Holy crap, these guys are sick. As far as "New" metal goes there's nobody better.

TeddyBallGame: Holy crap, these guys are sick. As far as "New" metal goes there's nobody better.

Came here to say this. I haven't even been into metal since maybe the 9th grade, but that was pretty damn good.

What a good way to wake up. Thanks, Subby!

Thirded.

LoG OWNS.

I hate to be "that" guy, but yeah.....

real metal talent

DragonForce

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debauch: real metal talent

DragonForce

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They Can't pull it off live...at all.

But Muhammed from Necrophagist (new window) can...

cabritosaurio: I hate to be "that" guy, but yeah.....

Seconded. Removing the rest of the band from the argument, simply cannot stand the "singer with a throat full of broken glass" style.

Instrumentally it's awesome, but I can't get into growling/grunting vocals.

I like metal bands with singers who still SING, dammit.

Keep the band, Ditch the singer

If singers weren't speaking in tongues, metal might be more popular

Eleanor: cabritosaurio: I hate to be "that" guy, but yeah.....

Seconded. Removing the rest of the band from the argument, simply cannot stand the "singer with a throat full of broken glass" style.

Normally I agree with that but these guys are an exception for me. Musically the entire outfit is hyper-talented and the singer doesn't always use that style.

Damn, I just turned thirty and that made me feel really old. Not for me, but I still like ministry!!!

Que the "your taste of music is flawed" thread in 3....2........

One of my fav..Link (new window)

ianjames: One of my fav..Link (new window)

Never trust a junkie...

FlyingPig: Instrumentally it's awesome, but I can't get into growling/grunting vocals.

I like metal bands with singers who still SING, dammit.
This. Cookie monster vocals ruin it for me.
The rest of the band has obvious talent, however.

moparedtn: This. Cookie monster vocals ruin it for me.
The rest of the band has obvious talent, however.

True. The riff to me sounds kind of like "For Whom the Bell Tolls" sped up about 80,000 times.

There are a lot of metal bands I would love EXCEPT for the vocals.

TeddyBallGame: Normally I agree with that but these guys are an exception for me. Musically the entire outfit is hyper-talented and the singer doesn't always use that style.

I clicked about eight other links of the band's videos, they all have a very similar vocal style. Care to point to an example?

Eleanor: cabritosaurio: I hate to be "that" guy, but yeah.....

Seconded. Removing the rest of the band from the argument, simply cannot stand the "singer with a throat full of broken glass" style.

Eleanor: cabritosaurio: I hate to be "that" guy, but yeah.....

Seconded. Removing the rest of the band from the argument, simply cannot stand the "singer with a throat full of broken glass" style.

I like grunting/growling or whatever it is they want to call it. My problem is, either do it well, or don't do it all. I love singing vocalists in metal, and I dig the guttural ultra low vocal growls of brutal death metal as well.

However, bands like Lamb of God have that annoying vocal "shouting" I can't accurately describe, but I'll refer to it as the "I'm so INSANE!!I've had enough of your shiat!!I'm gonna stand-up for myself! NOw I'm in your face and we're about to throw-down!" vocal style, that you see younger kids shout allong to while throwing awkward punches in the air.

Musically, the guys are talented, but I guess I'm not into the "modern" metal craze. As soon as I hear their riffs I think "Wow, this could have been good, instead it's kinda wimpy". (this coming from a guy who has no problem admitting he celebrates the catalogues of Lionel Richie and The Bee Gees"

/ tries not be elitist

It should be "les presento a ustedes."


/Spanish teacher
//would rather listen to At The Gates

Donde estan mis huevos: It should be "les presento a ustedes."


/Spanish teacher
//would rather listen to At The Gates

Este cancion le ayudara encontrar tus huevos :P (bonus, ex- At the Gates singer)

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/no es un Ricardo-roll

cabritosaurio: Donde estan mis huevos: It should be "les presento a ustedes."


/Spanish teacher
//would rather listen to At The Gates

Este cancion le ayudara encontrar tsus huevos :P (bonus, ex- At the Gates singer)

Link (new window)

/no es un Ricardo-roll

/maldita sea

Eleanor: TeddyBallGame: Normally I agree with that but these guys are an exception for me. Musically the entire outfit is hyper-talented and the singer doesn't always use that style.

