(Part 2) Best hard rock & metal music according to redditors

Do any of those even have a history of getting genres right? Wikipedia thinks Queen wrote a thrash metal song. Metalwiki thinks Stone Sour is a metal band even though Wikipedia thinks it's a rock band. Amazon has Ghost under Hard Rock & Metal and Rock, which they do for every band that's even slightly heavy because that includes non metal things but besides that, they think Immortal is a pop band and a death metal band at the same time. Are you really going to trust any of these places that can't get the genre of basic bands right?

USA
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/starlight-single/1437899646
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HZ3F4S1/

Not sure if you like The Sword, but they (+ collaborators) are putting together Doom Side of the Moon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9toFP9jdqI

Full album is out in August, https://www.amazon.com/Doom-Side-Moon/dp/B06Y3J3H9J.

$149 on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Master-Puppets-Remastered-Deluxe-Box/dp/B0756W66RD/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1541697961&sr=8-2&keywords=master+of+puppets+remastered

My boyfriend /u/d34dlycardz doesn't hang around here too much but I'd like to share his band's full length album that just came out a couple of weeks ago. Check it out if you're into Thrash Metal at all. Homicidal by Solace in Murder on Spotify, Amazon, and iTunes

Same for Amazon.

First thing to do is research the Music Corner forums at stevehoffman.com. Discogs won't tell you the best pressing. The database isn't structured to do that there are too many noobs there. People outside of a few people that have large record collections aren't going to through all the effort to catalog their entire collection on discogs. I have about 2000 records and it took me a couple of months to get mine complete. Another source is analogplanet.com. Fremer reviews records and he compares them to older pressings.

If you want to know a few re-issues that worth the money that are still in print I'll give you my list.

Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, Moondance and His Band and Street Choir from 2008. These are as good as the original green labels. Cut by Kevin Gray (with Steve Hoffman on Moondance).
https://www.amazon.com/Moondance-Vinyl-Van-Morrison/dp/B001DPC4S2/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1527202765&sr=1-1&keywords=van+morrison+vinyl
https://www.amazon.com/Astral-Weeks-Van-Morrison/dp/B001DPC4RS/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1527202765&sr=1-3&keywords=van+morrison+vinyl
https://www.amazon.com/His-Band-Street-Choir-Vinyl/dp/B001DPC4SC/ref=sr_1_6?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1527202765&sr=1-6&keywords=van+morrison+vinyl

Metallica's Kill 'em All, Master of Puppets, and Ride The Lightning cut by Chris Bellman from 2016 on Blackened.
https://www.amazon.com/Master-Puppets-Remastered-Explicit-Metallica/dp/B07558DQJL/ref=ice_ac_b_dpb?ie=UTF8&qid=1527202504&sr=8-3&keywords=metallica+vinyl
https://www.amazon.com/Kill-All-180-Gram-Vinyl/dp/B01BUX7YY0/ref=sr_1_7?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1527202602&sr=1-7&keywords=metallica+vinyl
https://www.amazon.com/Ride-Lightning-180-Gram-Vinyl/dp/B01BUX7Z7Q/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1527202705&sr=1-1&keywords=ride+the+lightning+vinyl

T-Rex Electric Warrior 2017 Roctober release cut by Kevin Gray
https://www.amazon.com/T-Rex-Electric-Warrior-Vinyl/dp/B076QW4S66

Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication cut by Chris Bellman
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000JQ0E/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Big Brother and Holding Company Cheap Thrills (mono) cut by Kevin Gray https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009VTAETI/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Love Forever Changes cut by Chris Bellman https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0096PS4Y4/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Paul Simon Graceland 25th Anniversary Edition cut by Ryan Smith

The only expensive one is Californication, all the rest are under $30 and you can probably find Electric Warrior for less money than Amazon.

If you notice the list is almost entire Chris Bellman and Kevin Gray. You can look them up on discogs. It will list records that they have cut. This won't tell you which to buy, but it will give you a starting point.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/359447-Chris-Bellman
https://www.discogs.com/artist/312098-Kevin-Gray

Yes! Bandcamp is an amazing service, really. Hope you enjoy it! Free, as always. Thanks for including me in this great list and thanks for all that you've done to pull this together.

Oh and it looks like I missed that you had yt/amazon on there. Here are those links if you need them

youtube
amazon

Additional Links

Bandcamp: https://agonybydefault.bandcamp.com/album/refleksjoner

Official Website: https://agonybydefault.com/album/896710/refleksjoner

Amazon MP3: https://www.amazon.com/Refleksjoner-Explicit-Agony-Default/dp/B07J496LVS/ref=sr_1_2?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1539284507&sr=1-2-mp3-albums-bar-strip-0&keywords=agony+by+default

Just a follow up since you asked: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CVZXNFS/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk

No, like a real pre-order: Compassion in Unlikely Places https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G45PQMD/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_ZeTOBbT7RW7A8

Been listening to this album all day thanks to someone posting this in /r/metal. It's totally blowing my mind right now. So often, melodic death metal goes wrong - in my opinion - by emphasising keyboards, orchestras etc. and forgetting its roots in being guitar-driven music. But this album, "The Eclipse", manages to have so many incredible riffs and guitar solos which carry the melodies and push the song onwards, while also having additional symphonic elements which don't detract from it at all, but actually enhance it. That's a super difficult balance to strike, and I love it.

You can download the album from the iTunes Store/Amazon Digital/Google Play, or order the CD via CDJapan.co.jp. It doesn't look like they have physical distribution of the CD outside of Japan, so the download is probably the best way of getting hold of it.

I see two versions online:, using the U.S. Amazon store for examples:

Regular: https://www.amazon.com/Prequelle-Ghost-B-C/dp/B07BZ8VPK6/ref=tmm_msc_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1527712034&sr=1-1 - This has 10 tracks.

"Deluxe": https://www.amazon.com/Prequelle-Deluxe-Ghost/dp/B07BYWVM26 - This has 12 tracks. The 2 extra are It's A Sin and Avalanche.

So...there is a deluxe version?

YouTube Playlist

Spotify

Google Play Music

Apple Music/iTunes

Tidal

Amazon Music

Merch

Support bands! First weeks sales/streams mean a lot!

I recommend "A False Sense of Security" as a starting off point.

Some other links if you don't have Spotify

Official Youtube Playlist

Apple Music

Amazon Music

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Official Facebook - Looks like they broke up in August of 2016 :( Shame, because this album fuckin slaps

My blackened death metal project Merciless Savage has a new album out called 'Visions'. Released last week, it's now available on most digital platforms. Please check it out and let me know what you think!

🤘🤘🤘

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/5JzGweIT3WtIeQdqPnMr0G

Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077NSYK5F/…

Apple Music:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/visions-ep/1316286300…

iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/visions-ep/1316286300…

Bandcamp:
https://mercilesssavage.bandcamp.com/

Here's a few links. "Desolation" is their latest album. I saw them at a bar in Seattle earlier this year, they kick ass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeRNDmQnA4E
https://www.amazon.com/Desolation-Motograter/dp/B073WYTPW9/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1541741280&sr=8-2&keywords=motograter


PS- I'm tickled pink that you played the Goldblum Birthday mix!

https://www.amazon.com/Revamp-Auspicious/dp/B01MXVCPT7/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481140606&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=auspicious+revamp+EP

Here's a link on Amazon! It's also on google play, but for some reason its 10 dollars there. I believe the distributor messed up.

Whas it one of the hair metal songs? https://www.amazon.com/Hair-Metal-Various-artists/dp/B01MTLX06L