipment.

Dave

face · « **Reply #38 on:** 12 Dec 2008, 06:51 pm »

The new Slipknot is very clean, but also very compressed. My McIntosh meters stay in the same position throughout each track.

Faith No More, great band, poor recordings. I'd love to hear their recent remaster though.

Tool, yes, they sound fantastic. Opiate isn't the cleanest recording, but does have some cool effects. A few tracks, most noticeably #6(Opiate) has some cool surround effects, just like Q Sound. This is also heard in 10,000 Days, the thunder, lightning, and rain surround you, and even go behind you with the right room and rig.

One of my favorite metal/rock recordings is Alice in Chains, Unplugged.

Almost anything from NIN is worth a mention.

And Sepultura, Roots...I've never met anyone else who listens to it.

I really wish someone would do a good job remastering old Maiden...

nathanm · « **Reply #39 on:** 12 Dec 2008, 07:27 pm »

NOOOOO!!! Leave Iron Maiden alone! The very word "remastering" fills me with horror. It's one thing to keep destroying the future of music with blaring, awful mixes, but when they want to reach back in time and shit all over the past it's the most obscene, unforgiveable violation. You have to guard your old CDs with your life these days and pray that nothing ever happens to them or any hard drives you've ripped them to, because album by album the record labels are regurgitating their back catalog on us, and it's not what we remembered.