Metal, of the Heavy Variety
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I've been watching a lot of live stuff lately, and the editing of some of it really pisses me off.
There's an incredible Gojira concert that I hadn't seen that took place a couple of months ago. And they show way too much of the crowd way too often. I understand wanting to show some of the crowd at a live show, but don't make the people that actually got to go and see the show the focus instead of the band, that's what I'm really wanting to see play. There's one song which is almost entirely crowd shots, it's so stupid.
There's an incredible Gojira concert that I hadn't seen that took place a couple of months ago. And they show way too much of the crowd way too often. I understand wanting to show some of the crowd at a live show, but don't make the people that actually got to go and see the show the focus instead of the band, that's what I'm really wanting to see play. There's one song which is almost entirely crowd shots, it's so stupid.
Like, I just found another show with a pretty similar setlist. The sound isn't anywhere as good and it's being filmed from someone kinda far back zooming in with their camera, but it's so much cooler because it doesn't cut to the crowd every few seconds.
Man, Europe has all these awesome metal festivals and we have stupid shit like Mayhem Fest (which used to be cool but fucking blows anymore) and shit like Warped Tour. Not fair.
I hate those fucks who go to shows only to record/take pictures for Facebook. They're usually front and center, in everyone's way and you know they don't even care about the bands. They just want to take pics and record videos for social media.
I pretty much hate social media in general. If people gave a shit about every little thing you were doing, they'd probably ask you. I'd probably be disappointed if I were in a band and saw a huge portion of the crowd just staring at their phone for the entire show, or freaking out because someone bumped into them and ruined their video (seen that one happen).
I don't bother with any of that shit.
There's such a beautiful dissonance to a lot of the riffs, they manage to make things jarring and melodic at the same time. Hard to find a band that can pull that off, most that attempt it just have things sound messy and muddy.
Satanic Warmaster is very hit or miss for me. A lot of it comes down to production, too. I do like it when certain bands have a raw sound, but there are Satanic Warmaster releases that just sound like a big wall of white noise.
Usually the first band I think of when I think of Finland, honestly. I can understand people not liking the direction the band went in during the mid-2000s, but I think the early stuff is undeniably solid. Sounds like a completely different band up to Follow The Reaper.