1. Shredded Humans
Early hours, open road, family of five - on their way homeHaving enjoyed a day in the sun, their encounter with gore has just begunA homicidal fool not knowing left from right, now has the family in his sightTrying to perceive if he's blind or insane,he steers his car into the other lane
Both of them collide, expressions horrifiedHead on at full speed, the vultures will soon feed
The father of three was impaled on the wheel,as his skull became a part of the dashHis eyeballs ejected his sight uneffected, he saw his own organs collapseHis seatbelt was useless for holding him back, it simply cut him in twoLegs were crushed, out leaked pus as his spinal cord took off and flewThe mother took flight through the glass, and ended up impaled on a signHer intestines stretched from the car down the road for a quarter of a mile
Fourth child on the way, won't live another dayFetus on the road, with mangled little bonesLittle children fly, not a chance to wonder whySmashed against the ceiling, all their skin burning and peelingShards of glass explode, chest and skull now implodeCorpses they've become, and graves will have to be dug
Underneath the wheels, burning rubber on your faceBleeding from your eyes, the slaughtered victims liesKnowing what he's done, he just backs up one more timeLaughing at the mess, a pile of meat on the street
One child left slowly dying now, arteries gushing bloodNow it's time to feed on flesh, the gore has just begun
The look of death in my eyeSurely no-one will surviveJust a pile of mushLeft to dry in the sun
I see my fresh killLeft in the roadRemains of your bodiesMangled and torn
― marcos, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 17:40 (ten years ago) link
sorry cardamon i don't know what you're talking about
― marcos, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 17:41 (ten years ago) link
the reason I don't listen to much metal is that, while heavy/uptempo rock is some of my favorite music in the world, most of the stuff that passes muster as 'metal' seems to seek out some extreme territory where it's either so fast or so slow that it doesn't really rock to me. nevermind that the 70s metal/proto metal that i like has the kind of hooks that would get a current band downgraded to mere 'hard rock.'
i dunno if there's a list option for that, though, or what the nearest equivalent would be.
― scott c-word (some dude), Tuesday, February 4, 2014 8:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This more-or-less mirrors my views. But the biggest barrier to getting into most post-Sabbath metal is the drum sound. It's either reverbed to shit, heavily gated, a broad flump or (usually) all of the above. And the bass drum just sounds like a low click. I love electronic drums/drum machines in other contexts, but in metal it just sounds goofy (and pointless, when an acoustic bass drum is made to sound indistinguishable from an electronic bass drum).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 17:51 (ten years ago) link
Also cardomon otm re: nihilism.
Also, Cookie Monster vocals. Are...are you actually trying to scare...anybody? And has it ever worked?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link
I hate typewriter drums in modern extreme metal too. Its my pet hate. Thought I'd started a thread on this actually but cant find it.
― ۩, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 17:54 (ten years ago) link
kill (em) all click tracks
― ۩, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 17:55 (ten years ago) link
Marcos: it's probably subjective
― cardamon, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 20:31 (ten years ago) link
Grapevine just seems full of bitterness and threat to me, Buddy Bolden is about a pimp and nothing much happens in the story of the song, it just goes on and on, same situation
― cardamon, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 20:32 (ten years ago) link
I am put off by death metal because of the vox and the lack of riffs I can appreciate.
But I do like typewriter drums.
― Viceroy, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 22:42 (ten years ago) link
I am put off by HC because Henry Rollins pisses me off.
bbbbut Henry is supposedly the hottest dude in metal according to this list!http://blastbeat.us/?p=3768
― ۩, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 22:44 (ten years ago) link
http://www.metalinjection.net/around-the-interwebs/female-metal-journalists-turn-it-around-pick-50-hottest-guys-in-metal
― ۩, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 22:45 (ten years ago) link
Maybe you prefer him with long hair when he was in black flag? ;)
Naw, it's just his attitude. he looks better with short hair.
― Viceroy, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 22:46 (ten years ago) link
Bruce Dickinson is clearly still the hottest.
lemmy and wino surprisingly high in that poll. Do people really fancy him? even when he was young he was hardly good looking.
― ۩, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link
(lemmy i mean)
― ۩, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 22:48 (ten years ago) link
just close your eyes and listen to his voice.
― Viceroy, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 22:50 (ten years ago) link
http://blastbeat.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/7-DOLKKAMPFAR-1.jpg
he just looks like your normal metal dude at a gig. At least when hes chatting up the ladies noone has to ask him what band he's in.
― ۩, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 23:02 (ten years ago) link
Imagine the foreplay with him?
"what do you mean you felt a little prick!?"
― Viceroy, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 23:03 (ten years ago) link
LOL
― ۩, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 23:04 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 20 February 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
predictable winner but "Too white and I feel out of place in that culture." 9 is depressing.
― ۩, Thursday, 20 February 2014 00:13 (ten years ago) link
79 of you. 79
― imago, Thursday, 20 February 2014 00:15 (ten years ago) link
79 is a lot
― ۩, Thursday, 20 February 2014 00:15 (ten years ago) link
"It's too basic and primal and not enough inventiveness." 1 was that a vote by a 15 year old imago?
