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>>65034923
jigai's the only good weebgrind band
>Tfw haven't been able to enjoy black metal ever since I lost my virginity
Metal for this feel?
Thoughts on this album? I really dig it
How does /metal/ feel about Volbeat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T60KuDDyJ8
>>65034952
They aren't metal. But they're ok
Fuck me this is good. Any more violent crustish death metal you know of /metal/ ?
>>65034947
vektor
>>65034951
trying to force a meme, huh?
>>65034947
Damn, this is like looking back at myself, only last summer I started going here and shitposted with spongebob memes and obvious b8 and people still kept fucking falling for it every single time, it stopped being funny after a month or so though
>>65034952
They're not metal and the vocals make me want to die.
>>65034947
more filthy casual black metal
that's what you breeders like
>>65034947
Get some new reaction images anon
>>65034946
you seem to have made a mistake anon. Evol's the only good weebgrind band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaC8KY7CaSo
>>65034973
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG13WIJlLEM
>>65035036
>symphonic grindcore
"no"
>>65034952
I like this song better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKaWm8ucD4M
>>65035078
Hey, yo, that's about enough of that.
hi
im listening to this instrumental from lord belial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL9Zy7uiRp0
i may be a fag but this rock
>>65035050
what a faggot
Holy fucking shit bros why can I not stop listening to this album? It's so fucking good.
Recommendations for stuff similar to it?
>>65035109
insert techdeath pasta here
>>65034973
>get black metal cover
>play death metal
Why would someone do such a thing?
>>65035109
It's like they're allergic to trying to write something good. Every riff they write needs to be as cluttered and frantic as can be with no regard to tone or direction.
Off the bat this is just another death metal album in name only, it has the growls, it has the distortion, and it has the hyper fast drumming, but everything is assembled so mechanically together, topped off with such digital cleanness and shiny pristine, like it wants to seem heavy but is so ashamed to be a part of the scene. There's no passion here, it's like some snobby music professors tried their hands at making "intelligent" death metal, they wrote a checklist for what they thought would be necessary to count as death metal and then filled it with needless complexity for that "intelligent" aspect. Riffs vary between being fast and intricate slurries of notes to being basic, but still fast, death metal chugs you've heard a million times over, everything wrapped up in a brick walled to fuck production where bass is only audible when the band wants to remind you that they do indeed have a bassist. Songs are long, aimless, and twist and turn without any bit of focus. Riff (and I use that term quite loosely here) leading into riff leading into solo leading into riff comprises the song writing ideas here, with some occasional orchestral samples thrown in to make this album seem grander than it is. It's a nauseating and headache inducing experience, while not as annoying as Brain Drill or Monumental Torment, it's equally as flashy and unnecessary. Completely irredeemable garbage with not one decent moment in its duration.
>>65035135
post it
>>65035137
because you're a faggot trip that should be gassed
>>65035109
brain drill
>>65035179
not similair at all
>>65035109
Monumental Torment
Is the Vektor meme over yet? I mean it was funny at first, but now I think people are actually being serious when they say they like it.
>>65035159
AWW YEA, it's /metal/ time.
>>65035218
I think you underestimate how shitty the metal community's taste can be.
>>65035218
Nobody seriously likes metal.
>>65035069
Sounds great, I've also been blasting pic related but it's hard to find death brutal enough but that doesn't enter into slam/grindcore territory
>>65035218
It was never a meme of people saying they like it, it was a meme of people saying it's shit, it's a fucking great album
>>65035218
>you will never be so assblasted about /metal/ liking vektor for years that you shitpost and meme their new album into oblivion
>>65035218
>he thinks people here actually listen to metal non ironically
>>65035307
>it's a fucking great album
Some people like monotonous melodic noodling and others don't. I like my thrash to be heavy and Vektor fail on all counts from their squeaky clean production to their saccharine sweet riffs, that's why I think Vektor blow anyway
>>65035109
Fuck off djentshareguy
>>65035370
thrash isn't heavy you dumb shitposter
>>65035380
>all thrash is bouncy revivalshit about drinking muh beers and le ironic 80s horror movies ecksdee ecksdee
>>65035370
Thrash is a gimmick metal sub genre, it's power metal for people who don't like J.R.R Tolkien
>>65035426
What the fuck are you talking about you retard?
