That Dude With The Shades

Welcome. What part of Virginia?

I forgot about Blue Cheer and Sir Lord Baltimore, but I was thinking about posting up some Leaf Hound and Buffalo. Led Zeppelin was pretty important as well, although they were really just more hard rock than anything else.

A thread for bands and songs that may or may not have been metal in the true sense, but were crucial, if overlooked at the time, steps in the development of metal. Usually from the late sixties/early seventies. Here are some examples: DKxZY0DIxIk 0-FUoyQKcu8 jX-yuZFVm34

I don't see Godsmack is nu-metal. Disturbed has some nu-metal stuff in their very beginning (and even there, it wasn't much), but Godsmack is pretty much like Metallica's Load style of hard rock and metal.

To a certain extent, yes. But honestly, I think black metal's biggest problem is actually trying to stay too underground and inaccessible; bands deliberately recording their music in the cheapest manner possible to sound kult, with the result being their albums sounding like a wall of shit.

Anette was awesome on Imaginaerium and great on DPP, but she just doesn't hold a candle Tarja. Only Heidi Parviainen and Rebecca Cords are truly on par with her vocally.

It all depends on what kind of music you like; one's golden age is another's shit age.

People made music long before the internet and bign record deals, and will in the future. If anything, the internet facilitates greater communication between musicians, allowing for greater experimentation. I will say that given the extreme number of bands and other musical artists promoting themselves on the net, you really have to work hard to stand out and be successful. This is where dedicated touring comes in.

It's not just the instruments themselves, it's the tuning. Metal guitar has a specific tuning, and if it's used, then it's metal.

As long as the guitars have the right tuning and are the most prominent part of the song (not buried beneath loads of non-rock instruments, or sampled here and there), it's metal or metal-based, no matter how bad it is

Well Lacuna Coil is a pretty boring band, so he was probably just not feeling it.

Justin Bieber: Slipknot: They're metal, just not very good metal. Korn: It depends heavily on the song; they vacillate between nu metal and grungy rap rock. POD: Again, depends on the song. Sometimes it's nu metal, sometimes rap rock, sometimes reggae, sometimes something else entirely. Avenged Sevenfold: Metal, but I'm not a fan. Linkin Park: Mostly no. System of a Down: Yes Godsmack: Like you said, on the cusp between metal and hard rock. Disturbed: Yes Rob Zombie: Mostly yes, though he experiments with other genres sometimes. White Zombie was most definitely metal. Rammstein: Yes; industrial metal.

Fuck what other people think. Live your own life, and welcome.

Was this back a while ago when he toured only in clubs? Or was this at a festival? Either one could explain why he had a minimalistic set.

A woefully underdeveloped sub-genre of metal, it has produced some great stuff nonetheless: suKtuoJyzaA sESRg-f9MkU XPtGCf_qb30

I think nu metal had potential early on with experimenting with different sounds, like seen in Incubus' S.C.I.E.N.C.E., Fungus Amongus, and Enjoy Incubus Vol.1 EP, as well as Mudvayne's first album. Even Korn was pretty unique when they first came out. The problem is that it stagnated pretty quickly and soon became a flanderized parody of its worst attributes.

Ozric Tentacles. Their music is so deep and diverse.

His solo stuff is pretty basic, if very entertaining. White Zombie from Make Them Die Slowly to Astro Creep 2000 (one of my all-time favorite metal albums) were absolutely amazing; that band made me appreciate the slow guitar solo and had could be truly mind-blowing at times: tLo7DM7pnwE

It's been out for about a month now, but I haven't seen anything on it here. tq7u9a4XZyk

Great energy live, bad music.

I found this band listed under the moniker of doom metal. It's really a mixture of dark ambient, doom, and black metal similar to that of Xasthur:

Lol, I thought this thread at first was about the Megadeth album. But yeah, cool stuff.

How is it a joke? It's the best psychedelic progressive metal album I've ever listened to.