― ۩, Thursday, 20 February 2014 00:16 (ten years ago) link
Huge throbbing swarms of metal heads in Latin America don't seem to think it's too white.
― Viceroy, Thursday, 20 February 2014 00:17 (ten years ago) link
there's some really great articles on African metal too online. Apparently its popular in a lot of big cities in some countries there. There is something "worldly" about metal. I suppose lyrics arent a big deal so it doesnt matter if you cant understand the lyrics. English speaking metalheads can enjoy non-english metal as much as the non-metal speaker enjoys english stuff. Plus there's less commercial pressure on them to sing in english too?
― ۩, Thursday, 20 February 2014 00:22 (ten years ago) link
Absolutely. I remember that photojournalism of Nigerian (I think?) metalheads... some bad-ass dudes but they def. are rolling with a different aesthetic than US and Europe. Purely homegrown, it's great.
― Viceroy, Thursday, 20 February 2014 00:24 (ten years ago) link
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2013/05/egypt-culture-of-the-undefeated/http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2013/06/african-metal-2-libya-and-tunisia/http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2013/08/african-metal-algeria-morocco/http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2013/09/african-metal-4-cameroon/http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2013/10/african-metal-5-uganda/http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2014/01/african-metal-6-zambia-and-zimbabwe/
― ۩, Thursday, 20 February 2014 00:43 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tfwZnKW4pCw
― ۩, Thursday, 20 February 2014 08:09 (ten years ago) link
I remember that photojournalism of Nigerian (I think?) metalheads.
was it not Botswana?
― ۩, Thursday, 20 February 2014 13:13 (ten years ago) link
For me, it's all about the lyrical themes. You have your choice of:
-Satanism: I would loved it at 13. But as an adult, it seems so silly and immature.-Fantasy-based lyrics, Dungeons & Dragons, hobbits: see above.-Cliched teen angst: doesn't appeal to me as an adult-Cliched anti-war lyrics: I agree with the sentiment, but metal anti-war lyrics seem perversely pro-war. Because war is the only thing more brutal than death metal, man
The vocals don't help either. It's not that I hate death metal vocals. I think they're a interesting novelty that's good for 1 or 2 albums, but that's it.
There there are the metal hipsters, the absurd emphasis on keepin' it real, the hyper-masculine attitudes, the prog-rock tendencies of "good" metal bands, on and on. I can't entirely dismiss any genre, but metal isn't my favorite by a long shot.
― TetrisAttack, Friday, 21 February 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
-Fantasy-based lyrics, Dungeons & Dragons, hobbits: see above.-Cliched teen angst: doesn't appeal to me as an adult-Cliched anti-war lyrics:
its not the 1980s; things have moved on since!
― ۩, Friday, 21 February 2014 19:10 (ten years ago) link
Seriously though, got any bands in mind you speak of?
Not really, but I've downloaded quite a few metal albums that I frequently see cited as the best of all time. I didn't really like any of them.
― TetrisAttack, Friday, 21 February 2014 19:45 (ten years ago) link
my biggest hangup with metal is i haven't heard any metal song that is as good as surfin bird. "you suffer" comes close.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 21 February 2014 19:51 (ten years ago) link
tetrisattack which ones?
― ۩, Friday, 21 February 2014 21:32 (ten years ago) link
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― Hongro4/4Ass (wins), Friday, 21 February 2014 21:48 (ten years ago) link
― Hongro4/4Ass (wins), Friday, 21 February 2014 21:49 (ten years ago) link
― Hongro4/4Ass (wins), Friday, 21 February 2014 21:50 (ten years ago) link
:)
― ۩, Friday, 21 February 2014 21:50 (ten years ago) link
http://www.thejabberwock.org/blog/2/strychnine.png
― wins, Thursday, 29 January 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
so, old post, but I gotta address this common myth - the appeal of death vocals isn't being scared! Screaming has existed in multiple genres, and nobody is doing it to freak anybody out! Death growling is atmospheric, meant to mirror the bleak tone of the music it accompanies.
when done well, it sounds mega cool, just like when a punk rocker yells over some intense power chordage, it's cool. but also, it's meant to be percussive. on Cannibal Corpse album liner notes (and many other DM liner notes), they used to address vocals as "vocal patterns" because, similar to hip hop, it's meant to be percussive, rhythmic, creative, not just following a repetitive meter. there are of course degrees to this, dude from Anal Blast wasn't exactly Twista. likewise, it doesn't quite have the same polyrhythmic feel of rap, no, but there's reasons Corpsegrinder does rapid-fire, double-timed growls, or employs triplet patterns during a bridge. it's like a battering ram of sound.
― fentanyl young (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 January 2023 21:40 (one year ago) link
"Battering ram of sound" is pretty much always the most offputting barrier to me listening to and enjoying certain types of music.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 12 January 2023 21:47 (one year ago) link
yeah I agree there's a part of me which thinks I could get way into metal someday but every time I listen to an actual album it just winds up sounding like aural sludge after a few minutes
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 January 2023 21:50 (one year ago) link
I love old school metal, but I agree--I just can't wrap my ears around a lot of black or death metal.
Also, much of contemporary country music sounds like it was pumped out of a hit factory. I ain't buying it.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 12 January 2023 21:55 (one year ago) link