You know them, that one band that you'd really like to like, but you just fucking CAN'T. They get something just wrong enough to turn themselves thoroughly ordinary.

Mine? Darkane. They really pissed me off and I stopped listening to them after Expanding Senses. I absolutely love fast death/thrash, the more aggressive and juvenile the better. That category they fit into very well - listen to any of the tracks off Insanity. The first 30 seconds or so, nothing but absolutely toxic paint-peeling riff goodness, and then the vocals kick in and you suddenly want to paint your kitchen beige and go shopping for throw pillows. Scream screamy ouch-stop-piercing-my-nipple vocals utterly ruin the sound for me. Sydow always seemed to hit one note and hold it at the wrong times, and every time without fail it makes me want to punch him in the throat. Listen to The Perverted Beast and witness him sod the song up almost entirely.

Honourable mention to Black Label Society for starting off well and underachieving. When I heard the first grotty, blues-ridden Sonic Brew I did a little dance and spun the disc until it melted. However, soon after that they FORGOT TO WRITE INTERESTING SONGS and things took a turn.

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mastodon

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Haaaahahahahahahaha

Martyr and Cynic. Same exact reason.

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Ummm The Locust?

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says the dude with mortician as an avatar

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Oh yeah! I forgot,

Mortician.

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Pantera.

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Cynic for the vocal reason. I can't listen to fucking robot vocals.

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Pantera

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Mine is Korn. They have some really good parts but as a whole the music is just droning and most of the vocals are weak.

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you want to like korn?? BOO

ha, anyways, either Kreator or Megadeth. i like a few Megadeth songs, tornado of souls, hangar 18, etc, but i don't really like mustaine's voice. marty is beast though.

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Pantera, definitely.

Opeth-boring
Tool-boring

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I FUCKING love Darkane, and their vocalist. They were fucking great live, the singer is full of energy and he sounds even better live.

Anyways, Trivium is a very dissapointing band for me. Their music is fucking excellent, fast, technical, etc. But I can't get over Matt Heafy's vocals. He ruins it mostly.

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cryptopsy, i own one album to study on the drums, they would rule if they got rid of the cookie monster<all thier cookie monsters>and shortened the songs


dillinger escape plan, not exactly metal but same deal,awesome drums,terrible music, even worst vocals. even calculating infinity i only can bear a listenonce in awhile, many awesome moments interrupted by fusion dorkness

90% of relapse catalogue

mastadon-that leviathan, or whatever, album sucks. thier previous work was good tho so i want to give it the benefit of the doubt. try as i must i cant hang

i hate pantera but do admit that they were one of the first heavy bands i got into

phobia, awesome band but a previous band i was in shared a bill with them years ago and the singer is a complete asshole. i cant listen to them ever since that show

any swedish death metal, i dont necessarily hate it, its just unremarkable,utterly forgettable

Cynic rules feggitzz.

I'm dissapointed with Slayer. Also the new Cryptopsy.

Only reason you people don't like mortician is because your all gay.

Your ears are too faggoty to hear it properly.

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Death

everyone loves it blabla say they were great blabla ooo chuck blabla

ive tried to like it, ive heard it a lot

and i hate it

it just sounds.. old... and boring

death have gone through so many different sounds and styles... what have you tried?

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Behemoth-Their lyrics are just so fucking childish and/or self important that I can't take them seriously. Take Demigod for instance, what's with the little fucking explanations? He's a Polish musician, not a fucking ultra-cosmic observer of time or something.

Borknagar-I don't know what it is, because I like bands like Vintersorg and stuff, but these guys don't do it for me.

Evergrey-Every once in a while they will write an excellent song, but most of their stuff is just "The Tom Englund Show." I've heard Enya songs with more balls than these guys. However, I will admit I like most of the "In Search of Truth" album and the song "The Great Deciever."

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Of course.the real ultra-cosmic observer of time (and the cosmos)
is Jon Nodveit

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Earth and Sun((((0000 what ever? I like a little doom and sloth but those guys are too lazy to change chords! Thought I'd really dig them but heard that split ep thingy and couldn't get on with it.

Six Feet Under! There was no need to inflict Graveyard Classics on the record buying public!
Ozzy after 1988, he should spend more time writing better tunes than having tea with Queen Liz at Buck Palace!
There was a side project featuring the guys from Anethema and Trouble years ago, that failed to blow my skirt up!
Pretty much all of Rob Halfords solo projects!

Just about anything signed to Roadrunner these days!




Can I gaze in to the future and say the new Anthrax album with the old "quick we need to make some cash" reunion line up!

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Try Khanate instead.About too slow,I think that's the point,
to create an ambient feeling(?)

