metal >> thread of sharing spermatids with himu

[Eschaton]

Himu, your commentary on metal is sophomoric. You say that a lot of metal (specifically targeting more extreme stuff) is lacking in melody or direction. This is fucking ridiculous, because you're praising Punk in the same sentence, when Punk is the one of the primary sources of the dissonance, atonality, and chaotic arrangement of metal!

Before punk, metal sounded like this:


No melody?

From a musical perspective, there is plenty of melody to be found in even the harshest stuff out there:







In truth, the best of extreme metal is centered on slowly evolving a melody and/or motif, just like the best of ambient. You dismissed the acidy material of aphex twin and enjoyed the simpler, more accessible stuff, but the concept is pretty much the same. It's a romantic style of composition. I, and many other metal fans, find joy in that slow development of a melody or theme hidden inside tightly structured, atonal sounding riffs, no matter how they are arranged. Eye of the storm.

[nudemacusers]

[Eric P]

Punk is the one of the primary sources of the dissonance, atonality, and chaotic arrangement of metal!

I just wanted to back Esch up on this.

There's a pretty good academic book called This Ain't The Summer of Love which looks at the intertwining nature of punk and metal and lays out the history of how each one asserted dominance over the other at various points in the 70s and 80s.

[Himu]

The problem with this is that we are using metal as a base and not arguing sub genres of metal. My problem isn't really metal as a whole, but certain sub genres. Of course a lot of metal has melody. The problem is that a lot of the metal I hear from friends or whatever doesn't have melody and are more in the way of that shit Fistful posted.

Honestly, punk was barely even the discussion in our talk.

[Polari]

If I have to choose one I'm going with punk. I'd argue it has been way more influential than metal has.

[nudemacusers]

I'd argue it has been way more influential than metal has.

Can't even be contested. DIY culture, fashion, music, art, etc.

[Rufus]

Burzum? Get that shit outta here.

[D3RANG3D]

Burzum

[Eric P]

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Punk lost.

The best shit got absorbed into metal in the form of grind, and look at everything since its emergence. lame shyt like sunny day real estate and modern screamo/hXc

Punk had some interesting ideas and spirit, but never the same emphasis on boundary pushing as a form of music or aesthetic

metal lost.

the best metal got absorbed into punk in the form of post-hardcore and noise punk and look at everything since its emergence.  lame shyt like DragonForce and modern crabcore / folk metal

Metal had some interesting ideas and spirit, but never the same emphasis on boudary pushing as a form of music of aesthetic: heh

[nudemacusers]

*looks at the commercial dominance of metal and metal inspired music from 1980-2010*

*laughs at macuser*

Oh I didn't realize this was a pop thread.

[Himu]

Dude. Why are you even bringing up punk? No one arguing in that thread CARES and our posts were comedic jabs at best. The only real response you got was when you said fuck house music. Read those pages again. You are the only person bringing up punk past the initial discussion. Everyone else is discussing the merits of metal.

[nudemacusers]

on this historic day, jimmies were rustled

[Eric P]

Burzum? Get that shit outta here.

the goat ambiance

if i can forgive wagner his racism, i can forgive varg too

uh
slight differences in wagner and varg on the racism front

[Himu]

Also, tell me what is exactly wrong with liking music that sounds nice? What sounds nice to me are things I like. I like a lot of things that wouldn't sound nice to others. So "sounding nice" is such  vapid, and especially elistist argument and way of saying "you don't get it". Well make me get it and post good music that's dissonant and chaotic? I can get that with punk, I rarely do with metal.

[Himu]

Dude. Why are you even bringing up punk? No one arguing in that thread CARES and our posts were comedic jabs at best. The only real response you got was when you said fuck house music. Read those pages again. You are the only person bringing up punk past the initial discussion. Everyone else is discussing the merits of metal.

That was how the whole argument started

House music just bores me, i dont really give a fuck about that

That was how the argument started but we all switched lanes breh.

[nudemacusers]

bro, come on, diy culture > heavy metal the movie. srs.

[nudemacusers]

that era of autechre never really sat with me, it felt like a transition from tri repetae > confield, like they were figuring out how to get real deep into the shit.

