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Memes. For metal music.

Don't be an ass and try to keep the gatekeeping and whatnot to a minimum. Memes from all sorts of metal genres and bands are welcome here.

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[–] hipoppotamus 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Tornado of souls had one of the best guitar riffs and best guitar solos of all time, as well as one of the worst most amateurish vocal performances of any song ever

[–] SomethingBurger 24 points 2 years ago
[–] StinkyDave 22 points 2 years ago

Dream Theater

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Limp Bizkit. Never like them. Then I heard some of Wes Borland's side projects. Made it clear that there were really good musicians in the band that could have evolved in interesting directions. But we'll never know because they were held back by Durst's angry drunk trashy frat-boy image and idiotic, juvenile lyrics.

[–] bighi 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] WereCat 31 points 2 years ago
[–] IonAddis 7 points 2 years ago

Nymphetamine is the only song I like. For this reason.

[–] IonAddis 10 points 2 years ago

Part of the time... Lacuna Coil. Seesaws between wonderful and awful depending who's singing.

[–] Hextic 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unpopular opinion but King Diamond. That man is a acquired taste. Oh he's real good and Mercyful Fate + KD is full of bangers but to the untrained ear sounds like Elmo sometimes. At least when I first was introduced.

Once my brain got over "it's not Elmo it's falsetto" it got a lot better. Glad I did because Melissa/Them/The Conspiracy are mandatory.

[–] sturmblast 1 points 2 years ago

I never could get used to his style

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] oryx 3 points 2 years ago

The only djent I like is Destiny Potato/Sordid Pink. Her voice is insane!

[–] Hazzardis 1 points 2 years ago

Well vocals are non-existant in a lot of djent music lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

You are 100% correct but that's not stopping me from being mad about it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm gonna get banned, but System of a down.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

Banned, why? You are welcome to your bad, wrong opinions! It tells the rest of us who can be safely ignored. On the contrary, we thank you for your service.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

The dude actually blocked me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, 100% agree. Ironic since he sang the Godzilla cover in King of the Monsters.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Sonata Artica. Don't get me wrong, the story telling in his songs is amazing, but it's very obvious English isn't his first language.

[–] oryx 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Silencer

Disclaimer: I love Silencer. Don't hate me

[–] Joris 1 points 2 years ago

I wish there was a Silencer without the vocals. 😂

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Faith No More. Although "We Care A lot" popping up in Guardians 3 was one of the few bits I enjoyed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Anything with that screaming/growling vocal style feels like this to me. I get that it's a specific style and a specific skill to do, but holy fuck does it feel like nails on a chalkboard to my brain.

[–] aJazzyFeel 4 points 2 years ago

Dir en grey 😭 My favorite band for more than 20 years but damn if my ears aren't bleeding at times.

[–] cokane_88 4 points 2 years ago

Foo fighters

[–] Schmuppes 3 points 2 years ago

3 Inches Of Blood.

They were still fantastic.

[–] ShunkW 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd say skeletonwitch solely because their current vocalist is a turd.

[–] mr_sifl 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow I didn't know they were still a band. I saw them open for Cannibal Corpse around the time Breathing the Fire came out and they were rad.

[–] ShunkW 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah they were sick back in the day. Then they fired their vocalist and the new guy got pissy when he wasn't as good. I might have trolled him on Facebook for a bit because he was such an asshole. I haven't listened to them since that night when I saw them and he was a huge dick to everyone at the show

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Coheed and Cambria. Example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Definitely has to be Megadeth without a question. Imagine them with an actual singer and they’d be so insane.

Dream theater is second but only because labrie has had his voice deteriorate so much over the years. His voice on every album up to octavarium was amazing.

[–] dx1 2 points 2 years ago

Devil Sold His Soul

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I said AJJ, wife gave me a dirty look and said Tom Petty...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, well, neither is really metal, but whatever

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Sleep Token

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

IMO, almost the entire Death Metal genre post Death's Spiritual Healing.

[–] scutiger 2 points 2 years ago

Clutch definitely fits.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

A7X new album

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Unpopular opinion: Iron Maiden. It has taken me quite a while to get used to the vibrato in Dickinson's voice. Still not totally sure I like it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Dark Tranquillity, the vocals can be some much energetic than they feel now to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Scar Symmetry for sure.

Cynic, until you give them a second chance and they change your life.

Hat from the early Gorgoroth days. That shit just makes me laugh.

[–] DigDoug 1 points 2 years ago

Gorguts

A lot of people really love Luc Lemay's vocals, and I think they're fine for the most part. It's just that I feel like he strays off the line between "Dark, menacing vocals for uncompromising music" and "Hilarious pained wailing" just a little bit too often.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Inquisition

Dark Angel (Time Does Not Heal)

Mayhem (DMDS)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Equilibrium with their "new" fronter.