ShadesOfIce

Born from the ashes of argonianslave.

An unshackled and somewhat closedminded metalhead. Loves metal and classical music. New to airsoft and owns an Echo1 AK-47 RIS, a Cyma CM030 Glock18 AEP and a JG MP5A4. Also likes playing video games, especially Smash Brothers Brawl and various first person shooters (especially Doom and Doom 2). Not only does he play the game, but mods it as well..but Doom is not the only game Chris mods, he has modded a large number of games such as the Half-Life series, Unreal Tournament 2004, Command and Conquer series and a few others.

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*** THE FOLLOWING IS THE OPINION OF THE USER AND NOT THE METAL SCENE AS A WHOLE ***

Unlike some metalheads, I am not interested in Judas Priest, In Flames, DragonForce, Opeth or Children of Bodom. They are mostly weak, popular and/or overrated bands that I see in nearly every goddamn metal group's charts I am in and am sick of seeing them everywhere. Not all of above artists are weak the way Dragonforce or CoB is and like I said, I'm tired of seeing them everywhere on last.fm, wether it be on charts for groups or individuals.

I loathe this so-called alternative bullshit term people have been using for years, it's not alternative if you got some greedy RIAA label backing and funding your stupid ass(es)! Writing watered down music to appeal to the 'soft' ears doesn't help with popularity! Look at the way the former technical death metal band Cryptopsy is now, they are now some trendy, faggoty deathcore band and have gotten a lot of backlash from old fans with their latest album. Not to mention they got a lot of retarded scene kids listening to their new album because of the music change.

Another thing that bugs the shit out of me is musical trend following. Who the fuck thought of this kind of nonsense? Either you like the music or you don't! This is especially true to the thousands of losers on Myspace who listen to music ONLY because it's "The current trend" without any regard if they like or dislike it and later discard the trendy music like a Kleenex...it's just plain horrifying to see these cretins do this and not stick with one or several particular genres of music. First it was grunge in the 1990s, then came nu-metal in the mid-late 90s followed by metalcore in the early 2000s. Now it's deathcore, what stupid trend will follow this abomination? If you are a trend follower who mindlessly follows music "just to fit in with the cool crowd", you are a dumbass who cannot conform to your own music and sticking with it without treating it like a disposable diaper.

Same goes with trends in music fashion....emo hair and faggoty looking clothes from your sister's drawer doesn't look cool! Wear what you like to wear without following the weak looking "scene" style.

I also do not like rap*, country, techno/electronica, metalcore/deathcore, that bullshit modern emo rock or nu-metal, which isn't metal at all. I've not bothered with blues, jazz or classic rock since they don't seem to interest me at all.

Insane Clown Posse is not music and never will be, I don't see how dressing up like some KISS/Eminem hybrid abomination and calling yourselves Juggalos has anything to do with the music..it seems stupid to me and at least KISS fans and black metal fans who sometimes wear corpse paint don't make a fucking lifestyle out of looking like some sort rejected circus clown community (at least corpse paint wearers look good in their photos!), using stupid terms as 'hatchet' for a meat cleaver or 'whoop whoop' for some unknown reason, nor do they overreact and be a bunch of tough guys/gals with empty threats when they are insulted. Grow up a little and learn to use proper spelling and grammar before you try and flame me for my blunt opinions on your precious music and clown community.

*referring to the mainstream variety, especially.

Stop calling mainstream music alternative! Nothing is alternative when it's just watered down pop music made just to make money. That's why there are about a dozen or so rock/pop/hiphop/country/metalcore/pop punk bands on the market that sound about the same with little variation just so the fat cats on the top of the label and RIAA tree make the most money from....album sales off their backs! Stop supporting these jerks already, there are hundreds of lesser known artist that could use this support instead of the overplayed, overadvertised, commercialized, fat, greedy motherfuckers supported by one of "The Big 5" labels or affiliated with them.

Modern rap promotes violence and objectification of women. The biggest disgrace to hip-hop/rap is Soulja Boy....who thought of this shit and why is this stupid motherfucker is so popular? Two fucking gimmick songs (Crank That, no fuck you asshole!) isn't music and never will be. People who think of rubbish like this should have their face smashed against a concrete wall then crucified on it with rebars. Their fans are no better with the shouts I've been getting here as they deserve the same fate, maybe worse. Fuck you and your half-baked, poppy and useless 'music', Soulja Boy fanboy cretins!

