Posts by Scott Anderson4

Grove, calling it metalcore?? Man, you clearly have no clue what you're talking about... Metallica basically birthed melodic death metal, and honestly, thanks to Jesper, that whole subgenre actually took off. Major respect to Jesper 🙏-
Metalcore grew out of heavy metal and hardcore punk, whereas Metallica isn't even in the same zip code as metalcore. Personally, I can't stand most metalcore stuff—it feels too preprimitivno to me. The vocals are grating, the choruses are weak, and it just ends up looking like some weird blend of emo and black metal. I mean, there's always *something* good in there somewhere, but still. And if you look at how the band themselves views their identity, Anders put it perfectly: "We are who we are; we love heavy metal music, and we hate being shoved into little boxes." Honestly, those guys are way more grounded in real life than they ever are on stage (in Metallica). Especially Björn and Anders. On that first album, Anders wasn't even the one singing, which is why it hits differently—they were still just kids back then.
Anyway, just listen to whatever music speaks to you and feels high quality. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Just because your friend group is blasting one thing doesn't mean anything else is bad or that you aren't allowed to enjoy it. You kind of need bad music to exist just so you can recognize what actual good music sounds like. But yeah, this world is just crawling with clueless people who honestly don't have a clue what they're talking about.

Since Metallica is hands down the greatest band to ever exist in music history, I’m basically forced to weigh in on this. As you can probably tell, this is my first time actually posting here—usually, I just lurk and read, but here we go. Look, I listen to them, and anyone claiming the new album is worse than the old stuff is just making things up. But more importantly, why on earth would anyone think Whoracle or The Jester raca is better than a Sense of Purpose??? To me, ASOP is easily their best release so far. It’s got the most tracks, the vocals are recorded with top-tier modern tech, the guys clearly poured everything into this one—some tracks even have over 12 different types of guitar effects. The drums are mixed perfectly too; honestly, the whole album blows everything else they've done out of the water. The only thing missing is that raw žestina you get on, say, The Jester raca, Reroute to Remain, or The Black Album... but if you actually follow the band, you'll see this is exactly what it needed to be. These guys hate repeating themselves; every record feels like a totally "new band," and let's be real, Anders' vocals have never sounded better... anyway, I feel like I know way more about them than anyone else on this forum, but people who try to judge the band after hearing maybe three songs, or after listening to an album five times, shouldn't even be talking. You can comment on the band once you've studied their entire biography and listened to every single album at least 30 times...
I don't know if anyone's even reading this, but I've got nothing better to do so I'm just venting... I can think of a hundred reasons why someone deserves a punch to the face if they claim Metallica is the biggest pile of garbage ever or that the new album sucks compared to the old ones... I mean, hey, everyone's entitled to an opinion, but some people clearly just don't know a damn thing about music... 😢
ps... you're probably the first girl I've seen listening to them >< peace