Bands you feel are overrated

[Alex-I.T.F]

Shut the fuck up with the they ripped off carcass shit. Arch enemy was just never any good.

I have never heard anyone say it before and I couldn't care less if they did anyway...only been on the forum for about a month.

My point is true anyway I will say it again Arch E riffs are a cheap rip off of Carcass Heartwork days but not even half as good.

 

[RavageTheKingdom]

Opeth, Gorgoroth, Darkthrone, 1349, Aborym, Summoning, Dissection

 

[Xorv]

^ get out

 

[sevag00]

1349 is no way overrated. Most of the metalheads hate that band.

 

[Kara-Shehr]

Gorgoroth, Darkthrone, 1349, Aborym, Summoning, Dissection

In other words...every black metal band that isn't Burzum.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

In other words...every black metal band that isn't Burzum.

lol @ the idea that those bands somehow constitute the most important black metal bands, Burzum aside.

 

[Alex-I.T.F]

Opeth, Gorgoroth, Darkthrone, 1349, Aborym, Summoning, Dissection

Do you actually understand what overrated means sunshine?

 

[IntoPhagist]

Those first 3 Arch Enemy albums are pretty good, but yeah overrated.

 

[Sven Pakkanen]

Do you actually understand what overrated means sunshine?

Do you? Outside of 1349 and Aborym all of those bands are quite set up to be called overrated by someone who doesn't like them. I'm not agreeing with his list at all for the record.

 

[Kara-Shehr]

lol @ the idea that those bands somehow constitute the most important black metal bands, Burzum aside.

Darkthrone, Gorgoroth and Dissection are pretty damn important. If you can't see them as being influential/important then you are legally retarded, regardless of your opinion on their music.

 

[Dak]

Black metal as a genre is overrated in some circles. While not inherently smug, the raw simplicity of the majority of the genre's offerings excludes it from the pedestal it is often placed on.

 

[Blind Guardian]

Black metal as a genre is overrated in some circles. While not inherently smug, the raw simplicity of the majority of the genre's offerings excludes it from the pedestal it is often placed on.

Well Darkthrone (for example) is simplistic in technique and execution, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's simplistic or limited in composition or artistic scope.

 

[mutantllama]

Black metal as a genre is overrated in some circles. While not inherently smug, the raw simplicity of the majority of the genre's offerings excludes it from the pedestal it is often placed on.

And what's wrong with simplicity?

 

[Der Morgenstern]

I actively listen to a lot of bands I consider overrated in some form, so we might not disagree.

You're still a stupid cunt.

 

[RavageTheKingdom]

Morbid Angel
Satyricon
Black Sabbath
Drudkh(making an exact clone of a great band doesnt make you great)

 

[Blind Guardian]

Opeth, Gorgoroth, Darkthrone, 1349, Aborym, Summoning, Dissection

Top 10 favourite bands:

Burzum
Summoning
Wolves in the Throne Room
Pan.Thy.Monium
Hate Forest
Opeth
Spiral Architect
My Dying Bride
Draconian
Swallow the Sun

How can you think two of your own favourite bands are overrated?

 

[Dak]

And what's wrong with simplicity?

There is nothing wrong with simplicity, but black metal as a genre gets fellated far beyond what it deserves by many (on this board at least), while much more deserving work (imo) gets disregarded or downplayed for not being, in short, like black metal.

Edit: The "black metal" bands that I do enjoy on occasion usually get blasted by the "trve" crowd as being bastards of the genre (Windir, Enslaved, Hollenthon, etc.), while imo they have taken the good aspects of black metal and put them to more productive use.

 

[Mort Divine]

You don't quite "get" black metal then.

 

[Dak]

There is precious little to "get", which is my point (something that BM shares with rap, although the two genres could not be further apart). But you are welcome to try and explain it.

 

[Mort Divine]

No matter how much I explain you won't buy what I have to say (and I was willing to try until your rap comparison.)

You're going to be as willfully ignorant as you wish to be no matter what someone says to try and convince you otherwise.

Only thing I will say is that you honestly think there is nothing to "get", no point, to something such as this?