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Caspian:
I like Spinal Tap a fair bit. I just don't think Dethklok is terribly funny. It's nothing to do with me being all po-faced or whatever; the art of the show isn't terribly good, and it's just not a particularly funny show. The music isn't terrible, but I can't really say I like it.

I guess calling it a terrible show was an overreaction. it's a mediocre show.

With Agalloch- I've reviewed all of their full lengths on metal-archives if you want to get my opinion on them. I don't really hate them, I guess you could say it annoys me more that people seem to really like them. It's like Tool or Opeth; the music is "yeah it's ok" but combined with the fanboys... :(

Nodaisho:
Huh, I'm pretty sure I've actually read most of those before. Don't remember The Mantle, but I remember the Pale Folklore one, and the Ashes one is extremely similar to one I remember reading on Metal Observer. Did you put that one up too?

Would I be accurate in saying that a large part of your problem is with how popular they are? You seem to be much more positive about them in the first review, which was written a year and a half before the next, and another year before the last. You even said you liked Ashes in the review for Pale Folklore, before decided that you hated it.

It's really difficult to write this post because I have such a hard time understanding the review. I understand the words you use, I understand what they mean, but I would never guess what album you are talking about if I just read it at random.

When you referred to a lack of catharsis at the end of the song, what do you mean? The sort of huge-sounding part at the end of a lot of post-rock? It seems like that (along with the guitar tone) is more of a matter of taste (please don't make the obvious joke here), it isn't that they forgot to put it in, it is that they intentionally wrote it without one.

Where are you getting the coldplay part from? You mention it pretty constantly, but I'm not hearing it at all. I will grant you, however, that the bit in Skyline pt.3 is absolutely terrible, I wince every time I hear it.

Caspian:
The first album was written when I was still a bit of a newb in the world of metal. (and yeah, I used to write for TMO). I still prefer it to the others.. I'd probably give it a 60% nowdays. Popularity isn't an issue, at least not a conscious one- I'm a Metallica fanboy and have no problem with a bunch of oft-fellated bands (Isis and Neurosis being obvious examples).

Lack of catharsis- no I'm not meaning a post rock freak out or anything. I'm just saying the songs don't really go anywhere. With most bands around there's some sort of satisfaction as to when the climax has came and went and the song's done- that just doesn't happen with Agalloch. Kind of hard to properly articulate what i mean here- I guess there's no release of emotion at the end of the song.

Coldplay is just me doing a bit of exaggeration. Agalloch are accessible, melodic, and bland as all hell- metal's MOR. Coldplay is also accessible, melodic and bland. Obviously there's no great musical influence or what have you.

sean:

--- Quote from: Dimmukane on 25 Jun 2009, 18:25 ---the Pax Cecilia - if Opeth wasn't so wanky, this is what they'd sound like.  You'd probably like Opeth, too.

--- End quote ---

Do these guys usually get brought up in metal discussion? I mean their second album I guess gets pretty metal but their first is basically textbook screamo.

Also Aggaloch bland? Really? Eh I guess you can have yr own opinion.

KharBevNor:
I'm actually basing this on the dudes post, unlike most people in this thread (honourable exceptions) just listing every heavy band they've heard of, and I am giving youtube videos as always.

Basically dude I think your first port of call should be a little town called Gothenburg.

These bands should all definitely tickle your fancy, then we can progress.

Arch Enemy - Leader of the Rats
At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Dark Tranquillity - Monochromatic Stains
Darkane - Innocence Gone
Edge of Sanity - Elegy
In Flames - Pinball Map
Nightingale - Losing Myself

And a few more similiar (and some less similiar) things to consider:

Amon Amarth - The Pursuit of Vikings
Amorphis - Against Widows
Cryptic Wintermoon - Synthetic Gods
Dissection - Thorns of Crimson Death
Kalmah - They Will Return
Katatonia - Murder
Moonspell - Opium
Opeth - Bleak
Tiamat - Cain


All of these are good songs. Some of these are great songs. Together they point the way to a firm foundation from which you can begin to fully appreciate the more exotic and difficult genres of metal.

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