Metal Reviews

So this just keeps giving. Gets relentlessly better with every spin, and I liked it to begin with.

Also, it's not just the Metallica worship I took it for, although there is a lot of that (and they do it insanely well). There's something uniquely Evile about it too, hard to describe but it becomes obvious when you give a good listen to all three albums.
This one has their best production job, too, and their most mature performance instrumentally and vocally.

This'll be on my end-of-year list for sure.

It would make for a swell drink coaster.

Your filter for music you like and music you don't is more-or-less set to random. Just an observation.

How is it complex in any way shape or form? They suck like most other retro thrash bands that are squeezed from the mainstream like a pimple, and the fact that they sound like a more polished version of Trivium doesn't help either. Plastic music for plastic people.

I never said it was complex. I just said it was good.

Besides, it's fair enough if you don't like it, but to suggest it sounds like Trivium is just a completely trite argument that anyone with half an ear knows isn't true. Also, kind of amused at the "plastic music for plastic people" comment, coming from the guy posting Limp Bizkit album covers in this thread.

I'm not saying this because it pisses me off. Actually, i'm kinda used to people giving me shit over new wave of thrash bands. I'm just saying if you want your opinion to be considered with respect, it helps not to arbitrarily compare the music to (insert-Nu-Metal-band-here) and then insult the listener for liking it.

What trite argument you love restrained aggression with poppy vocals that blatantly steals riffs from Master of Puppets its ok. Limp Bizkit are a classic and innovative band that fused the best elements of funk, hardcore, and metal back in the 2000s. They're notoriously underrated, and you should feel like an ass for dismissing them. Seriously, the revisionism in the metal scene for pioneers like Limp Bizkit is obscene.

TOO BRUTAL FOR THRASHTILLDETH OH NOES!

Come on man! Fine if you like them, but don't try to pass them off as innovative. If you want to talk about bands combining elements of funk and metal, we can go back as far as Aerosmith, if you want. If you want to talk about adding hip-hop elements, you can stick with Aerosmith, and their run-dmc collaboration.

Bands were doing this stuff in the 80s. Living Color? Funk, metal, hip-hop, it's all there, just in their debut album! Early Red Hot Chili Peppers? Pretty much used every half-decent idea Limp Bizkit employed, to much better effect I might add, years in advance. I could say much the same thing about Faith No More.

I readily admit that Evile is mostly Metallica worship. At least have the sense to admit Limp Bizkit was no more of an innovator.

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He's trolling you about Limp Bizkit.

And with Steve, like any other poster here, just try to take the good, and ignore the bad.

Limp Bizkit were one of the first bands to convincingly add the rap vocal delivery to a heavier guitar tone, add funk style riffs, and on top of that the little measure of Detroit hardcore to a cohesive sound. Fred Durst's aggression is something Evile's vocalist wish he could muster, and the riffs themselves sound nothing like any of the bands you listed- because none of those bands synthesized all of the elements Limp Bizkit did. Aerosmith, Faith no more, Living Color these are all bands that had one or two elements of funk, but they never made a full discography of it in one consistent sound.

I know how steve works. That's why I'm arguing rationally instead of exploding with rage.

It's fun to engage in this sort of nonsense. I'm at work, and work is boring.

Knock yourself out then. I'm really enjoying his creative defenses of the Biscuit Bunch.

And your telling me this with the picture of a grown man in your signature? Are you really gay is that why you wont post a picture of yourself, are you frail and dying of herpes as we speak emperorrainbowdoom? I guess you and Dev have that in common

Alright, if you want convincing vocals added to heavier guitar tone, I have 4 words for you: Rage Against The Machine. Pretty much did all this, except for the hardcore influence, which in limp bizkit is negligible, if even present at all. And their debut dropped in 1992, a full 5 years before 3 Dollar Bill Y'all.

Fred Durst's aggression could be mustered by any teenager whose had things said about them behind their back at school. After all, it's all about the he said she said bullshit! Let's break things together, fred, and we'll all feel better.

Also, the main reason none of the bands I mentioned sounded nothing like Limp Bizkit is because they all had at least a modicum of talent, so the influences converged into something that sounded good instead of something that sounded like Limp Bizkit.

They sound NOTHING like any of the musical elements I listed, and even then they play Rap rock not rap metal with all of the aforementioned elements that define Limp Bizkit as pioneers of rapcore. Regardless of the release of their debut they still sound very little like the unique sound of Limp Bizkit, in fact they're even less unique as they can't fuse nearly as many sounds as Durst and company. What are you going to suggest now MC5 or some other funkadelic group to discredit Limp Bizkit? You just wont admit Limp Bizkit are pioneers of rapcore, and due to the historical revisionists in metal- just another individual trying to discredit the band.