Controversial opinions on metal

[CiG]

It's the difference between playing Metal progressively and playing Metal influenced by 70's Progressive Rock.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Reign In Blood is very important to Death Metal so it's not really 100% completely wrong, but not right.

Hell Awaits is just as important, as are a lot of their other early stuff.

But lo fucking l at saying its not completely wrong to say Reign in Blood is death metal. Way to go!

Again, them being very important/influential to other sub genres does not mean they played that type of music. Reign in Blood is 100% thrash metal, so yes it would be completely wrong to say that album is death metal.

 

[The Butt]

He did say it wasn't right either.

 

[CiG]

Good job missing my point.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

... just busting your balls man

 

[CiG]

At least buy me dinner first!

 

[no country for old wainds]

death metal WISHES it was reign in blood.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Nah, most death metal is too lazy to aspire to that.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

I have No Exit on cassette. It's good if you can just take them as a different band without Arch. It doesn't come anywhere close to the first three albums, needless to say.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

It's a great four song EP with 20 minutes of assorted song components thrown together in the second half. Their worst album from 1985 to 2000. The highlights put it above Night on Brocken, though.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Fairly evenly matched albums, I'd say. It helps to have a version of No Exit where The Ivory Gate of Dreams has track markers. Aquiescence is a killer song.

 

[CiG]

I much prefer Night On Bröcken but No Exit is nothing to cough at.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Yeah, my version has it split into eight or whatever parts as well. The first half almost works, but there's a couple too many acoustic/piano cut-aways by the second half, and some of the thrash riffing is sorta generic for them.

 

[Omni]

I only listen to albums from start to finish, which is probably why that album doesn't work for me.

 

[CiG]

I don't get people that don't do that, the fuck?

 

[Omni]

I don't mind hearing a track or two, but I won't ever listen to an album to hear a few songs and I don't use the skip function.

 

[CiG]

I'm all about the album experience.

 

[RedStorm]

this isn't a controversial opinion. But what would you classify control denied as? what genre? traditional, with progressive elements?

 

[CiG]

Metallum considers them to be Progressive Power Metal, doesn't sound too far off from what I remember.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Pretty much. They're basically post-tech-thrash, some Watchtower-y influences but simplified and less aggressive, with power metal influences creeping in.