>>65035380
Sure it never approaches the levels of death or black metal but thrash offers great riffs played with BALLS, Vektor stack 10 minute songs with doorbell jingles played on guitar without BALLS and that's why I think they're shit. They're a good case of a band who doesn't get metal, they see it as some barbaric form of music that needs to be liberated with the "greatness of prog" and in turn create metal without balls that tries compensating with progressive fluff. They can write some catchy melodies but as a whole their music doesn't do it for me, it's weak, uninteresting, and soulless.
>>65035447
>thinks thrash is never heavy
>calls other people retards
>>65035466
Ok, Understandable
>>65035440
Most power metal is just pop music played with heavier guitars. It's the nerdier alternative to glam.
>>65035484
>>65035466
Also what is your opinion on classic tech thrash?
Ok /metal/, I'm gonna be completely honest now. I know every one is tired of hearing about Terminal Redux, myself included, but I just want to say this.
Terminal Redux is legitimately decent. I wasn't a fan of Black Future nor Outer Isolation, so I dismissed Vektor as just another overhyped band. I still think they are overhyped as hell, but Terminal Redux was quite surprising.
There are weak moments, for sure. Charging The Void is one of the worst songs in the album and was a terrible choice for the opener. Collapse is overrated as fuck and is just a shitty ballad. The last track is pretentious crap too.
But there are some good thrashers like LCD, Ultimate Artificer and Pteropticon, which are IMO some of the best tracks they have ever recorded.
I know this might sound like I'm just trying to be neutral and sit on the fence, but I'm just being sincere. No, it's not the album of the decade, it's not a thrash metal masterpiece, Vektor are not the saviors of modern metal. But it has enjoyable moments, and is Vektor's best so far.
>>65035513
Good shit, thrash with a technical edge. Vektor feel more like techy prog that tries incorporate
ing elements of thrash for a heavier edge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODlqRnDDs18
>>65035599
*incorporating
>>65035552
I completely agree with this. TR would be ace without the pussy shit.
Metal with a similar atmosphere to bloodborne?
i need some emotional solos
hit me niggers
>>65035781
3:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig_64zQBbZU
>>65035440
modern thrash is a gimmick
albeit an aesthetic one
>>65035911
Good man!
Now this is metal.
>>65035781
Most Tank solos are emotional, especially off the Honour and Blood album
~6.30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsXlT1npJuk
metal for this feel?
>>65035306
>repugnant
>brutal
cmon sister i like them too but quit pretending
>>65034951
Pretty great desu
>>65036120
For being asexual? Rings of Saturn, Brain Drill
What do you guys think of the new Moonsorrow
>>65036137
Maybe brutal wasn't the right word, but pig growling isn't really for me nor slam. I'm looking for stuff like Venenum, Repgunant or Excoriate
>>65036120
this can't be serious
>>65036231
Try Morbid Angel
What are some bands that do the high and low vocal thing (like Carcass, Dying Fetus, etc)?
i said 'i love you'
but i lied
>>65036223
Don't really know why, but I didn't like the folky parts on this one.
>>65036325
every deathcore band
>>65035911
>>65036043
This is great, thanks.
>>65036120
>gay asexuals
>lesbian asexuals
>bi asexuals
>pan asexuals
>hyper sexual asexuals
>asexuals with kinks
someone explain this meme to me
>>65035509
metal is a genre of pop music
just look at what metal people ACTUALLY listen to, it's edgy pop music
Almost nobody likes extreme metal, no extreme metal album sold a million copies ever
>>65036562
asexuals can still have romantic feelings but no desire for sex I guess
>>65036562
>kiss a man (as a man)
>don't fuck him
pretty simple
gay asexual is how i'd do it
>>65036325
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAmRVX_g6jc
>>65036639
i can buy that for the gay/lesbian shit but how the fuck does one explain ''asexuals with kinks''
doesn't having kinks makes you, by definition, not asexual
>>65036652
>tfw new album soon
>>65036672
it does treat the definition of non-asexual behaviour very rigidly which is dumb. sex isn't always going to be penetrative dick in vagina stuff, and lesbians never do really, so these special snowflakes really aren't asexual, maybe just a very low sex drive
>>65036325
very idiosyncratic high and low vocals on this and in their entire discography
>>65036712
man i fucking hate tumblr, even outside the 4chan memehate sphere
>>65036339
Can you be more specific?
