Metal Reviews

Regardless of what you/they might think of 'em, they are still far too good to be listed in a thread like this.

Fortunately, I've never listened to any BM band that's terrible. I've liked all BM that I've listened to. But again, I haven't tried too hard to search for some obscure BM band even though I love the genre as much as any other in metal.

Hear, hear.

In Mayhem's defence, it's difficult to build a strong catalog when your main composer/mastermind is murdered. I think they've done ok to survive the deaths of Dead and Euronymous.

Certainly. The only reason Mayhem was mentioned was to get a rise out of Husker.

In a thread at MA about the influence of DMD'S you'd be surprised the amount of people who find the album overrated. I think it would be a good discussion for another thread, though personally unlike the folks at MA I don't think comparing the album to the likes of bands such as Marduk, Samael, or Gorgoroth is worth doing.

I thought music was supposed to make you feel good? I cant imagine how bm achieves that goal. Thats just my view, i understand its not the same for everyone, but thats why i dont care for the genre

I remember a lot of people here thinking DMDS is overrated. Personally I think it's a great album but not quite a classic.

I doubt Slayer is feel-good music. Or any death metal, obviously. Go bash them, too?

Oddly enough, a lot of the BM I listen to invokes positive emotions. For instance, when I listen to something like Krallice or Skagos, there is nothing but good vibes the whole time. I don't know if its just because I'm so used to listening to the genre, but quite a few BM bands have a positive effect on me even though they may not have intended for that lol.

Yeah I think music is supposed to be entertaining and feel good. To me a lot of black metal does that even if some of it is supposed to be " Depressing ". A lot of black metal tunage to me is catchy, or dronish, and is pleasent to my ears. I really love the guitar tone in a lot of black metal, the energy... Stuff like that.

I think it definitely achieves that goal. At least for me.

Music isn't necessarily supposed to make you feel good. Like any art form, there's a variety of emotions that can be invoked.

Yeah probably, I just try to piss people off

Yeah if music is done well it makes me happy, even if the emotion that goes into the music is negative.

Or Exodus, Kreator, Destruction, etc.
Metal is not about only feeling "good", it can also be a cathartic experience.

ding ding ding.

I guess I do get annoyed always hearing Sublime at every party I go to.

I felt DMDS was overrated when I first started listening to black metal. Then one day I listened to it and it really struck me, it contains the best riffs/production/ out of pretty much all of the early 90's black metal albums.

From my experience a lot of people who listen to black metal aren't truly into it and are sometimes too young to even properly feel it yet. I know I didn't quite understand and feel it when I was 16, I was much more into death and thrash metal. However as I've gotten older and a little more pissed off I definitely like black metal the most. Tastes change. Not saying everyone is like this, but I definitely believe there are some people who just aren't as into the black metal sound and idea who listen to it just like any other genre of metal but aren't die-hard black metal listeners. If black metal is your favorite genre of metal you probably will be in agreement with my statement in the first paragraph.


Edit: I fucking hate Sublime other than like 2 songs. Brad Nowell wrote some seriously retarded fucking songs.

As far as "feel-good" music goes. I would say American Pop music at the moment makes me "feel good" but I don't really like that "feel good" feeling all of the time because I feel fucking retarded. Some riffs in Emperor's first demos make me feel really fucking good though. I have a blast listening to that shit.

But music is supposed to make you feel good, the cathartic experience that you mention feels fucking great IMO, im not in any way an expert on Black Metal but you can take Doom for example, a great Doom album evokes feelings of sorrow and despair, we the fans appreciate this, we get the intention of the artist in protraying those feelings and enjoy it, its like watching movies, not only comedies makes us feel good, we watch dramas, psychological thrillers, horror movies, etc for the same purppouse wich is in the end to have a good time, and just like in any artform the better the artist is in expressing this feelings the more we appreciate it, i dont think anyone listen to music to feel misserable, otherwise you should all be listening to Justin Bieber.

I think Metal has a wider spectrum of emotions that the artist can provoke on the listener, and in my case it also comes with a feeling of empowerment and thats what IMO makes metal so fucking great, also no other form of music makes you headbang.

Fuck Sublime and every douchey sandal-wearing polo-tee-collar-popping backwards-cap chest-bumping Natty-Ice-drinking asshole who listens to them.