Metal as you get older

[Ironic Pirate]

I'm thinking the problem is that Metal is outgrowing me...

I mean, most new stuff is either some kind of core thing, or stupid "We're so Brutal (love us)" Death Metal.

It's fine if you like that, but I hate it. Power Metal is okay, but it gets a little so silly at time, and some of them use the keyboard way more than I like.

 

[Deadlock Radium]

I've listened to metal for quite some while now, and what has happened to me through the years is that I seek older and heavier metal. At first I just listened to In Flames, but now I'm listening to everything, mostly 90's melodeath.
As for growing away from metal, neeeeeeeeeeeh, don't think so.

 

[Aisaku]

I never quite got past the feeling it was all noise. So no metal for me thanks. To this day I prefer, rock, instrumental and electronica.

 

[gl1koz3]

Don't know. For something so popular, it gets not so interesting. Mozart for me.

EDIT: Popular as in being played at most places most of the time.

 

[MentalBakura]

Maybe people grow out of that generic emocore crap that's so prevalent today. Actual metal? Nah, it's just something people say, I reckon at least. The important thing to me is that peoples' tastes diversify as they grow older, not that they stop listening to a genre. I do listen to more types of music than I did a few years ago, but I'll be a metalhead for life. My 56 year-old dad listens to a lot of metal too.

Spoiler: And here's some Opeth for your listening pleasure.

 

[Doitpow]

I never listened to metal as a teenager, and now I listenign to it all the time. true story

 

[drdamo]

A true rebel never changes.
I might not dress in black all the time and listen solely to metal anymore, but if theres a squatters-party somewhere organized by old friends i'm the beast again i was back then!
Despite wearing a pink shirt and grey smoking-jacket most of the time these days.
Appearance is an illusion, i show the world who they want to see, so i'm always one step ahead of them. And yes, i'm a manipulator, one without enemies and no complaints apart from myself.

 

[the Dept of Science]

I think my opinion on metal will probably stay pretty similar to what it is at the moment. A small amount of it is good, and the good stuff is only good in small doses/at an appropriate time. Although I find it hard to picture myself as an 80 year old headbanging, I don't think I will have "stopped liking it".

While I have nothing against metal, I do have a thing against metalheads. I've always thought of metal as being catered for a few very specific moods, so there are lots of times when heavy metal just doesn't seem appropriate to listen to. Driving on the motorway? Classic rock works better. Relaxing in the sunshine? Indie pop or folk. Something to dance to? Electronica or hip hop. Something to get you pumped or to let out aggression? Then maybe I'll stick on some metal.

 

[Swny Nerdgasm]

I used to listen to all that death/black metal stuff, and sometimes i still do but more and more i've been getting into Sludge metal like Down, Crowbar, Eyehategod, amd CoC

 

[Wardnath]

Started off with nu-metal/hard rock, progressed onto deathcore/thrash, and finally into black/death/doom territory.

Some of those "screaming" bands are some of my favourites, along with the symphonic/ambient stuff.

Hell, I can even enjoy some -core from time to time.

Also, OP, I'd watch my language if I were you. The mods around here tend to be a bit trigger-happy.

In any case, you can message me if you want anything. I've got more unknowns than anyone here.

Just sayin'

 

[BonsaiK]

I've always been told or heard that everyone eventualy grows out of metal. Im sure it will never happen to me but i still dont know why everyone says it. I go to a lot of concerts meet a lot of bands real metal heads *not you core pussies* and some of them are in there 60's and later still enjoying it. I've loved metal since i was 4 years old and continue to this day. Also my father was a metalhead who got into it way back in the aerosmith days and probaly will continue till the day he dies. So my discussion is this why do you think people say or grow out of metal once they are "older" or will you be like me and be a metalhead forever \m/

Edit 1. I would like to bring into this thread metal musicians talent. Im talking about real skills not ooo lets play this breakdown in g etc. I mean who can shread play the works. Also a random drum discussion. I beleive that gravity rolling is fucking cheating. I respect a man who can do 280 bpm *thats 4 hits* with single strokes than some guy who can sound fast and just let something else do all the god damn work. Side note triggers do nothing but add to your sound not speed etc

Edit 2. Why does being a metal head imply you automaticly smoke. Idk how many times in school people wanted to know if i smoked weed asked me for cigs etc. That was before i smoked *i enjoy cigars and pipe seeing as how im a refined man* This ever happen to anyone else

I used to listen to metal a lot as a teenager. I'm now 36 and I rarely do these days. I didn't change my taste though - metal just changed. It went all nu-metal for a while with rap influences (which mostly didn't suit it), and now it's all this "metalcore" stuff which doesn't really interest me much either. I still will listen to metal occasionally, but because it's music I grew up with it's very "comfortable" and non-threatening so I tend to consume it the way other people consume easy listening music, i.e I might put it on to go to sleep, or if I've got some housework to do, but not to actually sit down and listen to properly.

Metal also doesn't sound daring or abrasive like it used to, to my ears. I started with stuff like Iron Maiden and Metallica, then went to the death and black metal stuff in search of heavier sounds, but the minute I heard Merzbow and Whitehouse for the first time all metal sounded completely weak as piss after that. It was no longer "the most extreme music" anymore.

