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Anyway, on the original topic: there's a lot of modern blues-rock/"jam band" music which would be exactly my kind of music if it wasn't for the annoying tendency of these bands to play everything at the same tempo: around 100 bpm, without shuffle. It makes me long for a good blues shuffle or a fast rocker, but they don't play that. I've taken to calling it the "Mid-Tempo Disease".
It's especially frustrating when you hear the intro riff, the drummer starts hi-hatting along, and you're getting ready for a fast, wild rock & roll song... and then the beat kicks in at half the speed you were anticipating. That can be a monumental letdown.
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I dislike Harsh Vocals for the same reason you dislike PerishingAltRockVoice, because I think it sounds like shit.
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There's a lot of metal groups that I haven't been able to get into because I can't take the death growls/shrieking vocals...I love a good Metal Scream as much as the next person, if that's your thing, but after a point it starts to become unlistenable.
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Yes, it is! So let's all talk about instead!
In all seriousness, has anyone else noticed this? I've seriously considered writing an essay about this "Mid-Tempo Disease".
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This is why you need more Drum'n'Bass in your life. 
That said, 100-ish BPM seems a pretty awkward tempo to me as well.
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Meh. I already have Thrash Metal.
Anyway, here are some examples of the kind of music I'm talking about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk03s5hdNgg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL6Qs-Aw9Tw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZBUBKrcs-4
Sneering Imperialist
Sorry, I don't see how homophobia and not liking harsh vocals are remotely similar. That's a totally disingenuous comparison.
...aaaand this is a gigantic load of bollocks, because there's plenty of metal - maybe even most of it - that doesn't have harsh vocals and can't be dismissed as "radio rock equivalent". Saying that if it doesn't have harsh vocals it's not "tr00 metal" just smacks of elitism.
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Yeah, that's what I thought.
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Apparition in the Woods
There's also the whole matter of how the usual style of harsh vocalising misrepresents the broad range of grotesque possibilities in the human voice utilised in various forms of metal. But I digress. Let's quit this topic before we get mired.
The thing you mentioned with blues-rock bugs me as well. It's like they're only focusing on one particular aspect of the blues without comprehending that there is, within the basic concept, a certain emotional and dynamic range there, be it a pained crawl or a sly walk-and-talk or flat-out jumping: It's all there. Use it, why don't you?!
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Street Writing Man
Yeah, I'd like more modern blues-rock if they'd just kick it a little harder. C'mon guys, it worked great for Led Zeppelin.
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I'd listen to more Aggrotech if the musicians
◊ didn't look
◊ so absurd
◊.
Though there are some that don't dress like that.
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Because cow-print robes are the attire of true industrial musicians.
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Apparition in the Woods
See, this is why Peter Christopherson was amazing.
That, and he responded to my emails.
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Awesome.
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Note that the whole 'kick it a little harder' thing has been rendered nearly impossible by the Loudness War (this is especially blatant on Clutch's songs).
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Apparition in the Woods
Not every band, producer or engineer is subject to this phenomenon, by any means. Also, live performances.
Street Writing Man
@MR: by "kick it a little harder" I meant up the tempo and put some energy into it, not pay the producer to compress it some more.
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Hell I've given up on new rock (unless if post-rock counts) for a lot of those reasons.
I mean, there's enough new stuff and enough old rock to last me ages.
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I'd like Traditional Dubstep MUCH more if it where less dreary.
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Warrior Queen is awesome.
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Apparition in the Woods
Indeed. Warrior Queen is great.
I hope I'm not too late on the harsh vocals discussion, but...
I guess the reason most people hate it is that there's mostly no melody involved, so people dismiss it as being "shouting, not singing". What gets me is that many rappers just talk instead of singing and are all over the mainstream...
Not that there aren't legitimate reasons for hating harsh vocals, but "not singing" is not one of these.
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Wait, are you saying that anything without Harsh Vocals is 'the radio rock equivalent of metal'?
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