[Polari]

Man fistful really left yo ass high and dry on this one huh

[fistfulofmetal]

Sometimes you just want to listen to some aggressive dumb music with no melody and is just loud and abrasive and shit. Sometimes you want to listen to some soaring vocals against whaling guitars. Sometimes you want to listen to some slow driving rhythms.

[Polari]

I stand corrected.

[Himu]

Dude! You are reaching here. Respect it as an art form? What the fuck. Just because I don't I don't get it doesn't mean I don't respect it. And your attitude IS elitist. I only like music that "sounds good"? Do you think tweens like Brian Eno or Philip Glass? A lot of jazz is just as chaotic as some metal and punk but it jives with me because I like the sound. Do you realize the crux of your argument is that YOU think THAT type of music sounds good and yet argue that the only reason people cannot listen to that type of music is that it is "hard to digest" so we sink back to our holes to listen to what "sounds good"? And you don't think this is elitist, how exactly?

[Brehvolution]

Thought this was a good spot for this.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1886

[Himu]

I never said that about electronic. We are talking about a very specific niche of the ambient sub genre. I fucking love electronic and I fucking love ambient. This is the lack of clarification fly by generalization that I was talking about when I entered this thread.

[Himu]

Am I supposed to give everything the thumbs up?

[nudemacusers]

melody? texture? rhythm?


music is either wack or dope. eod.

[Himu]

My problem is that you've come to this conclusion just cuz I don't dig Aphex Twin. I respect em but I'm not big on the music by Twin. Like I said, I'm more of a Boards of Canada person than an Aphex Twin person. This doesn't mean I hate electronic breh.

[Brehvolution]

http://templeofficial.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-steps-of-the-temple

THey're talkin this up over in the other forum. So far so

No witch vocals

[nudemacusers]

/flamesuit on

selected ambient works 85-92 >> BOC's entire discography

Well we've all moved the goal posts past recognition I guess, if there ever were any. Either way

punk sux

[Himu]

I'm not that attached to punk. My fave genres are jazz, classical, rnb/soul, funk, electronic, and rock. Hip hop, punk, country, metal are all genres I fuck with when I want something different.

[Himu]

Fuck off Mac.

[nudemacusers]

I care because you do > BOC

surfing on sine waves > BOC

[fistfulofmetal]

http://templeofficial.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-steps-of-the-temple

THey're talkin this up over in the other forum. So far so

No witch vocals

Motherfucker I've posted this at least four times on this forum over the last year.

[Himu]

you niccas are high and this is all a joke

Pretty good!

[Brehvolution]

Motherfucker I've posted this at least four times on this forum over the last year.

Sorry breh. Someimes it clicks and sometimes it don't. 

[nudemacusers]

 himu

[fistfulofmetal]

Heavy Metal is the only good genre of music. Reason because there are so many subgenres that incorporate so many different styles that literally anyone can find something to enjoy.

Everything else is garbage.

Country? Garbage
Rap? Garbage
Hip Hop? Garbage
Pop? Garbage

[Rufus]

I never really got into that sludge/post metal shyt. Isis was always okay. Jesu was solid too. I always liked some of Boris's sludgier material () but overall

Acid Bath is great though.

I don't always have the patience for it, but there's great stuff there.

[Himu]

Heavy Metal is the only good genre of music. Reason because there are so many subgenres that incorporate so many different styles that literally anyone can find something to enjoy.

Everything else is garbage.

Country? Garbage
Rap? Garbage
Hip Hop? Garbage
Pop? Garbage

Jazz, rock, electronic. Boom.

Electronic easily has more sub genres than metal. Hell it could be argued heavy metal itself is a sub genre of rock.

[Himu]

Blues took wing from country, and blues is a main inspiration for rnb. Much like how rap is a splinter from electronic, rnb is a splinter from country. Saying metal only has sub genres is foolishness.

[recursivelyenumerable]

The only good thing about this thread is the excuse to listen to Aphex Twin, which I will now go do

[Rufus]

How about swing metal:

[fistfulofmetal]

Jazz, rock, electronic. Boom.

garbage, garbage, garbage

[StealthFan]

Talking shit about Holy Diver

Dio> Any band you like. Shit even latter day Dio, after his voice was totally shot, is better than anything you've ever liked during the course of your goddamn existence.

