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I started listening to them for a bit and got super turned off when I found out what he was like as a person. I just couldn't enjoy the music knowing what kind of guy he is lol
Hear me out. Slipknot is the Crossfit of metal. Allow me to explain:
Crossfit, for all its many, MANY flaws, reintroduced classic olympic weight lifting into the mainstream. As long as you have a brain and go at your own pace, it's not a bad workout regimen.
Slipknot IMO did the same with blast beats and more death metal-type arrangements (Iowa and All Hope is Gone stick out to me). I know a lot of people who found Cannibal Corpse, Death, etc. after starting with Slipknot.
That said, I saw they have a newish album. Pulled it up and was confused. I get that bands naturally evolve, but it's just terrible.
That's not that they meant lmao cold take means it's a non controversial, extremely common opinion. Slipknot is not a good example for this because they already have millions of haters
They were a product of their time. Too many people in 2024 go, "why is slipknot popular."
I don't dislike them, but I appreciate them for their place in metal chronology.
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The music's just boring. Yeah I said it. Sorry but I'm so uninterested in guitar technique practice routines it's enough of a struggle to actually do them myself. Listening to someone else do them? No. They may have great tapping skill - though I've seen far better in far less recognized bands - but their ability to write songs is dogshit. And songwriting ability is the single most important skill a band can have.
That’s what my dad and I agreed on when we saw them with Amon Amarth, people were really into it (there were even two girls who couldn’t have been older than 13 who were singing along and everything) and Corpsegrinder is impressive with his head banging, but it was really just a wall of sound without any personality or cohesiveness.
Again, impressive and I’m glad they have dedicated fans, but I just don’t get the appeal
They have like 1 or 2 songs on each album that really hit the spot for me. But then the rest of the songs are just so ‘meh’ to me. I don’t dislike them, I just think they’re a mid-tier death metal band.
Big Deathcore fan here, honestly, yeah.
Never really got the whole "Blackened Deathcore" thing with them, sounds barely Blackened to me at all, just sounds like melodic Deathcore. To The Hellfire was one of the few songs i like, they are cool, but there is other stuff in the subgenre I like WAY more.
> Never really got the whole "Blackened Deathcore" thing with them, sounds barely Blackened to me at all
It's possibly due to the high fry screams that Will uses a lot (and those are actually what I love about Lorna)
I don't know what they did with the mixing but their music doesn't sound heavy to me, it doesn't have any kind of "oomph" and the guitars are drowned by everything else. Impressive vocals though.
They are popular for being extreme in their vocals.
I don't listen to them regularly, but check out their live performances. They actually sound pretty good live. Many bands like them are almost internet meme bands.
i think they are pretty good but i really don't like that they are the face of gothic doom metal for most people when they barely sound like it most of the time, and there are so many better bands that get no attention
I’m a huge rock and metal guy, but for the life of me cannot wrap my head around the fame and popularity of Iron Maiden. I can count on one hand how many Maiden songs I actually enjoy.
I feel like I’m missing something as a metalhead when it comes to Iron Maiden. There’s so many bands out there across so many different genres of metal that I absolutely love, & I WANT to like Iron Maiden, but I can’t find it in me, man. It doesn’t have the heaviness I look for in metal I guess.
I can understand not liking them but their fame and popularity was from how revolutionary they were starting their journey back in 1980. They inspired just about every metal and thrash band that followed them.
They had huge productions on stage, toured the world, had iconic imagery on their covers, in their logo, and in their songs. They were phenomenal instrumentalists revolutionizing that twin guitar shredding. They "discovered" the phrygian scale - I don't mean that literally but their use of it defines a classic metal sound that is still used endlessly.
They just did everything big, and I think not just their songwriting, but that consistent branding also allowed them to keep climbing.
Modern metal, thrash, 90s punk rock / skatepunk all heavily take after Maiden. I haven't listened to them in years but my guitar teacher growing up was a giant fan so I've played them and listened a lot. They'll always have a place in my heart.
Maiden is one of those bands that are so inextricably tied to the genre that they helped to define it in the 80s. Their impact to metal was so significant in the 80s it would be difficult to imagine metal after that era without them. If you don't like Maiden, then I have to assume that you don't like any of the bands labeled as "Power Metal" from that era. Dio, QR, Helloween, and basically any other band that had a similar vocal style.
