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^I'll second that one.^

This too:

*runs over to iTunes to download some DMT!!!!*

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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ? (Post 1589283)

The nearest I'll come to listening to newer metal now is maybe a Boris or an Electric Wizard album and according to Last FM 2011 and 2013 was the last time I listened to those bands, so not exactly high on my list of priorities.

I don't really listen to a lot of newer metal either. Either it's tired death/power/thrash/etc metal that's been irrelevant for at least a decade, if not two, or its from a genre that was dubious to begin with. There's plenty of newer black metal that's legitimately creative, but that's more because it's deviated from the genre to the point of being as much experimental metal as it is genre-based.

I think metal as a whole peaked at the latest in the mid-nineties. You can't really speed it up, or make it any more "brutal" than death metal, black metal, or grindcore, and since making music ever louder was the entire point of metal in the first place, that kind of takes the point out of evolving the genre further.

Now the only way to be original is to turn experimental, and you can't really start a larger movement around bands whose sound can't be replicated.

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1589285)

This challenges the crap out of me.

To be honest that just sounds like some kind of generic thrash to me.
This is what I would consider challenging...

There's no way any metal band could make anything that as multi-layered & eclectic as this, they'd just ruin it with excessive guitar parts, riffs and solos. But i'm prepared to be proven wrong.

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1589290)

*runs over to iTunes to download some DMT!!!!*

Not much of it out there right now. I've only gotten my hands on "Jump Rope", and "The Opener".

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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ? (Post 1589292)

Perhaps you should give drone a try. Depending on which Boris you've listened to, you may already have.

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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ? (Post 1589292)

To be honest that just sounds like some kind of generic thrash to me.

Are you a musician? That **** is total ear candy to anyone that plays guitar or drums. Those guys' technical ability is off the charts.

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Originally Posted by Plankton (Post 1589294)

Not much of it out there right now. I've only gotten my hands on "Jump Rope", and "The Opener".

The whole album is now available.

Stuff like ambient and drone I have to be REALLY in the mood for.

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1589297)

Are you a musician? That **** is total ear candy to anyone that plays guitar or drums. Those guys' technical ability is off the charts.

If you have to be a musician to like something, then it probably isn't all that great. My uncle's main criteria for liking music seems to be technicality, and I get the impression that he's just trying to justify all those countless hours he spent learning to play the guitar.

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1589302)

If you have to be a musician to like something, then it probably isn't all that great.

Didn't say that. Plenty of people who don't play like AAL. Was just curious about Urban.

What's your opinion of the track?