Fun Stuff > BAND
Metal anybody?
bbqrocks:
Yeah, exactly.
Dammit, bunkur and heirophant DLs failed.
Nodaisho:
--- Quote from: Spluff on 26 Feb 2008, 12:59 ---Yep, Electric Wizard are fucking heavy. Doom is pretty much the epitome of heavy - look at Candlemass, My Dying Bridge, Cathedral. Slow, low, and dissonant.
--- End quote ---
I have heard of and listen to MDB and Candlemass, but haven't heard of cathedral. Time to look them up, I guess.
I honestly like the Candlemass self-titled best of what I have heard, I don't like Epicus' vocals, and the somewhat fast solos on Nightfall seem out of place.
LadyFirelyght:
--- Quote from: Lummer on 26 Feb 2008, 12:39 ---Must.... Not.... Insult.... Must.... Resist.... urge to be elitist asshole :cry:
--- End quote ---
Well, everyone likes different music so even if you were being an elitist asshole I wouldn't care. I'm a bit of a acrimonious bitch on occasion :D I love to sing, love to sing along to music, so melody is very important for me. Hence the bands I listen to :) So go ahead with what you want to say.
bucky_2300:
I'm a melody slut. I dig stuff like In Flames and Children of Bodom, but Nile and Necrophagist do nothing for me. The riffs are extremely technical, but the tone is so muddy and the mixing so deep that it's impossible to fully appreciate (i.e. HEAR) the notes going by. One can get a general sense of what is going on, but detailed listening is impossible for the first time through.
Most of my metal/rockish listening lies along the 80s lines. I fell in love with Uli Jon Roth, Yngwie Malmsteen and Paul Gilbert a few years ago, and haven't really looked back. The playing is fantastic, and the writing is just phenomenal. The harmonies on Malmsteen's Rising Force just seem right to me, and the way Gilbert flies through his solos with such control is amazing.
I'm also in love with Dream Theater, Megadeth, Randy/Jake-era Ozzy, Iron Maiden, some Priest, Steve Vai, and Queen. The prog-metal DT stuff blew me away when I first heard it, and I've gone on to amass every record of theirs (including live albums and DVDs) since Scenes From a Memory in 1999. I'm now working my way backwards. The Megadeth shit I love because it's brutally heavy, very melodic, and has a great feel to it. It's the metalhead's metal. Ozzy and Maiden are self-explanatory, and the other stuff is just what I groove on.
I also listen to random thrash like Anthrax (early-mid 80s only), Slayer, Testament, Exodus, yada yada. But lately I've been dipping heavily into progressive and jazz.
MadassAlex:
As I suggested above, I personally think that heaviness has less to do with the pitch of the music and more to do with the phrasing and technique that goes into it.
That's why bands Iron Maiden and Amon Amarth can, at once, be considered melodic and heavy. Bands like Iron Maiden and Angra can write songs in the key of D without downtuning and still be heavy as fuck because it's all about phrasing. Hell, Megadeth wrote a song in B without downtuning (Tornado Of Souls) and it's probably one of their heaviest songs.
So yeah, I personally don't think pitch comes into it.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version