Thread 127713723

Are they really paving the path for metal right now? What's the appeal?

*paying

>>127713723 (OP)
metalcore, nu-metal and alt metal remains the most popular "metal subgenres"
clearly no normal human wants to listen to that horrible trash-ass metal music so fuck off already
the only metal album to go viral was metallica's pop/rock ballad album

>>127713723 (OP)
I'm not one of these "not metal" retards but the first 2 songs here are definitely not metal

Not metal.

>>127713723 (OP)
Neither metal nor kickass. More like pegging music.

based spotify delivering the most kickass metal songs of today

>>127713723 (OP)
Even if they're not metal I find them more enjoyable to listen to than most metal that's coming out these days.
Metal nowadays is just breakdowns that all sound the same (when did breakdowns even become a thing? Genuinely can't remember), Joey Jordison copycats and shitty metalcore vocals.

>>127713723 (OP)
Letting normalfags in the metal scene was a mistake.

>kickass
metal "music" truly is for hormonal teenagers

>>127713737
St Anger would be the 2nd most popular Metallica album ever if it had had better marketing back then.

>>127714114
Possibly. It fit well in the metal landscape of the time if we ignore the drums. It feels like a weird alternate dimension Korn album.

>metal playlist
>not one metal band listed

>>127714038
5pbp
Thread/

>>127714038
Someone needs to update the chart now kek

>>127713723 (OP)
They aren't making metal. They are making pop RnB with a Djent twang thrown in every once in a while. If that's enough to be considered metal, then I guess The Beatles are metal as well, because they had like a song with a blues riff and distortion or something. I'd say that's more metal than whatever the fuck Sleep Token is doing.

Absolutely based.

Vessel is working smelly men who think they're tough for wearing denim into a complete seethe, and making alt girl pussy wet worldwide.

Sleep Token is mid & it shares the same headspace as Ghost, it's boring slop for Disney Adults that have a Spencer's gift card in their Invader Zim bifold zipper wallet

>>127714447
>Literally parroting Fantano

Lel

>>127714460
It's true imho
The other day I literally went into the Spencer's at my local mall for the first time since high school and they had a large portion of the wall dedicated just to Sleep Token t-shirts and hoodies
They also apparently took all of the merchandise meant for the rawr x3 waffles so randum types from Hot Topic and started selling it in their own store next door, so in this age the description is quite apt

>>127714447
sleep token might be mid but ghost kinda fire, decent edgy little pop rock music

Mid Token

>>127713723 (OP)
For me? Vore.
>SOOOO LET'S GET SWAAAAAALLOWWWWED WHOOOOOOOOOLE
https://youtu.be/3zDjAtG_y5A?si=RkDFBwm9XoUfzP0_

>>127714158
Hearing St Anger and Frantic with live real drums makes me wish the album had that kinda sound.

>>127714447
Ghost are good, especially the old metal stuff that sounds like Blue Oyster Cult.

>>127714447
>>127714506
go to bed fagtano, you're a failed musician shitting on successful musicians for a paycheck

>>127717384
Based taste anon.
The Offering is a banger too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cUXKKf6my0&list=RD-cUXKKf6my0&start_radio=1

>>127714091
Everything that was more niche and good has been invaded by now, not just metal

I hear this band at the bar from time to time. Its so fucking boring dude.

>>127713723 (OP)
Imagine Dragons for zoom zooms

Nu-metal is from the 90s and metalcore and deathcore is from the 2000s. Nothing is new anymore, pop music just keeps cannibalizing itself.

>>127713723 (OP)
>What's the appeal?
Tumblr sexyman but "metal"
No, literally. Their whole fanbase is just bunch of underage horny fangirls that like YAOI. They are peak 1D of metal. Except they aren't even metal. They are as pop as said 1D, but we all are pretending they are metal because they dress edgy.

>>127718881
Funk metal and Crossover Thrash are from the 80s. Nothing was new then either

>>127714460
>>127718463
Is he wrong though? I hate that bald leech and wish nothing but the worst for him, but is he wrong in this instance?

>>127714085
>even if they're not metal I find them more enjoyable than other bands that also aren't metal
thanks for sharing

>>127713817
There isn’t a single metal song on that list

>>127714365
Mate it's music for fat women with ear stretchers get a grip.

>>127714365
I've never met a single ST fan that was attractive or not underage. Sometimes they are both (underage+ugly).

>>127719889
I've never met a single ST hater that wasn't a fat fuck with shitty facial hair and Norwood 2+

>>127719889
Oldest one I know is 29 but he only started listening to them after he started fucking a 22 year old alt chick.
Does it count?

>>127719912
>projecting
Sid from Ice Age here >>127719098 won't fuck you, Sharon. Go hit the gym.

>>127719963
It counts as much as every men who went to see the Twilight back then because they literally were forced by their girlfriends. He is just trying to get his dick wet. He'd probably listen to atrocious shit like Ice Spice or Sabrina Carpenter too if his chick wanted to suck his dick because of it.

>>127719963
Nta but if he is 29 and dating alt chick, then he is beyond mentally challenged for sure.

>>127720118
>he is beyond mentally challenged for sure
He was dating a weird hippie witch chick before that so I think I'm going to agree.

