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They are ok for finding underground bands but nothing else
They have a comprehensive list of each band's discography and members, along with nationality and lyrics. I like the site and I think it's pretty useful.
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They have a comprehensive list of each band's discography and members' date=' along with nationality and lyrics. I like the site and I think it's pretty useful.[/quote'] yeah, i guess so, i use it often, its just that i find it annoying that they are so strict and tight about it, Def leppard are Metal but AC/DC aren't?
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yeah' date=' i guess so, i use it often, its just that i find it annoying that they are so strict and tight about it, Def leppard are Metal but AC/DC aren't?[/quote'] Had they not released On Through the Night, Def Leppard would be absent. AC/DC never released anything nearly as metal as that album, though are indisputably the better band overall.
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IMO On through the night is an awesome album! And I like some of Lep's other stuff too' date=' quite a fun band.[/quote'] The first Def Leppard album was a great, energetic piece of NWOBHM. Their following 2-3 albums were just as good if a bit on the Rock side of things. I've never understood why they're early albums get so much hate. They're not bad for what they are.
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kind of want to unhear the new Queensryche track' date=' I mean it's ok and that's what I was expecting but it doesn't make me want to buy the album[/quote'] You can't expect much from comeback efforts. It's unfortunate, but most band's best days are behind them, and while some will make a decent effort later on, few live up to past glories.
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LaTorre is the real QR as far as I'm concerned. G-Off Taint is the reason that band started pussing out. I'm positive their so called comeback album will fall incredibly short of expectations, it'll still be the best they've done since 'Promised Land'

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I want to unhear the demo of a local band I just stumbled across (don't even remember where or what their fucking name was) basically what I assume happened is they got really high, watched Metalocalypse, and thought to themselves "man you know what would be a cool idea is if we like start a band that sounds like this only with no sense of melody or rhythm and with...actually you know what they sounded exactly like dethcock

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^I think they drove that car off the cliff together. I can't even listen to more than four songs on the black album. In a word, ugh. Unhear? Anything by Despised Icon, Whitechapel, or Job For A Cowboy. Machine Head. Coal Chamber. Music is better off without you.
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Call me an absolute poser queer' date=' but I loved Despised Icon's debut when it came out years ago[/quote'] You're an absolute poser queer.:o I'm kidding! It's kinda like Black Dahlia Murder - easy to see how you could get excited about the sound when it first came out. I gave both those bands a shot. It started sounding fake to me - not just that polished production (Ion Dissonance too! clones!) but also the songwriting, the lyrics - it seems like forced heaviness and technicality in the service of frat boy marketability. I don't get why they're doing it. I could say the same thing about bands like Psycroptic, especially their later stuff. I honestly can't even get into Necrophagist. Or my latest addition to my personal wall of shame: Black Sheep Wall.
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