QUOTE (Owen @ Jul 23 2007, 12:29 AM)
Slayer are pretentious, they sing about something they dont believe in then state that they dont believe in what they are saying, there is no point in that. It's like me writing a whole album about how Jesus Died for Our Sins whilst knowing all the time that this is not what I believed, its misguiding, its unintelligent and its evident that Slayer only do it to be the overaged scene kiddies that they are.
Iron Maiden, now they're just old geriatrics who ran out of ideas after their first albums, they never really had anything to say and like to be hypocrites, for example, to quote Brucie in the same article twice:
"Iron Maiden like to buck the trend, we're totally different from everyone else"
"I was looking for my tight leather 'Rockstar' pants."
Cmon' these guys are not for real, the whole 'Eddie' thing is just hilariously daft as well, "lets have a monster on our covers! lol!"
Does it mean anything? No, its just twaddle.
Then we have the Power Metal bands, lets not forget them, recycling Tolkeins Novels like it was going out of fashion, sure, they tell a story, that someone else wrote nearly 100 years ago and that everyone else has recycled since then, you cant sing about Dragons with conviction, stories should be taught with a purpose, a moral or an expression of something, Tolkeins novel was that, there are very close links to it and the war, it re-tells something that happened in real life. Power Metal bands do not do this, they sing about crap because they have nothing else to say, or because they find it "fun", that's not exciting, thats not expression, thats boring.
As for most Death metal bands, yeah its mostly rubbish, "rararararTexasChainsawMassacrerararar" but at least there are some Death styled bands who actually have lyrical subject to admire, bands like Opeth are a good example, Death is something we all experience in our lives, we all know we are destined to it and we see other people experience it, whether you find people singing about it distasteful is another matter, but it is a very real subject, its not pretentious or diluted if you find any of it that is pure.
Therefore what I am saying is that the Majority of Metal is rubbish, there are a select few bands from within it, that actually have something to say or for us to admire, the rest is all wrapped up in its own vanity, its about expression of beliefs, not copious amounts of leather, dragons and preachings of non events.
All I have to say is that this is amazing. You hate every song that have anything supersticious or whatever in it? Ok great. But saying that bands like Iron Maiden and Slayer sucks is going too far. You simply just cant say that EVERY song that isnt about real life in the whole freakin world sucks. One thing is to say that you dont like something, but saying that something is bad or sucks becuase you dont like the type of lyrics is just... wrong. I HATE power metal, I HATE most metal genres, but they dont suck. If you look at how many fans the different bands and genres have, it cant suck. If a band got skilled musicians, unique music, good melodies, but you dont like the genre, does it suck becuase of that? No, it just dont.
Black Sabbath also sucks ey? As far as I know there cant possibly be a Iron Man! Hmm, they were like one of the bands that started metal and have inspired so many other metal bands. Iron Maiden aswell.
If you just said that you hated these kinds of bands and lyrics I would have just shut up, but when you say that black metal sucks, eventhough there are so many freakin genious bands in the genre is just wrong.
I hate dimmu borgir, it doesnt mean it sucks. It is(was) unique and they got alot of variations, they got fans all over the world. How can they suck? I cant stand the redicilous riffing and vocals by In Flames, but still, they got many, many fans. Not everyone think In Flames is redicilous. I do, but it doesnt suck just becuase I think so.
I dont know how many times I've heard pop fans say that Jazz, blues, old classical stuff sucks. So I guess it does suck becuase they say it? Alright.
I respect other peoples opinions, but when someone says something sucks, when I, and millions of other people on this planet knows it doesnt, its just wrong.
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