Sgt_BFG on 19/7/2009 at 21:35
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
BWAHAHAHA DIMMU BORGNIR. One of the most hilarious Black Metal bands around (they also suck).
Moar like DIMMU BURGER amirite?
Harvester on 20/7/2009 at 00:08
Just listened to those links, the songs are fairly interesting to me (though I wouldn't buy the album) but I didn't know these types of music were considered metal. I wouldn't have called them metal myself, but maybe that just shows that I know jack shit about metal.
The Dimmu Borgir song was fitting for this trailer, but I'm really thankful there wasn't any black metal 'singing' in it.
Nice trailer BTW.
june gloom on 20/7/2009 at 01:01
Earth's early albums were the beginnings of the drone doom subgenre (though I wouldn't really call anything they've made after their reunion metal); Isis, while not wholly inventing post-metal (post-rock/metal fusion), put it on the map; and Devin Townsend frequently switches between soft, calming stuff like "Winter" and (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teeYBgyZhS8) the musical equivalent of an epileptic seizure. (For the record, Devin is bipolar, which probably explains the wild dichotomies in the music he makes.)
Harvester on 20/7/2009 at 01:39
Ugh, that's not for me.
BTW, I've recently been linked on another forum to (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4OrOdgt7nc) this song by a band called Behold The Arctopus. I can't make head or tails of it. What do you think of it, dethtoll?
june gloom on 20/7/2009 at 02:14
Behold... the Arctopus are basically Rush meets John Zorn. Interesting band, very insanely technical (bordering on wankery) and they don't fuck it up with shitty singing (unlike Dream Theater). They walk a fine line between highbrow experimentation and becoming utterly atonal, and every once in a while they cross that line- sloppiness isn't the issue, the issue is trying too hard.
Overall, good stuff, but nothing I'd listen to on a regular basis. It remains to be seen if they can take the lessons from their first (and so far only) album Skullgrid and create something more palatable to the average listener while never losing sight of how they got here, but as a highly experimental album Skullgrid is a good start.
Harvester on 20/7/2009 at 02:36
Thanks for your comments. I just watched a small interview with those guys, one of them has a really cool guitar with 12 strings, and the bass strings are tuned differently than the guitar strings. That must be a bitch to learn.
Metal is intriguing to me precisely because I (usually) don't get it. I mean the Dimmu Borgir song from this trailer sounded okay, and I like Metallica somewhat (not the new album though) and some industrial like the Quake 2 soundtrack, several Rammstein and Nine Inch Nails songs and such, and there's a progressive metal album called 'The Visitor' by a band called Arena that I really like, but when we get to the heavier stuff like death and black metal, that's where I get off. So it's interesting for me to find out what makes metalheads tick and where the appeal in that kind of music lies.
But maybe we shouldn't derail this thread any further with discussions about metal.
TJKeranen on 20/7/2009 at 02:43
Ooh, this looks like something I must keep in mind. Reminds me a lot of (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaTJAw0QDH0) Solar Jetman on NES.
And with limited exposures some Dimmu Borgir songs can be alright. Music seems quite fitting in that trailer, at least.
Digital Nightfall on 13/3/2011 at 08:41
I was wondering if this was the same game that I remembered seeing years ago. I guess this got stuck in development hell for a bit.
