Recent content by Lord Ridley

I find that hard to believe. Even when speaking of the ignorant mainstream audience (the audience, not the media), Dave Lombardo/Slayer in general is typically given far more credit than Slipknot.

I'll bet the former members of Death would be thrilled to know that their elite holier-than-though fanbase has a curious percentage of braindead milquetoasts who use the word "fag" five times a sentence and probably feel as if they're coming off as insulting, whereas the only thing insulting...

Whether or not you like Dimmu Borgir is the irrelevant point here. His point stands -- disregarding a band's sound/talent and hating them for whatever they happen to "preach" is usually a judgment passed by one far too into the metal concept and furthermore, more often than not speaks for their...

I caught him & George Lynch live in San Antonio a couple weekends ago. I agree with your review. Great show.

How is this band "nu" again? I thought nu-metal described severely watered-down aural depression bands like Korn and Coal Chamber introduced, that had virtually no emphasis on intensity or power whatsoever. Slipknot is very heavy and intense with some insane drumwork and barbaric guitar riffs...

I've been listening to a great deal of Slipknot lately while attempting to adapt a metal elitist's mindset. Try as I might, I can't persuade myself to hate this band. I went through a brief phase where I came to metal forums, and the experts told me I'm supposed to hate bands like Slipknot if...

Yes, because any time a band fails to sound exactly like they originally did, each time, every time at ALL times, they're clearly only in it for the funds! And don't even get me started on how Dimmu cheaply began sounding *better*. Talk about commercialists.

When compared to the godawful Disgruntled Metalheads forum, no it isn't. But there's a fair share of elitism here, as with all forums.

Death

As with every other elitist metal forum on the Internet... this is true.

Jesus CHRIST man... is that a real catfish?! Good god I'd be horrified to be in the water with that thing. ....Oh yeah, as far as CoB, they rock despite coming off as incredibly cheesy at times.

I think it's great that a member of a mainstream metal act is shedding light on an amazing band a lot of "untr00" neo-fans of the genre would otherwise be unaware of. In fact, I always appreciate it when mainstream acts pay homage to the metal gods of yesteryear. It's good to see these kids...

I HATE it when bands break up, then announce an upcoming album. It's like my grandma dying, and then rising from her grave and baking her famous brownies all the sudden. Only this time her right arm rotted away so she ripped off her left arm and put it in its place while using dead Uncle...

They're good as far as nu-metal. And I never liked Coal Chamber.

I liked Lamb of God, but a magazine publication I read had them under death metal, so I started calling them death metal until I came across a website that mentioned them as metalcore, so once again I considered them a fave of mine in metalcore, until I heard some more of their material and...