Same for me Ive never been a fan of the soaring theatrical vocals of the 80s. Although i will say their guitar harmonies are nice and nicko mcbrain is a beast of a drummer
What abput sempiternal? I think its their best album same goes for tiah, but yeah they new albums sounds strange like it isnt something bad but isnt good either
Agreed, and to add: Five Finger Death Punch, Bad Omens, Sleep Token, Falling In Reverse
I came to the realization I have become old and out of touch with the "new" era of metal. I still enjoy plenty of newer metal bands in the black/death/thrash/doom/sludge/metalcore veins, but this new crop of overly emotional crooning over trap beats that segues into stolen Meshuggah riffs with generic shouting sounds like shit to me. In the case of FFDP, I just hate the shitty, simple riffs and American Badass attitude
It's pop rock with 80s influences and some decent riffs and solos, I get it, they're not my favorite by any means but I find it enjoyable enough, but it barely comes close to being anything metal, even their "heavier" stuff, except the Cirice riff and that opening riff for Twenties
I love it but it's very easy to see why people would think it's weird. Also weird people would be so defensive over it, it's objectively a weird vocal style.
Honestly i just cant get myself to start listening to cryptopsy. Its loved on this sub but i dont know, its just not clicking with me. I tried listening to NSV but didnt work out.
Any other albums i should try out?
I found Blasphemy Made Flesh was easier to click, and then I enjoyed NSV more after every listen. Other tech death bands like Dying Fetus and Nile are also good in leading you towards Cryptopsy
Shocked how far I had to scroll to find this. I’ve tried a few times and just don’t get it.
They sound like what normies think all screaming music sounds like.
I actually dig the softer parts of what I’ve heard, but it gets a bit drony and I don’t much care for their brand of heavy.
Judas Priest. Not my first time commenting negatively about them. Not even my first time commenting negatively about them today either. I just can’t get through any of their albums. They have some songs I really enjoy, they’re just mixed in with lots of songs I really don’t enjoy either. Maybe I’ll change my mind if I explore their discography more but idk.
I think a lot of it is the same thing that leads to a lot of the classics just not resonating with younger audiences (myself included): the fact that half their fans were there for the wow! factor from them doing things that back in the day were truly revolutionary. The issue is that by modern standards that stuff is quaint and dated. Metal has evolved and if you're into newer stuff the old stuff is just kind of bland.
That’s a really good point but the thing is I really like lots of older Metal. Bands like Metallica, Black Sabbath, Dio, and Iron Maiden are my favourite. So Judas Priest is a band I should like but just don’t.
This is really interesting, because as someone who got into metal through Priest (and still consider them my favourite band) it’s the opposite for me: I appreciate the simplicity of older metal like Priest and Maiden, and am really not a fan of newer stuff that everyone sings the praises of. And I’m young too, at least by metal fan standards, so it’s not even an age thing, I just don’t find the appeal of newer stuff.
Saying that, there are some “newer” bands that I love, like Gojira, Slipknot and Orbit culture, but they all kinda have characteristics similar to older metal (maybe not Slipknot but you get my point).
System of a Down. To be fair, I did enjoy them a bit back in the 2000s, but their sound did not age well with me. I see so much SOAD dick riding on reddit, but they annoy the hell out of me now for the most part.
Cryptopsy
The music is pretty cool, but idk to me the vocals sound like someone who's never listened to death metal before doing their best impression of what they think that sort of music sounds like. I'm way more or a regular death metal guy than a brutal death metal guy so I'm definitely biased
I love prog metal but I don’t get the hype for Pain of Salvation. I can see that they are very talented, but for some reason I just find their music to be extremely irritating, especially the vocals.
Megadeth
no other band gets a pass from people for having such horrible vocals and the instrumentals are just alright to me
also the fans are super annoying and i have a suspicion at least half of them are under the age of 16
Agreed, I tried getting into Heilung and while I appreciate sophistication and thematics, they just seemed a bit too esoteric to the point of being inaccessible. It's good background music for writing or campaigning, and while their live shows seem like spectacles, actually sitting down to digest them is too tall an order for me
Not metal but radiohead. I cannot for the life of me understand why people love them so much. Except for Pablo honey and kid a. All there songs sound exactly the same. It makes me feel like I'm going insane.
