[dream of angels]

The Album Leaf
Flogging Molly
Luxury
Godspeed you black emperor
Sigur Ros
Showbread

woooo yah

[Meggie moo moo]

I now have all of the System Of A Down albums (finally). Today I've been listening to Mezmerize.

[Kenny C.]

Blood Brothers
Explosions in the Sky
Head Automatica
At The Drive In
Animal Collective
The Fiery Furnaces

[bread man]

^

The first two of those plus TV On The Radio, Opeth and Peccatum.

[Meggie moo moo]

Stryper.

[MJ_Avalanche]

Originally Posted by bread man

Opeth

Am I wrong to think that Opeth is incredibly boring? I mean, they write some nifty acoustic riffs and what not, but they just seem to overdo it.

[psalm63adam]

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois, Seven Swans
Pedro The Lion - Winners Never Quit
John Davis - Self-titled
Cool Hand Luke - The Fires Of Life

[J.W4Christ]

Octavarium

[meatfinger]

The Clash
The Strokes
Incubus

[Kenny C.]

Blood Brothers
At The Drive In
Elliott Smith
Why?
Alias
Sole

[bread man]

Originally Posted by MJ_Avalanche

Am I wrong to think that Opeth is incredibly boring? I mean, they write some nifty acoustic riffs and what not, but they just seem to overdo it.

Nah, I'd have to agree with you. If I listened to them all the time I would hate them, but the occasional listen makes them a great band for me. Their acoustic side is great, but I only really like it when it's mixed in with their metal stuff. I like their metal riffs, stuff like "Bleak" is awesome riff wise. Their drummer annoys me a bit and it's only because Akerfeldt growls that they are called death metal. They are not death metal, just progressive metal with harsh vocals.

[bread man]

It has one characteristic of death metal. So what? Are MxPx death metal because they are fast?

[bread man]

Opeth aren't really intensely fast, especially their newer stuff. As for complexity, old school death metal had none of it. Newer technical death metal does, but that doesn't mean it's a characteristic of the genre. Really, the only thing I can see in Opeth that resembles death metal is the vocals.

[bread man]

Death are a great great band. Whether they defined death metal is debatable, but I tend to agree that they did. A lot people think it started with Posessed's Seven Churches.

Anyway, it sounds like you haven't heard much early Death. The newer stuff was progressive and technical and all, but at the start, Chuck definitely took brutality and a raw sound over technicality. Also, their vocals aren't remotely similar.

[bread man]

All of their albums? Nice work, that's a lot of listening.

Classifying Opeth as death metal does not work. After all, if you can call them death metal, surely you can call Meshuggah and any number of metalcore band death metal? Obviously not. Extreme progressive metal maybe, but not death metal.