Controversial opinions on metal

[Dak]

The Rack DESTROYS anything Hail of Bullets has ever done, but if we're talking MVD I'd go with Consuming Impulse over everything else he's been on.

I'd listen to On Divine Winds over anything else MVD has put out. Never saw the big deal with either Asphyx or Pestilence. Not terrible but not memorable either.

and BWP is the only Opeth album one needs.

 

[Slayed Necros]

I think Theo Loomans was a better fit for Asphyx. This shit is wretched and revolting:

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Hail of Bullets aren't even close to being in the same league.

 

[CiG]

Don't care about Blackwater Park. [shrug]

Don't get how the fuck The Rack or Consuming Impulse aren't memorable, shit even Embrace The Death and Malleus Maleficarum can totally possess me, I don't dislike Hail of Bullets though, they make great Death Metal.

I think Theo Loomans was a better fit for Asphyx.

You read my mind!

 

[ProphetofHatred]

Testimony of the ancients is still the best out of Pestilence or Asphyx.

 

[CF87]

Embrace The Death is one of my favs.

 

[J.]

I like the self-titled, but Last One on Earth is probably their best.

Hail of bullets is Ok, nothing special. A poor mans Asphyx

 

[Belac]

If Martin Van Drunen would shut up I would probably enjoy Hail of Bullets and Pestilence a hell of a lot more.

 

[CiG]

He's only on Pestilence's first two albums...

 

[Dak]

Bunch of retread death themes are much less impressive than solid historically thematic albums like the material HoB puts out.

 

[CiG]

In the end it's the sound that counts, as much as I like their lyrical content.

 

[J.]

Bunch of retread death themes are much less impressive than solid historically thematic albums like the material HoB puts out.

kind of like stuff that bolt thrower released a decade before?

 

[The Ozzman]

This one doesn't have MVD...and I like it!

 

[MetalAges]

Again, I can't ban anyone. I don't have that capability. I would only use it in dire circumstances.

Once I get everything moved over (long overdue and promised, yes....) I will give you ban capability. You've proven yourself well enough to have a mature and level headed "response" to things that pop up. Thanks \m/

 

[EternalMetal]

re: opeth, MAYH is their best, followed by probably MORNINGRISE. laughable copy+paste songwriters but with many strong individual passages. recent material sucks though

Pretty much how I feel about them. Though I tend to go from really enjoying almost anything pre-Watershed to finding the band to be mind numbingly boring. In a sucker for their fall-vibe themed albums at times, but I think it is the poor songwriting that puts me off the other half of the time.

The new stuff is really boring to me. I absolutely loathed Heritage, and I listened to Pale Communion probably 4 times before I realized how boring and unmemorable it was. I think I give this band too much attention.

much of '70s priest > all iron maiden
halford > dickinson
di anno > dickinson
halford > di anno
solo dickinson > the majority of dickinson maiden

Nailed it.

As far as MVD, Last One on Earth is my favorite album hes been on, and he's the best choice for Asphyx. Though Asphyx has never done anything ive disliked, vocalists notwithstanding.

Asphyx > Pestilence > HoB (from what ive heard of them).

 

[Mort Divine]

He's only on Pestilence's first two albums...

To be fair, he's on their only two good albums.

Even so, I don't get how anyone could have a problem with his vocals. Probably my favorite DM vocalist overall.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

... oh so Testimony of the Ancients is a bad album now?

Their first four albums are all great.

MvD is one of my favorite DM vocalists too.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Testimony is easily the weakest of the four. Not horrible, but pretty bland.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

... bland? Lol

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Yeah, it's full of boring knock-off thrash and Floridian death metal riffs and tries to compensate with silly interludes and keyboards.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

That's funny, even though i think their first two are their strongest, they are also the only two albums out of the four that i can see some people labeling as bland, generic etc. But to call one of the earliest technical death metal albums bland is beyond me. Also it's where they first started incorporating jazz into their music thanks to Tony Choy and Mameli. Plenty of unorthodox cords scattered all throughout that album, which is something that could have been said for how many other death metal bands in 1991? Yeah, bland is not a word that can be used to describe that album.