Beowulf wrote:I can count how many bands or musicians in the last ten years that I like on one hand, maybe two. I can't list how many bands I've heard in that timespan that are absolute garbage.
You apparently don't like those styles of metal and therefor really don't have an educated opinion on it (Illustrated by your metal genre explanation). I tend to agree with you, slightly, but only whereas punk rock music is concerned and
some, not all, but some US metal bands. If you listen to enough metal you start running into bands that exist outside the industry. They're not part of the commercial machine, in which case they don't produce the same recycled garbage.
Case in point, most underground metal from places like Sweden, Finland, Norway, England are very different. Even the ones here in the states are faster, more elaborate, more in tune with melody and composition. Sure, in some you still get dry vocals, but like I mentioned in my post above, lyrics aren't as important as the whole song itself. Sometimes I phase the vocals out completely because the songs kick so much ass.
Bands like Iced Earth, In Flames, Symphony X, Dream Theater, Nightwish, Therion, Arch Enemy, Cradle of Filth, Lacuna Coil, Dimmu Borgir, Children of Bodom...I could go on, there are too many to mention. Yeah, some have dry vocals, but others don't. You find what you like and most of the bands develop so great that the compositions just blow you away.
Then you get more of the mainstream here in the states. Some of it is good, most of it isn't IMO. I've kinda found my niche in bands that are out of the reach of mainstream record labels for now. They seem to make better music. To say it is all trash and all the same isn't true at all.
That would be like me saying that all rock music from the 60s and 70s were the same even though I know they most certainly weren't regardless of if I liked it or not. Rap & country on the other hand....thats all the same trash
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