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Originally Posted by elphenor
I don't actually hate metal, that's just for a laugh
mostly I'm lukewarm towards it because it's rock that's supposed to rock but really doesn't rock
and this creates the cheese factor because technical playing is just not intimidating
my ears are with Lou Reed when he said "the essence of rock is a non musical form of music"
no amount of dropped tuned guitars and distortion are gonna make me want to slam my head against a wall the way Jad Fair does with 2 chords on a detuned guitar
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I think I kind of get it.
Honestly, a lot of metal is boring when it tries to be heavy. Too much metal has very little sense of groove and you get a feeling the musicians involved would not be able to jam together very coherently if asked to.
There are so many bands that rise above this though.
While I find most supposedly great black, death and thrash metal acts to be downright boring, there's so many bands that forge their own path into awesome sounding territory that I still end up calling myself a massive metal fan, even if I don't care about most of the canon.