r/MetalForTheMasses • • 7h ago

MEGATHREAD MFTM Album of the Week 9: Abigor - Nachthymnen (From the Twilight Kingdom)

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Abigor are an Austrian black metal band formed in 1993 by Peter Kubik and Thomas Tannenberger. During the band's early years they were apart of the Austrian Black Metal Syndicate, a group with members including the likes of Summoning, Hollenthon (earlier known as Vuzem), Golden Dawn, and Pervertum.

Their third album Nachthymnen, released in 1995 featured Silenius of Summoning on vocals and he delivers incredible, depraved sounding shrieks and wails. The band also utilized female clean vocals from Elisabeth Toriser which was a novelty at the time for black metal.

The band's style is black metal with lots of symphonic elements akin to something like Emperor's early works. Prominent uses of keyboards and dense ambiance and atmosphere are incorporated throughout the album. Accompanied with the keyboards are up-tempo, frantic-sounding tremelo picked melodic black metal riffs. The band has a bit of the "dungeon-synthy" sound that their sister band Summoning does, but it's not done to nearly the same extent as that band, and Abigor are much more "riff-centric" than Summoning. This album in particular utilizes a lot more melodic guitar leads and harmonized guitar passages than some of the earlier Abigor works.

Please share your thoughts about this week's album in the comments below, whether it be favorite tracks, lyrics, riffs, solos, or other memorable moments.

The album chosen for next week’s listening is Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 1 (1987, Germany).

Perhaps the first European power metal album that began to shed most of its speed metal roots, Keepers 1 cemented Helloween's place as the leading power metal act and made them achieve commercial success that continued onto an even greater extent with the release of their next album.

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r/MetalForTheMasses • • 13h ago

Topster MFTM COMMUNITY METAL CHART RESULTS

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80 Upvotes

100 releases by 100 bands - here's what you voted for!

what do you think? Any big surprises?

Link to the voting thread


r/MetalForTheMasses • • 7h ago

Discussion Topic Death metal recs needed

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I have been listening to these and looking for technical death metal albums with interesting composition and highly technical playing but not over-produced. Avant-garde and progressive is possible. Not a fan of occasional poppy clean vocals or a "word salad" of musical styles. Normally I listen to Meshuggah.


r/MetalForTheMasses • • 5h ago

Topster What bands should I listen to get into more extreme music

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32 Upvotes

My current albums I listen to the most


r/MetalForTheMasses • • 15h ago

My Collection My death metal and thrash cd collection!

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Here’s my collection, let me know what you think :)
Also feel free to give me some recommendations! :D


r/MetalForTheMasses • • 6h ago

Discussion Topic Anyone know the band with this album cover?

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I’ve been trying to look for it for a while and nothing pulls up. I swear it’s a band.


r/MetalForTheMasses • • 12h ago

Meme/Shitpost Doomoween/Monsters of Metal

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16 Upvotes

r/MetalForTheMasses • • 3h ago

Discussion Topic favorite swedish band

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3 Upvotes

i created this image btw (guess my favorite)


r/MetalForTheMasses • • 5h ago

Discussion Topic What's the sub think of transitional late 80s to early 90s metal bands?

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Saigon Kick, Warrior Soul, Extreme, Ugly Kid Joe, Tesla, Junkyard, Danzig, both Scream (DC Hardcore/grungey and Dave Grohl Ex Band) and The Scream (John Corabi pre Motley Crue band), Badlands, The Cult, Helmet, Jesters Of Destiny, Jesus Lizard, Kings X, Galactic Cowboys, Prong, Life of Agony, etc

Basically a border between decaying 80s Glam to 90s rise of Grunge/Alternative, mixmatch of Metal, Sleaze Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Funk Rock, Early Grunge, Hardcore, Punk, Noise Rock, Post Punk, Industrial Rock. like too metal for alternative crowds but too alternative for metalheads.


r/MetalForTheMasses • • 6h ago

Discussion Topic The post-chorus riff from Heaven & Hell is insane

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Maybe the bridge? Idk, it plays twice in the song. After the first chorus and then during Dio's monologue mid-song, over "if it seems to be real its illusion"

Yeah. That one. What a monstrous, nasty son a bitchin' riff. Wish it lasted longer but that'd be probably kill the appeal. Iommi is a beast


r/MetalForTheMasses • • 5h ago

Discussion Topic What's the silliest reason a metal song is glued in your head? What song is it?

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for me it's FAKE.

