Quote Originally Posted by Behold the Void
Not really fond of that style of music. Just seems too much "volume" and not enough "music" for my tastes.
A statement bred from the media's ignorance of metal surely.

New metal is so many times better than the "classics" mainly because the bands out now have time to expand upon the sound of the classics, make them better, and make it even more unique.

Back in the early days of metal, a band as smurfing good as Agalloch would never have existed. Infact, when it comes to "influential" bands I listen to very few of the "classics" because they just don't hold a candle to modern bands, one of the few bands I do listen to that is a classic and for good smurfing reasons too is Possessed. Their album 7 Churches is fantastic, contains some of THE most memorable riffs in all of metal.