Metal Genre Music Discussion - Vol. 4

[Hurdergaryp]

Only album I listened to last year was the new Iron Savior. So I guess that.

That's not exactly a lot of albums. Bit of a monoculture, if you ask me. Not that you were asking, of course.

[The Imperial Reach]

Every other option on the poll must be terrible then if Great War was your choice considering how thoroughly disappointing and underwhelming it was.

Mediocrity tends to dominate, because it is easier to market.

I'd agree with you but you think Sabaton is mediocre anyway so I really have to call into question your idea of what constitutes "mediocrity".

[Haeresia]

Mediocrity tends to dominate, because it is easier to market.

I'd agree with you but you think Sabaton is mediocre anyway so I really have to call into question your idea of what constitutes "mediocrity".

Sabaton is definitely mediocre, if that's what you're asking.

[Hurdergaryp]

I'd agree with you but you think Sabaton is mediocre anyway so I really have to call into question your idea of what constitutes "mediocrity".

Sabaton is definitely mediocre, if that's what you're asking.

It's not exactly a band with room for innovation in their sound, given how said sound has been defined decades ago by the British originators of the genre. Stagnation was therefore inevitable.

[The Imperial Reach]

I'd agree with you but you think Sabaton is mediocre anyway so I really have to call into question your idea of what constitutes "mediocrity".

Sabaton is definitely mediocre, if that's what you're asking.

An incorrect answer to an unasked question. Astounding. The human race is marvelous.

[Cosumar]

Sabaton is definitely mediocre, if that's what you're asking.

It's not exactly a band with room for innovation in their sound, given how said sound has been defined decades ago by the British originators of the genre. Stagnation was therefore inevitable.

From the standpoint of musical innovation and the diversity and complexity of their songwriting, sure, Sabaton is pretty basic. That said, I wouldn't call them mediocre. That's not the same thing. Many bands have tried simple, catchy power metal with lyrics about history, mythology and such, but very few have managed to grip as many people as as Sabaton and there is a reason for that. They're extremely and perhaps unprecedentedly effective and charismatic in delivering that formula.

TL;DR - Although Sabaton might be mediocre creatively, they are absolutely top-notch performers and entertainers.

[Dumb Ideologies]

I think I'd find it difficult to come up with a Top 10 this year. Plenty of albums were good but I've mostly been listening to older favourites of late to the point where I'd have to do a lot of revisiting and diverting myself from what I actually want to listen to in order to come up with an informed list.

[Hurdergaryp]

I think I'd find it difficult to come up with a Top 10 this year. Plenty of albums were good but I've mostly been listening to older favourites of late to the point where I'd have to do a lot of revisiting and diverting myself from what I actually want to listen to in order to come up with an informed list.

Most albums I buy tend to be older ones as well, either from a few years or a few decades ago.

[Dumb Ideologies]

New Dyscordia. Ah, I missed this when the video was released but album came out this week, so if you tilt your head and look at it sideways I'm not really behind. Guitars and vocals are very satisfying, nice chunky sound. Noice.

[Nuroblav]

New Dyscordia. Ah, I missed this when the video was released but album came out this week, so if you tilt your head and look at it sideways I'm not really behind. Guitars and vocals are very satisfying, nice chunky sound. Noice.

YeahI like the nice thick-sounding guitars. Is that a keyboard doing the synthy stuff? I like that whatever it is.

[Dumb Ideologies]

Obligatory fangirl mention of another Pyogenesis track released in advance of the new album.

This one features Chris Harms from Lord of The Lost (another band I like so personal taste points fulfilled) so unsurprisingly it leans towards the more gothic metal side of things. Two weeks to the album drops, don't disappoint my hype.

[Ameriganastan]

Oh man, they brought the old Metal Mayhem block back. Awesome.

[Impaled Nazarene]

I don't think any of these albums are winners, not even Death Atlas.

