Disturbed isn't Heavy Metal?

[Tomato]

I see it listed in the Metal section in HMV... so what is it then?

[Jabo]

You're seriously looking for trouble here, aren't you?

[Blue]

Wow... flame-bait much?

[Tomato]

No i seriously wanna know now... I've been told its not heavy metal but i always thought it was...

[Snarfevs]

I will be your surrogate waronmars for this session:

SHUT UP AND DRAW

Or I'll get my favourite band to beat up your favourite band.

[wil.whalen]

On their website bio they say "Hard Rock".

[Slash]

Personally i'd say its nu-metal. This will probably be disputed by fans of the band who doesnt like to have this genre pinned on their favorite band..

But i say if it quacks like a duck...


If you wanna know what heavy metal is, go listen to black sabbath, deep purple or led zeppelin.

[0kelvin]

I can't find a font big enough to express how bloody inane this thread is.



0kelvin

[j a k e]

I cant believe im actually posting here. Lol-city, population: me.
As Slash said it's really Nu-Metal.
Heavy Metal these days is really going into alot of subgenres. There are so many Metal-influenced bands these days its hard to define new just plain "heavy metal" bands. Stuff like grind, death, doom, hardcore (that might be going a little far). But Disturbed, by my opinion is Nu-metal. On another note, Have a listen to something like As I Lay Dying, Caliban, As Blood Runs Black, August Burns Red, The Knife Trade. Thats really great stuff :P

Oh, and get drawing too.

[Sepulverture]

jsut because they are have a heavy metal label dosen't make them heavy metal. I agree with slash also. Go listen to some iron maiden if you want heavy metal. If you want real heavy metal go listen to amon amarth, or slayer, or cradle of filth or something like that. Why do you even care? Just because most of the people who have responded here dont like disturbed, or dont agree that it is in fact heavy metal dosent mean you have to try to prove or justify anything here. If you like them you like them.

[jfwalls]

They may count as metal, but they're definately not heavy. This is Heavy (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=100258618).

[Tomato]

hmm................ well what does it matter? I love them and thats all that matters :D Isn't people like Black Sabbath and Led Zeplin more classic rock? Does the meaning of 'metal' change between countries?

[cotron]

Well I know what the disturbed isn't for sure-

good music

:P

[j a k e]

Zing!

[FLenG]

Disturbed is very disturbed especially with the lead singer doing that weird random voice thing after every sentences he sings. The novelty wore off real fast.

[GriNGo]

. Go listen to some iron maiden if you want heavy metal. If you want real heavy metal go listen .... or cradle of filth or something like that.

lol cradle of filth :P the're nu-black metal :D Yeah, & if you like disturbed, everybody can just fuck off. I love Korn for example. If you want some metal suggestions, check out: Manowar, Iron Maiden, Metallica (older stuff), Iced Earth, Slayer, Bathory, Symphony X, Destruction, Nightwish, Lacrimosa, Sepultura, Stratovarius, Gamma Ray, Dio, Yngwie Malmsteen. Kick ass stuff. If it's in bold, then it means it kicks ass.

[demented]

Yngwie Malmsteen is the bomb!

And yeah, Iron Maiden, Metallica and Iced Earth will remain my favourite exponents of the metal genre.

Why is this thread here again?

- d.

[Jabo]

hmm................ well what does it matter? I love them and thats all that matters :D

Then why the hell did you start all this? Are you really that bored? Why don't you do something that really matters? I don't know, work or something. It will help, trust me!

[VirusArtist]

They may count as metal, but they're definately not heavy. This is Heavy (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=100258618).


dude.. you just made my day!! AWESOME!!

[strych9ine]

Odayga, I knew you'd be back in one form or another.

[icedsoul]

I think this whole subgenre thing really goes on my nerve... and confuses everyone... I am not really sure if disturbed themselves know what genre they are put in. and in the end it doesn't matter as long as you like the music.... and I like disturbed!