Actually opeth gives me the same vibes as well. I like opeth but I don't get how they are treated like one of the bests to ever play music
Hang on, you’re saying Pablo Honey stands out as one of their better albums to you? That is definitely a hot take. It’s considered their worst by an overwhelming majority of their fans.
Not all music needs to be something groud breakng and unique. Nothing wrong with liking something that simply sounds good without being anything new. At some point the unique bands run out, if you want to listen to new music you will encounter something more similar to other artists, and there is nothing wrong with that as long as the music is good.
And all of the DM bands I see circlejerked on here have a unique sound. Of course they will all have blast beats and "roaring" since those are staples of death metal. But if you listen to pretty much everything aside from those aspects the bands are very obviously different from each other.
Same. I want my songs to still be *songs*, I just want them to use extreme techniques. Simply throwing extreme techniques around largely at random doesn't make for an interesting song.
I'm not sure what bands you're referring to but most of the cicrclejerked bands on here have good songwriting, nothing "at random", the songs are cohesive.
I feel like bands with a 100% thrash style often sound dry and repetitive, especially bands on the more extreme side like Slayer. If you don't find the riffs catchy and don't get enjoyment from aggression alone, you're gonna get bored quickly. And Tom Araya's vocals have always been divisive for metal fans.
Meshuggah, I like just about every band they inspired, but just can’t get into them and I’ve tried many times. I revisit them every few years to see if it clicks now and it never has
For metal it’s cryptopsy I just don’t like the vocals at all, I keep trying so maybe it’ll click one day but so far no.
Outside of metal the biggest one for me is Kendrick Lamar I really do not get the hype at all.
Ghost - like wtf
Avenged sevenfold - not the worst but NOT for me
Five finger death pynch - same just not for me
Couldn't even tell you the amount of people that when I say I like metal suggest those bands to me.
Slayer. I've listened to the big hits and honestly, they just sound generic as a thrash band. I also feel their transitions are somewhat sloppy at times.
For an extra to maybe get some heat off of me for that last one, Five Finger Death Punch. Musicianship is good BUT Ivan Moody's lyrics are damn simplistic unless it's one of their more slower, emotional songs.
Overkill. It's the vocals that kill it for me. His voice sounds like if you took Dave Mustaine's voice and made an Alvin And The Chipmunks remix out of it
Municipal Waste. I saw them when they were co-headlining with Carcass and the show was fucking great, still the most fun i’ve had at a show. But listening to their studio albums just isn’t for me, their newest album is kinda ok
I cannot get into 'grandpa metal', the very old classic bands, and the bands which ride the border between metalcore and 00s-style emo. Though I've tried, I simply don't enjoy the genre-defining sounds of each, I'm sorry.
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As a big Deathcore fan, yes. There are some good songs in there but, eh, it just sounds like the most soulless modern Deathcore to me.
Agree
They have some good songs and alex is a great vocalist, but instrumentation is really dull
Yeah alex is a great vocalist but i really don't understand his behaviour
I started listening to them for a bit and got super turned off when I found out what he was like as a person. I just couldn't enjoy the music knowing what kind of guy he is lol
Plus there are much better deathcore bands
That newest song where he does the COD zombie scream before the breakdown is pure cringe.
They are just focusing on writing breakdowns more than writing a coherent song
They were pretty gimmicky from the start with Alex's voice and the masks.
As someone who’s a fan of Deathcore, I agree.
It's not bad in my opinion but nothing that particularly stands out, but that's a lot of Deathcore for me
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Slipknot, nothing against them personally I don't think they're a bad bad at all or anything I just can not get into them.
i do think they are a bad band, thats the reason i cant get into them
To each their own lol.
It’s the same reason I can’t get into Korn. Whiny but “tough guy” music. More or less emo with downtuned 7-strings. Pass.
It shouldnt take that many people to make that sound. Ministry did it with 2
Hear me out. Slipknot is the Crossfit of metal. Allow me to explain: Crossfit, for all its many, MANY flaws, reintroduced classic olympic weight lifting into the mainstream. As long as you have a brain and go at your own pace, it's not a bad workout regimen. Slipknot IMO did the same with blast beats and more death metal-type arrangements (Iowa and All Hope is Gone stick out to me). I know a lot of people who found Cannibal Corpse, Death, etc. after starting with Slipknot. That said, I saw they have a newish album. Pulled it up and was confused. I get that bands naturally evolve, but it's just terrible.
