Pick one band and say what you think they're OVERRATED

[Bruticus]

Grindcore is for faggots

actually...now that you say it.

Fear, Emptiness, Despair. A great fucking album. It's often overlooked by ND 'fans' that only pay attention to the first three LPs.

Yeah, that's the one. Frizbees, Emptiness, Despair. Excellent metal album. I'd be curious to hear why some people feel they're overrated as they were a great grindcore band and evolved really well and... oh, sorry, said all that already.


Okay. Does anyone want to tackle Iron Maiden ? Being at least a bit overrated ? Iron Maiden ? Anybody ?

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Maiden is about appropriately rated. Does Steve Harris sometimes rehash chord progressions and repeat choruses too often? Sure. Were they as innovative as Sabbath or Priest? Nah. Did they still manage the strongest five album run in metal history? Absolutely.

They were far ahead of everyone else in the NWOBHM outside of Venom, and served as an important influence on power and thrash metal alike, established a significant amount of metal imagery and tropes, all the while continuing to inspire kids to pick up instruments to this day.

I will say that their reunion stuff is pretty overrated though.

 

[Bruticus]

Maiden is about appropriately rated. Does Steve Harris sometimes rehash chord progressions and repeat choruses too often? Sure. Were they as innovative as Sabbath or Priest? Nah. Did they still manage the strongest five album run in metal history? Absolutely.

They were far ahead of everyone else in the NWOBHM outside of Venom, and served as an important influence on power and thrash metal alike, established a significant amount of metal imagery and tropes, all the while continuing to inspire kids to pick up instruments to this day.

I will say that their reunion stuff is pretty overrated though.

mmmmm ehhh.
I'm willing to concede you might be closer to the truth, but as far as my true opinion goes, I don't believe it one second. I think they're, like, powerfully overrated. I totally understand some bands are essential just by how influential and innovative at a particular time they might've been... but after that, it's just a matter of listening to the music itself as if separated from its chronological/cultural/philosophical context, and I mean, you can be a fan of Dickinson yelling in that mic' (because he does yell) and have a soft spot for melodic hard rock with elements of metal, and sure there's really good song writing going on on many occasions, but the whole mystique built around them is just metal folklore as far as I'm concerned, and not earned. At least not as highly rated as they actually are.

Have you ever felt that, when you're listening to them for a while, it sounds like loud hard rock instrumentally with just wayyyy too much Bruce Dickinson absolutely yelling into the mic ? In some friend's car, by yourself on YouTube some night... and there's like this instinctive feel that like "boy this just isn't worth the effort" or, it's not worth being spent too much time on ?
Just laying out how I feel about em.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Ain't nothing "melodic hard rock" about Piece of Mind or Powerslave. Pure metal.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Death, the band, they fkng SUCKK

Its like saying TechnicalBarbarity in a mirror three times in a row.

 

[Mort Divine]

oh goodie

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Burzum

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Venom. A footnote in the history of metal that never released anything of intrinsic value.

 

[The Ozzman]

Venom. A footnote in the history of metal that never released anything of intrinsic value.

Wow, that makes a handful of things we both agree on

 

[The Ozzman]

Speaking of wrestling, Brian Christopher hung himself in his prison cell today. I guess it was 'too much' for him.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Venom. A footnote in the history of metal that never released anything of intrinsic value.

Putting every album they released in the 80s aside, of course.

 

[Omni]

People who are so weak that they'd try to even imply that Venom is merely a footnote in metal history are obviously not grounded in reality. That is a ludicrous and totally revisionist statement to make even if you dislike the band.

 

[The Ozzman]

Putting every album they released in the 80s aside, of course.

Every album they released in the 80s is garbage

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Prove it bitch

 

[The Ozzman]

I probably won't be able to convince you. I just get no enjoyment out of it and think all their 80s albums sound amateurish. Is that the appeal?

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Speaking of wrestling, Brian Christopher hung himself in his prison cell today. I guess it was 'too much' for him.

I don't know who that is, but has making fun of people who just died become one of your new hobbies?

How can anyone here dislike this ...

 

[The Ozzman]

"Ozzman made fun of a dead guy. What an outrage. I guess I'll post about how much of an outrage it is even though I don't like him or care about what he posts thereby actually caring about it. Better yet I'll report his posts since his posts I care so little about actually triggered me so now I must care about what he posts." - Literally everyone here except for like 4 people.

I don't know who that is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Christopher



Play on his tag team name. Other people off this board found my joke funny. Whatever.

but has making fun of people who just died become one of your new hobbies

I have a Hulk Hogan 9/11 meme that was created literally like a year after that happened so this isn't something new or anything. The meme is not something I created. I steal memes like most other people.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

ohhh Jerry Lawlers son. Wasn't a fan but whatever, rip.

Also admit it, you liked that Venom track didn't you?

 

[The Ozzman]

Not metal but:

Swans
Dead Can Dance

 

[EspaDa]

Not metal but:

Swans
Dead Can Dance

Neither of these bands is overrated.