The Doom Room: ILF Edition

[ShaolinLambKiller]

I'm all full of surprises. Like take for example before I picked up guitar when I was 16 the only thing I really actively listened to was classical.

Which period of classical though?

Baroque is way to masturbatory for me, Classical is almost too predictable, Romantic and Post-Romantic is about when I like the most music.

I love Baroque because it's masturbatory. I have no problem with classical, romantic and post. but really my bag is 20th century...Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Cage, Babbit, Tippett.

Hell my favorite shit is actually the tuning of an orchestra before a piece actually starts. That's influenced me more musically than anything else.




Oh huge disagreement on the 90's sucked for music. Frankly when I hear someone completely trash a complete decade I pretty much assume they literally know very little of music in general.


Also as far as Ministry... I like their dancey 80's stuff more than anything else they did. But i've never been much for industrial... I really enjoy the fuck out of Skrew from Tx.

[KaosCill8r]

20th century Russian classical composers are the best imho. Stravinsky, who ironically died the day I was born. Strange that I was drawn into his music. Shostakovitch etc.

[Ancient Astronaught]

Aside from a handful of bands, the 90s freaking sucked.

Not sure I agree with that statement.

I disagree completely. I mean first of all do you enjoy the music this forum is named after?

[Kacey Y]

I know I'm generalizing here, but when I read/hear people saying "(insert decade here) didn't have any good music)" I generally just take it as that person wasn't listening to good music in that decade or just doesn't know where to look. The nostalgia driven view of every decade is such a narrowly focused, warped view of what was really going on in a broad and complex way at the time. It also tends to ignore outliers and subcultures that don't fit that very narrow popular narative, even culturally significant ones. Every time period has good music. Hell, you can find crazy noise/industrial sounding music from the 20's (Musique Concrète).

[D.o.S.]

Aside from a handful of bands, the 90s freaking sucked.

Not sure I agree with that statement.

I disagree completely. I mean first of all do you enjoy the music this forum is named after?

Ya dood I love Pentagram and Black Sabbath.

[Krosis]

I like a few of you also got into metal in the 90s so I am thankful for that. There was some great stuff from the early 90s that I love such as Kyuss, Alice in Chains, and Tool. In the late 90s, I got into metal bands like In Flames, Iced Earth, Blind Guardian, Nevermore, etc.

But ryan hit the nail on the head. When I criticize the 90s it's more that I hated the 90s as a whole. Baggy clothes, white baseball caps, boy bands, pop tarts, Slipknot, etc. The late 90s in Bergen County was a very inconvenient time being a metalhead. I was one of a few in my HS. Now there's young kinds into all kinds of good music, probably thanks to the internet and stuff. There's still a lot of crap out there but metal is kinda cool again in some ways (that has other pros and cons though) so I bet if I was 16-18 now it would be kind of a cooler time to be that age. I could be wrong. I think this just the past 3-4 years so far has been much better for doom metal than the 90s or 2000s

I'm just glad that I don't have to hear about the Backstreet Boys anymore. Still have to hear about Slipknot constantly though

[D.o.S.]

There's a lot of good stuff on the first couple Slipknot records. The songs are pretty radio friendly, and I can see people getting turned off by the Kiss-isms, but there be tasty riffs and interesting textures by the truckload.

Particularly if you, like me, love bouncy one note shit. Which means you're not ShaolinLambShamer.

[Kacey Y]

I graduated high school in 1997 and I never wore those huge raver pants or listened to nu metal, you guys are on your own there. No judgement, we all got into heavy music in our own way. My area was really weird in the 90's though. I knew about 4 other people that listened to anything approaching metal or underground music, everyone else either listened to r&b verging on the most tame version of rap or the most radio accessible version of country. You could probably have counted the number of people who listened to the most radio friendly version of "grunge" (read: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, STP) on two hands. If you met someone who was into Alice In Chains, that was really unusual, to say nothing of death metal or anything like that. I never met anyone else that listened to anything heavier/more obscure than Metallica or Slayer until after I graduated high school.

[pelliott]

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[Wes Mantooth]

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[Ancient Astronaught]

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Nails and Kvelertak are the only two that don't make me want to

[BoatRich]

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Nails and Kvelertak are the only two that don't make me want to

I also dig Deafheaven, but this. NAILS is the shit though

[Ancient Astronaught]

I also dig Deafheaven.

I dug them at first but after the third listen through of Sunbather I got bored. I'm still curious as to how their hype got so insane, someone threw boatloads of money at them.

[D.o.S.]

No love for the Blue Ghoyster Cult?

Mostly, though, that's just a list of bands I haven't heard of, so I can't really hate on it. KvelterklackityLack are super fun, though. Deafheaven is just kind of, I don't know, not really my jam.

[Wes Mantooth]

I also dig Deafheaven.

I dug them at first but after the third listen through of Sunbather I got bored. I'm still curious as to how their hype got so insane, someone threw boatloads of money at them.

It's palatable 'black metal' fans get the basic style of the genre but distilled in to a more digestible shoegazey kinda black metal. I say this as I fan, I dig Sunbather and Roads to Judah. They certainly aren't my favorite metal albums but I enjoy them. I feel a bit weird calling them black metal but that's probably the best way to describe them musically.

A lot of my friends who don't listen to black metal are in to them and more open to listening to black metal so I'll give them that as well.