When alot of metal heads say the band is good...

[nergal_S]

two years ago i was at a cannibal corpse show and talking to some guys who told me to check out a band called Soil work (at that time i never heard of them), later on many people started telling me to listin to this band, finaly i bought the cd natrual born chaos and i hated it. It sounds like a bad hard core/ metal mix. Same with dark tranquility people keept telling me this is an amazing band that i have to listin to, and they are even worse than soil work. I am not going to listin to people any more. LOL, i stick to my black and (real) death metal. How ever have you ever had this happen to you, when every one said a band is great and you got the cd and you end up hating it?

 

[Orion Crystal Ice]

I would suggest you try before you buy, friend. But don't give up on people's recommendations, sometimes they're a great way to hear about bands you otherwise wouldn't have checked out.

I've had people suggest some real crap before, though...like the snobbish prog-heads (that's not all proggers, just this big domineering glut).. I'm a big fan of progressive metal, but I'm a bit picky, into the real stuff.. (Ark, early Dream Theater, Cynic, early Opeth, et al) and they recommend stuff like Pagan's Mind or Moonlyght or basically anything that is commonly labeled as "prog" (it's probably the only reason they like Crimson Glory), and I come to find out that not only is it non-progressive (Dream Theater/Opeth clones and such) but it really sucks on top of that. I also recently checked out some stuff by a Croatian band called Undercode because someone else I know loves them, ....terrible stuff. It may also be worth noting that The End Records, like, promotes the hell out of every band they have in this sickingly "deep", pseudo-dramatic way, yet I've only come across like 3 or 4 bands on there actually worth listening to. Ugh.

 

[Nuclear Vampire]

I had a lot of people try and tell me to check out Manowar. I new they were lame from way back, but I kept getting "oh man, download such-and-such song - you'l love it." and the like. BULLSHIT. Thay sucked when I first heard them in the early '80's and they still reek of bad cheese. But I gave them a chance. I went and downloaded like 40 tunes and listened to them a few times. Still, I found no redeeming value in their brand of "metal" so live and learn, eh?

I don't see what all the fuss about Soilwork is either. In Flames wanna-be Gothenburg shite.

 

[Bryant]

I think many of us have had that experience. When Korn first came out, my neighbor (who was a classic metal fan) told me I had to check that band out. I hated it. A more recent one was one of Pain of Salvation's CDs. I am a progger so I thought I would like it, but no go. I thoughtit was terrible.
At the same time, people have introduced me to great bands like Angel Dust and Avalon. When I was a teen and up until my late 20's I never had internet to "check out" music before I buy so things are much better now.


Bryant

 

[Jondur]

tSame with dark tranquility people keept telling me this is an amazing band that i have to listin to, and they are even worse than soil work.

Depends which CD you bought. They've gone a bit naff recently but "The Gallery" is still a classic.

You have to be careful with recommendations because everyone's tastes are different. Loads of people told me that Cock and Ball Torture are good. But they're not. But in the same way someone said check out Lykathea Aflame and I did and they're now one of my favourite bands!

In my mind though - finding one gem is worth a few duds! The problem with just checking something on the internet is that some things take a few listens to get into - I can't imagine anyone getting into some of the more avant garde stuff after just streaming a couple of minutes of the net.

 

[SculptedCold]

Hah, well if Natural Born Chaos was the first Soilwork CD you heard and you like death metal, no bloody wonder you hated it. Download some tracks from The Chainheart Machine and A Predator's Portrait, those are far heavier, far more 'metal' if you will, and far more accomplished.

 

[Slaughter Of The Soul]

No, no, no...

 

[LuminousAether]

I fail to see why anyone would pick on the End Records for promoting their bands.

The End have by far the best awesome to bad band ratio of pretty much any metal label out there. In fact, I'm yet to hear a band on that label that I think is downright bad. Most of the bands on that label that I hear range from amazing to great.

 

[Tool]

Well, I've never bought a CD without listening to a crapload of songs off it. Some people recomment good stuff, some people recomend bad stuff, it depends on you're listening to.

