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Friday Top 10: Most Influential Metal Bands
Remember when I posted my wacky comments on Kerrang! magazine’s Top 10 of the most influential rock bands of the last 30 years? Well, it’s time to post the metal equivalent of that Top 10, only we’re not limiting ourselves to time, so it’s the most influential bands of metal history.
Also, only metal bands can make the list. Not bands that aren’t metal themselves but influenced a wide array of metal bands, so exclude AC/DC, Deep Purple etc.
Now, make the jump to see if my list is better than Kerrang’s list.
It is.
Kerrang votes Most Influential Rock Bands
So first off, I need to set the record straight. I’ve never bought or read a Kerrang! magazine myself, just like I’ve never read a Metal Hammer magazine. The only metal magazines I get once in a while are Nuclear Blast’s BLAST! magazine and a couple more Merchandising magazines. I’m informing you of that because I want to make clear that my following rant is not meant to be offensive towards a magazine I’ve never even read myself.
With that being said, Kerrang! magazine are having a Top 10 — about the most influential rock groups of the last 30 years — in their next issue and, at first look, it’s incredibly bad and people on other websites are already bitching about it. But you have to take three things into consideration before you make a judgement about said list.
- The list was voted by the readers of Kerrang! magazine, therefore it’s not Kerrang’s fault if the list is garbage.
- A Top 10 list, especially about a topic like that, is pretty hard to tackle and some people are always going to disagree with some, or all, of the places.
- Commenters on Blabbermouth are bitching. So fucking what? That’s all this site is known for.
Now, make the jump to finally see the list and to read my comments about each band, that made the list.
James Hetfield in the Hall of Fame
Just yesterday none other than Metallica’s James Hetfield was inducted into the Downey High School Hall of Fame.
Wait, High School Hall of Fame? What? Since when do high schools have Hall of Fames? Where was I when that happened and why did nobody ask me about my opinion?
This is not news. Next.
Trivium have advice for Metallica
Trivium have some words of wisdom for Metallica. If I were Lars, I’d listen. These guys have obviously studied and reproduced Metallica‘s sound time and time again, so they know their shit.
“I checked [Death Magnetic] out. It was better than ‘St. Anger.’ I think they did a really good job of getting back to what made them Metallica in the first place, and I just wish they would get someone like Colin [Richardson] or Andy Sneap to mix the shit out of those records. ‘Cause [‘Death Magnetic’] and the new Slayer album [‘World Painted Blood’], if they had the production quality of, say, the new Megadeth and Exodus albums, they’d be brutal as shit. I think there’s good songwriting, but if you [combine] cool songs with killer, modern production, it really adds to the listening experience…” said Corey Beaulieu (not pictured above)
Hopefully the production quality on the next [Metallica album] and they just deliver something that is sonically crushing like the ‘black’ album was; [that record] was ahead of its time as far as album production for a metal CD. So hopefully they do that.“
Read full article here.
Leaving jokes aside, they do have a point. Why make albums if you’re gonna make the sound like shit? Or lemme put it this way… Why go through all the trouble of recording music if you’re not go all the way and present them in perfect quality?
Hopefully they’ve learned their lesson and the waveforms of the new songs won’t look like fucking bricks.
Overrated? Hell no!
Ever get sick of that one friend who claims he’s the biggest fan of a band, yet his favorite song is the band’s biggest and most well known hit? That song is soooo overrated right? Actually no, it’s not in some cases. Today’s random rant from myself, is about three of the greatest songs of all time (in my opinion), that make all the clichéd lists and fans of the band’s sometimes look down upon. Look the songs are well renowned for a reason…
Check the rant after the jump.
