Melodic Death Metal Vs. DeathMetal
I'm trying to figure out more or less what people consider to be melodic death metal compared to just metal and how straight death metal compares to melodic death metal.
In my view, melodic death metal is hard driving metal that's usually technically skilled and is basically metal with the presence of screaming/growling with clean singing or just screaming/growling. Such as:
In Flames, Gardenian, Opeth, Children Of Bodom, etc.
So what would one consider a band such as Nevermore? They're still pretty underground in the US, but its all clean singing, you can't exactly put the word death in the title to describe them.
On the other end, just straight death metal I associate with a lack of technical prowess, although the band members may have it, they just don't show it. It's mostly just really loud, grotesquely downtuned guitars without any song structure (verse, chorus, solo) that's really noticeable. And the growling voice is usually impossible to understand, especially amongst the blast beat drums that really annoy the living shit out of me. Such as:
Cannibal Corpse, Mortician, Morbid Angel, Obituary, etc.
And then there's the fine line between death metal and grind core, which is usually an album with all minute long songs with each one sounding like a gigantic mess of discordant shit.
I'm sorry if I offend some people here, but to me, these truly extreme styles like grindcore seem to really undermine the concept of music and metal. Especially when bands like cannibal corpse sell more albums than lesser known metal bands putting all their heart into their music. Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of melodic death metal, and growls and shit don't bother me, but theres gotta be some kind of a line to draw in the sand. How can someone go from the extremely melodic dual guitarwork of In Flames or Children Of Bodom to the incoherent barking of mortician under a constant barrage of fuzzy inhumanly fast power chords behind a blast beat. I saw someone tab out one of their songs once, they tune down to G for christ sakes! Although I can say that if some of these bands are just doing it to be funny, they're doing a good job. Like Carcass. They suddenly decided, for some reason, to drop the grindcore act and play melodic death metal when they released their album "Heartwork" which I like a lot. Now you have a good band playing cool songs named Carcass because of their early days of grindcore. I mean their song titles used to be things such as:
Regurgitation of Giblets. - I literally burst out laughing when I
saw that song title
and I think Carcass did this one: "Vomited Anal Tract".
Is this one even possible in any way folks? Maybe during the Bubonic Plague or a recent outbreak of the Ebola virus
I actually came across Carcass by accident when I was trying to download one of their songs off of a P2p sharing program (Fuck you recording companies, it isn't like I can sample Carcass songs at fucking record town at Anytown, USA. If I like it I buy the CD, seems to make sense to me.)
I found this song called "Rock The Vote" and I was wondering why they would call a song something so normal like that so I downloaded and I was shocked. Waiiiiit.. I like this.. what's going on? Dual guitars in minor third harmony breaking into a catchy power chord verse and chorus with a cool solo. Where'd this come from?
Thanks for hearing me out.
I'm trying to figure out more or less what people consider to be melodic death metal compared to just metal and how straight death metal compares to melodic death metal.
In my view, melodic death metal is hard driving metal that's usually technically skilled and is basically metal with the presence of screaming/growling with clean singing or just screaming/growling. Such as:
In Flames, Gardenian, Opeth, Children Of Bodom, etc.
So what would one consider a band such as Nevermore? They're still pretty underground in the US, but its all clean singing, you can't exactly put the word death in the title to describe them.
On the other end, just straight death metal I associate with a lack of technical prowess, although the band members may have it, they just don't show it. It's mostly just really loud, grotesquely downtuned guitars without any song structure (verse, chorus, solo) that's really noticeable. And the growling voice is usually impossible to understand, especially amongst the blast beat drums that really annoy the living shit out of me. Such as:
Cannibal Corpse, Mortician, Morbid Angel, Obituary, etc.
And then there's the fine line between death metal and grind core, which is usually an album with all minute long songs with each one sounding like a gigantic mess of discordant shit.
I'm sorry if I offend some people here, but to me, these truly extreme styles like grindcore seem to really undermine the concept of music and metal. Especially when bands like cannibal corpse sell more albums than lesser known metal bands putting all their heart into their music. Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of melodic death metal, and growls and shit don't bother me, but theres gotta be some kind of a line to draw in the sand. How can someone go from the extremely melodic dual guitarwork of In Flames or Children Of Bodom to the incoherent barking of mortician under a constant barrage of fuzzy inhumanly fast power chords behind a blast beat. I saw someone tab out one of their songs once, they tune down to G for christ sakes! Although I can say that if some of these bands are just doing it to be funny, they're doing a good job. Like Carcass. They suddenly decided, for some reason, to drop the grindcore act and play melodic death metal when they released their album "Heartwork" which I like a lot. Now you have a good band playing cool songs named Carcass because of their early days of grindcore. I mean their song titles used to be things such as:
Regurgitation of Giblets. - I literally burst out laughing when I
saw that song title
and I think Carcass did this one: "Vomited Anal Tract".
Is this one even possible in any way folks? Maybe during the Bubonic Plague or a recent outbreak of the Ebola virus
I actually came across Carcass by accident when I was trying to download one of their songs off of a P2p sharing program (Fuck you recording companies, it isn't like I can sample Carcass songs at fucking record town at Anytown, USA. If I like it I buy the CD, seems to make sense to me.)
I found this song called "Rock The Vote" and I was wondering why they would call a song something so normal like that so I downloaded and I was shocked. Waiiiiit.. I like this.. what's going on? Dual guitars in minor third harmony breaking into a catchy power chord verse and chorus with a cool solo. Where'd this come from?
Thanks for hearing me out.