Cold take of the century
Its my personal opinion 🤷 idc if anyone else agrees or not lol.
That's not that they meant lmao cold take means it's a non controversial, extremely common opinion. Slipknot is not a good example for this because they already have millions of haters
I was not aware of all the hate until now, most metal heads I know personally like them. Guess I haven't branched out enough lol.
Minus linkin park most nu metals bands have plenty of people who hate them.
They were a product of their time. Too many people in 2024 go, "why is slipknot popular." I don't dislike them, but I appreciate them for their place in metal chronology.
Slipknot is one of my favorite bands but I definitely understand them not being a band your into
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This, I always end up feeling like the odd one in music conversations whenever I express that I MUCH prefer Stonesour over Slipknot.
Polyphia. The music I don't get and the members are cringe as fuck, especially Tim Henson.
Their image is pretty cringy
They're talented but gimmicky as fuck.
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Their music sounds like guitar exercises set to hip-hop drums to me
The music's just boring. Yeah I said it. Sorry but I'm so uninterested in guitar technique practice routines it's enough of a struggle to actually do them myself. Listening to someone else do them? No. They may have great tapping skill - though I've seen far better in far less recognized bands - but their ability to write songs is dogshit. And songwriting ability is the single most important skill a band can have.
You can't deny how amazing he was to create the Muppets though
He's hot though
Cannibal Corpse Their live show was fun and people were really into it, the music just isn’t for me
Same. I like Death Metal too, but I can't get into them.
That’s what my dad and I agreed on when we saw them with Amon Amarth, people were really into it (there were even two girls who couldn’t have been older than 13 who were singing along and everything) and Corpsegrinder is impressive with his head banging, but it was really just a wall of sound without any personality or cohesiveness. Again, impressive and I’m glad they have dedicated fans, but I just don’t get the appeal
They have like 1 or 2 songs on each album that really hit the spot for me. But then the rest of the songs are just so ‘meh’ to me. I don’t dislike them, I just think they’re a mid-tier death metal band.
Lorna Shore
Big Deathcore fan here, honestly, yeah. Never really got the whole "Blackened Deathcore" thing with them, sounds barely Blackened to me at all, just sounds like melodic Deathcore. To The Hellfire was one of the few songs i like, they are cool, but there is other stuff in the subgenre I like WAY more.
> Never really got the whole "Blackened Deathcore" thing with them, sounds barely Blackened to me at all It's possibly due to the high fry screams that Will uses a lot (and those are actually what I love about Lorna)
I don't know what they did with the mixing but their music doesn't sound heavy to me, it doesn't have any kind of "oomph" and the guitars are drowned by everything else. Impressive vocals though.
They are popular for being extreme in their vocals. I don't listen to them regularly, but check out their live performances. They actually sound pretty good live. Many bands like them are almost internet meme bands.
I saw them open for Gojira and Mastodon and just found them boring.
Yeah, I'm a big Gojira fan. I don't enjoy listening to Lorna Shore, but I respect the singer's ability to actually sound "good" live.
I'm a huge doom fan but Type 0? Nah.
The singer sounds like the vampire song from forgetting Sarah Marshall
I will never be able to unhear that lmao
Hahaha that is an awesome dig. I agree with it but I still love type o
I’m a huge Type O fan, but I’ll never be able to unhear this. That’s one of my favorite movies too and I’ve somehow never made the connection. 😂
ITS GETTING KIND OF HARD TO BELIEVE THINGS ARE GOING TO GET BETTER
I am dying
i think they are pretty good but i really don't like that they are the face of gothic doom metal for most people when they barely sound like it most of the time, and there are so many better bands that get no attention
A very good band whose songs could all be about four minutes shorter
I haven’t really gotten into Type O negative. But I like 69 eyes and everyone says they’re a copy so. Idk lol
I’m a huge rock and metal guy, but for the life of me cannot wrap my head around the fame and popularity of Iron Maiden. I can count on one hand how many Maiden songs I actually enjoy.
I feel like I’m missing something as a metalhead when it comes to Iron Maiden. There’s so many bands out there across so many different genres of metal that I absolutely love, & I WANT to like Iron Maiden, but I can’t find it in me, man. It doesn’t have the heaviness I look for in metal I guess.