>>65036773
deathcore bands since the year 2000 from USA and UK and other countries
Oh boy. Now Nails is our meme flavor of the week.
And yet somehow /metal/ is still considered the best general on /mu/.
>>65037025
>/metal/ is still considered the best general on /mu/
most people outside of /metal/ don't think that plus ''best general on /mu/'' is as shitty as a standard as you can possibly get
>>65037025
what's the problem?
>>65037025
>And yet somehow /metal/ is still considered the best general on /mu/
Fucking lol. According to who?
>>65037025
All the generals on this board are shit but at least we're not /kpg/
>>65037112
>Why is In This Moment when they are completely terrible?
I'm not sure what you're asking.
>>65037025
Nails was always liked here ever since their first album.
>>65037132
My bad.
Why is In This Moment popular when they are completely terrible? Even Evanescence is better.
>>65037166
Tits.
>>65036223
It's simply ebin
>>65034951
Cleaned, overly-produced hipster trash.
>>65036562
Where's that face from
I have seen it somewhere
>>65037248
>nails
>hipsters
does not compute
>>65034923
why does metal and anime hate women so much?
>>65037249
it's a photograph from Thomas Ruff who made it as emotionless as possible
you probably saw it in Zero Punctuation where it's normally used to represent complete mediocrity
>>65037296
Why do women hate women so much?
>>65037296
Noisey writer please leave
>>65037296
Because women are objectively terrible.
>>65037344
what did you mean by this?
>>65037272
Grindcore and extreme punk in general have become appropriated by hipsters and Vice-reading poseurs. NB and Relapse are putting out safe, sterile albums with a "rough sound" but 0 substance. The only reason Nails are even remotely relevant is because they're part of the "nostalgia" trend in entertainment going on right now.
>>65037296
Women are a fucking plague.
So what subgenres do hipsters not listen to?
>>65037296
Because women are really, really, really scary
>>65037399
there's still tons of DIY innovative grind for you to be claiming that muh hipsters b takin muh grind away
>>65037427
power metal
>>65037398
Noisey made a really bad article about "muh misogyny" in metal
>>65037566
What was bad about it, apart from the fact it upset a lot of babymen if that's even a bad thing?
>>65037680
>babymen
Nice buzzword. Fuck off.
>>65037817
Most goregrind acts directly influenced by Carcass, Napalm's done a similar thing in the past, the list goes on :^)
bands that sound like Ripping Corpse?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDErkdqrzlg
>>65037427
Big boy riffs
>>65034923
Does anyone else here think of metal as an addictive sound?
just wondering what you guys thought because me and a band member were talking about it.
>Favorite death metal band
>Favorite celebrity to jerk off to
>Have you ever played WoW
>>65038061
death
beth
yeth
when were u where the deathcore gods made their return?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCTlY_ZYYrs
What deathcore/slam metal bands have the most generic REEE REEE REEE vocals?
>>65038128
>Despised Icon
Is it 2008?
>>65038153
literally
>>65038128
deathcore girls are hotter and kinkier
>>65038175
no its 8 years later silly
post BIG BOY RIFFS right now or else
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mWC8OJebX4
dank
>>65038061
Cannibal Corpse
N/A
No
>>65038322
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm71Khu5-Lk
>>65035159
I know this is pasta but I actually agree with it 100%
>>65038061
Opeth
Hatsune Miku
never
>>65038322
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=302RLf3l8JY
>>65035307
This
>>65035370
Vektor is heavier than a lot of thrash bands.
>>65035440
Here is your reply.
Call me an atmoshitter cocksucker, but I can't get enough of the intro to this album, especially the first 2 minutes.
