The heaviest you can like..

SolariS wrote: MikeEnRegalia wrote: ^ For example I don't like the growling vocals on most Post Metal albums - like for example Isis, Cult of Luna and in particular the new Agalloch. How cool this album could have been without the growling ... it totally destroys the songs (IMO). A metal band should realize that when they change their style to more ambient, textural tracks then someone "barking" at you totally ruins things. I much prefer bands like Opeth who manage to adapt the vocal style to the mood/atmosphere of the music. ohhhh but the new Agalloch album is soooooo good!

I know that many people are enjoying the album - I just don't like the growling vocals in this type of music. For me growling is inherently aggressive, and combining it with calm, subdued textures of ambient sounds rarely works - it either does or just feels like they couldn't decide whether they want to be aggressive or calm.

MikeEnRegalia wrote: I know that many people are enjoying the album - I just don't like the growling vocals in this type of music. For me growling is inherently aggressive, and combining it with calm, subdued textures of ambient sounds rarely works - it either does or just feels like they couldn't decide whether they want to be aggressive or calm.

You haven't heard Inferi's "Shores of Sorrow". Although that's a bit of a different case.


Edited by Logos - November 19 2006 at 12:41

I don't regard music as having limits. My musical preferences span the whole range of sounds, from the most delicate and beautiful, through the abstract and amorphic to the heaviest sounds possible and up to plain noise. I don't think of limits when approaching music. I simply listen to it and if it clicks, I settle with that. I don't pay much attention to the breaking the limits factor when I choose the music for myself, but when recoemmending it to others I am aware of it and try to adapt to that person's "limits".

Edited by avestin - November 19 2006 at 12:55

^^^ 

To us this is how it “works”. But for others it is not the same. And eventually, to each his own way

And what I like this forum (and this thread) is the chance to read and learn of other people’s way to listen to music.

Mine (and yours) is no better way or the right way to listen. It's the way that each brain works that allows for each person's musical preferences (and all other aspects of personality).  

So my path, is the right one for me, but not for others and vice versa. There is no right way. There is YOUR way.

In Music that is...

 

 

^^ I understand what you're saying and I know people have different preferences and ideas on how to listen to music. I just pointed out that is good to have an open mind to music and not try to limit oneself to the things one knows (playing it safe) just because this band has growling vocals or this other band is in a genre that I don't like ect. ect.

I can only just take Opeth's Ghost Reveries.

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - November 19 2006 at 15:19

u want it heaaaavvvaaay?? then get Supersilent's 7 dvd......seriously epic catastrophic fusiontronics rockouts!!!!

Bands that I like and consider heavy:

Opeth

Meshuggah

Anathema

Pantera

Mastodon

The Ocean (almost like Meshuggah, sp. on the album Aeolian)

Coprofago

Into Eternity

Scar Symmetry

Nevermore

My Dying Bride

Orphaned Land

All That Remains

Dry Kill Logic

Nile

Kalmah

Soilwork

Strapping Young Lad

Green Carnation

The Dillinger Escape Plan

Continuo Renacer (awesome instrumentals)

Disillusion

 

 I love contrasts too.

Either Queens of the Stone Age or some of heaviest Porcupine Tree stuff.