Well, the question is who or what gives melody to a song. If the vocals are that monotone, the guitars have to compensate for rollercoaster.
My only problem is when the band obviously only spend 5 minutes to make a song e.g. Pookys last link by Cannibal Corpse. Are you serious? Some guitar warm up riffs, drummer is uncreative so he blast beat's his way through and you call that a solo??? Nothing against your taste in music.
Yeah Cannibal Corpse wasn't a great example. But I was at work and posting links from my phone is a HUGE pain in the ass, so I just posted the first few songs that came to mind where the vocalist is doing more than monotone cookie monster grunts. I'm not a fan of those either.
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Originally Posted by Bodzilla
the thing is in most death metal i've heard, the guitars are a VERY poor substitute for vocal melody. Because it's just to be BROOtAL MAN.
I'll listen to screaming, growling, clean vocals and anything in between.... but it's just so incredibly obvious when you compare shit like that to say In Flames who are genuinely very melodic. Hell or even Parkway Drive.
The entire point of screaming and growling is to get across powerful emotions, whether it's resolve, anger, hate, fear or whatever. That message is ultimately watered down by it ONLY being screaming. So it's actually less BRUTAL..........
Depends how you look at it I guess. Death metal isn't for everyone. I don't think melody is a required element in good music.
You should give Mental Funeral a listen though zilla. That was the album that got me into death metal, precisely because it's so different from the stereotype of what death metal is supposed to sound like.
That's not to say I have anything against stereotypical, I do enjoy listening to Cannibal Corpse sometimes ^^
Posted this on this forum a long time ago. Definitely awesome :D There you have a good guitar/synth replacement as melody.
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Originally Posted by Bodzilla
I'll listen to screaming, growling, clean vocals and anything in between.... but it's just so incredibly obvious when you compare shit like that to say In Flames who are genuinely very melodic. Hell or even Parkway Drive.
The entire point of screaming and growling is to get across powerful emotions, whether it's resolve, anger, hate, fear or whatever.
This is where many people part. I myself agreee 100% with you and love powerful emotions in screaming but I know many people who simply don't care about this and even dislike this. I like to distinguish between "(Metal)Core Scene" and the traditional metal.
