Recent content by Masters Apprentice

Well said. Love music, hate fashion ;)

Haha, oh god this is terrible. 'Emo' is punk, rooted in hardcore and has mostly political and confrontational lyrics. The whole introspection thing is faux-emo, which I agree needs to fucking die already. No emo band has ever been on MTV or ever will be. Plus, if there's one genre that can't...

Coheed and Cambria? Thursday? Poison The Well? Funeral for a Friend? That sure is a lot of shitacular melodic hardcore/post-hardcore. Here's my shitty top 10: 01. Denali - The Instinct (Pop) 02. Envy - A Dead Sinking Story (Emotional Hardcore - NOT EMO) 03. Dirty Three - She Has No Strings...

Try some 'The Microphones'(now known as Mount Eerie but he hasn't released anything under that moniker). It's a guy called Phil Evrum, it's really lo-fi acoustic stuff with occasional drumming and organ and he often gets some of his friends from K Records to collobrate on songs... but live it's...

Actually, The Red Chord are hardcore. More so than most of the fucking garbage listed in this topic. Being 'hardcore' is as much scene posturing as it is musical sound. For example, why are Darkest Hour hardcore but Shadows Fall not? The Red Chord have members who have all been in great hardcore...

Good non-metal artists and songs? Hmmm!!! I'll try my best. City Of Caterpillar(A Little Change Can Go A Long Ways), Indian Summer(Orchard), Moss Icon(Mirror), Radiohead(Exit Music[For A Film]), Heroin(This Time), Godspeed You! Black Emperor(Moya), Converge(Homewrecker), Pink Floyd(Shine On...

I went to see Opeth and Isis in the same week too. I can't believe you mentioned Johnny Truant weren't all that good yet said nothing about the fucking audiocrime that is DJ Speedranch. Johnny Truant supporting were the major factor in me buying my Isis ticket, and they were awesome live.

I got loads in the topic about this thread in the Opeth forum. Hah.

I felt like telling him to shut up about Messhugah myself, if you look at 90% of lyrics by metal bands, they are absolutely ridiculous. Oh look, Demon of the Fall by Opeth..they must be satanists!! :rolleyes: My comment about Godspeed, well it's hard to explain but when I started listening to...

Yeah, I don't mind people who listen to mainstream music and I'll never attack someone for their musical tastes. But what it looked like to me in that topic, was someone giving their opinion on bands who are past thier prime but are still overlooked in favour of bands he likes which he finds...

No, I think you both have missed the point; it's not a case of listening to music to be cool. I have absolutely no doubt that people like the music they listen to, underground or mainstream. But some people only listen to music that gets promotion and press, be it from hype from metal community...

I think the key here guys is relativity. Of course bands such as In Flames, Shadow's Fall, Hypocrisy and such are not mainstream in the truest form of the word but in a supposedly aware and dedicated to metal community, they most certainly are popular and mainstream. I know every single one of...

I agree that Opeth are one of the most over-rated bands on the planet(and Opeth fanboys come second to Tool fans as the most annoying people on the planet) and I agree that people tend to listen to the music fed to them instead of experimenting and discovering music before it gets the seal of...

I agree with everything he is saying.

Huh? Antenna is the biggest piece of shit ever. They have totally sold out, and I'm just glad Aaron Turner kicked them off Hydra Head. They were a disgrace to the label, and if one more person calls them progressive I will scream. I thought they just had a change of direction when Creative...