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- TheBlueOne0
designbot - where do you get your idea of a metal fan? Form old episodes of "Head of the Class"?
- PIITB0
Metallica - Goatse album
- dog_opus0
I like it a lot. However, I haven't bought a Metallica album since the eponymous one. I don't se that changing anytime soon.
- MrOneHundred0
Are you kidding? I fucking LOVE Metallica. I’ve downloaded all their albums.
- hahahahahajfletcher
- - 2.3benfal99
- x6TheBlueOne
- ok... +1.benfal99
- benfal990
Metallica should have died in a plane crash or something just after the released of Master Of Puppets. That way they would have been super metal heroes today. Artists should learn when to get off the screen. Like .... Wayne Gretzsky (?)
- ********0
Metallica died with Cliff Burton, end of fucking story.
- *puffs metallic pipe. blows black smoke. nods.TheBlueOne
- blaw0
@ jfletcher
People, especially so-called metalheads, think it's cool to shit all over everything that's been released since 1989. In fact, there are a lot of bands since that era that kill.
The nineties fostered the best death metal ever released. The first decade of this century have seen that movement significantly watered down, but there are still great bands in the genre and lots of young talent working hard and writing solid songs.
More recently, bands like Katatonia, Isis, Pelican and Giant Squid have evolved remarkable, unique sounds--identifiable and fantastic from the first note. It's just known more within the metal community and less with the masses.
Even tried and true metalheads spend so much time bad-mouthing metal, which pisses me off. It's like, if you hate metal so much, talk about something else. Go a metal message board and it reads like, "I'm too cool for anything since classic metal." Too old, too boring, too tired is more like it. I love seeing a fresh crop of young, long-haired kids in boots and black shirts. Who's this old group to tell them "metal sucks these days." It shit does.
That said, I'm sorry to say that anything post 80s from Metallica actually does suck, which doesn't exactly strengthen my argument.
Sorry for the rant. It's a bit of a sore spot.
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- I guess we found one of them.blaw
- I said shut up dude
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- Infrequently. But you've got the point.blaw
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- benfal990
I like Mastodon a lot even if they become VERY popular VERY fast. Their music kill serious ass.
- I can't get into them and I've tried. Just not my cup of tea for some reason...TheBlueOne
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- jfletcher0
@blaw - agree, post black album Metallica for me isn't too hot...and I'm a big fan, but I rarely ever (never) listen to their stuff from the last 15 years.
I'm a huge fan of metal, which surprises a lot of people. I like Katatonia, and Anathema for the open ambient metal. Pelican or Porcupine Tree never really took off for me. It's all about voice for me.
I still love good solid metal like Children of Bodom, Abigail Williams or Dir en Grey... and love Sonata Arctica and the epic swedish style metal.
- Right. I was hoping you didn't think I was bitching at you. You were spot on and I just started rolling.blaw
- Dir en Grey is metal? I don't know...I always want Japanese metal to be better than it is...TheBlueOne
- ..and I kinda lumpDir en Grey in with the whole Japanese Visual K movement..TheBlueOne
- see:
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- sauceruney0
it's what's inside that counts... and I doubt it's any better than that "load" of crap they dumped on their fans more than a decade ago.
- jfletcher0
from the samples on Youtube, I'm not hopeful.... :(
- TheBlueOne0
@blaw
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
- jfletcher0
@ BlueOne.
Dir en Grey used to be much more visual kei. I've followed them for about 7 years and over the last 5, they've moved away from the visual work into more metal. Much more so than bands like Luna Sea or X-Japan ever did.Check out these songs:
- Me dont like voicesbenfal99
- Not too bad actually...better than the stuff I heard from them even 3 years ago...TheBlueOne
- ..a little deftones-esque..in a good way...TheBlueOne
- ..but I'm old school...early Loudness (pre-america) is still my highpoint for J-Metal...TheBlueOne
- I saw them with Deftones last year :)jfletcher
- hahaha- really!! I just pulled that outta my ass...TheBlueOne
- benfal990
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- benfal990
- I appreciate why they are good but something just keeps me from getting into them...TheBlueOne
- Like i said they became too popular too fast. (thank you Pitchfork! ... )benfal99
- TheBlueOne0
No matter what that whole nu-metal thing sucked ass...
- blaw0
Testament is a great example of classic metal that keeps getting better. But what did they do? They kept getting heavier. Grabbed Gene Hoglan to play drums, graveled Chuckie Billy's voice a bit more and released "Demonic". Just this year they released a new one ("The Formation Of Damnation") and it is freakin' solid. Post-cancer Billy will still knock your lights out.
Regarding death metal vocals, I hear it a lot and understand. To each his own. But that eliminates over half of the available metal catalog. That's a shitload of great music disqualified by a vocal style.
And even nu-metal can be well-executed. Between the Buried and Me (http://www.betweentheburiedandm... is a prime example of death/melodic vocals over a structure of solid songwriting and talent.
- ..and sorry...nu-metal sucks. beyond any redemption in my eyes. It's metalas envisioned by a dj. wrong. so wrong.TheBlueOne
- I provided the link to make it easy. There's a difference between "sucks" and "not for me".blaw