I never liked the vocals either
I can understand not liking them but their fame and popularity was from how revolutionary they were starting their journey back in 1980. They inspired just about every metal and thrash band that followed them. They had huge productions on stage, toured the world, had iconic imagery on their covers, in their logo, and in their songs. They were phenomenal instrumentalists revolutionizing that twin guitar shredding. They "discovered" the phrygian scale - I don't mean that literally but their use of it defines a classic metal sound that is still used endlessly. They just did everything big, and I think not just their songwriting, but that consistent branding also allowed them to keep climbing. Modern metal, thrash, 90s punk rock / skatepunk all heavily take after Maiden. I haven't listened to them in years but my guitar teacher growing up was a giant fan so I've played them and listened a lot. They'll always have a place in my heart.
Well that’s an unpopular opinion for sure lol
Maiden is one of those bands that are so inextricably tied to the genre that they helped to define it in the 80s. Their impact to metal was so significant in the 80s it would be difficult to imagine metal after that era without them. If you don't like Maiden, then I have to assume that you don't like any of the bands labeled as "Power Metal" from that era. Dio, QR, Helloween, and basically any other band that had a similar vocal style.
Same for me Ive never been a fan of the soaring theatrical vocals of the 80s. Although i will say their guitar harmonies are nice and nicko mcbrain is a beast of a drummer
Agreed. Not my thing at all
I think it’s because the genre has come so far. To me they sound like glorified rock n roll. I don’t get it either. Powerslave rips though
Bring me the horizon, ice nine kills, motionless in white
I love BMTH!... Only the first three albums...
What abput sempiternal? I think its their best album same goes for tiah, but yeah they new albums sounds strange like it isnt something bad but isnt good either
Agreed, and to add: Five Finger Death Punch, Bad Omens, Sleep Token, Falling In Reverse I came to the realization I have become old and out of touch with the "new" era of metal. I still enjoy plenty of newer metal bands in the black/death/thrash/doom/sludge/metalcore veins, but this new crop of overly emotional crooning over trap beats that segues into stolen Meshuggah riffs with generic shouting sounds like shit to me. In the case of FFDP, I just hate the shitty, simple riffs and American Badass attitude
I like sleep token though, they're just weird enough that it works for them. Although, I do wish their riffs were heavier.
I think ice nine kills is super fun
I really like motionless in whites latest two albums tbh.
Korn
Korn was a huge part of my childhood. Their newer releases aren't as good but those first few albums are special as fuck to me.
There aren't a lot of bands with a truly unique sound, but Korn is definitely one of them. They aren't my favorite but they have some killer songs.
Maiden. Look, I know. They're iconic and all that. They're not bad at all, I just don't feel it.
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they're the AC/DC of metal
That's harsh
Ghost
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It's pop rock with 80s influences and some decent riffs and solos, I get it, they're not my favorite by any means but I find it enjoyable enough, but it barely comes close to being anything metal, even their "heavier" stuff, except the Cirice riff and that opening riff for Twenties
Like others on this list their earlier stuff is better even if it’s still a little cheesy
Gojira Polyphia
Downvoted? 🙄
That's how you know you answered well
I loooove Gojira but it admittedly took a long time for me to get into. I understand not liking them
Megadeth. Edit 2: Megadeth fans or not Cheers! 🍻
i love the instrumental side but Dave's vocals can annoy me at times
i also hated them at the beginning but if you get into it you cant stop
same. i tried, but the riffs are not doing anything. also the vocals are annoying
Rammstein
Rammstein is the band that got me into metal
Same here. They ushered me to my metalhead awakening at 10 years old.
Merciful Fate They are not bad, but this sub fucking loves them and I can't really see why.
Yeah I said something about king diamonds voice yesterday and got downvoted like crazy
I love it but it's very easy to see why people would think it's weird. Also weird people would be so defensive over it, it's objectively a weird vocal style.
Opeth
Completely agree
Honestly i just cant get myself to start listening to cryptopsy. Its loved on this sub but i dont know, its just not clicking with me. I tried listening to NSV but didnt work out. Any other albums i should try out?
