So I've been listening to Avenged Sevenfold for almost 10 years. They are one of the bands that had the strongest influence on my taste in music and they introduced me to a lot of great metal genres.
However, because of all the rabid haters infesting almost every music site that featured them, I stopped caring and looking for any kind of discussion about them almost immediately: I got tired of 14 year olds (or people with the mindset of a 14 year old) calling out other 14 year olds for listening to a "shit band" because "dude, tattoos and make-up lmao", and similar high-quality criticism.
So the reason why I'm posting here is that I recently found out part of the immense (and unreasonable) amount of hatred they get stems from the album in pic-related, which was apparently seen as a cop-out from their early metalcore sound. I can see how someone who got into them through one of their first two albums might think that, but I thought their metalcore roots were one of the main reasons why people hated them ("it's emo shit dude, it's not real metal lmao"), however it seems that their changing style back in the day caused a considerable amount of backlash.
I was taken aback because I was convinced City of Evil was considered one of their best albums back in 2007-2008 and also the one who got them the most fans then.
So my question is, what's the general consensus on City Of Evil?
It was my favorite during my A7x phase
>>71715217
Starting off, everything Bullet For My Valentine created ran laps around all of A7X's stuff.
Throw in Slayer to the mix, they had better content.
Consider Slipknot, also The Doors and you can see why City of Evil gets a subpar grade from anons on this board.
It just doesn't have enough substance compared to it's counterparts OP.
Neo-/mu/ needs to fucking die. This shit isn't even funny
>>71715193
Source image
>>71715275
Album art
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Zoh-apWRE
Thoughts?
>>71715087
>Guy that's been irrelevant for 60 years
>We have to pretend to be interested in him now because he died.
>>71715087
>Literally Johnny B Goode with different lyrics
What a hack
>>71715113
Nobody's asking you to do shit stop thinking the media dictates ur life nerd
Chuck Berry's stuff is cool but I've got no interest in this album dbh
Is there such thing as patrician Nu Metal?
Most good nu-metal albums end up being primarily alternative metal or funk metal, with a hint of nu-metal in them (sometimes none at all and they're just alternative metal that gets called nu-metal). That album being a prime example.
But yeah there's some good nu-metal out there.
>>71714823
I would argue that nu-metal can never be truly patrician not only because it adheres too strictly to musical convention but because it's artistic aspirations are not really that high brow, even if it's more "technical" or "complex" like that Incubus album. Granted, there are definitely good nu-metal albums out there, OP's post being one of them.
>>71715359
>high brow
>musical classism
cancerous fucking meme
Pure autism in unadulterated form
>>71714811
>Everyone who knows more than me has autism.
>>71715018
it's as if you think that analogy even makes sense
>>71714811
> pure shitposting in unadulterated form
new apink, literally more of the same shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTDRCwqqtC0
the pretty girls are
aringudnight~
Explain to me why this band not best in worlf
>>pro tip u cant
>>71714310
him
>>71714322
him?
>>71714310
go home bam
What does /mu/ think of the Butthole Surfers?
Awful album cover
>>71713969
Good band
never listened to much besides the radio hits during the 90's, but recently stumbled on some guy on youtube uploading tons of old VHS video from the 90's and ended up watching a lot of their live stuff and road antics, like them doing whippits while driving their van
>Blackstar
>To Pimp A Butterfly
>To Be Kind
>Virgins
>good kid maad city
>Let England Shake
>MBDTF
Which 2010's AOTY is the strongest? weakest?
These have been my favorite. Just made a list of my 200 favorite the other day. I'd shout out FKA Twigs - LP1 for being the greatest Alt. R&B of our generation and also Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Ch. 1 for being an absolute emotional and creative avant-jazz masterpiece.
tylo be chillin and the aarron ellis orchestra
Visions >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> art anus
Which album has the best guitar tone and why is it Atomizer?
>>71713493
That would be this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svlg8Hp3Jyc
>>71713493
Fire of Love has my favorite guitar tone
>>71714630
holy shit why haven't i ever heard this before
>>71713329
How would we know?
>>71713337
/thread
It really makes me sad knowing he died feeling he was a failure and seeing how popular he is today.
Is Death Grips releasing anything this yeaR?
>>71713230
I can see that being the cover to their next album.
maybe they'll drop it out of nowhere if they do, probably just upload it to their website.
maybe they already did and we just haven't found the clues yet.
only time will tell?
there is a very high chance, considering they have released an album every year since 2011
what's he playing
>>71713034
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrZt45PEbSk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-9fhRh4aPs
>>71713034
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOs00cFFzIM
Why does everyone here hate this album?
cause its gay lol
>>71712996
radioactive was an atrocious song and I dont want to ever hear that or any other imagine dragons song ever again
>>71713028
what was bad about it
Awful. How people can sit through this uninspired, vapid, outdated turd (or anything else by them for that matter) and hail it as a "masterpiece" is beyond me. Hopefully in 20 years nobody will recognize these hacks as anything worth talking about.
The fact that so many Americans still believe it should be illegal to marry a 12-year-old only tells you how far America still is from becoming a serious culture. The Europeans have long recognized that the greatest relationships of all times are between male adults and female adolescents, who are the most biologically fit to produce offspring, as well as the most physically attractive. Followers of the Muslim faith rank the highly controversial Aisha over all of their prophet Mohammed’s other wives, who were far past the prime age for reproduction. Americans are still blinded by puritan values. Adult females are more mentally developed than adolescents (not true, by the way), therefore they must be the greatest partners. Europeans engaged in relationships with adolescent European girls in the middle ages, radical Islamists engage in relationships with adolescent Muslim girls in the present. Americans are often totally ignorant of the virtues of relationships with adolescent girls, they barely know the biological benefits. No wonder they will think that sexual relations with 12-year-old girls should be criminalized.
>>71712940
Hmm... did we listen to the same album?
The suite of songs on side 2 is one of the greatest pieces in pop music history.
Awful. How people can sit through this uninspired, vapid, outdated turd (or anything else by them for that matter) and hail it as a "masterpiece" is beyond me. Hopefully in 20 years nobody will recognize these hacks as anything worth talking about.