Metal Reviews

Maybe they're just easily impressed, heh. This place does tend to fixate on a few bands and praise them to the skies, rather than spreading the love.

Pfft.

Arsis > every other Melodic Death Metal band.

Yeah but melodeath is bollocks anyway.

A year or two ago I realized I'd rather just listen to the best couple bands in a genre than try to become familiar with everything in it. So spreading the love seems kinda like a waste of time and I don't listen to much death metal other than Arsis, Immolation, and Dismember.

i didn't think the song was all that bad, they trimmed the song down a little but overall its not bad. I have really hated on their past work but this song is a nice change of pace.

STARVE!
STARVE!
STARVE FOR THE DEVIL!!!

Looking forward to a Crüe cover, guys.

And yes the only reason I listen to this band is because they're from the USA, clearly. What is this "Rest of the World" that you speak of? I've never heard of it.

North America just has better culture for metal and is way better at making it than Europe, except maybe Britain but British dudes liked the blues so much so it's closer to North America than it is to Europe, musically. European bands are too obsessed with dorky shit like classical music and Christianity and they apply it to metal in the least cool way possible. I know when I first heard of Arsis I was like "fucking finally a melodeath band from the good old USA. They'll destroy that Eurotrash." AND THEY DO. Scandinavia invented folk metal and Italians (or Italian-Americans) have a weird thing for shred guitar so really Europeans should probably just stay away from electric guitars and stick to clarinets and pianos. Except France. They can keep playing sludge because Year of No Light and Celeste make pretty cool noise.

HO DID THEY

Crazy post.

How about forgetting that practically every metal subgenre as well as its progenitors were European. Yeah, good idea.

When I was typing my post out, I did have the thought that it was authored by n00dlz and was therefore tongue-in-cheek, but couldn't be bothered looking for a suitable "I'M A HOERS!" picture.

could be hurr I'm a HOERS but half the time with what noodles says it's more like this

That'll do.

Pff, not the good ones like metalcore, thrash, death and nu-metal.

I do think that in general NA bands focus more on rhythm while Europe bands focus more on melody so there's more of a heavy riffs sludge kinda scene in NA, which is the best kind of metal so I like NA more.

Surely you're joking. Please reply that you are.

Are you not aware of the North American Heavy Riff scene then, Karmo?

I seem to agree with noodles that, although most subgenres might have originated in Europe, North American bands tend do them better.

Well, Carcass > Arsis, for a start.

Not to turn this into Europe vs America or anything.

A round of applause for the artistic leading edge of North America, guys.

Hey, Warhol may be overrated, but don't diss Jackson P.

Look at who's never been to a modern art exhibit!

This stuff may seem like bullshit on the internet or on TV or wherever, but this stuff is a lot more interesting irl. You can't get the full effect of these works from a pixelated screen.