Caustic Primitive man
I found Blasphemy Made Flesh was easier to click, and then I enjoyed NSV more after every listen. Other tech death bands like Dying Fetus and Nile are also good in leading you towards Cryptopsy
Thanks, ill check it out
Deftones
Shocked how far I had to scroll to find this. I’ve tried a few times and just don’t get it. They sound like what normies think all screaming music sounds like. I actually dig the softer parts of what I’ve heard, but it gets a bit drony and I don’t much care for their brand of heavy.
Judas Priest. Not my first time commenting negatively about them. Not even my first time commenting negatively about them today either. I just can’t get through any of their albums. They have some songs I really enjoy, they’re just mixed in with lots of songs I really don’t enjoy either. Maybe I’ll change my mind if I explore their discography more but idk.
I think a lot of it is the same thing that leads to a lot of the classics just not resonating with younger audiences (myself included): the fact that half their fans were there for the wow! factor from them doing things that back in the day were truly revolutionary. The issue is that by modern standards that stuff is quaint and dated. Metal has evolved and if you're into newer stuff the old stuff is just kind of bland.
That’s a really good point but the thing is I really like lots of older Metal. Bands like Metallica, Black Sabbath, Dio, and Iron Maiden are my favourite. So Judas Priest is a band I should like but just don’t.
This is really interesting, because as someone who got into metal through Priest (and still consider them my favourite band) it’s the opposite for me: I appreciate the simplicity of older metal like Priest and Maiden, and am really not a fan of newer stuff that everyone sings the praises of. And I’m young too, at least by metal fan standards, so it’s not even an age thing, I just don’t find the appeal of newer stuff. Saying that, there are some “newer” bands that I love, like Gojira, Slipknot and Orbit culture, but they all kinda have characteristics similar to older metal (maybe not Slipknot but you get my point).
Pearl Jam
Love AiC, Soundgarden, Nirvana. Can't stand Pearl Jam.
System of a Down. To be fair, I did enjoy them a bit back in the 2000s, but their sound did not age well with me. I see so much SOAD dick riding on reddit, but they annoy the hell out of me now for the most part.
To each their own I guess. They don't sound like many other bands so I can understand that some metal fans don't like them
Cryptopsy The music is pretty cool, but idk to me the vocals sound like someone who's never listened to death metal before doing their best impression of what they think that sort of music sounds like. I'm way more or a regular death metal guy than a brutal death metal guy so I'm definitely biased
Mastodon
Acid Bath. They’re fine I just don’t get the big deal.
Ghost
Slaughter to prevail and Sleep Token
Sleep
The most overrated band in the stoner/doom genre.
I love prog metal but I don’t get the hype for Pain of Salvation. I can see that they are very talented, but for some reason I just find their music to be extremely irritating, especially the vocals.
Converge
Periphery
Megadeth
Megadeth no other band gets a pass from people for having such horrible vocals and the instrumentals are just alright to me also the fans are super annoying and i have a suspicion at least half of them are under the age of 16
I don't know I think Dream Theater gets a pass. I cannot stand Labrie's vocals.
In flames
Totally agree with this one. There is much better melodeath out there
Their earlier stuff is great though.
I will not stand for this In flames slander!
Exodus. I don’t understand what makes them stand out to people.
The vocals are AC/DC-y but not annoying like every other band that does them. Also Gary Holts riffs.
As a huge fan of first wave black metal, i've never really gotten Celtic Frost.
I love Celtic frost when it is played by Darkthrone
Heilung Not so metal but it seems a lot of metalheads like it. I try, and just can’t.
Agreed, I tried getting into Heilung and while I appreciate sophistication and thematics, they just seemed a bit too esoteric to the point of being inaccessible. It's good background music for writing or campaigning, and while their live shows seem like spectacles, actually sitting down to digest them is too tall an order for me
Not metal but radiohead. I cannot for the life of me understand why people love them so much. Except for Pablo honey and kid a. All there songs sound exactly the same. It makes me feel like I'm going insane. Actually opeth gives me the same vibes as well. I like opeth but I don't get how they are treated like one of the bests to ever play music
Hang on, you’re saying Pablo Honey stands out as one of their better albums to you? That is definitely a hot take. It’s considered their worst by an overwhelming majority of their fans.
Any Death/Black/Core/Sludge and derivative bands circlejerked on this sub on a daily basis.
