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The drums of it I liked.... That's about all good I have to say about it. Fuck, just thinking about the album forms a burning anger inside of me. I'll give you an example, one of the songs off of it is called "Pinned Down and Fisted." ...WHAT THE FUCK. I can't stand music like that. I just can't. They don't even have talent to make up for any of it.
That's what most of today's generation think that ALL metal is like.
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Not metal' date=' but Aerosmith's Just Push Play sent me into clinical depression.[/quote'] I've only heard a couple of tracks off it but it's a piece of shit. Their pre-80's stuff was their best. I dig their 80's material, but mostly for nostalgic reasons.
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Everything Burzum released since he got out. He never done anything really good but both Fallen and Belus i wish i never had spent time on. What a waste, The only thing Burzum ever done really good was The Crying Orc.
Their older albums are classics, but definitely aren't for everybody. I love the hypnotic, trance-like quality of them, so full of atmosphere and mystery. They're not very good technically, but that's not exactly unusual for black metal, and the instrumentation isn't bad when you consider it was one guy doing most of the songs in one or two takes. I don't know what it is, his music just latches on to me and doesn't let go. That said though, I haven't heard any of his new material, except a song here or there, but the fact that I can't really remember it tells me something.
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anything to do with cannibal corpse.... i have a burnign hatred for them... guh!!!
How? They're one of the most accessible death metal bands out. Not great, but really nothing to complain about.
The drums of it I liked.... That's about all good I have to say about it. Fuck, just thinking about the album forms a burning anger inside of me. I'll give you an example, one of the songs off of it is called "Pinned Down and Fisted." ...WHAT THE FUCK. I can't stand music like that. I just can't. They don't even have talent to make up for any of it.
Har. Try Kraanium. This Swedish slam-death guy on here showed me some of their stuff and it's horrible. They have an entire album called Double Barrel Penetration. That would be funny except that it's not, and as you say the band has no talent. You might have seen the bottom of the barrel, but dig around under the splinters. You'll find Kraanium there...
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Iceni, WHY would I want to look at something WORSE? I'm still trying to wash Infant Annihilator out of my conscious.
Well, the point is that there is actually worse and more awful stuff out there. The thing is, Kraanium is so bad it's almost funny to listen to. The album art is disgusting but their attempts to be brutal are well near funny. I don't quite remember exactly how bad the song was that the guy showed me, but I think I gave it the lowest rating I've ever given to any song on here - a 4/10, I think. Another band you'll probably want to avoid is BrokenCYDE. Whatever this band was, I would not be surprised if BrokenCYDE was worse. You might also be interested to know that I did a search for Infant Annihilator on Encyclopedia Metallum and came up with nothing. So, not a metal band.
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It's kind of odd to classify if it's a metal band off of "Encyclopedia Metallum".
Do you mean a band not on Encyclopedia Metallum? They do have bands classified as metalcore on there, so usually it's an indicator of whether a band is metal or not.
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I want to unhear the demo of Megadeth's new album, it's fucking atrocious, in fact the demo was so god-awful I'm not even going to buy the album and if Megadeth do ever come to Australia I will only go to the gig if they aren't playing ANY tracks from this album. Super Collider, stupid title, stupider songs

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Metal-archives.com' date=' while awesome for reference and info, does have sort of a skewed sense of what bands to include and not include.[/quote'] In what sense? I know they had Skid Row on there, which I thought was a bit strange, but overall I didn't really have any big beefs with their classifications.
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Re: Albums you wish you could unhear. Much of my beef comes from their admission of pop bands like As I Lay Crying, while denying bands that actually have metal in their sound because of being on the punk side of the spectrum, like Martyrdöd for instance. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

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They admit bands on the core spectrum at their own discretion, and they usually have to include varying levels of 'metalness'. If the band you listed isn't blacklisted and you find the band's most metallic songs, try to get them accepted and if it works it works. Bands like AILD, Killswitch Engage, Shadows fall all are influenced with a discernible level of metalness, the band you listed may meet the same criterion.

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