Official HEAVY METAL RADIO topic (NOW WITH A FUCKING PODCAST)

[Ecrofirt]

Ecro, if you can devote a show to educating me how to tell black, death, and power metal apart, I will let you burn down my stave churches any day of the week.

Power metal is usually pretty fast with squeeling guitars and fast rhythms. Dragonforce counts as power metal. And if I'm correct, the Power Rangers themesong can also be counted as power metal... to give you a clear indication.

black metal usually has cookiemonster (growling) vocals, heavily bass oriented and kinda repetetive instrumentals in the background. It's not a rarity to find a song that has the same melody playing for the entire song.

death metal is the more screaming and squeeling vocals stuff.


that was my beginners analysis on the genres.

The power metal description is fine. However, you're a little off with the descriptions of death/black metal. Death metal has various sub genres within it, with some being more melodic or more brutal than others. There's usually fast down-tuned guitars and double bass, though not anything like those in power metal. Black metal in general sounds like it's recorded in a cave or an empty pool. Again though, there's such ultra-tr00 kvlt black metal bands like say Darkthrone or Emperor, as opposed to some of the more relatively commercial black metal bands like Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth. It's hard to describe what's what without listening to various bands as examples and points of references. In fact, rereading over what I wrote I feel I myself have not adequately described the genres. In summary, listen to these bands for examples of the genres:

Power Metal:
Blind Guardian
Stratovarius
Sonata Arctica

Traditional Black Metal:
Emperor
Mayhem
Marduk

Symphonic Black Metal:
Anorexia Nervosa
Dimmu Borgir
Naglfar (kinda)

Melodic Death Metal:
In Flames
Dark Tranquillity
Kalmah

Brutal Death Metal:
Origin
Krisiun
Cryptopsy

Hopefully this adds some insight. By the way this is Jazzy's co host Silky Smooth.

[Powerslave]

Where would Drudkh fit in? Black right?

[Ecrofirt]

Bah, fuck.

I recorded the show on a PC with audacity without any problems, but I ran into problems when everything was over.

First, I found out the old piece of shit doesn't have any USB 2.0 ports. FUCK. Transferring the 1.1GB WAV over to my external HD would've taken 30-45 minutes. Fuck, that's out of the question.

Then I was just gonig to keep the WAV file on the desktop of the PC and transfer it over to my PC tomorrow via a network share (\\computer\c$\), but there's no more goddamn live internet jacks in the room.

Fucked again!

I'll have to think up some solution to this problem. Fuck fuck fuck.

[Ecrofirt]

OK, so I'm encoding this past week's show to mp3 now.

I had the volume up way to high when recording or something, because there's a horrible hiss in the background whenever there's something quiet. Oh well, you live and learn.

I'll have the mp3 online either tonight or early tomorrow.

[Ecrofirt]

OK, I've got last week's show online now:
http://www.nformant.net/smoothjams104/show1.mp3

As I said, there's a hiss in the background that I couldn't do much to without sacrificing sound quality.

Eventually I'll turn it into an actual weekly podcast, but for now, this will have to do.

[Eric P]

thanks

[Ecrofirt]

Next show is tomorrow night. If you want to hear anything, please let me know now, as I'll likely forget to check Evilbore until well into the show.

Also, listen to the goddamn mp3 of last week's show!

And finally:
I bought smoothjams104.com, and I ordered a hosting package from SurpassHosting last night. They JUST emailed me while I'm typing this, so it looks like the site might be live tomorrow night for the show.

[Ecrofirt]

smoothjams104.com is all ready to go.

I think I'm going to be installing Drupal on it soon, but I want to confirm I'm doing everything correctly to get a podcast set up. If anyone can help, I'll give you a shout out tonight.

[Ecrofirt]

GO TO FUCKING WWW.SMOOTHJAMS104.COM

[Eric P]

I DID

didn't register though

[Ecrofirt]

I DID

didn't register though

Hey, thanks for going!

[Ecrofirt]

With the new site, I've got an actual podcast going on for my metal show.

