I don't know a great deal about Falconer, other than the albums I have are very enjoyable cheese. I was steered towards certain of their albums featuring Mathias Blad rather than other discs which had a different lead singer. Blad has a very good voice in my opinion.
I don't get it...
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I don't know a great deal about Falconer, other than the albums I have are very enjoyable cheese. I was steered towards certain of their albums featuring Mathias Blad rather than other discs which had a different lead singer. Blad has a very good voice in my opinion.
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General Zod
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I would agree that none of those bands sound like Slayer. However, they also don't sound much like each other. Yet together they were the seminal bands that defined the genre and that period of time. And if someone likes all those bands, but not one of them, than to simply dismiss their opinion as "cheap" reveals more about your own biases. I get what Slayer was doing... I just don't think it's very good.
Agreed. However, let me take your analogy a step further. If someone loved Dream Theater, Symphony X, Shadow's Gallery. Savatage, Kings X, Queen, Fates Warning and Queensryche, and told you they didn't like PoS, would you think their opinion was cheap or informed?
If that's true, than who are all these people on this board defending Slayer?
I'm not sure what you mean, when you say my reasons don't make sense. Care to elaborate?
Perhaps. But being lyrically daring, doesn't have any sort of correlation to writing good songs.
Most people who are fans of Falconer are fans because Blad isn't your typical metal singer. I can understand your typical power metal fan not being a fan of Blad's vocal styling.
Actually, I've listened to Grime Vs Grandeur enough that the other guy has grown on me. I don't like him as much as Blad, but I don't hate the album because Blad isn't on it.
edgeofthorns
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Sorry dude, I am probably OLDER than you and DON'T live with Mommy and haven't since I was 17 nor do I play a lot of video games except with my sons but have been listening to Slayer since they first appeared on a Metal Massacre comp album....there goes that argument!!!
Well... he did say "most Slayer fans".
I think the idea that a group of people can be stereotyped as having one characteristic or lacking in another, just because they listen to a given band, is baseless. Unless of course we're talking about Avenged Sevenfold fans... then I think we can agree that they're all whiny, Hot Topic-loving, posers.
Pretty much Zod...VenomGA, I was basically stating one dumb ass comment with another. It drives me nuts when fans of one band thinks everyone else are posers if they don't like "their" band. It's just silly.
~Brian~
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Pretty much Zod...VenomGA, I was basically stating one dumb ass comment with another. It drives me nuts when fans of one band thinks everyone else are posers if they don't like "their" band. It's just silly.
~Brian~
In fairness, Slayer is the only band where it's right and necessary to do this....
No matter how much of a false I might think someone is for not liking say, Mercyful Fate, at the end of the day, I know where they're coming from because the King's vocals are definitely an acquired taste!
The only reason to be a metalhead who doesn't like Slayer is if you exclusively listen to My Little Pony metal or something.
dcowboys311
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Also re: Slayer vs Megadeth, Metallica, Testament, Anthrax, etc....Slayer has always had more in common musically with the European and South American style thrash than they did with the Bay Area & NY thrash bands. So while they're lumped in due to the time and place, musically it's more accurate to compare them to bands like Kreator, Sodom, Sarcofago, etc. Dark, dirty, overdose of Satan thrash.
OrbWeaver
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I like those two albums with Kristoffer, too. I still prefer all albums with Blad over those two, but both albums have some killer songs on them.
General Zod
Ruler of Australia
Agreed. My only point here was, someone who's a fan of all those other bands, is very likely in a head space where there's a high likelihood of enjoying Slayer.
edgeofthorns
24 Hours Ago...
Really...are you being serious?
I think the only one that actually takes Slayer serious is Kerry. I've seen interviews where even Tom laughs them off. By the way, I don't know if he is or not, but Tom comes off in interviews as a really down to earth, cool person. I'll just forever be a poser.
Now this is an accurate statement that I can actually agree with.
~Brian~
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I, the Witchfinder.
I saw Slayer once with a dislocated knee. I enjoyed the dislocated knee more than I enjoyed their performance.
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Nightwish s*ck, there i said. I will be eating BBQ instead of sitting in on that horrid mess. I can see if you are a female and dig them, but dudes? If only on a date with a girl should you be in the room. see what happens when you keep talking nonsense on Slayer? HULK SMASH! hahaahahaha.
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I like Wishmaster and Oceanborn a lot. That's about it though. Which is exactly why I don't intend on ever seeing them again. I read an interview that they don't like playing Wishmaster anymore...and they dropped all their songs from Oceanborn too. BOOO!
