Death metal as a genre?!
Question: surely its all the same? I have heared many death metal bands before and I cant say that any of the songs I heared had distinguishable riffs. The drum beats are fast but not very varied. Occasionally you get some good solos but you have to go through about 3 minutes of blast blast growl growl before you get to them. With progressive rock you dont have to wait and they last longer (too long sometimes)
I'm not saying anyone can do it, but is it really worth the effort? I had to listen to a whole album by Cannibal Corpse and a band called Deeds of Flesh. To me it was like I heared the same song over and over again. The only real difference was Deeds of Flesh had a marginally lower tone.
Answers: surely its all the same? I have heared many death metal bands before and I cant say that any of the songs I heared had distinguishable riffs. The drum beats are fast but not very varied. Occasionally you get some good solos but you have to go through about 3 minutes of blast blast growl growl before you get to them. With progressive rock you dont have to wait and they last longer (too long sometimes)
I'm not saying anyone can do it, but is it really worth the effort? I had to listen to a whole album by Cannibal Corpse and a band called Deeds of Flesh. To me it was like I heared the same song over and over again. The only real difference was Deeds of Flesh had a marginally lower tone.
yeah i guess you have a point but at the end of the day...if you 're a real metal fan u can actually tell the difference between death metal and say...math metal or anything.
trash is more of a spastic genre with fast blast-like riffs while death metal evolves over slower and more 'melodic' riffs. black metal isnt really defining the sound rather the nature of the music/lyrics. black metal is associated with satanism and the worship of the devil...which is absurd if u ask me. but anyways. yeah death metal is definetly a genre.
just as in any other 'genre' there are a lot of small differences between different artists....and yeah this is a vicious cycle because people start referring to new bands in different manners...just like the '-cores'...hardcore, metalcore, grindcore, emocore...people have actually started the 'nintendocore' and 'electrocore'...u just have to learn to live with it.
well if you classify the elevator music TO HELL as a genre then it just might be one...
That's how I feel about it. That's why I love Tool.
dude honestly.... im not a fan of metal or death metal, but i want to a concert a few months back called 'the black crusade', and it had Trivium, Machine Head and a few other bands.
Mate, I only go to gigs if i know the band, and i didnt know one song that was played the whole 4 hours...! Therefore it all sounded the same for me.
I guess it would be the same if someone who didnt like dance music went to see a dj... it pretty much sounds the same if u havent heard the cd more than once. As far as im concerned, metal and death metal r in the same bandwagon; they all scream, moan and one thing i found was that the crowd all have dreadys, the smoke weed and smell like they havent showered in months.
Bad stereotype? Maybe
yes its a genre, as is black metal, speed metal, thrash, heavy metal, metal.!! nu metal even!! if you ask me, i think its dumb. it all somewhat sounds the same, when its that heavy. but it depends on more then the sound to make its genre class,
wow your cool....(Not really...) death metal's awesome maybe you should try better bands...
If you're into prog, but not necessarily death metal, I recommend checking out Opeth.
http://www.opeth.com/
They are prog-death. (From Sweden) Actually, a huge influence on Stephen Wilson of Porcupine Tree, one of the biggest prog acts of today!
Seriously, as a lover of all types of music, I am confident you will appreciate this. Some parts are very heavy, growling and all, then it will slip into brilliant acoustic passages. They even did an album called Damnation that was all acoustic and clean singing (it's supposed to be an accompaniment to the previous album Deliverence).
Also, Meshuggah, from Sweden. Extremely innovative progressive tech-thrash metal. Very unique. Their first US tour was opening for Tool.
I also recommend Vintersorg, a prog-folk-black metal band from Norway. Very interesting, as well.
Other worthy prog-death/extreme-prog bands: Neurosis, Isis, Old Man Gloom
As far as straight-up death metal bands, I would recommend Kataklysm, from Quebec. Their drummer holds the Guinness World Record for fastest drumming, and he doesn't use triggers. It's quite brutal, but interesting.
Hello, no, Cannibal Corpse do not sound the same way the whole way through, personally I prefer black metal because it is more melodic, but death metal is complex to listen to, you really need to have the ear for it, it does sound completely different. Take the band Obituary for instance, they are classed as death metal and no way can you compare them to Cannibal Corpse, both completely different sounding.
Your wasting your time if you are trying to listen to death metal and you cant. If it suited you you would have loved it the minute you heard it. Stick with what appeals to you.
Some bands sound similar, but not all of them. You think it all sounds the same because YOU DON'T LIKE IT. My sister is the same way. I'm sure somebody who hates emo thinks all emo bands sound the same. Come on now, it's impossible for an entire genre full of bands to sound the same.
It also depends on what band of the Death Metal genre you listen to. If you listen to the lame run of the mill bands then yeah you are gonna get the same generic sound, but with Death Metal, as basically every other genre, there are only a small portion of the bands within it that create good music adn the rest pretty much just perpetuate the norm for the genre. For example Opeth (as listed above) is a pretty amazing band as is Death. And these guys don't just do blast beats all the time. Blast beats are cool every once in a while but not as a constant thing in my opinion.
Listen to the actual riffs and music and I think you will find yourself appreciating more and more of it. Don't expect it to please your ear right away, that's not the aim of the music, if you want that listen to alternative or something, but really give it a try.
Also check out Ephel Duath, these guys are seriously mind blowing. They are like Jazz Death I friggin love them.
I am a guy that listens to all sorts of music, but it wasn't always that way, I used to disregard Death Metal as loud unintelligble irritating music. But once you give it a closer listen you find that you think that guitar passage was cool or the drums there did something amazing or something like that and then you begin to appreciate the passion that is put into it and then suddenly you find yourself a fan.
Like I said you can't be expected to love it right away. I know I had to be phased into it, and it started with Opeth. Which I know sounds weird "why listen to it if it doesn't sound good right?" Well it will but it's almost like an acquired tatse. like...who liked beer the first time they had it? No one probably, the stuff is terrible, but you like what it does to you so you get used to the taste and then you start to like it certain beers and not others and suddenly you are a beer drinker...Death metal is the same way, there are some mind bogglingly great musicians in it and the write some really amazing stuff. You just need to be able to get past the fact that there is almost no obvious melody to guide you through the song. There is, but you have to find it.