Metal Thread 2: In Metal There Is No Law

[Edward Richtofen]

I just discovered Amon Amarth. Thoughts on the band ?

They receive more hate than they deserve, though some of the criticism is legitimate. I like them, I consider them basically pop music in death metal form (this is actually how I consider most melodeath bands).

Jungle Rot's Terror Regime is the poppiest DM record I've heard

[Bodobol]

They receive more hate than they deserve, though some of the criticism is legitimate. I like them, I consider them basically pop music in death metal form (this is actually how I consider most melodeath bands).

Jungle Rot's Terror Regime is the poppiest DM record I've heard

I'll make sure to listen to it sometime, then.

[Rob Halfordia]

Amon Amarth is fantastic.

[Cosumar]

They receive more hate than they deserve, though some of the criticism is legitimate. I like them, I consider them basically pop music in death metal form (this is actually how I consider most melodeath bands).

Jungle Rot's Terror Regime is the poppiest DM record I've heard

It's not poppy in a melodic sense... it's more that the riffs are so simple that they're instantly catchy.

[Rob Halfordia]

Jungle Rot's Terror Regime is the poppiest DM record I've heard

It's not poppy in a melodic sense... it's more that the riffs are so simple that they're instantly catchy.

Good luck getting this out of your head.

[Landenburg]

Amon Amarth is fantastic.

Woah, if you like Amon Amarth you'll absolutely love Five Finger Death Punch.

[Rob Halfordia]

Amon Amarth is fantastic.

Woah, if you like Amon Amarth you'll absolutely love Five Finger Death Punch.

I absolutely hate it. A group of special needs sloths could play better than they can.

[Landenburg]

Woah, if you like Amon Amarth you'll absolutely love Five Finger Death Punch.

I absolutely hate it. A group of special needs sloths could play better than they can.

Well yeah, no one said Amon Amarth was the most talented group but that's a little harsh don't you think?

[Rob Halfordia]

I absolutely hate it. A group of special needs sloths could play better than they can.

Well yeah, no one said Amon Amarth was the most talented group but that's a little harsh don't you think?

I was referring to Five Finger Pussy Poke.

[Landenburg]

Well yeah, no one said Amon Amarth was the most talented group but that's a little harsh don't you think?

I was referring to Five Finger Pussy Poke.

I can't find a band by that name, are you sure you typed that in right?

[NeuPolska]

Johan Hegg alone > Anything FFDP have ever even considered releasing combined

Oh no. dives for cover

here comes the viking metal elitists

they have been waiting for this moment

I sense ignorance.

[Rob Halfordia]

I was referring to Five Finger Pussy Poke.

I can't find a band by that name, are you sure you typed that in right?

It's funny, I knew you were going to say that. I've got your breed of stupid all figured out.

[Edward Richtofen]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d9Xuo4PNfR4
I heard you like catchy music

[The New Sea Territory]

Holy Fucking Shit.

Orchid/Pig Destroyer - Split

Skramz meets grindcore.

[The New Sea Territory]

They receive more hate than they deserve, though some of the criticism is legitimate. I like them, I consider them basically pop music in death metal form (this is actually how I consider most melodeath bands).

Jungle Rot's Terror Regime is the poppiest DM record I've heard

Agreed.

I think death metal nowadays is dominated by poppy bands. Really, if I'm going to listen to death metal, I look back as 90s stuff or listen to "deathrgind" bands like Aborted and Cattle Decapitation.

[Volmachtia]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d9Xuo4PNfR4
I heard you like catchy music

Try getting this out of your head. Especially as you're a Rammstein fan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjO1bMHbDpY

[Edward Richtofen]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d9Xuo4PNfR4
I heard you like catchy music

Try getting this out of your head. Especially as you're a Rammstein fan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjO1bMHbDpY

Doesn't count. King Weenie wrote it that way

[Landenburg]

I can't find a band by that name, are you sure you typed that in right?

It's funny, I knew you were going to say that. I've got your breed of stupid all figured out.

Well that's not nice at all.

[NeuPolska]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d9Xuo4PNfR4
I heard you like catchy music

Try getting this out of your head. Especially as you're a Rammstein fan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjO1bMHbDpY

I love that song

[Edward Richtofen]

Try getting this out of your head. Especially as you're a Rammstein fan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjO1bMHbDpY

I love that song

Hail King Weenie

[NeuPolska]

Honestly, I love Richard Kruspe's tone. And Emppu Vuorinen's. Those are in my top favorite tones. And both guitarists happen to use Mesa Dual Rectifiers.

EDIT: And ESP guitars

[Rob Halfordia]

It's funny, I knew you were going to say that. I've got your breed of stupid all figured out.

Well that's not nice at all.

This is a fucking Metal thread! Since when has Metal been about being nice!

On that note, why the fuck are people constantly complaining about poor production in Redeemer of Souls? "Oh, there's static!" "Oh no, the audio clips a little!"
It's like they forgot what genre they are listening to.

[The New Sea Territory]

On that note, why the fuck are people constantly complaining about poor production in Redeemer of Souls? "Oh, there's static!" "Oh no, the audio clips a little!"
It's like they forgot what genre they are listening to.

I've gotten to the point now where I don't care what production the music is in. Some of the coolest stuff I've heard has been raw as fuck...to the point where the guitar is just static, the vocals are inaudible and the drums sound like "bzzzzzzzz".

The quality of recording is part of the musician/band's style, just like lyrics and instrumentation. So I think complaining about it is projecting your own opinions of what a song should be onto something the musician is trying not to be.

[Bodobol]

On that note, why the fuck are people constantly complaining about poor production in Redeemer of Souls? "Oh, there's static!" "Oh no, the audio clips a little!"
It's like they forgot what genre they are listening to.

I've gotten to the point now where I don't care what production the music is in. Some of the coolest stuff I've heard has been raw as fuck...to the point where the guitar is just static, the vocals are inaudible and the drums sound like "bzzzzzzzz".

The quality of recording is part of the musician/band's style, just like lyrics and instrumentation. So I think complaining about it is projecting your own opinions of what a song should be onto something the musician is trying not to be.

I think it really mainly depends on the genre. Black metal, for instance, just wouldn't sound right with the production value of most popular metal bands, and vice versa.

That being said, I have my limits, I personally don't really like stuff that sounds like it was recorded with a microwave in most cases. Probably an extreme example, but I tried listening to Vomir a couple weeks ago and gave up completely because I literally couldn't hear anything besides static or something.

[Rob Halfordia]

On that note, why the fuck are people constantly complaining about poor production in Redeemer of Souls? "Oh, there's static!" "Oh no, the audio clips a little!"
It's like they forgot what genre they are listening to.

I've gotten to the point now where I don't care what production the music is in. Some of the coolest stuff I've heard has been raw as fuck...to the point where the guitar is just static, the vocals are inaudible and the drums sound like "bzzzzzzzz".

The quality of recording is part of the musician/band's style, just like lyrics and instrumentation. So I think complaining about it is projecting your own opinions of what a song should be onto something the musician is trying not to be.

But I also think that an album shouldn't be judged by it no matter what the genre. Especially when the same websites that bash Redeemer of Souls have given Black Metal albums with much lower production near perfect scores. Different genres, I get it, but seriously, have you ever heard Bathory's "The Return"? That album sounds like a chorus of chainsaws on a construction sight adjacent to a helipad recorded on an answering machine in a trashcan across the street. This is Metal, so it's about time the reviewers put on their big boy pants and rated albums for the music, not the fucking production.