Controversial opinions on metal

[Vegard Pompey]

Slaughter of the Soul has better vocals than any other AtG album. Controversy? I still prefer their older stuff though, Slaughter of the Soul only has a few worthwhile tracks (Cold, Blinded By Fear, The Flames of the End)

 

[Mort Divine]

The vocals on the past ATG albums are FAR more emotive than those on SotS so I am bound to disagree.

 

[S<issors]

tritsio would deserve all the blowjobs it gets if its vocals didn't suck so damn hard

emotive be damned, I just can't get into them

 

[Vilden]

Wth? tritsio is one of the best death metal albums in terms of vocals imo.

 

[General Zaroff]

The vocals on the past ATG albums are FAR more emotive than those on SotS so I am bound to disagree.

IMO both albums (TRITSIO and SOTS) have enjoyable vocals.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

I'd agree definitely, but my margin for good vocals is huge.

 

[waif]

Slaughter of the Soul has better vocals than any other AtG album.

I very much agree. Vocalwise, I'd say:
SotS
Gardens Of Grief
WFIKTBD
TRITSIO

I am Mort Divine and SotS is being referenced favorably so I am bound to disagree.

fyp

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I haven't listened a lot to any other albums than Slaughter of the Soul and The Red In The Sky Is Ours, though. Actually, the vocals on Slaughter of the Soul are much more emotive than those on The Red In The Sky Is Ours, the vocals on that album are too harsh to be truly emotive.

 

[Thoth-Amon]

every genre of music has its ultra cheesy

true but metal has a good deal of cheese in most of its bands or aspects... still who cares i love it

 

[Zephyrus]

I think we need to define what cheesy means before we can extend it over any proportion of the genre.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Like most things, it's pretty much subjective and not measurable.

 

[rms]

death metal bands singing about necrophilia, bm with anti religion, flower pm with dragons, etc..

 

[Zephyrus]

So if cheesiness in metal is on account of generic lyrical themes, then the cheesiness itself is inherently trivial.

 

[cookiecutter]

I've always thought of cheesiness as being over the top, which pretty much all metal is. It's something I like about it tbh

 

[challenge_everything]

I haven't listened a lot to any other albums than Slaughter of the Soul and The Red In The Sky Is Ours, though. Actually, the vocals on Slaughter of the Soul are much more emotive than those on The Red In The Sky Is Ours, the vocals on that album are too harsh to be truly emotive.

I agree. SOTS has some of the best vocals ever. TRITSIO is still a much better album though.

 

[Cythraul]

TRITSIO has badass vokills!

 

[waif]

I've always thought of cheesiness as being over the top, which pretty much all metal is. It's something I like about it tbh

This is true. But even then there are extremes - Manowar, Dragonforce, Immortal.

 

[Jreg]

Meh, the cheesy aspects (or at least those that I now see to be widely considered cheesy) are what got me into metal in the first place. There's not really anything inherently wrong with that as far as I'm concerned. It just so happened that, in my findings, I stumbled upon bands that weren't cheesy (or less so, anyway).

 

[FenriR]

I consider 'cheesy' to mean 'lulztastic', whether in a good or bad way. For instance, Alestorm and Bal-Sagoth are cheesy in a good way, because they're both so ridiculous that they're awesome. Something like Dragonforce is cheesy because you can't help but laugh at them, because they take themselves so seriously yet EVERY FUCKING SONG sounds exactly the same.

Just some fuel for the furnace.

 

[mutantllama]

I laugh at Manowar in a fun way.