Salamurhaaja said:
Without getting into any other points...
Having a defined style to art is not the same as doing the same thing
over and over, like some unnamed band seems to do lately
Besides, you haven't paid much attention to art it seems, pretty much
all artists have the same thing going for them, it's actually good, this
way when you see a piece of art you can almost always tell who made
it, also helps in that search for fame and money
It's more than IF doing the same thing. I remember going through The Mind's I and only listening to the first few seconds of each track, almost every starting chord was the same, with Insanity's Crescendo and Hedon being the only ones that really stuck out. But I later grew to love it. Still, I don't put the CD just to listen to Atom Heart 23.5 or whatever and Dissolution Factor Red...
It's very much all the same chord progressions, all the same diatonic minor third little melody runs, and always the same loose double bass 16th note lines underneath, although I will say that Anders Jivarp has one of the coolest approaches to drumming that I've heard in forever. I like his style and fills and whenever I'm programming drum lines I always try to put myself in his shoes...nearly as interesting as when Gene Hoglan was with Death for Individual Thought Patterns and Symbolic.
I've tried getting my friends into DT, and the main problem I've run into is that many of the songs sound the same. I wasn't so sure I was big on them adding Martin Brandstrom to the band, as a keyboardist can only do so much during heavy parts (if I remember, Roddy of Faith No More didn't play a single note on King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime's "Digging the Grave", rather he played guitar on it with then Faith guitarist Dean Menta...)
But back to my point...I think a lot of Niklas's stuff is similar, cool for covers, yes, but as similar as Picasso's Cubist phase was, he still painted ultra-realistic pictures early on, and switched styles. I just wish Niklas would move on from the collage thing...again it's very NIN or Tool...
And my main point is, I realized from my brief foray into music school that people are continually running out of ideas for metal. The basic progressions are the same but only the voice or melody on top (in death metal's case, the barking of a single note over a changing melody line, never changing pitch) is the same. As much as I hated fusion and jazz and (attempting) to play it, it seemed much more vibrant and interesting, although it was dissonant to my ears that are very used to Maiden.
I'm not saying I could do any better than anyone else, but things have been pretty much the same now for death metal since the early 90's. Have we really moved on past a "really heavy Maiden" in a sense, or maybe even Slayer or Morbid Angel? I don't think so. All I've ever played is metal, but sometimes, when I sit down, I think of all the things I've written, and I think I've barely written anything that sounds different at all. Sometimes, metal sounds just as cliche as yet another 12 bar blues...and I think, not another E minor (or whatever you're tuned to) line again...
I really loved Damage and it's almost as good as Projector, the individual songs are so much stronger. But I really have to wonder where and how much farther our Eurometal heroes can go without being dragged into the Korn orbit...