Edit 1: True musical talent isn't just about playing fast, it's about playing what's right for the song. Some people can play much faster than me (and I'm a guitar teacher) but have no sense of musicality in their playing, therefore they are not good players. A lot of metal musicians are not good players for this reason, but of course this just makes the ones who are good players stand out even more. It's possible to have speed AND musicality, but the best players don't focus on just speed. And nothing wrong with gravity rolls. It's just a technique like any other.

Edit 2: I've never smoked pot or anything else.

 

[Kraj]

:shrug: I only discovered true metal recently; because most of it was really annoying pointless rebellion so far as I could tell. Then I got my hands on things like messuggah and born of osiris and started loving the technical side, moved to winds of plague and dimmu borgir and started loving the orchestral side, now I'm focused on technical orchestral and symphonic metal, and its all I listen to. I usually go through a musical phase in about 5 months, it's been 2 and a half years o_o and I don't see it changing anytime soon.

 

[PayneTrayne]

I love metal, still go to just about every metal show in my home town because in my opinion Metal is second only to Ska for most intense crowd experience (I'd love to join the two with Skindred). But after a while, alot of metal sounds the same (there are many arguments against this, but it is how I see it) after listening to it for about 6 years. So although metal is still on my iTunes, there's also alot of ska, techno, lounge and normal rock.

 

[Nosphorus]

I dont think I could ever grow out of metal, only delve further into it.

As a teen I grew up around my brother playing rap/techno/dance all the time so I used to enjoy that side of music up until about 11-12,then when I got my hands on the internet things changed, I started searching for music that suited me and metal happened to be the one that fit me like a glove.

I listen to all types of genres of metal at the moment, I guess it's because I can appreciate some of the talent that these bands have.

Classic rock, hard rock, early metallica albums (albums after m.o.p bore me silly), disturbed, Trivium, machine head and... cant be arsed to look at the album racks

Eventually my tastes spreaded out and I got into the branches of death metal, like bodom,opeth, lamb of god, in flames etc.

Over the past year or so I've started listening to a lot of black metal, and some of it's fantastic, others I cant really stand.
Alot of it's symphonic (Cradle, Illnath, Anthelion, Graveworm, Dimmu Borgir), and the rest is just plain old black (Burzum, Mayhem, Darkthrone, Emperor) plus some depressive/atmospheric black metal, Xasthur for some of you that have heard of it (I reccomend listening to Prison of Mirrors, 5:00+ the music changes pace and it's amazingly depressive, and his screams/cries are always fantastic.)

I will always love metal and associated music genres, I listen to a lot of classical/orchestral music too everynow and again, since I can get the same feelings associated with a lot metal/rock, (try listening to Moonlight Sonata)

I'm 22 years old at the moment, and I can only see metal having a brighter future, if not there's always plenty of undiscovered old stuff out there.

 

[Chromatic Aberration]

I'am pretty flexible when it comes to music: I can listen to pretty much everything and like it given a certain amount of listening time meaning I was never some "hardcore" metalhead. However, I have developed a focus on metal which I don't think I will "grow out of" sometime soon - for me, metal has too much diversity for that. Let me elaborate:

I started off listening to punk rock and power metal when I was about 15/16 or so with bands like Blind Guardian, Iced Earth, Rhapsody of Fire, The Offspring and Sum 41 - with which I still get that familiar tickle when listening to them today.

Spoiler: Shameless music promotion

However, in the last years I've become increasingly eccentric when it comes to music: I want to be surprised and challenged by music. I want bold mixtures of styles, unconvential riffs, diversity and epicness while still having some sort of musical order making them "listenable" so to speak. I found all that the different musical styles that is metal and, more specifically, in progressive and avant-garde metal/rock with bands like Unexpect, Opeth, The Diablo Swing Orchestra, Maudlin of the Well and Dream Theater.

Spoiler: More shameless music promotion

In a nutshell, for me, metal has too much to offer to get tiresome someday.

On a side note: What really pisses me off are people that eventually "grew out of metal" (or any other "harder" musical styles) and then think they are more "mature" in terms of music. The same applies to people who, literally, turn their musical taste into a religion: musical quality is and will always be subjective. Why can't some people get that?

 

[kiwisushi]

Mainly because it is outside of what the public expects of you. It seems strange that there are people who always say "its a phase" as if they themselves have to prove to themselves that they are the same as everyone else. There's got to be a philosophy/psychology reason for this.

 

[Nosphorus]

Mainly because it is outside of what the public expects of you. It seems strange that there are people who always say "its a phase" as if they themselves have to prove to themselves that they are the same as everyone else. There's got to be a philosophy/psychology reason for this.

It is what people call "the norm", some sort of human group pack thinking thing, that everyone should be the same, and if you don't follow that you are not normal.
It's where a lot of discrimination delves from, you've seen these peoples, trendies, emo-cores, the ones that go through phases that their groups are going through.

 

[NorthernTrooper]

I've grown into my taste for metal and other good music, and I don't think I'm getting out of it.