I think I've grown too used to Metal music

[MikeH]

They are all on Metallica.com.

You also didn't get One!!! That was awesome.

[Ecthy]

oh no

Ballads are boring on concerts though, so we all coped well without One, no Creeping Death sucks though.

You didn't get Fight Fire With Fire anyway, now did you? Or Blackened?

[MikeH]

We got Blackened.

One was absolutely amazing, probably the best song they played.

[Ecthy]

stop teasing me

[Drogue]

[Minute Mirage]

Originally posted by st_swithin
A Lighter Shade of Brown sounds right up your alley.

:|

Now wasn't that a witty remark. I'm speechless.

NP: Symphony X - Incantations Of The Apprentice

[Sirotnikov]

I have some symphony X, but it's bad quality or live so I don't listen to it enough.


Sprayber, I liked Metallica's blues/country mix into metal in the Load and Reload albums, if you care for that.

[BustaMike]

Music = good, singing = bad. Since I can't seem to get into growling vocals, I just can't listen to Opeth. I know, it's my loss.

See that's the thing, though. How much have you heard? Much of their more recent stuff has at least as much singing as growling and the vocals are phenomenal. Try listening to Face of Melinda, Benighted, Harvest, or Windowpane. All those songs have no growling and are great. Next listen to The Drapery Falls and Bleak (both about 50/50). Soon you'll just like all of it .

[Minute Mirage]

Originally posted by Sirotnikov
I have some symphony X, but it's bad quality or live so I don't listen to it enough.

I do recommend checking them out properly, they're my favourite band nowadays. If you like Metallica, songs like Evolution (The Grand Design), Pharaoh and the Eyes Of Medusa might be your thing.

Originally posted by BustaMike
See that's the thing, though. How much have you heard? Much of their more recent stuff has at least as much singing as growling and the vocals are phenomenal. Try listening to Face of Melinda, Benighted, Harvest, or Windowpane. All those songs have no growling and are great. Next listen to The Drapery Falls and Bleak (both about 50/50). Soon you'll just like all of it .

I have a burnt copy of Still Life that I got from an army pal of mine who tried to get me into Opeth (see, you're not the first one). I just listened again to Face Of Melinda and Benighted and I have no problems with the clean singing there. The songs themselves are good, but not great enough to keep me listening to the growling on the other songs.

[Combat Ingrid]

It's all relative to what you are used to.
Listen through Carcass - "Reek Of Putrefaction" and "Symphonies Of Sickness" a couple of times and then switch back to Opeth. Now Opeth's growling will sound just like clean singing and you might appreciate it more

[Dis]

Danzig is not punk? Unless you count Danzig's stint with the misfits.

Danzig is mostly metal. But they obviously retain their punk influences along with blues influence.

[Minute Mirage]

Originally posted by Combat Ingrid
It's all relative to what you are used to.
Listen through Carcass - "Reek Of Putrefaction" and "Symphonies Of Sickness" a couple of times and then switch back to Opeth. Now Opeth's growling will sound just like clean singing and you might appreciate it more

Yes, I know it could be a lot worse, but that doesn't make much difference for me. Any growling (or otherwise bad enough singing) ruins the song as far as I'm concerned.

NP: Pain Of Salvation - Reconciliation

[MikeH]

The main problem with Carcass is not that they are heavy, just that they are a bit crap.

Try Goatsblood. Much better.

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by MikeH
Berlin:

Ride The Lightning

Bit of an unusual one for them to play. Was it part of a medley or did they play the whole song?

[MikeH]

I dunno, I wasn't there. Just got the setlist from the Metallica site.