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jsnake
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Take 2 parts Sevendust and add 2 parts Creed/Alter Bridge and you get Projected. This is the next big thing. Check out the video and enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6KSLrqkW10&feature=colike
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My toes are okay. No worries.
The only other group I am into right now is Call Me No One which is also 2 members from Sevendust. Always enjoy new stuff though. Solo projects like Clint Lowery's Hello Demons Meet Skeletons and Scott Weiland.
And I'm fine with that.
BTS - Hipster metal guy hat on - Swedish death/black metal trumps everything.
That being said, I strongly disagree with attempting to define what bands are 'true' metal and the mentality it creates. Metal is a musical style, a point of view, and an overall way of approaching the medium. The viewpoint that such and such groups are not real metal is at the root of the overall division of current metal and hard rock music scenes. Fans are quick to shout 'sell out' if musicians do a project with those that do not fit with their definitions. Even worse, fans of one type of metal decry fans of another genre as plebians and sheep for the audacity to like what they don't.
In the end, we end up with these camps of true believers that feel everyone else is blind to the truth. This inward turning is the root of the overall stagnation we have seen in the last few years, as bands end up more and more defined by their niche. Some say you aren't metal unless you have fancy double kick tricks, some say you aren't if you can't do speed guitar, some if your singer doesn't growl, some if your singer doesn't scream, lots of bass, soaring power chords, leather, spikes, anger, nihilism....the list goes on and on. When this happens, it becomes harder to innovate, for you fear losing your demographic, and harder to be found and make the mainstream because no one wants to take a chance on another sub genre. The result is less music, less growth, and more homogenization within sub-genres.
Wow, that went on longer that I thought, and was a bit rambly. Sorry about that. Food for thought, if you went to a cigar lounge and a friend told you how much he liked a Macanudo, would you tell him he isn't a real cigar smoker....or would you hand him something you like? I guess my point is let people like what they like, and instead introduce them to new things that you like. You may be suprised at the common ground you find.
So was your intent to say I'm wrong and you're right? Not offended, but if you're going to call somebody out - which let's be honest, you did - then I don't quite understand this logic. I don't consider those at the beginning metal - again, my opinion - but now I'm apparently a hipster metal guy bc I have a preference. Ok.
This really doesn't make sense. I would find it hard to say Sevendust and Creed aren't music, bc they are. But to say they are metal, that is debatable. Saying they aren't a real cigar smoker bc they are smoking a Macanudo is just plain silly. But wouldn't you agree if I handed them a cigar that I liked immediately after they told me that I may as well be saying something along those lines?
To close. I don't care what music somebody likes.. or what their favorite cigars are. But on a forum people will voice their opinions; maybe they shouldn't - apparently it's not nice.
Then why come to a forum or comment? You already know what you like.
There is voicing your opinion and there is being tactful. These are not mutually exclusive ideals, despite what political ads are trying to teach us.
In the end, it was wrong of me to make the hipster comment. I did sincerely mean it as a joke, in that it was an image of someone everyone knows, but no one wants to be. I am truly sorry as that extra comment was uncalled for as you don't know me and my sense of humor and beyond the scope of what I was trying to say. That metal is a very very broad genre.
Didn't mean to cause a debate on all this. Just wanted to share a new band coming up that I really enjoy. I have had the chance to hang with John Connolly and talk to him a few times. Got to hang with Vinnie Hornsby too and talk about a really down to earth and nice guys. I have seen these guys in concert with Sevendust many times and I am always in the front row against the barricade. I just love the energy and the interaction with them. I am hoping they have some great success. Plus I always like guys pointing out new music because I might find something I really like that I never would have checked out if a friend hadn't said something.
I wasn't calling Projected a super group but Creed/Alter Bridge and Sevendust have enjoyed some serious success. Everyone dogs Nickelback but those guys are laughing all the way to the bank. Not a fan so no comments on that.
I enjoy a huge variety of music excluding rap. Just depends on my mood. Lately I am on a Sevendust, Breaking Benjamin, Love and Death, Volbeat, and Red kick.