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For me it’s all about the dissonance and I almost never listen to lyrics in any form of music and find it an annoyance. If there was a death or black metal musi

For me it’s all about the dissonance and I almost never listen to lyrics in any form of music and find it an annoyance. If there was a death or black metal musical, I wouldn’t like it probably, for example. The voice to me is another instrument that is no better or worse than other instruments but unique in that voices are obviously much more varied than an instrument is. But I think it’s worth getting a survey of some sort from folks into metal seriously. We’ve already shown that metal fans are among the most dedicated listeners of a genre, for example, according to Spotify’s stats. The Metal Maniacs BB more than a decade ago did an informal survey among the members and found that at least in that crew most metal fans are pretty darn introverted, which is a finding that most people not into the music and cliques would be surprised by. That board may be up on the Wayback machine but maybe it’s be of some value to researchers. The self-report aspects of a study are handy enough for the purpose of identifying further research if you have no clue what to investigate next at least.

3131s 8y ago
I personally never liked the vocals despite an almost twenty year infatuation with extreme death metal. But I am very captivated by the music of bands like Infester, Wormed, Autopsy, Pustulated, Flourishing, Pyrrhon, Stargazer, Defeated Sanity, Miasma, Timeghoul, Pyaemia, Wicked Innocence, Malignancy, Disembowelment, Sintury, Human Remains, Orchidectomy, Gorguts, etc. A few bands nowadays do release instrumental versions of their albums, this is one of my favorites: https://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/a-merging-to-the-boundless-void-of-voyce https://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/a-mergin...
- devonkim 8y ago
  Ah, you’re definitely on the prog / technical death side of the spectrum then, which is what the article completely ignores unfortunately. All those bands are among the more technically proficient that the genre has to offer. I can only get into them to the extent I can get into someone playing a bunch of etudes and suites as a demonstration of raw ability. Granted, there’s some pieces that are real tough to stay together in classical (every other Stravinsky piece comes to mind) but metal will always be like jazz in that it’s all about a representative of each instrument or part rather than the raw power of many as a tour de force. I just tune out the vocals and unless you have some really awful vocals or something seriously crazy like from the likes of Regurgitate it doesn’t really register in my memory. This isn’t to say that doing extreme vocals doesn’t take any form of talent but trained singers in opera have been putting their vocal cords to the limits in other ways that are impressive, just more conventionally recognized.

3131s 8y ago

I personally never liked the vocals despite an almost twenty year infatuation with extreme death metal. But I am very captivated by the music of bands like Infester, Wormed, Autopsy, Pustulated, Flourishing, Pyrrhon, Stargazer, Defeated Sanity, Miasma, Timeghoul, Pyaemia, Wicked Innocence, Malignancy, Disembowelment, Sintury, Human Remains, Orchidectomy, Gorguts, etc. A few bands nowadays do release instrumental versions of their albums, this is one of my favorites: https://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/a-merging-to-the-boundless-void-of-voyce https://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/a-mergin...

devonkim 8y ago
Ah, you’re definitely on the prog / technical death side of the spectrum then, which is what the article completely ignores unfortunately. All those bands are among the more technically proficient that the genre has to offer. I can only get into them to the extent I can get into someone playing a bunch of etudes and suites as a demonstration of raw ability. Granted, there’s some pieces that are real tough to stay together in classical (every other Stravinsky piece comes to mind) but metal will always be like jazz in that it’s all about a representative of each instrument or part rather than the raw power of many as a tour de force. I just tune out the vocals and unless you have some really awful vocals or something seriously crazy like from the likes of Regurgitate it doesn’t really register in my memory. This isn’t to say that doing extreme vocals doesn’t take any form of talent but trained singers in opera have been putting their vocal cords to the limits in other ways that are impressive, just more conventionally recognized.