It's just a poll for Slayer, Anthrax, Metallica and Megadeth. It's that "Top 4" tour.
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Death and Cynic hold far higher value to me though, as they do to most people who actively follow metal outside of the big name mainstream stuff. Slayer's alright live though, 'least Tom's a cool dude and they play their old shit.
Jack Black's parents were my neighbors for a while, I never personally met him but my dad has, said he's a pretty nice guy.
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I don't know if there's a consensus on how to define "heavy" when it comes to music, but I definitely define it differently than you. I wouldn't consider Electric Wizard the heaviest band at all, mainly for the fuzzy kind of guitar tone. As for most grind bands, same thing, guitar tone. They can be aggressive, violent, angry, and pissed off, but the guitar tone isn't heavy to me. Maybe for me, heaviness is defined mostly by guitar tone. After that, it needs to either be slow and crushing like funeral doom or brutal with unrelenting percussive pummeling. My vote goes to Wormed just for sounding like the universe about to implode on itself.
Portal is Immolation played backwards! Everyone knows that! lol I like Portal though
I just don't think of crushing when I hear Electric Wizard though. Too much fuzz. But albums like Dopethrone do have an amazing atmosphere to them. Honestly, an album like that would sound so much heavier if the guitars sounded like this:
Oh definitely. I saw APC a few months ago and he's still got pipes but he's not hitting those notes as well anymore. They didn't even do Judith and the harder parts of The Outsider were underwhelming. Comparatively, Lateralus tour was amazing.
I saw Tool during their Lateralus tour around 2000 or 2001 (My tour shirt is packed deep away somewhere) and he definitely sounded like he did on the album. If he doesn't know, that's too bad, but it's an age thing too. I remember watching footage of The Big Four show (on topic) and the singer from Anthrax couldn't hit a note to save his life. Obviously James from Metallica has had to adjust his vocals to the songs as his voice is much lower than it used to be. These things happen - some bands make it work, some don't, but ultimately it's up to opinion anyway.
i know what your saying, and i completely agree. i wasnt implying that Maynard sounded bad in the more recent show, he just didnt steal the show like in years before. but thats life, he's been making incredible music for almost 20 years now with 2 amazingly successful bands. one cant perform on stage in boxers with one half of their body painted blue and the other half painted white forever lol. I wouldnt be surprised if Tool never released another album tbh, even though the other three members are currently writing together. i mean, they probably will, but you never know.
I dunno man, once Crytopsy started rocking the frohawks and Lord Worm left...again. I kind of just let them drop off the face of the earth for me. It wasn't Morbid Angel level disappointment; but Flo turning into a frohawk rocking douchenozzle on top of Lord Worm leaving killed Cryptopsy for me. Still like their old shit with Worm though.