Is there anything else like this?
>>65036325
Cattle Decapitation
>>65038439
atmoshitter cocksucker
It's a full moon tonight, post black metal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux4HVJGmohw
>>65038482
you first xd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yMWDn08aj0
>>65038482
I also recommend krallice, altar of plagues, and ulver
There is nothing wrong with atmoshit
>>65035466
Well, I'm glad my taste isn't shit like yours. Vektor writes great riffs and if you can't hear that then you have no hope. If you don't listen to music for the melody then you are missing the point entirely. Not sure what you mean by saying they don't have balls. Like they don't take risks? Because they do. Terminal Redux is proof of that. >>65035599 Vektor has a small influence of prog and tech. They are a thrash band at heart.
>>65035552
>I wasn't a fan of Black Future nor Outer Isolation
Literally how?
>Collapse is overrated
Not really. Most people say they don't like it.
>shitty ballad
It's like you didn't even listen to the whole thing.
>last track is pretentious crap
Agreed. The openers and closers are weak.
>>65035552
>It's not a thrash metal masterpiece
Not of all time but I can't think of a better 2000s thrash album. If you find one let me know. Vektor is one of the few bands keeping thrash from fading into obscurity.
Thoughts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGJzMzW3kuY
>>65037947
Morbid Angel
>>65038061
Death (Immolation is favorite one still active).
I don't jerk off to celebrities and I have a gf.
No, but I have played equally nerdy games.
>>65038482
>>65038522
Nice hipster metal
>>65038624
oh look another black metal autist that can't recognize obvious b8
>>65038577
Don't say that shit too loudly in here friend.
The manchildren will get angry.
>>65038061
>>Favorite death metal band
Bolt Thrower
>>Favorite celebrity to jerk off to
Neve Campbell
>>Have you ever played WoW
Yes for like ~1 week
>>65038482
I think you should be in your containment thread
>>65035095
>>65038577
Here you might like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4mHPeMGTJM
>>65038061
>Bolt Thrower
>Salma Hayek
>No
>>65038061
>Entombed
>celebrities are normies, eewh
>between 2005-2008
>>65038439
Leviathans new album also has that blackened sludge sound to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3cIqZvZD-E&index=3&list=PL7f0FMX-aZtvQFUs-i_B8TN5PRt-EphA1
Downtuned tremolo riffs are wonderful.
Vocally, ulver also had that men's choir thing in this album and Bergtatt to an extent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzeSWEcZ8HE
>>65035552
I will never understand how people have such differing opinions on all 3 Vektor albums when they are extremely similar. People claim Terminal Redux isn't thrashy enough but dislike Black Future, their most thrashy album. And then people praise the progressiveness of Terminal Redux while criticizing Outer Isolation for the same thing. People say Outer Isolation is too long but praise Black Future when Black Future has longer average song times and is longer overall. Make up your mind people.
>>65038794
Dude, what if /mu/ is more than a single person or opinion.
>>65038716
GOAT
Normies will never appreciate this
>>65038611
My favorite death metal band but... anything else?
I mostly want more of those bouncy old school riffs.
>>65038792
Thanks my man!
>>65038846
I've heard those contradictions from the SAME people.
>>65038061
Arghoslent
Rihanna
Yes
>>65038878
It takes a while to get used to it, but once it clicks it is really amazing. Really feels like you are drifting through a void of nothing. Amazing what they are able to come up with.
>>65038587
Vektor don't have balls because they lack aggression. Their sound is clean, over-produced, and saccharinely melodic. Their melodies are nice but as a wholw their music is weak, they lack the pounding aggression that I want my thrash to sound like. Bands like Deathhammer, Evil Madness, Perversor, Gospel of the Horns, Fastkill, Urn, Asphyxer, Diavolos, Ketzer (their debut) and Töxik Death make straight up thrash that blows Vektor out of the water. Is it innovative? Not really, but don't try fixing what isn't broken. Thrash isn't fading into obscurity so long as people are willing to make it, it's doing well in the underground and it doesn't need metal magazines finding a new icon to hype up. Saying that Vektor is keeping thrash alive is like saying that Pantera is what kept metal alive in the 90's, if you care more for metal being popular than you can just fuck off
>>65039055
You ought to write metal reviews. Well done.
