The Mosh Pit: The Official Metal Thread

[Alex]

I'll probably get crucified for this but I don't mind Black Veil Brides. Then again I've only listened to the first album which was good 80s inspired rock.

 

[It's Damn Real!]

Did it sound like BVB?

Basically, yes. They all sound like that. They all dress and sound like the love child of Mötley Crüe and My Chemical Romance.

 

[Alex]

Is there anything technically wrong with Motley Crue and My Chemical Romance??

 

[One Punch Doug Crashin]

Here's a couple of Sweedish metal bands you should sink your teeth into.

Amaranthe

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[Starkist]

Is there anything technically wrong with Motley Crue and My Chemical Romance??

First one no, second one yes. You're entitled to like what your ears like. I'm simply not a fan of BVB, that doesn't mean I should not like you since you enjoy them personally.

 

[Alex]

First one no, second one yes. You're entitled to like what your ears like. I'm simply not a fan of BVB, that doesn't mean I should not like you since you enjoy them personally.

Oh yeah I understand. Me and my sister have this discussion all the time. We have some overlap in terms of stuff we like but we generally like different things. And we still get on haha

Moving on anybody got any Parkway Drive suggestions. Don't know where to start

 

[It's Damn Real!]

Is there anything technically wrong with Motley Crue and My Chemical Romance??

Of course not. I don't believe in bad music. The concept doesn't exist. Music is subjective, so it can't be objectively "good" or "bad" only subjectively "good" or "bad". To me, subjectively, neither is actually bad. But I find the type of "offspring" bands that have spawned from them (Black Veil Brides, Falling in Reverse, Motionless in White, Asking Alexandria, etc.) to be subjectively bad. Subjectively fucking horrible, actually. But that's just my own personal experience.

What I was saying before is that if you suggest a band to me and it looks like they're sponsored by Hot Topic, I'm already going in with a preconceived notion that this isn't going to be very good. I'm rarely wrong about that either.

For the same reason that I'm highly unlikely to enjoy music from a group that look like this:

Or this:

I just find "core" postfix bands insufferable. Doesn't matter the sub-genre. Metal, hard, math or otherwise.

 

[Starkist]

Oh yeah I understand. Me and my sister have this discussion all the time. We have some overlap in terms of stuff we like but we generally like different things. And we still get on haha

Moving on anybody got any Parkway Drive suggestions. Don't know where to start

I'm not a fan of them myself but my friends tell me their older albums are good.

You should check out Stick To Your Guns. One of my favorite songs from them is We're What Separates The Heart From The Heartless. The break down in that song is epic. Diamond their latest album ( I believe) is really good. You should check them out if you have not heard of them before.

 

[It's Damn Real!]

I've been on a huge prog and melodic black metal kick lately, so here's my contributions to the thread in that regard:


1. Alcest — French melodic black metal with progressive overtones:

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For fans of Opeth, Les Discrets, Ghost [B.C.], Magna Carta Cartel

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2. Arcane — Eclectic, ambient-influenced progressive metal from Australia:

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For fans of Tool, were they influenced by Melodic European metal, Caligula's Horse

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3. Caligula's Horse — progressive alternative rock with metal influence from Australia (same singer as Arcane):

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For fans of Tool, were they influenced by Melodic European metal, Arcane

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4. Baroness — Indie/post-punk influenced heavy metal with melodic influence:

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For fans of Mastodon, ISIS, Red Fang, Neurosis

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5. Mastodon — Slude/stoner alternative metal and all-American bad-assery

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For fans of fuckin' awesome music

 

[It's Damn Real!]

Oh, and just to throw one more log on the fire, for fans of fuckin' awesome music:

GOJIRA

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[Thriller Ant]

I'm not a fan of them myself but my friends tell me their older albums are good.

You should check out Stick To Your Guns. One of my favorite songs from them is We're What Separates The Heart From The Heartless. The break down in that song is epic. Diamond their latest album ( I believe) is really good. You should check them out if you have not heard of them before.

STYG just came out with a new album 2 or 3 weeks ago. I prefer Diamond, but the new one, Disobedient, is pretty good too.

 

[Starkist]

Sweet, I'll check it out. Diamond is a sick album for sure.

IDR, Gojira is fuckin' awesome and awesome live. Same goes for In Flames. Their badass live.

I don't post videos but new Soilwork (double albums), are awesome. They keep pushing their sound regardless of losing members especially original members. The one band I'm waiting to see live.

