Topic: cheesey metal that you can't help but loving (Read 20165 times)

lepeste · « **on:** 09 Dec 2008, 13:14 »

i myself am not hugely into metal, i mainly listen to a lot of Twee Pop and general Indie Rock
splitting off into a bunch of other things, but enough about that, but theres always room in my heart for cheesey metal.

especially like the band

TURISAS
finnish metal. Battle Metal to be correct. a bunch of finnish guys running around clan in viking outfits, singing about battles and viking life.
plus its metal with an accordian. really, theyre quite cheesey and over done by a lot. but one cannot help but loving.

anyone else got a soft spot for a cheesey metal band?

De_El · « **Reply #1 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 13:15 »

I can't decide whether I want to be the guy who posts a giant picture of Manowar, or the guy who replies "Manowar is serious business."

lepeste · « **Reply #2 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 13:17 »

Quote from: De_El on 09 Dec 2008, 13:15

I can't decide whether I want to be the guy who posts a giant picture of Manowar, or the guy who replies "Manowar is serious business."

either way itll be fantastic.
i mean they pulled off using the word "asunder" in a song. thats legit as cheesey metal goes.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #3 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 13:20 »

Turisas are pretty sweet, but if you haven't listened to Finntroll you must do it now because they are pretty much Turisas but better.

also Manowar.

Ballard · « **Reply #4 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 13:47 »

Moar like Finnlol amirite?

imapiratearg · « **Reply #5 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 13:49 »

I don't think Mastodon belong in here, but goddamn I love me some Mastodon.

Harun · « **Reply #6 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 13:49 »

although they're not as cheesy: Eluveitie

they make me feel more like I'm at a metal Renaissance Festival than anything else

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #7 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 13:57 »

Finntroll is alot less cheesy if you listen to them while wandering through a rainforest, frying on mushrooms.

then it becomes serious business.

Ballard · « **Reply #8 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 13:59 »

Wait, there's other ways to explain this?

BlahBlah · « **Reply #9 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 14:00 »

Looks pretty serious to me.

lepeste · « **Reply #10 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 14:32 »

god i would love to run into them while exploring Scandinavian forests! theyd probably have great stories of being at a great hall drinking mead and stuff.
i want to be their bestfriends.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #11 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 14:54 »

Turisas and Finntroll ain't cheesy. Rhapsody, Symphony X, Dragonforce, etc., that's cheesy. Turisas are just fuckin' rad. You don't like them ironically like you do the others.

lepeste · « **Reply #12 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 14:58 »

do people actually listen to symphony x seriously? i've never met anyone that does

Siibillam-Law · « **Reply #13 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 15:38 »

I'm a huge Belle& Sebastian/ Damien Rice inde-type fan but I can't help but love the over-melodious, screaming crazy vocal style of German metal band Knorkator
Anyone else heard their music?

sean · « **Reply #14 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 16:05 »

Blind Guardian OOOOOOH YEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

jimbunny · « **Reply #15 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 16:59 »

Devin Townsend's career.

Seriously.

Except that, in addition to being cheesy, it is also awesome.

ALoveSupreme · « **Reply #16 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 17:08 »

Quote from: Ballard on 09 Dec 2008, 13:59

Wait, there's other ways to explain this?

[picture of ridiculous lookin dudes]

you s'pose these guys go to get their keys copied dressed like that? Like, they're standing around awkwardly while the guy is grinding the new key, while they pretend to look at stuff to buy?

Katherine · « **Reply #17 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 17:09 »

Man, Devin Townsend is one ugly son of a bitch but I love his music.

Spluff · « **Reply #18 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 17:09 »

Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 09 Dec 2008, 13:20

Turisas are pretty sweet, but if you haven't listened to Finntroll you must do it now because they are pretty much Turisas but better.

Man, Finntroll are just Turisas without the accordion.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #19 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 17:13 »

Finntroll have an accordian

Spluff · « **Reply #20 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 17:16 »

what

I thought that was just keyboard with an accordion-esque preset. Actually, I'm pretty sure it is.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #21 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 17:21 »

in that video that was posted, yeah. but mostly i think he plays an accordian. if you watch live videos, there is often (if not always) an accordian present.

and they did it before Turisas.

</smugness>

lepeste · « **Reply #22 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 18:07 »

ive always known it as keys with an accordion setting. but. i could be wrong never seen them live or a live video.

Nodaisho · « **Reply #23 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 18:07 »

How about Falconer? Most noticeable at the beginning of the title track of Northwind.

Oh, and everything Graveyard BBQ does is pretty much the definition of cheesy.

Spluff · « **Reply #24 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 18:22 »

Diablo Swing Orchestra is pretty cheesy, but unbelievably awesome.

Harun · « **Reply #25 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 18:58 »

also: all black metal

Ballard · « **Reply #26 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 19:36 »

Hahaha, the one on the right is using a garden hose attachment as a weapon.

Inlander · « **Reply #27 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 19:42 »

80s hair metal is the only true music.

MadassAlex · « **Reply #28 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 21:23 »

Quote from: Objects inside Clouds on 09 Dec 2008, 16:05

Blind Guardian OOOOOOH YEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

Be my friend.

Uber Ritter · « **Reply #29 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 22:03 »

Rhapsody does cheesy power metal better than about anyone I've heard. Though some Blind Guardian is quite excellent.

And to be fair, black metal dudes haven't worn corpsepaint much since the early 90's, iirc, at least in Norway (Immortal accepted).

