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morbert
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 8:38 am 
 

I am just wondering. For me it's actually always been quite a thing.
I intrinsically love the art 'music' is. But it has happened to me quite often a band or video makes me lose my love or even interest.
So.... I am curious; What band(s) ruined your perspective of a band with pictures and/or videos?
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 9:28 am 
 

Avatar, after just one look at them i did
not want to hear anything from then.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 9:31 am 
 

My guess is that this topic is quite embarrassing for a lot of metalheads because it shows how impressionable we really are :D

While i didnt like the music on "get what you deserve" (sodom) the whole Onkel Tom thing really didnt help. Until today i think it didnt fit what Sodom did stand for; once a proto-BM, ultra-grim Thrash Band and then "aber bitte mit Sahne".
Lots of BM did come - and still comes across - so fucking laughable that i simply cant take it serious, but in that case it isnt really a "change" so thats not exactly what youre looking for, if i get you right?

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sevenwinter wrote:
Avatar, after just one look at them i did
not want to hear anything from then.



Pre-Savatage?

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sevenwinter
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 9:57 am 
 

Pizzasmasher wrote:
sevenwinter wrote:
Avatar, after just one look at them i did
not want to hear anything from then.



Pre-Savatage?


I dont know much about this band in such a way that i dont understand your question.
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dike
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 1:10 pm 
 

I think it's more common to get into a band because of their aesthetics.

However, I can almost never get into bands with a heavy drug aesthetic. I think I could really like Sleep for example but I won't get into them because of their infantile drug theme.

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 1:16 pm 
 

morbert wrote:
What band(s) ruined your perspective of a band with pictures and/or videos?


No pictures or videos "ruin" anything for me but sometimes they cast long shadows of doubt into my poor skull…

Metal in general… the way many, many bands portray themselves in videos, especially in the 80s, the poses, the fists, the chains, the chainsaws and the bare male or female midriffs… sometimes you think it can't get any goofier. So I try to avoid metal videos altogether.

Rock: Bob Catley's habit of fanning invisible midges away during live performances took some getting used to. Huge voice, many epic songs and then… that. :oh shit:

Not metal but: I love Kate Bush. The music. The music, the concepts, the voice and the lyrics. But I hate dancing. And I hate watching people dance. And I hate watching "regular" people who want to come across as professional dancers dance. She's not a professional dancer, and she's not a good actress -: and how many bedroom eyes can you bear (in the woods)…? So, for me, there's a huge discrepancy between the innovation in the music and the visuals. Whenever I watch one of her videos I wonder whether the tunes I love are, in fact, the campiest shit ever. :crash:
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 1:41 pm 
 

Like others on here I'm sure, I didn't really give The Black Dahlia Murder a chance until "Deflorate" came out. I assumed they were a metalcore or deathcore band because of some pictures I saw and the bands they tended to tour with. I never really held anything against them mind you, I'd simply assumed they wouldn't be my cup of tea and left it at that.

Then I gave their music a chance and was like "oh, so I was just being a giant dumbass then". Metalheads will complain about 00s-era scene kids being too image conscious but we had (and probably still have) the same problem, lol.

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 2:29 pm 
 

Metal adjacent, but something about Slipknot turns me off. The huge amount of numbers and the way they act like they're some sort of giant cryptic thing. You have Clown saying the weirdest shit, like how they're going to fill one of their festivals with manure. I get his contribution to the band's direction and lyrics, but I can't get past the fact that he's just there to bonk a keg and look wild. And he's not the only one in the band with that job!
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 3:48 pm 
 

Don't have any examples in metal. But there's a band called The Birthday Massacre which I hesitated to check out because of their looks. I thought they would sound like Marilyn Manson or some other nu-metal rubbish (they kinda have that sound in some songs, but it's not very egregious). When I actually listened to them I was pleasantly surprised by the quality and catchiness of their music. So I guess looks could be deceitful, although in general the weird looking ones do tend to sound like shit.

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HeavenDuff
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 6:24 pm 
 

If we're talking about the looks of the musicians and their aesthetics as in stage props, costumes, performances and whatnot, I have to be honest and say none. I really don't care how the musicians look. Well no, scratch that. I like nice looks and aesthetics and they can boost my appreciation of a band, but bad looks and aesthetics don't affect my appreciation of music.

