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I thought it was a bit raw' date=' which kind of threw me off. But I have to agree with you about Sanctuary.[/quote'] You thought Mutter was raw? Wow, modern production has really created a whole new set of values for listeners. Mutter has always sounded really polished to me. The only album of theirs I think of as being "raw" is Herzeleid, and that's not even raw to my ears so much as just a basic, meat and potatoes recording.
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You thought Mutter was raw? Wow' date=' modern production has really created a whole new set of values for listeners. Mutter has always sounded really polished to me. The only album of theirs I think of as being "raw" is Herzeleid, and that's not even raw to my ears so much as just a basic, meat and potatoes recording.[/quote'] Yeah, same here - Mutter feels like Rammstein's polished "pop" record to me, if anything.
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The great southern trendkill (Every song except Suicide note part 1 and the ending solo for Floods sucks) Slipknot by Slipknot (Just a bunch of emo screamo shit)Kill em all (James sounds like a woman getting strangled) There's all hell believe me I've seen it, there's a heaven let's keep it a secret (that's the title) by Bring me the Horizon All napalm death albums (They fake the grindcore screams, Anal Cunt and Seth Putnam know how to scream)

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The great southern trendkill (Every song except Suicide note part 1 and the ending solo for Floods sucks) ... Kill em all (James sounds like a woman getting strangled) ... All napalm death albums (They fake the grindcore screams' date=' Anal Cunt and Seth Putnam know how to scream)[/quote'] Maybe you'll feel differently about it when you grow up a bit more. Objectively speaking, you're completely wrong about Napalm Death. They were originators. Like it or not, nothing fake about them. By the way, I saw your post in the "New York vs Florida" thread before you deleted it, and I'm glad that you did. If you spent more time reading through the forum instead of just starting tons of threads with uninformed questions, you'd have the answer to the question you asked, which was inappropriate to begin with.
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The great southern trendkill (Every song except Suicide note part 1 and the ending solo for Floods sucks) Slipknot by Slipknot (Just a bunch of emo screamo shit)Kill em all (James sounds like a woman getting strangled) There's all hell believe me I've seen it' date=' there's a heaven let's keep it a secret (that's the title) by Bring me the Horizon All napalm death albums (They fake the grindcore screams, Anal Cunt and Seth Putnam know how to scream)[/quote']Wrong, right, wrong, right, extremely wrong
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The great southern trendkill (Every song except Suicide note part 1 and the ending solo for Floods sucks) Slipknot by Slipknot (Just a bunch of emo screamo shit)Kill em all (James sounds like a woman getting strangled) There's all hell believe me I've seen it' date=' there's a heaven let's keep it a secret (that's the title) by Bring me the Horizon All napalm death albums (They fake the grindcore screams, Anal Cunt and Seth Putnam know how to scream)[/quote']Kill 'em All, are you serious?
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The great southern trendkill (Every song except Suicide note part 1 and the ending solo for Floods sucks) Slipknot by Slipknot (Just a bunch of emo screamo shit)Kill em all (James sounds like a woman getting strangled) There's all hell believe me I've seen it' date=' there's a heaven let's keep it a secret (that's the title) by Bring me the Horizon All napalm death albums (They fake the grindcore screams, Anal Cunt and Seth Putnam know how to scream)[/quote'] What the fuck. Outro solo in floods is a highly. Degraded. Masterpiece. Praised by everyone. How they can fake. Growls.
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Kill em all (James sounds like a woman getting strangled) All napalm death albums (They fake the grindcore screams' date=' Anal Cunt and Seth Putnam know how to scream)[/quote'] What the actual fuck? Not having strangled many women or spent much time listening to audio files of the scenario I don't see the comparison? Maybe "Kill Em All" isn't the classic debut that shows a band full of energy and potential that gets honed over the next 3 releases and I have been wrong all these years because Hetfield's only motivation was to replicate a female experiencing domestic violence! Stupid me. Napalm Death are overrated but (as already pointed out) "fake" is a ridiculous word to attribute to them.
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Pink Floyd - The Endless River Ok technically that is cheating as I haven't heard the album in full, however, the one track I have heard from that record made me want to rip my ears off and feed them to a dog. Believe me that would be a more pleasurable experience then listening to The Endless River.

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What the actual fuck? Not having strangled many women or spent much time listening to audio files of the scenario I don't see the comparison? Maybe "Kill Em All" isn't the classic debut that shows a band full of energy and potential that gets honed over the next 3 releases and I have been wrong all these years because Hetfield's only motivation was to replicate a female experiencing domestic violence! Stupid me. Napalm Death are overrated but (as already pointed out) "fake" is a ridiculous word to attribute to them.
Seriously, KEA is Metallica's only good album. I could do completely without their subsequent releases. RTL and MOP are incredibly overrated.
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^I agree with that for the most part' date=' but I actually don't think Kill 'Em All is that great. I like it ok, but it sounds derivative and immature to me, compared to the following albums. It's never been a favorite of mine.[/quote'] I would have a hard time calling a trailblazing album derivative, regardless of how I felt about the quality of music it contained.
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I would have a hard time calling a trailblazing album derivative' date=' regardless of how I felt about the quality of music it contained.[/quote'] My impression of that album has always been that it owed a lot to its predecessors in NWOBHM; by comparison to the albums after it, it sounds like a lot of rock cliches to me. I've always felt like they found their voice on RTL, and that the main appeal of KEA was its undeniable energy.
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My impression of that album has always been that it owed a lot to its predecessors in NWOBHM; by comparison to the albums after it' date=' it sounds like a lot of rock cliches to me. I've always felt like they found their voice on RTL, and that the main appeal of KEA was its undeniable energy.[/quote'] Just as with any emerging genre, it still owes a lot to its influences early on. That said, Kill 'Em All was the wildest sounding metal album of the time, and was instrumental in ramping up the aggression from the NWOBHM to thrash metal. Slayer was a Judas Priest inspired band until hearing Metallica, same goes for Anthrax and most other thrash metal bands.
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My impression of that album has always been that it owed a lot to its predecessors in NWOBHM; by comparison to the albums after it' date=' it sounds like a lot of rock cliches to me. I've always felt like they found their voice on RTL, and that the main appeal of KEA was its undeniable energy.[/quote'] You kinda nailed it for me. Hooks and energy are what make that album for me. Thrash metal probably has to be my least listened to metal genre and I tend to find myself going back to Holy Terror, Ulysses Siren, Vio-lence, and Artillery for my thrash fix.
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You kinda nailed it for me. Hooks and energy are what make that album for me. Thrash metal probably has to be my least listened to metal genre and I tend to find myself going back to Holy Terror' date=' Ulysses Siren, Vio-lence, and Artillery for my thrash fix.[/quote'] Just like with anything, the more publicized bands tend to be the most accessible and least rewarding to listen to, so it's no wonder that many more well known bands don't do it for you. I love the shit out of thrash, but like you tend to bypass Big 4 listening in favor of albums that I simply just like better.
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