sham - hive had a cd out in the 97 or so called devious methods. it's pretty good, but not neo-quality. also there was an ep a couple years ago.

UFO! had an artist album out last year called 'the future is listening'.

PS: i saw hive and ufo live a couple weeks ago. they both live around the sf bay area, and violence recordings (hive's label) now has a monthly gig. 

A copy of the UFO! album, please, thanks. 

AMON AMARTH ownz your soulz!!!

Amon Amarth - Death In Fire
Amon Amarth - A Fury Divine
Amon Amarth - Victorious March
Amon Amarth - any-freaking-song
Bolt Thrower - No Guts, No Glory
Kataklysm - Beyond Salvation
Bloodbath - So You Die
Fleshcrawl - Beneath a Dying Sun
Ancient Existence - Vengeance
Cattle Decapitation - Chunk Blower (or Testicular Manslaughter)
Hertroertzen - Darkening
Vondur - Kill Everyone .... :D
Broken Hope - Pitbull Grin
All Shall Perish - Laid To Rest
Callenish Circle - Soul Messiah
Dark Funeral - Dead Skin Mask
Immortal - Damned In Black
Lord Belial - Massacre
Morbid Angel - He Who Sleeps
Naglfar - Blades
Nile - Unas Slayer of the Gods
Thy Disease - Impure Lust
Vulgar Degenerate - Accident of Life
The Other Dimension - Banished From Heaven
Bloodfeast - Bloodfeast

... I could go on forever ....

Heheheh ...

Novembers Doom - Shadows of Light ... if you like the Doom metal sh1t ... or Type O Neg. of course ... 

And if you like Dani Filth, you should be disemboweled with a rusty coat hanger ... 

I'm waiting for the rusty coat hanger 

http://vondur.net/files/cdcat.html 

I know Vondur will roll his eyes at this, but I checked out that Amon Amarth track you linked in #tf the other night, and I haven't been that impressed with death metal for quite a long time. Thus I have ordered the latest album (but the samples on the site made the older albums seem pretty appealing too).

I would also "big up" Bolt Thrower's "No Guts No Glory" as well, the best on Mercenary IMO.

Do you have an other recommendations for heavy, epic, seriously groovy riff-orientated DM?? I much prefer that to the rabid stuff or choppy experimental side.


Anyway, today I have mostly been listening to: Inade - Crackling Of The Anonymous. 

Amon Amarth's one of those rare bands who are simply incapable of making a song that doesn't rock :) There isn't a single tune they have that I don't like.

You visited the site, Shamb? You saw the other songs linked here, right:

http://www.amonamarth.com/mp3s.html


You'll find some more, here:

http://www.metal-glory.de/index.php?bereich=4&inhalt=1&buch=A

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For death metal in general, though I've got zillions of links, you might test drive some of the ones here:

http://www.geocities.com/darkness_chatroom/music.html

and here:

http://www.metalblade.de/mp3files.html

Careful which ones you choose. Some of these are OLD and not all "death metal" there :D 

hmm, Hades probably
and old Bathory ;) (92-93 viking metal era) 

http://www.trustnoonerecordings.com/releases/tno21.htm

http://www.cultofluna.com/ 

Now I know there's plenty people here who get off on the Cookie Monster singing against a wall of speedy guitar-scale-showoff-brutal-bass-drumming death metal, so, here ya go:

http://www.reptilianrecords.com/reptilian/hatebeek.html

Oh, the lead singer is a parrot.

Yes.

A parrot. 

Playing Quake without a real good Satanic Black Death Metal music in background is an heresy (just for the ambiance..)... try some bands from http://www.blackmetal.com/ ... and go burn in hell...

PS: parrot sucks, they don't have any guts... no more beyond-tomb voice... 

playing with loud music, unless it's deathmatch.. when I played bots in q2/q1 I'd play assortment of Coal Chamber, Deadlights, Mudvayne.. 

Loud music doesn't mean use of maximum volume... I'd prefer to have music in background, in order to be able to hear what happens in the game... it's usefull sometimes..;).... The music is just here to create an ambiance, not to cover the game sound effects...
Anyway, just don't believe I'm just able to listen Death Metal... sometimes I also listen some cool music (Cold Play, The Police, Texas, U2, Goldfrapp, etc.. etc.. ) and techno as well (Prodigy, Carl Cox, etc.. etc..)... I just say that Satanic Black Death Metal is the better music to find "killing inspiration" during the game.. and it works with any FPS game !!! 

I can't stand growling incoherent vocals or speed guitar 

So try Disney Music store... it will be more coherent, less growling, and with slowest guitars... (joke)..
Yes, I admit it's "sometimes" (not to say all the time) hard to understand (without explicit lyrics support) what is "song"... eerrrr... your likes are certainly more.. "aggressive" regarding your cool web site ;) 

your likes are certainly more.. "aggressive" regarding your cool web site ;)

I would like to say LESS aggressive... I apologize for this big mistake... 

Actually I don't listen to music when playing games lately. Especially with tactical shooters. 

.. is a nice sport I practiced a lot when I used to play Unreal Tournament in 2001... With the precision rifle, it was really cool to hide, and kill other players with head-shots... 

Can someone recommend some really good hard tech/trance (not Hard House) - i've been out of the music scene for so long, I don't really know where to start looking... 

hell is the difference between house/trance/techno anyway?

If I had a few good examples, but I always lump all that repetetive stuff into one ball. 

. 

is rather intelligible from one another.

Cure = Korn? Nope.
Radiohead = Stone Temple Pilots? Nope.
Matchbox 20 = Blink 182? Nope. 

I could write out some long explanation, but it wouldn't be nearly as good as what this guy wrote: http://www.ishkur.com/features/music/# 

thanks