Comment on Metal genres
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 days ago
I feel like I have achieved true metal nirvana since I stopped caring about silly labels. They’re only half useful for finding new stuff anyway. If the music activates my dopamine generators, I like it. The only thing I avoid is gutturals, I don’t want a fucking horror movie creature on the microphone, thank you.
Honestly, I used to feel the same way for a long long time. I actually ended up getting into got it all vocals through bands like Svalbard, Brutus, thranenkind and enferens
That led to atmospheric black metal. Now I can enjoy bands like Uada but I have to be in the right mood
kofe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I can’t do the pig squeal sounding screams, but a good heavy vocalist can add so much to the range of emotion. It was an acquired taste for me, though. I had friends trying to show me BTBAM thinking I’d appreciate the complexity, but it took ages for me to really hear everything through the wall of sound. Looking up lyrics helped massively, along with finding bands that blend the heavy and clean vocals so there were spots I could sing along with. I’d love to learn to scream properly so I could belt out some gutturals