i thought this was a metal band. what am i missing here?
some of the music is interesting, i guess more doom than metal, but these vocals... i expected something MUCH heavier based on the pics i saw. this
is like pop-black-metal.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
I had a friend mention them recently, but I skipped it on the neame alone.......
He's like, yeah, people keep talking about them so I downloaded them on Itunes.
I'm like, well whats the deal?
He's like, well they sing about satan a lot apparently......
mike and matty, help me understand this. seriously. are they considered a metal band? i mean, they're covered on metal news sites, they look metal
as fuck, but there ain't nuthin metal about that sound. i was TOTALLY ready for some cradle of filth sounding shit there and i did NOT get it. HA!
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
There's a lot of different variations of metal. This leans more towards some poppy 70's cult rock type shit, but it's still metal/hard rock.
It's easy to understand why this band is a hype monster. They write songs with huge hooks that are friendly to people of any genre...somewhere between
King Diamond/Mercyful Fate and Turbonegro, with hugely theatrical live show that absolutely kicks ass and the music media latched onto them early
further propagating the hype. They have spooky imagery...which depending on how uptight you are is either amusing at best, lame at worst. They have
"mystery members"....it's pretty much a recipe for hype.
When you have bands rerecording their old albums trying to recapture glories because they couldn't write a listenable new song to save their
lives...it's not hard to see why stuff like this takes off....at least its original for the most part.
Well, i got into hardcore through punk, skating and indie rock so never had much knowledge of 'classic metal'.
Now despite not being a metal guy, i do like a lot of doom metal and stoner rock and what I gather from my fully qualified metal bro's is that Ghost
are basically just a modern day version of Mercyful Fate.
I saw them at Roadburn fest a few years ago (annual stoner/doom/prog/weirdo metal fest in Holland) and the stage show was awesome... they had that
spooky music from the orgy scene in Eyes Wide Shut as their intro tape, dry ice everywhere, all the band dressed up like cloaked druids (with faces
blacked out) and the singer walked out in full corpse paint, priests outfit and carrying one of those incense dispenser things. It was a fucking sight
and a half and I couldn't help get caught up in it.
I never listen to them on record but there was something undeniable about that live show.
Sure, it was cheesy as all hell but I think a hell of a lot of metal is cheesy as hell by default.
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