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>There's a lot of talent out there in many forms (except rap)
Rap has one of the same problems Metal and Rock do: it's real easy to do music that SOUNDS "right." So a lot of people who have no place making music do. *sigh* Probably 'cos the genres are so well defined.
I HAVE heard rap that was pretty good; just not lately. The last batch of rappers were all about image; the music hardly entered into it. Sorta like a lot of the late 80's hair metal bands. *shudder*
>it's great to see progressive music with a good message
Funny thing is; a lot of the classic metal actually has an upbeat message, to folks who bothered to listen. (Not a shot at you; I'm still bitter about the PMRC.) Again; the movie "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" covers this pretty good. So I don't really think the idea of dedicatedly Christian metal is all that odd. LIke the song says "the lover of life's not a sinner."
>just hear the song "Warriors of the World"
One of my faves! Funny thing; when I play stuff like this at the armouries it tends to scare most of my co-workers. I hear songs like this, and I picture scenes like the big fight at the end of the last Lord of the Rings movie: with them big mutant elephant thingies.
"Call to Arms" is another classic; and probably my favourite workout song.
>Manowar for example recieves a lot of criticism,
...when they're mentioned at all.... I think the problem with bands like them is that their subject matter tends to be really larger than life, and fantastical; so it's tough for a lot of folks to empathise. For most people their stuff seems over-written. But if you connect it with bigger, fantastical ideas (like the LOTR scene) it starts making... "sense," I guess. Or if you've experienced larger than life stuff. "Heart of Steel" always reminds me of my first Summer in Meaford, where I finished basic training. I didn't want to go but I couldn't find any other job, three months away from home and isolated from the world (we couldn't even get newspapers) and given my problems with authority NOBODY (myself included) expected me to pass.
"I fight the world, and take all they can give
There are times my heart hangs low.
Born to walk against the wind, born to hear my name,
no matter where I stand, I'm alone."
Pretty much covers it. Of course that's not where the song ends; and the rest of it provides words to live by:
"Burn the bridge behind you, leave no retreat.
There's only one way home."
>Since the "Black album", I would say Wussiest band applies.
Poor Metallica! Y'know... I didin't think their later stuff was HORRIBLE. Wasn't as good as their earlier stuff, but it didin't make my ears bleed. I suspect the whole filesharing thing, combined with the relative decline of metal at the time led to their fall from grace more than the music. "Load" struck me as an odd album, since it was SO different from their other stuff. As a friend pointed out; it was them experimenting with different styles of music. Which I applaud; even if the effects were less than spectacular.
I work with someone who's a HUGE Metallica fan. "Nothing Else Matters" was her wedding song. Sounds funny at first; but this is actually a pretty good choice. (For the metal-impaired who might be reading this, the song is a guy who HATES the human race singing to the one person who matters to him.)
Don C.
Rap has one of the same problems Metal and Rock do: it's real easy to do music that SOUNDS "right." So a lot of people who have no place making music do. *sigh* Probably 'cos the genres are so well defined.
I HAVE heard rap that was pretty good; just not lately. The last batch of rappers were all about image; the music hardly entered into it. Sorta like a lot of the late 80's hair metal bands. *shudder*
>it's great to see progressive music with a good message
Funny thing is; a lot of the classic metal actually has an upbeat message, to folks who bothered to listen. (Not a shot at you; I'm still bitter about the PMRC.) Again; the movie "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" covers this pretty good. So I don't really think the idea of dedicatedly Christian metal is all that odd. LIke the song says "the lover of life's not a sinner."
>just hear the song "Warriors of the World"
One of my faves! Funny thing; when I play stuff like this at the armouries it tends to scare most of my co-workers. I hear songs like this, and I picture scenes like the big fight at the end of the last Lord of the Rings movie: with them big mutant elephant thingies.
"Call to Arms" is another classic; and probably my favourite workout song.
>Manowar for example recieves a lot of criticism,
...when they're mentioned at all.... I think the problem with bands like them is that their subject matter tends to be really larger than life, and fantastical; so it's tough for a lot of folks to empathise. For most people their stuff seems over-written. But if you connect it with bigger, fantastical ideas (like the LOTR scene) it starts making... "sense," I guess. Or if you've experienced larger than life stuff. "Heart of Steel" always reminds me of my first Summer in Meaford, where I finished basic training. I didn't want to go but I couldn't find any other job, three months away from home and isolated from the world (we couldn't even get newspapers) and given my problems with authority NOBODY (myself included) expected me to pass.
"I fight the world, and take all they can give
There are times my heart hangs low.
Born to walk against the wind, born to hear my name,
no matter where I stand, I'm alone."
Pretty much covers it. Of course that's not where the song ends; and the rest of it provides words to live by:
"Burn the bridge behind you, leave no retreat.
There's only one way home."
>Since the "Black album", I would say Wussiest band applies.
Poor Metallica! Y'know... I didin't think their later stuff was HORRIBLE. Wasn't as good as their earlier stuff, but it didin't make my ears bleed. I suspect the whole filesharing thing, combined with the relative decline of metal at the time led to their fall from grace more than the music. "Load" struck me as an odd album, since it was SO different from their other stuff. As a friend pointed out; it was them experimenting with different styles of music. Which I applaud; even if the effects were less than spectacular.
I work with someone who's a HUGE Metallica fan. "Nothing Else Matters" was her wedding song. Sounds funny at first; but this is actually a pretty good choice. (For the metal-impaired who might be reading this, the song is a guy who HATES the human race singing to the one person who matters to him.)
Don C.
the Monster Hero
), or at least just hear the song "Warriors of the World" it will rock your sock's off, and I must agree, when I workout I play Manowar, funny how Manowar goes good with doing exercises...strange.
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