lindsmuse
Black metal, death metal the whole thing with fast guitars , insane drumming, it's good - I know it's good - but I think I just reached the generation gap - after so many years!. Maybe this is a major step in music evolution - who knows. Jut cant' listen to it. Satyricon I can sort of get, but some of the stuff I just feel like running away when I see/hear it! ?
BMU
I think it needs to getcha when you're young and the neural pathways are naive and corruptible. And have bad influence older friends, that helps too hehe. Actually I'm joking, I introduced an older friend (scratching 50) who has always been a serious classics afficianado to some death metal bands ...she's gone on to introduce ME to some of the weirder extreme progressive bands out there.
Metal is such a wide spectrum, I'm listening to death metal 90% of the time but for instance I don't like Satyricon much, nor most black metal. Which bands make you feel like running away, just out of curiosity?
inflames
Well not to be rude, but you can't just step into Death Metal.
What I'm trying to say is that your taste in music progress.
We all start at a young age listening to our parents music.
As we get older we start developing. Maybe some Guns & Roses, or even the Metallica Black album.
I do understand that most people dislikes metal, it is not for everyone.
I progressed from rock to hard rock. Then to the Grunge era, then I first heard Sonata Arctica (Melodic Metal).
So the story continue until now 15 years later.
If you are willing to give it a try, listen to some Blind Guardian or Sonata Arctica. Try some Helloween or Stratovarius!
Have fun exploring!
grunjhed
inflames wrote:
Well not to be rude, but you can't just step into Death Metal.
What I'm trying to say is that your taste in music progress.
We all start at a young age listening to our parents music.
As we get older we start developing. Maybe some Guns & Roses, or even the Metallica Black album.
I do understand that most people dislikes metal, it is not for everyone.
I progressed from rock to hard rock. Then to the Grunge era, then I first heard Sonata Arctica (Melodic Metal).
So the story continue until now 15 years later.
If you are willing to give it a try, listen to some Blind Guardian or Sonata Arctica. Try some Helloween or Stratovarius!
Have fun exploring!
:applause:
So true. Although I was lucky, I was introduced to Queen, and Brian May is just something else, true master. But as inflames said. You generally start off light and slowly work your way into the 'dark and devious' over time. Most people will find their limit soon enough, but if you keep progressing and exploring new boundaries then you just may glimpse a peek at something that'll either scare you off, or something that will draw you in 8)
I kinda went from Queen to AC DC to Guns n Roses to Nirvana to Metallica to Trivium to SlipKnot to Arch Enemy to things are dark as Cradle of Filth, Marduk and Nile.
DO yourself a favour, stick on some headphones, in a dark room and listen to Marduk really loud... and see how long you can last. Ironically, this is how I was introduced to it, with this challenge and it totally blew my mind, kinda made my brain race 1000000000000mi/h. It was kinda like a drug, and I did it a second time, while at work during the day to see if I could last a whole song, and then 2 songs, and now I have 2 albums ?
It's all about progression!
Tauriq
From the eyes or rather ears of a 16 year old...
+1 to all the above posts.
I went from Linkin Park to Paramore to Escape the Fate to Mastodon.
I have the mindset that all types of music should be given a good try. First time I heard Led Zeppelin I thought they were garbage ( Blasphemy I know) but I've gotten more into their music as I listened to it.
Weird thing is though I find that there are certain bands within a genre I can't stand but others I love and I can't narrow down my favourite genre. I guess thats more down to how broad the amount of genre's there are.
Metal is an acquired taste imo ?
PeteM
To me music is music whatever the genre. Some work is good and some is bad. There's some metal I like and some I dislike and then there's some classic work I like and dislike. There's music that touches the soul (which I like) and there's music that shows off technical virtuosity only and evokes no emotional response in me (plastic stuff). Music is evolving all the time and reflects the psyche of this planets current inhabitants. So yeah, I may be a 60+ old f@rt but still young at heart. So I say bring on the metal or what ever is next; I wanna be a part of this crazy world. 8)
Renesongs
I have an eclectic taste in music ranging back to Roman school Gregorian chants right through to Classical, Jazz, Rock 'n Roll, Blues, Metal, Punk, Grunge and Emo. There are certain music generas that I just don't get. Opera, Rap, House, and Death Metal get me running for the door. It's not the music so much as the vocals that I don't appreciate. Someone told Miles Davis that they didn't get his music. Miles said "you probably weren't meant to"
Banditman
Have you considered that maybe you're just not p!ssed off enough anymore to really get into it the same way?
chris77
Banditmans got a point... Through the years my taste in music has generally become mellower and mellower. At this rate I fear for a distant future filled with love for josh groban and westlife... Hopefully senility will get me before then.
grunjhed
Maybe I am the exception, but my tastes are just getting heavier and heavier as I get older :-[
Squonk
chris77 wrote:
Banditmans got a point... Through the years my taste in music has generally become mellower and mellower. At this rate I fear for a distant future filled with love for josh groban and westlife... Hopefully senility will get me before then.
Chris we will put you in a home if it gets that bad ?
Last Christmas my Wife wanted the christmas Josh Groban album, as well as the latest Westlife, so I knew this was going to be the most humbling experience of my life. Walked into the Cresta Musica and a Salesman comes up to me and says "Sir , I know exactly what you are after and shows me the new Celine Dion album.
First off the "sir" part already got my back up, but to even suggest Celine Dion!!
Just shows you what people of my age are listening too.
But I am with grunjhead, I am getting more progressive lately.
