Heavy Metal. Good or Bad?
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I love looking at the stylized art for the bands name and trying to figure out where the fuck each letter starts. There are far too many bands with styles like that these days.viranimus said:
Just type grindcore logo into google image search and wait as your eyes bleed.
OT - Yeah I like heavy metal, gone more towards folk metal these days though. My tastes in music are always swinging back and forth.
I've never really been a fan. There's the very, very occasional track I'll like, but the rest generally isn't my cup of tea. From what Metal I've heard, anyway. Which isn't very much. You know what I mean.
That said, I'm fully aware I have terrible taste in music, so you might as well disregard this post.
That said, I'm fully aware I have terrible taste in music, so you might as well disregard this post.
I don't mind heavy metal at all and I even listen to it on occasion. Although I enjoy more doom, black, and stoner metal than thrash, power, or death metal. Ignorant people seem to think that metal causes people to actually do some of the violent things when that is ridiculous. Most people actually use metal in more of a cathartic kind of way to get out their aggressions in a healthy way.lion el jhonson said:
Although I don't like when heavy metal fans think they're all tough guys because they listen to loud, fast, aggressive music with growls. I'm sorry but no matter how badly you want it to heavy metal doesn't make you tougher. Other than that metal fans are usually very nice from the ones I have met and am friends with.
One could make that case against most pop music, but you can't accuse metal of being unoriginal. (Some bands are, but that's the case with any genre.)lion el jhonson said:
Admittedly, the heavy distorted guitar playing that exemplifies heavy metal is kind of an acquired taste. But you definitely can't say it's all the same.
Arsen said:
Now I'm not saying that there aren't a bunch of indie rock bands out there that are just copying a formula with hopes of hitting it big, but the exact same thing can be said for heavy metal. To say that its the only genre to be pushing new avenues of thought is just borderline stupid. If anything psych-rock bands are pushing and have been the ones to push musical creativity forward since the dawn of rock. Look at landmark records like Dark Side Of The Moon that pushed music foward to a huge degree. Its a genre that embraces mind-altering drugs like LSD which alters your perceptions and makes you view things from a completely different point of view then before. A majority of that mind-blowing music I have heard has come from psych-rock bands that had opened up more creative avenues by taking LSD.
I'm not trying to say that psych rock is better, but its certainly a genre that pushed music to mind-blowing proportions. I mean the lyrics are for the most part insightful and have something meaningful to say and the music is just so lush and melodic that you can't help but to be awed when you hear it.
Why wouldn't anyone talk about Death Metal? It's a genre of Metal that's very potent.
Anyways, more on topic, I'm a Metalhead, my main thing is Thrash. I looooooooove Metal to bits, it's powerful, epic music that lets you be as intelligent or as primitive as you like.
Here are some of my favourite songs atm.
Anyways, more on topic, I'm a Metalhead, my main thing is Thrash. I looooooooove Metal to bits, it's powerful, epic music that lets you be as intelligent or as primitive as you like.
Here are some of my favourite songs atm.
Used to listen to a hell of a metal in my early teenage years in fact it was all that was in my music library. Now it's extremely sparse and most of my music can be categorised under 'Rock' i suppose.
Most of the metal i still have is more into the technical or prog region. I just have too much appreciation for the complexity and beauty of the guitar (see Protest the Hero, Animals as Leaders, Scale the Summit)
Most of the metal i still have is more into the technical or prog region. I just have too much appreciation for the complexity and beauty of the guitar (see Protest the Hero, Animals as Leaders, Scale the Summit)
Love it!! dragonforce being one of my all time favourite bands =], seen em live a few times aswel as trivium, machine head, turisas, arch enemy( scary ass lead singer) and shadowfall, im a big fan of rock in all apects.
literally through the fire and the flames we carry on
come raise your gauntlet of rock!
literally through the fire and the flames we carry on
come raise your gauntlet of rock!
I tend to enjoy it when the vocalists aren't trying to sound like a cross between Cookie Monster and Louis Armstrong and when the lyrics aren't absolutely childish.
SCREAMO IS NOT A GENRE. I am so damn sick of people with any taste in music referring to hardcore/metalcore/deathcore and any other sub-genre of punk or metal which utilising screaming vocals as 'screamo'. It's a pathetic word which carries no weight whatsoever. Would you call Led Zep 'screamo' because of Plant's famous wolf howl voice? No! Would you call Foo Fighters 'screamo' because Grohl screams in songs like Break Out? No! So don't clump together bands like Whitechapel, Alexisonfire, Gallows, Architects (all members of completely different sub-genres) under the same daft umprella of 'screamo'.lion el jhonson said:
Unnecessary rant? No.
OT: Metal is a fantastic genre which can be wasted by shite bands like Bullet For My Valentine or Avenged Sevenfold.
Personally, I think metal has evolved to the point where sub-genres are unavoidable. Industrial: Nine Inch Nails, nu-metal: Limp Bizkit, deathcore: Suicide Silence etc.
I guess I haven't really answered your question because, well, it's unanswerable. People have their own opinions (but, for the record, those that say metal is 'bad' are wrong)
As a huge metal fan (of the melodic kind anyways, I can't stand growling or blast beats), metal is a good in the world, particularly in mine.
The metal genre contains brilliant musicians of every instrument and incredible songwriting. A lot of metal music is as "musical" as the likes of jazz or classical, which are often viewed as higher forms of music.
The metal genre contains brilliant musicians of every instrument and incredible songwriting. A lot of metal music is as "musical" as the likes of jazz or classical, which are often viewed as higher forms of music.
black sabbath has some good songs and i think that they are heavy metal. other than that i'm not really into that type of music.
It depends on what you mean by heavy metal. Things like Megadeth, Slayer, Motorhead and Motley Crue are just fucking awful; the real nadir of the 1980s. Absolute bilge.
But there are a lot of great subgenres like post-metal, symphonic death, avant garde and mathcore.
But there are a lot of great subgenres like post-metal, symphonic death, avant garde and mathcore.
You I can call friend, and another person that can't stand death metal as much as I do!fi6eka said:
I will excuse you for only liking the Dio years in Sabbath since he is awesome singer though, and I can agree with you on Metallica, although Death Magnetic was pretty good.
I like it. A lot.
Also, DEEETHHHHKLOOOOOKKKK wait that's death metal.
Also, not sure if Mettalica counts as heavy metal, most of the people consider them sort of... rock.
Dragonforce is a mediocre band that makes music with computers and sound effects. That's not music. At least not heavy metal. Don't you even dare saying that to anyone who is seriously into heavy metal.Collins254 said:Love it!! dragonforce being one of my all time favourite bands =], seen em live a few times aswel as trivium, machine head, turisas, arch enemy( scary ass lead singer) and shadowfall, im a big fan of rock in all apects.
literally through the fire and the flames we carry on
Also, DEEETHHHHKLOOOOOKKKK wait that's death metal.
Scorpions are heavy metal? I thought they were rock. Well, I still love them.fi6eka said:
Also, not sure if Mettalica counts as heavy metal, most of the people consider them sort of... rock.
