I don't know how the rest of you feel. But I am getting back into my old bands like Downset, Machinehead, System of a down etc. I'm not knocking Opeth or nothin, but I need to change it up a little. What do the rest of you's think about bands like downset or machinehead? To me they are great classic metal. Just listen to an album like "check your people" and you will get an idea of what I mean.
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Kenneth R.
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i actually enjoy System of a Down's first album. its different than a lot of stuff out there and sounds pretty good. haven't heard their new one.
NFU
I like pie.
i often "go back" to bands after a while...but i cant say they consist of machine head or system of a down. Usually more like solitude aeturnus, mercyful fate, joni mitchell, thin lizzy, elton john and budgie.
Kenneth R.
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nFU that sig is that animated LoTR movie they made so long ago... man, i remember how shitty (yet cool) it was.
anyway, i totally jump around in my musical taste. i often too go back to bands i used to be obsessed over.
anyway, i totally jump around in my musical taste. i often too go back to bands i used to be obsessed over.
Jinn
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synergy
tr00bie
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Martriden K
I guess everyone has a type of music they like, which reflects thier environment. I am just surprized by these responses. If you like Opeth, what are they. They are a band influenced by many different geners. Metal came from rock, rock came from the blues, and the blues came from the black people. So all music is tied together. If it werent for the oppressed blacks back in the 19th and 20th century we would not have all of this music around today. You may like progressive rock, but it is just a superhybrid of all other music. I thought Opeth fans were open minded and could appreciate everything from Public enemy to Judas Priest. I personally listen to everything from Porcupine tree to Downset to the Boils to Ruff Ryders. Its all music. So I am a retard for appreciating something other than melodic death metal? To me that is another example of how close minded the an average person is when it comes to art.
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I'm getting back into the thrash and melodic death scenes. I'm also opening myself up to some of the death metal out there... I'm trying to wade past the generic stuff and get the quality straight from the get-go though.
I also ocassionally go back to listening to Stabbing Westward every now and then. Apart from that I've been reacquainted with classical after I saw the Cologne Philharmonic Orchestra perform the other day. So I'm listening to and learning parts of Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons'.
I also ocassionally go back to listening to Stabbing Westward every now and then. Apart from that I've been reacquainted with classical after I saw the Cologne Philharmonic Orchestra perform the other day. So I'm listening to and learning parts of Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons'.
Kenneth R.
Cináed
NFU
I like pie.
shark22 said:
theres a difference between being close minded, and people thinking what you listen to is bad.
nobody is saying youre necessarily close minded...but theyre said SOAD sucks. follow?
synergy
tr00bie
well put
dorian gray
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ive been getting back into Tupac and Notorious B.I.G.
a little Snoop and Dre in there too.
word.
a little Snoop and Dre in there too.
word.
Nico
Onward!
When I think of "going back to my roots" I certainly aint gunna pull out that filthy fucking Sepultura album by the same name, no matter how much I worshipped it back in the day. Progression is the art, and when I tire of the relentlessly dull death and black metal I subject myself to for hours at a time, I find solace in the founders of heavy metal, because they knew what it was about, unlike these fucking nu-metal bands.
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ChrisEmerson
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you could trace all music back to jesters playing in a court if you wanted to, but that doesnt mean you have to like 1 type of music just because it is linked to another. There is nothing closed minded about it.
And if there is, well, i dont care. I listen to what i like, simple as that. If people want to call me closed minded because of it... let them. Like it's gonna make the slightest bit of difference what i like and dont like.
For me, some of the first bands i got into were Metallica (which was THE first band), Maiden (But i still listen to them all the time anyway), Iced Earth and that type of thing. If you go back even further, i liked the Lightning Seeds for a short while. Before then, i wasnt interested in music full stop.
Despite most metalheads knowing lots of the following bands, I never got into Machine Head, Slayer, Sepultura or Pantera.
And if there is, well, i dont care. I listen to what i like, simple as that. If people want to call me closed minded because of it... let them. Like it's gonna make the slightest bit of difference what i like and dont like.
For me, some of the first bands i got into were Metallica (which was THE first band), Maiden (But i still listen to them all the time anyway), Iced Earth and that type of thing. If you go back even further, i liked the Lightning Seeds for a short while. Before then, i wasnt interested in music full stop.
Despite most metalheads knowing lots of the following bands, I never got into Machine Head, Slayer, Sepultura or Pantera.
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