Controversial Metal Opinions

[Pedrito]

Sol Invictus is a tough listen but I love the song Sunny Side Up. Any song that can start with the line 'I'll be your Leprechaun' gets a thumbs up from me.

[astfgyl]

I know a fella whose missus used to call him her little leprechaun so that line is a bit ruined for me.

Regarding The Real Thing again, I do still love it but it's despite the vocals. It isn't even every line of every song, sometimes he sings a few lines grand and then it's back up his nose again. I find it especially baffling that he did it on purpose but that's just him all over.

Out of his other projects, Fantomas' The Directors Cut and Tomahawk's first and last albums are great. Mr. Bungle have 3 brilliant albums as well and I also quite like the Crank 2 soundtrack he did. Then there are things like Adult Themes for Voice and Pranzo Oltransista which should never have seen the light of day.

[Pedrito]

I know a fella whose missus used to call him her little leprechaun so that line is a bit ruined for me.

That sounds pervy as fuck in fairness 

Love the Real Thing vocals. They used put me off but he sounds so unique and different on it that it stopped grating very quickly for me. A bit like Mustaine, the personality in the vocal trumps the actual sound of the vocal.

[Necro Red]

Hate over used intros on albums. Don't get me wrong, a decent introduction is cool and adds to a track, but on every song it gets old really quick. Point in case, Hacked Up For BBQ by Mortician. I quite like the album despite all the samples intros.

[Eoin McLove]

Yeah,  I think the endless samples in Fade,  the second Arcane Sun album are over the top and unnecessary. One or two,  fine,  but between every song it's just too much for me.  Great album otherwise,  apart from the inexplicable samba instrumental at the end 

[Circlepit]

After all these years of listening to it I never knew Mike Patton was putting on a nasally type voice. I thought that was how he sounded back then. I think he had a super voice. I don't listen to the more wacky stuff he does.
I can't stand the sound of Robert Plant.

[The Ancient Ones]

Hate over used intros on albums. Don't get me wrong, a decent introduction is cool and adds to a track, but on every song it gets old really quick. Point in case, Hacked Up For BBQ by Mortician. I quite like the album despite all the samples intros.

AFAIK they actually did all the intros live as well! Mortician are a funny case really - all the ingredients are, let's face it, pretty shit - yet somehow it works.....

[Carnage]

Hate over used intros on albums. Don't get me wrong, a decent introduction is cool and adds to a track, but on every song it gets old really quick. Point in case, Hacked Up For BBQ by Mortician. I quite like the album despite all the samples intros.

Case in point: Necroticism. Opening the album, fine but before every song? Ruins the flow of the album.

[astfgyl]

After all these years of listening to it I never knew Mike Patton was putting on a nasally type voice. I thought that was how he sounded back then. I think he had a super voice. I don't listen to the more wacky stuff he does.
I can't stand the sound of Robert Plant.

I used to think that was just his voice back then as well, but when I heard the first Mr. Bungle album I realised something was amiss. It actually bugged me way less when I thought he just sounded like that naturally. Funnily enough all this talk of it is giving me the urge to put it on. Grand weather for it too.

I can't stand Robert Plant either

[heyjoe]

Metallica at Slane were awful. James looked like shit. Of course we now know he was off the wagon.

Black Sabbath are not the Godfathers of heavy metal, they are just one of the great heavy metal bands. Sharon made up the Godfather thing in the 00s, she told young bands on Ozzfest to say it in interviews. Before that when bands were asked about their influences they mentioned Hendrix, Zeppelin, Purple, Sabbath and more.

[hellfire]

Hate over used intros on albums. Don't get me wrong, a decent introduction is cool and adds to a track, but on every song it gets old really quick. Point in case, Hacked Up For BBQ by Mortician. I quite like the album despite all the samples intros.

Case in point: Necroticism. Opening the album, fine but before every song? Ruins the flow of the album.

I love most of the samples on Necrotism. Really add to the vibe of the album for me.

[Carnage]

The opening one's fine as an album set-up, but the others just get in the way. I cut them out when I scanned it into iTunes, it works much better as an album.

[Ducky]

Not quite the same (agree entirely about Necroticism) bit Pestilence's "Testimony of the Ancients" could be one of my favourite old death metal records if they didn't include pointless fucking interludes after every song. Of course you can skip them, but it spoils the flow of the songs from one to the next.

I only ever owned it on CD (and of course, subsequently ripped it), could well imagine wanting to chuck it if listening on tape or record.

[astfgyl]

I had that pestilence album for years and i hardly noticed the interludes. I love a good overwrought album in general. Really don't buzz off the brisk, strictly business approach to music at all. Of course it can be done badly but my favourite album is probably The Fragile and it's bloated and meandering to fuck. At that then it still wasn't enough for me and I made my own version that is nearly 4 hours long and still I do be crying out for more when it ends.

[Ducky]

I don't mind a bloated album, but that Pestilence record is part death metal classic, part BBC Sound Effects record.