Here's the link:
http://www.smoothjams104.com/taxonomy/term/1/0/feed

Subscribe to that, and you'll be able to download my radio show every time I get it online!

[Ecrofirt]

Updated for great justice, motherfuckers!

A new episode of the podcast is up! Tune in and enjoy it!

BIG MOTHERFUCKING NEWS
It looks like we have two interviews lined up with real live bands.

One of the bands is my favorite fucking band in the world, so I'm totally psyched. Holy fuck, it'd be like Federman interviewing Bruce! Except I'm actually going to do it!

The other interview is a band on the same label. We're trying to help raise awareness/popularity for them.

[Eric P]

who are the bands?

actually who is the smaller band?

and can we give you people to try to interview?

[Ecrofirt]

who are the bands?

actually who is the smaller band?

and can we give you people to try to interview?

I don't want to specifically go naming the bands at this point, but one of the two of them should be fairly obvious. Not naming them sorta absolves me if it falls through somehow, though, I guess.

If these interviews go through, we're going to try to get some more. Actually, last semester we were heavily debating trying to get in touch with Alice Cooper, but I had no idea what I'd even talk to him about so we backed off on it.

[Ecrofirt]

We've got a short show tonight because of a basketball game.

If there's anything you'd like to hear, please let me know so I can fit it into our compressed programming schedule!

[Eric P]

FOLK METAL!

[bagofeyes]

Play some Nazxul (from Black Seed, not Totem)

[Ecrofirt]

FOLK METAL!

Anything in particular? If I don't have access to it, I'll have to obtain it before the show starts tonight. Having particular songs/bands you want to hear is a GOOD thing.

[Eric P]

anything by Bathory

[Ecrofirt]

This shit is Ballin' son!

[Eric P]

you need a picture of a saxophone and you'll be set!

(that's pretty awesome!)

[Ecrofirt]

This week's podcast is up.


NO MORE FUCKING BUZZING!

[chiller]

FOLK METAL!

Ayreon - Day 16: Loser
[youtube=425,350]-j5pF7ulTvo[/youtube]

[Eric P]

nice use of the keyboard on that

[Ecrofirt]

Listen guys, we're trying to raise awareness for the show. Raising awareness will make securing band interviews easier, and it will get us more content for both the radio show and the site.

Join the site and tell any metalhead friends you have about the show! As I've said, if given enough time, I'll try to make sure all of your requests get played. This will usually mean I'll download whatever we don't have, so I need ample time to find and download/buy/whatevs the music you want to hear.

Also, the next show is tomorrow night at 9:00PM EASTERN TIME.

Tune in via the live stream, and you can be a part of the show by IMing or calling us. We've already taken the advice of listeners in the past (Eric P.) and raised our volume when speaking to adequate levels. We're here to play the shit you guys want to hear.

Enjoy the show!

[Eric P]

cough cough

spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://themetalarchive.blogspot.com/

[close]

[Ecrofirt]

Eric, is there anything you want from there? I'll DL it tonight.

My usual routine is to check Kerrazy-Torrents (holy fucking shit, best metal torrent tracker ever), and if they don't have what I'm looking for I google "Artist - album rapidshare" or what have you until I hit upon great success.

[Eric P]

nah i'm good

i just listen to see if there's anything out there i don't recognize so i can get a taste of new artists

but thanks

[Ecrofirt]

New podcast episode uploaded!
http://www.smoothjams104.com

Last night's show was great. There's some hilarious stuff at the end of the show. I'm pissed my cohost started talking over Dio. Motherfucker.

Be sure to check out the second-to-top post as well. There's some pictures of me in there that I didn't post here.

[chiller]

I'm going to request that you play Ayreon - The Sixth Extinction.

Here it is on youtube.  It's broken into 2 because youtube is a cruel mistress indeed.

Ayreon - The Sixth Extinction (Part 1)
[youtube=425,350]YvXWWfcCwYg[/youtube]
Ayreon - The Sixth Extinction (Part 2)
[youtube=425,350]gL9h1qjMY_Y[/youtube]

[chiller]

The Ayreon track The Sixth Extinction is the last song on the second disc of the album 01011001 in case you were wondering.