But if we're talking aesthetics, like on album covers, lyrical themes and stage performances that good along with what I consider to be poor taste, then yes. I remember that garbage band Bookakee having a terrible stage performance where they pretended to remove a foetus out of a woman and then playing with the plastic doll cover in a fake blood. It was so pathetic... And yeah, the vocalist of that band, Langelier, is also a sexist douchebag, so it doesn't help. I generally don't get into BDM bands who seem to focus all their lyrics on violence against woman. Like, I don't mind the psychotic killer stuff of early Cannibal Corpse, but a lot of later BDM stuff reeks of mysoginy.

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 10:54 pm 
 

Pizzasmasher wrote:
sevenwinter wrote:
Avatar, after just one look at them i did
not want to hear anything from then.



Pre-Savatage?


I think he means these dorks: https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Avatar/24596

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mynameishere
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 12, 2023 11:30 pm 
 

For me, some bands playing during day time kill their performance when their looks and aesthetics are vital.

I don't dislike HELL, but... to some, its aesthetics and looks may seem a bit cheesy and stupid, but I felt playing during the day doesn't suit the atmosphere and all the theatrical spectacle.



His performances at night or indoors like this feel more natural and fit the show perfectly.


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77hjrttfred
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 13, 2023 12:19 am 
 

I would nominate Powerwolf for this topic. Those music videos that they make are incredibly cheesy. I know on one of those videos they were wearing these bodysuits with fake muscles. The music is okay, but not really my thing but the whole aesthetics behind the group is really cheesy in my opinion.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 13, 2023 7:26 pm 
 

Katatonia was mostly ruined for me when I saw the DVD that came with The Black Sessions boxed set.

They had a very “conventional” stage presence rocking out, head banging, doing guitar poses, running on stage, etc. To me, this was incredibly off putting and ill fitting for the morose/depressive vibe of their music (and before you ask, yes, I absolutely expect a band who relies on depressive imagery to stand in one spot and stare at the ground as their live aesthetic).

I saw them live in 2013 with Opeth and was off put for similar reasons, as well as the fact that half of their show was on the backing tracks.

I’ve liked some of their records since, so I’m not totally off board. I’ll just avoid seeing them live.
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VaderCrush
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 13, 2023 8:14 pm 
 

gotta be honest, i dont know what members of bands i listen to look like 90% of the time because i just dont care. and when i do, i still don't. devin townsend can walk around on stage making crazy faces with his jorts falling off all he wants, its not gonna make me dislike his music more

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 13, 2023 8:59 pm 
 

I LOVE Arcturus. Constellation and Aspera Hiems Symfonia are perfection. But when they became Intergalactic butt pirates, I nearly set fire to them. Never did check out any of their newer stuff simply because of their stupid new look.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 13, 2023 9:19 pm 
 

Cheapsteaks wrote:
Metal adjacent, but something about Slipknot turns me off. The huge amount of numbers and the way they act like they're some sort of giant cryptic thing. You have Clown saying the weirdest shit, like how they're going to fill one of their festivals with manure. I get his contribution to the band's direction and lyrics, but I can't get past the fact that he's just there to bonk a keg and look wild. And he's not the only one in the band with that job!



This. Not to mention they fell victim to the "no solos" trend that 99% of American bands from 94-2003 succumbed to.


77hjrttfred wrote:
I would nominate Powerwolf for this topic. Those music videos that they make are incredibly cheesy. I know on one of those videos they were wearing these bodysuits with fake muscles. The music is okay, but not really my thing but the whole aesthetics behind the group is really cheesy in my opinion.


I should like Powerwolf, I've heard a couple of their songs and they're ok but its the black metal facepaint that throws me off. Like, they know KISS already did that right? At least use a different color scheme.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 13, 2023 10:20 pm 
 

Pizzasmasher wrote:
While i didnt like the music on "get what you deserve" (sodom) the whole Onkel Tom thing really didnt help. Until today i think it didnt fit what Sodom did stand for; once a proto-BM, ultra-grim Thrash Band and then "aber bitte mit Sahne".


