All Things Rock(Music)

[BadKarma]

FUCKING PIRATE METAL






Some Death Metal (Video is very NSFW, TITS EVERYWHERE)






aaaaaaaaaand some pop punk

[Churchill]

Seattle had one rock station which played 1ea of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and AIC per hour.

Edit: Rescinded, no one in that band can play an instrument

[Ashmada]

FUCKING PIRATE METAL

In the same vein (but without the scottish accent):

[Jakson]

Well, if we're going down the silly sub-genre aisle, here's some viking metal:

[Ashmada]

Technically, those aren't really genres, Alestorm, Battlelore, Turisas & the like are just Folk, Power or a mix of both.

Anyway, if you want Vikings, they come in DM, Melodeath and BM flavour as well:

[Callisto]

Grandpas guitars, but goddamn if this isn't a jam

[Jakson]

You're right because, technically, they're aren't genres but sub-genres, because people into metal like extremes - like extremely specific genres like viking metal from, oh idk, Bathory's 5th or 6th albums before it got into full swing.

How about that retro metal everyone is capitalizing on rocking out to:

[BadKarma]

All my feeliest feels

[Ashmada]

Part I of a series on redeeming countries that have gravely sinned against music:

Teh country: Canada

The sins: Céline Dion, Alanis Morissette & Nickelback.
Acts so vile, the world can never forgive nor forget.
Seriously, what the fuck, Canada?
But they should nonetheless be given a chance to repent.

The repentance:
1. Rush: old school prog rock
These guys have been making music for nearly as long as the Stones, have influenced dozens of bands (Maiden, Dream Theater, Ayreon,...), sold a fuckton of records, penned some amazing tracks and yet the public at large hasn't really heard of them.
They've always experimented and generally played whatever they wanted with no concern for popularity or solvability, so they probably don't care about that.

70s Rock bands had a knack for epics: Led Zep had Stairway; Rainbow had Stargazer; Pink Floyd had The Wall; Rush had Xanadu.
Undeniably the band's magnum opus:


And in 2012? Are they relying on past glories to maintain a fledgling career like the Stones? No, they still deliver great material:



2. Woods of Ypres: Doom/Meloblack
Part Agalloch, part Type O Negative, part Dissection, Woods of Ypres was a truly unique band with a unique sound.

From promising beginnings with rough edges:


...to a masterpiece of atmosphere, melancholy and gravitas in a decade:


Singer/sole constant member David Gold passed away in dec 2011, RIP.

In Part II: I'm going in descending order of severity of crime (there can be no worse offense than Céline Dion), so probably France. Or maybe Australia.

[Melena]

How can Rush be a repentance when they were out before the sins? Also it's about time they got into the Rock N' Roll H.o.F.

[Qalbert]

prepentance

[Tagus]

Yay, a rock thread. Don't know how I missed it. Anyway, never liked this band before, but the last few weeks I just can't get this song out of my head.






Edit: Crap! Somebody just posted this. Here's another one! One of the best basslines ever imo



And while we're on basslines...

[Jakson]

The French already prepented for their sins with a few notables from Chopin and Debussy to the more modern Daft Punk and lesser known Deathspell Omega. In any case, I can't think of many French musicians that are/were bad enough to compare to Dion and Nickelback.

Vid thread, so I guess:

[Callisto]

Rush is fucking ballers

[Day]

Rush is fucking ballers

This.

Here's some shit I like:

[Ashmada]

How can Rush be a repentance when they were out before the sins? Also it's about time they got into the Rock N' Roll H.o.F.

2 possible explanations:
a) Celine Dion's albums are among such eldritch abominations that breach conventional spacetime and stain our collective souls from beyond the veils of time and reason.
b) I couldn't think of a better word and I'm going to pull the "not native english speaker" card.

Pick whichever explanation you want; personally I think the first one is cooler and, as you're no doubt aware, Bonham's Razor states that of 2 conflicting explanations, whichever is coolest is most likely to be the truth.


Jakson: oh, you just haven't had the misfortune of living near them. I can assure you, much terribleness hails from France, even in the musical domain. But anyway, it'll have to wait for Part II: the revengening.
(and tbh, I could make one of those about just about any country)
(oh, and I'm limiting the "repentance" side to Rock/Punk/Metal/Grunge stuff, as that's the theme of the thread afterall)

[Melena]

One of my favorite bands, and yea a little bit of bias cause it's my cousin on the guitar for the last album and the download festival in europe a couple years ago.

[Callisto]

omg yes at Sorrow

[Ashmada]

Tbh, I stopped following Faith No More after King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime: 2-3 good tracks on there, but a bagful of filler. And one of the good tracks was improved upon by Sentenced:



They're still active?

[Jakson]

They're still active?

The other day I was looking at Cattle Decapitation's discography and it makes me feel old when I look at some bands putting out great albums after being around for 10+ years. Maybe it's just metal having been around for 40 years, but shit, it seems like more and more bands are putting out their great albums after being around for a decade.

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