Band Recomendation Thread

[Spiff]

Stop living in the past, man! Contemporize!!

 

[Spiff]

Hmm, I didn't realise there was another page to this thread, so my post doesn't really make sense. It was directed at Phloggy though.

 

[phlogiston]

Way to ignore the topic, Troops

Is that the best Metal can go, because if this shit is the future, I WILL be ashamed to be a metalhead in years to come ya know!

Oh well, that's your call I guess. If your self esteem is based on what other people think, not much we can do about that. I, on the other hand, am comfortable with what I like and really don't give a shit if people make music I don't particularly care for.

 

[Spiff]

One has to admit, Metal is not what it was a few years ago.

Some of us are actually old enough to remember.

 

[phlogiston]

Yes, metal has changed a touch in the 18 or so years that I've been listening to it. So many people coming and trying to change the speed and direction metal is going. It would be so much better if the entire scene remained Maiden, Slayer, Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth, Manowar and Def Leppard. Would have had much better music today.

 

[Goreripper]

Well this thread took a turn for the worst, didn't it? Everything changes over time, especially people. Bands are made up of people, and they change too (unless they're AC/DC or Motorhead, and maybe Bolt Thrower). The band you listen to now won't be the same band in ten years. It might be the same bunch of guys, but they'll have grown as people and as players. If they're successful, they'll want to remain successful, so they'll need to follow whatever path there is to maintain that. If they're not successful, they'll either change to become successful, or they'll give up. If we wanted bands not to change, then we should make sure that they all split up after two or three records, or change their name to something else. Bands are going to change, and it's sad when they start playing stuff we don't like, but expecting them to continue just ploughing the same old ground year after year just to please us is wishful thinking. The reason we often like a band's early work is because that's what we first heard of them, when it was fresh and exciting. As they grow and mature as a band, they grow distant from that, and it's not easy to go back to. Nor should they be expected to. If I was the same person now as I was ten years ago, I wouldn't be posting here or doing the stuff I'm doing now with my life. If the band you like (or used to like) was still the same band they were ten years ago, they'd still be playing crappy clubs and making cruddy demos no one will listen to. Change and progression is a natural thing, and it happens to bands (and music scenes) as much as it happens to everything. If you don't like what a band has become, stop listening to them, think about the joy they gave you when you first heard them, and find someone else that sounds like what they used to.

 

[spawn]

but I would expect more out of Maiden listeners, how can you not be ashamed of what metal has turned into!.......

Im almost speechless. Somebody get this man some Rhapsody, STAT!

Do you know whats happened to you Draven? You are what 18 maybe? You have turned into your parents ALREADY. It happens in the metal world a lot because metal "fans" are incredibly elitist and generally assholes. Oh everything was better way back then, the new metal stuff sucks, its just noise, why dont people appreciate real music... Everything today sucks, only a bands first few albums are the best, the rest sucks because its new and not exactly the same as the old stuff!