>>65038061
>Favorite death metal band
Canopy
>Favorite celebrity to jerk off to
Not really into celebrities
>Have you ever played WoW
Played the 2 week free trial back in the day but it wasn't for me
>>65039055
They don't claim to be super aggressive. They aren't super aggressive. That isn't their goal, and that isn't the ultimate goal of thrash, so I'm not sure why you are so hung up about that. Thrash is about riffs. There are a ton of thrash bands that focus on melody instead of aggression. Sorry that "only non-melodic, super aggressive thrash" is the one true kvlt thrash and everything else is garbage. You sound worse than a black metal fan. Sorry to break it to you but Thrash has faded out for the most part. Vektor isn't single handedly keeping thrash alive. Don't understand what you are aiming for with the Pantera analogy. The fact that you can't appreciate any band that has one ounce of popularity shows how insecure you are. Sometimes bands grow in popularity for a reason. Pantera grew in popularity because they were watered down and accessible. If you honestly think Vektor is accessible I'm not sure what to tell you. And even if they ARE accessible, it shouldn't matter unless you are complete hipster.
>>65038061
Carcass
Celebrities kill the penis
Guild Wars count?
Question for Slayer fans: What is the better song, Raining Blood or Angel of Death?
http://www.strawpoll.me/10267158
>>65039605
I chose Angel of Death. Both are good but Angel of Death is just a great opener.
Is this the pinnacle of atmoblack?
>>65039655
Both are great indeed, but once I listened to Angel of Death I knew I liked it more.
>>65039704
yes
>>65039704
I can read the band name. Confirmed for not being kvlt
>>65039605
/metal/ is kinda slow tonight huh? Only 4 voters.
At least they all have the superior taste.
>>65039270
Thrash should be aggressive, if you don't want to be aggressive then don't try attempting thrash. It's all about heavy riffs and energy, Vektor lack both. They're skilled musicians who can make some intricate music but they have none of the passion that is needed for thrash metal, and that is why they blow. I don't care about popularity or accessibility, Slayer and Megadeth were both popular and still released skull ripping albums like Show No Mercy, Hell Awaits, Reign In Blood, Killing Is My Business, and Peace Sells. Bonded By Blood is a well known album and it still knows how to thrash your head straight off its neck. Thrash is something you love or hate, if you love it then its accessible, if you hate it then it comes off as a bunch of overly simplistic and rowdy noise. Vektor toned down on the heavier aspects of thrash to make way for more melodious ones, despite their more extreme choice of vocal's, DiSanto's Chuck style wailing lacks any real grit, especially when he monotonously howls over cleanly produced guitar jingles that lack any punch.
What's some good atmothrash?
>>65039741
To this day I am unsatisfied with how Raining Blood ends and I feel like the song runs out of steam. Angel of Death is like an adrenaline shot.
>>65039605
Jesus Saves.
>>65039791
I know you wanna be hipster but I didn't ask about "best" Slayer song, I asked to pick between those two.
>>65039749
Wrong, if you want aggression you go into death metal and more extreme stuff. How can you say Vektor lack energy? Like have you even listened to Black Future and the pace of some of the songs? How do you know they don't have passion? You are literally projected. You clearly do care about popularity and accessibility. I quote you: "if you care more for metal being popular than you can just fuck off" (It is supposed to be *then... just you know you retarded dipshit). Vektor has the same heavy/melody ratio of some of thrash's greatest bands, like Metallica, Coroner, Kreator, etc. Listen to Artillery - By Inheritance. That is insanely melodic and considered a thrash classic. You don't know what the fuck you are talking about. Okay you dislike the vocals, that is the first legitimate complaint you've made. It seems like you have more issues with the production then the actual fucking music. If the production was murkier you wouldn't be able to make out what the fuck the notes are. It is painfully obvious you don't like Vektor because you didn't want to like them. They became too well known. Go jerk off listening to your obscure thrash bands that nobody gives two shits about.
