[quote]Cephalic_Carnage wrote:
[quote]StormTheBeach wrote:
[quote]StrengthDawg wrote:
While I’ll agree this form of music has shit tons of brutal-ness and does get the blood pumping most of these bands are far from ‘incredible musicians’- with the exception of the drummers- that’s where the real talent lay and the drummers of those kind of bands carry the rest of the players, in my opinion.
I’ll add that the songs that they play aren’t very hard to come up with. They may be classical guitarist when not playing IDK but I’m talking about the shit on their records. I kind of play guitar and I suck for the most part but all you really have to do is tune your guitar to drop d or lower, add a shit ton of distortion, run your shit thorugh an effects processor then play a shit load of “5” powercords,maybve a few open E chords, palm mute the fuck out of your strings,and have a little wrist flexibility to do some ‘gallops’ and your a deth-metal player.
Sounds really cool but not hard at all. Best thing is they sell a shit ton of records to a bunch of these wanna be satanists or other “dark metal” fans but whatever floats your boat.
In my opinion most of theses “metal” bands sit around making shit up to sound all ‘creepy’ and ‘demonic’ and shit…to me its like musical dungeons and dragons…[/quote]
You have no idea what you are talking about. [/quote]
This.
If you want crazy fret-board climbing and melody (most of the time) → Necrophagist and Brain Drill (the latter I don’t like all that much… Not the right sense of melody/ note progression for me) and co.
If you love counting more than anything else → Meshuggah and all the other math stuff (get some more melodic stuff in there too, of course… I hope Meshuggah will do another album like D/E/I again though with what they’ve learned since then.
Odd-time and shredding in general: Spastic Ink and so on
Extreme appregio-abuse: Origin etc (with simpler song-structures though in their case).
Varied time-signatures but more traditional guitar playing → Dream theater[/quote] liquid tension experiment[quote] and what have you.
Just because the meshuggah guitar-players and bass guy play simple stuff doesn’t mean it’s actually easy (though I’m not too much of a fan of some of their albums… Too much of the same as far as techniques go and no real development… Got a little better with obzen finally, but still some things that irk the hell out of me).
Even most jazz is dead-simple, but you get crazy shit there as well obviously. Same for most genre’s which allow any kind of expression for the instrumentalists… You just have to know where to look, and avoid being an idiot.
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