jackhammer

Mastodon, Lamb Of God, Gojira, Dog Fashion Disco are some of the bands I've got into recently that DO sound different. If there are more please point me to them by all means, would love to hear new stuff.

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The Unfan

Check out Baroness, Ulver, Lair Of The Minotaur, and Genghis Tron.

Urban Hat€monger ?

It's not a case of being lazy.
I just don't like death metal but I do like grindcore.
When I first discovered grindcore it wasn't through my friends that were into metal it was the ones that were into punk , people who would listen to bands like Crass, Christian Death , Alien Sex Fiend , Einstürzende Neubauten. Much more interesting bands than the boring thrash/power metal bands my metal friends were listening to at the time.
What attracted me to it was the way in which it was totally new and also because it was relevant , lots of those original grindcore bands were politically motivated and had a message ,the speed & the aggression came about from the way they wanted to express it , they didn't wake up one day & think 'lets be in a death metal band' and just play fast for the sake of playing fast.
For me when metal bands started interpreting grindcore in their own way they missed the point entirely. Instead of looking at the whole package they just used the speed & aggression and applied the usual metal traits to it of guitar solos , lyrics about death & destruction , gore and all the other kind of things you'd associate with metal.
Now i'm not saying that there are no talented death metal bands out there and i'm sure there are some doing original things , but at the end of the day it makes no difference to me if you mix death metal with jazz or with opera or with electronica or whatever the hell you like , it's still death metal and I still dislike it for the reasons I mentioned above.

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adidasss

^^Lol.

This topic should have died long ago...

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The Unfan

No seriously, the song Fear And Wonder is great.

adidasss

I'm sure it is...

Does anyone really take this joker serious? He rates Norwegian death metal over RATM for God's sake!...

Don't feed the trolls please...:-|

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Inuzuka Skysword

He should.....

A lot of Norwegian Death Metal bands are more technical and original then RATM.

And DB is not NDM they are technically in a Black Metal subgenre (I don't listen to them much so I wouldn't know.)

RATM kills its songs for me. "Killing in the Name of" starts off well, but turns into crap.

boo boo

If you replaced RATM with STP, I would still have a hard time buying that.

And how does more skill equate to making better music again?

Yeah, the lack of power metal vocals about level 9 black mages kinda killed it for me.

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Urban Hat€monger ?

I'm actually with Jackhammer on this one.

Stuff like that sounded great at the time because it was totally new & different to what anybody had done before. I remember hearing Napalm Death for the first time around 88/89 and being blown away by it.
But by only a couple of years later the scene was overrun by bands who were just playing fast & shouting and added no originality to it.It's as if they were just copying how it sounded and missing the point that it was about pushing boundaries , which is one of the reasons I stopped listening to that kind of stuff in the mid 90s , it just got boring.

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Inuzuka Skysword

There are a lot of original Death Metal bands out there. In fact, I really only listen to the original ones. Nile isn't the same as that stuff before though. They have their twist, which makes it unique.