What Are You Currently Listening To?

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ljtenkor said:
Last week I heard that Archspire's coming to Toronto in April, so I bought a ticket and have been listening to their discography (trigger warning I guess, if you don't like death metal)
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Dean Lamb was my bass teacher for years. I love a lot of 'lighter' metal (not pop metal, but stoner/doom/classic/thrash/NWOBHM etc.) but cookie monster vocals are a deal breaker for me, so I had zero idea who he was or any idea of how big Archspire was until I'd been going to see him for ages.

He's a total sweetheart, though, and his analytical approach to music was a very good counterpoint for my obsession with feel and groove. I introduced him to lots of soul and funk, he introduced me to odd time signatures and sweep picking. Not that I'm even in the same galaxy as him for talent, though. The man is a wizard, and one thing I took from my time with him is just how hard he works at perfecting his craft. Hours and hours and hours, totally obsessed. Really eye-opening and impressive.

I'll probably never totally dig their music, it's just not my jam, but have endless respect for what they do...
 
Priller said:
Dean Lamb was my bass teacher for years. I love a lot of 'lighter' metal (not pop metal, but stoner/doom/classic/thrash/NWOBHM etc.) but cookie monster vocals are a deal breaker for me, so I had zero idea who he was or any idea of how big Archspire was until I'd been going to see him for ages.

He's a total sweetheart, though, and his analytical approach to music was a very good counterpoint for my obsession with feel and groove. I introduced him to lots of soul and funk, he introduced me to odd time signatures and sweep picking. Not that I'm even in the same galaxy as him for talent, though. The man is a wizard, and one thing I took from my time with him is just how hard he works at perfecting his craft. Hours and hours and hours, totally obsessed. Really eye-opening and impressive.

I'll probably never totally dig their music, it's just not my jam, but have endless respect for what they do...
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Nice! Yeah, Dean seems pretty great. I only started listening to Archspire after I bought a ticket last week, but had seen some of his 4 levels of death metal stuff on youtube.

I totally understand that about vocals in a lot of extreme metal. There are a lot of things I listen to now that I couldn't really get into earlier (and there are still extreme sub-genres and bands that remain like that for me at this time), but I guess fell into it through a few of the more accessible death metal albums.
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