Um, actually I'm not sure if any of those bands were what you were looking for, lol.
Nah, I'm not really "looking" for anything, just posting about some good metal and hoping for responses, heh.
Hoo boy, Children of Bodom. I rocked out so hard to
Hatebreeder way back when I was 17 (OK, that was only seven years ago, but it feels like forever ago). Gave 'em a listen recently and I couldn't help but laugh at their absurdity. I had a little mock fest on my own in my room late at night while blaring selections from the
Hate Crew Deathroll album on my headphones. It's really fun, energetic music, but really kind of silly and bad in a lot of ways, in my opinion; I didn't think that then, but I do now. But hey, at least they're not as bad as
DragonForce. (
lol)
Ah, Trivium. Can't say I'm a fan of them. I bought their debut album,
Ember to Inferno when that came out. I thought it showed a lot of promise—kind of amateurish and samey (it was hard for me to distinguish one song from the next sometimes), but I felt Matt Heafy showed a lot of promise as a guitarist—especially since he was 17 at the time—though less so as a songwriter; but I thought he could improve. That and the album was produced by muthaflippin' Jason Suecof (more on that later), though he went downhill and began producing a whole lot of garbage, so eh...his contribution didn't mean a whole lot to me, ha ha.
Anyway, Trivium went on to discard their melodic death metal roots and make...well, whatever the hell they went on to make; I haven't listened to much of any of it because it didn't interest me, but I do remember one or two very Metallica-esque songs, and I thought, "Matt Heafy? Why have you done this? Whyyyyy?"
Matt Heafy kicks ass in Capharnaum, however. (
Here's the opening track; ignore the "Matt Heafy's former band" text, since, well, the way that's worded kind of implies he founded the band, which he didn't, not at all—he was like 7 when Capharnaum formed.) They were a Cryptopsy style technical death metal band, founded by the aforementioned Jason Suecof and his brother. Really good tunes, their album
Fractured. They did an album or two before that when they were teenagers, but I have yet to hear them. Heafy only does vocals on the album, but they add a nice touch;
Suecof does
Mike DiSalvo-esque vocals on a couple songs, and that rocks too. Oh, and Daniel Mongrain from the totally badass tech death band
Martyr also played on the album.
Yeah. Jason Suecof is also responsible for
Crotchduster, lol.
He was also supposed to produce
Cynic's sophomore album, but that never happened. Would've been cool to hear.
I'm sounding like a major Suecof fanboy here, but he also played guitar on and co-produced the
Charred Walls of the Damned album, which features Richard Christy (he founded the band and wrote all the music and lyrics; he did mad drumming
for Death for a while), Steve DiGiorgio (who also did
mad fretless bass work for Death, and
Autopsy), and Tim "Ripper" Owens, who...I honestly have no prior experience with, ha. But he was in Judas Priest and Iced Earth for a while, I think.
Oh man... I gotta stop posting links and connections. :p