>>65039925
*projecting.
>>65039925
>>65039749
Learn to format you fucking shitters
>>65039925
*than the actual fucking music
Fucking hell lol
>>65039925
I generally prefer death metal but I'm talkong thrash here so that's why I focused on it.
And yes you're right, I care so much about popularity that I only listen to the most obscure thrash acts like Slayer and Megadeth. Thank God both of those bands are practically unheard of, if they were a bit more popular then I'd have to hate them all of a sudden. You say Vektor's ratio of heaviness to melody is the same as other bands but I'm just not seeing it. With Artillery you're right but Artillery knew how to write great riffs at least. And the vocals were actually the least of my problems with the band, I like DiSanto's vocals, a shame that they were wasted on such a low test band.
How often does an album start with 2 decent tracks, then steps it the fuck up with track 3? Most of the time the opposite is true I think.
Well come to think of it, track 3 is where shit gets real on At the Gates' first album too.
>>65040035
*talking
more like this please
Post some good symphonic black metal bands
>>65040093
I just did
>>65040035
I was talking about the bands you mentioned in your previous posts. Cute.
>I generally prefer death metal
You don't fucking say. If you were well versed in thrash history you would understand the importance of melody in thrash. Thrash is punk attitude and speed mixed with heavy metal melody.
>Artillery knew how to write great riffs at least
Too bad if that album was released today you would shit on it for the guitar tone being too clean and lacking punch. Listen to Oblivion, Destroying the Cosmos, Tetrastructural Minds, Fast Paced Society, LCD, Ultimate Artificer. If you think the riffs in those songs (of which there are many) are boring and lack energy then you must lack a pulse.
>>65040087
Hammerheart by Bathory is the biggest influence on that album if you weren't aware.
Check out Will Stronger than Death by Graveland, another influence on NM.
>>65040035
>low test
Okay, you're just memeing like a retard at this point.
>>65038595
i take it its an anti-trump track
>>65040160
Once more I explained that there's a difference between having melody and being overly melodious. Also bands like Deathhammer, Perversor, and Ketzer are very well known in modern metal. And if By Inheritance were released today it would probably suffer from the crushing soullessness of digital production that sucks out the heaviness in metal, at least it'd still have its riffs but it'd be an inferior way of listening to it.
>>65040252
>overly melodious
How can it be bad to have too much melody? And don't say HURR METAL IS ALL ABOUT AGGRESSION because it isn't, there is more to it than that.
>>65040350
When being too melodic impedes on the heaviness of the music. Classic metal acts like Judas Priest and Satan found a perfect balance between their killer riffs, how do I define this balance? Honestly even I don't know, it's a very case by case kind of thing and it's something you just know, sort of like how vocalizing the differences between deathcore and death metal is tough but you instantly know it when you hear it. Vektor don't have that balance, I'm more lenient with stuff like NWOBHM and power metal because different genres have different aims, but aping thrash and throwing black metal shrieks in the mix makes me have a different set of standards with my expectations.
>>65040093
Limbonic Art
>>65038595
>left-wing metal
Absolute cancer
>>65040195
nah
>>65040516
If it's something that can't be explained, that you have to "just know", and you're arguing with a guy who obviously doesn't "just know" like you do, then what the fuck is the point of the argument you two are having?
>>65040516
What? Were you expecting Vektor to be murky blackened thrash? Don't tell me you are one of those retards who thinks Vektor is supposed to be blackened thrash JUST because of the vocal style.
In my mind Vektor balances melody and technicality like Coroner did, and Coroner is a great thrash band.
>>65040654
Meanwhile I love Coroner's first three albums (and demo) and hate everything Vektor do. Coroner have a better grasp at blending technicality in their riffs than most bands do, let alone Vektor
>>65040654
>great
>thrash
There's that oxymoron again.
>>65040516
>Honestly even I don't know
It shows
Wow, looks like someone fell for the "Vektor is for cucks" meme and now has to defend his delusion against all reason and common sense.
