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I disagree' date=' he'd be more rude if he were a troll and wanted to get people wound up. Remember that assclown Benton?[/quote'] No. If he's too rude he makes it obvious he's trying to wind you up. By pretending to be just ignorant, he knows (or hopes) he'll piss people off more than just making an account and insulting people. The difference between this dude and Benton is basically what separates a 'good' troll from a 'bad' one imo.
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I disagree, he'd be more rude if he were a troll and wanted to get people wound up. Remember that assclown Benton? That shade of mascara doesn't even look good on women...
Assclown <3 I think he is rude but in a... discreet way. Like he's not offending or anything but has an attitude that smells of rudeness
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Why does everyone here think Im a troll? Im seriosly a metalhead. I just got into metal a few months ago and Im trying to find the heaviest songs. My dad plays old metal like Deep Purple and Blue Oyster Cult in the car and around the house so the metal I listen to seems to me like its the absolute heaviest. Like I said, Im new to metal so Im always looking for the heaviest and most brutal bands and metalcore is what I found, besides it metal + hardcore. So wouldn't it make sense that this is the heaviest metal? Bullet isnt the heaviest band because they aren't as heavy as most metalcore and they don't scream or have as many breakdowns. I think best would have been a better word for heaviest now. What I keeping hearing is everyone says this kid thinks metalcore is the heaviest genre. If its not, will you please tell me whats heavier? I listened to that folk metal and it was pretty good. Its like metalcore with medieval instruments. Will you please tell me what the real heaviest metal genre is? Because Im not a troll and I really want to know because Im new to metal. And about my name, it's a play on for Attack Attacks song Stick Stickly watch?v=KDzt6yI3Dw8 And about my picture, Im not emo. I think emos are stupid so I did it as a joke.

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See' date=' what is black and death metal? How do I find all these genres? Is death metal kinda like a less extreme form of deathcore? Is there also a blackcore? Please recommend a few bands from the best genres and help me understand what you consider to be the true heaviest metal.[/quote'] I would exhort you not to judge by 'heaviness', it's not a useful criterion. A song consisting entirely of chugging on the lowest fret of a downtuned guitar with one string would be heavy as hell, but also a complete crock of crap. Metal with a paucity of distortion does annoy me at times, (looking at you, Opeth) but if you set a threshold of acceptable heaviness it will provide you with far more lateral freedom to explore the variety metal has to offer. Spiral Architect is one of the greatest bands I've heard but they're not 'heavy' in the popular sense of the word. So too I would dispute what seems to be the definition of 'extreme' you've set up here. Drottnar is extreme. Strapping Young Lad is extreme. Alchemist is extreme. I've not heard a single deathcore band I'd call 'extreme' by any definition...except maybe Beneath The Massacre. Death metal is generally more technical than deathcore, but there's no inherent reason deathcore can't be equally technical or possessed of good riffs (Benighted. Encore les Francaises font des bonnes exemples pour moi). My suggestions would be: Beneath The Massacre Centaurus-A Sikth Strapping Young Lad Nevermore
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Deathcore is, by definition, death metal coupled with hardcore punk. I've not heard any deathcore I like (other then Burn Your World I haven't heard any -core genre at all that I like to be perfectly honest). Like Iceni said focusing solely on the perceived "heaviness" of a band will greatly limit your range. Honestly if all your want is "heavy" you'd limit yourself exclusively to doom metal. As for black and death metal it's far easier to show examples of the genres then to define them. Starting with black metal Venom (often considered to be the first black metal band, really only their first three albums are worth owning) Bathory (Bathory were one of the first viking metal bands starting with Hammerheart but before that they were a black metal band through and through) Melechesh (Combining black metal and eastern mysticism superbly just about everything they've done is excellent) Ulver (I only own the Bergtatt album but it's essential in my opinion) Master's Hammer (The lyrics are in Czech so good luck understanding them but with music of this quality who cares about lyrics, start with Ritual) Absu (Tara is by far their best album, and they aren't an inconsistent band by any means, Absu and Abzu are good albums as well but start with Tara) Death Metal Death (This band is essentially a guide to sonic evolution. They started out sounding like many other early DM bands but by the end of their career on Sound Of Perseverance they were full-blown tech-death) Obituary (A little slower then many death metal bands but mid-temp death metal isn't a bad thing. Start with Slowly We Rot) Morbid Angel (Start with Altars Of Madness, after that any of their other early albums) Asphyx (Last One On Earth is an excellent death metal album, and another fine example of mid-tempo DM done well) Nile (combining death metal with Egyptian themes and scales superbly but they do get a little bit predictable after a while. Start with Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephen-Ka and go from there) Incantation (I would describe this band as follows: hell as a fetid sewer rather then a boiling pit. This is something which does not appeal to everyone but I find Onward To Golgotha extremely enjoyable) Sympathy (Technical death metal/melodic thrash hybrid it's pretty hard to describe. I'd start with Anagogic Tyranny) That'll do for now

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Re: Bullet For My Valentine Heaviness is in riffs and atmosphere. Distortion can help, but you can put tons of distortion on anything and make it sound superficially "heavy" or "dense", but bands like Saint Vitus manage to be heavy as hell without huge thick distortion. Just check out music you like, if you're just looking for extremes, you may get burned out quickly, as the most "extreme" bands often just foster that as a gimmick, not using it to write good songs. Just explore. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

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