[Moai]

Ugh...This thread reminds me of the group forums in Myspace. :blah:

[Noë]

They may count as metal, but they're definately not heavy. This is Heavy (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=100258618).
love it!

Oh and about disturbed, who cares what it is?
I like them, going to see them september 23rd, but if you don't like them then you dont.. Don't go nagging about what it is and if it sucks or if it doesn't. Everybody can figure out for themselves what they like and what not right?

love
Marleen

[evildisco]

Here's Johnny!

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/6168/150pxtheshiningheresjohnnyix3.jpg

[Farvus]

This is heavy piece of metal :)

http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Workshop/Trencher4.jpg

[egerie]

effin' trolls.

[TheDirtSyndicate]

the only metal band ever worth listening to was sepultura.

[Carnifex]

isn't heavy metal some kinda magazine?
(http://www.flamingcarrot.com/FlamingCarrotPage/CoverGallery/HeavyMetalFall1997_50.jpg)
hmmm...

[CheekYM2]

haha this is too funny..

[strych9ine]

the only metal band ever worth listening to was sepultura.

ROOOOOOOOOOOTS BLOOOOODY ROOOOOOOOOOOOTS!

Man, I miss that band.

[Moai]

This is heavy piece of metal :)

http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Workshop/Trencher4.jpg

Is that real?? Holy shit!

[Jason Rainville]

Since this has probably attracted some metalheads already, I may as well tack-on a question of my own:

Where does Blind Guardian fit into the whole metal-categorization?

I've heard it described as power-metal, what constitues the label of 'power-metal?'

[icedsoul]

well... blind guardian... for me again just metal... ok forget the last cd, that opera thingy was crap, but the new one is quite good.

hmm what about "fantasymetal" ?

[Jason Rainville]

well... blind guardian... for me again just metal... ok forget the last cd, that opera thingy was crap, but the new one is quite good.

hmm what about "fantasymetal" ?

That's what I've always called it. Never had a better description :shrug:

[GriNGo]

dethklok kicks ass! blind guardian would be some kind of speed metal/epic metal band. Fantasy Metal is actually Epic Metal (operas & stuff). Good bands in this genre are Rhapsody, Dragonforce, Mago de Oz (from Spain). Wikipedia says Manowar is Epic Metal, but I rather think it's more traidional heavy stuff (like Maiden). For me Epic Metal is one of the most complete "metals" out there, since they mix so much stuff. But the most pure of them all is definitley black metal. Nothing surpasses Burzum, Mayhem or Bathory. Pure screaming energy. For what Power Metal is, check out this entry from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_metal.

[Jack the R]

I don't think I'll ever understand why Disturbed generates so much controversy - but I don't listen to radio, maybe they get played 300 X daily.

[dindon]

Categorizing music is a big waste of time. It should be simple like in a music store. Metal, Rock, Pop, whatever. None of this pretenious "so-and-so is a hardcore-punk-grindcore-thrash-rap-classical-metal band"

[jfwalls]

Humans have the need to categorize and label everything. It is to be expected.

[Staz Johnson]

To paraphrase, 'I like both kinds of music, HEAVY, & METAL!'

[ruzkin]

Sometimes though it is useful to have all these inane subcategories, so you can better find similar music.

For the music buffs here, what various slots would the following bands fit into?

Coheed and Cambria, Children of Bodom, King Crimson, Dream Theater, Cog, Breed 77, Fear Factory? Because these days, they're ALL in the metal section.

[corky13]

Meh who cares what subgenre it fits into ?

To quote 2 friends of mine
A= I heard you are pretty much into Metal...what genre you like most ?
B= The good Metal

(besides ... to all thopse Nu-Metal haters = Hating the current evolution of Heavy Metal is like hating their own kids for being different...)

[Jack the R]

I'm with corky13, "similiar" is not the same thing as "good." If you want good music, you have to browse the top 10% of each genre.

[Mr Man]

Someone needs to close this thread.