Ayreon - 01011001 (Trailer)
[youtube=425,350]MRy0jpkGYY8[/youtube]

[Eric P]

that's really good

is the rest of the album that epic?

[chiller]

that's really good

is the rest of the album that epic?

Ayreon practically defines the word epic.  I will say that the Sixth Extinction is most epic song on the new album IMO.  That doesn't take away the total epicness of the rest of the album.

Ayreon isn't really what you would call a traditional "band".  Arjen Anthony Lucassen is the main guy behind Ayreon.  He writes the music but he hires all these different musicians to make his albums.

I've only been listening to Ayreon recently and I'm trying to take my time so I can really appreciate his albums.  The albums are these 2 disc rock/metal/folk operas.  I've only listened to The Human Equation which has the notable guests of James LaBrie of Dream Theater, Mikael Ćkerfeldt of Opeth, Eric Clayton of Saviour Machine, and Devin Townsend, to name just a few, and the new 0101101 album.

So as of right now I can only really speak about those 2 albums but it should be noted that Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden was on the Flight of the Migrator album.
 
Blah blah blah.  I'll let the music do the talking for me.  Please watch them all because you won't get a good idea from just one song and don't forget about the folk song I posted on the last page because that was Ayreon too.

From The Human Equation:
Ayreon - Day 11: Love
[youtube=425,350]lGudwDYiZFc[/youtube]

Ayreon - Day seven: Hope
[youtube=425,350]4BXTBg8s3Ts[/youtube]
This is the video that hooked me on them if you can believe it.

From 01011001:
Ayreon - Beneath The Waves
[youtube=425,350]VYEzZyLyzlM[/youtube]

[chiller]

Those were official videos and now it's time for the fan ones.

From The Human Equation:

Day Two: Isolation
[youtube=425,350]rlW1lYuDR0s[/youtube]

Day Three: Pain
[youtube=425,350]a5FUEdrfAUo[/youtube]
This one has Devin Townsend on it.  You can tell when Devin shows up because he also did the music for his part.  The music gets real LOUD.

Day Five: Voices
[youtube=425,350]mvAEh1kGmwQ[/youtube]

There really aren't that many fan videos for 0101101 yet because the album just came out a couple of months ago but I really like this song for some reason.

Ayreon - Connect The Dots
[youtube=425,350]daxWhhDcaLA[/youtube]

[chiller]

I almost forgot his myspace page.
http://www.myspace.com/ayreonauts 
It's worth pointing out because if you just did a search for "Ayreon" then all you will find are fansites.

[Eric P]

ok awesome

thanks a lot

[Ecrofirt]

I haven't posted any updates here in awhile, but we're still chugging along.

Spread the word to your metalhead friends. Our podcast is good shit.

Eric: Our first two tracks in the latest podcast are folk metal. Turisas and Eluvetie.

I'm going to Paganfest USA next month as well. Ensiferum, Turisas, Eluvetie, and Tyr. That's clearly going to rock.

[Eric P]

I'm going to Paganfest USA next month as well. Ensiferum, Turisas, Eluvetie, and Tyr. That's clearly going to rock.

i see this in a few weeks!

i'll let you know what i thought

[Ecrofirt]

I'm going to Paganfest USA next month as well. Ensiferum, Turisas, Eluvetie, and Tyr. That's clearly going to rock.

i see this in a few weeks!

i'll let you know what i thought

Which show are you going to?

[Eric P]

4/28 Va

[Eric P]

from the terrorizer mailing list

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c279/xxkermitxx/gaythrash.jpg

[Powerslave]

lol gays

[Ecrofirt]

Man, I'm fucking pissed.

I've been having major, major problems with the site for about a week now. The damn thing is erroring out when I upload files to it 

[Eric P]

I caught this band yesterday and it was absolutely amazing

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=138573134

[Eric P]

[youtube=425,350]RPqpqkECGls[/youtube]

:metal

[chiller]

Ihsahn - angL

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EQJWN8M4

You have got to play the song Unhealer.  It has Emperor and Opeth on the same track.

