The no-bashing thread
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ShredHeadJHJ
oh noes itz a opinionn
Hiromi Uehara > ShredHeadJHJ > everyone else on this board
Oh man, this Gamalon is great as well
Listening to their MeSpace.I think YMO are awesome personally. I don't know, but that stuff really gets me going.
witchhunterni
Doom as fvck
Anyone else here like some Jamiroquai?
Also, a bit (actually, more like a lot) of a guilty pleasure of mine:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLkZ3r9fjyU[/youtube]
Also, a bit (actually, more like a lot) of a guilty pleasure of mine:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLkZ3r9fjyU[/youtube]
ShredHeadJHJ
oh noes itz a opinionn
Never heard much from him beyond his singles, but he's aight. I've been wanting to look into him one of these days, but I don't think I will ever get around to it.
witchhunterni
Doom as fvck
JK's just the lead singer, though the band changes a lot, Jamiroquai still refers to a band.
Return Of The Space Cowboy is one of my favourite albums <3
Satanstoenail
My Larpstyle determines my Derpstyle
Yeah I've got that one and the debut (Emergency on Planet Earth) and they're both awesome. I saw them live on the tour for Return of the Space Cowboy in about 96 and they were absolutely mindblowing. Jay Kay danced & sang like a madman for the whole gig and the band were on fire. Every song ended up as an extended improv funk jam, the whole place was going nuts.
FerretallicA
HMAS Slagdestroyer
Disturbed. The guitar riffs are amazing, and David Draiman is a lyrical genius, not to mention he can definitely sing. This band seems to attract a large amount of hate from people who actually know what they're talking about because people who don't seem to obsess about the band, and it's "death metalness"... I've heard several people say they are serious metalheads because they listened to Down With The Sickness without passing out. But it seems the only reason this band isn't taken seriously very often is that it attracts morons. Sure, there isn't screaming. It isn't metal. I wouldn't even call it numetal. It's something else. But the band's good if you take it as a band that plays awesome guitar and actually sings, that just happens to be an emo magnet.
Matt
Active Member
I like Disturbed but I dont see how people would say they arent metal or that they are hardrock, how is this ? Thats pretty heavy music they play and has little connection to rock.
It is heavy music. I would probably categorize them as heavy metal. The thing is, a lot of self proclaimed "metalheads" think anyone who doesn't scream constantly isn't a metal musician. Also, the lyrics aren't about destroying the world, the path of satan, ripping the heads off goats, sex with dead bodies, and other "metal" subjects. There are tons of bands that do not sing about those things, but stuff like Cradle of Filth makes the stereotypes more often than more moderate artists do. Disturbed is just quite obviously about all of it's social, religious (not satanist), whatever messages because it's all sung. Quite well, I might add, and you can hear the words perfectly. It doesn't fit in in the modern "metal" scene at all. This isn't bad, just different.
I guess it depends on your definition of "metal". If Opeth is the lightest music you ever listen to, then Disturbed might not seem like metal. But if you listen to a wide range of genres it definitely leans towards the heavy side of things.
Undeniably, it does attract people who have no knowledge of the much larger genre of "metal", who don't know the difference between hardcore and death metal, and who think "superman that ho" is the most ingenious lyric anyone ever came up with... and generally make a fool of themselves trying to talk about what music they listen to. But that doesn't diminish the band's awesomeness.
And damn, that was a long post that didn't make much sense. Sorry if most of it is indecipherable.
I guess it depends on your definition of "metal". If Opeth is the lightest music you ever listen to, then Disturbed might not seem like metal. But if you listen to a wide range of genres it definitely leans towards the heavy side of things.
Undeniably, it does attract people who have no knowledge of the much larger genre of "metal", who don't know the difference between hardcore and death metal, and who think "superman that ho" is the most ingenious lyric anyone ever came up with... and generally make a fool of themselves trying to talk about what music they listen to. But that doesn't diminish the band's awesomeness.
And damn, that was a long post that didn't make much sense. Sorry if most of it is indecipherable.
Yea, but it was funny as hell! It makes plenty of sense to me and at least you got the point across. Metal was never all about what people want to think it has to be about today. Metal has always been diverse and so have vocal methods, long before there was 399 subgenres. I read up on Disturbed a bit after your post and it seems they are considered both metal and hardrock and somehow due to the confusion that reluctant people have, some are leaning toward calling them alternate metal....... lol I grew up on hardrock long before I ever heard the word metal and Disturbed sounds nothing like what I call hardrock. I havent heard all their recording though, just the first one and then the radio songs. Judging the first one I feel its fair to simply say they are metal, with out any of the death, black, gothic, nu, core or other silly prefixes..... lol
