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General Zod
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It's hard for me to even comment, as I don't get what they're doing musically. To me, they seem like a gimmick band. Granted, it's a cool gimmick. But is their music actually all that exceptional?
By the way... their lyrics, which I can only assume are meant to be clever, are awful.
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General Zod
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No. I don't like a whole lot of Death Metal, period. It just feels like something is missing. I'd say my favorite two releases of the last few years have been by Blood Red Throne and Hail of Bullets.
swizzlenuts
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No wonder you don't like them. To me, both Hail of Bullets and Blood Red Throne are sterile death metal, like cut and paste riffs.
General Zod
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Well, I'm not sure I don't like X because I like Y. I'm fairly certain I don't like X because of what X is. Portal's music offers a wide array of things to dislike. It's largely an undecipherable wall of sound. Now, I appreciate that the ambiance of such an approach has appeal to some people. However, I'm someone who needs at least the charred remains of a song structure.
Well, they're not reinventing the wheel, that's for sure. However, if I only listened to revolutionary bands, I'd have a very small CD collection. That said, most Death Metal has a somewhat sterile feel to it for me, including the bands I like. It's a genre built on a single emotion. In that sense, it's a very unique genre, even to Metal. And because it essentially lives and breathes within the confines of a single emotion, it tends to always sound sterile.
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Zod's fucking awesome.
Leave him alone lurch. Is it really that unbelievable for someone to not like them? Everything he has said has been completely accurate really, and I love Portal.
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I know you're joking, but it's really sad, the state of music now. Way too much concern with shit like that, especially from message board communities.
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General Zod
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I think more so in Europe... not surprisingly. For instance, I can't tell you how musicians I've spoken with, who during interviews have told me one of their favorite bands is Disturbed. Yet... there's almost no love for Disturbed in the "Metal scene". Another example of this is Lamb of God. I continue to maintain, that if they were a bunch of long haired Swedes, they get a ton more street cred in the "Metal scene".
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General Zod
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Mostly, I'm talking about the Metal folks I interact with; mostly folks on the net. Both here, and the ProgPower forum, where I spend the majority of my music/net time, LoG is largely regarded as NuMetal, a designation which in among Metal fans is akin to a scarlet letter.
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I've never heard Lamb of God being regarded as Nu Metal, not even on the boards I go to. They are generally considered a boring thrash/metalcore band.
General Zod
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MetalCore and NuMetal are equally disparaging, and either tag gets a band dismissed. As I said, if they were long haired Swedes, they wouldn't be tagged as such.
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i gotta say i respectfully disagree with this entire post
the equivalent of lamb of god as swedes is the haunted, and their credibility is nearly zero
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