Metal Heads Assemble!!

[Auron_Amarth]

Fun Fact: Rob Darken can beat The Witcher 2 on the hardest difficulty.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Old Graveland is actually really good.

As far as Mr. Rob goes.... yeah.... um..... yeah........

[GSZX1337]

...but they refer to it as "growing out of" because most people view metal or punk a something for angry adolescents rather than adults.[/quote]
That's the part the frustrates me. A lot of our popular music came from adolescents. Granted not all of them were angry, but if you want to deem a music genre as one that's for the kids then going to think a lot of others are going to be for kids. *Heavy Metal, Punk, Grunge, Rap, Hip Hop, Techno, Dub Step, and others have been started by people in their late teens to mid twenties. Much of our musical innovation was driven by youth, anger, and rebellion. The only thing I can think of that would make Metal solely for the kids would be its aggressive sound, but that's bullshit. Not only are there other music genres in the mainstream that can be aggressive, but there's tons of Metal that's either laid back or just plain slow.

I'm not trying to pick a fight with ya or anything, I just felt the need to rant about that sort of thinking. It's never made sense to me. I can understand someone's tastes simply changing, but not putting Metal aside as if it were something childish.

*This claim was made mainly by skimming the Wikipedia entries of these genres and comparing the age of the pioneers to the year produced their pioneering work. I don't claim to be an expert in these genres.

[optmusprimenumber]

Still pluggin my band Beat the Doll

There's some footage from a recent show on our drummer's YouTube page \m/

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheLocust830

[Forlorn Drifter]

Fun Fact: Rob Darken can beat The Witcher 2 on the hardest difficulty.

That's not even trve kvlt, I can beat The Witcher 2 on the hardest difficulty.

@GSZX its mostly related to the anger behind the music, as stated. Its especially true for things relating to hate, or various forms of prejudice, as would be found in NSBM or the anti-Christian bands, etc. What makes any form of music more adult though is totally subjective, just as it is to say that one genre is better than another.

[optmusprimenumber]

Now I'm not saying they aren't good (skilled), but I seem to be the only person alive who likes metal but doesn't enjoy Between the Buried and Me.. And I can't remember the last time I heard someone say they don't like a band that made me say "why don't you like them?!" but that's what I get pretty much every time I confess that I'm not thrilled by BtBaM. I even don't much like the singer, despite all the praise he gets. Everyone else in my band is puzzled by my opinion because they, like apparently everyone else, think they're amazing. Anyone else not particularly moved by this "legendary" band?

[BoneSnapDeez]

Their self-titled album is okay. That's about it. I used to listen to it in college from time to time.

The biggest issue I have is that their songs consist of a bunch of "movements" strung together in no coherent fashion. It's soulless music and I could not give two shits about how "technical" is it. Terrible clean production too. Makes for a painfully boring listen.

[dunpeal2064]

I liked one song by them, I think it was Alaska or something? That could have been the album.

Are they even Metal though? Seems more like a proggy Dillinger-esk band to me, and most Metal heads I know can't stand the non-Metal heavy stuff (Anything with "core" at the end of it, August Burns Red, Hawthorne Heights, etc)

I'd agree with Bone though, I can't stand tech stuff that is all over the place just for the sake of it. The music still needs to have a pulse, a feel, even if its going to be complex beyond all get-out.

[Ack]

Depends on the -core, dunpeal. Most metalheads I know are cool with the likes of hardcore and grindcore. And who doesn't love listening to Napalm Death?

[dunpeal2064]

Hardcore would be stuff like Norma Jean, August Burns Red, etc? Or is that postcore? And, iirc, stuff like Isis is considered "post-metal"?

I'm bad with the sub-sub-genre thing, but yeah, most Metalheads I know will do death metal, black metal, power metal... but won't come close to listening to someting like ABR, Dillinger, or even stuff like Meshuggah, Periphery, etc.

Then again, they tend to identify with a sub-genre, and will listen to everything from that sub-genre before listening to anything else.