++ [ originally posted by Zambrotta ] ++
Attention all metal freaks!
I want to clear out what actually is metal.
I listen to Metallica quite a lot but only to songs like "Fade to black", "One", "Nothing else matters" and "Enter Sandman".
As I understand it Metallica is a thrash metal band and that Nirvana and Slayer should be placed in the same cathegory. I have listened to some of Metallicas early stuff and it was a lot "harder" than their more previous songs (skip St. Anger). I consider songs like "Fade to black" and "Enter sandman" as more or less regular rock songs, while I think "St. Anger" and "Battery" metal songs. You should know more about metal than me so can you tell me if I'm wrong here?
And the most important question is:
Is "Reload" a metal album?
If yes, what kind of metal is it? Thrash?
Are they still a thrash metal band or do you think they have developed in some direction?
"Nothing else matters" and "one" are from their melodic trash songs...but metallica have another trahs songs that are not so melodical,,and are pure trash metal..you can find some in the "master of puppets" album and in the "kill em all" album
All answers appreciated...
Well i think i can give my 2 cents here...
Mteallica´s "reload" was made in his decadency years... and is a music between metal and rock,,, something like that. It is a little heavier that loaded.
From the last album,,well i dont know.. i dont liked saint anger because it was a song with no feeling...and didint had the metallica´s trash metal...but with such feeling in songs like "One".
Nirvana, as kaliman said... is no way near metal...and i dont know why hetfield is saying such kind of things. Slayer is trash metal(though i dont like their style, there are a lot of people who love slayer) with metallica, Nirvana is grunge.
Metallica´s "Black Album" can be considered as their last "metal" album.
It seems like in saint anger their are playing trash again....but it have no solos , i cant understand it...they said that it was because an album dont need complex solos to be a masterpiece,,,but the truth is that even their old trash songs had more feeling, and those songs from st anger , it sems that they did it with no will, and with lazyness because is a lot of noise.