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.
Its called suburbia and nothing ever happens
I mean, c’mon.
Right or wrong? I can hardly tell.
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
Tbf, the metal bands you mentioned are all on the operatic side of metal, which is a nice subgenre. Many metal fans would say that there are definitive bands which categorize one subgen vs another. I’ve never heard of Five Finger Death Punch, and thought the name was actually Five Flavored Fruit Punch. Maybe an opportunity for Weird Al here 😁
Weird al ruins songs for me, I just forget the original lyrics, and now weird als lyrics is the only thing I can think of when I hear the song
Haha fair, but it’s almost an honor to get a Weird Al parody, I think
Yes, unless you are Coolio or prince
The maturity of a 13 years old, but it’s listened by angry genXers and older millenials.
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.
Well, there’s also “punk goes pop” stuff, like the good old https://youtube.com/watch?v=gbMbCbEp5cA
That is hilarious.
Well, there’s also “punk goes pop” stuff
My favorite. Those lyrics were surprisingly unsettling.
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.
I like their stuff, but I’ll admit that a ton of it sounds the same. On the other hand, people almost always complain when bands go “experimental”, so I consider it a somewhat good thing actually
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.
they sound recorded better than live
That’s like 90% of all musicians though.
I’d disagree… but opinions…
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.
hit me with some brutal recommendations if you got them. it’s been a while and I’m out-of the loop
Slaughter to prevail
Archspire
Igorrr
Blood incantation
All are in my heavy rotation right now, I like weird envelope pushing metal.
Igorrrr are solid, definitely doing some different shit. Dunno the others.
Your list shows up perfect when I go to respond, but in normal view, Lemmy doesn’t put your lines in.
Edited, thanks
https://lemmy.world/post/19492330
I’ve had the EP that this track comes from on repeat for a while now.
The most recent Cattle Decapitation album fucking shreds.
Intent is awesome if you like Slayer
Some of my current favourites : Blood Incantation, Ulcerate, Worm, Civerous, The Ruins of Beverast.
Not especially brutal, but a couple of the bands I’ve been listening to lately are Sabaton and The HU.
Metal bands can scream and growl as much as they want, they will never hit as hard as the last minute of “I love you, I’m going to blow up your school” by MOGWAI, or pretty much anything by SWANS.
I find this funny because I only like technical death metal, like the pizza passage, sporeception, and sly cropped dick
I’m going to pretend I know what this is about and go back to listening to the Ink Spots.
I don’t want to set the woooorld on fiiii-re
That’s a good one, but this is my favorite Ink Spots song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udjA9Pk3LMU
Thank you I needed new stuff to check out.
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Just replied to the wrong thread, that’s all
fruit punch will turn metal into marmalade
