SunlapseVertigo said:
is song structure what you base your opinion on what good music is? thats fucking stupid.
Structure is one of the primary element's I judge music by. It is nearly as important as the ideas (or in the case of Slaughter, the LACK of ideas). I'd still speak negatively of a band if they had good structures, but shitty ideas (see Burzum's s/t album).
SOTS is the best because they got rid of all the filler, and made their most aggressive album. pop-metal? that terms almost as useless and meaningless as the nu-metal term nowadays.
Pop metal meaning VERY derived from pop rock. If you stripped the mechanical-as-fuck production down and looked at the music for what it is, you'll see a whole fuckload of similarities to the likes of Bon Jovi, Nickelback, and other worthless pop bands. Verse-chorus-verse-solo-chorus-chorus-etc. BORING AS FUCK. I don't listen to metal for fucking disney singalong songs, I want fucking MUSIC. Not 4 riffs, a chorus, and a not-so-great solo. They got rid of all the elements that made them good in the first place (numerous riffs per song? guitars playing different complimentary parts simultaneously rather than the conformist parallel lines? the violin? the odd time? the overall technicality and progressiveness?), opting to be an accessible band rather than a valid band. Alf left because he felt the group was obviously selling out. And their most aggressive recording was the Gardens of Grief EP by FAR, not Slaughter of the Suck.
hey, why don't you call Emperor pop (heh someone already has) or why don't you just throw it to any band you don't like.
people like you piss me off.
I wouldn't call Emperor pop. I actually enjoy a few albums of theirs (Nightside, Anthems, and Prometheus). I think they take a lot of unjustifiable criticism due to their straying from black metal, but they still made valid music (though IX fucking sucked). Pop metal, as I said, implies that the band plays metal to the standard structure of AOR pop rock songs. Verse Chorus Verse (I thought death metal was supposed to be CHAOTIC, not predictable?). I admit, I'm a bit hard on At the Gates, but that's only because I feel they were one of the best metal bands to exist, and they felt the need to ruin their legacy with their last two ventures into mediocrity.
The Red in the Sky is Ours = EXCELLENT
Slaughter of the Soul = feces
Deal with it.