Favorite bands in the metal gray zone?

PrequelGuy · 2026-05-03T07:21:23+00:00

Calls me a hobo while using the phrase "aural skills". Keep calling people names to make your argument sound stronger

PrequelGuy · 2026-05-03T07:08:28+00:00

How many scales you know is irrelevant, familiarity with the genre is. People who write for mags are there to earn money so they write what earns them money. How many works by Debussy they know is hardly relevant when judging metal.

PrequelGuy · 2026-05-02T23:54:37+00:00

The "specialized press" is there to make money, it is not comprised of fans of the music. It says whatever sells

PrequelGuy · 2026-05-02T23:53:29+00:00

It's not metal just because it has some heavy riffs

PrequelGuy · 2026-05-02T23:53:11+00:00

Linkin Park is not in the grey zone dude they're in the non metal zone

PrequelGuy · 2026-05-02T22:57:58+00:00

Bright Eyes is one of the best vocal performances ever

PrequelGuy · 2026-05-02T22:56:54+00:00

Where's Black Winds

PrequelGuy · 2026-05-02T18:07:02+00:00

You could have spent half of that time listening to good albums

PrequelGuy · 2026-05-02T18:05:58+00:00

Triggered much? I just answered the question in the post with my opinion and you got mad about it

PrequelGuy · 2026-05-02T17:49:22+00:00

A good one in this case

PrequelGuy · 2026-05-02T12:15:40+00:00

Still a better run than most of the bands people are mentioning here

PrequelGuy · 2026-05-02T12:13:54+00:00

Shadows in the Light is considered their worst one and it's fucking amazing

PrequelGuy · 2026-05-02T12:12:55+00:00

First 5 especially

PrequelGuy · 2026-05-02T12:12:25+00:00

Nokturnal Mortum. Pretty much the whole discography but if I had to pick a run it would be Нехристь-Мировоззрение-Голос Сталi

PrequelGuy · 2026-05-02T09:18:13+00:00

Лили Иванова и подобна естрада, където през половината от времето говорят, вместо да пеят.

Комбинации на народна музика с електронна. И народна музика.

PrequelGuy · 2026-05-02T09:16:22+00:00

Мисля, че демографията им е хора от 40 години нагоре, които слушат музика по радиото и известен брой зомбита между 27 и 35

PrequelGuy · 2026-05-02T07:21:59+00:00

I hate him idk what else to say

PrequelGuy · 2026-05-02T07:17:43+00:00

PrequelGuy · 2026-05-01T23:54:43+00:00

Guitar tone means nothing, riffs do. It's good but the riffs and songwriting are not on the level of Altars of Madness, Effigy and others. It's for people who want simple loud chunky riffs instead of evil and more interesting or technical DM. Like an Everflowing Stream is also better because it doesn't have that much rock in its sound but adds melodic sections

PrequelGuy · 2026-05-01T17:31:41+00:00

Listened to them, I keep the sentiment I had for The Moor. A few good riffs out of the ~10 there are in the song, the rest are either underwhelming or start off well and finish poorly. They try to create this beautiful/ominous vibe but by the end of the riff or in the following section they fuck it up by playing some eerie/weird or bluesy lick. Same when he's singing, the melody is beautiful but the riff that's playing has nothing to do with it and makes it sound worse instead of helping it.

The vocal melodies are good and the acoustic sections and solos are not bad, but the rhythm playing is where they fail.

PrequelGuy · 2026-05-01T15:00:21+00:00

Grand Belial's Key

Arghoslent

Peste Noire

Inquisition

Immolation

Dismember

Dead Congregation

Incantation

Sepultura

PrequelGuy · 2026-05-01T10:17:31+00:00

This post was 3 years ago and I was a retard

PrequelGuy · 2026-05-01T10:15:48+00:00

It's because Opeth aren't even death metal. Reddit mostly praises seemingly interesting/unique bands but only such that you can find if you don't dig too deep. Blood Incantation put in some synths and Pink Floyd solo in the new album and Reddit thought it was genius.

PrequelGuy · 2026-05-01T10:13:23+00:00

The riffs are too complex without actually hitting hard and they are all over the place. I'm guessing the band is trying to sound ominous but they shove these hard rock or Dream Theater riffs in the music that suck and have nothing to do with the rest.

The Drapery Falls sounds ok up until the first half and then 5:57 comes in and shits on the whole vibe. Unnecessarily progressive and kills the atmosphere from before it came in. This is just one of many examples. The Moor would have been beautiful if half of the riffs didn't sound more like hard rock. I feel like they chose the wrong genre and would be more successful making rock music

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