I present to you Machinae Supremacy. They did precisely what I said anyone could do. Before being signed, they made a website and put up their work for free. They are a relatively large name in the metal scene now and have even had songs in the game series In The Groove ("Hybrid," "Bouff," "Cryosleep," and "Megascorcher"). Oh, did I mention that over half of thier albums are available for free download? Indeed. The rare occurance that a band of a non-mainstream genre gets huge is usually because the record company orchestrated the band's success (Name a big name pop act from the 90s), they are a breath of fresh air in a stale era (which is the reason why bands like Tool and Nine Inch Nails became huge during an era where Grunge is king), being mistaken for another genre (Coheed & Cambria is progressive rock, not emo) or out of sheer luck. If you've never heard of Tarot, Kamelot, Sonata Arctica, 3 Inches of Blood, Blind Guardian, Anvil, Conception, Galneryus, Masterplan or Beyond Fear, I'm not surprised in the least. Greedy manipulative *******s, actually.
Uh, huh, sure you aren't. OK, no argument here. No you don't. Any moron with a guitar and a computer can record anything they want with free software like Audacity. No you don't. Any idiot who can use MySpace can set up a band website with options to let people download their work. And notice how little originality is in the chart topping acts? They copy each other because that's what sells. Its lazy, it takes little work and it makes money for the record companies. Death metal is trying to sell to the mainstream? Incidentally, many of my favorite bands DON'T make music for a living. And if they do, they don't live the glorious life that celebrities live. And its the stupid masses that make it into a ****ed up industry. There is plenty of originality out there, its just that people are afraid to move away from hip hop, bubble pop and emo.
Well, thank you for reiterating my point. However, saying that they are great despite being generic is simply trying to justify listening to generic mainstream crap that was probably written and recorded to satisfy the mainstream and make money.
Not a genre. Another umbrella term that gets way too much use instead of a proper genre. Cute. Anyway, if you find Johnny Cash boring, fine. No matter how influential and important he is, he's not the most exciting musician in the world, but you honestly think this is boring? And not to mention that if it weren't for country influence songs like this and this would never have been written.
Listen to whatever you want, I don't care, it doesn't matter to me. However, when people are talking how "original" and "great" generic bands are, I will point out how wrong they are. If you like Paramore/Fall Out Boy/DragonForce/any other generic overrated POS band, more power to you, but they aren't "original" or "great."
Again, pop country or stuff like Johnny Cash and The Charlie Daniels Band?
If you're talking about Tarja, she was fired because the rest of the band felt that she was taking advantage of them. If you're talking about Anette, where did you hear this?
OK, then why don't we call British bands b-rock or Finnish bands f-rock or American bands a-rock? The main issue here is the whole idea that Japan has to have its own separate genre simply for being Japanese. Its stupid unnecessary bullshit coined by weeaboo kids who think anything Japanese is inherently better. Why must Japanese bands be classified differently entirely because they are from a certain country when other bands, no matter where they're from aren't?
Mainstream country or stuff like Johnny Cash and The Charlie Daniels Band?
Welcome to the department of redundancy department. There is no stylistic difference between rock and "j-rock." J-rock is simply an umbrella term I really ****ing wish was never coined to describe Japanese bands. It is NOT, I repeat, NOT a seperate genre. And I'm sure all metal is garbage like Slipknot, Killswitch Engage, all rap is garbage like 50 Cent and all pop is garbage like Britney Spears. While I can't speak for hip hop and pop as I'm not very well versed in those genres, if you claim to hate all metal, you're probably falling into the ridiculous amount of people claiming all metal is "death metal." The quotes are actually because what most people are thinking of is black metal, which generally is quite harse and sometimes frightening. Anywho, might I suggest looking into classic metal bands like Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and Dio? As well as some power metal such as Kamelot, Sonata Arctica and Blind Guardian and some progressive metal such as Dream Theater, Queensryche and Conception? If you're feeling particularly adventurous, there's sludge metal (such as Black Label Society and Mastodon) and death metal (Amon Amarth and In Flames). If you like classical, I would suggest symphonic metal bands such as Epica and Xandria. Trust me, you don't know "95% of all metal." Its about as large of a genre as rock, far too big to generalize at all.
"Better" is not the word I would use. Though I find Panic at the Disco far less annoying thanks to not having a stupid amount of fangirls obsessing over a "bassist" who doesn't do anything.
While my collection is focused on heavy metal and progressive rock, I've been known to enjoy techno (such as E Nomine), pop (Some of TM Revolution's work is pretty freaking good), comedy (Wierd Al and Richard Cheese) and even jazz (such as Marcus Miller and Louie Armstrong). I do need to get more non-metal stuff, but dammit, I am such a metalhead that I can't help it...
Microsoft really needs to rethink what they're doing across the Pacific. This is almost embarassing.
The sad thing is that if they got their **** together and stopped making repetitive 8 minute songs that sound exactly like any of their others, they would probably become a great band.
Thank you. At least someone here understands what I'm saying.
I mention Tarja's operatic style as it helps explain why her pronunciation is off. As for Evanesence, I would agree that they are gothic rock, but I still disagree on them being symphonic metal. Of course, I also think they are complete garbage, but that's just me. I would much rather listen to bands like Epica, Xandria, Battlelore or Luca Turilli's Dreamquest over Evanesence, but that's not the topic at hand.
If Evanescence is symphonic metal, I'm the king of Norway. They are the similar, but far lighter symphonic rock. As for not pronouncing English properly, they are European, their accents are going to show and Tarja's voice is very operatic.
Both Tarot and Nightwish are indeed metal bands, Nightwish is just symphonic metal while Tarot is traditional heavy metal. Still, Nightwish is quite good, though not as good as other symphonic metal bands such as Epica. Really, I'm not sure why they get so much credit, I guess its because they were one of the first symphonic metal bands to become highly known. Also, fun fact: the video of "Wish I had an Angel" was directed by Uwe Boll. The scary part? Its actually not a bad video.
Actually, I never said I didn't listen to more than 10 seconds, plus I actually skipped the intro, knowing that it was an intro. I'll give them credit for this, though, they did try to mix things up a bit and are actually honest about being a pop group.
