At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul
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DaveyMonsoon
May 18th 2023


1660 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Melodeath's one of the more misunderstood genres imo. Granted there are plenty of factors where I can understand their viewpoints on it (the mixed quality of a good number of bands, being basically the genre to influence the modern US metalcore scene etc.), but a lot of it is also a bit blown out of proportion I feel.

Casavir
May 19th 2023


5676 Comments

Album Rating: 1.5

I think the backlash against it is pretty deserved and frankly not severe enough. Like, when it comes to combining aggression with tons of melody, I'd consider this retrograde from a lot of thrash metal that was better in both aspects. Let alone other melodeath from pretty much this exact time.

JohnnyoftheWell
May 19th 2023


64287 Comments


thank you for your comment, person who recreationally listens to thrash metal

Casavir
May 19th 2023


5676 Comments

Album Rating: 1.5

It's in the top three subgenres of metal full stop so yeah, fun stuff.

Ryus
May 19th 2023


37885 Comments


skull emoji

johnny until you post your goddamn list this is comprehensive

https://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?listid=199393

you are both right

JohnnyoftheWell
May 19th 2023


64287 Comments


my list is in the works i am wrestling with the million new genres required to see it off
"three subgenres of metal"
don't do this to my ribs

JohnnyoftheWell
May 19th 2023


64287 Comments


like, the effort required to produce distinct blurbs and ranking placements for noise and power electronics alone should warrant a paycheck

don't even get me started on having to listen to groove metal

Casavir
May 19th 2023


5676 Comments

Album Rating: 1.5

"don't do this to my ribs"



Like you'd even have anywhere close to an informed opinion otherwise

Ryus
May 19th 2023


37885 Comments


you made the mistake of at least pretending to listen to a bunch of stuff from the genres before starting instead of shooting from the hip

JohnnyoftheWell
May 19th 2023


64287 Comments


it was an error but at least i got to forcefeed myself a bunch of shit i'd never have checked otherwise (mostly for the better)
"Like you'd even have anywhere close to an informed opinion otherwise"
i'm not sure that having your diatribes on the relative originality of whichsoever poorly produced riffs seared in my retinas counts as acquiring an informed opinion

Casavir
May 19th 2023


5676 Comments

Album Rating: 1.5

"i'm not sure that having your diatribes on the relative originality of whichsoever poorly produced riffs seared in my retinas counts as acquiring an informed opinion"



So you're really going to be a dick (not unusual for you) and then double down, that's cool

Casavir
May 19th 2023


5676 Comments

Album Rating: 1.5

Also, the production on this is as flat as the songwriting is so what the fuck are you even talking about lol

JohnnyoftheWell
May 19th 2023


64287 Comments


the theme of this thread is go heavy or go home did i fuckin stutter
on which note are you sure you want to open discourse on songwriting lmfao

evilford
May 19th 2023


71523 Comments


Oh man

Ryus
May 19th 2023


37885 Comments


where is your rating ford prefect

JohnnyoftheWell
May 19th 2023


64287 Comments


aww i was reading that earlier

Space Jester
May 19th 2023


11560 Comments


Idk if thrash would be a top 3 metal genre for me but def top 5

DaveyMonsoon
May 19th 2023


1660 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

I wish I could like thrash more than I do tbh. There's a lot that I like but also a lot that doesn't really gel with me. It's a shame because the stuff I do like I actually really like.

Space Jester
May 19th 2023


11560 Comments


Y’know there’s a pretty cool list a couple of guys here made

https://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?listid=196835

Casavir
May 19th 2023


5676 Comments

Album Rating: 1.5

"I wish I could like thrash more than I do tbh."



You do though. This is just the already dry Coma of Souls thrice watered-down



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