The Metal Thread

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remember another girl doing death metal but this one won



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More than a little stoked for their coming album.


I absolutely love instrumentals. You don't see many bands do instrumentals anymore. In the 80s, everyone had an instrumental then they just kinda stopped...in the metal scene anyway. I've noticed some bands are bringing them back.
 
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I absolutely love instrumentals. You don't see many bands do instrumentals anymore. In the 80s, everyone had an instrumental then they just kinda stopped...in the metal scene anyway. I've noticed some bands are bringing them back.
I didn’t get into ‘real’ metal until about ‘99 so can’t really comment about before then, but they’ve definitely been around
 

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I didn’t get into ‘real’ metal until about ‘99 so can’t really comment about before then, but they’ve definitely been around
I grew up with the Big 4. I prefer Big 5 because I throw Testament in there as well but a lot of 80s metal bands used to do instrumentals. Metallica had Anesthesia, Call of Ktulu, Orion, and Live is to Die, Testament had Dirge and Urotsukidoji and Last Call. Then it seemed they just stopped. Just not them specifically, lots of bands did for Metallica, 2008 was their last instrumental , before that was 1988. Testament released an instrumental this year, before that 1991. I've noticed newer bands like Shadow of Intent and Orbit Culture have done instrumentals but there was a good 20 years where bands just didn't do them.
 

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This band is pretty fucking good. Just discovered from some metal blog. They just dropped a new album. Mix of Opeth, Pink Floyd and Caligulas with a wee bit of Knopler fender benders?

 
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I grew up with the Big 4. I prefer Big 5 because I throw Testament in there as well but a lot of 80s metal bands used to do instrumentals. Metallica had Anesthesia, Call of Ktulu, Orion, and Live is to Die, Testament had Dirge and Urotsukidoji and Last Call. Then it seemed they just stopped. Just not them specifically, lots of bands did for Metallica, 2008 was their last instrumental , before that was 1988. Testament released an instrumental this year, before that 1991. I've noticed newer bands like Shadow of Intent and Orbit Culture have done instrumentals but there was a good 20 years where bands just didn't do them.
I dunno, I'd venture you just weren't into the specific areas of metal that weren't doing them. Off the top of my head there's this and other In Flames songs that are instrumental, definitely other stuff from the 90's - 00's melodic death metal era.


Animals As Leaders and Plini are both 100% instrumental. AAL's first album was 2009
 
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I dunno, I'd venture you just weren't into the specific areas of metal that weren't doing them. Off the top of my head there's this and other In Flames songs that are instrumental, definitely other stuff from the 90's - 00's melodic death metal era.


Animals As Leaders and Plini are both 100% instrumental. AAL's first album was 2009

I didn't discover Animals as Leaders till about 2018.
Now that I'm thinking about it I do recall more bands doing them then I initially thought. Buckethead for example.

Guess it just seemed like they died out but the more I think about it the more bands and solo artists I remember listening to that do instrumentals. Nevermind! Haha
 
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I didn't discover Animals as Leaders till about 2018.
Now that I'm thinking about it I do recall more bands doing them then I initially thought. Buckethead for example.

Guess it just seemed like they died out but the more I think about it the more bands and solo artists I remember listening to that do instrumentals. Nevermind! Haha
Ha, I totally should have remembered Buckethead. Have made my kids listen to a few songs occasionally.
 
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