What metal do you listen to?

[LooseCaboose]

Nice list of MALLCORE.

You're misguided, the first few in the list are clearly not Mallcore/Nu Metal, bands such as Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple really defined the heavy rock sound back in their day. Some of the bands there are Nu Metalish such as Linkin Park, but if you are calling bands like Rage, System and Tool Nu Metal, then you really haven't bothered to listen to enough of their songs.

This is one of my favorite songs, check it out

Its average, the guitar playing is very Metallica-ish, that kind of melodic start going into heavy chainsaw riff which is kind of nice. But when it gets heavy you start to notice the complete lack of a bass guitarist (maybe he is there and the MP3 is crap quality), so you get left with this empty hollow between the guitar and the drums. Not to worry cause the singer jumps in to fill that gap, which sounds really odd cause you cant make him out properly because the guitars drown him out. I dont mind that kind of heavy screamy singing as long as it works well with the song, (IMHO) it doesnt fit the mood of this song well, I also prefer a combination of heavy screamy with semi-melody stuff (Slipknots Wait and Bleed for example).

As a DJ I have learnt to like most songs for what they are, I dont really like most Linkin Park or Limp Bizkit (although Head for the Barricade is kind of funky) but they are two of the easiest bands to pull a dance floor with, because they have nice danceable beats and everyone knows the words. You can only start playing the less well known screamy stuff later when you have people locked on the dance floor.

Anyway thats just the music I play at work. About half of my own collection is on vinyl and contains stuff like: Pink Floyd, Led Zep, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, Jethro Tull, Wishbone Ash, 10cc, David Bowie, The Doors, The Beatles, Dire Straits, Jimmy Hendrix, Queen, Peter Frampton, right through to stuff like System of a Down, Tool and Rage.

Remember that Mallcore/Nu Metal comes from the sound of a song, not the name of the band. That Moonshine song is (again MHO) pretty borderline Nu-Metal, it doesn't really have any nice progression in the song, its just a cool guitar piece with a guy screaming something incomprehensible under it.