I was listening to the Radio One Rock Show (plug, plug) which isn't always that good but redeems itself occassionally (Biomechanical session next week). So there I was, when the DJ announced Avenged Sevenfold's new track, from their soon-coming album 'City Of Evil', called 'The Beast And The Harlot', very CoF. Yippee, I thought. More nu metalcore crap. But then the song started. And it was suprisingly good, a nice riff (OK, metalcorey, but not bad all the same), building up naturally to the vocals. Which were another suprise, because obviously the buffed-up boy band that is A7X ( :roll: ) had been listening to a lot of Ozzy recently. it was all there, the whine, everything. And I was beginning to relax into it, mentally thanking Emokid for mentioning them in the 'Decent Metalcore' thread. And then it happened. The Chorus.
The Chorus
A bit of backgorund, here. About three days before I became Metal, I purchased a CD. The title of this CD was 'The Young And The Hopeless'. It was by a 'band' known only as 'Good Charlotte'. Who Charlotte was, and why she was good, I have no idea. But I bought it, I took it home, I played it, and, God help me, I liked it. Then I played it again, decided it was actually quite shit, and binned it (no taking-it-back-and-pretending-it-was-scratched-shenanigans for me, since I got it from a supermarket (tesco's, curse them) and they would only give me another copy of it). Three days later, I purchased my first Iron Maiden CD, and promply became Metal.
Fastforward a year and a bit, to now. Listening to that chorus on this Revenged Seventimes track was like listening to the pop-punk emo bullshit that is the Charlotte of Goodness. The voices went all light, in harmony, and underneath it all was a guitar 'riff' that sounded like a Rhapsody (Rhapsody; sod = sodomise, the clue's in the title) keyboard from one of their horrible songs that Christopher Lee whored himself out to, the Old Bastard (come on, he was great in LOTR!!). Now, I have heard little power metal, but what I have heard (Maiden, Hammerfall, basically) tells me that the guitars do not sound like keyboards. There aren't enough swearwords in the English language to describe this fucking shit; if I knew enough French, I'd switch to it to describe this steaming pile of chien-merde (?).
Analysing it afterwards, I realised that that was the true evil of those beefy nancy boys. they bought you in with a good bit, then forced you into the gates of hell. And guys, it's only non Metallers who have to listen to Darkthrone in the Pit; for Metalheads it's pop all the way.
I am awaiting an explanation from the aforementioned member of the forums that put my ears through this torture. In the meantime, I'm off to listen to some Berzerker to help my poor mangled eardrums recover.
-100000000000000000000 / 100
Killing Tracks - You must be having a fucking laugh!
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