Controversial opinions on metal

[Carpe Mortem]

Metallica never once had me totally lost in their music, just daydreaming and my body on autopilot. They have some nice lines, but don't really have an awesome, cohesive story in one song or an album, lyrically and instrumentally. Its too vague a picture.

 

[Dak]

I
rule the midnight air
The destroyer
Born
I shall soon be there
Deadly mass

I
creep the steps and floor
Final darkness
Blood
lamb's blood painted door
I shall pass

Creeping Death is possibly one of the best examples in thrash metal of concise yet still rhyming poetic lyrical writing on a mytho-historical topic.

 

[waif]

Combined with some of the most tasteful and restrained use of "Eastern" sounding melodies. Fucking love that song.

 

[divine_torture]

Metallica NEVER invoked any sort of imaginative qualities within myself. No matter what my age was...That type of music does only one thing. Get my head banging.

Black metal for me evokes the most imagination. Always has.

I wouldn't go that far. Even the obvious songs like Four Horseman, Fade To Black, or Sanitarium even, all do a phenomenal job of invoking both interesting thoughts and emotion. A lot of pathos in their stuff.

But BM is where I get the most, as well.

Creeping Death is possibly one of the best examples in thrash metal of concise yet still rhyming poetic lyrical writing on a mytho-historical topic.

What an amusingly, ludicrously, and goofily specific type of lyrics you seem to admire.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I just like to think of it as a tribute to Exodus (seems weird that I've never seen the band acknowledge it as such). Oddly I don't really get anything too vivid out of that one, probably less than any other song on the album. The riffs and everything are still king though.

 

[waif]

It's not a tribute to Exodus. It's a tribute to one of the most badass parts of the Old Testament. Don't be a retard.

 

[Nephilim96]

It's not a tribute to Exodus. It's a tribute to one of the most badass parts of Old Testament. Don't be a retard.

You mean like The Legacy?

 

[waif]

That joke is so bad it makes me want to mail you anthrax.

 

[Carpe Mortem]

Hey now I thought it was a pretty decent joke, what's with all the venom?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

It's not a tribute to Exodus. It's a tribute to one of the most badass parts of the Old Testament. Don't be a retard.

No shit that it's literally about the book of Exodus, but considering the circumstances it seems like some form of tribute (or a "nod" if you will).

 

[waif]

Why? It's a super metal thing to write a song about. They were just writing about stuff that was metal. Biblical themes come up all the time.

 

[Dak]

What an amusingly, ludicrously, and goofily specific type of lyrics you seem to admire.

I was specific about the praise it deserves. Is it not both concise an poetic concerning a mytho-historical topic? Are there some thrash lyrics that do the same thing better with equivalently awesome or better riffage?

 

[divine_torture]

I didn't say I disagree, I just said you got really specific with the topic.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

When it comes to thrash metal lyrics written in sprawling free-verse, beatnik-style poetry on the the objectification of young women and American consumerism, it doesn't get any better than Thought Industry's Daughter Mobius.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

Take a step back, out of the UM world, and just look at the posts on this page. You guys can be such fucking geeks sometimes.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

... guy comes to a metal forum and calls people geeks and nerds, lol. Take a step back, look at how stupid your post sounds. You can be a such a fuckin' douche sometimes.

 

[Dak]

TB reverses course with a truth smackdown.

 

[hawkrielle]

I wonder...

What are 3 metal albums you'd recommend to someone and why?

 

[The Butt]

Holy shit a TB post I agree with. 2015 is fucking my mind so far.

 

[Eligos]

Krallice is the Darkthrone of the new millenium.

Djent needs to be legitimized as a genre, even if this means giving it a less onomatopoeic name. "Progressive Metal" does not properly capture what most of these young guns are writing, as most of it is not progressive in the traditional sense, nor is the model or mindset they follow.