What Are You listening To V.III Metal!

~~MicShazam~~ · 01-18-2019, 11:03 AM

I hope experimental metal doesn't just mean a bunch of spastic extreme metal with black metal vocals and sudden obligatory melodic interludes.

**Frownland** · 01-18-2019, 11:12 AM

He probably means experimental metal, not black metal.

~~MicShazam~~ · 01-18-2019, 11:14 AM

I'm not being serious. Although I feel like "experimental" metal I've checked out in the past tends to sound oddly predictable. I'll be surprised to hear anything that actually feels fresh. But part of that is how people tend to throw around the "experimental" label a bit too liberally.

**Frownland** · 01-18-2019, 11:16 AM

Like Thy Cattle****?

~~MicShazam~~ · 01-18-2019, 11:19 AM

Thy Catafalque doesn't qualify as experimental in my mind. It's a bunch of well known musical elements and it's mostly unique in some minor ways that has to do with the specifics of how it combines things. It's not terribly forward thinking. Thy Catafalque sometimes sound a bit like if Deep Forest decided to make black metal. If that's experimental, then so is Limp Bizkit or any other band with a mildly novel sound.

Also, related to that, I grew tired of that new album disappointingly fast. The Catafalque album. Not the Biscuit. Not that there is a new soggy cracker album.

Unitron · 01-18-2019, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg

You're like Rod and Tod Flanders grew up and started smoking clove cigarettes.

~~MicShazam~~ · 01-18-2019, 11:23 AM

^I've known about that band for a long time, but the gimmick is so dumb that I've never bothered giving them a chance.

**Frownland** · 01-18-2019, 11:28 AM

You guessed right.

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

Thy Catafalque doesn't qualify as experimental in my mind. It's a bunch of well known musical elements and it's mostly unique in some minor ways that has to do with the specifics of how it combines things. It's not terribly forward thinking. Thy Catafalque sometimes sound a bit like if Deep Forest decided to make black metal. If that's experimental, then so is Limp Bizkit or any other band with a mildly novel sound.

Also, related to that, I grew tired of that new album disappointingly fast. The Catafalque album. Not the Biscuit. Not that there is a new soggy cracker album.

Ja I agree that they have some crossover elements but they're not particularly experimental, plus they also suck.

Unitron · 01-18-2019, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

^I've known about that band for a long time, but the gimmick is so dumb that I've never bothered giving them a chance.

Yeah, I thought it was funny when they first came out, but I've never really wanted to listen to them again since. You can definitely tell that they put gimmick over music.

~~MicShazam~~ · 01-18-2019, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

You guessed right.

Ja I agree that they have some crossover elements but they're not particularly experimental, plus they also suck.

I wouldn't personally say Thy Catafalque outright sucks. But considering how there's obviously some creativity there, the actual results are underwhelming.

01-18-2019, 11:12 AM	#6872 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	He probably means experimental metal, not black metal. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

01-18-2019, 11:16 AM	#6874 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Like Thy Cattle***? __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.* d e a f b o x

01-18-2019, 11:03 AM	#6871 (permalink)
~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,634	I hope experimental metal doesn't just mean a bunch of spastic extreme metal with black metal vocals and sudden obligatory melodic interludes.

01-18-2019, 11:14 AM	#6873 (permalink)
~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,634	I'm not being serious. Although I feel like "experimental" metal I've checked out in the past tends to sound oddly predictable. I'll be surprised to hear anything that actually feels fresh. But part of that is how people tend to throw around the "experimental" label a bit too liberally.

01-18-2019, 11:19 AM	#6875 (permalink)
~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,634	Thy Catafalque doesn't qualify as experimental in my mind. It's a bunch of well known musical elements and it's mostly unique in some minor ways that has to do with the specifics of how it combines things. It's not terribly forward thinking. Thy Catafalque sometimes sound a bit like if Deep Forest decided to make black metal. If that's experimental, then so is Limp Bizkit or any other band with a mildly novel sound. Also, related to that, I grew tired of that new album disappointingly fast. The Catafalque album. Not the Biscuit. Not that there is a new soggy cracker album.

01-18-2019, 11:23 AM	#6877 (permalink)
~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,634	^I've known about that band for a long time, but the gimmick is so dumb that I've never bothered giving them a chance.