Nodaisho · « **Reply #30 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 22:19 »

At least some bands today still do it, at least for pictures. All of the ones I have seen are ones I had never heard of though. Excepting that one band, what were they? All of them were young, really fat kid singing, female guitarist, seemed to be a parody of black metal? Hard to tell on that last bit, though. Sometimes I wonder if all the black metal elitism is one huge joke, tongue held firmly in corpse-painted cheeck.

Ballard · « **Reply #31 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 22:27 »

I'm almost certain it is. If not entirely, then it's certainly laced with plenty of theatrics.

lepeste · « **Reply #32 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 22:30 »

but isnt every genre?
the metal genre is just more humourous when analyzing it.
because everything with them is so over the top and absurd theatrics.

Ballard · « **Reply #33 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 22:33 »

I don't mean stage presence and entertainment and the like. I mean over-the-top circus theatrics. Most contemporary metal considers itself serious business, but Norwegian Black Metal is almost like /b/ in it's ironic ridiculousness.

Hat · « **Reply #34 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 22:35 »

Quote from: lepeste on 09 Dec 2008, 14:58

do people actually listen to symphony x seriously? i've never met anyone that does

Yo.

And while it technically classifies as cock rock, if we can slot it into hair-metal, I fucking LOVE me some Motley Crue. Also, Helloween.

lepeste · « **Reply #35 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 22:39 »

i guess in that sense yes, but the band that takes the cake on that is definitely GWAR by far. in over the top theatric metal. haha

Harun · « **Reply #36 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 23:33 »

you have never lived if you have never been to a GWAR show

<--- seen them three times

tigrar · « **Reply #37 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 23:53 »

I'm jealous. I had to miss GWAR last night because of a Microbiology final. Alestorm is epic. Scottish Pirate Metal.

MadassAlex · « **Reply #38 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 23:59 »

Quote from: Uber Ritter on 09 Dec 2008, 22:03

Rhapsody does cheesy power metal better than about anyone I've heard. Though some Blind Guardian is quite excellent.

Man, what. Blind Guardian is the best power metal that isn't Persuader. And Persuader are basically just an improvement on Blind Guardian.

But I guess BG are less cheesy than Rhapsody, so qualify less for this thread.

Quote from: lepeste on 09 Dec 2008, 22:39

i guess in that sense yes, but the band that takes the cake on that is definitely GWAR by far. in over the top theatric metal. haha

GWAR's music resembles punky hard rock more than metal, really.

Patrick · « **Reply #39 on:** 10 Dec 2008, 00:00 »

Quote from: Harun on 09 Dec 2008, 18:58

Today, I ignore the "quoting pictures" rule because this is worth seeing twice on one page.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #40 on:** 10 Dec 2008, 01:44 »

That's from a well-known series of pictures with those dudes baking cookies or vacuuming and such. Oh, here it is:

http://www.unwesen.de/v/Humour/Black+Metal+ist+Krieg.html

Black metal isn't a joke. Not much metal is. It's self-aware, but not as such a joke. Part of the thing about metal is that it should be possible to either take it completely seriously, or not at all seriously. Often both at the same time. It doesn't really operate in the same way as twee and all that crap. It's more like camp, I suppose.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #41 on:** 10 Dec 2008, 02:09 »

Fight hard
Live fast
Play loud
Step out of the crowd
Iron
Rulin'
Steel bent
Forever the faith will live on in our hearts
There's nothing else in all the world
That will bring it down
We will play our wildest step to all around
We need it as a liquid in our veins instead of blood
Power
Burnin'
Brains out
United metallians ready to strike
White heat
Red hot
Mayhem
If you don't feel it you won't understand
There's nothing else in all the world
That will bring it down
We will play our wildest step to all around
We need it as a liquid in our veins instead of blood
Chorus
Heavy Metal is the law that keeps us all united free
A law that shatters earth and hell
Heavy Metal can't be beaten by any dynasty
We're all wizards fightin' with our spell

Dollface · « **Reply #42 on:** 10 Dec 2008, 02:25 »

And some music

valley_parade · « **Reply #43 on:** 10 Dec 2008, 03:48 »

Quote from: lepeste on 09 Dec 2008, 13:17

Quote from: De_El on 09 Dec 2008, 13:15
I can't decide whether I want to be the guy who posts a giant picture of Manowar, or the guy who replies "Manowar is serious business."

either way itll be fantastic.
i mean they pulled off using the word "asunder" in a song. thats legit as cheesey metal goes.

So did Borknagar.

lepeste · « **Reply #44 on:** 10 Dec 2008, 08:36 »

LETS PLAY A GAME:

3 of the 4 are the same..which one doesnt belong?

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #45 on:** 10 Dec 2008, 11:02 »

it's time, once again, for the greatest band of all time (and no, it's not Complete).

Nodaisho · « **Reply #46 on:** 10 Dec 2008, 12:21 »

electronica/powerpop/black metal... never thought I would read that.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #47 on:** 10 Dec 2008, 14:39 »

you're welcome.

RedLion · « **Reply #48 on:** 10 Dec 2008, 15:11 »

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.

Also Dream Theater (although I continue to argue that they are a legitimately 'good' band.)

MadassAlex · « **Reply #49 on:** 10 Dec 2008, 16:58 »

Wait, is there genuinely some kind of asshole social condition here that implies that "cheesy" music is less worthy than "serious" music? Because I thought that was all a joke.

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