I clicked about eight other links of the band's videos, they all have a very similar vocal style. Care to point to an example?

"Theirs goes, 'Ding ding ding dingy ding-ding.' Ours goes, 'Ding ding ding ding dingy ding-ding.'"

Randy Blythe needs to jump off a farking cliff. Guy has no vocal talent except for screaming like a douche and he looks like a penis with hair.

Great_Milenko: Eleanor: TeddyBallGame: Normally I agree with that but these guys are an exception for me. Musically the entire outfit is hyper-talented and the singer doesn't always use that style.

I clicked about eight other links of the band's videos, they all have a very similar vocal style. Care to point to an example?

"Theirs goes, 'Ding ding ding dingy ding-ding.' Ours goes, 'Ding ding ding ding dingy ding-ding.'"



/Feels your pain

debauch: real metal talent

DragonForce

Pfft, go back to the computer lab wolfshirt. Dragon Force is the D&D of metal. Needlessly complex and extremely limited appeal.

That being said my favorite new-millenia metal band almost no one knows. Do yourself and listen to the end. Gojira (new window)

HATE AMERICAN METAL VOCALS!!!!

Norwegian black metal better.

PruneTracy: debauch: real metal talent

DragonForce

Pfft, go back to the computer lab wolfshirt. Dragon Force is the D&D of metal. Needlessly complex and extremely limited appeal.

That being said my favorite new-millenia metal band almost no one knows. Do yourself and listen to the end. Gojira (new window)

Wolfshirt you say??? All these reviewers can't be wrong.

Link (new window) (some nsfw language)

moparedtn: FlyingPig: Instrumentally it's awesome, but I can't get into growling/grunting vocals.

I like metal bands with singers who still SING, dammit.
This. Cookie monster vocals ruin it for me.
The rest of the band has obvious talent, however.

I've never heard 'Cookie monster' vocals used to describe it before. Very good way to describe it. And it also ruins a lot of metal bands for me as well.

Far and away the best American metal band since Pantera right there

PruneTracy: debauch: real metal talent

DragonForce

Pfft, go back to the computer lab wolfshirt. Dragon Force is the D&D of metal. Needlessly complex and extremely limited appeal.

That being said my favorite new-millenia metal band almost no one knows. Do yourself and listen to the end. Gojira (new window)

sorry that complex music confuses you.

LoG.... yes. Seen them 5 times live. They do indeed, bring it. All great musicians, Randy is a beast live, too.

Quit complaining about the vocals and just get into it.

Far and away the best American metal band since Pantera right there

No they are not. Many bands that are better. Immolation, Wolves in the Throne Room, Ceremonial Castings. etc.

1. Lamb of God is no better than most Nu-Metal bands.

2. Most lead singers don't yell, they use their diaphragm. If they yelled, their voice would be gone in only a few years (think James Hetfield).

3. If you think that bands with harsh vocalists that grunt and growl are bad, then you have a very small sampling of real metal to listen to. But I'm sure you know everything about metal since you listened to some thrash bands in the 80s and have a few Iron Maiden and Judas Priest records.

4. Finally, because this thread needs some real metal in it:
Primordial - Empire Falls (new window)

BigSnatch: 3. If you think that bands with harsh vocalists that grunt and growl are bad, then you have a very small sampling of real metal to listen to. But I'm sure you know everything about metal since you listened to some thrash bands in the 80s and have a few Iron Maiden and Judas Priest records.

Actually, I'm pretty big into current European thrash, prog, and goth-metal right now. I hate "death" and "gore" metal because it's just silly. But nice try.

Eleanor: TeddyBallGame: Normally I agree with that but these guys are an exception for me. Musically the entire outfit is hyper-talented and the singer doesn't always use that style.

I clicked about eight other links of the band's videos, they all have a very similar vocal style. Care to point to an example?

Here's (Redneck. That's a better example of him following a clear melody. Yes it's deep and brooding but a certain departure from today's SHMHC. I think he sounds more like Phil Anselmo here than other songs.