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Oh yeahhh Arsis. GOD GIVES HEAD IN HEAVEN how fucking GAAAAAY is that!?? Something that a 13 year old slipknot kid would say?

edit: I meant Aeon

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If god is a woman it's not at all gay

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God is a woman because only a woman could have made man with his vulnerable testicles dangling on the outside of his body where they can be easierly kicked or trapped in the zipper!

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Have you had such a disappointing experience?

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Let me begin:

Death
I have listened to Scream, Leprosy, Human, Individual Thought Patterns, Symbolic, The Sound of Perseverance.

So quite a bit of it then. Scream... and Leprosy I liked for a while, though Ive grown out of em a bit.
The rest, aside from symbolic which I listened to for about a week, were wholly disappointing affairs. Its a shame, because I thought id like Death as a whole, but the whole thing and general style of his writing just doesnt mix with me. I acknowledge the talent though.

Autopsy
Just pretty shit. I listened to the Severed Survival album which put me off them for life. Maybe ill give it another go, but at the time it was disappointing

Possessed
Apparently "you cant like death metal without liking possessed". Thats absolute bullshit. Though they have some good songs, so not totally depressing.

Disgorge (USA)
Now, Ive grown to like these more than I did when I first listened to them so all disgorge lovers, back down.
But when I first listened I was like, what the fuck. its all a blur, but in the bad sense.
Still disappointing, people love this band and I thought I would too, but I dont think I ever will.

Carcass
I think its just Ive heard too many carcass rip offs before ever listening to carcass.




I know this isnt really answering which is the biggest disappointment (Death) but its just all these bands I found pretty disappointing considering their status.

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There must be a mistake,Human was placed in wholly
disappointing affairs.

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the olden domain is the shit my friend. do you like arcturus or ulver?? same dude. very talented. i'd give my left nut to be able to sing like garm.

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lol you mean Aeon

Metallica...if they would have learned to know when to end a song AND didn't become so much rock oriented they might be a lot cooler. Master of Puppets has got to be one of the longest songs in the world...even though it isn't that long. They should of ended it just before the acoustic break and it would have killed...but not...they just kept going...with an acoustic interlude and 2 more verses...blah...

Opeth...I heard a lot of good things about them...checked them out and was truly disappointed...long...boring...songs i think sums it up best.

Deicide...heard good things too...disappointed as well.

yeah that is enough

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I was the same with cynic. Could not stand the robot vocals , now i love it. One of my all time favourite albums. Give a chance it grows on you

Gorguts - insane musicans and compositions, gives me a headache every time i hear them , wish i could get into them just cant.

Lamb of God.

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I totally agree...on the vocal subject, I'd like a lot more bands if it wasn't for their vocals...mainly...

Judas Priest
Megadeth
Dragonforce(somewhat accepting it now...)
Dying Fetus
Cannibal Corpse


Suffocation I could NEVER get into..and I've tried so bad considering the number of times they have played here and I've missed all the shows...I think a lot of it is the weak guitar tone, and riffs that just don't do anything for me.


Oh yah...and I'll add Opeth, I just couldn't be amazed by any of their songs really..boring shit.

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What? What does God giving head and Arsis have anything to do with each other? Fill me in, im confused.

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That might be the worst sentence I've ever read.....ever.

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yeah it is kind of 2 thoughts in one...

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OPETH, they get so much praise, that shit puts me to sleep, I wanna take his acoustic guitar and smash it over his head, BTW Aeon rules.

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IRON

FUCKING

MAIDEN.

And believe me, I've tried.The only good thing about them is...well...I don't know...really.

Umm....a HUGE INFLUENCE on the entire metal genre?

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Yeah, that's right...but I mean musically.I don't even know why, I think it's a mental block.I hated them as a kid because they were not heavy enough...and it looks like it stayed in my mind.

Yeah, you can't love a band for their influence. Unless you do. Which would be gay.

There are a lot of really disappointing bands by Jim's first criteria (you know you should like them, but definitely don't). I'm not really sure what I could do to single one out. Even the ones who immediately come to mind (Queensryche, Opeth, Insomnium, Today is the Day, some others) are what I would consider to be above average at the very least. Just not as good as they keep sounding in my head.

But in terms of shitting the bed after a promising opener, very few bands can top Comus. Black Label Society would be in the running, but, even so, they've never done anything nearly so big as a letdown from Sonic Brew as To Keep From Crying is from First Utterance. In fact, nobody I can think of has. If anybody knows both CDs, I will both be surprised and expecting you to agree with me whole-heartedly.

