In fact, song structures are linear in that they follow the sub-division of beats to a riff, expanding over time in a circular fashion. Lots of offbeats within offbeats, if you know what I mean. It’s basically a jazz percussion approach to metal rhythm guitar. If you have played guitar and learned theory, you know how trivial this band is. I was talking with a Texas technical deathgrind master and he wrote a formula for me: Meshuggah = lots of clueless fans x lack of musical knowledge. It’s an undeserved insult to homosexuals. Stop comparing homosexuals and Mac users to Opeth. Instead, you get watered down Rush riffs and random songs, all with a lot of guilt and bleeding-heart sympathy because they, Opeth, know you are a loser. Opeth “sounds like” prog even if it has none of what made prog great: real musical development, song structures that build upon themes instead of being random, and truly mindblowing chops. Opeth take very simple songs and dress them up with prog rock lite flourishes, and “unexpected” changes like ZOMG going from acoustic to distorted on the chorus, because they know that all you low self-esteem cases want a reason to seem smarter and more profound than the rest of us. But you’ve found a new weapon you’re going to show everyone you’re better than them. Even your parents think they consumed too much Bisphenol-A before conceiving you. You haven’t succeeded at anything, school or otherwise. But, having met them and seen they are nice intelligent fellows, my only conclusion can be that this band is a pure money-maker - and they about admitted as much. How junior high school! Even more, they have gotten more repetitive and grind-you-down-with-simple-stuff as they years have gone on. Taking their style from Suffocation, and their songwriting from Malevolent Creation, they bashed out these simple hymns and instead of having an idea behind them like “only death is real,” they just tried to be offensive and gross. They studied metal in the early 1990s, and came up with a pre-chewed version. Upon reflection, however, what I really hate about this band is its falseness. When I was a wee liberal, I never thought much of Cannibal Corpse until I read their immensely misogynistic lyrics. Let’s turn it around on them: who has a need to look like they can laugh at themselves? Why, people who cannot, of course. And bad guitar playing that dumbs metal down to MTV levels. And who likes someone who can’t laugh at himself? Except that joke bands have always been stupid, with the joke/hype/trend coming before the music, and Dethklok is no exception. ![]() Ergo, by the passive-aggressive inversion, if you dislike this you’re afraid to laugh at yourself. How can you hate a cartoon? It’s supposed to be funny. I can only tell it as I see it and hope the pagan gods sort out the fracas. ![]() Some people who I like also make terrible music. Some people whose music I like hate me, and some people I hate make great music. Note bene: This list is about music I hate, not people I hate. Not coincidentally, these bands are the worst depthless and pointless stuff to hit metal. They are a cancer on metal.Īnd they have some favorite bands. The best music to make you look cool is basically the same crap you get on MTV, but with a cool image. They’re not thinking about the music they’re thinking about how cool it makes them look. Some like to be political, so they pick bands that are anarchists or Nazis. ![]() Some like to think they’re cool, so they like angry pointless three-chord bands with weird names and gimmicks. Some like to think they’re smart, so they like dumb kiddie music tricked out like prog rock. They then have to be a very big deal, so they make their own art or music which is shallow and surface-oriented, but they trick it out to make it look cool. They “like” music because they want to look like the image of that music. The hipster is the eternal party of one: he or she does everything to make him or herself look good to others. The best example in our time of course is the hipster. These usually pretend to be it, then use it for their own purposes, corrupting it. The worst are things that destroy it from within. If you like anything, you hate what destroys it.
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