It does depend on the festival/concert you attend here. I’ve never seen a festival that’d let you get on stage but the heavier (as in really heavy concerts with obscure bands, or at festivals with very large crowds) still permit slam dancing, crowd surfing and stage diving (at least they did last time I was able to attend) though I still don’t think you’d get away with getting on the stage. But on the opposite side of the spectrum some venues are so strict you’ll get kicked out for moshing
I guess security in smaller low-budget venues/dealing with crowds of like 10,000 people probably don’t want to deal with getting in the middle of that mosh pit… I don’t blame them, I’ve sustained some injuries from slam dancing . I saw a guy get picked up and dropped on his head once (he was okay), long story but that particular act was the catalyst to a moshpit of epic proportions.
Snapchat/Instagram and whatnot doesn’t belong in the moshpit!
I can’t access the link. Are you sure it isn’t a joke? I’d be surprised if a millitant terrorist organisation that talks about imposing Sharia law upon the (relatively speaking relative to the middle east) somewhat progressive state of Lebanon was okay with heavy metal music.
I’ve only been listening to assorted songs on YouTube. Haven’t really gone deep into them yet.
Count of Tuscany isn’t bad. It’s in the Black Clouds and Silver Linings album. Also like the titular song from Octavarium. Haven’t really listened to any full albums yet.
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Wait, you haven’t heard the album right after Images and Words? That was the last album I really liked but some of the vocal melodies just turned me off. Stay away from A Change of Seasons. That one made me stop listening to them altogether.
I also like John Petrucci’s Suspended Animation and Jordan’s Feeding the Wheel solo albums. Was listening to them long ago.
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Liquid Tension Experiment 1 and 2 are pretty good.
They’re all instrumental.
You can see how tired I got of the singing at the time lol. Not that the singer is bad. He can sing pretty well. I just hate the vocal melodies.
One of the only songs I really liked with singing. The dude can really shine when he’s given appropriately written(IMHO) stuff:
Surrounded from Images and Words was also great with the singing included. It’s songs like Metropolis Pt 1 and Under a Glass Moon where I wish he’d shut the fuck up lol.
The guitar riffs with the keyboard backing songs like Under A Glass Moon were cool enough to carry the parts with vocals, again, IMHO. The vocals were just following the chord changes already emphasized by the keyboards backing the guitar and were literally doubling them the keyboard melodies at some parts. They were redundant.
This shit is subjective so don’t give me shit, Dream Theater puritans lol. We’re not talking about fucking Beethoven or Thelonious Monk here.
Here’s another olive branch, you basement dwelling nerds:
See how well the singer does when the vocal melody is written and arranged to carry the song with the instrumental parts as support instead of the other way around? The vocal arrangements on the other songs on that album were horrific, yet again, IMHO.
If you wanna add vocals to support the instrumentation, at least learn from Steve Vai when he did it effectively:
First time I’d ever heard the vocals placed in the part where the instrumental solo should be lol. Didn’t like the rest of the album, though.
I’m not as turned off by LaBrie’s singing … he’s no Bruce Dickinson or Ronnie Dio but I don’t think he’s bad.
Personally I like most of their albums … Falling into infinity and their epic concept album that came out in the 2010s I can’t get behind but most of their forget albums are worth a listen.
Standouts are (other than I&W) Awake, Metropolis part 2, Six Degrees…, And Octavarium
I personally like change of seasons but it’s a 23 minute song so …
I never said he’s bad lol. I said I hate the vocal melodies written for him. I’d still want to remove the vocals from most of the songs if Dio was singing and Dio is like my 2nd favorite rock/metal/whatever singer of all time.
Sebastian Bach from Skid Row is my 1st. And I don’t even like Skid Row.
Bruce Dickinson has NOTHING on him. Sorry @dagill2 lol. Just my opinion. I love Bruce but Seb is in a whole different universe altogether:
Not really metal, but I’ve been getting into Alice in Chains lately. I guess they were probably the most metal out of the big grunge bands. The guitar work is fantastic (I appreciate that it isn’t just shredding for the sake of shredding, but fits the music so well). Vocals are fantastic too (just a bit of blues influence in it).
Music taste has been all over the place lately, here some new jams and artists to the ever evolving playlist
Against Me. The whole catalogue definitely isnt smash-face-into-c4-workout heavy, but there are some good ones in there
Shadow Of Intent… this is a bit more my standard genre, but I was late to the party on this one. This song specifically is fucking extraordinary.
Make Them Suffer… I was a huge Neverbloom fan, and fell off the wagon right after, but this entire albums is super fucking high energy, with some beautiful vocals mixed throughout from Courtney
. I saw a guy get picked up and dropped on his head once (he was okay), long story but that particular act was the catalyst to a moshpit of epic proportions.