As for this week's group of hater, we do this every week. Some weeks it's LoG others it's Dio others it's Pantera. We try to get a fairly wide sampling insofar as the genre allows. The only thing I avoid is Norwegian Death. That stuff's just pure evil.

finaboy: Meshugga, FTW

THIS

"Love the music, but hate the vocals" is the battle cry of the retarded.

Lamb of God kicks all kinds of ass.

/that is all

I always thought it would be funny to go back in time and play death metal for a church in the 1400's or something...

/easily amused

FlyingPig: BigSnatch: 3. If you think that bands with harsh vocalists that grunt and growl are bad, then you have a very small sampling of real metal to listen to. But I'm sure you know everything about metal since you listened to some thrash bands in the 80s and have a few Iron Maiden and Judas Priest records.

Actually, I'm pretty big into current European thrash, prog, and goth-metal right now. I hate "death" and "gore" metal because it's just silly. But nice try.


"Gore" metal?


Care to elaborate? I'll wait while you run to Google to try and form a cohesive post.

BigSnatch: FlyingPig: BigSnatch: 3. If you think that bands with harsh vocalists that grunt and growl are bad, then you have a very small sampling of real metal to listen to. But I'm sure you know everything about metal since you listened to some thrash bands in the 80s and have a few Iron Maiden and Judas Priest records.

Actually, I'm pretty big into current European thrash, prog, and goth-metal right now. I hate "death" and "gore" metal because it's just silly. But nice try.


"Gore" metal?


Care to elaborate? I'll wait while you run to Google to try and form a cohesive post.

I understood what he was saying, mabey you ought to run to google to look up word definitions.

THIS JUST IN: some people don't like LoG, some people do, and other people listen to Bloodbath (new window)

/that's Mikael from Opeth on vocals, in case you were wondering

Opposable Thumb: "Love the music, but hate the vocals" is the battle cry of the retarded.

Lamb of God kicks all kinds of ass.

/that is all

Then call me Mr. waterhead retard because that guy SUCKS BALLS! Give me a singer I can understand please... next!

Here was my submission for SHMHC. (new window)

/LoG singer sucks donkey dicks to get his voice to sound like that. The rest of the band is pretty damn good though.

Opposable Thumb: "Love the music, but hate the vocals" is the battle cry of the retarded.

Lamb of God kicks all kinds of ass.

/that is all
I'll gladly match IQ stats with you anyday, inbred.
Hush.

ianjames: BigSnatch: FlyingPig: BigSnatch: 3. If you think that bands with harsh vocalists that grunt and growl are bad, then you have a very small sampling of real metal to listen to. But I'm sure you know everything about metal since you listened to some thrash bands in the 80s and have a few Iron Maiden and Judas Priest records.

Actually, I'm pretty big into current European thrash, prog, and goth-metal right now. I hate "death" and "gore" metal because it's just silly. But nice try.


"Gore" metal?


Care to elaborate? I'll wait while you run to Google to try and form a cohesive post.

I understood what he was saying, mabey you ought to run to google to look up word definitions.



I was under the impression that he was equating harsh vocals with Death Metal and something he called Gore Metal. I was wondering what Gore Metal was since he decided to use that term.

PruneTracy: debauch: real metal talent

DragonForce

Pfft, go back to the computer lab wolfshirt. Dragon Force is the D&D of metal. Needlessly complex and extremely limited appeal.

That being said my favorite new-millenia metal band almost no one knows. Do yourself and listen to the end. Gojira (YT: Gojira-Clone) (new window)

That's a good song.

DragonForce should change their name to JourneyCore

NYIslander: Keep the band, Ditch the singer

If singers weren't speaking in tongues, metal might be more popular

Lets see, when you what to create an authentic representation of anger/aggression....do you break out into song?

Really, the screaming/yelling/growling is a necessity in the heavier styles of metal. You can't find another vocal style that accompanies this level of aggression than what you already hear.

Plus, this is from 6 years ago. Lets listen to something current....

Burst - (we watched) The Silver Rain