The Tech/Extreme Prog metal appreciation

You don´t think they are just a bit too Meshuggah/ SYL influenced ? I enjoy Gojira as well though, just think they wear their influences on their sleeves.

UMUR wrote: You don´t think they are just a bit too Meshuggah/ SYL influenced ? I enjoy Gojira as well though, just think they wear their influences on their sleeves.

Not really, no.
Gojira sounds a lot different to Meshuggah and SYL to my ears and I'm saying this as someone who has heard quite a lot of music from all 3 bands.

Hi HughesJB4 - strangely I am liking Dichotomy - your opinion??

Gotten hold of Watershed, Ghost Reveries and Blackwater Park. I couldn't have been more wrong about Opeth. You guys must be proud of me!! LOL. I'll probably battle with the more extreme forms but it's a start.

Got hold of the above albums today as well as the latest Karmakanic which isn't part of this thread's genre but looking forward to listining to it all the same.

Hi Plankowner - I listened to and enjoyed Opeth after trying now maybe I should ask you to go back and listen to Issues and Follow the Leader by Korn with an open mind. Listen to Issues and the very complex lyrical content. Sure I can't call them extreme Metal but their is a lot far deeper there than with the typical Metal Bands of the day - even today!

Hey - be open minded!!!! I was and maybe I've found a new favorite to listen to!!!

I have all the Korn cds except the last one, seen them live on their first tour I think back in 95?  Maybe it was 96?  Whenever they toured with Manson...  Haven't been in the mood to listen to them for quite sometime.  I do still listen to some nu metal stuff, like Dry Kill Logic, No One, Nonpoint, Primer 55, Systematic, SoiL, Spineshank, etc...  So I'm not against it..

DavetheSlave wrote: Hi HughesJB4 - strangely I am liking Dichotomy - your opinion?? I was always a metal fan - two of my favorites from my teen years and later were Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. Have heard and owned a great deal of Metal - the likes of Anthrax, Poison, Wasp, Dio, Iron Maiden, Priest, Q5 - when I first heard Korn it was the heaviest thing that I'd ever heard and the vocals were very different. I can't call Korn Nu Metal personally. You though, and your collaborators here know what you are talking about and I'm not about to profess any expertise in this genre area. Never went the Extreme route but am trying it out now.

Korn are pretty heavy, yes (well okay, so their first album was anyway........can't say the same for some of their later stuff).

But yeah, Poison, Wasp, and bands of that ilk, are pretty far removed from extreme metal (and some people wouldn't even call Poison and W.A.S.P metal bands at all).

Korn is Nu-Metal.
They practically defined the genre.
There is no escaping that. I find it pretty hard to stomach that idea that people say "I don't think of Korn as nu metal" when they defined the genre and musically, they have every trait of a band that is considered nu metal.

I admit to liking 2 Korn songs.
And Slaver, if someone has already heard something, but chooses not to hear it anymore, that doesn't make them close minded.
Choosing not to hear it in the first place, and having preconceived notions/making judgements on the band/album/genre is what makes someone open minded.


But anyway, this thread needed a bump anyway, since this thread is too awesomely metal to slip back beyond the first page of  the appreciation section.
And has The Number Twelve Looks Like You been mentioned more than once in this thread?
I know JayDee, Planky, Sebastian and I know them, but I shall throw them in the ring of suggestions for anyone looking for some cool progressive technical metalcore and was definitely one cool addition made by Seb.

def liking the number twelve looks like you, but if i want math/metal/tech - core i look no further than dillinger escape plan. beyond them i really dont crave anymore from the genre.