Controversial opinions on metal

[The Butt]

Anthrax fucking blows. Let's just all listen to Tankard.

Bullshit. There is tons of great Hardcore & Grindcore. Deathcore/metalcore is over now anyway so yeah.

There is good deathcore and metalcore.

Bonded By Blood is good, but other than that Exodus suck. Kreator is recycled Slayer riffs.

Nope. Shovel Headed Kill Machine is good.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I'd probably rather listen to Anthrax than Tankard tbh, at least if we're talking about overall discographies. Persistence of Time is actually a pretty good album, and I like the trad/power influence on Spreading the Disease.

And SHKM is pretty boring. Tempo of the Damned ftw.

And Grin has an outstanding production but eh.

Agreed, but since he said "every album" I assumed that he either never listened to it or was excluding it out of non-thrashiness. Lately I've been enjoying it even a little more than Mental Vortex.

 

[The Butt]

Souza and his bad Bon Scott impersonation ruin Tempo of the Damned. And I used to be in love with that album. Now I can't stomach it.

 

[AllShallFall]

There is good deathcore and metalcore.

Nope. Shovel Headed Kill Machine is good.

There is no good deathcore. There are only a couple good metalcore bands.

Shovel Headed Kill Machine is awesome . Listen to Deathamphetamine

 

[AllShallFall]

Souza and his bad Bon Scott impersonation ruin Tempo of the Damned. And I used to be in love with that album. Now I can't stomach it.

Rob Dukes is better than Zetro.

 

[The Butt]

There is no good deathcore.

We Butter the Bread With Butter
Whitechapel
Animosity

 

[AllShallFall]

We Butter the Bread With Butter

 

[The Butt]

Hey, they're not bad.

 

[Dak]

Someone has a problem with Coroner? Wtf.

Pretty sure they won the award for "only band universally liked on UM" at some point.

 

[The Butt]

Saying "I hate Coroner" is basically a less verbose way of saying "I use my ass as a storage space." JUSSAYIN'.

 

[Lateralus14]

I find Coroner overrated but I can't comprehend someone hating them.

 

[Bitencourt29]

I'd listen to Tankard anytime, fuck Anthrax.

Coroner rules.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Yea, dont know how anyone that listens to metal can hate Coroner.

and i agree with Bitencourt... Tankard >>> Anthrax.

 

[Umodian]

Screw you guys!

How can you not like this?

 

[Bitencourt29]

^ Never got into Anthrax, the vocals sound awful to me. I'd rather listen to any other thrash band, you name it.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Yeah, Gung-Ho is a good song. Most of that album is at least good. It's the fact that their most identifiable and popular album is also nearly their worst that makes them such an easy target.

^ Never got into Anthrax, the vocals sound awful to me. I'd rather listen to any other thrash band, you name it.

Slammer. Re-Animator. Acid Reign. Probably any other light American-style UK thrash band.

 

[SomeGuyDude]

Anyone who claims that an entire subgenre is bad has relinquished any credibility they have in discussing music. You can say you're not a fan of a certain sound, but to claim they're all bad? Nope, sorry. You lose.

I don't like thrash, folk, or viking metal but I recognize that a lot of those bands are enormously talented. You might not like deathcore, but like anything else, there's quality buried in there.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

So there is actually good radio pop music?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Disturbed isn't that bad. I think they have at least a few songs I'd call good, even if they lack diversity or originality.

I'd like to hear good minimalist lo-fi indie pop to prove SomeGuyDude's point, however.

EDIT: Thought you said radio rock, not radio pop, my bad.

 

[Balls McHoolihan]

Animosity

These guys. Shut it Down is a fucking great album. And they were only 15-16 years old when it was recorded. Pretty awesome.