To each his own, but the gutteral screaming nearly or completely unintelligible lyrics to a thrash metal tempo is not even music to me
That is just noise. I am glad some enjoy it, more love to ya...i can never even make it through 30 seconds of a song. It triggers my fight or flight adrenaline response, and in my presence, a guy screaming that would have to kick my ass in order to continue if i was somehow locked in the venue and couldnt immediately just leave. It all sounds exactly the same to me. Closest i ever enjoyed to that was pantera...and there are more pantera songs that i dislike than there are that i enjoy...i just really love the good ones
Reminds me of my youth when i was pissed off for absolutely no reason other than waaaaay to much testosterone for my body at that time. I love TOOL, also Deftones, old Korn, RATM, etc...none of those bands did the gutteral scream and growl as a way of communicating.
I am not crapping on anyones taste, as i said...glad you enjoy it. I just wish there were more bands that played and sang in the style that i enjoy. I am not old enough to fondly remember the hair glam bands, my teen years were nirvana, soundgarden, smashing pumpkins, alice n chains which i adore, etc..i even enjoy quite a bit of the RHCP. flea was awesome on the bass and their hits were great IMO, like "suck my kiss". After this period, i liked SOAD some, a couple Staind songs, etc...but that type of music really stagnated. The only decent sounding new bands i have heard in the last couple years are Ghost, who appear to be satanic, so thats a hard "nope", and a few bands from Europe that are kinda clones of TOOL, if such a thing were even possible. It really isnt.
Sorry for the long post, i posted a much shorter 1 maybe a year ago, but was pretty much asking the same thing...if anyone here knows of any decent new bands that are more my style like the ones that i listed above. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys.