Is Summoning the best, still active metal band?

[Sadguru]

Make your choice!

 

[NeverIsForever]

No

 

[illidurit]

hi nif :>

 

[Solipsist]

Naw, don't get me wrong, their past 3 releases are good but pale in comparison to their golden era which was during Dol Guldur/Nightshade Forests. Of course, they're still one of the most worthwhile and interesting BM bands around today, but their music has stayed a bit too much on a predictable course for them to be referred as "the best of today".

 

[opeth_353]

Definitely not.

 

[outerone]

aaaaaaa NO

lame thread!

 

[Scourge of God]

Yes, and for the most part, it's not even close. The Chasm, Crimson Massacre, Averse Sefira are the only bands in hailing distance. Mortem (Peru) and Arghoslent are in the discussion, but not all that seriously.

 

[Scourge of God]

Naw, don't get me wrong, their past 3 releases are good but pale in comparison to their golden era which was during Dol Guldur/Nightshade Forests. Of course, they're still one of the most worthwhile and interesting BM bands around today, but their music has stayed a bit too much on a predictable course for them to be referred as "the best of today".

Stronghold and Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame were weaker by Summoning standards (though still head and shoulders above pretty much anything else being released at the time), but Oath Bound is absolutely a worthy successor to the Dol Guldur sessions, and marks a needed shift back toward greater complexity in detail and away from 'black metal' technique.

 

[all_sins_undone]

yawn, more boring tolkien-worshipping fantasy role playing music. it blows

 

[Scourge of God]

yawn, more boring tolkien-worshipping fantasy role playing music. it blows

Riiiiight, whereas more phony 'avant-garde' metal and bog stupid stoner rock with moronic squeals and peels ripped off from Sonic Youth are what metal really needs?

Christ, but you're an enormous fag!

 

[Tubbs]

Christ, but you're an enormous fag!

Come on SoG, not already.

 

[Kenneth R.]

Summoning is not the greatest metal band still in action, but they friggin own.

 

[Alteredmindeath]

Ive only heard Stronghold, it bored me to sleep so I haven't really checked any more albums out.

 

[Scourge of Malice]

No, but they rule.

 

[hibernal_dream]

Make your choice!

Close enough anyway. It's not like there is any other viable alternative out there.

 

[Sadguru]

Close enough anyway. It's not like there is any other viable alternative out there.

heh

 

[i aint play this]

Can't really see what is so great about them, but i can enjoy them in moderate doses...maybe too slow and a bit cheesy but still good.

 

[i aint play this]

Riiiiight, whereas more phony 'avant-garde' metal and bog stupid stoner rock with moronic squeals and peels ripped off from Sonic Youth are what metal really needs?

Christ, but you're an enormous fag!

You are more fucking repetitive than an ambulance siren.

 

[Selkie]

They're really good at what they do, but I can't help but think that metal is secondary to their sound. Take out the distorted guitar, and it would still be reconizable as Summoning, but I don't think anyone would call it metal.

Seriously though, quit with the cheesey Tolkein worship. Every other black metal band makes some reference to Tolkien, show some originality and pick another book ffs!

 

[S<issors]

Certainly enjoyable, but Scourge, the OP, Hibernal, etc. are overdoing it. It's not THAT fucking good.

Selkie pretty much sums up my opinion.