Ok, call me an old fart, but I just love the vocal style of the early 90's Slayer, Testament, Overkill, Hirax, Forced Entry, & pretty much the whole Bay area style. I just don't hear too many bands doing that anymore. They either do a full on cookie monster impression (in many different octaves, but still the same) or they do squeaky clean pop style vocals. Whatever happened to a good raspy angry vocal that you could understand. Again, don't mean to sound like such an old fart, but why can't bands today have that perfect balance between angry as hell and having some kind of range or tone to their vocal?
What really pisses me off is when the bands go from one extreme to the other. They start out with this full on low end garble one album and then the next album has vocals that remind me more of Def Lepard then any real metal.
When I listen to a lot of the so called 'extreme metal' I love the guitars. The playing is down right amazing, but even if they do try and come close to the late great 90's thrash style on the next album they water down the guitars like crazy. This is why this old fart just can't get into most of the bands out today. I'm curious to hear everyones thoughts on this.
What really pisses me off is when the bands go from one extreme to the other. They start out with this full on low end garble one album and then the next album has vocals that remind me more of Def Lepard then any real metal.
When I listen to a lot of the so called 'extreme metal' I love the guitars. The playing is down right amazing, but even if they do try and come close to the late great 90's thrash style on the next album they water down the guitars like crazy. This is why this old fart just can't get into most of the bands out today. I'm curious to hear everyones thoughts on this.
