abandonist
Banned
I'll stop when people stop apologizing for the dude.
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For the record, I'm not saying I like the idea of using a backing track instead of a guitarist, but shit happens sometimes. If half an hour before the show, something happened to prevent Al from playing, they've got to do something, and I'd be more pissed if none of them played than if one of them couldn't.Are you serious??
Or you could find something more constructive to do with your time than continuing to beat a dead horse?![]()
Let's take the heat away from Al a bit then. Is it me, or is Mike Semesky off-time in most of the vids I've seen? I mean his voice is fine but his timing seems to be off mostly.
I'd be dead-insulted if a band tried to get away with that shit at a show I went to.
tech metal: where being really fucking good at guitar just isn't good enough
that's actually the whole point.
there are about 400 brutal death metal bands for every technical death metal band. it's an elite company and if you can't play at the level, you shouldn't.
Honestly I feel kind of duped that Mu'min came out like he was this mysterious dark horse virtuoso and then all of this happened. I feel even dumber for trying to defend him in the last thread.
That said he's got some good songwriting going and I hope he can get over this and improve for the future.
everyone needs to cut this band some slack. Rudy is a very good friend of mine and i know how hard he and the rest of The HAARP Machine have worked to get where they are. The bottom line is this is their first tour. They've had computer problems, gear problems, merch guy problems, etc and that stuff can be very stressful for a band to handle while having to play songs as difficult as their's live. Give them some more time, they'll blow you away once they get it all together.
and once again it seems like the Haarp Machine writing WAY better songs than any of these other shitty tech bands could even dream of counts for nothing.
and see necrophagist had a couple good tunes but all the rest, to me, is 100% completely by the book neoclassical. it doesn't surprise me all that much they don't have another new album out because judging from the two he does have, he had nothing in the tank. both albums sound exactly the same.firstly, that's you're opinion, I think that they are incredibly boring personally. Sounds like Necrophagist lite with cornball Killswitch-esque vocals to me, but that's not the point.
and that's why any shred-heavy genre is usually total ass. nothing is less interesting to listen to than guys going "lookit what I can do!" and nothing is more depressing to me then so many guys thinking that music & showing off are the same thing.secondly, it's not the entire point, but at least 85 percent of the point/attraction of technical metal is that you are playing something that not many other people can play.
prove it then, crank out a tune as good as Haarp or Bulb at their best in guitar pro... very few people can actually write good songs. if everybody could be a good songwriter, maybe I wouldn't be so disillusioned about metal as a genre right nowAnyone can write super-complex songs using guitar pro, not many can play them.
That's the point you are missing.
lol wow if al mumin is only an average player, I might as well have no fingers on my left hand. tech metal fanboysand that's why (along with several other reasons) he is a tech metal god and al mumin is an average player who is good at composing complex riffs on his computer.
What are you talking about? The internet hyped this band and guitarist to levels that are absurd. He never came out as a mysterious virtuoso, they just didn't release any content or information and kept things under wraps. Don't blame them for getting your own hopes up due to OTHERS praising a band with very little to show for other than a commercial, a play through, and preproduction demos.
^ now THAT is lame. At that point you gotta just cancel your set.
^ Exactly
I don't see many jazz bands or concert pianists playing along to CDs.
Don't write technical music you can't play live and get signed to a big label, earning money from music you can't play. It just isn't right. You should be experienced if you are in a "virtuoso" group. People are paying to see something amazing, to be inspired.