Metal & Rock Music Recommendations (indie, albums, jimi hendrix, member)

SGR · 05-22-2011, 08:50 AM

Do you guys think anything by Korn or Rage Against The Machine is worth buying?

**Janszoon** · 05-22-2011, 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks

Do you guys think anything by Korn or Rage Against The Machine is worth buying?

Rage Against The Machine's first album is pretty good, it's just aged badly because it influenced so much crappy music.

SGR · 05-22-2011, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Rage Against The Machine's first album is pretty good, it's just aged badly because it influenced so much crappy music.

So you recommend that? Is any of their other stuff good?

Unknown Soldier · 05-22-2011, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks

So you recommend that? Is any of their other stuff good?

I`d say RATM were very much of their time and not really worth listening to, I have the debut album and its nothing special. Korn are far superior all round and their debut is a NU-Metal classic......in fact the only classic album from the whole genre as I don`t think of SOAD as really being NU-Metal. Any reason why you`ve picked these two bands to listen to?

hip hop bunny hop · 05-22-2011, 09:50 AM

Sludge, stoner, doom - where is the profit in seperating these genres out? Why not simply call them "Doom"? It describes both the tone and the tempo, and is inclusive of both the rock and metal ends of the spectrum.

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As for High on Fire I`ll agree they are faster than I thought with a heavy Motorhead influence and touches of Slayer. But they do have a sluggish heavy Kyuss type sound as well which underpins everything. For that reason I`d still classify them as a stoner metal band with a faster sound. The drumming is about as intense as that of say Mastodon

Or we could just say High on Fire is what hard rock sounds like 20 years after Motorhead, Metallica, Black Sabbath (etc.) have become radio mainstays.

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Do you guys think anything by Korn or Rage Against The Machine is worth buying?

Buying? Absolutely not. Pirate if you want, but I would not recommend buying anything from these guys. They've made fistfulls of cash anyways, and the music isn't all that memorable.

Unknown Soldier · 05-22-2011, 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by hip hop bunny hop

Sludge, stoner, doom - where is the profit in seperating these genres out? Why not simply call them "Doom"? It describes both the tone and the tempo, and is inclusive of both the rock and metal ends of the spectrum.

Or we could just say High on Fire is what hard rock sounds like 20 years after Motorhead, Metallica, Black Sabbath (etc.) have become radio mainstays.

Based on this logic we could also umbrella thrash, death and black metal as well, as they all have a similiar tone and tempo. But if we did this we would lose the identify and differences between the three genres!!! the same logic also applies to sludge, stoner and doom.

I agree that High on Fire could be described as an amalgamation of the bands that you`ve listed and for this reason we could just call them heavy metal and nothing else.

Necromancer · 05-22-2011, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks

Do you guys think anything by Korn or Rage Against The Machine is worth buying?

Korn has a couple of OK singles, they will be disappointing if you are expecting artistic rock. They are basically just rhythm section musically that is very loud with effects. In my opinion, their sound almost borders on the Funk Rock genre, but Nu-Metal is their origin.
Rage Against The Machine is a band I have been meaning to check out myself.

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