Oh, and while I appreciate that it's either ironic or hypocritical that I like Comus, a band who, despite its obvious influence on Opeth (i.e. 'my arms, your hearse), seems to be a perfect progenitor for both black and folk metal, neither of which I like, I also don't care. And I like T-Rex and Zeppelin, both of whom laid the way for a grown man to take the name of an obscure Tolkien villain or revel in a bullshit Viking fantasy. Influence, in my book, is not to be blamed on the people who ruled so much that idiots copied them.

(Old) Carcass...I fucking tried. Melodic Carcass just sucks and I hate them for that.

Old Lady Drivers. I love all of the members other projects, but I just can't get into O.L.D.

More when I think for a while.

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i love comus. and you can totally hear their influence in Opeth, through both their lyrics and acoustic guitars. SEE BAYING OF THE HOUNDS & MY ARMS YOUR HEARSE CD. i love the line "as i carry you to your grave, my arms your hearse" so much, and it gives me chill bumps every time because, unlike PST, I am infatuated with Opeth and have nothing but respect for these fine musicians. I like both cds, but i agree, First Utterance is by far the better of the 2.

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Not just that, just the fact that Heartwork may have been the most painful thing I've ever sat through in the "metal" genre.



*shakes head*


And whether you like them or not, Iron Maiden's impact on metal is unmeasurable.

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I got really turned off Opeth around Deliverance/Damnation. They used to be my favourite band, now I never listen to them at all.

The most disappointing cd I've perchased in a while is Coprofago's Unorthodox Creative Criteria. I really enjoy progressive tech death but If I wanted to listen to fucking Joe Satriani, I'd buy his fucking cd. Somehow this boring, weak-as-piss, pile of shit got nominated for the best death metal cd of 2005

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It's the biggest piece of shit ever.

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I may add on... Breaking Benjamin's (yes, yes not metal, but in the spirit of the thread) song "So cold" is simply great; it was one of the first full songs I learned to both play and sing at the same time... and then I went and listened through a dozen other of their songs and it simply wasn't even near So cold. Just a lot of stuff that I don't know what to call.

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That's a good song especially for radio rock stuff....



And how can you guys not like Pantera? Don't bother answering this I'm just bitching, I'm fucking baffled actually!

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It's not the singing so much as the song structure and that sort of nature over everything feeling. I can dig it for a while, but after a while, I just fall asleep. The singer's excellent though, love that soaring sound.

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Today is the Day is also up there. I like what they have released but there is this strange line they just can't seem to cross. The Crown also had massive potential, but only showed it on Crowned in Terror. Everything else they put out can be pretty boring in its entirety. Leng Tch'e I love, but while the vocals annoy me on Man Made Predetor and the music is amazing, the vocals rule yet the music bores me on The Process of Elimination

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Dragonforce

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I'm glad I'm not the only person around here that can't stand Iron Maiden...
Dream Theater. Too overhyped. Saw them in concert. Only like about four songs.
Cryptopsy...disappointing...was really thinking I'd enjoy them. I'd prefer my 20 bucks back that I spent on two of their cds.
Post FtR Children of Bodom. Just crap.
Early Slayer. The stuff they feel is good enough for Decade of Aggression and their live performances I tend to like, but all of the rest of it I'd rather not hear. I'm one of the minority, but by "early" I refer to every album before Diabolus, since Diabolus and GHUA are the only two that I'll listen to start to finish.
In the Beginning by Nile was kinda disappointing... guess I got spoiled on AotW.
Disappointed with Kill by CC, mostly because of the lack of Owen songs. They're repetitive and easy compared to the ones written by Pat and Alex, but I tend to like them more.
Metallica. St Anger. There's no reason for me to elaborate.
Pantera: Reinventing the Steel. Decent songs, but far below what I expected from them, especially considering the four year break in between albums. I can't get enough of Pantera, but I hardly ever listen to this album.
Morbid Angel: Heretic. There are what, 5 actual songs on there?

Most of the bands I've listed are among my favorite bands. I wouldn't really say so much that in these cases I'm disappointed with the bands (except Cryptopsy and Iron Maiden) as much as I'm just disappointed with a direction they went or album they released.

I'd have to say that I probably wouldn't be disappointed with most bands that I don't like and don't expect to like, I'd just think they're crap and move on. The ones I already like or really figured I would enjoy are the ones that come up with disappointing stuff. Jesus fuck this was a long post...

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Korn were really heavy and vocals rules on first 3 albums after that you can start to forget. I think i'm disapointed with them and like also Converge.

I can see why Today Is The Day get quite a few mentions here. Some of the songs are great but others make me think why on Earth am I listening to this.

