NietzSKY, post: 39699, member: 4553 wrote: When it’s done right, it’s done right (don’t get me wrong). I am still a fan of Children of Bodom, Necrophagist, and other stuff of the nature (I also enjoy a lot of power metal). Borgir I was never impressed with, though my friend swore by them, Lamb of God and Black Dahlia Murder. Even with Bodom, however, if you analyze their progressions, it’s a lot of very basic simple arpeggiated chord progressions, made to sound complex through the use of alternate picking. Solos, while requiring technicality, are usually just scale and mode grinds.
The problem for me is that there’s a difference between melodically/harmonically complex music, and music that requires a great deal of technicality to play.
That was always one of my biggest issues when it came to metal, every debate was always about how technically skilled the players were and how hard each song was. For example bands like Dragonforce, it’s incredibly fast and requires a lot of talent to pull off but (imo) their songs were atrocious. I really need to reply to this topic while I’m at home so I can go through my metal collection and search for some melodic stuff. I was way younger when I used to listen to it all, I’m going to have to listen with a more trained ear sometime, you’ve got me thinking about new stuff I haven’t thought of before.
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