I really like that album, and that track isn't bad either. It was cool to see them just having fun after nearly a decade of making some of the most barbaric thrash of their day.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 14, 2023 2:02 am 
 

I don't know about ruined, but I put off listening to English Dogs for a very long time simply because of how they looked. Always been into punk as well as metal too, just something about them put me off. Until I finally heard a record of course.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 15, 2023 12:44 am 
 

Rock: Bob Catley's habit of fanning invisible midges away during live performances took some getting used to. Huge voice, many epic songs and then… that. :oh shit:

Never seen Magnum, but I was turned off Uriah Heep for a long time because the keyboard player would play a note, wave his hand for applause, play another note, wave his hand for applause... like, play your solo already!

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 15, 2023 5:13 am 
 

I hate it when singers wear a hat.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 15, 2023 6:56 am 
 

Paka01 wrote:
I hate it when singers wear a hat.


What about Stevie Ray Vaughn? I think his hat was pretty cool. Is he ok with a hat because he was not a metal musician? Or was he ok with a hat because he also played a lead instrument? Or was it not ok at all? :lol:

I think Brian Johnson looks pretty decent with a hat.

And I'm pretty damn sure the only reason Klaus Meine has worn a hat for many years is to hide his male pattern baldness. You could see even in the Rock You Like a Hurricane video he was already losing his hair.

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morbert
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 15, 2023 6:58 am 
 

DoomMetalAlchemist wrote:
Paka01 wrote:
I hate it when singers wear a hat.


What about Stevie Ray Vaughn? I think his hat was pretty cool. Is he ok with a hat because he was not a metal musician? Or was he ok with a hat because he also played a lead instrument? Or was it not ok at all? :lol:

I think Brian Johnson looks pretty decent with a hat.

And I'm pretty damn sure the only reason Klaus Meine has worn a hat for many years is to hide his male pattern baldness. You could see even in the Rock You Like a Hurricane video he was already losing his hair.


King Diamond anyone
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Endarkening wrote:
I LOVE Arcturus. Constellation and Aspera Hiems Symfonia are perfection. But when they became Intergalactic butt pirates, I nearly set fire to them. Never did check out any of their newer stuff simply because of their stupid new look.


That’s when their music became much more interesting.

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morbert wrote:
DoomMetalAlchemist wrote:
Paka01 wrote:
I hate it when singers wear a hat.


What about Stevie Ray Vaughn? I think his hat was pretty cool. Is he ok with a hat because he was not a metal musician? Or was he ok with a hat because he also played a lead instrument? Or was it not ok at all? :lol:

I think Brian Johnson looks pretty decent with a hat.

And I'm pretty damn sure the only reason Klaus Meine has worn a hat for many years is to hide his male pattern baldness. You could see even in the Rock You Like a Hurricane video he was already losing his hair.


King Diamond anyone


Ha. What really throws me is the shaved head, but if he does that to combat male pattern baldness, then I can't blame him for that. If he still had long hair and still chose to wear the hat I don't think it would throw me off so much.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 15, 2023 8:06 am 
 

Other way around but I first saw a photo of early 90s era Danzig and thought based on their look, they'd be a cool as fuck sounding Type O Negative kind of band.

And THEN I heard their music...
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Metal Shark wrote:
Pizzasmasher wrote:
sevenwinter wrote:
Avatar, after just one look at them i did
not want to hear anything from then.



Pre-Savatage?


I think he means these dorks: https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Avatar/24596


Ah, okay, i was really surprised. pre-Savatage Avatar and Savatage themselves (at least in the classic line-up) always felt down to earth and authentic to me.

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Nocturnal_Evil wrote:
Pizzasmasher wrote:
While i didnt like the music on "get what you deserve" (sodom) the whole Onkel Tom thing really didnt help. Until today i think it didnt fit what Sodom did stand for; once a proto-BM, ultra-grim Thrash Band and then "aber bitte mit Sahne".


I really like that album, and that track isn't bad either. It was cool to see them just having fun after nearly a decade of making some of the most barbaric thrash of their day.



I get you, though thats exactly why i didnt like it. It was a period in which nearly all "old" bands gave up their aetsthetics and sounds from the late 90ies and sodom was more or less one of the last bands that still did releass an album with the same "attitude" that was to be found not only on their classics, but also on albums from other bands such as coma of souls: im speaking of Tapping the vein. I grew up on that kind of attitude and sound, and somehow it just disappeared nearly completly. Im neither against "fun" or groove, or melancholy or melodies (in the gothenburg sense) and what not (folklore, orchestras etc) to each their own, but: there was simply nearly no more what you did call barbaric thrash. Specially on a musical level, as we found it on the late 80ies early 90ies classics (same happened to DM very fast - all became "constipaton-grunts" and "oh, wow, so technical" etc). Exceptions to the rule surely did exist (an album like death race king from the crown was able to provide me, what did make me a metalhead in the first place).

