Metal Reviews

yes internet its such a great thing for metal, but i think its also the reason so many crappy metal wannabe bands (don't get me wrong i'm not saying that new bands are all crap) are popping out of nowhere to saturate the genre..... wich its by far not a good thing.

and no, i did't listen to nu-shit, when i was a young and impresionable kid i bought an iron maiden album for the artwork... needless to say i was blown away.

Same here, I've discovered so many great bands from websites and forums. Without the internet I would still think Pantera, Cradle of Filth, Slayer and Iron Maiden the most underground metal that exhisted...

My point exactly. All Ive ever found in CD shops in my area are Gamma Ray, Anthrax, and fuckin Cradle CDs.

By the way, here's the disgusting truth behind the name "Limp Bizkit" in case nobody knew: Limp Biscuit is a game played in Scotland. It's like Spin the Bottle in the sense that there's a bunch of people in a circle and a lemon cookie in the center. The people take turns masturbating on the cookie. The last person to masturbate on it has to eat it. I guess that just goes to show what goes on in the sick and twisted mind of Fred Durst.

Here's another interesting fact: Their last album Results May Vary literally sold roughly 1/10 of what Chocolate Starfish... sold three years earlier (7,000,000 copies of Starfish, 700,000 copies of Results).

I think the internet is probably what's keeping the metal scene alive right now. Without it, bands like Iced Earth and In Flames would probably be lucky to sell even 300 records in the States. And I think a lot of the younger metal fans like most of us would probably consider bands like Linkin Park and Korn "metal."

I have never liked Nu-metal.. I started listening to rock because of a Creed song I heard like 8 years ago when I was 11 or 12 and I loved it and from there I had a friend who was into heavy metal, so I instantly transported to stuff like Nightwish, Iron Maiden and Savatage.

it's good that you listen to real metal but i just have to say this:

CREED SUCKS!!!

They certainly do...

creed does suck

but unfourtunatley i went basicly the same way he did, when i was like 10 i got a creed cd and a friend burned me a copy of his system of a down, then it is like a slide into actual metal. A year latter i was listenign to Ac Dc, Black sabbath, Ozzy, and rush on a constant cycle.

The internet hand a great part in that. Without cd burners i probably would not have got the music i wanted beause of lack of cash.

Yay for technology ripping off music :?

I never listened to nu-metal, although I was aware of it. Hmm, seems like Korn and Limp Bizkit were starting to draw a lot of attention during my first year of college - I can distinctly remember hearing / seeing them when my roommate watched MTV (which was rare, thankfully). It just wasn't something I was into.

I did like some of the alternative rock out at the time and back when I was in high school - Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, etc. And yes, I even liked (half of) Creed's first album which, interestingly enough, I still find listenable on rare occasion (whereas their later releases I found to be trash from the beginning). Anyway, I listen to a couple of those alternative bands / albums still on occasion, Alice in Chains particularly.

However, I was listening to music since I was four or five years old, largely because of my older siblings. I still listen to some of that stuff to this day even. And not to mention that my dad had hundreds of LP's as well. So I was kind of exposed to a lot of different things even when I was really young, and it never bothered me to try new things. I have found at least something I like from nearly every genre... but especially not from nu-metal, current rock and alt rock, and most other even remotely mainstream stuff made in the last 6 years or so.

You know, we can say all we want about mainstream music, but I can remember a time when some of it really was decent or even good. Now it seems like absolutely nothing is even remotely listenable at all. Considering how much my tastes have broadened in the last few years and the kinds of things I like, I tend to think that trend is more the fault of current music trends and not shrinking tastes on my part. I'm just really disappointed (though not surprised) with where that sort of music has gone of recent. *shrugs*

Anyway, very interesting posts here...

Oh, and as for getting into metal, it basically started when I happened to see Megadeth and Motley Crue with a friend by accident. Someone had won tickets, planned to take my friend, then couldn't go herself. So he and I went and were totally blown away by Megadeth. Motley Crue followed, and to their credit put on a decent show, but didnt' even compare. ... After that I got into thrash and gradually poked around more and more on the internet listening to new things

And thankfully, I had a decent record store in my area as well. Not great, but very good, and I found a lot of things there that I was looking for before I had to turn solely to the internet.

