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Is my music taste evolving?

post #1 of 10
9/6/11 at 12:20am
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Well i just recently listened to the new opeth album and i was hit with this new progressive sound. I was and still am amazed with it. so it made me listen to other progressive music and i love it. I have barely listened to any metal all day. Is my music taste changing. Is this due to maturity? Am i aging or growing out of metal?

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post #2 of 10
9/6/11 at 12:45am

You are expanding and diversifying your musical tastes while at the same time keeping to your roots of metal.  Listen to Dream Theater's new one as well as Symphony X's.  Not as laid back as Heritage but great nevertheless.

 

Enjoy it!!!

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post #3 of 10
9/6/11 at 12:56am

I grew out of "extreme" metal too and changed even my music playing style completely through time. Playing as loud and as fast as possible was cool, but there's absolutely no substance to that stuff. Great stuff to practice to hone your skills, but that's about all there is to get from it.

 

Now I'm into more true rock type genres and the extreme metal stuff sounds immature to me. Even my guitar gear has changed. I went from having a 27-fret, Floyd Rose shred guitar with a Van Halen 5150 amplifier to a raw sounding Les Paul and Marshall.

 

Nothing to do with Head-fi though. Just growing up I guess. Life's too short to be stuck in angry teenage music genres. Peace and love are the only types of music I want to hear.

 

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Edited by wind016 - 9/6/11 at 12:58am
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post #4 of 10
9/6/11 at 12:57am
Yes, your tastes are evolving. Let it happen and go where it takes you.

If you're enjoying the experimentation, try some progressive/experimental jazz and 20th centur classical. You'll find common themes and get dragged deeper into those genres.

No, you won't lose your taste for metal. Keep your collection and you'll come back around to it eventually. The cool part is that you'll appreciate it in a different and better way after you've been soaking in other genres. You'll love it when it happens. (Literature and movies do the same thing. smily_headphones1.gif)
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post #5 of 10
9/6/11 at 1:02am
How long until I get back around to my kid music, Uncle E? It's been almost 35 years and I still have no desire to ever hear Supertramp again.
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post #6 of 10
9/6/11 at 1:09am
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Originally Posted by HeatFan12 View Post

You are expanding and diversifying your musical tastes while at the same time keeping to your roots of metal.  Listen to Dream Theater's new one as well as Symphony X's.  Not as laid back as Heritage but great nevertheless.

 

Enjoy it!!!



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post #7 of 10
9/6/11 at 1:13am

Yup, progressive metal and rock are more interesting than the normal stuff you see thrown around in the larger genre, particularly given how they have much more interesting composition.  It took me awhile to like Opeth, and now I wish more metal bands could be more thoughtful about their music.

 

Martin Akerfeldt is good friends with Steven Wilson, the lead for Porcupine Tree, and they're both phenomenal producers in the studio too (one of the few rock/metal groups that put out DVDAs that are better than the redbook releases).  Particularly in later Opeth and Porcupine Tree releases, you'll hear the influence they have on each other.  Martin Akerfeldt's upcoming solo album is one of the releases I'm anticipating most.

 

You still have one more hurdle to jump.  You know you've gone over the deep end when you start liking post metal and post rock bands like Isis, Maserati, and the Mercury Program ;)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-rock

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Post-rock is a subgenre of progressive rock[1] characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock music, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock. Post-rock musicians typically produce instrumental music.[2][3][4]

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-metal

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Hydra Head Records owner and Isis frontman Aaron Turner originally termed the genre "thinking man's metal", demonstrating that his band was trying to move away from common metal conventions.[1] "Post-metal" is the favored name for the growing genre, but it is also referred to as "metalgaze",[2] "steel",[2] "atmospheric metal",[3] and "experimental metal", though this last term is also another term for avant-garde metal.[4]
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Journalist Simon Reynolds writes that:

"the term post-metal seems increasingly useful to describe the vast and variegated swath of genres (the thousand flavors of doom/black/death/grind/drone/sludge/etc., ad infinitum) that emerged from the early '90s onward. Sometimes beat-free and ambient, increasingly the work of home-studio loners rather than performing bands, post-metal of the kind released by labels like Hydra Head often seems to have barely any connection to metal as understood by, say, VH1 Classic doc-makers. The continuity is less sonic but attitudinal: the penchant for morbidity and darkness taken to a sometimes hokey degree; the somber clothing and the long hair; the harrowed, indecipherably growled vocals; the bombastically verbose lyrics/song titles/band names. It's that aesthetic rather than a way of riffing or a palette of guitar sounds that ties post-metal back to Judas Priest and Black Sabbath.[5]"

 


Edited by Elysian - 9/6/11 at 1:19am
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post #8 of 10
9/6/11 at 1:25am
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Originally Posted by Elysian View Post

Yup, progressive metal and rock are more interesting than the normal stuff you see thrown around in the larger genre, particularly given how they have much more interesting composition.  It took me awhile to like Opeth, and now I wish more metal bands could be more thoughtful about their music.

 

Martin Akerfeldt is good friends with Steven Wilson, the lead for Porcupine Tree, and they're both phenomenal producers in the studio too (one of the few rock/metal groups that put out DVDAs that are better than the redbook releases).  Particularly in later Opeth and Porcupine Tree releases, you'll hear the influence they have on each other.  Martin Akerfeldt's upcoming solo album is one of the releases I'm anticipating most.

 

You still have one more hurdle to jump.  You know you've gone over the deep end when you start liking post metal and post rock bands like Isis, Maserati, and the Mercury Program ;)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-rock

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-metal

 



Tool is one of my favorite bands and they are considered, progressive rock/metal, and sometimes they are classified as post metal.

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post #9 of 10
9/6/11 at 2:03am

You are evolving. that happened to me before, got really tired of metal because of Prog Metal, Then got somehow bored with prog metal because of 70s prog(KING CRIMSON main reason).

 

Though once in a while I still listen to some metal. Been listening to some Sleepytime Gorilla Museum(weird metal) recently.

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post #10 of 10
9/6/11 at 3:07am

You may be changing but remember that you may come back home soon too. In the late 1990s I fell in love with prog rock, I read books about it and hunted original records much of the week. I learned about so many new bands( new to me ) from the 1970s when the original progressive was just starting. The Nice, Magma (technically speaking not progressive), Le Orme were all favorites. The album Ys by the Italian group Il Balletto di Bronzo is by far the greatest release ever made. Schicke-Führs-Fröhling is a german great. Be sure and get their anthology if you get a chance, that is if you don't have it already. 

 

 

Opeth is studying this music and coming up with new variations and mixing extreme metal with it like no one ever did before.I have every single Opeth release. Opeth is not standard prog as you know. 

 

The great part of prog was that if it was coming from another country it seemed almost like underground music. Much if not all prog can't be really looked at as mainstream. Opeth comes from Sweden but some how the way the music world is they almost seem mainstream. There music may not be as easy to listen to on first listen as mainstream but they sure have built a following the last 10 years. America was in love with ELP then at some point prog seemed to loose a little favor in the music masses and went underground again where it was from.

 

Amazing to me is that it never really went away. It is surprising to read that more and more people like it again. Your at the start of a grand journey! Good Luck.

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