Controversial opinions on metal

[Dak]

James voice hasn't been good in a long time. It used to be one of my favorites in thrash, now it's :/

Well it takes a lot of energy (or youth) to maintain the style his early style. His style for Load/Reload is fine for rock, but he obviously just can't turn it back up to what is needed for thrash.

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

I think Hetfield's screams are far more effective and mesh better with the music, especially on And Justice For All.They mirror the drumming/rhythm almost perfectly. Listen to Eye of the Beholder, for instance. Do you hear him stretching the syllables whence Lars' double bass undescores him? Isn't this just magical? God, I love stuff like this.

That's just good phrasing, which isn't necessarily a musical skill like vocalising/singing. Barrack Obama uses excellent phrasing when he gives speeches, for example, though I would never audition him for a band.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Master of Puppets may be more "solid" or "mature" overall than RTL, but it doesn't have nearly the collection of unforgettable classic songs that RTL has imo.

 

[DarkBliss]

That's just good phrasing, which isn't necessarily a musical skill like vocalising/singing. Barrack Obama uses excellent phrasing when he gives speeches, for example, though I would never audition him for a band.

Good phrasing and nothing but.You're totally right.
I love rhythm-echoing vocals more than anything, though.
All my favorite artists use them in abundance.

 

[waif]

Hetfield through Reload is honestly an extremely good vocalist. After that, terrible.

 

[Lateralus14]

I dislike his style from the s/t and on since it feels like he started going for more epicness and absolutely no aggression, but I would agree there's still plenty of talent there.

 

[Einherjar86]

Hetfield's voice sounds like it has absolutely no strain to it anymore; it sounds like it's effortless for him to sing. So I think his voice is good, but lacks the aggression (as said above) and intensity that it used to.

 

[Badbird]

Hetfield's was fine in his early days,then Load-now horrible.

 

[The Ozzman]

As I remember (I think Ozz) pointing out, if you judge Load and Reload by rock (which is what they are) standards instead of metal standards, they should score quite high.

Yes, but most people have tunnel vision, if you will, when it comes to things like this

 

[The Ozzman]

This might have been done already, but who cares:

Everything Killswitch Engage has done is stellar.

 

[Belligerent]

^ Alive or Just Breathing is decent with their old singer Jesse, everything else is meh - bad.

 

[Krow]

This might have been done already, but who cares:

Everything Killswitch Engage has done is stellar.

Not unless you already posted it.

 

[Belligerent]

He's the only Killswitch fan on this board so i'd say yes.

 

[Badbird]

I like the Alive or Breathing album.Not a fan of the other stuff.

 

[The Ozzman]

^ Alive or Just Breathing is decent with their old singer Jesse, everything else is meh - bad.

Have you heard the one before AOJB?

 

[Belligerent]

Yeah not that great, sorry brah.

 

[The Ozzman]

Yeah not that great, sorry brah.

Your mother's a whore

 

[VelociBrad]

Killswitch is a pox upon the metal genre. fucking metalcore bullshit.

 

[Belligerent]

Here comes the flood of Killswitch hate.

 

[The Ozzman]

I expect it. They were doing metalcore before it became trendy though, so I don't know why they get as much hate as they do since the first two albums were much more to the roots of what metalcore should be (not what it has become). I can understand why people wouldn't like their current material though.