Recent content by Focusphere

can you even consider tool to be metal? even their earlier albums are more hard rock than anything else. it's certainly not something like incantation or beherit.

I think "Goatlord" was released after "Total Death", so pre-Goatlord era albums I meant on the previous post.

Terrorizer is hit or miss with their reviews. Later Darkthrone albums aren't as bad as some people would have you believe, but even for Darkthrones' "unchanging" style, they've been boring for a while now and you don't hear the passion in their later albums like you did with "Total Death" and...

Quote "Morbid Angel might've been truly mighty if Mike Browning hadn't left after 'Abominations...'" Haha, what a comment! Sorry, was actually laughing out loud when I read that. Browning is a horrendously bad drummer, and his vocals are rather weak. I look for feeling in music, and so...

Olivier Messaiens' Organ Work.

The basic point of my post was to say that it's probably time to focus your time on other messageboards that deal with other issues, aside from the same old topics. Not to completely abandon this board, but to explore other options. I've been surfing this board for a few months only, and it's...

This board has too many repetitive "top ten" type of lists. How many times do you need to create a post, just so you can name off your favorite black/death metal albums for at least the 10th or 11th time? Even when people know that it's a waste of time, people will still say things like "Yes, I...

The Grey's has a point. You need labels and accurate classifications of genres. Not only in metal, but in every facet of language as well. Otherwise, no one understands eachother and communication ceases. You've got to be stern about these issues.

Mayhem should have kept their mouths shut. Them, along with Death, are the most overrated bands in metal.

Death popularized death metal, that's really it. There's a difference between inventing and popularizing. That said, Human is a great release and the best album that band released. The album needed two members of Cynic to make that album what it was. Most so called "classics" are solid...

Erosion of Sanity and From Wisdom to Hate are superior to anything Suffocation has put out. Nothing is too technical, it only seems stupid when the compositions don't match up to it. I have correspondence with former Gorguts drummer Patrick Robert, and he was explaining to me that they wrote...

Their first four albums are great. Blizzard Beasts looks like it's still underrated. And their last three are great heavy metal. It's not bad music, and shouldn't be compared to their first four.

Gummo? Postmodern shock-value garbage. At least Burzum was on the soundtrack. Aside from that, recycle!

The song placements on Heretic are very strange. Tucker is a horrible vocalist. That aside, it's a competent album. Intricate guitar/drum work and some downright evil songs. There won't be another Blessed..., and even still, this album is better than most death metal coming out these days. (Is...

I'm always fascinated with the amount of people who are impressed with Nile's historical facts. It's great that they've done that, but it's no different than what a grade school student does, and really speaks more to the lack of thought put into the lyrics on the part of other bands, than on...