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Pretty much any retro heavy metal band whose pictures are all covered in spandex- not because I'm necessarily opposed to that but because all the worst ironic bands that focus more on looking cool than writing good music go for that same look and I've been conditioned to assume anyone doing that is trash.
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Recent pictures of Cradle of Filth make them almost impossible to take seriously. I've never been the biggest fan, and cheese has always been a hallmark of their gig, but Dani looks like a circus clown these days.

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Benedict Donald wrote:
Recent pictures of Cradle of Filth make them almost impossible to take seriously. I've never been the biggest fan, and cheese has always been a hallmark of their gig, but Dani looks like a circus clown these days.


Immortal comes to mind :D

Mortiis (but okay, thats not metal and he looked goofy since the begining)

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Pizzasmasher wrote:
Benedict Donald wrote:
Recent pictures of Cradle of Filth make them almost impossible to take seriously. I've never been the biggest fan, and cheese has always been a hallmark of their gig, but Dani looks like a circus clown these days.


Immortal comes to mind :D



For sure. The corpse paint fad should have died 2 decades ago. With that said, Immortal blows COF out of the water, so their version of cheese is easier to swallow. ;)

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Benedict Donald wrote:
Pizzasmasher wrote:
Benedict Donald wrote:
Recent pictures of Cradle of Filth make them almost impossible to take seriously. I've never been the biggest fan, and cheese has always been a hallmark of their gig, but Dani looks like a circus clown these days.


Immortal comes to mind :D



For sure. The corpse paint fad should have died 2 decades ago. With that said, Immortal blows COF out of the water, so their version of cheese is easier to swallow. ;)

And if anybody was going to make it work in a cheesy way, who else but Abbath?

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I dont like or dislike bands based on aesthetics but I will admit it always came off sort of corny to me to where all the corpsepaint, spikes, leather, spandex, or what have you that lots of bands have done. I dont understand why you wouldnt perform in whats comfortable and practical.

On a side note, I totally appreciate bands that utilize a keyboardist in their band, but am I the only one that feels like when playing live they look so out of place? Its such an integral part of some bands sound but man they stand out like a sore thumb on stage.

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pressingtoplead13 wrote:
I dont like or dislike bands based on aesthetics but I will admit it always came off sort of corny to me to where all the corpsepaint, spikes, leather, spandex, or what have you that lots of bands have done. I dont understand why you wouldnt perform in whats comfortable and practical.


Because music is related to theater and drama. To make something feel larger than life the use of clothes, make up, scene decor and such will give the illusion of something bigger happening even though it really isn't.

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dike wrote:
pressingtoplead13 wrote:
I dont like or dislike bands based on aesthetics but I will admit it always came off sort of corny to me to where all the corpsepaint, spikes, leather, spandex, or what have you that lots of bands have done. I dont understand why you wouldnt perform in whats comfortable and practical.


Because music is related to theater and drama. To make something feel larger than life the use of clothes, make up, scene decor and such will give the illusion of something bigger happening even though it really isn't.


Exactly. That is part of what I like about metal and rock, the spectacle. Give me King Diamond and his elaborate shows. Marilyn Manson in the 90's with his nutty shit. GWAR being GWAR. etc. Ultimately the music must carry the load but the visual and really help that.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 20, 2023 3:47 am 
 

dike wrote:
pressingtoplead13 wrote:
I dont like or dislike bands based on aesthetics but I will admit it always came off sort of corny to me to where all the corpsepaint, spikes, leather, spandex, or what have you that lots of bands have done. I dont understand why you wouldnt perform in whats comfortable and practical.


Because music is related to theater and drama. To make something feel larger than life the use of clothes, make up, scene decor and such will give the illusion of something bigger happening even though it really isn't.


Not without reason Dickinson discribes 'theatre of the mind' many times in his 'button' book
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2023 4:51 pm 
 

I mean, I'm really not into Septicflesh's bad-guys-from-power-rangers look they've had for how many years now? But again, their newer stuff doesn't do much for me either except for a few select songs.
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