The Metal Thread

A guitarist friend of mine pointed me to this guy on youtube saying he makes some of the most bone crunching and amazing sounding metal riffs. I can't disagree one bit and I fucking love all his albums.

Keith Merrow - Pillars Of Creation - YouTube
Keith Merrow - Malfunction - YouTube
Keith Merrow - Spice-Dealer - YouTube
Keith Merrow - Cosmogenesis - YouTube
Keith Merrow - Braving the Dunes - YouTube

Been a while since i visited the forum but:

Arkael, the stuff that begins at 2:30 is pure originality from Thordendals 1991 drugged mind:

Edit: Just mentioned your nick because you posted the shuggah

Dudebro_sl said:

A guitarist friend of mine pointed me to this guy on youtube saying he makes some of the most bone crunching and amazing sounding metal riffs. I can't disagree one bit and I fucking love all his albums.

Keith Merrow - Pillars Of Creation - YouTube
Keith Merrow - Malfunction - YouTube
Keith Merrow - Spice-Dealer - YouTube
Keith Merrow - Cosmogenesis - YouTube
Keith Merrow - Braving the Dunes - YouTube

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He does a lot of stuff with Jeff Loomis. He's alright, but I get bored of his stuff very easily.

Loomis I could listen to all day.

Noodleface_sl said:

He does a lot of stuff with Jeff Loomis. He's alright, but I get bored of his stuff very easily.

Loomis I could listen to all day.

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Loomis is amazing as well, and he's clearly the superior talent. The man is a guitar solo god. I just happen to prefer Merrow's sound.

New Opeth album got leaked.

New Hammerfall single. Templars unite!

First new Sleep song in almost 20 years

These dudes bring it, glad I heard about them (Wintersun):


Lost Society is good too, takes me back to my hardcore days:

darkseid_sl said:

New Opeth album got leaked.

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This must be some sort of elaborate hoax.

Just found out when I was driving by that these dudes are playing tonight. They've come up a few times on Pandora and I like what I've heard. Gonna see them in a couple hours and should be some good shit.

Wolves in the throne room is fucking killer live. They really know how to set the mood. Saw them and Deafheaven years ago. Speaking of which....

I didn't know they were as well known as they are. There were about as many people there as for Agalloch a few months ago. Show was pretty good, but overall the music is a little slower than I prefer. That's black metal for ya though.

Blakkheim_sl said:

This must be some sort of elaborate hoax.

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Definitely can't call it metal, as they seem to be going more toward progressive rock.

But, I'm loving the album, have listened to it plenty of times already.

There's been a lot of good american black metal in the past decade. A lot of the great ones tend to blend with an ambient sound. I personally prefer that to *BLASTBEAT BLASTBEAT BLASTBEAT GARBLE GARBLE*


Also Coffinworm. Buddy toured with them a couple years ago. More sludgey. Awesome riffs.

Started listening to Ghost. I have no idea why I like them so much.

Some new Overkill. Still pretty solid after 30 years.