AlanRatcliffe
I'm also mellowing. Still like most of the heavy (for the time -OK?) stuff I started out on - Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Scorpions, AC/DC, Def Leppard, etc. but started appreciating the subtler stuff too. Some bands fell away (Sabbath, Van Halen, Saxon, Rainbow, UFO, et. al.) I think I got a bit stricter in my entry requirements for new bands/artists too - especially on the heavy side. I'm still a bit of a caveman, but Ug now also wants melody and harmony (regardless of how ugly or twisted), depth and detail. Very few newer bands really meet all the criteria - especially the heavy ones. Sometimes something simple and straightforward will grab me (Joe Bonamassa), but also rare.
On the getting old front, my new pup ate my sheepskin slippers and my dear lady wife saw fit to get me some new ones - low tartan ones that don't even cover my ankles ???. All I need now is the smoking jacket and a pipe and I am my grandfather. Scary stuff. ?
Byron
I had a strange introduction to music ( which started only in my high school years :O ) . I was put off by metal lyrics but always liked heavy music from a relatively young age so in actual fact i just didnt end up listening to a lot of stuff. The first band that I got into though was Rob Zombie lol. Before that I downloaded heavy industrial music off the net since I didnt know which were the bands to look for . After I got it Robzombie I got used to metal vocal styles and started listening to S.O.A.D , Rammstein ,Korn and Manson; the more modern type of metal genres. After that It expanded to more metal genres and I got into things like Metallica , Arch Enemy and the more striaght up metal bands.
Nowadays I'm stuck in the thrash metal scene and I think I will be for a while. I got a bit into Death Metal though. I think it started with Arch Enemy because I liked the guitars so much and just got used to the harsh vocals. I think you find something cool about the music genre and then listen to taht and your ear just sort of develops for the things you initally didn't like.
Reminds of the guy who works here in Durban in a music shop. He plays in a death metal band as well as a blues band.
Haha and what Alan says about UG nowadays. It seems like the UG forum just goes on and on about Opeth.
doc-phil
My progression in music went from P.O.D, Pillar and S.O.A.D in the beginnings and moved towards bands such as August Burns Red, Darkest Hour, Becoming The Archetype later. Lately I've been getting into deathcore a bit. I can't really make my mind up about it.. it's pretty much death metal coupled with hardcore breakdowns.
And in terms of getting into heavier and heavier bands, it definitely is an acquired taste. When first hearing a band that is heavier than anything I've heard before I am generally a bit put off... but then I find myself going back to it despite my initial apprehension, and then enjoying it. (Bands such as Bring Me The Horizon, Suicide Silence and All Shall Perish come to mind)
I'm not into viking metal or doom or any of that stuff... I don't mind a band who is dark, but blatant satanic imagery and lyrics to me just seems like the band is trying too hard. It was cool when Alice Cooper did it cos it was just meant to shock, which it did very effectively, but when you get bands such as Gorgoroth who support church burnings and say their music is inspired solely by the devil, I hot foot it outta there. For me, metal is about ultra-heavy music.. not depressing themes etc. Metal puts me in a good mood, it doesn't make me angry or emo ?
If I could create my own metal genre it would be called 'Life Metal' ?
Byron
doc-phil wrote:
If I could create my own metal genre it would be called 'Life Metal' ?
hehe in my case I would call it post modern metal
BMU
I'm a bit like doc-Phil, I'm into metal despite what it tries so hard to be. I like the complexity, technical skill etc. C'mon, in some ways it's the most demanding music on earth...except maybe for jazz and fusion, but it unlike those it also ROCKS, while the former seem a bit like pointless academical meandering to me. Hehe I'm about to get flamed aren't I. ? (I do like some fusion and trying to get into more...)
Alan Ratcliffe wrote:
...but Ug now also wants melody and harmony (regardless of how ugly or twisted), depth and detail.
I'm totally with that. There's a lot of metal bands out there, and 98% of them are nothing special. So there's a lot of sift through. But the 2% that are worthy listening, still makes a lot of bands. I'm no expert by any means but some of the heavy bands I think bring complexity or intelligence or melody or -something- special to their art: Cynic, Opeth, Obscura, Arch Enemy, In Flames, Children of Bodom, Blotted Science, Decapitated, Decrepit Birth, Nevermore, Nile, Omnium Gatherum, Scar Symmetry, Trivium. There are definitely many, many more.
Frans-B--Cocq
I suggest that try some old-school DM first. Think Death, Morbid Angel, or even Bloodbath. They're less brutal, and perhaps easier to digest at first.
lindsmuse
Like Renesongs - its the vocals that get to me - altho I know they fit in so well. Dimmu Borghir's vocals make me wanna scream - its like nails scratching over a blackboard - and opera - I know this shows what a musical moron I am - but opera also sends me running for the door! There's so much power in both those vocal styles - but give me the emotion rather. Give me Dave von Ronk, Tracey Chapman - so simple. Also it seems so technical and controlled - all the emotion and rawness and scratchiness is gone. Just like opera - you have an orchestra playing this incredible technically correct music(as in death and black) and then the vocalists in a heavily stylised way convey emotions ...
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Well, some of you guys are so convincing about Metal that I might give it a bit more thought. There have only been one or two songs I've liked in that genre. And that's not bands, that's individual songs. I'm so glad some one brought up Alice Cooper, he's so benign now compared to recent music, but I still like him. Although I find this "out scaring" nowdays quite amusing. Here's a song you might like lindsmuse, it's quite simple and no screaming, but I guess it's quite old now. As for Opera, not all of it works for me, but I do enjoy Mozart's Requiem for one.
AlanRatcliffe
I love Alice Cooper - my daughter was horrified when I showed her Marilyn Manson was not as new and original as she had previously thought. In any way. At all. ?
