| disolitude said: Haha...dave mustaine is a god. @emilie autumn I used to consider slipknot garbage too. But last few albums they made have been very interesting with lots of variety. I saw them live few weeks ago too...one of the best metal shows I've ever seen. Openers 3 inches of blood and Trivium were totally blown away. Another story...I saw Lamb of God open for Megadeth in 2007. Lamb totally outclassed Deth in every way...musically, sound wise, stage presence...you name it. I love Megadeth, but its obvious that they can't really go toe to toe with most of these new metal bands. It really depends what kind of a metal fan you are. If you like to sit back and enjoy the harmony and solos, new bands could dissapoint. But to me metal has always been about tearing it down, and provoking anger and aggression...this new group of metal bands does that much better than any era of metal before. |
Well I was lucky enough to see Megadeth as well as lamb of god on the Second Gigantour back in 2006 and while I enjoyed the show overall (Deth and Opeth were great), as far as Lamb of God goes I was not impressed. I though perhaps the've improved since then but I've listened to several tracks from their new album and the less I say about that the better.
You are right that I do prefer musical harmony in my music, this largely due to me coming from a progressive background, but that's not to say I don't appreciate dissonance as I love the Rite of Spring. Although there are alot of new bands that are fantastic (Evile are a great example of the thrash revival scene) most of them are people who can't understand how to write true heavy music so they tune in Drop C and just yell incomprehensibly. I might have been able to repect their experiments which dissonance and stop-start progressions if only bands like Atheist hadn't been doing it years earlier and far superior.
