Metal Reviews

Doing the same song over and over again is a skill?

No, but driving someone clinically insane within the space of five minutes simply through the use of sound sure as hell is.

Makes you laugh when you think about L'USA tormenting Iraqis by playing Metallica at them. Switch to Dragonforce, guise.

"Dragonforcing"

Yep, has that "unconventional interrogation technique" ring to it.

My ex-singer loved DragonForce (goes to show about his musical intelligence), and whenever we drove somewhere he'd blast the CD at insane levels. And I can testify that that is in fact torture. I couldn't stand it.

Why the fuck do the DF albums have such a high score on this site?? Objective reviewing? Bullshit. If Ultra Beatdown gets over a 90, then Korn's debut is a bloody classic.

Which is of course like saying that if elephants like tomatos, then covering a gatepost in whiskey will result in a giraffe population boom.

You know what I mean. At least KoRn has variety and meaning (to some extent). How's the review coming along?

Yes Zad we're all waiting with bated breath for you KoRn review. Where is it?

Come on, quickly!

It'll be at least another week away, I won't get it done in time for this week for personal reasons. Plus I have two essays to write and a piece that I said I'd write for someone that I haven't managed to get halfway through yet, so no Korn this week.

Can we expect some Pop if we don't get Korn?

I have some things up my sleeve, but nothing Pop.

U2?

Haha, I'd never get away with it. I've wondered in the past about doing The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, but they are well over the Rock/Metal guidelines. I know Misha did piano music, but it's different, really, not much in the way of experimental music that I can tag them under. Heck, I'm lucky there are enough fans of Nick Cave here...

The Pogues? Definitely important to the more rebellious forms of music.

True. And someone did Flogging Molly, didn't they? There's a very fine line between what (I think, at least) MR can have and what we can't, but there is a line.

I do want to start living up to the most leftfield parts of my musical tastes, anyhow, and not just do the random black and death that I seem to be.

Flogging Molly's latest, "Float", got a really high score, and it wasn't even one of their more electric albums, it was entirely acoustic. I say go with it, I can't imagine a metalhead actively disliking the Pogues. The way I see it, Metal owes a huge part of its image and development to Anglo-Saxon folk music.

folk metal does often make me wonder about people, too. but it's more of a "why did they think this would be a good idea?" and i usually assume the answer has something to do with European heritage because that makes metal bands do some pretty awful stuff (classical-inspired/symphonic bands like Rhapsody or later Emperor, NS black metal, etc) rather than "why are they doing this?" at least they're trying to write melodies and riffs that move from one to the next more often than not.

for Dragonforce, i guess maybe because i've never listened to them much, i can respect that they've written one really good song. every couple of months i'll look up a random song on youtube and be like "woo!~~" then forget about them for a while.

Dragonforce write the same song over and over again? i find their songs far more memorable and distiguishable than most of the kvlt black metal i've heard, what with the fuzzy guitar riff, constant beat and indecipherable screeching it often presents.

Yeah dude it's always

super fast riff
SQUEAL
"Flying high on wings of fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiire"
"blah blah blah blah CARRY ON"
More super fast
solo
chorus again
super fast