Martins said

dreadkill said

menstrual_sweatpants_disco said	[orig][quote]
Fuck reading this whole thread. I'll just state my opinion and leave. 95% of death metal = boring.

you are being generous. i say 99% of death metal is boring crap with appliance vocals and no memorable riffs. i like older death metal, but i could probably count on one hand the amount of good death metal records released in the last five years. good death metal worth listening to is a rarity these days.

every other genre of metal > death metal.

The problem with death metal these days is a lack of focus on songwriting. A lot of bands just try to go for that whole wall of sound approach to sound brutal or be heavy. While sometimes that's awesome it absolutely sucks. If bands started actually concentrating on what they were playing then maybe death metal could turn around. This, of course, does not apply to all death metal bands because there are more than enough that know what they are doing out there.