Originally posted by Trapped
Mate.Feed.Kill.Repeat is awesome... especially 'gently'. I own the 'self titled' one, and it's got a few decent tracks on it...
It is by no strech of the words 'amazing' or anything, but it is okay.
What exactly is your BEEF with this band? It can't be because of the 'riffs are simple' thing, because 80% of you listen to Katatonia, and THEY are not complex, or even METAL. ... And while opeth are progressive (...they have long songs wow, that's progressive), they are not complex or technical at all.
It can't be the vocals thing, because you all listen to opeth, and opeth's growls are hideous...!! And slipknot's screaming is decent, and the clean singing is pretty good.
...And those of you who have said 'i haven't heard their first one, but i've heard the POPULAR one, so they suck', tell me, do you have the same mentality towards Megadeth, or Metallica? In that Load sucks, so obviously all their first albums suck too??
You're a bunch of fools, and this thread is proving it.
I presonally don't like Slipknot too much, aside from MFKR, and i don't see how you people can listen to the CRAP you listen to and say that slipknot is crap, when the only thing really different with slipknot is the popularity...
Get over yourselves you elitist assholes.
My beef with Slipknot isn't so much with their music, as with their gimmickry. Their music is average at best, but not HORRIBLE, but they have 9 members in a band that only needs five. But I agree with you that they aren't as bad as some people make them out to be.
After that, though, you start making an ass out of yourself. First off, saying Opeth's growls are hideous is purely subjective. In my OPINION, Akerfeldt's growls are the best in the business. Deep, evil, but understandable. Taylor from Slipknot doesn't growl. He screams, and there is a BIG difference.
As far as Opeth's music goes, their riffs might not all be drop dead difficult to play, but there is a ton of music theory behind them. They aren't as complex as, say, Petrucci's sweeping riffage, but they are nowhere NEAR as simplistic as Slipknot's fifth rooted songs.
And, then you insult everyone because their opinions differ from yours, and in the NEXT SENTENCE call US elitist assholes?
That's hypocrisy of the highest order, bro, and you look like a complete dipshit.