Heavy metal, first impressions Options

[Paradox of Life]

I just felt like making this poll. I remember the first time I listened to heavy metal and I was like "This is so stupid. I mean, there is no musical value whatsoever" And my friends would be like "Ooh, I like this Slipknot song" or whatever and I'll be like "Sorry I don't like heavy metal"

But it's like totally different now. It's pretty much my favorite genre of music. Heavy metal gives you a sort of bad impression at first, but if you really listen to it, it's awesome. What do you think?

[antix10_kos]

I went with "this is pretty cool"

I grew up listening to oldies (Temptations, Gap Band, Eric Clapton, Jim Croce...) and classic rock (Eric Clapton, Cream, Ted Nugent, Alice Cooper, and many others)....This Will Give A More Accurate Depiction of My Musical Background....

In fourth grade, I inherited a collection of grunge and metal cds....Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Corrosion of Conformity, Pantera, Green Day....I had a collection....Iin 1994, I was cutting edge.

In my freshman year of high school, I got into Mudvayne, Otep, Orgy, Deftones, Korn and tons of other nu metal bands. My sophomore year I got heavily into Mushroomhead, Killswitch Engage, In Flames, and lots of melodic hardcore and just hardcore in general. My junior year was all about punk and hardcore. My senior year I started listening to lots of foreign music, like Finntroll, Vintersorg, Falkenbach....and so on. I also started getting heavily into industrial music and synthpop during my junior and senior years of high school as well.

After I graduated, I started playing synth, making beats and getting really into stuff like The Faint, Radiohead, Sisters of Mercy, Mindless Self Indulgence, Mortiis....I'm also really into Queens of the Stone Age, The Caesars, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Dresden Dolls, Life of Agony and bunch of other wildcard bands.

I like heavy metal now, but it's not the same as liking Slipknot. To me, metal is more free than the format that bands like Slipknot and Mudvayne stick to. To me, they're hard rock. Metal is more like Children of Bodom, Finntroll, Darkthrone, Six Feet Under, Khold....and the list continues. Metal is hard and fast, but above all, it has a message. It conveys feelings not expressed adequately in other forms of music, such as anger, oppression, death, morbidity, violence. What keeps Slipknot and other "nu metal" bands from being metal is that there is nothing really shocking about what they say, at least not anymore. I remember when they first came out, they were different, unique and shocking. Now, they're just a rock band losing touch with reality. Good, but not great, at least not to me....


Keep in mind, all views stated here are solely mine and just opinion.