Iron Maiden is a strange band for me: I couldn't get in to them for years and years but suddenly, around last Christmas time, it all clicked into place.

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I think Iron Maiden is boring now. The old stuff was great. I've tried listening to the new stuff and it sounds like a bunch of thier old songs. It feels and sounds uninspired.

Carcass - Heartwork: You guys are crazy.
That album rocks hard. I can't get bored of that one.

WASP can blow goat cock. They suck.

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Well, it don't surprises me. you listen to Rhapsody and Dragonforce. FAG!

most shitty ass band ever: Dissection.

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How untrue and ungrim!

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You can't play 80's music in 2006 any more than you could have played music from now back then. I don't find it a real 'disappointment' that Maiden no longer produce music of the same quality they did a quarter of a century ago, though; there are only a handful of bands that can manage more than a decade of top quality. Two decades is more uncommon still. Pushing into a third decade is more rare than an Idaho patriarch's steak.

If Dissection are so shitty, I doubt they're particularly disappointing to you in some way. Unless it's disappointment with the human race for having produced garbage and recorded it to disc. Try another one.

There's no "disappointing" band goddamn, "disappointing" is a gay word. or you like it, or you hate it. or whatever the hell you define. its great or shitty. and Dissection aren't any special. they recorded 3 completly overrated albums, yet one is a Live album, which is totally unnecessary if you recorded only two shitty albums.

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They recorded four albums, not counting a 'rare tracks' type release.

And there are definitely bands that either

1. Seem as though they should be great but are actually bad, or
2. Show potential they don't live up to.

This thread isn't here to bash bands you don't like, so cut that shit out or go find a thread on Dissection.

Four albums? even more shittie.

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Example?

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the whole thread, assmunch

thats what people have been doin, listing bands that fill what he just said.

You can add Atheist and Cynic to my list. Alongside Pantera and Iron Maiden.

The latter two i can again, see why people like them, but really didnt appeal to me, I should have listened to em when I first got in to metal.
Atheist and Cynic I just dont see the big fuss about at all. They both sounded a little too cheesy to me.

Oh and Marino, I dont like Dragonforce. They are again, a huge disappointment, mostly because everyone was telling me if I liked Rhapsody Id love Dragonforce. Bollocks; Rhapsody are much more dynamic. Just thought Id clear that up. Because Dragonforce suck the cock.

Edit: How can I forget Suffocation. Again I think its a case of hearing too many suffo clones before even hearing suffocation, but I do not hear anything special with them. And Ive really tried to like them.

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Fine. If you've NEVER, EVER been disappointed by a band, then a simple solution to your problem here might propose itself: don't enter a thread about being disappointed by bands.

well, its a message board. i like gay threads, makes me laugh.

And don't take it personally you assclown (Alex). just because you don't like Metal, doesn't mean you're fag. lol

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I made a mistake. Calm yourself.

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If you like gay threads so much, you should try upgrading to gay men. Much more rewarding gay fun! Fully posable and providing literally hours of Too Blatantly Gay to Be Called Homoerotic (TM) excitement! Ask your gay friends! Male-on-Male Sodomy (TM) is the gayest game in town! Ten times the fun of a gay thread! To gain all the benefits of the sinful homosexual lifestyle, go to www.theworldwidegayconspiracy.org and sign up today!

you fail to be funny.

WOW, the whole thread is filled with awesome classic bands. Metaltabs turned to EMOtabs. definitely.

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No, Seriously. Try Gay Men..they're a blast in your ass!

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this was one of the most promising threads in months

now look where it ended up

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are you living in the states now then?


ive honestly tried to get into mastodon. really. its just doesnt cut it for me. Clutch, on the other hand, succeed where they fail imo

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damn, what a shame.

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Cough*-Latent homosexuality

Edit-I put "gay" into the html code for color and it came up as black, weird........



They were pretty terrible on the Unholy Alliance tour. I like a couple of their songs. But they built themselves up so much only to come on stage and wank off for an hour. Dissa-fucking-pointing to say the least. Slayer, on the other hand, well.....

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You need to calm down.

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Ok dear, just because of you.

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I wasn't trying to be funny. I was trying to call you a giant wad of gay who's only passing the time here because he's too repressed to slum public bathrooms. And if I failed then, I succeeded now.

Mastodon doesn't strike me as treading the same territory as Clutch. Plus they do it way more seriously, which can always be a problem.

After thinking about it for a minute, Dillinger Escape Plan is a pretty disappointing band. Especially when they tried to do something more interesting and succeeded for as long as Patton fronted them. Being down with what they'd like to be doing no way allows me to excuse them for doing what they actually do. Which is be mediocre.