The real, non-mainstream/underground or old-school (pre-gangsta) hip-hop is far superior to garbage like 50 Cent and Tupac. Get it through your heads you silly people, 50 Cent/Tupac/Lil Wayne aren't the saviors of rap, they're in it solely for the money like the vast majority of artists on RIAA labels are.

Nu-metal fails because mixing rap and metal does not work nicely without it coming out like crap. Some attempts like mid era Machine Head came out mediocre but not that much better than stuff Korn and Limp Bizkit have put out over the years. Korn has mentioned on numerous occasions they are not metal, so stop calling them that! Before you butcher your ears listening to said artists, please to some research first!

Modern -core sucks because they try too hard to be "br00tal" and fail miserably with the overuse of stupid breakdowns and usually simplified guitar riffs. I am referring more to the predominantly -core bands like Avenged Sevenfold, Atreyu and Bullet For My Valentine and not the more metallic artists such as Shadows Fall and Mastodon. deathcore comes out as a horrendous mix of metalcore or hardcore with death metal in some feeble attempts to get the lame emo and scenester crowd to jump to the latest trend in music.

Anything featured on MTV because it's just a way to have the record companies make more money from sales, those greedy bastards! You know why, because the average artist on a major label probably sees less than 2% of the income from record sales, forcing them to tour and do other things to make a decent amount of money. Now only if more of these bands would follow Nine Inch Nails's example by making their own label independent of major labels or simply join his cause.

I do not follow trends, especially stupid ones like the modern "Emo" one. Face it, you all look the fucking same if you do that and listen to the same crap such as My Chemical Romance or Fall Out Boy. Another thing, what is with the -core or other useless artists covering metal songs when they don't sound like or are not metal at all? Stick to covering your own style of music and quit butchering well-known heavy metal songs with your style, please.

I don't buy music from Hot Topic, rarely do I ever purchase anything except for a shirt or two of non-shitty artists. All of my band related clothing comes from various places such as Hells Headbangers, Moribund Records and JSRDirect so far.

Personally, I think organized religion is for the weak minded and for those who cannot think for themselves, hence I do not follow any type of theist religions. I follow two things: Common sense and Thinking for yourself. It's not hard to do, really! No need to follow failth to show and tell me what I should do with my life. In addition to this, I will not believe in a God or gods unless there is concrete physical proof, THEN I will acknowledge they exist but still won't follow religion just because I'm a free thinker. Feel free to tell me about <insert religion here>, but please don't push it/preach and attempt to convert or persuade me..that I don't like. If I want to be a faith follower, I will do it on my own, thank you very much. Lastly, I will respect people who keep it cool like this and don't try the above on me. :)

On the topic of Islam, it really bothers me that those who take things to extremist (Al Qaeda) or hardliner levels (Think Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia) that think they are the better religion out there. They seem the same at most. I do not hate this religion, I only hate the hardliner wackos like King Abdullah of SA and the clerics who praise violence, anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism among those listening to them. These folks clearly make the rest of the followers of this religion get shitloads of flak and other negative press, especially those who are open to talk about things without getting down your throat on how great Allah is and X/everything else is wrong.

Musical evolution does not always =/= becoming "alternative" metal. Stop it!

Don't bother arguing on why I dislike any of the above mentioned forms of music and keep your anti-metal rhetoric to yourself!

If you like what you like, that's fine with me but just don't trump it in my face like it's the best thing out there.

*** END OPINION ***

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Chris's personal reccomendations:
By Dawn Cursed - 1 man black metal band from Australia
Deströyer 666 - Black/thrash metal from Australia
Bolt Thrower - British death metal
Manilla Road - Heavy metal from United States
Hellhammer - Black/doom/thrash from Switzerland
Cathedral - British stoner/doom metal
Witchtrap - Black/thrash metal from Columbia
Ironsword - Heavy/epic metal from Portugal
Isole - Epic doom metal from Sweden

"In my opinion death-core is not metal, it is simply a mixture of some death metal elements with loads of other influences from metalcore. It is definitely true that most of these death-core bands are mostly about image and making money but the spirit of actual metal does not exist in them. -Argaalofthemyst

