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
Aww, did I hurt your widdle fee-fees?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
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. :/
The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.
Unfortunately, I've never listened to them. Speaking of rediscovering, L.D. 50 is pretty awesome.
Ok, that is fucking awesome.
The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.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

And apparently Noisia will be on there too. ^_^
edited 2nd Sep '11 8:48:45 AM by inane242
The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.