Controversial opinions on metal

[The Ozzman]

The Link sounds like it could've been a Morbid Angel album

 

[CiG]

Listening to the title track of the album you mentioned. It's really bad, the vocals are really crappy hardcore shouts, the drumming is cleansed of all life, the production is horrible. This song totally sucks to me.

 

[CiG]

This sounds a lot better than that, even so it's pretty crummy in my opinion. It sounds like it took the basic ideas of early metalcore and fused it with boring, overly clinical technical death metal.

 

[EternalMetal]

The beauty of Gojira is definitely in their live performance. The tone is so much better, with some really good rhythmic feel in addition to the screeches and vibrations from the guitars that just sound amazing (none of the album productions have taken advantage of their godly live tone). Even the new material sounds pretty good live, but on album it is boring as fuck.

As for the albums, the main problem is that their songwriting skills are really lacking. Most of their albums are littered with tracks that are somewhat sub-par filler, and even at best their songs seem to either over-present ideas (making them repetitive or even boring at times) or just tie together ideas in a clunky way and fail to follow them to completion. CIG basically cherry picked my favorite song of theirs, and it still suffers from this same criticism.

 

[The Butt]

Gojira fucking sucks.

 

[Phylactery]

The Butt speaks the truth. No idea why they became so hyped.

 

[Sirjack]

Yeah what is the appeal with this band? l can appreciate the tone and production but...they're like a hybrid of most things l don't enjoy about extreme metal. Not a fan. Saying that maybe their early output is better?

 

[EchoForever]

This sounds a lot better than that, even so it's pretty crummy in my opinion. It sounds like it took the basic ideas of early metalcore and fused it with boring, overly clinical technical death metal.

this is awful

 

[EspaDa]

Lol you guys know nothing about Gojira, go and see them live. They're fucking crushing. Maybe they're not trve cvlt but their music is great.

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

The songs posted in this topic so far sound pretty stupid.

 

[Vilden]

Only true kvlt music is good enough for me, sorry!

 

[MrTagoMago]

Fuck guys its not Kvlt enough in here! Dont worry im hipster enough to help out!

 

[CiG]

l can appreciate the tone and production but...

By far the two worst things about them.

Lol you guys know nothing about Gojira, go and see them live. They're fucking crushing. Maybe they're not trve cvlt but their music is great.

Lend me your ears so shit music sounds good to me.

 

[Sirjack]

Well l like a decent sound and Gorjira have a fat riff appeal, but yeah it's fairly generic

 

[EchoForever]

i think they fail to do the whole "generic thing" very well

 

[Phylactery]

I think they're just shit tbh.

I once knew someone whose favourite metal album of all time was Slaughter of the Soul and he was also a Gojira fan. That should tell you enough.

I've never seen them live though, so maybe EternalMetal is correct. However, I tend to not really like live music as much as recorded music. I don't get the appeal of live albums, and yes that includes Unleashed in the East.

 

[arg]

If you were a promoter for them, what song would you show me to sell me on them?

I'll give you my honest opinion.

 

[MrTagoMago]

I think they're just shit tbh.

I once knew someone whose favourite metal album of all time was Slaughter of the Soul and he was also a Gojira fan. That should tell you enough.

I've never seen them live though, so maybe EternalMetal is correct. However, I tend to not really like live music as much as recorded music. I don't get the appeal of live albums, and yes that includes Unleashed in the East.

A lot of live albums include the band ot artist playing with more energy, also a lot of artists i listen to have songs theyve only played live or play songs differently live like having an extended solo and such.

 

[EternalMetal]

It's definitely all about the live performance imo. They sound like an out of control grinding machine, and it's a blast to mosh to. Their tone doesnt sound nearly as visceral on cd though, and the music reveals itself as a vapid and disjointed mess most of the time. Id think that only fans of djent could really get into it.

 

[Elric of Melniboné]

People tell me about bands that they think are amazing live but bad in studio all the time. I can't relate because I've never enjoyed a band live that I thought was terrible in studio.