[Dumb Ideologies]

Looking through some YouTube channels that I'm subscribed to and found a pretty good album from last year. Vivacity by Per Aspera, a one-man blackgaze/post-black project from Croatia. I'm biased towards this particular style, and it seems very well produced for a one-man project. Vocals mostly in the shrieked style but there's some occasional lower-end bellows too which throw in some nice contrast and momentarily give a bit of a dm feel. I can see why it's been given the blackgaze/post genre labelling but it's got more of a foot in traditional bm than many of the gazey and post projects you come across. If you're at all into this sort of thing, it's a pretty good example. Album is "name your price" on bandcamp.

[Corrian]

So my first album of the year is a metal album, and for some reason...its the new Poppy album?

[Cosumar]

So my first album of the year is a metal album, and for some reason...its the new Poppy album?

Wait what?

On the other hand, My Dying Bride are finally back and their new single and video is magnificent. Sounds like their older stuff.

[Corrian]

So my first album of the year is a metal album, and for some reason...its the new Poppy album?

Wait what?

On the other hand, My Dying Bride are finally back and their new single and video is magnificent. Sounds like their older stuff.

I'm not joking

Somehow I feel like its something Dumb Ideologies would like.

Weirdly its not that surprising for her to go a bit metal. She's experimented with it on recent stuff. Poppy has always been a strange project. I mean she also has an industrial song about human's being enslaved for food like cattle

[Dumb Ideologies]

Wait what?

On the other hand, My Dying Bride are finally back and their new single and video is magnificent. Sounds like their older stuff.

I'm not joking

Somehow I feel like its something Dumb Ideologies would like.

Weirdly its not that surprising for her to go a bit metal. She's experimented with it on recent stuff. Poppy has always been a strange project. I mean she also has an industrial song about human's being enslaved for food like cattle

DI indeed has the new Poppy album and is enjoying it considerably. You know me too well.

[Nuroblav]

I'm not joking

Somehow I feel like its something Dumb Ideologies would like.

Weirdly its not that surprising for her to go a bit metal. She's experimented with it on recent stuff. Poppy has always been a strange project. I mean she also has an industrial song about human's being enslaved for food like cattle

DI indeed has the new Poppy album and is enjoying it considerably. You know me too well.

Someone recommended Poppy to me once so I might have a listen at some point.

[Corrian]

DI indeed has the new Poppy album and is enjoying it considerably. You know me too well.

Someone recommended Poppy to me once so I might have a listen at some point.

Poppy has some, well...Poppy stuff, and then industrial, and then apparently metal. She's always been an odd project.

[Hurdergaryp]

Someone recommended Poppy to me once so I might have a listen at some point.

Poppy has some, well...Poppy stuff, and then industrial, and then apparently metal. She's always been an odd project.

Odd is good. We need more of that in the music world.

[The Imperial Reach]

So Sabaton did a song with Apocalyptica.

Thoughts? I think it's easily better than most of the songs on The Great War. The sound reminds me a lot of their older stuff at certain points in the song, too.

[Cosumar]

Wait what?

On the other hand, My Dying Bride are finally back and their new single and video is magnificent. Sounds like their older stuff.

I'm not joking

Somehow I feel like its something Dumb Ideologies would like.

Weirdly its not that surprising for her to go a bit metal. She's experimented with it on recent stuff. Poppy has always been a strange project. I mean she also has an industrial song about human's being enslaved for food like cattle

This is intriguing stuff indeed! Thanks Cor!

[The Imperial Reach]

So apparently Ray Burton - Cliff Burton's father and long-time supporter of Metallica - died yesterday.

R.I.P.

\m/

[Dumb Ideologies]

Someone recommended Poppy to me once so I might have a listen at some point.

Poppy has some, well...Poppy stuff, and then industrial, and then apparently metal. She's always been an odd project.

What strikes me more than anything after a few listens of the album is that for all the weird genre shifts it's much more of an "album" than we typically get these days. Tied together by a common theme, last track references and reprises some of the parts of earlier song etc.