Plankton

^I'll second that one.^

This too:

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Chula Vista

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

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The Batlord

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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Urban Hat€monger ?

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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Plankton

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

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The Batlord

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

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Chula Vista

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

The whole album is now available.

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Urban Hat€monger ?

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

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The Batlord

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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Chula Vista

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?

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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”