Metallisucks
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- TheBlueOne0
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I agree with you for the most part. I think metal is actually pretty healthy - far more healthy than it ever was in the past. I got away from it for a while in the late 90's and early naughts, but started to rediscover it in '03. I really liked Lamb of God, Arch Enemy,　DevilDriver, Meshuggah and probably half a dozen more I can't think of. I was never a big fanof the death metal growl vocal thing but I've grown used to it and likeit better than the whole operatic clean singing that alot of guys do now, like castrated Queensryche on steroids. I miss the Dio\Dickinson type of singers in metal - they do seem to end up in stoner bands these days. In alot of ways metal today seems pretty formulamatic, and that bugs me bit - so many bands have that digitized guitar distortion sound and the growlingvocalist and the mosh parts and the blast beats - but hey, metal was never the most original of genres anyway...
But Metallica just chumped out...they were the class of the genre and then punked. Slayer and Testament were,for me, the only two bands from that time that still hold up - that I can listen to and not have it sound dated. Yeah, ANthrax, Megadeth and a bunch of others are still around, but I think they're pale shadows of what they were twenty years ago...
- oi, don't get started with me on the fall of Megadethlocustsloth