Official Metal Thread!

[SantaMuerte]

Excited for their upcoming album

 

[Mister Wobbles]

Really feeling this today.

 

[ahcii]

Love this band so much. Okes an absolute beast.

 

[ahcii]

Excited for their upcoming album

Rad band! Dreambound is such a sick resource for new music

 

[SantaMuerte]

Rad band! Dreambound is such a sick resource for new music

I've known about them waaaaaaaaaaaay before Dreambound has

If I Were You released their first full length in 2013. Check out their discography.

Their first album, End of an Era was alright.

The Sleepless was an amazing album.

Life After Death was also pretty rad. They also released a single titled Trust and Betrayal which was probably an unused track from Life After Death but it's actually incredible.

 

[SantaMuerte]

@ahcii here is their latest single released today.

 

[Blitzkrieg194]

some friday fun....

 

[ahcii]

@ahcii here is their latest single released today.

Very decent stuff dude thank you! will check out their stuff

New Architects & Silent Planet last week

Fav song is the title track:

 

[SantaMuerte]

Very decent stuff dude thank you! will check out their stuff

New Architects & Silent Planet last week

Fav song is the title track:

Holy Hell is a great album.

Can't stand Silent Planet. Their lead guitar tone is really annoying and they try too hard to be Architects to be honest.

 

[Mister Wobbles]

Stumbled across this on Spotify the other day, a good helping of cheese is sometimes nice.

 

[Eon]

Nickelback and Linkin Park were pretty solid.

 

[Blitzkrieg194]

completely forgot about this band

 

[Valheru]

Nickelback <-------- *

and Linkin Park were pretty solid.

* MEH-TAL not teeny bopping chart topping disposable happy horse-shit

 

[Mister Wobbles]

Nickelback and Linkin Park were pretty solid.

 

[Eon]

* MEH-TAL not teeny bopping chart topping disposable happy horse-shit

I would like to point out that even on Wikipedia Nickleback carries a Alternative Metal classification.

 

[Valheru]

I would like to point out that even on Wikipedia Nickleback carries a Alternative Metal classification.

Rock, yes. Metal, hell no. Chad might be capable, but decided to rather regurgitate cater for other tastes.

 

[Reavs]

Is Nickelback a Metal Band?

 

[Mister Wobbles]

Nickelback has some talented members but they seem to produce music to appeal to the most basic/lowest common denominator which earns them a lot of criticism in the metal community.

 

[Blitzkrieg194]

ahhhhh nickleback....

 

[Valheru]

Here is a good example of metal done proper

 

[Eon]

Nickelback actually started as a post grunge band with the album The State. The single Leader of Men had distinct hints of Pearl Jam.

Then with the next album the single "This is how you remind me" dropped and the rest is history.

 

[Mister Wobbles]

Nickelback actually started as a post grunge band with the album The State. The single Leader of Men had distinct hints of Pearl Jam.

Then with the next album the single "This is how you remind me" dropped and the rest is history.

It's fine that you like them and all but you should quit while you're ahead when it comes to this thread. I doubt that you're going to convince people.

 

[Eon]

@Mister Wobbles If Jethro Tull can win a grammy for the best metal album, Nickelback can too.

 

[Mister Wobbles]

@Mister Wobbles If Jethro Tull can win a grammy for the best metal album, Nickelback can too.

Alright, you're obviously looking for an argument so I'll tell you why we don't like Nickelback. Apparently Wikipedia is a definitive source of information so I'll pull a quotation from there.

Around 2001, Chad Kroeger started "studying every piece, everything sonically, everything lyrically, everything musically, chord structure. I would dissect every single song that I would hear on the radio or every song that had ever done well on a chart and I would say, 'Why did this do well?'" Kroeger said that Nickelback's single "How You Remind Me" sold so well because it was about romantic relationships, a universal subject, and contained memorable hooks.[17]

That's why we don't like it. Most metal artists know that they're never going to achieve widespread success on the scale of pop or rap musicians, they go into the industry because they have passion for it and they have something to say. Metal isn't usually constructed to have as broad an appeal as possible, it's written by the artists to express thoughts, feelings or philosophies or to tell a story.
That's not to say that there aren't metal bands out there who are just looking for ways to make the next paycheck bigger, there absolutely are, it's just that the good stuff isn't made by them.

Nickelback comes from the wallet, metal comes from the heart.

 

[Eon]

@Mister Wobbles Out of curiousity, what do you classify a band like Sabaton as? If you don't know them you can listen to Primo Victoria?

 

[Mister Wobbles]

@Mister Wobbles Out of curiousity, what do you classify a band like Sabaton as? If you don't know them you can listen to Primo Victoria?

I'd call them power metal, they've got a bit of a symphonic flair and they tend to tune a little higher.

 

[Eon]

@Mister Wobbles So your fav metal band of all time?

 

[Reavs]

@Mister Wobbles If Jethro Tull can win a grammy for the best metal album, Nickelback can too.

That Grammy category was used once and scrapped after the drama it caused.

The Academy recognized hard rock music artists for the first time in 1989 with the category Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental, combining two of the most popular music genres of the 1980s.[3] Metallica, who were expected to win the inaugural award for their album ...And Justice for All, lost to Jethro Tull whose album Crest of a Knave won, also beating out Jane's Addiction, Iggy Pop, as well as AC/DC. The presenters Lita Ford and Alice Cooper slightly confused, somewhat dejected way in which Cooper announced Jethro Tull's victory, as Ford quickly self-stifled her laughter, the boos from the crowd, and the even more confusion after reaction by Ian Anderson (who wasn't present to accept the trophy, which he thought his band had earned as a sort of lifetime-achievement commemoration).[4] This choice led to widespread criticism of the Academy, as journalists suggested that Jethro Tull's music did not belong in either the hard rock or heavy metal genres.[5][6] In response, the Academy separated the genres creating the categories Best Hard Rock Performance and Best Metal Performance. This incident is often considered an example of the Grammy Awards being out of touch with popular sentiment, and was named the biggest upset in Grammy history by Entertainment Weekly.

Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental - Wikipedia

 

[Mister Wobbles]

@Mister Wobbles So your fav metal band of all time?

I have lots of favourites !

 

[Mister Wobbles]

While I'm thinking about power metal, check this out!