The Thread Where You Talk About Music You Like

[CF87]

I had to sit through Ringworm once and their guitarist was about as good as a 14 year old who was playing for 2 weeks. horrible band

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

Killswitch is much better than Children of Bodom.

killswitch is complete and utter shit

at least COB has talented musicians in the band

 

[CF87]

I have Children of Bodom 'follow the reaper' and do not listen to it a lot or find it classic but it's still much better than metalcore.

 

[Mort Divine]

I had to sit through Ringworm once and their guitarist was about as good as a 14 year old who was playing for 2 weeks. horrible band

Hah, just because it is hardcore influenced (heavily so) doesn't mean the playing is bad at all. Simplicity works wonders in many cases.

killswitch is complete and utter shit

at least COB has talented musicians in the band

To discredit Killswitch's instrumental talent means you've never heard their first two albums, which absolutely kill their most recent two. Sure they don't show off by running scales and playing sweeps on them but again simplicity works wonders in many cases.

Punk on the whole proves this.

 

[CF87]

I don't mind simplicity. I guess it just depends on how the band approaces music and the sound and style.

 

[Death Aflame]

KSE suck. CoB suck.

 

[Mort Divine]

KSE suck. CoB suck.

Current KSE sure, debut KSE no way.

 

[I-Oblivion-I]

Just listened to dark angel- darkness descends and wow does this kick ass! The drum beats are amazing and make you want to headbang non-stop!

 

[Death Aflame]

Current KSE sure, debut KSE no way.

Nope all KsE.

 

[LuminousAether]

Metalcore > CoB

Anything bands such as Ringworm, Starkweather, Between The Buried and Me, Glass Casket, Knut, Coalesce, Into The Moat, Overcast, Undying, etc has done destroys anything CoB has ever thought of

BTBAM - Selkies makes CoB look like a complete joke. Well, most stuff makes CoB look like a joke, but this one more than others.

 

[skeptik]

Considering that I hate Metalcore and I like 80s Metal, I would rather listen to Children Of Bodom (well, Hatebreeder primarily, and Follow The Reaper) than Metalcore.

 

[s_a_o]

killswitch is complete and utter shit

at least COB has talented musicians in the band

I agree.

Addicted to Tyr at the moment. Anybody else into them? I'm pumped that they're going to be playing Wacken.

 

[Disarmonia_Mundi]

Meh CoB is average, there are plenty of better bands in the same genre.

Alexi's vocals are horrible, and the only redeeming quality to CoB is Janne Warmen.

For some pure melody I'd have to say Skyfire is the best in the genre, the piano/keyboard mixture with the rest of the music and the black metal vocals is just... so...amazingly good.

Skyfire - Effusion of Strength (Amazing song)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tVtTEBfxqb8

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

I really like Follow The Reaper and Hatebreeder.

 

[Hatebreeder]

Killswitch is much better than Children of Bodom.

Technically? Hell no. Even in their later material, Children of Bodom towers over Killswitch in technical superiority. I believe CoB are better songwriters, too.

Children of Bodom was among the first bands that I listened to that used harsh vocals, but they're not quite as high on my list as they used to be. Pretty decent band, though, they get too much shit from metalheads. Something Wild,Hatebreeder, and Follow the Reaper are great albums, I really don't see why people hate them so much. Those albums have deeper emotional qualities than most other of the Finnish melodeath subgenre.

 

[LuminousAether]

I mostly just really hate newer Children of Bodom, like that ridiculous song they kept playing on Headbanger's Ball where the video had a bunch of text on it. I forget the song.

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

are you dead yet?

 

[LuminousAether]

Me? Yes, I'm a ghost in the machine. Plagueing your days.

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

no you twat, that's the name of the song

 

[LuminousAether]

God I'm dense. Yeah, now that you mention it I remember that.