Metal

It is. They are. They don't care.

@xexyl: I think they and I mean different things by understand.

Mathematics Is A Language.

when I said Lyrics I meant vocals. I just have a hard time getting over people screaming, or growling etc. so it makes it far less enjoyable to listen to.

"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"

As a rough guesstimate, Instrumental metal makes up about 0.72% of all metal bands. I'm willing to bet that an even smaller percentage of black/death bands are instrumental.

My point being that while it is probably possible to find clean vox/instrumental extreme metal, you'll still be missing out on about 99% of what those genres have to offer.

edited 14th Jul '09 11:30:10 AM by xexyzl

I don't mind growling vocals, in fact, I like them when they are appropriate, a good mix of clear and growling vocals gets a great effect when pulled off right. The thing that I don't like about Black/Death metal is that they are too loud and convoluted... for similar reasons I don't like Noise Music in general.

I don't know any solely instrumental metal bands off the top of my head, but a lot of metal bands have done instrumental tracks or songs with extended instrumental breaks. They tend to be good.

I don't actually mind harsh sounds or anything like that. Probably if I were more accustomed to that kind of metal I wouldn't mind those vocals so much. But generally speaking, I just find such vocals boring and annoying. I think the vocal equivalent to a distorted guitar ought to be electronically distorted singing, not unmelodic droning or screaming.

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Does Nine Inch Nails go in this thread?

Depends who you ask. If you were to ask me: no. Industrial Metal is a tricky subgenre.

I'm more into the Power Metal scene personally, which is also a tricky subgenre. I love bands like Blind Guardian, Steel Attack, Kamelot, Rhapsody, Iced Earth, Sonata Arctica, and of course Helloween.

Which isn't to say I don't love non-Power Metal. Maiden shall forever be my favorite band. I also love Judas Priest, Metallica, Alice Cooper (yeah, this'll probably stat a fight about whether or not he's metal) Running Wild, and a bunch of others.

"Everyone wants an answer, don't they?... I hate things with answers." — Grant Morrison

I like Metallica the most. Please don't kill me.

I listen to metal somewhat infrequently. When I do, I tend to prefer power/symphonic metal.

Please don't tell me there's still shitstorms about Metallica for whatever reason.

I only first got into them through Guitar Hero, I'm going to be getting Master of Puppets from the library and I don't want people's petty disappointments and flame wars from soiling my experience.

Be not timid and afraid, Cow.

METALLICA IN EXTREMO CRUSH 40 DISTURBED RAMMSTEIN

In no particular order, these are among my favorites. BTW, I can't listen to Disturbed's "Indestructible" without remembering the gendo pose. That's stupid, but true.

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Hrm... No flames so far...

Metallica is one of the greatest, if not the greatest Metal band of all time.

I think everyone would have to admit that they are one of, just the precise ranking is under dispute.

Mathematics Is A Language.

I'd dare to say it's the most successful metal band, but then I'd have to search for statistical data.

I never managed to really like Metallica.

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RAGE FFFUUUUU- FLAME HATEORADE

edited 20th Jul '09 8:12:18 PM by xexyzl

Either I'm an incredibly casual metal fan or you are far too easily enraged.

edited 20th Jul '09 8:43:48 PM by Charlatan

You'd have to name more than one band for me to accuse you of untr00ness.

Edit: I was also being satirical. I seem to be the only person in this thread capable of supplying RAAAAGEEEEEE, so I felt it appropriate to chug some hate-o-rade.

edited 20th Jul '09 9:18:53 PM by xexyzl

"enraged"? He's just recommending some Hateorade. Delicious Hateorade, high in electrolytes and other materials to keep your rage running at peak efficiency.

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Electrolytes, eh? I hear plants crave them.

Mathematics Is A Language.

This one time I saw that someone had mixed up Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. I had no rage, only pity.

You crazy metalheads and your Fan Myopia...

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Judas Priest and Iron Maiden are well known outside of the metal fandom . . .