>>65040712
Are you telling me you don't like pic related? Because if you don't... wew lad
>>65040733
>>65040788
this is playground-tier banter.
step up your game /meal/
brutal death sounds so much better when your drinkin
>>65038404
Thanks for mentioning that I didn't know how to gauge the autism til then
>>65041238
>>65038404
most pastas nowadays are actually slight exaggerations of things that are obviously true
It's rare to come across pasta material that's actual bullshit
Help /mu/
Need some doom or sludge metal to listen to with clear vocals, think along the line of Red Fang
>>65041339
Yeah /mu/ isn't too bad if you stick to the right threads. I was always told to stay away. I'm enjoying the daily metal threads. I just don't know the pastas at all yet heh. So good to know.
Everything that ruined metal is documented in this one album. This album paints a picture of AC/DC shirt wearing pickup truck drivers heading to the meth house after swigging too much malt liquor while watching a marathon of Maury and Dog the Bounty Hunter. It's this single piece of drunken bafoonery that sapped all the creativity out of metal by showing people that they too can make money by playing groove based rock with faux-aggressive vocals and throwing pot leaf designs on t-shirts. It is the prototype for Korn.
Lyrically, everything that's wrong about metal now is found here. David DiSanto in all his heroin addled wisdom thought that, instead of coming up with something interesting to talk about, the mundane themes about the "tough street life" would resonate more with the hip-hop culture of mainstream America and, unfortunately, he was right. This was one of the key elements that were needed to allow angry suburban youth and meth head trailer park dwellers to relate with the stupidity of Vektor. All of these things are best exemplified in the after school special-isms of Ultimate Artificer and the cheap emotional appeals of Cygnus Terminal and Collapse. The f-bomb abuse suggests not a lot of time was spent on them, and feels more like something the Wu-Tang Clan would have come up with. The change to a more "urban" appearance in promo pics suggest about as much. These lyrics would make bands in the future reduce themselves to writing about mundane topics (the hood, street life) and shouting a bunch of disdainful words that mean nothing. It's just vague anger to "get people through a bad day", like the hip-hop or radio rock songs of the day.
This is barely metal aside from some guitar playing techniques. Vektor is really just groove based rock in how the focus is placed on sparse 2 note rhythm riffs being played for a "swaggering" hip-hop derived feel that will allow suburban kids to "get down with it". It is an urbanized version of banging on rocks in a wasteland. By removing all the intellectual aspects out of metal and dumbing it all down to a series of chugga chugga noises and hillbilly solos, Vektor remove any melody that could be found in Prong's groove riffs, further lowering the role of the guitar into being a percussive instrument to allow for Disanto's bird squawking noises ("vocals") to take the forefront. Contrary to Disanto's "I Hate Alternative Music" shirt he would often sport at this time, the grunge-isms in the verse of lead single "Collapse" suggest an attempt to also appeal to the whine rock scene of the day since it was the most marketable guitar oriented music they could dress up as metal at that time.
When the home videos are more memorable for the jokes than the music, you know this band wasn't good. Unfortunately, jokes and some pot leaf design t-shirts were all it took to sell this "cool" album about "real street topics" to the impressionable morons of the day. The birthplace for Limp Bizkit rests in this album.
>>65041588
>It is an urbanized version of banging on rocks in a wasteland.
that actually sounds pretty metal
>>65041532
>>65041588
OH BOY FRESH PASTA!!!!!
>>65041630
pretty ancient actually
>>65041630
I can't even tell anymore
>>65041532
I will just say I haven't been listening to any new metal for a few years, so I decided to get out of my rut this week. I saw this album was controversial on /mu/ so I gave it a run.
It's pretty cool man. I'm not saying it's great, or even good for the genre. I can't say. I've just listened once. But there are a ton of edgy faggots around here. I can say that much. I didn't mind it at all.
>>65041630
Isn't this an old one about Acid Bath
>>65041392
Baroness, Kylesa, Torche, Elder, Monolord, Windhand
>>65041749
Oh my fucking god is it? Post the original pls I really wanna read that now
>>65041727
>when you realize several of Bielak's illustrations, including this one, are literally traced from older artworks, and that his etching technique is mostly just a filter layered on top of a normal drawing
I mean, he can still draw very well, but damn.
its been a couple months
any hot new meme albums i should be aware of?