>>127713723 (OP)
>>127714365
Not Metal.

>>127720085
seething

>>127719912
normies gtfo

>>127714091
normalfags aren't in the metal scene, though. they're in all of these adjacent scenes like metalcore and nu metal and whatever sleep token is and they are FURIOUS that we will never accept them.

Sleep token fans look like this
It's hot topic pop metal that fat women, fake alt/goth sluts and tiktok teens think has a deep meaning

>>127720490
normies hate anything that isn't groid mumbling

>>127713731
FPBP

>>127713723 (OP)
My takeaway from listening to their new album was that for all the hand wringing over whether or not Sleep Token are "metal", the band themselves sound like they don't want to be a metal band. Like they want to make faux-goth, alt R&B but throw in the odd djent rift so the moshers that listen to them don't get turned off.

>>127713723 (OP)
Sleep Token is one of those bands where the better your audio setup is, the worse they sound

>>127714365
>the kids these days influence is the actual lowest of nu metal >D

Metalcore rules. It's the American metal

>>127713737
All those styles of metal are about 85% garbage. If it ain't thrash, death or grind it ain't shit.

>>127714096
As opposed to bands like REM and Husker Du who are for astute homosexuals such as yourself. I kid, though. I like both, im just saying.

>>127714447
Sleep Token is shit.

Ghost are fucking fantastic.

>>127722961
>(((death metal)))
>(((grindcore)))

>>127713737
*ahem

>>127723328
Great record. It's like the self-titled but even crazier.

>>127723351
yep. Midlife existential crisis beautifully captured. Fantano drove many people away from it. But maybe that's for the best

>>127723396
Fantano said something along the lines of "it's a clown singing on a battlefield" or something like that. To be fair it's kinda accurate in a sense but that's what makes it so special. Also Brooks' drumming was very progressive in this one. I dig it a lot.

2000s Parkway Drive was pretty cool, a metalcore band, why are they considered 'not metal'?

https://youtu.be/dNvOVey0MSs?list=RDdNvOVey0MSs

>>127723328
This is "the black sheep" right now but it will be a cult classic give or take a few more years

>>127718859
Wonder what would happen if I imagined dragging my nuts on the singers mask?

>>127723001
Nah jews are based if thats the case.

>>127713723 (OP)
>sleep token are on top of today's best Metal playlist.

some ESL pajeet wrote that?

>>127723458
Pitchfork also described them as Benson Boone with a Spirit Halloween card

>>127727554
ESLs are Sleep Aid I mean Sleep Tokens entire fanbase

>>127723328
look at the way you go
YOURE ONE IN A MILLION

>>127733256
Great song live. I didn't expect any track from this album to work in concert but the band's energy is unreal and the crowd loved every song they played.

>>127723328
Perfect album to put on when musing on how shitty modern life can be. Such a vibe.
Shadow's really killed it with his vocals here, they sound so raw and full of emotion. 'Beautiful Morning' building up and ending with him repeating 'Don't let it be' at the end is so fucking good

>>127733931
>Such a vibe.

>>127724422
>metalcore
Not metal

>>127713723 (OP)
Satanism

>>127739390
Close. It's their retarded pseudo-pagan lore. The lore which I can't seem to find anywhere in their music.

>>127733296
Shadows was able to get thru the whole concert without going flat?

>>127733931
>Shadow's really killed it with his vocals here
Yeah...with how he lost his voice to some disease, and cant replicate the power it once had, there is a cynicism in his vocal sound now, a ferocious but ultimately muddled grit compared to what he could once do. And the theater kid operatic tangents almost mock this and the audience. It's as if real life, the disillusionment of losing his gift and vitality, ties in for a perfect express of the album's contemplations

On another note it always baffles me how they come up with their more fringe music as they've always seemed somewhat shallow and dudebro in interviews

>>127733296 #
Shadows was able to get thru the whole concert without going flat?

>>127733931 #
>Shadow's really killed it with his vocals here
Yeah...with how he lost his voice to some disease, and cant replicate the power it once had, there is a cynicism in his vocal sound now, a ferocious but ultimately muddled grit compared to what he could once do. And the theater kid operatic tangents almost mock this and the audience. It's as if real life, the disillusionment of losing his gift and vitality, is the perfect tool to express the album's ruminations

On another note it always baffles me how they come up with their more fringe music as they've always seemed somewhat shallow and dudebro in interviews

>>127738266
>metalcore is not metal
this is news to me. not that I listen to mc that much nowadays

>>127739992
>Shadows was able to get thru the whole concert without going flat?
Yeah I saw them three months ago and he gave a great performance. I honestly couldn't believe it so I checked a phone recording on youtube to be sure that it wasn't the audience drowning out his bad moments. I was fully prepared for him to suck in the old songs but it seems that he's fully adapted to his new range.
>On another note it always baffles me how they come up with their more fringe music as they've always seemed somewhat shallow and dudebro in interviews
Same. Brian, Jimmy and now Brooks have a more eclectic taste from what I've seen in interviews but Matt plays CoD and listens to Kanye. Although judging from his interviews and the song breakdowns they released on youtube he's at least knowledgeable in music theory which is more than most metal vocalists I know. Not sure about Johnny and Zacky. I might need to check Johnny's podcast for that.