 

[J.]

Soilwork was one of mine as well.

 

[Orion Crystal Ice]

I fail to see why anyone would pick on the End Records for promoting their bands.

The End have by far the best awesome to bad band ratio of pretty much any metal label out there. In fact, I'm yet to hear a band on that label that I think is downright bad. Most of the bands on that label that I hear range from amazing to great.

I wasn't quite picking on them, I know they do good business, it's just some of their advertisements and what have you just seem lame sometimes, and what's worse is the elitist faction of fans (no, I'm not saying you are, just a general statement) back it up. You get to thinking that they must have a giant glut of the greatest bands ever to exist in music on there and then find out they don't. I simply think it's overdramatized. I love Antimatter, Green Carnation, and Virgin Black is ok, but I prefer Sensory/Laser's Edge and Century Media's rosters by far.

 

[Heretic _Princess]

haha! funny... People also told me that dark tranquility was awesome........I made my Boyfriend buy it and we both hate it.

 

[LuminousAether]

Century Media used to be good, but now the only bands that are on that label that consistently impress me are Sigh, Solefald, and Yakuza.

The End has Agalloch, who I think are one of the three best bands around right now (along with Maudlin of the Well and November's Doom). Green Carnation is ok, but ultimately I find myself not listening to them really ever. But any label that releases both Arcturus and Winds in America gets a whole-hearted thumbs up from me.

 

[J.]

Century Media's heyday is over, as is Nuclear Blast's.

 

[LuminousAether]

Which Dark Tranquillity did you and your bf buy? Projector is the only DT album that I think is absolutely mandatory, it rocks. The rest range from bad (Skydancer) to mediocre (The Gallery) to good (Haven and Damage Done) with The Minds I and the rest falling somewhere in the gaps.

 

[CONCLAVE OBSCURUM]

Century Media used to be good, but now the only bands that are on that label that consistently impress me are Sigh, Solefald, and Yakuza.

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!... its all about TASTE!!!...
For example... you said that Yakuza impresed you.. the same thing happend to me... i was impress by Yakuza... but i was impress on how awful that band is. Really, Yakuza's-Way of the dead its the worst album i have ever bought in at least 10 years. ..

Its all about taste, i haven't heard Natural Born Chaos.. but still i think A predators Portrait its a good and decent album. About Dark Tranquility, one of my Favorite bands. ...

i'll say it again: Its all about the taste. What its good for you, might not be good for the others.

 

[LuminousAether]

Man, Way of the Dead absolutely blew me away. Metalcore isn't very well known for emotive vocals except for emoting anger, but the almost pained vocals absolutely fit the toned down Candiria-esque music. And when they bust out with the growls and screams, I can't help but rock out. The last ambient song is a bit too long, but it has a very discordant and almost palpably disturbing atmosphere that I haven't heard that much in jazz outside of artists like John Zorn.

 

[Incendiare]

Hehe...yeah that's why I don't listen to anyone anymore, especially if it's mainstream! The most embarrassing thing ever is when this guy told me to buy The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds. Since I had money to spend anyway, I bought it, and now majorly regret it. Dammit, I coulda bought a metal cd with that money!

 

[nergal_S]

Hehe...yeah that's why I don't listen to anyone anymore, especially if it's mainstream! The most embarrassing thing ever is when this guy told me to buy The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds. Since I had money to spend anyway, I bought it, and now majorly regret it. Dammit, I coulda bought a metal cd with that money!

you can always sell it on ebay and with the money you make buy a metal cd. This is what i did with the 100+ cds i dont listin to any more.

 

[Life Sucks]

I've never had many metalheads recommend and talk up a band and then bought a CD from them and thought it sucks. However, a little while ago people were saying Immolation are amazing and are the best death metal band ever. So I bought Unholy Cult and was a bit disappointed. I didn't find it bad by any means, but I'd take Suffocation, Nile, Cryptopsy, etc. over them any day. I've been similarly disappointed several other times in the past.