PST, what other psychedlic groups do you listen to besides comus?

besides the obvious (floyd, some yes, etc.) have you heard gentle giant, procol harum, camel or the brian jonestown massacre? this is one of my new favorite genres of music and am constantly lookin to improve my collection

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Oh really? congrats, moron.

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i might add Opeth as well.

years and years of hyping and when i finally listened them, i was baffled at just how boring and uninspired they are.

Thanks, Marino. I appreciate your sincere congratulations. Now keep the fuck out of the thread.

I don't really listen to much psychedelic stuff. Try Larks' Tongues in Aspis by King Crimson.

yea, i know all about the King crimson. my madre has all their cds on vinyl, pretty cool shit, i must say.

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You know Sun Ra?

is that a king crimson LP/EP or a group (the answer is no, ha).

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hey, sorry to call you a moron.

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I feel this collective pain. Mastodon and T.I.T.D. are two bands in particular who were threatening to get better, and just FELL APART LIKE BITCHES and made me cry.



Well, we've all been schooled.

ANNOUNCEMENT:

It has recently been revealed to me that we are not allowed to encourage discourse. Bands are either SHITTY or GREAT. There is no room for discussion about the structure of music. There is no room for the discussion of the human response to music. There is no room for conflicting opinions. NO TALKING. NO TEH BRANE USES. From this point in time, only the two criticisms of music will be accepted. Anything more sophisticated than an errant fart in a bathtub will be punished through Canadian homoerotic fantasy.

Seriously though. You're the village idiot of an online metal BBS. THAT'S PRETTY FUCKING DUMB. Hushies now while the adults talk.

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Pwnz0r3d

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Iron Maiden havn't ever interested me.

And yes Dissection are a shitty arse band.

Also i never saw what was so good about Mayhem, imean they have a background which is grim 'n' necro but their music is pants.

And Deicide are just shit. Glen is a fucking keish.

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Sun Ra's a major figure in free jazz. Very cool.

I honestly don't care if you call me a moron if we're arguing. It's the internet.

lame

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lol marino you are the funniest cunt

whats wrong with titd? kiss the pig fucking sucked but pretty much all else i listened to ruled, like sadness is one of my favourite cd's ever

There are so many disappointing bands it's incredible.

Between The Buried and Me - Last album was covers, would've been ok if they ACTUALLY MADE THE COVERS THEIR OWN.

Opeth - Ghost Reveries, first Opeth album I bought. Biggest shitstain ever.

Cryptopsy - Once Was Not was a complete fucking flop, what the motherfuck happened?

Decrepit Birth - Should go back to brutal days of 2003, Hyperblast metal need not solos, they are just doing what most other Death Metal bands are doing now.

Odious Mortem - Devouring the Prophecy is a fucking boring ass piece of shit, their demos were fucking cool though.

Cattle Decapitation - Well, they're just a boring band.

Arch Enemy - shoulda called it quits ages ago.

Metallica - Needs no explaining.


Hate me if you will, argue intelligently please.

You're a Twit.

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Relevance? Those bands still disappoint, regardless of whether or not i'm a twit.

Thanks for argueing intelligently, after I begged.

Wow i'm actually surprising at how many people hate the flanged, robot vocals. I fucking love them. Damn. Oh well. Each to their own.

Little side question. If I did the robot vocals in a experimental Jazz/ Metal song (regardless of whether or not you like them), would I just be doing something that has been done a thousand times before, and is generally not interesting anymore... or do you think I could never be able to do such great robot vocals Cynic, Athiest, etc.

Actually I haven't heard much Athiest, need more.

Anyway, The flangey robot vocals, coupled with the aggresive growl / scream just fucking do it for me. Such a good alternative to monotonous growling/screaming. Cynic and Portal, and to some extent Athiest and even Alchemist, are reasons why I will probably never get sick of metal. Focus is easily my most listened album ever, yet I still enjoy it just as much with every single consecutive listen.

Ok, my opinion over, on with the bitching.

Upon first listen, I would have agreed with you. Opeth have been one of my favorite bands since late 2002 and I thought that they were incapable of releasing anything less than 24 karat gold.

..Until i listened to the album in question. One word can describe my feelings-ambivalent. I have listened to this album around 15-20 times in it's entirity and it has ripened with age. However, I can't seem to listen to this album in 2 consecutive days, unlike Morningrise which could be playin 24/7 for all I care. The Ghost Reveries is definately a new style for Opeth, and I am curious to see where they will go in the future and how they will adapt without Mr. Lopez.

The Ghost Reveries is definately one of the worst Opeth albums, but it is still a quality release.

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i like cynic because of the vocals. atleast its original sounding on top of great musicianship.

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