Hello, Rock & Pop. What are your thoughts, on metal? I ve always liked Black Sabbath, and I ve gotten into post-metal; I love Neurosis & Isis, and I ve liked stuff by Electric Wizard, Boris, Botch, Converge & the Dillinger Escape Plan.
However, I ve found that as my tastes have changed, metal has grown off of me. There is great metal out there, but I ve found that (with the exception of Black Sabbath) I don t care for classic metal & thrash metal. I prefer genres such as doom metal, post-metal & black metal. I think that metal such as Metallica, Iron Maiden & Tool has the potential to turn into tough guy/overly macho music.
BQ: Favorite metal bands? BQ2: What are your favorite sub-genres, of metal? BQ3: What do you like, about metal? BQ4: How do you feel about the mixture of hardcore and metal?
?2020-05-12T06:10:59Z
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Metal is my favorite musical genre, along with something else certain, but it is undoubtedly what I listen to most. I started listening to it with two bands you mentioned, Metallica and Tool, which remain two of my favorites (Metallica up to and including the black album, of course).
To classic metal I approach in small steps, I don't like everything, but I find some things fundamental and I am attached to it (such as Black Sabbath, Bathory, AC/DC, WASP, etc.)
currently my mind has opened up to avant-garde/progressive metal, and blackened death metal, so I'm listening to many albums of bands such as Deathspell Omega, Blut aus Nord, Oranssi Pazuzu, Portal, Bergraven (etc, I have an elephant-list of things I still want to hear ).
BQ2: old school death metal, atmospheric black metal
BQ3: too long to explain in an already long answer, I should divide the explanation by many fragments, moreover, there are many subgenres, many bands, different atmospheres and sensations .. maybe that's what I like
BQ4: not my favorite mixture, but some things are good, I appreciate Cripple Bastards, Heaven in Her Arms, Harakiri for the Sky, Karg (I feel some screamo post-hardcore inside them )
I started with Black Sabbath and Judas Priest in the 70's and have progressed through the decades and still love it today.
BQ: Allegaeon (Technical Death) Amorphis (Progressive) Insomnium (Melodic Death Metal) Madder Mortem (Progressive Gothic) Ne Obliviscaris (Progressive Extreme) Saurom (Folk) Subway To Sally (Medieval Folk) The Vision Bleak (Gothic)
BQ2: Death Metal Progressive Folk/Medieval Folk
BQ3: It's ability to seep loudly into any genre
BQ4: Let's add to the controversy okay? Thrash to me is little more than a bunch of sell-out Hardcore bands, at least Metalcore/Deathcore keeps it real. Lately I've been getting into some of the newer Post-Hardcore bands like Patient Sixty-Seven and Take Flight.
Btw, it was Hair Metal that nearly killed Metal. Thank God it made it through the 80's!
Metal is growing on me too. I blame 'Cain with his Opeth posts. But actually I had been enjoying some of the same Post Metal as yourself. I will admit, I can't binge listen any of it, but the odd album i can do for sure.
BA. Rolo Tomassi & Deafheaven
BA2. I can't say I am over the various sub-genre's personally, but I'm guessing Blackgaze would come as no surprise.
BA3. Nothing really. i just look to it as something a harder alter to the usual styles of music I like.
I like what I think of as “heavy” music, but there’s a lot of “metal” that’s just too extreme and grating. I generally like clean vocals, even if it’s heavy music (there are exceptions, though; like Opeth, for example).
Tool is my very favorite music act; their sound just hits me perfectly and they’ve been my #1 for many years now.
I like progressive, alternative, and post metal the best. But I also like thrash, groove and “power” metal (the best descriptive term for Iron Maiden/Judas Priest type metal).
Most death and black metal is a joke; and if it’s not a joke, it’s too extreme for me and not a scene I want to support.
I have found that pretty much any genre of metal that ends in “core” is not something I tend to care for.
Likewise, I don’t tend to care for “nu-metal”. Rap and electric guitars were not meant to go together.