(03-23-2022, 06:52 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: I loved Type O Negative. I still have Christian Woman on my playlist. I love heavy metal music, but I cannot get into the death metal, black metal or doom metal stuff. I cannot understand a word of lyrics in Cannibal Corpse songs. It's all just grunts and weird noises to me. Nowadays, I'm into Slipknot, Avenged Sevenfold, Ghost and I still listen to the classics from Led Zeppelin and AC/DC. 

I was very into Metallica in college, but they went an entirely different direction when they made St. Anger and they have not returned. That was one of the worst albums I have ever heard. It literally hurts my head. I refuse to listen to anything off that album or any album of theirs after St. Anger was made. 

I'm a fan of Tool as well, but their videos give me nightmares.

The way I see it with stuff like death metal, treat the vocals as a background instrument like bass or rhythm guitar...not trying to sing along to any of those songs. I enjoy a lot of them just for the speed of the music, and especially while working, not having distinguishable vocals helps me not get overly distracted.

It's funny how a lot of people (not directed at you) will hear CC or other speed/death metal bands and just characterize it as guys abusing their guitars as hard and fast as they can with no respect to actual music. But man, take a moment to watch them actually playing and some of these guys are jaw-dropping with their ability to actually play. It's just that there's so much distortion or other guys playing over them that a lot of the artistry gets buried. I caught a documentary of corpse touring, and just a quick segment of the bassist doing some warm-up exercises...my goodness.

I think my biggest college purge would have been Van Hagar. Always dug VH, when Roth left it sucked, but Hagar was ok and they got a lot of radio airplay. First year of college guy down the hall was a HUGE VH fan, but only played Hagar and 1984. ALL. THE. TIME. At. Full. Blast. I can't even listen to older VH any more. The guy across the hall would blast DC Talk, it was doubleplusungood. Probably a big part why I leaned so hard into heavier, louder, nastier stuff.

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