Rock and Metal Society

Yeah, tracks 2 and 3 rule.

Nope. Bull****. Plenty of us view the vocals (not just in metal. I'm listening to the Cocteau Twins right now and I have no idea what Elizabeth Fraser says 99% of the time, but she sounds amazing) as just another instrument, especially given that fact that many extreme metal bands sing in their own languages, and in a manner that makes deciphering the lyrics hard, if not impossible.


Oh, and most lyrics, regardless of genre, are just inane babble.

Well that music, in my opinion, is awful.

Of course some people may think lyrics aren't important, and that's up to them. But for me they're hugely important.

...and now you remember. Hahah. I remember speaking to you a long time ago, aye. Still listening to DSBM?

and people can slag off BMTH because of their image, and that's fine, but at the end of the day, they're not like other deathcore/metalcore bands out there at the moment

I'm not going to rant, as music is all personal opinion. But Thrash metal, death metal and deathcore are genres I just can't get my head around.

Not only is it generic and boring, it drones on and has nothing exciting about it. Anything dark and grizzly is thrown into the title, i.e. death, blood, killing, end, chaos, suffer etc. It gets boring after a very short time. Read a list of these bands and the same words, themes, guitar tunings, chords, song structures and effects crop up time and time again.

Napalm Death are just awful IMO. I can't pretend to know many bands like that though, so I won't go off on one.

Metalcore, whilst falling into the same sort of downward spiral is still be interesting to me, as is mathcore. I love Architects, and people can slag off BMTH because of their image, and that's fine, but at the end of the day, they're not like other deathcore/metalcore bands out there at the moment, They're ambitious and they don't settle on anything. All 3 of their albums have been different from the previous one. Alternative rock is still my favourite though.

Hahaha. Everything from Cocteau Twins to Oranssi Pazuzu is awful?



Okay then. Your opinion is well and truly void.

I switched off as soon as I read this, purely due to the hilarity of it.
If you're going to make reference to a band who are "different", then don't make reference to a scene kid's wet dream band who are as unoriginal as their fans.

The only benefit of reading your post was that although your opinion clearly holds a lot of ignorance and generalisations, it was quite entertaining. You should do stand-up

I really went off metalcore about 6 months ago, never really bought into Architects , etc. I'm sure that in a few months time you'll maybe try listening to a death metal album or something and find that actually, there is something you enjoy about it. It might be the riffs, might be technical drumming, I have no idea but you'll probably find there's something, perhaps just a few bands that you do enjoy. No-one's saying that you have to like all of it..

Also Alexisonfire rule

Yeah, but not as much as I used to. Bizarrely I've taken quite a liking to hip-hop recently, which although is out of character for me, isn't unwanted.

How's the band going?

My opinion isn't void. An opinion on a subjective issue can't be void.

Unoriginal? BMTH aren't exactly groundbreaking I'll give you that, and certainly the image and supposed hotness of Oli Sykes probably does a fair bit for their popularity. But at the end of the day, it is different. I've never heard a band that's like BMTH. Similar yes, because it's a certain genre, but nothing that I couldn't tell the difference between. Oli also has a very distinctive screaming voice in the newer albums, probably because it's not strictly screaming the whole time.

And well done for having a go at me saying my argument is 'funny' rather than actually dealing with it. I would much rather you show me I'm wrong than just imply that I am but not actually tell me why. Seems very evasive, which is needless if you have the answers right?

All the answers have already been posted, so there's very little for me to say without parroting others, which would be a waste of time.

I don't understand what you're saying. In your original post you said that you dislike grindcore, etc etc, because it all sounds the same, but now you're turning around and saying that BMTH (they try to be grind, bless) sound different (as in, not the same, as you previously stated).
If one band sounds different to the rest, then it's a given that others do (and they do. Compare Insect Warfare, Leng Tch'e, and Ass To Mouth. Simples).

You can't have a subjective opinion of such a wide range of bands/genres when you evidently have spent no time exploring them. So, yeah. It's void.



I don't go talking about reggae, because I've never enjoyed enough of what I've heard of it to warrant exploration of the genre.

All the answers have already been posted, so there's very little for me to say without parroting others, which would be a waste of time.

I don't understand what you're saying. In your original post you said that you dislike grindcore, etc etc, because it all sounds the same, but now you're turning around and saying that BMTH (they try to be grind, bless) sound different (as in, not the same, as you previously stated).
If one band sounds different to the rest, then it's a given that others do (and they do. Compare Insect Warfare, Leng Tch'e, and Ass To Mouth. Simples).