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05-17-2015, 10:12 AM
Oh man, everyone is tech right now. It's a good and a bad thing. I have a friend in a respected death metal band, and he says that he can't compete on that playing field, so he focuses on developing special techniques that make his own style more pronounced. It's an interesting theory.
Me? I just dick around on the guitar and try to play my favorite songs. I don't want to join a band or anything.
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05-17-2015, 11:28 AM
Mastodon is beautiful.
Animals as Leaders and Protest the Hero are my favorite of newer bands, though the latter is a bit on the left lyrically
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05-17-2015, 01:54 PM
Any fans of Deicide? They kinda went of the rails lately. However, their first two albums are masterpieces of death metal.
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05-17-2015, 01:57 PM
Quote: (05-17-2015 06:10 AM)UroboricForms Wrote:
Any thrash fans? this is one of my favourite albums
Yup. Slayer, Sepultura and Metallica are probably my favorite thrash bands. Have you heard of Morbid Saint? They're a great band.
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05-17-2015, 02:54 PM
Quote: (05-17-2015 01:54 PM)quino_16 Wrote:
Any fans of Deicide? They kinda went of the rails lately. However, their first two albums are masterpieces of death metal.
Hell yes, Legion in particular is beyond savage. Not as catchy as the debut but a doubly intense in every way. IMO that was the last really great one they did, there's one or 2 good albums following that (Serpents of the Light for example) but these days they are just horrendous.
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Quote: (05-17-2015 06:10 AM)UroboricForms Wrote:
Any thrash fans? this is one of my favourite albums
Yup. Slayer, Sepultura and Metallica are probably my favorite thrash bands. Have you heard of Morbid Saint? They're a great band.
Yep, gotta love that classic no-nonsense brutal thrash style. Beneath the Remains from Sepultura is probably the apex of the genre imo. Morbid Saint is crucial listening too. Another big favourite of mine is Demolition Hammer's Tortured Existence album. I do love more experimental thrash like Voivod but for pure raw aggression nothing gets the job done like Beneath the Remains.
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05-17-2015, 03:05 PM
I like Animals as Leaders, but I think that the project sometimes tries for too much and falls a little flat. Tosin is quite the guitarist, though. He will probably be one of the greatest guitarists out there if he manages to avoid the usual pitfalls that kill virtuosos: shitty management, lazy record labels, debt, drugs, alcohol or divorce rape.
I have a friend who is close with some people in that circle, so I often hear a lot of the metal gossip. Ha. Not much dirt on Tosin that strikes me particularly believable. Apparently, he has a big ego, but I don't see that as much of a character fault. I'm not paying him to be nice to me. I just want him to shred like an animal.
Speaking of awesome metal guitarists, I've always been partial to this man:
He's not exactly a shredder, but I think he's always writing the sorts of riffs I enjoy:
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05-17-2015, 04:22 PM
I've heard Tosin is cocky too, but what musicians at that level of elite skillet isn't? Victor Wooten is egotistical as well. If people called you the Michael Jordan of the bass guitar, you probably would too.
They are both extremely meticulous in their preparation and as a result they become self aware of how good they are.
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05-17-2015, 04:27 PM
I've seen Gorguts live and spent a few minutes chatting to Lemay. Great guy. They're probably my favourite death metal band, the show was just blindingly good.
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05-17-2015, 04:28 PM
I'm not against it. I'm not paying these guys to be nice. I'm paying them money to be awesome musicians. If a guy is feeling himself because he's good I'm all for it. Humility is a good value, but I do think a lot of guys just use it as an excuse to underachieve and be pussies.
All that said, I have yet to meet Wooten or Abasi, so I can't actually say any of that is true. If a metal guitarist is able to draw in crowds on his name alone, that is a really wonderful thing.Making it in metal takes pro-management skills, raw talent and a pair of brassy balls. These labels don't play around and have taken bands down with debt. What makes it even worse is that the genre is glutted with a lot of talentless hacks, so it's so hard to be heard. I knew this one band that stole another bands entire album and put it on their Soundcloud as though it were their own. It's a grimy genre if you're not really about it.
One of my favorite bands from about 10 years ago !T.O.O.H.! Originally broke up because Eachache (I think) records debt raped them when they were young and inexperienced in the music industry. I'm sure a ton of other bands I liked went that route as well.
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05-17-2015, 04:31 PM
I like System of a Down, Mastodon, and Queens of the Stone Age. Outside of that, I don't find the genre to hook me in a significant way. Maybe if I played guitar this would be different, but I'm too biased towards a focus on melody.
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05-17-2015, 10:27 PM
Damn, thank you guys for pointing out to bands I'd never even heard of before. Checking out some of this stuff right now and it's great. My favorite metal bands are probably more mainstream, or at least known throughout the metal community:
Opeth
Burzum
Rammstein
Satyricon
lamb of God
Slayer
Slipknot
Marilyn Manson
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05-18-2015, 09:19 AM
I've met Tosin a few times before they were big, have a fair amount of signed merch. He might be bigheaded with peers but with fans he was always pretty enjoyable. (Sully Erna of Godsmack is a great singer, but definitely takes the cake for largest ego Ive ever met).
Im happy At the Gates did a new album, not that it was superb. Older Darkest Hour has kind of filled that stylistic niche for me