- For an album of its type it's rather heavy, but to say it's heavier than most death metal is possibly the most retarded suggestion I've heard all year. What death metal are you comparing it to?
- Fair enough you don't like it, but I'd hardly call something like the s/t "fruitless".
- Even the basics like Opeth?[/I].
That one other guy understands: aggressiveness and heaviness are two different things, though they have similarities. I think pretty much all death metal is "heavier" than Iowa, but to me Iowa conveys a rush of raw agggression much better than about 70% of the death metal i've had the pleasure to hear. Suffocation, Bolt Thrower, Death, Krisiun, Cannibal Corpse, and Morbid Angel are examples that generally don't feel as intense as Iowa to me. Some death bands that do feel more aggressive than Iowa to me would be Immolation, Deicide and Vital Remains. it's just based on taste.
Extreme metal doesnt automatically mean something is aggressive or intense. hence how I can find most thrash boring, a slew of death and black bands boring (mostly death). to me genuine aggression is a feeling it takes a lot of talent and something special to capture (just like other strong emotions,like melancholy for example) and it is NOT interchangable with "loud", "fast", angry, etc.
and yes, I think I went too far to call listening to Bathory's early days "fruitless". more like difficult listening I'd most often prefer to hear something else over. perhaps I'll grow fond of it with more time .
Opeth, I really can't listen to. I find them meandering and incoherent. The most proggy band I like is Tyr, but even then, Eric the Red is the only album I like a lot.