zungle
This morning - Nescafè Gold instand "coffee" and Fear Factory
ProjectM,
This particular video and song are a great example of beauty,art and musicianship.
For me or you and likely most posting in this thread they see and hear it all to clearly..............it may not be their cup of tea but they know whats going on.
Yet to some they are blind to it or confused, many dismiss it with the standard terms like ...........
No soul,No melody , to much distortion with power chords,lack of vocal range etc.................
They don't hear the tight alternate picking,the economy picking, the expansive use of modes , the string skipping, arpeggios.
The down tuning's and alternate tuning's
The tight kick with the bass.
The overall dexterity on the instruments and vocals..................
You know how hard it is to sing that powerful for one song let alone an entire set?
Rant over.................
I loved it.
Good points Zungle! Fear Factory is one of my all time favorites as well. It all started with
this video - Replica. When I first saw it I was lying awake in bed at night for weeks waiting for the album to come out. This was the point where I learned that metal is one of the most expressive genres of all times, full of stories and message, excellent musicianship and where a song as a whole clearly is more important than any single cool riff or motif. I was already fan of Sepultura, Obituary, Pantera etc but Fear Factory made me listen to it in a totally different way. Then
Machine Head came out with Davidian and the world started moving forward for me. I recognise this excelence in a lot of other types of music but for anyone dismissing metal as some loud noisy rubbish, I ask what they listen to and it's usually something containing a beat, some boobs and very little else. However, anyone is alowed to not like metal - by all means - but there's definitely talent to be appreciated there.
Of course, a lot of metal is just some simple trendy crap too and there's definitely a trend thing happening these days. And I don't like it too much. Over here, metal heads are very totalitarian. You have the entire "Real" vs "Fake" black metal debate going on for example. IMO good music is great music nomatter what but to me, metal have more to offer in terms of all the things you mentioned.
Which brings me to todays morning entertainment:
A very hated effort from Napalm Death - which I couldn't stop listening to back in the days, followed by In Flames'
very excellent offering from the Whoracle album and breakfast ended with
Roswell 47 by Hypocrisy - the 1997 version which tought me that if you see no limits in production, vocals can be larger than life.
And I drank tea... I ran out of coffee....