Heavy Metal
Anonymous (not verified) 28 Jul 21 15:19
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Does anyone here listen to it? I can't. 

there’s heavy metal and heavy metal…?death metal ?

AC/DC or Motörhead- yes, very occasionally!

slipknot and real thrash stuff - no. it’s so relentless and relentlessly juvenile. boring. 

I am not a metal fan but have been introduced to Gloryhammer and Alestorm which are fantasy metal bands and they are hilarious and v tongue in cheek.

Actual metal like Slipknot et al tho? Noooo. Aural assault. 

Used to. Still like to listen to Doom/Stoner/Sludge metal at work. Current favourites are Sleep, Monolord, Uncle Acid (heavy rock, think Sabbath with a dash of Tame Impala), and Stoned Jesus.

I can still remember hearing Fight Fire With Fire for the first time. I was 13 and it had quite an effect. Ride the Lightning is still my favourite Metallica album. Don't @ me. 

 

I find it quite stress relieving. Current faves are Gojira and Meshuggah. Agree with Deafheaven but never quite sure they fit into the heavy metal genre (other than the vocals). I can also see a perfectly good case for Ride the Lightning being fave Metallica album. I think Master pips it but it would be a close no. 2 for me.

I like plenty of other genres but sometimes you just need some really heavy nosebleed chaos.

Metallica (with one or two others) basically invented thrash metal. Perhaps you have only listened to the albums from the Black album onwards, which are a bit lighter. I am not sure anybody could stick on Kill 'em All or Ride the Lightning and think it was not heavy metal, tbh.

Never liked Slipknot. Hard-ish, but little heaviness. Technically proficient, but ineffectively eclectic and harmed by the chaddy, Jimmy Pop-like nu-metal vocals.

I liked Korn back in the day and Rammstein and then moved on to bands like A7X and then Atreyu and Trivium. Quite like some Parkway Drive. 

It's more metalcore, however. 

I always liked Metallica‘s earlier stuff.

I had never heard an Iron Maiden track until I was about 35.

The black jeans-wearing kids coming out of Games Workshop with their Maiden t-shirts just made me assume Maiden were sh1te.

But they're actual gr8. Bruce Dickinson can really sing.

I fail to see how Metallica can be regarded as Thrash.

If you listen to Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer (widely accepted, I believe, to be the other three of the "big four"), Metallica sounds nothing like them.

Am I missing something? 

I appreciate that I'm against prevailing wisdom here, and that it is regarded basically as unimpeachable canon that Metallica are, indeed, Thrash, but to me they're basically the rock version of Mike & The Mechanics. Nice, sensible lads playing harmless tunes.