Post by impulse on Sept 14, 2023 23:26:31 GMT -5
@supercat2099 Oh, man Crazy Town. I occasionally remember they exist lol. "She's my butterfly...sugar...baby..." It was definitely a bit much even though musically that was a catchy song. There was definitely that period like you said where fantastic nu metal albums were dropped on after another, and then everyone was done with it at once, ha.
I agree, it's just another flavor of the extended metal family. Technically probably a sub-genre of alt metal, but as we said when we started this thread, for our purposes here, if there's enough flavor you can taste it it gets invited to the conversation.
The first few Korn albums were fantastic, too. One of them in some interview described their early sound as taking the slow heavy groovy riffs from thrash breakdowns/halftime sections and laying them on top of hip hop/funk drum beats, and I am here for all of that. They lost me after they got heavy into the creepy atmospheric echoey haunting stuff and away from heavy groovy. Rage is great.
My personal ranking of the Disturbed albums would be The Sickness > 10,000 Fists >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Believe >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> all the rest somewhere forgotten in the corner. I will say, having gone back and relistened to Believe, the mix wasn't as dire as a I remember, and there are more remnants of the first album than I noticed initially, but still largely not a fan of it EXCEPT Liberate and Rise are epic. Rise in particular reminds me of Left Behind on Slipknot's Iowa album in that both kind of come out nowhere and are just SO catchy and groovy.
And yes, it's been nice going back and realizing there actually was a lot of good music in the 2000s. It just wasn't what was on the radio or in the soundtracks. I'll have to check out those bands you listed, and it's always fun to go back to Municipal Waste.
Speaking of retro... it was a breath of fresh air after the wasteland of classic metal that was the 2000s to turn on the radio and hear blazing epic dual guitar harmonies and solo shredding. I had stumbled into the middle of Avenged Sevenfold's Bat Country. Guitar solos! fast guitar riffs! A love letter to 80s metal. Similarly and around the same time, I was walking through the mall and passed Hot Topic and heard the most concentrated dose of 80s metalness I had ever heard. It was like someone had saved 80s metal concentrate and released it in the store. I ran in and asked them what was playing, and that's how I discovered Dragonforce, and I went home and bought the first two albums (this was before the one with Through the Fire and Flames came out.
The title track of their second, Inhuman Rampage, is probably my favorite of theirs.
I agree, it's just another flavor of the extended metal family. Technically probably a sub-genre of alt metal, but as we said when we started this thread, for our purposes here, if there's enough flavor you can taste it it gets invited to the conversation.
The first few Korn albums were fantastic, too. One of them in some interview described their early sound as taking the slow heavy groovy riffs from thrash breakdowns/halftime sections and laying them on top of hip hop/funk drum beats, and I am here for all of that. They lost me after they got heavy into the creepy atmospheric echoey haunting stuff and away from heavy groovy. Rage is great.
My personal ranking of the Disturbed albums would be The Sickness > 10,000 Fists >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Believe >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> all the rest somewhere forgotten in the corner. I will say, having gone back and relistened to Believe, the mix wasn't as dire as a I remember, and there are more remnants of the first album than I noticed initially, but still largely not a fan of it EXCEPT Liberate and Rise are epic. Rise in particular reminds me of Left Behind on Slipknot's Iowa album in that both kind of come out nowhere and are just SO catchy and groovy.
And yes, it's been nice going back and realizing there actually was a lot of good music in the 2000s. It just wasn't what was on the radio or in the soundtracks. I'll have to check out those bands you listed, and it's always fun to go back to Municipal Waste.
Speaking of retro... it was a breath of fresh air after the wasteland of classic metal that was the 2000s to turn on the radio and hear blazing epic dual guitar harmonies and solo shredding. I had stumbled into the middle of Avenged Sevenfold's Bat Country. Guitar solos! fast guitar riffs! A love letter to 80s metal. Similarly and around the same time, I was walking through the mall and passed Hot Topic and heard the most concentrated dose of 80s metalness I had ever heard. It was like someone had saved 80s metal concentrate and released it in the store. I ran in and asked them what was playing, and that's how I discovered Dragonforce, and I went home and bought the first two albums (this was before the one with Through the Fire and Flames came out.
The title track of their second, Inhuman Rampage, is probably my favorite of theirs.