Crappy youtube preview:
Ihsahn - Unhealer (NEW SONG FEATURING MIKAEL ĆKERFELDT!!)
[youtube=425,350]NOK6Dw98CZs[/youtube]

I wish they had a youtube for the song Elevator since that song is sick.

[Ecrofirt]

So there's something all kinds of fucked up with the website. Either Drupal is fucked, my host is being a cockwad, or some horrid combination of the two.

In better news, I got an email today that leads me to believe my Manowar/HolyHell interview hopes haven't been crushed as I thought they were for the past month and a half.

[Ecrofirt]

Oh, also:
We played ISEN TORR the last two weeks. Such an awesome band.

[Ecrofirt]

I had to rebuild the site, fucking hell. And it's STILL not working properly, even with a brand new installation and a fresh database.

In any event, I downloaded Turisas's Battle Metal album the other night. It's fuck awesome omg!   

[Eric P]

I had to rebuild the site, fucking hell. And it's STILL not working properly, even with a brand new installation and a fresh database.

In any event, I downloaded Turisas's Battle Metal album the other night. It's fuck awesome omg!   

yay.

they're great fun live

[Ecrofirt]

I had to rebuild the site, fucking hell. And it's STILL not working properly, even with a brand new installation and a fresh database.

In any event, I downloaded Turisas's Battle Metal album the other night. It's fuck awesome omg!   

yay.

they're great fun live

Next wednesday! I'm pumped.

[Eric P]

hell yah

[Brehvolution]

needs more Lamb of God.



 

[Brehvolution]

New podcast episode uploaded!
http://www.smoothjams104.com

Last night's show was great. There's some hilarious stuff at the end of the show. I'm pissed my cohost started talking over Dio. Motherfucker.

Be sure to check out the second-to-top post as well. There's some pictures of me in there that I didn't post here.

How do you guys do this? Skype? IRC?

[Ecrofirt]

New podcast episode uploaded!
http://www.smoothjams104.com

Last night's show was great. There's some hilarious stuff at the end of the show. I'm pissed my cohost started talking over Dio. Motherfucker.

Be sure to check out the second-to-top post as well. There's some pictures of me in there that I didn't post here.

How do you guys do this? Skype? IRC?

This is actual college radio. We're in the radio station every Wednesday night at 9:00PM pleaying shit out over the airwaves live. I just record all of our sound output with Audacity and convert it to mp3 at home.

There was a ton of info on the site, but I corrupted both the database as well as our database backup, so everything was lost. I'm in the middle of a slow restoration process now, as you can see if you go to the site.

For now, if you're interested, you can catch us live at:
mms://streams.kings.edu/WRKC_FM - Wednesday 9:00PM - 11:00PM Eastern time
call in at 570-208-5821 if you'd like.

We're also eager for requests. I'll try to play whatever you suggest.

[Brehvolution]

Cool, I'll check it out.

[Ecrofirt]

Cool, I'll check it out.

I'm just about done uploading all of the 'old' podcasts again. I've got to finish the one from 3/26 and then fill in all the weeks since.

Once I get the 3/26 one done, I'm going to restore the other website features that were lost (a requests page, a comprehensive about us page, and a review section).

[Ecrofirt]

Holy shittits. Paganfest was awesome.

Eluvetie started the show off with a tremendous bang, holy fuck. Awesome band to see live.

We tried our damnedest to get Ensiferum to play Wanderer. They looked over right at us at one point, paused what they were saying, and then continued from there. At least they know people really like that song.

[evilromero]

I've only been listening to Ayreon recently and I'm trying to take my time so I can really appreciate his albums.  The albums are these 2 disc rock/metal/folk operas.  I've only listened to The Human Equation which has the notable guests of James LaBrie of Dream Theater, Mikael Ćkerfeldt of Opeth, Eric Clayton of Saviour Machine, and Devin Townsend, to name just a few, and the new 0101101 album.

I was pretty disappointed with The Human Equation. I like a good bit of Arjen's stuff but Human Equation was just too cheesy. I think Star One is a far better outfit for his space rock. The live album absolutely kills.