Everyone sees music differently and everybody likes music differently for their own personal reasons. Also people have different opinions of what catagory something is, this is with music, people, even art. Theres always someone who will see something different from you.

As long as you love the music a band/singer/DJ creates then it doesnt matter what anyone else thinks of it because its close to your heart.

But like Mr Kaufman said dont depend on it.
Music is an amazing thing yet silence is also.

[Professor Az]

Hating the current evolution of Heavy Metal is like hating their own kids for being different...

And we all know how much we hate our kids... >:|

[GriNGo]

i don't hate it... i just don't like it much.

[Sepulverture]

Mr. Man - Seconded. Some one please close this thing.

[jerkface]

disturbed isn't heavy metal. its nu metal, coz its doesnt sound like shit like the old stuff.. metallica and ac/dc or whatever. yea its definetly nu-metal.. (sorry dont take that personally)

[TheDirtSyndicate]

If you want good music, you have to browse the top 10% of each genre.

NOT THE TOP, the BOTTOM man, the bottom, the ones that BUILT the genre. not the top 10%
the top %10 would be blink 182, sum 41, creed, and shit like that
you gotta go for the ROOTS man, not whats popular in ANY genre. (popular with the MASSES that is...popular with true fans? thats different.)
i dunno...seems like when a band gets popular, they start to suck ass.
prime example: chevelle. their first album was fucking awesome, it was like a cross between tool and nirvana, fucking raw, beautiful work. but then they immediately went downhill. theres a hundred fuckin bands out there like that that with an great first album. some make it to a second album, but most dont.
those that do, they stick around, like Tool, or the deftones (unfortunately they're on the verge of selling out)
i dunno man, if all you listen to is whats popular, you need to turn off the radio and go hit the music stores looking for more *underground shit.

*underground meaning, NOT on TRL

[Sundance]

I love Korn for example.

I knew there was a reason I was starting to like you. :tihi:

[TheDirtSyndicate]

korn falls under the same catagory of "first album was good, but then they started to suck ass"

[Cowlander]

"remember kids, a band's only cool when noone else knows about them....."

How is Zepp HEAVY Metal , but Disturbed isnt? Doesnt make a whole lot of sense.

[Moai]

I hate to get involved in this, but...
It irritates the heck out of me to hear Led Zeppelin called heavy metal.

[light]

It was heavy metal. Many moons ago. LZ I mean

[GriNGo]

korn falls under the same catagory of "first album was good, but then they started to suck ass"

that has some truth in it... the first album is the best, hands down.

[TheDirtSyndicate]

yeah, back when zeppelin first popped up they were heavy metal. nowdays we call that "classic rock"
and they're still better than 99% of the shit on the radio right now.

[TheDirtSyndicate]

ya know... at first i said 80%...then i thought about it... edited that up to 90%...then i thought about it... edited it up to 99%....
now that i've thought about it some more.... they are better than EVERYTHING on the radio right now.

[0shade0]

I feel like getting banned
I think led zepp is EMO
haha ;p

[corky13]

disturbed isn't heavy metal. its nu metal, coz its doesnt sound like shit like the old stuff.. metallica and ac/dc or whatever. yea its definetly nu-metal.. (sorry dont take that personally)

i hope you were just joking...if not...well sadly i dont know you in person...BUT if you ever take a trip to austria please contact me so i can beat the said "shit" out of you with my guitar ;) much love , corky13 , btw ... dont take THAT personally ;) ever tried to play stuff like "Nothing Else Matters" yourself...i suggest you should listen more into the "old shit" bands youre hating so much ;) maybe you will start to respect (I dont say you have to like it) them at least for what they have done for heavy metal...

[ruzkin]

disturbed isn't heavy metal. its nu metal, coz its doesnt sound like shit like the old stuff.. metallica and ac/dc or whatever. yea its definetly nu-metal.. (sorry dont take that personally)

Hahahaha, oh dear, oh dear.

[Ive]

linkin park all the way


no. :)