>>65041532
>>65041588
lol that's a review for Vulgar Display Of Power, but it's amazing how well it fits Memektor
>>65041772
>>65041749
No, it's about Vulgar Display of Violence.
i mean early korn does sound a bit like pantera
>>65041795
That does make more sense.
who Dysmorphic Evisceration of Avulsed Souls by the Baleful Spawn of the Primeval Protogenoi here?
>>65041777
I didn't actually know that thanks for pointing it out. Been meaning to reverse image search this one for awhile but never do it.
>>65041779
Vektor - Terminal Cancer
>>65041779
"Vektor is bad"
"Gojira is for cucks"
and also The Arrival of Satan.
>>65041827
>>65040048
Underrated album/band
On the topic of Vektor, what bothers me has nothing to do with whether they're aggressive, whether they're technical, original or whatever. My problem is that there's nothing particularly outstanding about their music. It's not bad, but it's not at all worthy of all these discussions, neither praise nor detriment. Had the band been from, say, Sweden, and had they released those albums ten years ago, no one would have batted an eyelash, because their music is, quite simply, not noteworthy. And yet here we are, we're talking about a non-noteworthy band as if it were 1982 and we were discussing Venom's Black Metal or some shit.
It's not interesting, it offers nothing that would make it stand above the rest of the dozens of Voivöd-oriented thrash bands of the last 15 years and counting, but we seem to discuss it simply because we see it being discussed a lot, and it's being discussed a lot because a lot of people have seen it discussed, etc. That's pretty much the definition of a meme band.
>>65041811
Korn totally ripped Pantera off, who, like Metallica, ripped Godflesh off (who didn't rip anyone off shut up shut up shut up)
>>65041950
>dozens of Voïvod-oriented thrash bands
I Honestly can't think of any Voïvod-oriented bands aside from Korgull the Exterminator, Vektor and Vhol.
You gotta rec me some because to be honest, what I love about Vektor (aside from the good riffs) is precisely that they sound like Killing Technology-era Voivod.
>>65041754
thanks
thread killed by two autists arguing about vektor
add each other on skype, i know you like each other
wow
>>65042086
wow
>>65042101
wow
>>65042112
this is huh
>>65042118
wow
>>65042144
wow
>>65038061
>Gorguts
>Ariel Winter pre-surgery I suppose
Nope
>>65042014
Your first stop should be Myopia from Poland. Their debut Enter Insect Masterplan blows most dissonant thrash out of the water.
Equinox from Norway are also contenders, especially their third and fourth albums, Xerox Success (dumb title, I know) and Labyrinth.
Mid-era Coroner has that tasty dissonant sound to it, while subtly stepping away from all-out thrash (not unlike what happened to Voivöd).
Then there's Virus, the heir of sort of Ved Buens Ende, which isn't as extreme, seeing as it's more rock than metal, but them riffs don't lie.
>>65042176
Okay I'll give them a try.
If they don't actually sound inspired by Voivod you can choke on dicks though.
>>65042234
You be the judge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVvOVd4XkP8
>>65042160
wow
>>65042264
okay that's some good Voivod worship.
VEEEKKKTTOOORRRR
>>65041532
>>65041588
>>65041827
Really? Metal is still trying to force this meme?
>>65041950
>implying 90% of Voivod-oriented thrash bands aren't garbage
>>65042443
yes this viktor vhat can do for yoo today
https://youtu.be/hCQQG7lXsKo
>>65042469
No, that's the opposite of what I was implying, you dingus
>>65041950
Pretty sure that if Black Future had been released in 1999 it still would have been praised just as much. Definitely more than the bands in >>65042176
>>65042504
Oh, my mistake.
>>65042003
Godflesh ripped off Swans btw
>>65042531
>1999 was ten years ago
Also, being praised means shit in the way of being actually good. Point in case, Vektor is praised.
>>65042566
dude what part of shut up shut up shut up do you not understand
also satan dubs \m/
>>65042608
GODFLESH
RIPPED
OFF
FUCKIGN
SWANS
