Controversial opinions on metal

[waif]

bunch of black power rap

Sure, but there's a shitload of racist metal too, yet the vast majority of metal has no white power or racist themes.
EDIT: read back into that little sub-argument and realized that that was more or less what you were saying.

Their new album has a few songs inspired by A Song of Ice and Fire. The only one I can think of right now is "To Take the Black," but there are a few others.

Nice. I'll have to check that out. Do you know any other bands influenced by the series? There's Winterfell (who totally ripped off the name from my project Winterfell), who are pretty decent power metal. But I don't know of any others.

 

[Life Sucks]

you guessed right though

You dad's family was white British living in Nigeria? There really aren't many Europeans in Nigeria at all, compared to countries such as South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, etc.

 

[mutantllama]

Dio is a terrible lyricist.

Lies.

 

[Life Sucks]

I never paid attention to his lyrics. But I don't like his vocals.

 

[Black Friday]

I can't fucking stand Ozzy's voice, it's just plain ugly. Especially when he takes good songs and fucking ruins them with his horrible voice.

Finally, someone with taste! The songs for his band, aren't even that bad, and he fucking ruins them.

 

[The Butt]

I agree, that Ozz's voice got really shitty in his solo band.

But he was an awesome vocalist during his tenure in Sabbath, you can't deny that. He had emotion and soul to his voice that each of his successor's lacked.

 

[Life Sucks]

Oh, that reminds me: I don't like Ozzy's solo stuff, I just like Ozzy Sabbath.

 

[skeptik]

I don't care for his solo career either, though there are a few songs that I probably wouldn't turn off.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Same here!

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Fourthed.

Ozzy was never a good "singer", though. His vocals just worked for Black Sabbath.

 

[Einherjar86]

In their time, a lot of bands didn't have traditionally "great" singers, just vocalists who sounded unique and who could belt. Before Zeppelin became famous, Keith Moon told Jimmy Page that if they didn't get a new singer their band would "go down like a led zeppelin." So now you know how they got their name, but it also goes to show that even Plant wasn't considered good by traditional means.

I don't think Ozzy had a great voice, just the right voice. Same with Mick Jagger, Roger Waters, Bon Scott, Neil Young, etc.

 

[The Butt]

I don't think Ozzy had a great voice, just the right voice. Same with Mick Jagger, Roger Waters, Bon Scott, Neil Young, etc.

That's what I'm saying.

 

[Jreg]

In their time, a lot of bands didn't have traditionally "great" singers, just vocalists who sounded unique and who could belt. Before Zeppelin became famous, Keith Moon told Jimmy Page that if they didn't get a new singer their band would "go down like a led zeppelin." So now you know how they got their name, but it also goes to show that even Plant wasn't considered good by traditional means.

I don't think Ozzy had a great voice, just the right voice. Same with Mick Jagger, Roger Waters, Bon Scott, Neil Young, etc.

That pretty much goes for any instrument though, maybe even more so for guitar. Keith Richards doesn't know many things, but he knows the right things.

 

[rms]

People care way to much about how talented something is rather than how good it sounds. ozzy isn't the best or w/e but I think he has a pretty solid voice

 

[waif]

Very few vocalists would sound good without the music, though. Whereas if you isolate guitar tracks, they usually still sound cool.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

That's what everyone's been saying. Can you read?

@ rms

 

[rms]

 

[mutantllama]

Very few vocalists would sound good without the music, though. Whereas if you isolate guitar tracks, they usually still sound cool.

I think Hansi would sound good without the music, but with the layers still.

 

[Life Sucks]

No vocalist would sound good without music to back them up.

 

[supseudonymous]

No vocalist would sound good without music to back them up.

Messiah