My tastes have wimped out...

Also, I know I said it somewhere in another thread, but my desire to listen to black or death metal pretty much disappeared the day my son was born (close to two years ago).

It was a thing where I was like, living in a world with something as awesome and beautiful as this little guy, there's no room for stuff like Deicide and Morbid Angel for me in that world.

I pretty much listen to everything, and years ago when I made a decision that my pop/metal and Southern rock collection had to go, I got rid of my Black Oak Arkansas collection (had all 16 albums, I know nobody needs 16 BOA albums) and minor bands such as Black n Blue, Rough Cutt (all on vinyl), I now regret this.

But I will listen to Bob Dylan, Morbid Angel, Deep Purple and Cyndi Lauper all within the same day and not think twice about it, good music is good music.

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I got rid of my Black Oak Arkansas collection (had all 16 albums, I know nobody needs 16 BOA albums)

I had no idea that there were that many Black Oak Arkansas albums!!

I think I might like some death metal, but there is a lot going on in that music (some would say a lot of noise), and I think you have to have somewhat educated ears to completely appreciate it. I mean educated to appreciate a certain kind of music. I realized this a few years ago when the last Martin Popoff (2000's) encyclopedia came out, and David Perri had included a CD of mostly extreme and death metal with the book. I thought it would be a good place to start and get a feel for some of that music, but it all sounded the same to me. It was just pointless to listen to. I'm fairly sure that the fault was that I just wasn't familiar enough with the genre to appreciate it. I'm the same way with extreme thrash. I expect that If I took the time I would learn like certain songs (probably the more melo ones), but I'm too busy listening to other music to make the effort.
However I know from experience that the more traditional metal that I prefer to listen to all sounds the same to people who aren't into metal (I know a lot of country fans), because they have told me so. Repeatedly.

bass63 wrote:

My taste for music has always been Rock but nothing to heavy. The Thrash/Death/Black Metal that a lot of you listen too on this board is what I call Garbage/Noise. That being said, I know that there are a lot of you that like that stuff. Nothing wrong with that, variety is the spice of life. I'm sure I could get many of you to say why you hate Country music as much as I do. Why do I hang out here? I just love reading you guys & gals thoughts on music. And you do hit upon bands that I do like. Has my taste changed or mellowed through out the years? No I don't think so. I still enjoy Kiss, Cheap Trick, Zeppelin, Deep Purple like I did back in my younger years of the 70's.Once a Rocker, always a Rocker. Everybody just does it different than I do.

That sounds like something I would have posted.  

And I find that now, at the ripe old age of 53, not only have my tastes not mellowed but they've gotten weirder.  I listen to lots of oddball stuff that's all over the place that I never would have given the time of day 20 years ago.  Like Alabama 3.  Impossible to classify (unless you use "crap" as a category.  ).  And industrial; 2 decades ago I'd have dismissed a band like Ministry as "noise" (which they actually are) but now I hear riffs in that "noise".   And bands like Blessid Union Of Souls, Sonia Dada, The Holmes Brothers have all let me explore the "gospel" side of music.

Age may not necessarily bring wisdom but I think in my case it's definitely brought musical openmindedness.

Alex Dee Rokket wrote:

Thought I'd give an update...

I have now sold off pretty much all my 'extreme' metal albums. I think the only ones I have kept are from the more melodic bands like Amon Amarth, Arch Enemy, In Flames, Soilwork and the like. I guess the 'softer' sounding extreme metal bands. I have also kept my Immortal albums because I love Immortal especially from Blizzard Beasts onwards and they are easily the one (and only for me) black metal band that have managed to make something cool (for me) of the black metal genre.

Out of curiosity since you said you kept your more melodic stuff. What do you think of Dissection who have like Melodic Black/Death style?

Also since I was just watching one of your vids. Do you still listen to 'new' Darkthrone?

choosemetal wrote:

Alex Dee Rokket wrote:

Thought I'd give an update...

I have now sold off pretty much all my 'extreme' metal albums. I think the only ones I have kept are from the more melodic bands like Amon Amarth, Arch Enemy, In Flames, Soilwork and the like. I guess the 'softer' sounding extreme metal bands. I have also kept my Immortal albums because I love Immortal especially from Blizzard Beasts onwards and they are easily the one (and only for me) black metal band that have managed to make something cool (for me) of the black metal genre.

Out of curiosity since you said you kept your more melodic stuff. What do you think of Dissection who have like Melodic Black/Death style?

Also since I was just watching one of your vids. Do you still listen to 'new' Darkthrone?

I still like the new Darkthrone because it is much closer to early-mid 80s thrash than their black metal albums. As for Melodic Black/Death - I still like some of the more mainstream bands like In Flames, Scar Symmetry and Soilwork. I've never been big on Dissection though.

Alex Dee Rokket wrote:

I still like the new Darkthrone because it is much closer to early-mid 80s thrash than their black metal albums.

Yeah, agreed--not a huge black metal fan here, but Darkthrone's recent stuff is really, really good.

Alex Dee Rokket wrote:

choosemetal wrote:

Alex Dee Rokket wrote:

Thought I'd give an update...

I have now sold off pretty much all my 'extreme' metal albums. I think the only ones I have kept are from the more melodic bands like Amon Amarth, Arch Enemy, In Flames, Soilwork and the like. I guess the 'softer' sounding extreme metal bands. I have also kept my Immortal albums because I love Immortal especially from Blizzard Beasts onwards and they are easily the one (and only for me) black metal band that have managed to make something cool (for me) of the black metal genre.

Out of curiosity since you said you kept your more melodic stuff. What do you think of Dissection who have like Melodic Black/Death style?

Also since I was just watching one of your vids. Do you still listen to 'new' Darkthrone?

I still like the new Darkthrone because it is much closer to early-mid 80s thrash than their black metal albums. As for Melodic Black/Death - I still like some of the more mainstream bands like In Flames, Scar Symmetry and Soilwork. I've never been big on Dissection though.

OK cool. I really like the new Darkthrone way better than their black metal style.

I love it all. Metal is king in my genre preference, and that involves all metal types. I have heavy days, and I have lighter days. Sometimes it's not metal at all, but prog or jazz. In fact, some days I love jazz more than I love metal. Then there's more acoustic music, such as Neil Young or Dylan or even Gordon Lightfoot. And then there's the really soft side of me that enjoy 80's easy listening, such as Christopher Cross' Sailing or Bee Gees' How Deep is Your Love. And then there's today, when I don't want to hear any music at all because it just sounds like noise, which is rare but happens. It's almost like a personalty disorder lol.

As for vox, I prefer melody. I wear quickly from screaming and growling. At the end of the day, it's just one of those Camus moments where you wonder, "well, why the hell aren't they singing in the first place?" If the ability is there, it should be done. Personally, guttural vox are far less threatening, brutal, and intense, than an angry melody. But I still like it all, whether it's Death or Morbid Angel.