The current trend in Metal: "Cool to not play metal"

dead1 · **Joined:** Tue Apr 13, 2010 7:22 am **Posts:** 2250

It would appear to me that the latest trend in Metal is for Metal bands to not play Metal or to at least dilute their sound so much there's only slight traces of Metal.

E.g. Opeth, Nachtmystium, Mastodon, The Haunted, Morbid Angel, Queensryche etc etc.

Just an observation.

Thrashtildeth · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 7:40 am

The other thing those bands all have in common is that they've all displayed a tendency to experiment and grow, and they have all been around for more than a few albums.

Stands to reason this would happen. I don't see it as a trend at all.

You can find just as many (actually, way more) thrash, death, black metal bands who are churning out the same thing over and over.

The Annoying Frenchman · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:00 am

Wise words, TTD.

stevelovesmoonspell · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:27 am

dead1 wrote:

It would appear to me that the latest trend in Metal is for Metal bands to not play Metal or to at least dilute their sound so much there's only slight traces of Metal.

E.g. Opeth, Nachtmystium, Mastodon, The Haunted, Morbid Angel, Queensryche etc etc.

Just an observation.

And the aspect shared by all of those bands is they all sound like shit (now). Experimentation is beautiful in everything if the quality if the music doesn't deteriorate during said artistic change, unfortunately most artists change for whatever their reasons, and end up sounding like crap.

MetalStorm · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:51 am

stevelovesmoonspell wrote:

dead1 wrote:

It would appear to me that the latest trend in Metal is for Metal bands to not play Metal or to at least dilute their sound so much there's only slight traces of Metal.

E.g. Opeth, Nachtmystium, Mastodon, The Haunted, Morbid Angel, Queensryche etc etc.

Just an observation.

And the aspect shared by all of those bands is they all sound like shit (now). Experimentation is beautiful in everything if the quality if the music doesn't deteriorate during said artistic change, unfortunately most artists change for whatever their reasons, and end up sounding like crap.

Goat · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 11:42 am

I'd still call Mastodon and Morbid Angel's latest albums metal. Pretty harsh standards if you don't consider them that...

Rhys · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 1:01 pm

I thought the new trend was that metal is cool?

AlexandeR · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 6:49 pm

Rhys wrote:

I thought the new trend was that metal is cool?

That was 30 years ago.

The Annoying Frenchman · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:50 pm

Nah.
Metal is kewl again!
Hell, ANVIL is cool!

Legacy Of The Night · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:52 pm

The Annoying Frenchman wrote:

Nah.
Metal is kewl again!
Hell, ANVIL is cool!

I think Metal is "cool" in an ironic way, that is to say, not cool at all, but those people who are all about irony will be all "lol metal" because it's silly and they're just so cool that their coolness can survive being tarnished by silly Metal stuff.

Eeeugh, fuck hipsters.

The Annoying Frenchman · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:56 pm

Nah, you got it all upside down Legacy. Metal is teh unkewl music genre so, now that we have a back to the 80s hype (the epitomic era of bad taste and uncoolness), it's logical for metal to be cool again.
Not that it'll last...

noodles · **Posted:** Mon Oct 10, 2011 10:36 pm

not metal is my favourite subgenre of metal

dead1 · **Joined:** Tue Apr 13, 2010 7:22 am **Posts:** 2250

Goat wrote:

I'd still call Mastodon and Morbid Angel's latest albums metal. Pretty harsh standards if you don't consider them that...

The Mastodon one sounds like modern AIC in many places. It's metal in parts and rock in most.

Morbid Angel has a few DM bits but its really promoting the industrial rock.

Indeed the band themselves have gone to efforts to promote the idea of Morbid Angel as not just a metal band.

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