ChemicalFire

And in a way this kinda points I think to why I struggle to agree with you. Not because you're necessarily wrong, but the way your thinking is limited only to what has been and not what could be. You say Metal thus far has been about X... but why does it have to be that way? Is probably what I'm trying to get at why can't it be about z or f or q? The only answer I can ever come up with is because people on the internet don't want it to be about z or f or q. They want x and only x because that's what they like.



Here's the thing, linking to my BMTH question as well. How do you know that any of these bands aren't imbuing their riffs with emotion and using them in the way you state when they repeat them? You've obviously got the logistics of the genre you like down solidly. But THEN you go on to talk about an emotional response to how those logical aspects are applied. One sound to one person may mean x and to the other y. So who is to say that crappy Metalcore band are infact trying to do exactly what you say they aren't but the either a) suck at it or b) they're emotional response to sounds just isn't the same as yours.



Personally I'd find that no, it didn't. You've described one band in terms of another with some extra stuff added albeit that well executed in your opinion. It's different sure but it's not new, if I were to listen to it would I think it's something like I've never heard, or even someone with more of a Death Metal back ground? I mean there was a time before metal was, before death metal was, before black metal, before doom metal. SO why can't we have something new when it's obviously happened in the past? Why can we only create metal that is already defined in the lexicon of metal?

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technicolour

"new" or progression is very subtle in modern metal, look at Antediluvian.

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Kytokinesis

Nietsche, I could literally kiss you right now. I'd also like to mention that Helloween looked directly to Geoff Tate's vocals as an example of the kind of vocals they wanted on the Keeper albums.

As for new bands, idk if it's been mentioned but give Dark Forest a try. They're pretty "true" to the NWOBHM scene.

Cavalcade

What you said about Canada made me smile and shake my head.
Anyway, it looks like this thread has run its course. It was probably my fault for opening this can of worms in the first place, so sorry about that, everyone.

Morphogenesis26

What are you talking about? No one got huffy and bent out of shape over anything you posted, I don't think so at least. Besides, this gives a lot of people a bunch of new Metal, which, I think I'm going to post another band/album that is just simply amazing.

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crazysam23_Atax

No, man, you didn't ruin a thing.

We had some decent discussion until Supersonic-95 showed up. (Just so you know his idiocy, he made a thread asking "Why do people like Metal?" where he basically told us wonderful things of a spamming nature.)

Anyway, I'm gonna have to agree with ChemicalFire. (Sorry, Steve.)
Basically, I've always tried to make my music both technical and emotional. (As you know, I'm just getting into recording my music.) If I worried about fitting the lexicon of Metal, I'd never even have written a damn thing.

Granted, that doesn't mean I don't go, "I want this song to have a Thrash feel" when I start off writing. But, by the end of the song, it probably has a feel that's definitely not in the lexicon of Metal. Just a personal example...
Hell, that's how we got all these different subgenres of Metal. Someone went and created something Metal, without worrying whether it fit the already defined subgenres.

Edit:
Everyone should check out the band Ocean's Garden. Their stuff is free on bandcamp. It's got a fairly progressive feel to it.

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The Wildchild

There shouldn't be any trouble with accepting things that aren't metal (such as music that don't bear compositional resemblance to metal) as not being metal, but there is.

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Sepülcrö

shit duncan thats so wild you the man duncan shit

Steve08

Because there are other kinds of music which can express messages which Metal is a bad medium for? You rarely hear any euphorically joyful Metal albums, for example, but Classical can be listened to instead. Does one genre of music has to encompass every aspect of the human condition? I personally don't think so, that's why I listen to stuff other than Metal.

That line of reasoning can be extended to question why anything is as it is, and not otherwise, though, but I mean, if you don't understand that which already exists, how would you go about making something different, yet complimentary to it? You have to know what once was to have some conception as to what can be. There are a lot of shitty black metal albums which "sound" like Darkthrone's Transilvanian Hunger but fail utterly at recapturing the sort of apocalyptic seizure displayed by that album because they think the key to creating Black Metal lies somewhere in vocals, trem picking and blast beats, but it doesn't-- it lies in melodies unfolding in a narrative way over a static, ambient beat, a definition so broad that worlds of emotion can be wrought merely from that one context. You have, for one example, the ambient material of Ildjarn, which features the same idea used to create introspective electronic music.Every band comparable to BMTH that I have heard literally is based around the premise that stark contrast between each individual section creates a varied, dynamic song... so, by listening to them, essentially. It seems as though those bands think that merely having lyrics is enough for that song to be "about" something even if the musical actions that take place don't actually hint at anything expressed in the lyrics.Then I'd say that's fairly strong basis for one to dislike that music.Well, that's more related to asserting whether or not something is "good", which is entirely subjective, but what I'm talking about is forming opinions based on objective traits displayed by the music, essentially. Otherwise, you could have a I-IV-V progression in C major be interpreted as "sad" or "evil" when in reality, it's happy. Melodies are defined by the intervallic distances between tones, because the interval between two notes will reproduce the sound of itself no matter where it is, to the point where individual pitches are fairly mundane, and thusly, a melody has to create some base emotional impression as it exists, otherwise resetting that same melody within different intervals (which is what I mean when I say, "reset into different note choice") wouldn't make it sound any different... yet, it does.

