any other major metal fans on this forum?

[Droopy]

So what genre WOULD you call them then?

Mallcore

I understand your distaste for entry level metal, I feel the very same, but you're acting like a heavier-than-thou metal fan.
Please stop. You asked if anyone else is a metal fan, people chimed in with what they understand metal to be. It looks like you've taken this opportunity to nitpick and demean people's tastes because they differ from yours.

Why start a thread about something if you are going to just criticize those who contribute? I don't want to be enemies whatsoever, I saw you come on and figured "here's someone whom I can share common ground with", you provided that opportunity for others, I imagine you're looking for the same.

Also, don't link Saint Vitus and call it heavy metal, that's insulting to the entire doom scene, you're practically slapping wino in the face.

[Matthias Steel]

So what genre WOULD you call them then?

Mallcore

I understand your distaste for entry level metal, I feel the very same, but you're acting like a heavier-than-thou metal fan.
Please stop. You asked if anyone else is a metal fan, people chimed in with what they understand metal to be. It looks like you've taken this opportunity to nitpick and demean people's tastes because they differ from yours.

Why start a thread about something if you are going to just criticize those who contribute? I don't want to be enemies whatsoever, I saw you come on and figured "here's someone whom I can share common ground with", you provided that opportunity for others, I imagine you're looking for the same.

Also, don't link Saint Vitus and call it heavy metal, that's insulting to the entire doom scene, you're practically slapping wino in the face.

well the only reason i'm arguing on here is because i'm bored. i'm not demeaning anyone i just want to have a conversation while giving my 2 cents. and yes Saint Vitus is heavy metal. i've met wino and St.Vitus by the way and they definitely wouldn't mind anyone calling there music Heavy Metal. Doom metal was a word made by the fans not by the bands themselves. i guarantee you wino would say Saint Vitus and his first band the Obsessed is Heavy Metal not Doom. listen to the guitar solo in the St. Vitus song pure fucking Heavy Metal.

sorry if i hurt anyones feelings i'm just bored and want to have a conversation about my favorite subject, part of conversing is arguing. but seriously when you meet a guy named Matthias Steel what do you expect LOL!!

and what you said about us being enemies Droopy that would never happen, i'm probably the most friendly and genuine guy you will ever meet.

[gothick666]

check this shit out ;-) its straight up metal but it has metal's spirit at heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNyOI-mKR...re=related

well if you wanna hear a real gothic band you should listen to Radio Werewolf, the creator of the band is now the high priest in the church of satan and is married to the daughter who created the church of satan Anton LaVey. probably not a band you would like though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Y41VZQELo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edllJ1BxxSQ
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but if you wanna hear a band that is metal but with gothic influences you should listen to Candlemass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmV9MsFnUbk

yeah radio werewolf, not to my taste but cool i guess, but candlemass on the other hand are pretty fucking epic,
if you doubt behemoth have talent, check out this song "lucifer": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4homfaUWaGg judging by what you've said you like in metal you should not be disappointed
also, do you like Opeth, i personally think theyre fucking amazing

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check this shit out ;-) its straight up metal but it has metal's spirit at heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNyOI-mKR...re=related

well if you wanna hear a real gothic band you should listen to Radio Werewolf, the creator of the band is now the high priest in the church of satan and is married to the daughter who created the church of satan Anton LaVey. probably not a band you would like though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9Y41VZQELo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edllJ1BxxSQ
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but if you wanna hear a band that is metal but with gothic influences you should listen to Candlemass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmV9MsFnUbk

yeah radio werewolf, not to my taste but cool i guess, but candlemass on the other hand are pretty fucking epic,
if you doubt behemoth have talent, check out this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4homfaUWaGg judging by what you've said you like in metal you should not be disappointed
also, do you like Opeth, i personally think theyre fucking amazing

[DominusVita]

A lot of my interest in the macabre video games comes from my love for metal:

Rammstein, King Diamond, Metallica, Cradle of Filth, and Judas Priest.

If it's dark, sinister, and sounds like it came straight out of hell, it's my kind of music.

[envirovore]

Odd that my first post here after lurking for nearly a year would be in this thread, but...

Yeah, love Metal myself. Death, Technical, Brutal, Grind, Doom, Thrash, Math....

I can't say I'm 'kvlt' or anything like that. I do like some of the 'mainstream' metal acts such as Lamb of God, but for the most part that's it as 'mainstream metal' goes. Not a huge Metalcore or Deathcore fan, though I do make an exception for Iwrestledabearonce (as they make me laugh).
Prefer stuff like Carcass, Suffocation, Neuraxis, Necrophagist, Car Bomb, Incantation, Wormed, Lividity, Lust of Decay, Cattle Decapitaion, Strapping Young Lad, Opeth. Stuff along those lines.

Been getting into Animals As Leaders lately. Brilliant band.

Also like Industrial and (don't hate me for this) 'alternative' as it's still apparently called.

[DominusVita]

"Yeah, love Metal myself. Death, Technical, Brutal, Grind, Doom, Thrash, Math.... "

Math metal? o_O How could I forget those classic thrash hits like Square root of Satan, and the Sine of the Apocalypse.

[gandalf91]

Hahaha!

Actually math metal is a name given to a real subgenre. Some Meshuggah songs would fall under this category.

[Matthias Steel]

Hahaha!

Actually math metal is a name given to a real subgenre. Some Meshuggah songs would fall under this category.

what exactly makes a band math metal?

[Droopy]

"rhythmically complex and dissonant style"
Basically band's that are incredibly technical or an abundance of varying time signatures.

[gandalf91]

"rhythmically complex and dissonant style"
Basically band's that are incredibly technical or an abundance of varying time signatures.

Yeah, basically what he said. ^ A lot of playing over the bar as well (against the time signature) and complex polyrhythms and buried grooves.