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Good thing about LastFM is it shows you who your most listened to bands actually are, not who you think they are.
Bit surprised but Sepultura are my most listened to metal band by quite a margin.
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I think maybe because Beneath, Arise, Chaos and Roots are all good and all scratch different itches
Also the more recent albums have the occasional corker
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Ah checking again now and I stand corrected, my top 10 most played metal the last few years:
1. Voivod (161 song plays) discovered them since LastFM so makes sense
2. Sepultura (158 song plays)
3. Baroness (111 song plays) new shitty album came out so makes sense
4. Metallica (111 song plays)
5. Amen (99 song plays)
6. Godflesh (97 song plays) fair enough, bit surprised
7. Megadeth (91 song plays)
8. Pantera (89 song plays)
9. Ministry (86 song plays)
10. Korn (81 song plays) surprised this is higher than the Deftones
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That certainly looks like the metal list of someone who doesn't listen to a lot of metal ;-) (apart from Voivod being no.1, that's cool).
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meh, it looks like the metal list of someone who has a lot of nostalgic metal they listen to from their yoot
Godflesh are way cooler to listen to than Voivod I'd say lol - the 'vod are faintly proggy and Canadian, cool points are lacking
I guess it can't all be intellectualized and snobby, have to listen to some stuff for fun - and that's coming from the doof who can take the fun out of anything
I think the problem is a lot of extreme metal the songs are reeeeal long...so you listen to a Burzum album 20 times and still end up with -24 scrobbles or summink
most played metal albums rather than bands could be more interesting I dunno
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Damn you put way more thought into my throwaway comment than I was expecting, I guess Godflesh could be considered 'cooler', depends on your perspective.
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I'm listening to a fair bit of metal right now so I'm a bit more invested in my metal chat n' stats
Actually listening to all the new metal releases instead of just staring at all those high ratings on the chart you quickly realize it's just as much a load of wishful ratings as it is with the latest indie rock releases - I thought it was a hidden goldmine of quality but not so.
Found a few ones I like quite a bit. I like menacing stuff but the brootal stuff and anything too metalcore or {eek} 'progressive metal' turns me off.
Tried one of the albums in the chart and it sounded like Jonathan Wilson mixed with Tool - in 2019, yikes. Absolutely abysmal.
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Prog is either absolutely amazing or godawful, I mean it can be anything in-between as well, but no metal sub-genre provokes such polarising reactions in me. I guess it's because 'prog' is such a broad term and isn't necessarily a standalone music 'type', it manifests itself in so many different ways.
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once prog/prog metal gets too twee or has a commercial sheen then it almost always turns me off
also a lot of prog metal you can tell they are trying to mimic the vocal style of someone else - often Maynard - and that can end up distracting and shrug worthy
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Agreed on both points.
I'm into prog metal that leans heavily towards death/black, or sometimes thrash/sludge/post/hardcore crossover (less often, in prog at least), but not everything at once. I guess some call it 'extreme metal' but I'm not (usually) into the really brutal stuff, or grind. Preferably subtle combinations that sound natural, unless it's experimentation incorporated well into an overall aesthetic (not bizarre genre mashing) and also nothing that's too clean and shiny. There are no absolutes, I've been known to like most things, I just have tendencies, like everyone does.
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it's amazing that with all the technological capabilities in terms of music production we have nowadays, metal never sounds as beefy as this thing :[
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@DoofDoof What progressive metal sounds like Jonathan Wilson mixed with Tool? Honestly I don't think Tool are that influential on progressive metal; they're more on the rock side of things and so are the bands who follow after them (Karnivool, Soen, etc).
Granted you might be referring to heavier progressive rock as progressive metal, which a lot of people do (Rush are on the metal archives for some reason). Progressive metal to me is bands which are both progressive and metal, so Voivod, Opeth, Dream Theater, etc.
@Demon Strongly disagree there. Most prog metal I've heard has been pretty average, just like most other types of music. I'm not thrilled by Dream Theater imitators but I don't think they're awful either.
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check Fates Warning then
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Love Fates Warning but they predate DT by several years so I wasn't talking about them.
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I know but they aren't average
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Most "classic" prog I've found very off-putting, especially the 70s and 80s stuff - apart from King Crimson, of course. But I have been working through the classic Genesis albums and they seem pretty swell.
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Progressive rock and progressive metal are basically completely different genres so I don't find that surprising. King Crimson have some proto-prog metal elements so they're a bit closer, especially in the John Wetton and 1990s-2000s eras.
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Well, between the two, I'd definitely go for "rock" in most cases. There are exceptions, of course, like Opeth and Haken.
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Are you saying you prefer progressive rock? You've 5d loads of progressive metal albums but barely any progressive rock ones.
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