[lastdodobird]

I'm kind of a sound junkie, so bad sound quality and production can usually turn me off. So I was just looking for albums that are put together with a nice sound quality... good mastering... good mixing... good sound production altogether. Of course, it helps if the music is good too, but even if it isn't in your opinion, you could recommend it too and I'll see if it clicks with me.

Keep the prog metal recommendations to a minimum please ^_^ Hehe.

 

[Zarathustra19]

Guaranteed someone recommends Opeth despite your request to keep the prog recommendations to a minimum.

Anyway, I'd say anything by Blood Red Throne, maybe some of Cradle of Filth's later work. Bloodbath's Resurrection Through Carnage might fit the bill.

Let me know if any of these fit your metal pallet.

 

[lastdodobird]

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Originally Posted by Zarathustra19 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Guaranteed someone recommends Opeth despite your request to keep the prog recommendations to a minimum. Anyway, I'd say anything by Blood Red Throne, maybe some of Cradle of Filth's later work. Bloodbath's Resurrection Through Carnage might fit the bill. Let me know if any of these fit your metal pallet.

Nah, Opeth are cool. They're Progressive Death anyway and not purely Prog Metal. I just wanted to avoid suggestions such as Dream Theater...Pain of Salvation... Ayreon... and the like. But Opeth's cool. I'm listening to Deliverace as I type actually, and I've got their entire discography loaded up right now into my player.

Thanks for the recommendations

I'm a little iffy about CoF. You say try out their later work if I want good sound quality, but reviews have it that their early work is musically leagues better than what they have done recently. So I'll think about that.

Blood Red Throne and Bloodbath look interesing though. Death Metal, right? Spot on. I'm in my Melodic Death Metal phase right now, so "Altered Genesis" and "Resurrection Through Carnage" sound like welcome recommendations.

If you have any pristinely produced melodeth to recommend, those will be welcome.

Oh, and thrash metal are welcome recommendations too.

melodeth though = \m/

 

[Yukon Trooper]

Tool Tool and Tool. Did I mention Tool?

 

[Henmyr]

Mastodon - Leviathan. It has an excellent "wall of sound" and sounds really good, very raw, clear and heavy, but a bit dark and cold at the same time, really like the deep ocean

. It's one album which have survived my gear upgrade.

Their other albums are not as good sounding though.

EDIT: In goldwave, it does not look good, but this due to the music style, not the mastering. The music do not have a lot of dynamics and have this wall of sound.

EDIT 2: I even have two songs shown in goldwave:

The files used are in flac ripped with eac from retail.





EDIT3: Adding some more songs:

Crusher destroyer from Remission. Nearly as good as leviathan in sq.


Trainwreck from Remission:


And last, Colony of Birchmen from Blood Mountain. The sq of the record is their worst. Can barely listen too it. A killersong like Colony of B. looses all form of heavyness due to the compression and distortion.

 

[TMM]

+1 for Mastodon's Leviathan, and Tool though their best albums are less metal and more rock.

 

[infinitesymphony]

lastdodobird, what are some of your favorite albums in terms of musical style, mixing, and mastering? We can give you more recommendations based on your current production preferences.

Metal is an extremely subjective genre because huge amounts of compression and distortion are essential; the nature of the genre means that the recording quality must be compromised. In other words, it's like asking for the clearest, most pristine recording of nasty, buzzy, distorted, compressed, saturated tube amplifiers.

Meshuggah's Catch 33 sounds well-mastered to me, if you like their style. It was even released on HDCD.

 

[japc]

Check this one out, nice suggestions in there:

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=257058

 

[lastdodobird]

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Originally Posted by infinitesymphony /img/forum/go_quote.gif lastdodobird, what are some of your favorite albums in terms of musical style, mixing, and mastering? We can give you more recommendations based on your current production preferences.

Most of the Opeth albums sound really great for me.

Aside from that, I was listening to the DCC 24K Remasters of Metallica's MOP and RTL, and they also both sounded great.

 

[MaZa]

Yup, remasters of Metallicas old albums are excellent, much closer to vinyls.

Type O Negatives albums are brilliantly mastered if you like their humor and music.


Neither of those have anything to do with progmetal though...

 

[japc]

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Originally Posted by lastdodobird /img/forum/go_quote.gif Blood Red Throne and Bloodbath look interesing though. Death Metal, right? Spot on. I'm in my Melodic Death Metal phase right now, so "Altered Genesis" and "Resurrection Through Carnage" sound like welcome recommendations.

Although being from Sweden Bloodbath is more in the line of old school Death Metal.

 

[Zarathustra19]

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Originally Posted by lastdodobird /img/forum/go_quote.gif Nah, Opeth are cool. They're Progressive Death anyway and not purely Prog Metal. I just wanted to avoid suggestions such as Dream Theater...Pain of Salvation... Ayreon... and the like. But Opeth's cool. I'm listening to Deliverace as I type actually, and I've got their entire discography loaded up right now into my player. Thanks for the recommendations I'm a little iffy about CoF. You say try out their later work if I want good sound quality, but reviews have it that their early work is musically leagues better than what they have done recently. So I'll think about that. Blood Red Throne and Bloodbath look interesing though. Death Metal, right? Spot on. I'm in my Melodic Death Metal phase right now, so "Altered Genesis" and "Resurrection Through Carnage" sound like welcome recommendations. If you have any pristinely produced melodeth to recommend, those will be welcome. Oh, and thrash metal are welcome recommendations too. melodeth though = \m/

Wow, took me a while to get back to this thread. Anyway, when I recommended CoF's later work, in terms of sound quality they're awesome. I think the music is just as good if not better than the early stuff, but reviewers have often ripped on Cradle because they moved away from their black metal roots and are more gothic metal now. If you're into Melodeath right now, I'd check out Arch Enemy's latest, Rise of the Tyrant, Dark Tranquility's Fiction or Character.

If you want to try something a little more brutal in the death metal genre that still has pretty good sound quality, try Skinless - Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead. I found that even with the heavy distortion they use on the guitars and the throat ripping vocals, the recording is excellent.

 

[asmox]

Try Eventuality from Alarum. It's likely one of the cleanest metal albums I've ever heard... and great music as well.

 

[Denver Max]

It may not be the type of music you're looking for, but I really like the sound quality of All Shall Perish's album The Price of Existence. I have bad ears though, but it sounds pretty good to me.

 

[jonnywolfet]

'pig destroyer- phantom limb' a little hot, but sounds awesome, some parts recorded binaurally.
gojira- 'from mars to sirius' or 'the link' (remastered) badass french tech metal sounds good to me.
ill second the meshuggah rec, althoug the 'nothing' remaster sounds the best to me.
i know you dont really want prog reccomendations, but devin townsends solo stuff is really really good at least from a sound quality perspective, 'ziltoid the omniscient' is no exeption.