(January 6, 2015 at 12:00 pm)Alex K Wrote:(January 6, 2015 at 11:47 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: What that means in the context of this conversation is that sticking a fast technical run in a song can be useful to communicate a mood -- but it can too often turn the song into a vehicle for ego, and that seems to undermine its artistic value.
That's one of the peeves I and many have with many technical death metal bands (I assume that's not your cup of tea though).
I consider myself somewhat of a metalhead, but am not big on death metal. I'm not into the growling vocals and I'm bored with the machine-gun style kick drums. That said, I can enjoy the likes of Thorndendal, and Akerfeldt on guitar and Patterson on bass; the speed and technical musicianship is impressive. Often though it's just monotonous speed and unvaried scale runs. Sometimes I think that song solos could easily be interchanged if done in the right key. I get my fix now and again, but can't listen very long.