"Just because someone is out of touch with "real" metal does not inherently make them inferior human beings. Sure, I despise deathcore and its variants as much as the next guy, and I absolutely hate the trendy fashion style its fans adhere to. But what exactly makes them worse than the thrash revivalist crowd? You can make fun of the scene/core kids all you want for dressing the same and looking ridiculous, but if you go to any Municipal Waste show, you'll see the same thing. Guys that cant be older than 18 walking around like it's 1986, wearing their jean vests and studded belts and such. I'm all for upholding the ideals that were manifested by the "classic" metal of the 80's and 90's, but if you just follow a template set by bands 20 years ago because it looks "cool" or it's popular in the local metal scene, you really are no better than those death-core kids."

"Really, is this modern crap masquerading as metal more trendy than thrash in the late 80's, or even death and black metal in the early 90's? Trendwhores will always exist, as different scenes of music experience their brief period of mainstream popularity. Deathcore will fade into obscurity in a few years just as Nu metal did, while the true metal heads will continue to uphold the genre's classics for future generations." -invoked

"As a young metal head (18), I can attest to the general view that 'm0ar Br00tal = m0ar \m/3tAL' - as this seems to be the case with the majority of people who I have had the misfortune of meeting in lines for gigs. The public is ignorant and this new generation of MTV listening 'metal heads' (if the word is at all appropriate) is the reason metalcore and deathcore are so popular. No attention is payed to the deepth of the scene of any metal sub genre. Deaths roots in bands like Obituary, Death and Entombed are forgotten, and bands like Sabbath and Maiden rarely gain much attention at all. While everyone needs a way into more extreme metal and I personally loath the type of elitism of some more 'kvlt' members of the metal community, I can see this as a response to what seems to be the pollution of the metal ideal and the roots of the genre." -Tea_and_Crumpets

Modern pop music is for the most part all about money. Rap is just a trend that is being milked until the public will reject it in favor of something else. Rap was initially an underground movement, but where profitability lies exploitation will occur. Metal for the most part is not catchy, or if it is metal tends to be heavy, which the public does not like. They like easy, catchy, and "shallow" music. It is all about selling a product, albeit in audio form. The product must appeal to the hoi polloi in order to achieve monetary success. Sometimes artists will rely on a gimmick, such as the Soulja Boy Superman Dat hoe song, or through the use of mediums such as TV(american idol for instance) artists will use TV to become "famous." It is all an industry, and whenever something is done without a "soul" it will most likely be devoid of feeling.

EDIT: I would also like to clarify something. In this topic pop listeners were referred to as "trendwhores" and other names. I am appalled at the irrational enmity that some of the M-A posters hold. The Pop fans or "trendwhores" were a product of their environment and propaganda. They may be weak-willed or non-advanturous status-quo people who will drift along with the wind. Regardless of their taste in music or trendiness we should not judge them or see them as "inferior." Although I come into contact with many people that I might judge, I realize that these people have had a vastly different upbringing than I had,so naturally they are different. Different does not mean inferior. Superiority and inferiority are but perceptions. Some people might base superiority on bloodline, intelligence, music, money, or other factors, but eventually everyone dies. One might be superior in one's own world, but that is a false sense of superiority manifesting some issues that lurk below the surface of the mind...
-norilor

core is considered the scourge of metal because of all the emo/scene kids who enjoy it. It makes metal as whole look bad and changes people's opinions on metal. Thanks to the emo/scene kids it is now so shitty and mainstream that most everyone knows about it, and now people are confusing the emo/scene kids music (deathcore/metalcore) with actual metalheads. All and all, it makes THEIR metal more popular, but it is not REAL metal, so when this emo crap gets so mainstream all the emo people listen to it and feel "Hardcore" or "Br00tal". And this ruins the image of actual metal.

Not to mention it is mostly pure shit. BUT if you look deep enough there are some talented, non-scene bands that actually play some good metal. Also most of the good stuff is just technical death/grind with breakdowns and screams. -WrathOfVishnu

Anyone with half a brain would understand that this game (Mybrute) is based on turning people into spambots linking to their site and generating ad income through traffic. And the players are not innocent themselves, since they know they have to spam their link anywhere they can to lure others into playing against their character.