| Author | Message | ||
     Typeone |
my bud Mike D and crew from Killswitch Engage have released a new record and it f'in rocks!  Zupport! http://www.killswitchengage.com | ||
| Seth |
Killswitch Engage kicks ass! Another band from Boston that's the sh*t!!!  | ||
| Aeholton |
The instrumentals were good, but what's with all the shouting/screaming by the lead singer? (Oh my gosh...I've turned into my dad!) | ||
| Typeone |
raw emotion.  | ||
| Rasmonis |
Good music, I'm still new to Death Metal, it's growing on me. | ||
| Buellzebub |
good album, they've been flogging it on "hard Attack" (Sirius 27) ... on another note METAL RULES! 30 odd years and getting stronger every day | ||
| Jscott |
I'll check it out. I'm kind of digging Isis and Pelican right now. | ||
| Typeone |
Jscott, Australasia from Pelican is a great record. only one i have by them but i love that record. are you into Neurosis, Sleep or Godflesh? Pelican is different but fits in with those bands for me when i'm in the mood for real heavy, extended, drudge. | ||
| Disturbed |
Good stuff! Not_TOO_heavy but check out Lacuna Coil. They are from Italy, they have a huge sound. You can watch videos of them on music.yahoo.com And Disturbed always gets much playtime ^_^ | ||
| Jscott |
The only Pelican album I have is "The Fire in Our Will Beckon the Thaw" and it's great. "Panopticon" is an equally great album by Isis. I have heard a little Neurosis, but haven't heard Sleep or Godflesh. | ||
| Typeone |
noted. i'll pick that other Pelican up. re: Godflesh.. . Streetcleaner rules. the first track, Like Rats, is one of my all time favs. | ||
| Mfell2112 |
So Cookie monster has made a comeback as the singer(And I use that term loosely) for Killswitch?:-) Why do these guy scream nowadays and not sing? I put on the first Queen album for my son the other day and he had trouble grasping the fact that a guy was actually singing and he didn't quite get those killer multipart vocal harmonies. I told him those harmonies are another instrument and counter melody. Very difficult to pull off live I would like to add. It is very easy to scream out of key without any melody or notes. Try SINGING three part harmonies over complex melodies\time sigs ala Kings X. To each his own I guess. Long live the Beatles. Regards Mike | ||
| Typeone |
hahaa! 'Cookie Monster', love it. i hear what you're saying, but to each his own is correct.. . to me, its great we have so much to choose from when listening to music. my library of music contains LOTS more than just heavy/screaming/CookieMonster/whateveryouwanttocal l it, tons of 'classic', 'ground-breaking' bands that i like but i'll never understand Queen, the Beach Boys and especially not the Beatles.  i get sh*t for that quite a bit but man were they awful (the Beatles). don't write off 'screaming' as being so easy until you've poured your soul into a record and released it for the world to hear. even then, WGAF if people like it or not, just creating is a powerful outlet. (Message edited by typeone on December 04, 2006) | ||
| Jscott |
Long live Freddy Mercury! My very first album was the "Flash Gordon Soundtrack". Horrible movie, but great music by Queen. | ||
| Mfell2112 |
Well Typeone an individuals taste in music is developed throughout ones lifetime. Me being a forty something while my son being 18 we have very different tastes in music. We are of two very different generations. My son does like some groups that I like but he prefers stuff like Killswitch and my guess is when I give him the web address he will go there and dig them. He is a metal freak. I tried to hook him up on some funk like say vintage James Brown,Sly Stone,Ohio Players and the like. He doesn't like it. I tried to get him hooked on Jazz with Coltrane,Miles,Herbie,Dizzy,Bird,Jimmy Smith etc. He didn't like that either. Psychedelic rock he kind of liked but not really although he dug the Revolver album by the Beatles(IMO their best).Soul music like say Sam and Dave,The Staple singers,Aretha,Motown,forget about it. Then I tried to hook him up on some prog rock ala, Yes,Hatfield and the north,Steve Hillage,Gong,Genesis,Tull etc. He dug Tull but that is about it. Personally I don't dislike that modern metal style of music by any means. It just gets really old really quick for me when all the singers do is scream. Most of them sound very similiar when they sing that style. When I grew up each group had a very strong sound idenity. You had Ozzy,Plant,Hendrix,Mercury,McCartney,Lennon,Dylan and countless other and each sang in their own distinct style with literally no resemblence to one another. I would call that originality. I can say the same about drummers,guitarists and bass players of the day as well. Not alot of that left these days. Hey JScott have you heard the 1st Queen album? Regards Mike | ||
| Rainman |
Taste is like, well, uh, taste. It's what's in it for you. My mom was an opera-trained mezzo soprano and classical pianist and my dad a hillbilly so I grew up with Ernest Tubb, Old Hank and Mario Lonza and Rachmaninoff. (Spellings?) I got into Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, then Paul Revere and E.L.O. and REM and Eminem and Ludacris and Dvorak and Don Williams and played in blues band and listen to bluegrass and .......... Damn, I'm so confused as to my identity it's no wonder I ride a Blast. | ||
| Typeone |
Mfell2112, maybe once he realizes that the music he's into was influenced by quite a few of classics you listed, he might turn an ear. i guess i was lucky to be exposed to it all while growing up. i like understanding the roots to what i'm listening to, even if its a parallel influence. its all mutated from somewhere. sounds like you have a great history to share with him, i wouldn't stop recommending 'classics' | ||
| Kano832003 |
Mfell2112, If you're looking for more singing in modern heavy styles of music check out Trivium's new album. Very old school Metallica with a lot of modern influence. That and their leadsinger has switched from screaming/growling to actually singing. Another newer band making the change is Avenged Sevenfold, very awsome band. On the subject of screaming/growling taking no talent whatsoever...try it. A lot of people thing that these singers are running their vocals through a device that alters their voice to sound like that. Not the case. And to be honest I find it harder to scream then I do to sing. I will give that you can understand singing easier, but to those of us that listen to the screaming all the time, we do pretty well in figuring out what they are saying. Another point to bring is that the vocals in a lot of Hardcore Metal/Hate Metal bands arent really there to literaly send a message. They are there to invoke emotion in the people listening. A lot of people view things like mosh pits as retarted or stupid, a lot of the people that partake in them see them as a way to release pent up aggression and anger. They are almost therapudic to a lot of people (me included). I love all music (even some country) and I'm in a Hardcore Metal band (Movement To June www.myspace.com/movementtojune ...shameless plug, but hey, it's my job). Another source for more vocaly appealing music would be Progressive Metal and Dark/Black Metal. Bands like Dream Theater, Dragonforce and Type O Negative. I think the main thing is to be open to all kinds of music and be accepting of other peoples choices. I don't know too many bass players in metal bands that will admit to being in Jazz bands and Blues trios when they were in highschool (I was). -Barge Movement To June P.S. Killswitch kicks ass. We used to do Rose of Sharon for our soundcheck song. | ||
| Kano832003 |
In regards to the last message. I'm not trying to single out Mfell2112 in anyway shape or form. Just addressing some of the things you touched on in a few of your posts. -Barge |
