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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?
My main problem with metal is I get most of the things I could want from it better in other genres. Like if I want aggression I'll listen to punk or grindcore, if I want melody I'll listen to pop, if I want stories I'll listen to folk music ....and so on.
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I can understand that. Having recently gotten into grindcore and powerviolence myself, I find myself listening to a whole lot less death metal.
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Also I find a lot of it extremely overproduced, I want raw sounding guitars hammering down memorable riffs.
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That's what ultra-primitive, eighties black metal is for (if you can ignore the cheesy, Satanic lyrics).
(\/ sounds almost nothing like their later material)
\/\/\/ And I can't think of many genres that have music this epic (in the mythic, marching-off-to-war sense). Power metal's fantasy lyrics are wasted for the most part, in the face of music like this. I really can't think of an analogue in any other form of popular music honestly (metal or otherwise). You might have to go to opera for a similar feeling, and I have limited patience for classical music, except as background music. Maybe the same vibe as Saxon's "Crusader", or Manowar's second album, except without any of the cheese -- I would legitimately play this for people who I'd be embarrassed to introduce to those other two bands. If you've never listened to Bathory's later work, then I think you should at least give it thirty seconds of your time, or else I'll call you out like Trollheart.
And no, this isn't anything like the black metal I posted above, or power metal. It's closer to doom metal than anything else, but without sounding anything like Sabbath. Just slow(ish) grinding riffs that go on forever.