I’m going to pretend I know what this is about and go back to listening to the Ink Spots.
Honestly don’t understand the hate ffdp gets.
If someone could clue me in that’d be nice cause like I genuinely like a lot of their original songs as well as the remakes.
Their music was pretty great back in the day, but their more recent stuff sounds like schizophrenic whinging, and their music videos make them look like maga fascists. I have done zero research on what their opinions actually are.
I have no clue about music in general, but ffdp are pretty basic when it comes to their song structure, a lot of simple and repetitive rhythms. Add to that that they sound recorded better than live (IMO) and they’re American which can lead to prejudices in the metal community and the bands easy to joke about.
“What’s your favorite flavors?”
“Blue and Black!”
There’s nothing more subversive than the Thin Blue Line sticker on their lifted Dodge RAM
Do you like Cradle of Filth?
Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?
Don’t everyone have both nymphetamine fix and the power of love in the same Playlist?
They changed my life
hit me with some brutal recommendations if you got them. it’s been a while and I’m out-of the loop
Specific tracks, for your convenience:
Blackbraid - The river of time flows through me
Klevertak - Blodtørst
Kanonenfieber - SturmtruppSlaughter to prevail
Archspire
Igorrr
Blood incantation
All are in my heavy rotation right now, I like weird envelope pushing metal.
Infant Annihilator - Decapitation Fornication
Intent is awesome if you like Slayer
The most recent Cattle Decapitation album fucking shreds.
Not especially brutal, but a couple of the bands I’ve been listening to lately are Sabaton and The HU.
Idk what genres you like so here’s a few recommendations across a few genres. On phone so no links.
I’ve been obsessing over Hiræth lately, probably one of the best albums I have ever heard. It’s not a metal album, but it scratches that itch I have for metal, so it’s going on this list lol
- Witching - Vernal (blackened sludge)
- Flummox - Rephlummoxed (prog death/avant garde)
- Mamaleek - Vida Blue (avant garde)
- Rail Yard Ghosts - Hiræth (Blackgrass/Blackened folk punk, large band)
- Woe - Hope Attrition (black metal/RABM)
- Botanist - Paleobotany (Experimental Black metal)
- An Abstract Illusion - Woe (prog death)
Some of my current favourites : Blood Incantation, Ulcerate, Worm, Civerous, The Ruins of Beverast.
Crypta
I have lately been enjoying this one Osiah - Kairos
the fruit loop?
Five Finger Death Punch is as close as you can possibly get to pop music without leaving the genre of metal completely. I don’t judge people if it’s their jam, I just think they are extremely mediocre at best. It’s no coincidence that the majority of their most popular songs are covers.
But hey, people like what they like.
I just feel like their songs are specifically targeted to edgy 13 year olds. “wrong side of heaven and righteous side of hell” I mean, c’mon.
I don’t get this point of view, maybe I should because it sounds logical. But again sometimes I want to listen to harpsichords in E by Bach. And sometimes I want to listen to hallowed be thy name from iron maiden, sometimes I want to listen to a nightmare to remember by dream theater, and sometimes I want to listen to wrong side of heaven by ffdp.
It’s like the same logic that I love eatimg healthy home made delicious filipino food every day of the week, by my excellent cook of a wife. And yet occasionally I get a craving for a menu at burger King with a monster energy drink.
It is as if there is redeemable factors in both
The maturity of a 13 years old, but it’s listened by angry genXers and older millenials.
Its called suburbia and nothing ever happens
I mean, c’mon.
Right or wrong? I can hardly tell.
Ghost is in the same boat. Don’t get me wrong, they write some great songs, but they are perilously close to pop
To their defense, I think they are really self aware. The campiness and the theatrics are all intentional. It almost has a musical (the broadway kind) aspect to it. 5FDP actually believe they are hard.
I’ve seen Ghost described as “Spooky ABBA” and somehow it kinda checks out. Not even mad, ABBA is great and so is Ghost
“Bon Jovi for Goth Dads” is the other one I enjoy. I love Ghost, Tobias writes exactly the music he wants. Not trying to be metal, he was heavily influenced by og heavy metal (Sabbath) and the theatrics of the glam/hair metal era (Kiss). Combine the two and ya, that’s just Ghost.
It’s very intentionally campy and fun, like year round Halloween.
I tend to like pop metal the same way I like pop punk. It’s not going to make me feel anything but it’s catchy. It’s good for working out or working on the motorcycle and similar things where I want a driving background but don’t want to get way into it.
That being said, the kind of people who listen to FFDP put me off of their music. It’s like that’s the first metal they ever heard then decided to make it their whole personality.
I agree they are mediocre (at best), but as for sounding poppy, you’re forgetting we have a whole metal subgenre called hair metal.
Yeah but hair metal had raw sex appeal. They’d fuck your girl, and maybe you too, and you were ok with it. Sure it’s musically lighter, but they went hard. On the other hand, you assume 5FDP is on tour again because they’re behind on child support payments.
Sounds like metal gate keeping
Well, there’s also “punk goes pop” stuff, like the good old https://youtube.com/watch?v=gbMbCbEp5cA
That is hilarious.
I always come back to I Prevail’s cover of Blank Space. Sometimes it can even trick me into believing Tswift is a good song writer
Or Ice Nine Kills parodying both the song and the music video and managing to make it less creepy in the process
Well, there’s also “punk goes pop” stuff
My favorite. Those lyrics were surprisingly unsettling.
A series I personally love listening to while working out. Especially the 80s pop covers.
It’s not metal to drink a fruity drink?
I drink filtered cattle blood (milk).
No, you gotta drink beer all the time.
I’ve got a keg of Zima and O’Doul’s on-tap.
Holy shit, that shit fucking slaps!
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Thank you I needed new stuff to check out.
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I find this funny because I only like technical death metal, like the pizza passage, sporeception, and sly cropped dick
its all about Maggot Twat
