People who take lent even semi-seriously should probably just kill themselves while they're at it. Just think of it as giving up the will to live or something.
" the reason i dont like metal is because from what i've heard it all tries to capture the same feeling/emotion. i like music that is broad and captures a tone of atmosphere that is special, something you can put yourself inside and have some kind of little experience. that is not possible with metal, because it's about being badass and hardcore and twanging on your guitar as fast and hard as you can and swinging your hair around and making that symbol with your fingers.. not my type of thing. another thing is, the electric guitar with distortion with loud drumming and kind of yell/scream singing has gotten boring for me. that combination of instruments has to do something VERY special for me to be able to get into it. "
Way to generalize. The same ignorance can be spewed about any genre of music.
" Anyone here listen to much Devin Townsend? Pretty much every project that guy has worked on has been awesome.
@ArcLyte said:
" @Tarsier said:
" the only "metal" band i can appreciate is sunn O))).. but i wouldn't really consider them metal. some people do, don't know why. "
wow you get major points from me for the sunn O))) reference. they're probably one of the most obscure bands out there. and i do agree that it's very hard to place them in a singe genre. very, very dark and abrasive. "
For such an odd and supposedly inaccessible band, Sunn O))) sure seems pretty popular. What's the deal with that? "
They're not that inaccessible, actually. They seem to be one of those "fringe" bands that are liked by many - for lack of a better term - metalheads and non-metalheads.
@Phished0ne: The "average" listener (i.e. people who don't really listen to extreme metal at all). That's why you have so many ignorant people mindlessly bashing metal is being "shit", or "I can't understand what he's saying, this is horse shit", etc. They're not used to having so much intensity channeled into their ears that they just shrug it off (understandable, really). If you're used to that, though, you can totally pick out those aforementioned nuances. Also, music is not all about melody or structure. Dissonance and borderline atonality aren't bad things.
@johnbon: No, in a sense he's right. In terms of instrumentation, a lot of times everything is much more subtle in the more extreme forms of metal due to either production value / amounts of distortion / downtuning / tempo / etc. This makes it really easy to miss a bunch of cool riffs and stuff if you're not used to the so-called "wall of noise". "Training" (not the right term, really) your ears I find makes music in general much more appreciable.
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