Top 10 Metal Albums of 2016

[Pitiless Wanderer]

lol

 

[Carpe Mortem]

Top Metal Album of 2016: Pink Floyd's The Wall

 

[The Ozzman]

Oh, so you're the reason Sodom and Gomorrah got put in the Bible then?

Fixed that for you

 

[Carpe Mortem]

I never understood why Korn gets such flak. They Are emotive. Great bass work, great vocals, and it's not like they're overtly feminine or anything. And truly, I've made this point before, but John Davis scats. And the son of a bitch makes it work. In rock/metal. If you can't at least respect them, you're just part of a hater train in the true metals community, you fucking sheep.

Course I wouldn't put them above David Gilmour, I got a little triggered, but yeah.

 

[The Ozzman]

Ray Luzier is also a really good drummer

 

[Talos of Atmora]

I never understood why Korn gets such flak. They Are emotive. Great bass work, great vocals, and it's not like they're overtly feminine or anything. And truly, I've made this point before, but John Davis scats. And the son of a bitch makes it work. In rock/metal. If you can't at least respect them, you're just part of a hater train in the true metals community, you fucking sheep.

When I first heard him do that on Follow the Leader, all I could think was, "You know...this wasn't something I knew I wanted."

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

Korn is numetal. That's a simple explanation of the pushback that comes from "real" metal fans.

I personally don't like them but if they're on the radio I don' reflexively change it out of some weird insecurity.

 

[Sirjack]

Christ, Korn are dribble you wet fools. Next you'll be discussing the power and merit of Green Day or Avenged 7 fucking fold or whatever the fuck they're called

 

[Carpe Mortem]

I'm gonna take a gander that you hate all numetal. Why? Because it's new, and you're old, and old guys are crotchety about nonconformity to an accepted set of parameters.

 

[Carpe Mortem]

Bless your heart, you moldy bag of bones, bless your close-minded heart.

 

[Baroque]

numetal was around when I was 17 or 18 and I didn't like it then either.

 

[The Ozzman]

Avenged 7 fucking fold

Waking the Fallen is alright

 

[Carpe Mortem]

How can you in good conscience discount an entire genre of music? That's like when people say they listen to everything "except rap and country"

But this discussion is about Korn specifically, which is an absolutely charming band to get bad to, and you don't have to like them but to deny the creativity and influence is blind.

 

[Baroque]

To be fair Korn is the one band I listened to some of back then from that sub genre. They were very creative and different, but these days they annoy me. Also tbf you brought up the sub genre in general not just korn. I also don't listen to rap or country, heh.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

The average Korn song is no more obnoxious than something like The Great Gig in the Sky.

 

[Sirjack]

Hang on, what did l say? Korn suck? yes. Did l i discredit the whole useless genre?
Yes, yes l did. That tiny blip in all things metal will forever stain a noble and entirely legitimate beautiful force of rock and heavy metal that came before and more importantly after it. And that includes some wonderful glam/hair metal.
Let's take a poll of what genres of metal are important and indicative to the name of metal.
l guarantee you nu-fucking-metal wont be there.
l don't hold personal grudges or judge, but if you follow those type of bands then to me you don't really understand metal
*hic*

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I don't really "follow" Korn or nu metal in general, I think the latest Korn album I've listened to in full was Take a Look in the Mirror (if not Untouchables), but nu metal was definitely a significant and notable chapter in metal's development. Check out Gorguts' Obscura for some clear nu metal influence on an established death metal classic, for example.

 

[Sirjack]

Nah, forget it happened and nothing changes. Nu-metal did nothing to advance or sustain any other metal genre or metal in general. Like l said it was a blip.

 

[The Ozzman]

Nu metal obviously made an impact because St. Anger was influenced by it. If the biggest metal band in the world puts out an album with nu metal influences, obviously it made an impact

 

[Sirjack]

l don't deny that it had an impact, it just didn't change the landscape. The underlying ether that is metal was never perturbed by the pinprick