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New topic: Venom is a terrible band.
if you don't like don't burn the witch you are poseur gay black jewish and metrosexual imho
New topic: Venom is a terrible band.
if you don't like don't burn the witch you are poseur gay black jewish and metrosexual imho
This obviously isn't my opinion, but can people who don't like Rob Halford's voice talk about why exactly they don't like it? That's an opinon that I've seen here before, including recently, but not one that I have an easy time understanding if the people who hold it enjoy traditional metal. This is especially true in reference to Halford in the 1970s.
In the 80's being a Slayer fan meant you loved Death Metal, the lines were more blurred. Now you meet "Death Metal fanatics" that don't even like Slayer.
Nah if you liked Slayer in the eighties it meant you liked thrash. A lot of people couldn't go the extra step to growled vocals and more brutality.
Nah if you liked Slayer in the eighties it meant you liked thrash. A lot of people couldn't go the extra step to growled vocals and more brutality.
I remember being exposed to Priest around the same time and immediately being turned off by Halford's vocals. His high range stuff has this thinness that always irritated me. Dickinson is obviously a lesser vocalist technically but the sound of his voice was always far preferable to me. Most of the other classic vocalists like Ozzy and Dio had voices that were technically not as good as Halford's but they were more emotive or powerful or dare I say soulful. I'm not a huge trad metal fan by the way. I do enjoy some seventies Priest though, Sin After Sin and Rocka Rolla are in my collection and get semi-regular spins.
Nah if you liked Slayer in the eighties it meant you liked thrash. A lot of people couldn't go the extra step to growled vocals and more brutality.
Actually, he says that Raining Blood is the best Death Metal song ever written and he's making reference to the earlier part of the interview where they're talking about influence.No you're wrong there, I can show you an interview with Entombed where Niklas Andersson says that Reign In Blood is the best Death Metal record.
Just because death metal wasn't fully established until the late eighties doesn't mean that everyone was just calling random thrash bands death metal. Even more extreme thrash with screamed vocals was never referred to as death metal. Death metal was death metal if it was heavy and fast and evil enough to be death metal.What I'm saying is, the lines were much more blurred, especially with Death Metal which wasn't really a defined genre at that point. It's the kind of thing expressed in almost every Nunslaughter interview I've read where they want to make music that comes from the days when everything was less sectioned, everything was Death Metal if it was heavy and fast and evil enough.
I can totally agree with you there.long story short, i'd take ozzy over all of them in a heartbeat.
That's not the point, at all.