To help contextualize this... I'm fairly confident that you like The Acacia Strain (if I'm wrong in this presumption I apologize), and try to base that opinion of them within some reason, one possibly being that it's heavy. But if they played the same songs on 6 string guitars in E standard through Fender amplifiers, would that music still create that impression of "heaviness" to you? I doubt it.Again, because art/music collectively is meant to summarize the human condition, not one individual genre of art/music. It almost seems like you don't really enjoy Metal as it is and instead want it to be something else.This is a pretty interesting point. My response would be that the innovators of metal subgenres could only do so because metal, simply, was not as defined back in the 80s/90s (primarily 80s). The last major surfacing of a new style would be Black Metal, which, in its 2nd wave idiom, was born... wait for it... about 25 years ago.

As a result of this, the time has come to stop writing by ear and "shooting in the dark", so to speak, because ALL the aesthetic innovations in metal have already occurred... however, the transition from Metal music to being, more or less, violent, modern Classical has only been hinted at, something which I aim to propagate myself, one day.

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ChemicalFire

I do. Perhaps not as much as you, but I do enjoy metal as is and have been listening to a lot more of it in recent weeks that I have for a while.

This argument/debate/e-peen contest is in relation to the future of heavy metal. Maybe I should of made that clear to start with because I see that I in fact didn't. My view is that metal will not change, metal in the future will be like it is now due to it's inflexibility when it comes to creating anything "new" as opposed to something that is new and well executed but still sounds like something old.

I would continue to have this debate, but I don't think I shall. Mainly because I know there is no way at all I can change your mind, not that I was really trying to and due to the fact that, in reality the debate serves no purpose. Maybe I'm wrong? who cares? I don't... but I'll continue to believe that metal can be expanded on but there are forces within it's fanbase that prevent it. You have made some good points and I have learned something here and there, but I still disagree with you on some of the major points

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crazysam23_Atax

I actually would say that it will change. Look at trends like Djent. Or the resurgence of progressive metal (not "progressive metal", as in "sounds like Dream Theather", but rather meaning that a lot of bands are placing a great deal of emphasis on good composition and technicality). Hell, even genres like Thrash have changed since the '80s.

Maybe right now, the change is subtle. But it is there. And it is apparent.

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Morphogenesis26

He's talking about the underground peeps. They more than likely aren't going to accept this so from their perception Metal won't "progress" in that direction. That's not to say there won't be good bands or breakthrough albums, just that that direction won't be considered legitimate.

Also, do you like Thrash? Do you like "Progressive" stuff? WELL HEAR THIS!

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ChemicalFire

Indeed this.



I would argue that most of the modern "prog" metal bands don't focus on composition at all which is why most of them suck.

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Steve08

So you agree with me about djent music? Now this is an interesting turn!

In all seriousness, though, we're probably never going to see eye to eye, so it sounds like it's time for me to smoke a blunt.

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Supersonic-95

technicolour


However, by in large, fans of extreme metal are usually more intelligent

I must say that your sense of humour is above funny. I never knew smashing power chords, messing in a broken chord and shouting down a mic was intellectual.


They how can you have a conversation about it if you don't know what you're talking about?

I do



Here is a list of over 3000 metal bands from the UK:

http://www.metal-archives.com/lists/GB

Yeah, like anybody has ever heard of them.




And here is a list of over 2000 bands from Canada:

http://www.metal-archives.com/lists/CA

Canada has been very influential in the war metal scene and had/has produced some classic death metal albums.

War metal? That sounds stupid. Also, canada has been very influential with innovators such as justin bieber.

Supersonic-95

That's it Sam, you've gone too far. From now on I'm going to address you as "Soft Petal".

ChemicalFire

Just go away... you've already admitted you know nothing about metal even if you haven't said it directly and don't like it. Why do you do this?

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Supersonic-95

I was trying to help you people, but you kicked me in the teeth!

ChemicalFire

No you weren't you were shovelling your biased opinion with out so much as an explanation behind it that reaches beyond "I don't like it". You've already admitted you don't like the genre yet you hang around seemingly with the soul purpose of insulting it. You're lucky you don't get banned for trolling.

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