Metal Reviews

No I didn't. You're twisting my words around. He doesn't hear what makes Nile so special, so what? His taste in music is obviously different, so I say your statement was out of line.

Are you sersiously trying to tell me Pagan's Mind are less complex than Cannibal Corpse?

There is no dividing line of "style x is more complex than style y"

Woah, I completely read over that statement (Zad’s). That is the biggest crock I have ever read.

I read over Radagast's. OBVIOUSLY, some bands are different, but I think as a general rule 'twould be fair to say death/black is more complex than power/heavy. Here comes a huge list of bands I've never heard of.... :roll:

I read over Radagast's. OBVIOUSLY, some bands are different, but I think as a general rule 'twould be fair to say death/black is more complex than power/heavy. Here comes a huge list of bands I've never heard of.... :roll:

Seriously, fuck off - how much BM is just minimalist basic guitar playing over blastbeats?

And, yeah, a huge list of bands you've never heard of - because you know fuck all about Power Metal, but keep talking about it as if you do.

That's not Extreme, is it? That's what I meant. And there's more depth to that as well, so nyah.

How do I pretend I do? Admit it, most power metal is fairly striaghtforward stuff.

That's not Extreme, is it? That's what I meant. And there's more depth to that as well, so nyah.

How do I pretend I do? Admit it, most power metal is fairly striaghtforward stuff.

Most music is straightforward stuff. There are some complex death/black and some complex power/prog. That doesn't make one genre more or less complex. Like Dago said though, this is a horrible comparison. It just gets to me when you try and make power metal fans look inferior to more aggressive metal fans.

Most music is straightforward stuff. There are some complex death/black and some complex power/prog. That doesn't make one genre more or less complex. Like Dago said though, this is a horrible comparison. It just gets to me when you try and make power metal fans look inferior to more aggressive metal fans.

Is Arthur a Power Metal fan? I thought he was an Extremer! This wasn't an attack on you <s>softies</s> power metalheads, or wasn't intended as such, at least...

I know it wasn't, but it became a "Extreme metal is better than flower metal" argument. Anyway, I'm dropping it. I'll close with "Power metal owns!!!"

Well you see, I wrote down the names of some bands and threw them them all in a hat, and those were the four I drew. (I picked them because I have read your posts on them, obviously I don't know every band you like.)

Look I am not saying there is anything wrong with an album that doesn't change a whole lot. It just seems to me that there is this double standard in Metal where if a more upbeat power metal type band like Dragonforce plays the same bright lightening fast music through a whole album, they will get criticized for it. But on the other hand if some psycho heavy as fuck band never changes in any way then they are true and bad ass. (but god help them if they try to do something different.)

I am the proud owner of several Nile albums, but lets face it, super low gurgly vocals, tons of blast beats, and middle eastern acoustic pieces thrown in here and there. Yea, that would basically describe all the Nile song I own, not to mention that just about every song has something to do with Egyptian mysticism. And there's no denying Bolt Thrower's repetitiveness, they've built a reputation on it in fact.

I had at one point (before I traded it) a copy of Once Was Not. It's basiaclly an album of pure drumming. It KIND OF sounded like maybe there were some vocals and some guitars way in the background, I'm not sure. Just non-stop drumming for about 40 minutes. Shit they had to throw in all those sampled intro thingys just so you could tell when one song ended and another began.

Dillenger Escape plan seem like they are cool guys from what I have read from them, they reall do. And I may go back and give them another chance. (I tried just now, and of course the fucking samples on the fucking site, don't fucking work.) Believe me, I have heard every bullshit argument there is about "mathematics" and "song structures," but at the end of the day, every track on Miss Machine sounds like every other track. (a big freaking mess.)

Point is all these bands do, in fact, have albums that are hard to distinguish one track from another. And that's NOT a bad thing, it's perfectly fine actually. I just don't understand why some bands get praised for it and other get the shaft.

I think for some of the guitar, its really melodic and everything, but some of the guitar is a bit like black metal with really fast picking and the drums are more death metal and vocals are a mixture of Power Metal and melodic type stuff. We try to pick all the elements of all the different styles that we listen to and put them together, the speed I guess comes from when we useed to play death metal when we were young.