Alt-Metal

It works as proof that Skrillex can make anything awesome.

And apparently Noisia will be on there too. ^_^

edited 2nd Sep '11 8:48:45 AM by inane242

I haven't really heard any post-Follow The Leader Korn and the new song didn't particularly make me want to change that, but it is sort of interesting how nu-metal and dubstep apparently mesh better than I would have thought.

Anyone particularly a fan of Helmet? They're playing a show in my area in October and I hope to go, so I've been revisiting the couple of albums I have (Meantime and Betty). The closest they have to a "hit" is "Unsung", but in general they seem to have been an influence on alt-metal bands that came after them: For example, up til the vocals kick in, "I Know" sounds almost exactly like it could be something off Around The Fur (and of course there's a Deftones cover of "Sinatra").

I like Helmet so much that I've actually listened to more songs than 'Unsung'! Well, they're mostly an 'occasional' band for me, but they're still underappreciated.

@ Null: Korn themselves tried to jump ship to Alt-Metal themselves with Issues. Nobody else got the message.

edited 2nd Sep '11 2:22:14 PM by DarkDecapodian

Helmet is an excellent band! They're very underrated, and not many people know about them.

Helmet invented the start-stop Alt-Metal riff that is often heard in Modern Metal bands, and they used Jazz time signatures in their music.

My favourite album from them for me would be Aftertaste, and "Unsung" is fantastic.

And I have heard the Reanimation remix album by Linkin Park, and I found it sporadically good. The experiments worked quite well at times, but they often got ugly too. It's an Artsy-Nu Metal album, which is an Oxy Moron.

edited 2nd Sep '11 2:28:01 PM by CrazyDawg

Helmet is awesome. Page Hamilton is one of the most interesting rhythm guitarists I've ever heard.

And he played with Band Of Susans. Which is yet another lovely thing.

I didn't like their most recent album, and for some reason the "Taste-In-Music" part of my brain lumps them in with the Ministry/NIN-ripoff-bands-from-the-nineties, despite the fact that they clearly aren't. :/

Page Hamilton is getting too old for metal vocals, and he needs to try something different with his guitar playing technique.

I've rediscovered 10 Years. Thoughts?

Unfortunately, I've never listened to them. Speaking of rediscovering, L.D. 50 is pretty awesome.

'Dig' really irritates me for some reason, so I haven't checked the rest of that album yet.

I remember "Dig" and not having anything good to say about it. From what I remember, I think I called it an incomprehensible Slipknot ripoff.

"Dig" sucks. The same doesn't necessarily apply to the other songs on the album, though.

I never thought "Dig" sucked, just that it was probably the weakest song on the album.

edited 12th Sep '11 5:44:27 PM by NULLcHiLD27

Mushroomhead is coming through my state with Motograter, I'll hopefully get to see them.

Ok, that is fucking awesome.

I have no idea how that could work and I fucking want one.

I don't remember the source, but I remember hearing that they could hit the cables with different objects (I think a screwdriver was an example) to get different sounds out of it.

It's to the right of the drummer, you get a better look at it around 2:30 into the video.

edited 16th Sep '11 11:18:26 AM by NULLcHiLD27

So they're just a nu-metal band whose gimmick is that they combined a bass guitar with a prepared piano?

I quite like Motograter their album has some great moments. I love how Ivan now sings for the vastly inferior metal-by-numbers bollock-fest five-finger death-punch and pretends the motograter days never happened.

Does he? I liked him the most in Ghost Machine.

edited 17th Sep '11 2:25:58 PM by NULLcHiLD27

> Implying this isn't awesome.

>Greentext?
>In my TV Tropes?!

edited 17th Sep '11 2:08:14 PM by Litis

When's the last time you went to Yack Fest?

It's a cool instrument but their music is godawful.