Metal music, and why it’s not shit.
Right people I have wanted to do a blog on this subject for a while, but I have never been angry enough until now. Until some dickhead on the Internet started spewing his ignorant retarded verbal feces of an opinion at me.
I have a new opinion to disembowel
Oh the joy.
Right.
Metal is the kind of music most people love to hate. I’ve heard people say all kinds of unjust untrue and ignorant things about it.
In this I’m gonna go through every single accusation and criticism I’ve heard normal people say about metal and put it through a bullsh*t filter.
Because I am sick of all the ignorant condescending crap that spews from peoples mouths the moment they discover the music i like…
and for me… thats almost instantly, given the fact most of my wardrobe is advertising one metal band or another.
These articles of bullsh*t (that i intend to kill stone dead) are as follows:
“metal is just rawr rawr rawr and hitting the drums as fast as they can and random strumin the guitar”
“metal has little /no skill”
“metal is just noise”
“metal singers can’t sing”
“metal is evil music”
“metal is the devils music”
“metal is not music”
“all metal sounds the same”
“metal is not artistic”
If you have ever even uttered any one of these verbal retardations, by the end of these blog you should feel shame. Even some of my best friends have said these
things.
I don’t want people to love metal and say how great it is constantly i just want understanding and acceptance.
Time to piss out some fires of ignorance and stupidity.
Ok here goes:
I think I’ll start with the skill business.
Guitars and basses:
Metal is not just strumming the guitar randomly. AT ALL. If you would care to actually listen to some metal before saying this it would help.
I play guitar myself and I am immensely offended. Metal is a hell of a lot more complicated musically than your favourite indie band. You haven’t got a hope in hell of playing such complicated riffs are are played in say the arcane order.
The rhythms in the breakdowns,the key and time changes… they would make you shit your pants.
You couldn’t fucking play the solo on the infinite ghost anathema! You like the guns and roses solo on welcome to the jungle do you?!
Well the arcane order has solos about about 3 times as fast and longer and with 2 guitars playing them in harmony. IT’S IMMENSE, IT’S EPIC.
I’D LOVE TO SEE YOU DO THAT!
Metal guitarists, use more than 1 fucking boring tuning like your favourite indie band, they don’t just play the same boring rhythm for every chord like I’ve heard pop bands doing. It’s fucking fast and fucking complicated, a hell of a lot more skillful than the nicely strummed barre chords you favourite britpop band uses. Not to mention the fact that metal uses more than just 1 fucking song structure!
It’s not verse chorus all the fricking time like it is with fall out boy!
Drums:
I am not a drummer. But i can tell you this,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=driNqZN1Yy8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dO-2cfFlWE
Watch these videos and then tell me how shit metal drumming is?
Seriously watch his feet. Most of you indie kids don’t even have a sense of rhythm and you think you can tell all the 1000’s of metal drummers in world they had no skill?
WTF are you on?!
Vocals:
This is probably gonna be the hardest thing to tackle , but metal screaming actually has a lot of skill, if you don’t do it right , you can fuck up your voice permanently.
Johnathon Carswell told me there is no skill or technique to it at all. WRONG. If that’s the case then why is there an instructional DVD out that teaches you how to scream correctly??? PWNED If I gave you the mic what the best thing you could do? Whine like a jackass?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tptChkpxMoQ
Can you do that? didn’t think so. Metal screaming is also a hell of a lot more passionate than most singing styles. it conveys far more anger and emotion than singing
can lot of the time.
Also, for the record, it doesn’t all sound the same. You can hit more than you note , there are raspy screams, inwards screams, guttural screams, black metal screeches, hardcore barks , thrash metal rawrs… and most descent screamers can switch between these styles easily and sing as well! what can the singer from your favourite band do? not much I’m guessing.
I was speaking to screamer last year and he said it takes just as long to learn to scream as it does to learn to sing.
Scar symmetry is an example of a band with a descent vocalist , he can scream and sing and better than green day ever could:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2LTaNb9zQQ
So please would you mind not being so stuck up about metal vocalists? my friend George would be offended.
While it may be true that some vocalist are shit, but someone who is used to metal can tell they can’t scream, the same way, you can tell if a singer can’t sing.
Just because you are not used to it. doesn’t mean it’s shit.
Statements like “metal singers can’t sing” are retarded because it order for you to be able to make such a statement, you must of heard every single metal singer on planet earth and judged there singing ability beyond doubt. Saying things like that is inane.
