Lamb Of God Vs. Slipknot

[RiseToFall]

Too many biased opinions here. Music isn't based solely off a guy screaming into a microphone. If their music is so horrible, why don't you pick up a guitar and play like the guitarist? or how about grab some sticks and start hitting a drum like their drummer? This goes for both bands, and they're both good in their own ways. This isn't "do you like rock or do you like britney spears" its Lamb of God Vs Slipknot. I'd say, if you don't like either, don't post. That one post count won't kill you.


As for the topic, I'd go with old school slipknot, although I haven't listened to much metal lately, but I do think LoG is more skilled.

So your telling me that you never heard a song before and thought to yourself "Wow, this is really bad"? Bull.

It doesn't matter if I can play their music or not. Why would I listen to this crap when I can listen to much better bands (and I like screaming bands).

And I never said they were talentless. I just don't like how they sound. There are many other screaming or metal bands that do what they do but 100X better.

You missed my point bud. Most of you are like "Slipknot sucks and LoG sucks." and yet they're actually quite skilled musicians. I wasn't referring to you liking them or not, that itself would be biased, which I claimed most of the people in this thread to be, so why would I do it myself.

You can't possibly say a band is complete trash when they're skilled, if anything, you simply don't like their music, but saying they completely suck is just over the edge, and quite immature, or as I put it before, biased.

To YOU there is better bands, yet to others, the better bands are LOG or slipknot, or both, but you can't force your opinion on them.

Anyone who thinks Slipknot and Lamb of God are good bands needs new musical taste.

Thats like saying whoever likes RPG's needs a new gaming genre taste from a FPS type player. Just because you don't like it, doesn't give you the right to tell others they're wrong, or they "need a new taste". Simply don't listen to it, and move on.

Or perhaps, I can try and help people listen to better music? Music DOES have the ability to be objectively judged ya know.

No one asked you.

I like both bands and i know you don't like that.

crushed taste.

What bothers me about people liking these bands is that they are not even forming their own tastes truely. They are taking what the media feeds them and saying "This rules, best music ever" when they could easily scratch away some dust from the surface and see the sparkles of bands such as Bolt Thrower and Overcast.

The problem is, not with the person liking the band, but the fact that they listen to the band because they don't know anything else and because that is what is popular and therefore easy to listen to.

Music is an artform that demands respect, and simply letting the money hungry radio and music television networks feed you what they want you to hear is a gross disrespect to the artform that music is.

You know what they say "opinions are like assholes, everyone's got one and they all stink."

[Paro]

Too many biased opinions here. Music isn't based solely off a guy screaming into a microphone. If their music is so horrible, why don't you pick up a guitar and play like the guitarist? or how about grab some sticks and start hitting a drum like their drummer? This goes for both bands, and they're both good in their own ways. This isn't "do you like rock or do you like britney spears" its Lamb of God Vs Slipknot. I'd say, if you don't like either, don't post. That one post count won't kill you.


As for the topic, I'd go with old school slipknot, although I haven't listened to much metal lately, but I do think LoG is more skilled.

So your telling me that you never heard a song before and thought to yourself "Wow, this is really bad"? Bull.

It doesn't matter if I can play their music or not. Why would I listen to this crap when I can listen to much better bands (and I like screaming bands).

And I never said they were talentless. I just don't like how they sound. There are many other screaming or metal bands that do what they do but 100X better.

You missed my point bud. Most of you are like "Slipknot sucks and LoG sucks." and yet they're actually quite skilled musicians. I wasn't referring to you liking them or not, that itself would be biased, which I claimed most of the people in this thread to be, so why would I do it myself.

You can't possibly say a band is complete trash when they're skilled, if anything, you simply don't like their music, but saying they completely suck is just over the edge, and quite immature, or as I put it before, biased.

To YOU there is better bands, yet to others, the better bands are LOG or slipknot, or both, but you can't force your opinion on them.

Anyone who thinks Slipknot and Lamb of God are good bands needs new musical taste.

Thats like saying whoever likes RPG's needs a new gaming genre taste from a FPS type player. Just because you don't like it, doesn't give you the right to tell others they're wrong, or they "need a new taste". Simply don't listen to it, and move on.

Or perhaps, I can try and help people listen to better music? Music DOES have the ability to be objectively judged ya know.

No one asked you.

I like both bands and i know you don't like that.

crushed taste.

What bothers me about people liking these bands is that they are not even forming their own tastes truely. They are taking what the media feeds them and saying "This rules, best music ever" when they could easily scratch away some dust from the surface and see the sparkles of bands such as Bolt Thrower and Overcast.

The problem is, not with the person liking the band, but the fact that they listen to the band because they don't know anything else and because that is what is popular and therefore easy to listen to.

Music is an artform that demands respect, and simply letting the money hungry radio and music television networks feed you what they want you to hear is a gross disrespect to the artform that music is.

Nice mission statement, too bad you like crappy bands.

[fire_of_avalon]

How anyone can go from crazy masks to "Looking at you through the glass" (see lead singer of Slipknot/Stonesour) is waaaaaaaaaay beyond me. So yeah my vote is definetly for Lamb of God who I think are a hell of a lot better than Slipknot.

Actually, Corey Taylor was with Stone Sour before Slipknot was created, at least that is what I've been led to believe by the band bio's I've read.

Slipknot's lyrics are much more poetic in certain songs and Corey Taylor's vocals are really hard to beat for a metal band.

I do believe the technical skill in instrumentation by Lamb of God exceeds Slipknot's. The vocals aren't there, and neither is the lyrical content.

And really, they styles are pretty different. Slipknot is more concerned with interlacing repetitive rifts over melodic backgrounds. Lamb of God just want to rock your face off.

Involving Stone Sour in the conversation would lead to an entirely new element, as they are the better of all three bands, concerning lyrical content, technical skill and vocalization. But all of the bands rock pretty hard.

And Crushed Hope, just because something is delivered to you from an artist who is signed to a major label doesn't mean the quality of that music is any worse. If you want to be honest about it, it is the ultimate goal of all musicians to "sell out" to a major label, make tons of money doing what they love, and achieve world-wide noteriety for it. Your absolutely right to have your own taste in the artforms you take in, but art being what it is makes it difficult and somewhat insulting to judge another's taste based strictly on what you perceive to be good. I only say this because I used to think similarly, and I realize what a meanie butt I was being. However, you're entitled to your opinion. I'd just ask that y'all cut down the quote pyramids a bit, please? You're stretching the tables.

[Crushed Hope]

Nice mission statement, too bad you like crappy bands.

Too bad you don't know even 1/10 of what I listen to.

[fantasyjunkie]

I'm the only one so far that has posted in this thread that chose the beer. :weep: :frust: :rolleyes3 :sad: