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[kalfitegrdan]

Female harsh vocals are fucking fantastic in death/doom or doom-influenced death metal. Derketa and Vastum being my main points of reference.

[Epidemic Reign]

Maurizio Iacono (Kataklysm, Ex Deo) is one of the douchiest personalities in metal.

[kalfitegrdan]

Originally Posted by Epidemic Reign

Maurizio Iacono (Kataklysm, Ex Deo) is one of the douchiest personalities in metal.

For realsies? He always seemed pretty cool when I saw him at shows. He's always hanging around shows here.

[TonyD]

Guitar Center is a lot like a gym.

[RampinUp46]

Originally Posted by TonyD

Guitar Center is a lot like a gym.

Explain.

[energymetal14]

Originally Posted by TonyD

Guitar Center is a lot like a gym.

Originally Posted by RampinUp46

Explain.

not sure if I am right, but if he is implying what I think then this is so true.

[TonyD]

A lot of people go just to show off to an audience that they don't have at home. And a lot of people try and don't know what the fuck they're doing.
Sweep picking solos at high volumes is pretty much the equivalent of doing heavy shrugs and slamming the weight down every chance you can get.

[EvilCheeseWedge]

A lot of these are really directed at a younger EvilCheeseWedge:

• Dio can write about whatever the fuck he wants, because he's fucking Dio.* (Suck it, 2007 EvilCheeseWedge.)
• Bruce Dickinson's solo work effortlessly eclipses Iron Maiden's post-Dance of Death output by a considerable margin, and maybe even Dance of Death (especially after you adjust for and factor out my lingering nostalgia.)
• What Steve Harris is: A great bassist, a shrewd businessman, prone to tedium, a great songwriter, and a mediocre songwriter.
• What Steve Harris is not: Consistent.
• Dave Mustaine's insanity negatively affects my interest in and enjoyment of anything Megadeth has done or will do.
• Most metal fans/music fans in general have a distorted, inaccurate, borderline fantasy view on: songwriting, musical theory, and the general mechanics and variances in how actual musicians and songwriters operate.
• Don't even think of trying to convince them of that, though.
• AC/DC is great at being AC/DC, so why do they need to be anything else? (Suck it, 2004 EvilCheeseWedge.)
• Ozzy Osbourne is a great performer/entertainer whose place in metal history is warranted. Complaints about The Osbournes be damned.
• Ozzy Osbourne is not a great vocalist, or songwriter. (So what?)

Also, I think the comparison of Guitar Center to a gym is amusingly apt.

*Present tense, because a) it's too sad to use past tense, and b) you never know...

[JRA]

Originally Posted by EvilCheeseWedge

A lot of these are really directed at a younger EvilCheeseWedge:

• Dio can write about whatever the fuck he wants, because he's fucking Dio.* (Suck it, 2007 EvilCheeseWedge.)
• Bruce Dickinson's solo work effortlessly eclipses Iron Maiden's post-Dance of Death output by a considerable margin, and maybe even Dance of Death (especially after you adjust for and factor out my lingering nostalgia.)
• What Steve Harris is: A great bassist, a shrewd businessman, prone to tedium, a great songwriter, and a mediocre songwriter.
• What Steve Harris is not: Consistent.
• Dave Mustaine's insanity negatively affects my interest in and enjoyment of anything Megadeth has done or will do.
• Most metal fans/music fans in general have a distorted, inaccurate, borderline fantasy view on: songwriting, musical theory, and the general mechanics and variances in how actual musicians and songwriters operate.
• Don't even think of trying to convince them of that, though.
• AC/DC is great at being AC/DC, so why do they need to be anything else? (Suck it, 2004 EvilCheeseWedge.)
• Ozzy Osbourne is a great performer/entertainer whose place in metal history is warranted. Complaints about The Osbournes be damned.
• Ozzy Osbourne is not a great vocalist, or songwriter. (So what?)

Also, I think the comparison of Guitar Center to a gym is amusingly apt.

*Present tense, because a) it's too sad to use past tense, and b) you never know...

Well wouldn't you know who fuckin won the pony.

1.* That's awesome
2.* absolutely. Fuck I can barely even listen to DoD anymore except out of Nostalgia cos it was the start of Steve Harris descending into mediocrity.
3. * Agreed, especially with tedium
4. * Well, he has been consistently trying to write X-Factor over and over again as a result of being butthurt over a new formula not being accepted the first time,
5. * Disagree, but understandable. He's really making it hard not to forsake him.
6 & 7. * I like to think I have an ok grasp on this but eh....?
8.* Absolutely.
9.* Disagree on both counts. If you want to go by what songwriting credit royalties do, the "music" of a song has never had anything to do with the instrumentation, but the vocal melody itself. Ozzy's done nothing but write vocal melodies his whole life. When you combine that with lyrics, in that sense all songwriting credits for Black Sabbath should go exclusively to Ozzy & Geezer. This philosophy sort of makes sense when you realize that it started in the 40's-50's when the only real part of a song people cared about was the vocals, and most music stars were straight singers with orchestras or backing groups backing them. Wasn't til the Beatles when that started to change.



And one contribution for me:

When Iron Maiden stepped into the studio with Blaze in 1994, they were trying to write a Candlemass album. The problem with that is you need an extremely strong, Sabbath like emphasis on riffs, and Maiden weren't quite overt with those even in the 80s. The fast twin harmony riffs just don't work for doom metal. If Steve had paid more attention to Candlemass (or even the crop of stoner metal bands in the 90s) he might have been able to get away with it. But he just didn't shed enough of that "Maiden skin" to pull that off.

[MPF]

Originally Posted by Epidemic Reign

Maurizio Iacono (Kataklysm, Ex Deo) is one of the douchiest personalities in metal.

He handed me a beer on their tour bus when touring with Krisiun and we all air drummed and Air guitared to Van Halen I....

He's A-OK in my book.