The same goes for most of those statements.
The majority of metal’s critics (notice I say the majority not all, as I cannot know for certain) are people who have heard very little metal, and could only name about 4-5 metal bands, most of which would be mainstream rap/alt metal, which most metal fans don’t really consider to be metal at all, as it’s very simplistic.
So if you fit in this bracket, I suggest you shut up as you are no position to say anything about it, because you barely know what metal is, nevermind it being enough information to criticize metal.
“metal is evil music”
“metal is the devils music”
I would normally laugh at balls like this, but today I’ll take it seriously.
Firstly i would like to say what i said before, unless you have heard every single metal on planet earth and assessed there evil-ness, you can’t say jack shit and be taken seriously. NEVER generalize. EVER. Or I’ll hunt you down and feed you to the creature at bottom of my garden.
Secondly… most metal musicians I know, myself included, would be rather annoyed at a fictional villain taking credit for there work.
Thirdly, Christian metal exists(if you think Christianity isn’t evil that is). it’s preaches crap in the lyrics like nothing else. Even Christian death metal bands exist. check “impending doom” or “beneath the sky”
Even some bands that I like are Christians , although they don’t mention it in there lyrics , As i lay dying? Still remains?
Also. WELL DURR. Some metal is evil. WELL DONE!! *clap clap clap* you dumbass. Don’t like it? Don’t listen to black metal then! What kind of dumb state is metal is evil…. so what? some of it is, some of it isn’t, whats your fucking point mate? how can a music be actually evil anyway, it’s flipping sound waves! Yes, alot of extreme metal lyrics are nasty but so what? it’s still sound waves! How about saying “SOME of metals LYRICS are evil” that makes more sense, but it’s still a rubbish criticism
Personally I’ll stick with the metal that doesn’t care about good and evil, and sings about whatever it wants( thats what most of it’s like by the way)
“all metal sounds the same”
Some of my friends said this recently and gawwwd it annoyed me.
Are you shitting me???
I have researched this and There are more sub-genres of metal there there are of ANY other genre of music. So how it is possible that all metal sounds the same>??
How about you could out of your rap/r n b hole and actually listen to some metal and tell me what sound the same???
Dragonforce, sound nothing like Bring Me The Horizon, who sound nothing like Sybreed, who sound nothing like Nightwish, who sound nothing like The Arcane
Order, who sound nothing like Emmure , who sound nothing like Ministry,… I could go on for weeks saying that stuff.
Yes for every descent original style created by a band, you get your shitty clone bands, but for the most part, metal is an incredibly diverse area of music. INCREDABLY.
Seriously, there is everything from Electro-metal , to Opera metal, Hardcore to Power metal, bands within each genre all have different tinges to there sound, In the same way your indie bands don’t all sound the same. Saying all metal sound the same is quite frankly, ignorant and stupid.
“metal is not music”
This statement is blatant falsehood
Music is organised sound. Metal is organised sound. Metal is music.
Metal has keys, Time signatures, Song structures, rhythms and some melody just like any other type of music.
Metal is music. Deal with it.
“metal is not artistic”
This hurts the most. Every time I hear this being a said I feel stressed and down for the rest of the day.
Do you mean to tell me that all those 100’s of people:
*points at 200 strong C.D. collection behind him*
…have not put one ounce of feeling and passion into there music?! Do you mean to tell me that the millions of metal musicians across the world are just wasting there time?!
Are you f*cking joking me?
I’ll tell you this. It’s more artistic than the mundane lyrics across 2 alternating chord sequences that makes up your favourite indie bands music!
You saying all these people who put their soul into creating spine-chilling, mosh-worthy, exhilarating riffs and spell binding solos are just not doing anything artist???
Shows just what you know about being artistic doesn’t it!
Also another thing that annoys me is:
THE FACT THAT I HAVE TO DEFEND METAL AT ALL.
It seems to me that metal gets the most shit out of all the music genres, and as far as I can see, for no good reason.
If you genuinely believe the media stereotypes, and random hear say, without listening to the music first, you are a joke.
If I wanted to, I could dissect your favourite music(if it’s naff) and provide twice as many founded reason for disliking it, as you could provide unfounded ones for hating metal.
If this blog leaves your opinion unchanged, you are a dickhead and I hate you. Please stop breathing.
(check Andy’s blog on vocals:) http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=95286833&blogID=375174859