It is some of the heaviest of the heavy listening to Dopesmoker in one sitting is a transcendent experience.
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Dopesmoker should replace Jerusalem, full stop. They give lipservice to Dopesmoker claiming it's a remaster, and it is technically, but it's the actual magnum opus they wanted to put out the first time around. So first some feelings and then a list of bands I've been listening to the past year or so to help other Sabbath refugees.ġ) Sleep made the list, way too low, and for the record that played into their initial destruction as a band. So it's taken me a little while to process my feelings on this list, so I've attempted to be constructive in my thoughts instead of grar. I suppose it's about time I stop apologizing for what I enjoy. It would also be good to get past teenage snobbery now that I'm about to enter a new decade. I'm trying to untangle my own musical taste and influence (and if you have a musical understanding of why, please let me know!). I hope GNR fans don't hate me for this opinion.
I'm even in love with symphonic metal like Nightwish and Within Temptation. And hearing Mike Patton croon at a surprisingly violent concert in LA was one of the best experiences of my life. I quite enjoy ballads, whether done by Eros Ramazzoti and Whitney Houston, or Ministry (eg Lay Lady Lay cover) and Type O Negative. When Guitar Hero and Rock Band came out, I learned to love older classic rock (metal).īut I was still defining metal based on a GNR love ballad. Bands like Faith No More, Type O Negative, Ministry, Tool, Rage Against the Machine. I even love most of the music on this list, but I can justify liking it because it's cross-genre.
I moved to North America in the 90s where I discovered industrial and found the heavy music I was searching for. It was my first exposure to GNR, but to this day I have a really hard time admitting I like metal. So I went to our producer and asked for something really heavy to play that day. In the pre-internet days, it was virtually impossible to track down names of artists and bands that were very occasionally played on satellite radio from Germany and the UK, or at least it was for me. I was craving a heavier sound that I knew existed, I just couldn't quite name it. One day we decided to change it up and selected Ramones, Scorpions, etc., to go with the Eastern European punk rock we were playing. Most of it consisted of euro pop we could get a good, clean copy of. It was a weekly show for pre-teens by pre-teens, and while we were responsible for the content, the producer was pretty happy to let us select the music we played. My inner 11-year old feels completely vindicated by the lack of GNR on this list.īack in the late 80s/early 90s, I had a radio show (in an unnamed European country).
Nevertheless the list is still flawed for me for a number of reasons:ġ) in a genre as deep and diverse as metal to not stick to the one album per band rule is madness only band who deserves two entries is Sabbath for having started it all and by omitting all the doubles you make room for bands like Paradise Lost or My Dying Bride, which should've been on thereĢ) Does it or does it not include hard rock in metal? Because if it does, it's missing some entriesģ) Hair metal is fine to include, but then Appetite for Destruction should've been on the list, not Motley Crue.Ĥ) Hard to do in a genre like metal, whose boundaries are sort of soft, but Dream Theater, Ministry, some others? Not metal Mid-eighties to mid-nineties was when I was most involved with heavy metal - in part thanks to my younger brother who was a much greater metalhead than I was - and the bands of that era are certainly over represented. Yeah, I expect part of why this list didn't piss me off is that OF COURSE the best metal is some combination of classic metal and what was newish when you were a sullen 14 year old boy. posted by ROU_Xenophobe (128 comments total) See what I mean? It's not like it's right or correct. Rage Against the Machine, Rage Against the Machine Motörhead, No Remorse (aka the one wif Ace of Spades)Ĩ. Their list correctly excludes bands that are more hard-rock than metal, so you will have to look elsewhere for lists with AC/DC, as toe-tappin' and awesome as they are, and Guns 'n' Roses, just like you'd look at a different top-whatever list to see where Michael Jackson or Johnny Cash were.ħ.