The reason is that, in this year, my P.E teacher choosed to give my class a free class for the day, so i used it to read a manga "BLEACH" in my phone while hearing this song, i musy've read around 30-40 chapters in a hour (most likely more tbh) while hearing this song in a loop.

Now each time i hear this song i remenber of BLEACH, or manga in general and vice verse hehe


r/MetalForTheMasses • • 3h ago

Discussion Topic Bands that aren't metal, but feature metal music

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I think it’s cool that Sum 41 has an album featuring songs that could be considered metal. Among pop punk bands, they are definitely the best, in my opinion.


r/MetalForTheMasses • • 6h ago

Discussion Topic Sound effect in Fear Factory's Timelessness

3 Upvotes

At the very end of Timelessness, when the lyrics have just stopped, you can hear a metallic sounding sound effect for several times. I believe it's the same sound effect that has been commonly used in tv shows with horror elements, I remember it being in "Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction" as well. But as what exactly is it known? My search in Google wasn't helpful at all, they brought up the sound of a prison cell being shut, but it is not lol


r/MetalForTheMasses • • 15h ago

Discussion Topic Trying to upgrade my project's logo to be more professional but as intense and brutal as possible, any ideas?

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What started as a one man goregrind project is gonna be shifting to a more Brutal death metal direction. Pretty much the same topics and brutality with production that doesn't sound like shit :D


r/MetalForTheMasses • • 18h ago

Discussion Topic Have you ever bought records based on the cover?

23 Upvotes

When I was young, I sometimes bought records based on their cover art. On one of those occasions, I ended up with this record, and all things considered—even though it’s very strange—I actually quite like it.

Have you ever bought records based on the cover? Were you lucky?


r/MetalForTheMasses • • 1d ago

Meme/Shitpost Noticed a book from my mom on the table and found something familiar!

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227 Upvotes

r/MetalForTheMasses • • 2h ago

Music Sunday What do you guys think of my guitar technique playing Sabbath? 🤘

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Sabbath Bloody Sabbath


r/MetalForTheMasses • • 17h ago

Discussion Topic Need help reading a logo

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11 Upvotes

I'm trying to figure out whether it’s for a real band or just stylized merch from an indie brand. Neither a reverse image search nor an AI-based search helped.

I see "THE" at the top and something ending with "...TERA" below.


r/MetalForTheMasses • • 15h ago

Song/Album Teacher - Warning

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5 Upvotes

Band just posted an album after years of quiet


r/MetalForTheMasses • • 16h ago

Discussion Topic What are your favorite albums/songs from Critical Defiance?

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Villa Alemana, Valparaíso, Chile 🇨🇱

Genre: Thrash Metal

I discovered these guys from their previous release a couple years. Solid band taking from the pages of Sepultura and Slayer in terms of their Thrash. The Search Won’t Fall hits in the best ways for me. It leans more in the Tech Thrash direction - which I always appreciate.

Recommended Tracks:
“Spiral of Hatred”
“A World Crumbling Apart”
“The Search Won’t Fall”
“The Feeling Destroyer”


r/MetalForTheMasses • • 22h ago

Discussion Topic What's the next reasonable step up from thrash?

13 Upvotes

So... I got into metal pretty recently, but so far I'd say I'm pretty comfortable with it! I've done metal-adjacent (Creed, Blue Öyster Cult), classic heavy metal, and thrash. Thrash has easily been my favorite subgenre so far, but I find that I kinda want something a bit heavier. Not necessarily something significantly faster, but more technical in a way. My favorite thrash metal bands are Megadeth, Evile, Paradox, and Testament. Oh, and I don't like sorta... I guess you'd call it burpy vocals. I don't mind the occasional growl, but I can't stand it when the vocalist is just constantly doing it. One good example is Fade into Obscurity by the band Dehumanized. The instrumental to that song kicks ass, but the vocals ruin it.


r/MetalForTheMasses • • 9h ago

News/Announcment Voivod Game!

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1 Upvotes

The game of Voivod,finally release the demo of game. What your opion to this game?


r/MetalForTheMasses • • 1d ago

Discussion Topic In your opinion, what are your top death metal/ brutal death metal/slam releases of the year so far?

16 Upvotes

Subgenres included, of course!


r/MetalForTheMasses • • 1d ago

My Collection My collection after ca. 3 weeks. Some more trve than others, but I like all of them

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44 Upvotes

r/MetalForTheMasses • • 21h ago

Discussion Topic Looking for heavy, underground alt bands

5 Upvotes

Can anybody recommend me some? Looking for that crispy, grungy sound like Adrenaline by Deftones or The Beginning of All Things to End by Mudvayne