Metal Reviews

I dont consider myself a metalhead because even though i listen to a lot of metal bands like Opeth, Bloodbath, edge of sanity etc, i also love bands like the beatles, led zeppelin, queens of the stone age, and other lighter stuff. but the thing is, no other genre is as diverse as metal. All punk bands sound alike. all pop singers sound like backstreet boys. but within metal there is so much diversity.

Thank you for making metal.

Yea man.. U are right.. All punk bands sounds almost alike.. Not only punk R&B and HipHop also sound alike.. They'll make 101 remix from 1 song.. Thats bloody lame.. And their songs are fuckin pissing off.. They'll be singing bout how many times they got laid, how rich they are, how big of a gangstar they are and ect.. Its fuckin lame.. Sometimes i wonder how can people enjoy this kinda bullshit..
Thank You Metal if not for metal i think i mite be listening to crap also..

And I don't know how "big and popular" Schnappi and Crazy frog is in your countries but here in Sweden those fakking singles and albums is still on like top ten on many selling lists. It's insane how people can actually pay to listen to something horrible like that.

I'm thinking I could be one of those people who bought regular pop-music today, if it wasn't for my step into Metal. I'll never be able to go back now, thank God (it's just a good expression, I don't believe in that stuff anyway).

Yeah, right... :roll:
Metal is diverse, but this is bullshit.



If you look a bit deeper than the current crop of pop-punk crap, you'll find a lot of diversity.

Hell yeah! Get into classic stuff, try the following:

The Clash
The Sex Pistols
The Damned
Dead Kennedys
The Misfits
MC5

No doubt some clever-arse (Stefan?) will come along in a minute and double that list, but it's a good place to start,from the top of my head.

listening to genres other than metal doesn't make you a non-metalhead imo

also, you have to realize... i bet r&b fans also think all metal sounds the same. same way they don't appreciate metal we don't appreciate r&b. there are probably loads of little sub-genres but we just can't notice it.

I'll be that clever-arse.
Discharge
U.K. Subs
G.B.H
Fear
The Dead Boys
Rudimentary Peni
Circle Jerks
Black Flag
Teenage Head
Dr. Know
Raw Power
Adolescents
Crass... there are literally tons more, but fuck typing them all out.
BTW, The Damned aren't truly punk, though heavily punk influenced.
They are considered one of the original Batcave bands... still they are quite good at times.
V.

All great bands, i would add Bad Religion and Bad Brains too !

I love metal too, and there is a lot of scope for imagination and variation within, but that's the same with most genres - I can't claim this for rap or country as I don't know enough about either, but every other genre can be just as innovative, even before you consider all the great bands who skillfully combine multiple genres, or even ignore the concept of them altogether!

and if you're not a punk fan, check out another huge subset of music that continues to influence metal.. prog rock! most of it is more exciting and challenging than "Dark Side of the Moon." 8)

Metal is certainly one of the more complex genres. I was DJing a party on Saturday, and it had been so long since I'd been forced to listen to an entire r&b or rap song that I'd forgotten, really, what they sound like. When I played 'em, they sounded very...barren to me. Just four or so sounds over and over again under the vocals. I thought, "Where's the rest of the song? Where's the melodies and harmonies to go over and under the rhythm?"
I was very happy to go home and listen to Amon Amarth.

And old Rhytm&Blues is a completely different thing than the Rap&Bass of today.

Well, I've never even heard of them so I guess here in the States the probably aren't enormously popular ("popular" may be but not huge). Then again, I can't imagine too many Europeans know who Eminem is.

i'm without a doubt,not a 'real' metalhead for i listen to soooooo much more bands/artists than metal, i can enjoy pop rock much as long as it's the real kind and not the one day flies of mtv or sth.
Metal, punk, pop rock, blues,hard rock, alt rock, prog rock, it's all fine by me. i always go berserk when someone calls me a 'closeminded hearball' because i say i listen to metal

Have you ever realized that before you really listened to metal, you thought all metal sounded allike? The fact that we hear it so much makes us hear differences. Metal is just a genre.

dream theater is quite different from dimmu borgir...

And Xasthur is quite different from Dimmu Borgir, but someone not used to Metal would beg to differ.

ARGH! THAT CRAZY FROG!! IT MAKES ME WANT TO KILL SOMEONE!!!!! [namely, the fucking frog]

hats off to its creator, though. he's so diabolical he makes satan look innocent. first he makes that gay ass frog, and then he makes SONGS with it. jesus.

i hear they put a new one out.. this time based on that "i like to move it" song (you might have heard it in Madagascar). if you must hear it, PLEASE download! this is one "artist" i'd love to see starving.

also, here in portugal they're selling a mobile phone ring which is MONKEYS FARTING. there is a rap and a rock version. i ask you, WHO THE FUCK BUYS THIS SHIT?!

Eminem is (unfortunately) huge in Europe.



We've got this same crap in Finland. Everyone who buys stuff like that should be post-aborted.

omfg... the fucking frog is big here too, i cant believe people are actually buying the cd

The frog is INTERNATIONAL.... :?