Heavy Metal

[ADandelion]

I am an avid fan of metal (and rock in general) and would like to start a thread where people can discuss the genre, as well as its scene in Armenia, and maybe exchange some recommendations.


I recently got into Messhugga after hearing a few tracks off of Obzen and then promptly downloading Koloss. The mood and sound of that album is preerless. The textures of djent are incredibly heavy and organic, really getting into them. To say nothing of those inhuman vocals. Been tripping off of that for the past few weeks, still can't get enough of 'Break those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion'. Planning on getting the whole discography eventually.

[Mos]

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Sorry but heavy metal to me is one of the worst music that can be listened to. Much of it is also associated with devil worship and satanic cultures. Not to mention the music in general is like machine noise.

[jgk3]

Re: Heavy Metal

Sorry but heavy metal to me is one of the worst music that can be listened to. Much of it is also associated with devil worship and satanic cultures. Not to mention the music in general is like machine noise.

omg. The devil is your friend. Revel in the devil, he'll set you free from stigma so that you can truly choose if you like God or not. Btw, most music today is subversive and deviant from Christian values, it's just that metal is honest and upfront about it, chapeau.

Anyway, I like metal, I just went to see Anvil the other day. I usually listen to rock now (just got a Pearl Jam cd, and an early Muse cd), and at work they always play 80s hair bands, like Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Whitesnake, stuff like that.

I like bands like Annihilator, Metallica, Judas Priest, Sodom, Voivod.... I'm not gonna name 50 bands. But my own metal style of playing guitar is influenced by traditional heavy metal, thrash, my classical training and swing/blues

[ADandelion]

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Sorry but heavy metal to me is one of the worst music that can be listened to. Much of it is also associated with devil worship and satanic cultures. Not to mention the music in general is like machine noise.

The devil worship and satanic aspect of it is extremely marginal in its serious sense, and theatrically comedic in most of its use. Metal likes to parody itself in some cases - take power metal and viking metal.

The music is indeed sometimes like machine noise, and that is precisely its appeal. It caters to aspects of aesthetics that mainstream music ignores. You will feel emotions listening to a metal drumming solo alone that can't be evoked by anything else.

It takes a while getting used to it. Until then, it's like staring into the sun; it's too bright for you to see what its texture is. Although I listen to all genres of music, provided the artist is good, I've enjoyed more emotional and intellectual diversity from metal than anything else.

Some people are just geared to never enjoy it, and that's fine. I myself find find the repetitiveness and plasticity of club pop to be so grating that I can't be in the room when it's played.

[ADandelion]

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omg. The devil is your friend. Revel in the devil, he'll set you free from stigma so that you can truly choose if you like God or not. Btw, most music today is subversive and deviant from Christian values, it's just that metal is honest and upfront about it, chapeau.

Anyway, I like metal, I just went to see Anvil the other day. I usually listen to rock now (just got a Pearl Jam cd, and an early Muse cd), and at work they always play 80s hair bands, like Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Whitesnake, stuff like that.

I like bands like Annihilator, Metallica, Judas Priest, Sodom, Voivod.... I'm not gonna name 50 bands. But my own metal style of playing guitar is influenced by traditional heavy metal, thrash, my classical training and swing/blues

Recently just missed out on an underground festival, The foremost bands on the bill were Anvil, Napalm Death and Godflesh. Been listening to Godflesh on and off and bought Scum a few weeks ago, so it was a pity I couldn't make it.

Muse isn't to my taste, but I like what I've heard of Pearl Jam. Love Metallica and Slayer out of the Big 4, Judas Preist is extremely talented, though something about Halford's voice turns me off, despite his singing being near-flawless in technique.

My taste in metal originates in more groove-oriented subgenres - I enjoy nu metal's premise, though largely not its execution. Had a bit of a renaissance the past year where a lot of new sounds started appealing to me. Can't get enough of Lamb of God at the moment.

[jgk3]

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Mmm, can't get enough lamb.... but I don't listen to much Lamb of God, what 2 songs do you recommend I check out?

I deliberately avoided getting into nu-metal stuff because growing up I was very impressionable by metal elitists who insisted that it was for posers and bastardizers of real metal... Now I'm not entirely sure about what I've been missing out on, but there are well known bands that I've heard which do disappoint me (I can think of Amon Amarth at the moment). I also haven't heard Godflesh, so you can sample some of that too for me, thanks.

[bell-the-cat]

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Sorry but heavy metal to me is one of the worst music that can be listened to. Much of it is also associated with devil worship and satanic cultures. Not to mention the music in general is like machine noise.

Or, as Artsvik Minasyan would doubtlessly put it, "it has created a den of perversion in our country and has a goal of alienating the society from its moral values".

[KarotheGreat]

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Here is Black Sabbath to make things all better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EL67mjv1nM&feature=related

What is wrong with the devil by the way? He's the underdog, who doesn't love an underdog story?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qha2kSrqof4&feature=related

Let's add some Judas Pries on top of it!

[ADandelion]

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Mmm, can't get enough lamb.... but I don't listen to much Lamb of God, what 2 songs do you recommend I check out?

I deliberately avoided getting into nu-metal stuff because growing up I was very impressionable by metal elitists who insisted that it was for posers and bastardizers of real metal... Now I'm not entirely sure about what I've been missing out on, but there are well known bands that I've heard which do disappoint me (I can think of Amon Amarth at the moment). I also haven't heard Godflesh, so you can sample some of that too for me, thanks.

It took me a little while to shift gears for Lamb of God, because the vocals are treated as another instrument - as a component in the general trajectory of sound rather than the centerpiece around which the instrumentals are arranged. I would recommend 'Omerta' off of Ashes of the Wake and 'the Art of Ruin' off of As the Palaces Burn. The first half of that latter album is pure gold if heard in succession.

As for metal elitism, been there. I had a mentor-figure art teacher in high school, and he treated nu meal like the plague, though he loved metal in general. And as a Tool fan, I myself am, paradoxically and by default, elitist.

But if you're interested in pursuing the classics of the genre, I recommend KoRn's self-titled debut, Slipknot's Iowa (and self-titled too, for that matter), and Around the Fur from the Deftones. It can be quite visceral and beautiful.

[ADandelion]

Re: Heavy Metal

Here is Black Sabbath to make things all better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EL67mjv1nM&feature=related

What is wrong with the devil by the way? He's the underdog, who doesn't love an underdog story?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qha2kSrqof4&feature=related

Let's add some Judas Pries on top of it!

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*gently unfolds from fetal position in dark corner*