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Originally Posted by Wayfarer
I'm going to catch so much flack for this, but it is a thread for unpopular opinions, so....
Heavy metal, by and large, is the musical manifestation of stunted adolescence and is seldom characterized by anything beyond phony rebellion, juvenile morbidity and masturbatory cacophony.
Yeah, I said it.
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I thought I'd add into the debate. Have you ever heard of the previously-mentioned Toby Driver? He's a sometimes-metal musician. Judging by the fact that you are a self-proclaimed jazz snob, you might just like his work.
Only parts of this song are metal. The last six minutes or so are actually floaty ambience and at the end there's a brilliant spoken word part, and the opening line of "And so ten centuries solemnly collide, love failed and I have lost my name" is nothing short of awesome, either.
This song starts off fairly calm, and then it turns into a brutal metal-fest, and then back to calm prettiness again. From what I've heard, metalheads ****ing hate this band. I've argued with many a metalhead who didn't appreciate MOTW's album Bath. Many reasons for the hatred include "they're not metal all of the time" "singer sounds like a fruit" "untalented" and "untrue metal". But of course, hardcore metallica lovin' metalfans are usually dumbasses.
Both bands also have a nice selection of non-metal albums you might enjoy, though. You might like Kayo Dot's Coyote or Maudlin Of The Well's Part The Second. Coyote is scary sounding and claustrophobic (apparently the album is about somebody experiencing death), and Part the second is a mostly melodic butterfly fest of pretty music.