-Tyrion

I strangely still like a song off of the human clay album by creed. What if.
The rest fo there stuff i still hate but like once every three months ill listen to it, then put it back in the shoe box in my closet where it belongs.

I wish i could accidently end up at a megadeth show.

Creed isnt so bad.. I always thought their guitarist Mark Tremonti was better equiped than most popular rock bands, he at least had some catchy hooks and a few solos here and there, not great by any means, but not to bad.. I still like a few songs by them, namely: Torn, My Own Prison, Unforgiven, What If, Faceless Man, Wrong Way, Bullets, and their cover of Riders On The Storm by The Doors.
Most of their singles sucked ass I'll admit, but their albums had some good songs on em. I only ever listen to those songs when Im metalled out though (It happens).

In unrelated news, I was watching the show Revelations yesterday (its a 6 part series about 2 people searching for a miracle baby supposedly the new Christ and they are being hunted by Satanists and there is stuff about the anti-christ and blah blah blah, I dont care. It has Bill Pullmen in it though, so its cool no matter what) Anyways and Fred Durst is acting in it, What the hell is the singer for Limp Bizkit doing acting?? He sucked to, he punched some kid in the face and said "Dicsipline Starts in the home, Welcome home" an ok line, but not from him, the way he said it was just bad. End rant.

I have seen the first two parts of the show , which is durst in

It's funny how Satanists capture the imagination of tv and movie writers. They are like a human form of the Boogeyman.

The popular stuff in the 70s was vastly superior, it's amazing how many albums Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and the Who sold.

He was in the 2nd one for like .2 seconds, just enough for me to see his face and be like "Was that Fred Durst?? Naaahh, couldnt be? then who?" But then in the 3rd episode "Fred Durst" had his name in the opening credits and he was in it for abit, not much. But the 4th, the newest one, he was in it quite abit, and actually not to bad this time. He killed a cop with the help of a crowbar to the head.

I've never been a fan of nu-metal, it gives metal a bad name. Limp Bizkit totally suck, my most hated band of all time. Linkin Park is a little bit better than Bizkit, but still blows. Any band who crosses with a idiot rapper to make a remix of their already bad songs to make them even more bad is not metal (with the exception of 1. Anthrax/Public Enemy "Bring The Noise", and 2. Aerosmith/Run DMC "Walk This Way"....they were good back in their time.
I did like Spineshank for a while, but they were a cross between metal and nu-metal. Their 1st album was more metal but noadays their more nu, and so I've lost interest.
I'm just waiting for this genre to die a horrible death, which it deserves.
I dont think Creed is nu-metal, their more hard rock than anything else. And I too liked "What If" when it first came out, mainly for the hard riffs in the song.
With Korn, I cant stand the way they play the majority of their songs. Hard start, slow boring verses and hard in the chorus. Its like that with almost every damn song for them....although I will admit that the song Here To Stay is pretty good, only because they dont go by their hard, slow, hard script with most of their songs.

Nu- Metal never existed wen i 1st got into metal.. Miss those good old days and i pity the kids of today..

Don't feel pity. Kids today might start out liking nu-metal, and if they have any taste, they'll quickly start listening to the good stuff as they find it. If they've heard Iron Maiden, Opeth, Horna, Nile, Dark Tranquillity and still think Limp Bizkit is the way to go, well, feel nothing but contempt.

I'll still listen to Nu-Metal if it's good, but there's not that much good Nu-Metal out there. 99.9% of Nu-Metal out there sucks total shit as Limp Bizkit do.

I think I started into metal with Metallica and Megadeth, having come from AC/DC, Zep, and other classic rock stuff.

It's funny, Nu-metal was all the rage when I was getting into heavy music but I always thought bands like Limp Bizkit and such were freaking terrible.