 

[It's Damn Real!]

Soilwork are great live. Caught them years back for the Sworn to a Great Divide tour.

 

[Bagpipes]

Oh, and just to throw one more log on the fire, for fans of fuckin' awesome music:

GOJIRA

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Saw Gojira open for SLAYER in 2013, fucking awesome.

 

[Bagpipes]

So I just read that the guitarist of Slipknot was stabbed in the head, by his brother, while drunk, and in a knife fight on the front lawn.

And Wayne Static died of booze and pills.

 

[Alex]

So I just read that the guitarist of Slipknot was stabbed in the head, by his brother, while drunk, and in a knife fight on the front lawn.

There was so many Slipknot related jokes when that came out. 'I hope the doctors didn't let him Wait and Bleed' being one.

And Wayne Static died of booze and pills.

It's kind of sad that you just expect something like that to happen

 

[Alex]

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So stoked for this. I just need a Layne Staley one now

 

[M]

So I just read that the guitarist of Slipknot was stabbed in the head, by his brother, while drunk, and in a knife fight on the front lawn.

Was his brother a Slipknot fan? I swear their fans will do anything to prove they're "hardcore" I kid I kid, but I don't kid as much as those fans who think they're the most hardcore people in existence because they're still 14 inside dammit *another winky face because I'm a super kidder who's kidding while kidding*


Chucking a song here because yolo.
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Thoughts?

Oh and what's everyone here's take on the whole "Djent" movement?
If you're unsure what that is and can't be bothered googling it, it's a relatively newish (Well I mean if you discount Nevermore, Meshuggah, and the 90's bands that had the sound then yeah it's kinda new) trending guitar sound that's effectively changing the "chug" sound in a riff to a "djent" due to a slightly different mute and hitting the string like you want to snap it. It's used a lot in progressive stuff like Animals as Leaders and TesseracT as well as industrial stuff and there's an alarming amount of people out there mistaking it for its own genre.

 

[It's Damn Real!]

I've never even heard the term "djent" before that post. Wanna post up a track or two you think are good?

 

[It's Damn Real!]

Actually, scratch that — checking out their popular tracks (TesseracT) on Spotify quick. I'll let you know what I think.

 

[It's Damn Real!]

Early opinion of TesseracT, musically I really dig it. It reminds me of an ambient-infused Between the Buried and Me with melodic vocals instead of screaming. That said, I'm not overly impressed with the cadence of the singer. His voice is actually a little too effeminate for the sound, which is really masculine when the "djent" aspects kick in. Might take me some getting used to, because when the two are combined it creates a weird mix.

I'm only three tracks in, however, so it might also be one of those things where you really have to sit down and listen to these records as albums, in their entirety, because of the type of experience they create as a whole. Tool is like that, for example.

 

[M]

Early opinion of TesseracT, musically I really dig it. It reminds me of an ambient-infused Between the Buried and Me with melodic vocals instead of screaming. That said, I'm not overly impressed with the cadence of the singer. His voice is actually a little too effeminate for the sound, which is really masculine when the "djent" aspects kick in. Might take me some getting used to, because when the two are combined it creates a weird mix.

I'm only three tracks in, however, so it might also be one of those things where you really have to sit down and listen to these records as albums, in their entirety, because of the type of experience they create as a whole. Tool is like that, for example.

If you can find some tracks from their first album "One" then you'll probably find more masculine singing. The singer on that album left, then a really light singer (who I think is the guy from the songs you're listening to) joined only for "Altered State" and then they got the old guy back and are working on a new album (coming soon apparently) basically with the melodies from Altered State and the singing from One. I did fall asleep before you asked me to post a track but I'll post one from One anyway just for the other guys

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[Starkist]

Any After The Burial fans? If so check out their new album Wolves Within. Album is so sick.

 

[Alex]

So being a sad bastard I got the special edition of Music For The Recently Deceased by I Killed The Prom Queen to see if there was any significance in the different vocals.

I can say that from a technical standpoint Ed Butcher is probably better than Michael Crafter but Crafter has probably the slightly better lyrics.

 

[Bagpipes]

Decent lineup for Mayhem Festival this year. When I say decent I mean decent besides SLAYER, the greatest fucking band in the history of the universe.

But I'm excited to see Jungle Rot and King Diamond, even though I'm not a huge fan of his sound, it's still King Diamond.

And I'll have my ear muffs and chainsaw engine for when Hellyeah plays, so there's that.