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Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 3:39 pm
by Drem
Arlos wrote:Tool. Pop.... what the fuck?

Are you really trying to claim that Tool is the same musical style as Brittney Spears, Backstreet Boys, etc? Is that what you're trying to claim here? Or perhaps you mean 80s Synthpop like Erasure or Howard Jones?

Um, OK, there, Sparky. Much less ball park, time zone, continent, whatever, you're not even in the same stellar region there.

What are you going to do for your next trick, claim that the Butthole Surfers are "Ambient"? Or perhaps that the Dead Kennedys were "bluegrass"?

Dislike them all you want, I would never claim that the band is for everyone, but goddamn, at least know what band you're talking about...

-Arlos


hahaha tool fanbois make me laugh so much

"pop" music is "popular music" in case you forgot

i was being sarcastic. and you took the bait

tool doesn't have a unique or original atmosphere, either. hit me up on MSN and i'll send you stuff that has a dark, progressive atmosphere like tool but actually sounds good. gawd i seriously hate tool. probably with the same passion tikker hates nirvana

/pretension

Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 3:45 pm
by Foutty
Let me add Truckfighters, Priestess, and Witch to my list.


Oh and Jucifer! Awesome stuff.

Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 4:05 pm
by Nusk
Tool is progressive metal and is not for everyones taste

dream theater and rush fit in that subcategory too

70s was the decade for heavy metal. heck the 70s was the decade for all rock genres its been all downhill since

in the 80s it was all kiss wanabe hair metal bands cranking out power ballads. only two artists stand out from this decade.. iron maiden and metalica (before cliff died)

90s they just added some niel young feedback and called it alternative.... i call bullshit.. soundgarden alice in chains and even stone temple pilots are metal.

metal recently has taken a turn to beauty and the beast throatcore annoyance and i really dont like the genre in its current state

Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 4:09 pm
by Foutty
Check some of the bands I listed, it's more riff oriented and has sabbath feel going.


Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 4:17 pm
by Nusk
HAHAH that video is just fantastic


larp and heavy metal.... who knew

Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 6:59 pm
by brinstar
for the record i hate most tool fans

every time i've seen them play, the vaaaast majority of the crowd is dipshits

the looks i exchange with the handful of non-dipshits i see all say the same thing: god i hate these assholes

Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:41 pm
by Diekan
My iPod has a collection of:

Soil
Dope
Disturbed
Rob Zombie

On a side note I am listening to ZZ Top's "Rough Boy" right now. Damn good oldie from the 80's.

Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 12:26 am
by Tikker
ZZ Top is one of those bands where any song of theirs that comes on I love, but I have a tough time listening to back to back songs of theirs, heh

Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 1:56 am
by brinstar
i dislike Disturbed for three reasons

1. though it is certainly original, i find the singer's staccato flavor-fills extremely irritating (you know what i'm talking about - oooWAH-AH-AH-AH!!!)

2. the production just sounds too clean. i understand they're showing off their technical accuracy or whatever, but it's so precise that it sounds robotic. there's absolutely NO random instrument sounds between parts (fingers on the strings, pickup noise, etc), and that ain't natural. i'm not saying there should be constant and/or overbearing noise, but it's creepy to have absolutely none. it's like every millisecond they're not playing is digital silence. bugs me.

3. they covered Land of Confusion. poorly. you can ask my old bandmates, i had the idea to redo that song with a modern rock feel a good three years before Disturbed did it, but the band broke up before i could make it happen. not only do i completely disagree with the way Disturbed arranged it, but now if i try to do it it'll be seen as covering Disturbed :-x

Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:27 am
by Harrison
You know what's scary Brin? They sound that technical live. They're just that clean.

Draiman just needs to shut his fucking yapper inbetween songs. I HATE preachy performers.

Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:39 am
by brinstar
Harrison wrote:You know what's scary Brin? They sound that technical live. They're just that clean.


i believe it, and that is pretty impressive any way you slice it

but it just gets under my skin

inject a little chaos into your sound, m8s

Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:12 am
by Harrison
I agree. That's why I liked Korn live so much. One of the better performances by anyone I've seen.

Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 4:41 am
by Drem
k i was driving home tonight and put on a record from a band that's kina progressive like Tool but more interesting to me personally. and i think they're better musicians. who remembers Cave In? i was listening to the album "Jupiter". i like every track on that album except the title track

Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 12:50 pm
by araby
Dio
Danzig

I don't like a lot of metal but I love the old stuff. GnR, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Faith No More, etc..

Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:44 pm
by Drem
Drem wrote:k go listen to Supercontinent, Arlos


PS: enjoy http://rapidshare.com/files/158005158/S ... t-Vlbr.rar

it's compared to early ISIS and Cult of Luna i guess

Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 5:51 am
by Trielelvan
araby wrote:Dio
Danzig

I don't like a lot of metal but I love the old stuff. GnR, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Faith No More, etc..

:eyecrazy:

O... m.... g.... you did NOT just call Pearl Jam "metal" did you? AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! *spontaneously combusts*

Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:35 am
by Harrison
Thank you Triel. I was waiting for that response from someone other than myself lol

Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:46 am
by Evermore
Trielelvan wrote:
araby wrote:Dio
Danzig

I don't like a lot of metal but I love the old stuff. GnR, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Faith No More, etc..

:eyecrazy:

O... m.... g.... you did NOT just call Pearl Jam "metal" did you? AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! *spontaneously combusts*


oofa. Pearl Jam is barely music much more or less metal.

Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:48 am
by Harrison
I like a few songs of theirs. I just won't blaspheme Metal by calling it such. :hiphop:

Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 7:07 am
by Evermore
i'll admit i really liked there 1st effort. they just went down the toilet after that imo

Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 7:52 am
by brinstar
i liked them all the way through Vitalogy (didn't care for No Code, didn't listen to Yield, didn't buy anything after that)

but never would i call them metal, i always considered them straight rock and roll

Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:28 am
by Evermore
they came out listed as Grunge originally prolly cause they are from Seattle

Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:42 am
by araby
ok then. it was heavy for *me* back then but not really metal, I'm sure you're right.

Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:34 pm
by Arlos
Yeah, Pearl Jam was definitely part of the whole Grunge movement when they first came out. Indeed, they were one of the Big 3 from Seattle at the very start of it, along with Soundgarden and AIC. They most certainly are not in any way, shape, or form "metal". Not even Soundgarden or AIC qualify as metal to me, IMHO, but they certainly get much closer than Pearl Jam ever has.

I also concur with their Pearl Jam's album being VASTLY superior to anything else they've ever done. I have to wonder if a lot of the stuff that went onto Pearl Jam's first album was actually stuff that had been written for Mother Love Bone originally, and when the members met Vedder during the Temple of the Dog sessions after the MLB singer died from a heroin overdose, they just added Vedder in, only tweaked the songs a bit, and let him sing the already created parts.

That may be a stretch, but it would certainly explain the observed situation. I mean, Mother Love Bone was quite good, and all of Pearl Jam from later on is really BAD....

-Arlos

Re: favorite metal bands

Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:31 pm
by Tossica
Vedder can't sing for shit.