Metal 2013

[Eligos]

I know it's a piece of their MO and all, and they have acquired a whole lot of talent in the last couple years, but shit are those things annoying. It's metal. The lyrics are hardly significant.

 

[KafkaX]

Meh...Everyone pretty much said what I was going to. Pretty weak, got interesting towards the end, but overall left me underwhelmed.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

I'm confused as to what you are actually saying...

To Eligos.

 

[KafkaX]

It's metal. The lyrics are hardly significant.

 

[Onder]

I know it's a piece of their MO and all, and they have acquired a whole lot of talent in the last couple years, but shit are those things annoying. It's metal. The lyrics are hardly significant.

Dude I was saying that SOM sucks fucking dick.

Same as Metal Blade.

 

[Krow]

Eh I like SoM.

SoM > MB > Nuclear Blast > Earache

 

[Onder]

Eh I like SoM.

SoM > MB > Nuclear Blast > Earache

Oh yeah Nuclear Blast is the worst.

 

[Krow]

If it wasn't for earache selling a flash drive for $160 a while back I might agree. Or the band The More I See... uke:

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Metal Blade and Rise Above have the best bands tbh...

 

[Baroque]

New Warbringer

 

[Eligos]

I'm confused as to what you are actually saying...

To Eligos.

To sum it up in 3 succinct statements:

- Season of Mist recently signed a number of bands that I listen to (Deathspell Omega and Ne Obliviscaris just off the tippy)

- Season of Mist releases stupid lyric videos whenever there's a new release they want to promote.

- Lyrics are not prominent in metal.

Seriously, I've been to about 30 metal shows in the last year. Can you name the last time an extreme metal band turned the microphone to the crowd? Even deafheaven doesn't do this, and for all intensive purposes, they are a post-hardcore band.

In the meantime, metalcore frontmen seem to think their lyrics are so important that they will teach a new audience what seems to be an entire chorus before they play their "hit song".

 

[KafkaX]

Extreme metal bands WONT turn the mic to the crowd, its not part of their live aesthetic. Where with metalcore/hardcore it is.

This however, doesnt imply their lyrics are not important.

 

[Eligos]

Mind that a number of other genres of music do turn the mic toward the crowd, not just metalcore and hardcore. Funk, Soul, Pop, Reggae, Ska and Country all come to mind.

I'm not saying lyrics are not important in metal, they're just not prominent. They're de-emphasized.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

But you said lyrics weren't significant. Aren't those two words the same?

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

New Warbringer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BfxYMI8L9Q

 

[Eligos]

But you said lyrics weren't significant. Aren't those two words the same?

I said they're hardly significant. And I'll stand by that.

 

[Onder]

- Lyrics are not prominent in metal.

Seriously, I've been to about 30 metal shows in the last year. Can you name the last time an extreme metal band turned the microphone to the crowd?

Wow.

 

[sevag00]

Also, lyric videos are ghey.

The lyrics are hardly significant.

- Lyrics are not prominent in metal.

I said they're hardly significant. And I'll stand by that.

*facepalm*

 

[Avigrus]

This is the new Insomnium song - for some reason i can't embed the fucking video.

Curses Youtube, you've foiled my plots yet again!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DjmQXtZUx4#t=76

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

Godflesh's cover of Slaughter's "F.O.D. (Fuck of Death)" from their Decibel flexi:

http://soundcloud.com/decibelmagazine/godflesh-f-o-d-fuck-of-death