Now Listening To... (Mod Note Post #1)

Malice wrote: »

While the endless invention of sub genres does get a bit tiring, there are some great songs to be found.

Forget sub genres, it's more that I can't see any elements of this music that could even be considered metal or rock.

Malice wrote: »

Yeah, who's ever heard screamed vocals, double-bass drum beats or heavily-distorted electric guitar in metal or rock? :rolleyes: Why don't you just call it as it is and say that you don't like the synth aspects of it. At least that would have some credibility.

Where are those vocals, drums and guitar again? All I can hear is about 30 seconds of a sample squashed in between synth and the rest has been heavily remixed i.e. It's just dubstep, no longer metal. Credibility would be posting this in the electronic music forum. :rolleyes: And I like plenty of synth in metal. But this is basically all synth and 'wah-wah-wah'.

Cill94 wrote: »

All I can hear is about 30 seconds of a sample squashed in between synth and the rest has been heavily remixed

Ah so you can hear elements of rock & metal then? That's a start, I won't have to go back through the videos to pick them out for you .

Cill94 wrote:

Credibility would be posting this in the electronic music forum.

Given that it straddles a couple of genres then it's suitable for either forum but I don't think your use of the word credibility is quite right in that context.

Cill94 wrote:

this is basically all synth and 'wah-wah-wah'.

On a purely simplistic level you could of course dismiss it like that but then you could just as easily say that metal is basically all guitars, drums, bass and vocals.

Cill94 wrote:

I like plenty of synth in metal

Such as?

Malice wrote: »

Ah so you can hear elements of rock & metal then? That's a start, I won't have to go back through the videos to pick them out for you .

Given that it straddles a couple of genres then it's suitable for either forum but I don't think your use of the word credibility is quite right in that context.

On a purely simplistic level you could of course dismiss it like that but then you could just as easily say that metal is basically all guitars, drums, bass and vocals.

Such as?

30 seconds of guitar isn't enough for me to call it rock/metal. That would be like calling Fleshgod Apocalypse classical music because a few songs have some classical segments. I think it's a grand context. e.g. I don't think you're reasoning for this being considered more than dubstep is credible. And I couldn't agree more. Metal basically IS all guitars, drums, bass and vocals; which are a few things the vid you posted is clearly missing (other than the 30 seconds I mentioned, which isn't enough to justify it to me).

Anyway, don't take it to heart mate. I'm not one who sets out to create big off-topic arguments and I'm more than willing to admit that I'm biased and that I strongly dislike the whole dubstep genre and feel that it mixing with metal is nothing short of an abomination. But, I also haven't (unsurprisingly) exactly delved into the whole 'deathstep' genre, and perhaps there are bands who use more rock/metal elements. Only other I've heard is Korn, and that was ****e.

As for metal I enjoy that incorporates synthesisers/keyboards: Burzum, Emperor, Summoning, Children Of Bodom (some stuff), Rhapsody, Fleshgod Apocalypse and Ghost (not sure if those last 2 count as I'm pretty sure they use a piano and organ respectively).

gettin psyched for the gig on wednesday!!!!

...auditory hallucinations... pulsating colour... buzzing white noise... sounds like a hundred bees...