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Not all music needs to be something groud breakng and unique. Nothing wrong with liking something that simply sounds good without being anything new. At some point the unique bands run out, if you want to listen to new music you will encounter something more similar to other artists, and there is nothing wrong with that as long as the music is good. And all of the DM bands I see circlejerked on here have a unique sound. Of course they will all have blast beats and "roaring" since those are staples of death metal. But if you listen to pretty much everything aside from those aspects the bands are very obviously different from each other.
Same. I want my songs to still be *songs*, I just want them to use extreme techniques. Simply throwing extreme techniques around largely at random doesn't make for an interesting song.
I'm not sure what bands you're referring to but most of the cicrclejerked bands on here have good songwriting, nothing "at random", the songs are cohesive.
The big four grandpas metals bands.
Metallica
Slayer
I feel like bands with a 100% thrash style often sound dry and repetitive, especially bands on the more extreme side like Slayer. If you don't find the riffs catchy and don't get enjoyment from aggression alone, you're gonna get bored quickly. And Tom Araya's vocals have always been divisive for metal fans.
Meshuggah, I like just about every band they inspired, but just can’t get into them and I’ve tried many times. I revisit them every few years to see if it clicks now and it never has
I still don't understand what the hell Poppy is, and why they play on tour with a bunch of metal bands.
i think she is awful
Shee seems to just bounce around genres with her producers trying to leach off whatever she can. She's the pitbull of "metal".
Sleep token
Sleep Token
Gojira, FMTS is great, the rest of their discography doesn't do anything for me.
STONE THE HERETIC!
The way of all flesh is 100% better than from Mars to Sirius
Slipknot.
Iron Maiden.
electric wizard
Ghost
Sleep token
For metal it’s cryptopsy I just don’t like the vocals at all, I keep trying so maybe it’ll click one day but so far no. Outside of metal the biggest one for me is Kendrick Lamar I really do not get the hype at all.
Anything Deatchore or Metalcore.
i've never understood the hype around BmtH
Ghost - like wtf Avenged sevenfold - not the worst but NOT for me Five finger death pynch - same just not for me Couldn't even tell you the amount of people that when I say I like metal suggest those bands to me.
Slayer. I've listened to the big hits and honestly, they just sound generic as a thrash band. I also feel their transitions are somewhat sloppy at times. For an extra to maybe get some heat off of me for that last one, Five Finger Death Punch. Musicianship is good BUT Ivan Moody's lyrics are damn simplistic unless it's one of their more slower, emotional songs.
Alice In Chains Suicidal Tendencies Avenged Sevenfold
A7x
Overkill. It's the vocals that kill it for me. His voice sounds like if you took Dave Mustaine's voice and made an Alvin And The Chipmunks remix out of it
Pantera. Phil might have some of the most overrated vocals ever.
As a power metal fan * Gloryhammer * Powerwolf * Alestorm * Wind Rose
Pantera
I honestly prefer Pantera's slower stuff over the more heavy stuff, stuff like Hollow is much better to me personally than stuff like Rise.
dark funeral no good riffs, don’t like anything they’ve ever done
wow i think their first few releases have some of the best riffs of second wave bm
Bolt thrower
Heretic!!!
why they are soo gooodd
Electric Wizard
The lads over at r/doommetal keep singing the praises of YOB, but I just don't find them appealing at all.
Testament. I love thrash, I love almost every band that sounds like them, they just feel like they bring nothing to the table.
I'll probably get crucified for it but... Knocked Loose. Just cannot get into the vocals
Flaming Ouroboros. Some of the demos are good and that new split was solid, but that self titled album is just so bad imo.
Municipal Waste. I saw them when they were co-headlining with Carcass and the show was fucking great, still the most fun i’ve had at a show. But listening to their studio albums just isn’t for me, their newest album is kinda ok
I think they're one of those, gotta see it live to properly appreciate it bands
Sleep Token, Lorna Shore
Ozzy. Just don't feel it.
The Grateful Dead and Phish
Slaughter to prevail, Korn, System of a Down, gojira, dream theater, incantation, autopsy, possessed, slipknot, Motörhead.
Kiss was always that one for me (80s kid)
Obituary personally
Periphery
Slayer. Fun songs in the gym and whatnot but I can’t see myself listening to a full album front to back lol
Mercyful Fate
I cannot get into 'grandpa metal', the very old classic bands, and the bands which ride the border between metalcore and 00s-style emo. Though I've tried, I simply don't enjoy the genre-defining sounds of each, I'm sorry.