Metallica @ BlizzCon 2014! - Page 4

On October 22 2014 14:44 Jupiter039 wrote:
I just registered, just to come in and post a reply to this thread.
Coz' I really can't stand the bullshit from OP.

1st: Your damn Led Zeppelin is a f---ing rock band. Yes. Metal is considered part of rock genre and some even consider it a sub genre of rock, which would be a different story from what I'm talking here. But a big NO for anyone to even start to compare.You trying to compare banana and cucumber? Originated from 70-80s being just thrash metal, to today we see vast amount of sub genres in metal music. Metal's no longer a branch on this tree called rock. It has its own root, stem and branches. Comparing it to rock is a completely invalid and irrelevant comparison.

2nd: I don't know how many years you've been listening to metal(or how many torrents you seeded?) that you even dare to say metal may or may not come close to 10% of anything. I've been a metal fan and musician since 05' and I'm not even confident to say I've listened to all of them. Not to forgot, there are always better composed but poorly produced stuff in underground community.So "few metal bands"? Lol. You just rendered your opinion pretty weak and shaky since you proved that your claim is never neutral and even probably false. Also. You can't appreciate metal, it's your own problem. Never really a fact that you can just jump out and spit out, or force anyone else to agree. However since you did come out here and shout loud, I would be here to attack it all I want all day long. Even non-metal fans/metal haters could still easily agree there are reasons for this type of music to exist since it survived till today going through the times of punk(unless they've got no logical mind with them at all to think) Need not for me to even start to write a billion words essay to educate you the better parts of metal. Coz it ain't a neutral opinion for everyone to appreciate anway,and which is just what you have just done. But still, everyone can see that metal exist till today. Bands like Metallica, slayer which people here grew up listening to are in their 50s and still rocking on. Opposite to what you said. Where something not nearly as 10% as good as something else should be eliminated and become history long ago. What, you mean you don't believe how humans are rational behaving in this?

And till date there are all sorts of metal bands catering to different groups of people. Kids have their metalcores and breakdowns, veterans still have their traditional names(Cannible corpse just released a kick ass new album, soon obituray, though I can't really enjoy it.). Seasoned fans can have all they want, melodic death, death core, technical death. Can't get the point of enjoying extreme genres? Thrash bands are still around(exodus, testament) that you could simply keep banging head non-stop and break you neck.And they do still throw in some clean, slow sounding pieces among all the madness for their fans who wanted that(A trend formally started by metallica with the song fade to black). prefer a bit different voicing and stuff? go get some jent/progressive/math metal. Last I heard, periphery, meshuggah still going strong. And 7/8 strings are becoming the new trend anyway. Ever since I started posting my cover songs on youtube/twitter, there can always be some wild metalbands/artists in a random country just jump out and follow me. And yet here you are, after all this. claiming few metal bands you listened are 10% as good as a f---ing rock band. Hello Dude? Did you really listen to metal?

Back to this topic though

Probably blizzard just thought metallica is the symbol for metal fan and a safer choice for people who are completely new to metal. Which is the sad part. Throughout Metallica's discography there is almost no connection to what Blizzard's been always doing. I'd see some melodic death/black/epic power/gothic/viking metal bands that has quite a number of connections to their fantasy contents of their products. But unfortunately those are even lesser "mainstream" for people to appreciate. For the FPS community though, I guess power metal isn't something so new. #nightwish.

oh hell,almost forgot this. probably metal isn't so new to people playing blizzard games......think about the OST for Zerg.

On October 22 2014 11:03 Blargh wrote:
Honestly, I don't really understand. Don't they always sell out of tickets? While it's nice that they got a well-known band (although I would argue that they are pretty bad nowadays), I don't see where the profit is here. They aren't selling any more tickets here. Maybe this will cause people to buy their virtual tickets, but that sort of goes against the point of a live concert...