Lyrics about girls, relationships, etc.
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Well written romantic-girl-whatever love lyrics are good, like My Dying Bride. Theres nothing wrong with love lyrics themselves, but when you write them in a commercial pop way "OMG she dumbed me again, i cant believe this! I must pretend that i actually care, since its cool!" "I cant believe he actually left me! This is almost as bad as the time when i spilled some juice on my shoes!".
Same goes with lyrics about misery and mourning. Angsty numetal lyrics are terrible.
By the way, i remember someone saying on a Korn forum "Child molestation is a terrible thing, even though it created Korn". Korn is the reason why child molestation sucks so much. The other reason would be that they become freaks for the rest of their life, but the primary reason would be Korn.
So remember: dont molest kids, since it makes them all numetal.
Same goes with lyrics about misery and mourning. Angsty numetal lyrics are terrible.
By the way, i remember someone saying on a Korn forum "Child molestation is a terrible thing, even though it created Korn". Korn is the reason why child molestation sucks so much. The other reason would be that they become freaks for the rest of their life, but the primary reason would be Korn.
So remember: dont molest kids, since it makes them all numetal.
Christie_fell
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anonymousnick2001
World's Greatest Vocalist
I dont care if girls and relationships are taken up in music but it shouldnt be taken up in metal.
Exactly. Such lyrics are not metal. They may fit nicely with other forms of music, but not metal.MURAI said:
anonymousnick2001
World's Greatest Vocalist
You're right. Metal should only be restricted to specific topics, like beer, Satan, how metal you are, growing your hair, and hating your parents. Am I right?
It should not necessarily be restricted to those topics, but topics such as girls, relationships, love, harmony, happiness, pro-Christianity, etc. have no place in metal.anonymousnick2001 said:
crimsonfloyd
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Metal tends to be very romantic, idealistic, intense and passionate to start out with both sonically and thematically. There is no reason why the transition can't be sucesfuly made from love of nature to love of another human being, or conversely from hatred of a religion that decieved you to hatred of a human being who decieved you. It makes no sense to thematically limit metal like that.
Death Aflame
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Whether you like it or not relationships, bring out things in a person that they never thought were there, thus there is a ton of stuff that can be covered in this area. However since they have been done for so long for that reason it takes a lot of effort from the artist to portray the feelings in an original yet subtle way to avoid the simple cliches associated with the territory.
In this way, bands like Opeth excell at writing lyrics about relationships because of interesting concepts that are subtle enough to be open to interpretation and are relatable to the audience. But most of the time, bands don't do it right and the result is cliche and boring.
Gore lyrics are much the same, they can be completely mindless offering nothing new(on occassion their amusing) or they can be backed up by an interesting concept that actually uses the subject matter in a worthwhile manner.
In this way, bands like Opeth excell at writing lyrics about relationships because of interesting concepts that are subtle enough to be open to interpretation and are relatable to the audience. But most of the time, bands don't do it right and the result is cliche and boring.
Gore lyrics are much the same, they can be completely mindless offering nothing new(on occassion their amusing) or they can be backed up by an interesting concept that actually uses the subject matter in a worthwhile manner.
darkladykleio
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Love (or however you call this thing that includes lust, passion and blah, blah, blah...and not the boring "I'm going out with another guy this week-thing"), is something primitive, strong, moving. It IS metal.
Erik
New Metal Member
http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/bathory/thereturn.html#5crimsonfloyd said:
In Flames tried doing it with "Morphing into Primal" but those lyrics totally make me cringe. At least Bathory's all in good fun, or something
Other than that, to go back to the original topic, I'm sort of with the above two posters... Love is a very strong feeling and as that it a big part of what Heavy Metal is about, it can work, you just need to know what the fuck you're doing, because otherwise you end up being Henrik Forss on "Subterranean."
crimsonfloyd
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Lies and Perfidy
Gentleman of the Road
crimsonfloyd
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Bathory. I guess if I try and read it from a humerous angle it's not as bad but nevertheless, poor lyrics...Erik said:
Jean-Pierre
Son of The Bitch
crimsonfloyd said:
Those lyrics are fucking excellent. Dirty, nasty and to the fucking point. No Akerfeldt crying about his dead grandpa.
anonymousnick2001
World's Greatest Vocalist
Hey, I like that song, JP!
Besides, the notion that metal can't be about positivity and happiness(as well as religious themes...for the last time, religious doesn't mean preachy) is severely limiting a theoretically limitless style of music.
Besides, the notion that metal can't be about positivity and happiness(as well as religious themes...for the last time, religious doesn't mean preachy) is severely limiting a theoretically limitless style of music.
Toorop
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^bah, if it wasn't for the only music, metal would absolutely suck. C'mon... at least mainsteam lyrics are more mature than this satanic/pagan über alles/gore to the core crap...
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