[headwalk]

metal and punk are both giant umbrellas with no drawn boundaries and a lot of crossover. punk in particular is defined almost purely by who your band hangs out with. you could sound like willy nelson, judas priest or pearl jam and as long as you're on the right bills, people will consider you a punk band.

people who get super autistic about punk subgenre definitions probably spend too much time on the internet and not enough time at shows.

[fistfulofmetal]

I'm trying to find more but I like death metal with male and female vocals

I LOVE this song

[Himu]

Yeah then there's that prog rock metal like that latest Opeth album.

Either way, it doesn't really change my argument as I could whip out jazz electronic or rock electronic.

[Rufus]

Aw, you make The Wild Child cry.

Arch Enemy comes to mind, but Angela growls, so...

[Himu]

Opeth isn't bad. I dig them.

[fistfulofmetal]

Need some female fronted Hungarian folk metal

[fistfulofmetal]

i'll be honest here, I don't even know what this thread is about. i'm just using it as another excuse to post heavy metal youtube videos.

[Himu]

Opeth isn't bad. I dig them.

I just don't particularly care for their abrupt and awkward combination of some really basic death metal with that acoustic, singer songwritery type shit. I think Katatonia does what they do in a much better and comfortable way, and I think you might like them. I couldn't recall what to recommend to you, but their newer shit would probably suit you good, Viva Emptiness album maybe?

Really dig Sepultura btw. And I've heard of that band, good choice.

[fistfulofmetal]

Queensryche

[Eli Gulgin]

I'm getting some serious special fellow vibes from this thread and I don't even know what the hell is going on

[Eric P]

it's metal that brings out forum spergs

metal and jazz are the spergiest of genres but jazz is all old people so no one sees them on forums talking about alternate 16ths splitting the difference between free and post-cool configurations

[Shadow Mod]

Reposting from other thread.









I'm going to go find some good shit by Baroness too.

[headwalk]

I'm getting some serious special fellow vibes from this thread and I don't even know what the hell is going on

metal dudes are essentially chaos nerds.

[headwalk]

I still don't understand the weird ass animosity between Punk and Metal in the subsets of the internet. They're both my favorite genres within my all time favorite genre(Rock), they've both inspired one another, they've both have had their low points and high points in history, and they both have annoying fucking fans.

I don't understand how you can like metal and hate punk or vice versa.

that's the internet. it's actually probably cooler to wear a metal shirt at a punk show than a punk shirt. last punk/hc all dayer i was at, a good third of the bands were musically indistinguishable from metal bands (and i don't mean faggy nu-metalcore or whatever it is that involves straightened hair, recycled maiden riffs and synchronised axe gymnastics) and everyone's favourite guy was this viking looking dude double fisting beers in a pantera shirt.

i mean deathwish are generally where hardcore bands go to make it big, and check out their roster: http://www.deathwishinc.com/bands whole bunch of metal on there.

i'm talking the modern expanded punk scene though, if you mean crusties who haven't evolved their idea of punk since 1979, well, who gives a fuck about them?

[Shadow Mod]

Most of the time I just end up confusing genres and look like an asshole. Not even trying to hate on 'em either just like "oh hey what's this?" ____ punk, ___ metal. I can't keep up.

[headwalk]

Most of the time I just end up confusing genres and look like an asshole. Not even trying to hate on 'em either just like "oh hey what's this?" ____ punk, ___ metal. I can't keep up.

that's what i meant by my internet snark earlier. if your music experience is coming purely from your own bedroom, there's a temptation there to start trying to super studious about it on a musical level to somehow elevate your connection to it. where the real connection should come from getting your tooth chipped on the mic in the middle of some gang vocal pile on.

probably why electronic music is the worst for those types.

[Shadow Mod]

Most of the time I just end up confusing genres and look like an asshole. Not even trying to hate on 'em either just like "oh hey what's this?" ____ punk, ___ metal. I can't keep up.

that's what i meant by my internet snark earlier. if your music experience is coming purely from your own bedroom, there's a temptation there to start trying to super studious about it on a musical level to somehow elevate your connection to it. where the real connection should come from getting your tooth chipped on the mic in the middle of some gang vocal pile on.

probably why electronic music is the worst for those types.

I love electronic and I can't stand the "THIS ISN'T TRANCE IT'S HOUSE HOW DARE YOU."

Fuck off.