I don't like them. But I also don't like Linkin Park. And I don't even see them as a metal band
And saying that they're better because they're metal is a lame excuse.
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And saying that they're better because they're metal is a lame excuse.
Jester Slave
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It doesn't really matter what we think someone is, by definition LInkin Park is metal, or at least was for their first two records.
I was bored yesterday and went on their old website through the wayback machine. There are a dozen interviews saved. To keep it short - around the Colony/Clayman era: Anders listened to a lot of The Tea Party, and that's what party influenced Passenger. Bjorn was into Slipknot. Peter was into Tom Jones (???) and Jesper was into Backstreet Boys and a lot of other pop/rnb, because of the clean production and hooks.
https://web.archive.org/web/20001206220200/http://inflames.com/mainpage.html
Click "band", then "interviews".
And here's one quote from Bjorn's inteview when R2R came out:
What it doesn't matter is what they are in order to like them or dislike them.
I'm watching their full Forcefest 2019 Mexico show now, and whilst Anders' growls are undoubtedly hugely improved... man, his attempts at cleans are worse than ever. It's like as he's become more confident in his growls he's become even less confident in his clean vocals. Quite often he just doesn't sing the clean parts at all, and when he does try he usually mixes it in with growls or just replaces all the cleans with growls instead.
Where the Dead Ships Dwell's chorus as one example is totally butchered vocally. Truthfully he's never been able to do that chorus live and never will be able to, but without any backing track it sounds really bad.
Where the Dead Ships Dwell's chorus as one example is totally butchered vocally. Truthfully he's never been able to do that chorus live and never will be able to, but without any backing track it sounds really bad.
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Jester Slave
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lol, to his credit, he got progressively better during the song, and the last chorus was pretty OK. first verse and chorus though... yikes
Pallbearer
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Speaking of older albums and cover songs, I think both the choice and the placement of "Everything Counts" was very good. Being the last Whoracle song with lyrics it summarizes very well what ultimately brought/will bring about the downfall of man: bottomless greed and the constant need for more.
Ok, thanks for the correction.
Ok, thanks for the correction.
What he should try, if he keeps on insisting on singing, due to his poor skills, is to choose simple melodies. Without much variation in the notes so that he has a lesser chance to fuck it up.
It's not like Burn is a complex chrous vocal melody to be fair
it's pretty straightforward, so it's kind of amazing how badly they fucked it up. The American Bro's backing vocals sound like a 12 year old just starting to hit puberty, and Anders sounds like he's vomiting. The mixture is not good.
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I just don't understand why he's trying to badly growl the chorus. I've seen enough IF performances to know Anders can do this live even if it doesn't sound great. That weird, shit sounding growl combined with American Bro's weak, silly sounding backing vocal is the worst combination possible. I was kind of bummed I missed out on seeing Burn live last year, but now I'm glad I didn't.
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It has always baffled me how he used to be able to actually sing his clean parts live on the Sticky Fingers DVD and around that time, but pretty much as time has gone on he's sung less and less live. Nowadays he basically relies on the strength of his new growls, and I don't know if its a lack of confidence or damage to his voice but I feel if he opened up and actually sung more he would do himself a few favors
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