Bands everyone loves but you hate

Deathmaster · Post by **Deathmaster** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 7:49 pm

Deep Switch- I just find this band to be annoying.
This one may be controversial but everyone is obsessed with Slough Feg, and I do admit that they have a hand full of KILLER songs, but overall, a lot of their folky stuff makes me want to scream, not in a good way either.
Oh, I cant stand AC/DC, and I'm sure I'm gonna get shit for this one, but I've never seen the greatness in Thin Lizzy. Sooo many other 70's bands that kill them. Ok, let the beheading begin!

FuneralCircle · Post by **FuneralCircle** » Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:08 pm

Deathmaster wrote:Deep Switch- I just find this band to be annoying.
This one may be controversial but everyone is obsessed with Slough Feg, and I do admit that they have a hand full of KILLER songs, but overall, a lot of their folky stuff makes me want to scream, not in a good way either.
Oh, I cant stand AC/DC, and I'm sure I'm gonna get shit for this one, but I've never seen the greatness in Thin Lizzy. Sooo many other 70's bands that kill them. Ok, let the beheading begin!

Deep Switch is hit and miss, their track Poison Lake is awesome though. SLOUGH FEG and THIN LIZZY rule!! AHH!!

AC/DC though...

reindeerattack666 · Post by **reindeerattack666** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 11:11 am

My tastes lean toward the epic -- old school power metal, epic heavy metal, epic doom, and power/thrash. I like a fair number of black metal bands, but they also tend to be epic sounding (e.g., early Abigor, later Immortal, Dissection, Belenos), and bear little resemblance to 80s black metal. At any rate, here are some bands that I SHOULD like, given my tastes, but don't.

Grave Digger, Omen, Ironsword, Rebellion, Battlerage -- I can't stand the low-register gruff vocal style of these three bands. I generally dislike low-pitched vocals in metal, clean or harsh. (I hate death metal vocals but am fine with black metal vocals, so go figure.)

Battleroar - vocals are too operatic. He sings like a eunuch.

Cirith Ungol -- Really bizarre stuff. Maybe it will grow on me if I give it a chance, but I've been repelled by the one or two songs I've heard.

Manowar -- Musically, these guys aren't anything impressive, and are more of a parody of epic metal than epic metal proper.

Black Axe · Post by **Black Axe** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 11:49 am

reindeerattack666 wrote:Cirith Ungol -- Really bizarre stuff. Maybe it will grow on me if I give it a chance, but I've been repelled by the one or two songs I've heard.

Manowar -- Musically, these guys aren't anything impressive, and are more of a parody of epic metal than epic metal proper.

Epic is not your game. Next thing you know you'll say you hate Brocas Helm.

The Knell · Post by **The Knell** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 12:17 pm

please check out cirith ungol more than 1-2 songs.

Herkus Monte · Post by **Herkus Monte** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 1:16 pm

reindeerattack666 wrote:My tastes lean toward the epic -- old school power metal, epic heavy metal, epic doom, and power/thrash. I like a fair number of black metal bands, but they also tend to be epic sounding (e.g., early Abigor, later Immortal, Dissection, Belenos), and bear little resemblance to 80s black metal. At any rate, here are some bands that I SHOULD like, given my tastes, but don't.

Grave Digger, Omen, Ironsword, Rebellion, Battlerage -- I can't stand the low-register gruff vocal style of these three bands. I generally dislike low-pitched vocals in metal, clean or harsh. (I hate death metal vocals but am fine with black metal vocals, so go figure.)

Battleroar - vocals are too operatic. He sings like a eunuch.

Cirith Ungol -- Really bizarre stuff. Maybe it will grow on me if I give it a chance, but I've been repelled by the one or two songs I've heard.

Manowar -- Musically, these guys aren't anything impressive, and are more of a parody of epic metal than epic metal proper.

So what kind of vocals do you like in epic metal?

J.K. · Post by **J.K.** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 1:51 pm

Led Zeppelin

Sabbath with Dio

Toxic Holocaust

Municipal Waste

Inquisition

Watain (I don't hate them, but they are over rated for sure)

Thergothon

Cynic

Atheist

Short-haired Bruce Dickinson

Etc.

LethylSteel · Post by **LethylSteel** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 7:36 pm

Motley Crue

reindeerattack666 · Post by **reindeerattack666** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 7:42 pm

Herkus Monte wrote: So what kind of vocals do you like in epic metal?

Higher register Dickinson style vocals or Candlemass/Solitude Aeturnus style vocals.

Black Axe wrote: Epic is not your game. Next thing you know you'll say you hate Brocas Helm.

No, I actually do like them, probably in spite of their vocals and not because of them. Even though they aren't my favorite type of vocals, they don't actively annoy me in the way that that of Ironsword does. I also like Manilla Road, Slough Feg and Viking era Bathory, although it took awhile to get used to the vocal style of the first two. However, my favorite style of vocals are that of early Blind Guardian, Adramelch, Agent Steel, Helstar, Abattoir, Flotsam and Jetsam, etc.

Again, not all of what I like falls squarely within the Epic metal genre, but most of it has an epic quality to it.

J.K. · Post by **J.K.** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 7:46 pm

Darksider wrote:Motley Crue

Haha

It's the contrary.

ION BRITTON · Post by **ION BRITTON** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 8:44 pm

OK I'm gonna crank a 'Red Hot' now for all you Crue haters and let it sweep 50% of your private US metal rarities

Fire Down Under · Post by **Fire Down Under** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 8:45 pm

ION BRITTON wrote:OK I'm gonna crank a 'Red Hot' now for all you Crue haters and let it sweep 50% of your private US metal rarities

the best MC song!

ION BRITTON · Post by **ION BRITTON** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 8:47 pm

Fire Down Under wrote:the best MC song!

2nd best for me. "Take Me To The Top" is my favorite!

AndyWhite · Post by **AndyWhite** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 3:52 am

Tyrant (us)
(Sorry ION). I can't stand the random falsetto screams, and the production and playing sounds so sloppy.

ION BRITTON · Post by **ION BRITTON** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:50 am