Matt's advice column

Hi, you answered my question about the kind of music my boyfriend likes. Some of the stuff you were saying about subgenres of metal confuses me, but I will tell you all I know about what he listens to. He listens to bands like Disturbed, metallica, and skillet. I do admit I like a few songs, but you can't just listen to a few songs over and over till they bore you to death, haha. I like Comatose by skillet and Down With The Sickness isn't too bad. If you can help me find some more interesting music we can both agree on that would be awesome, thanks!

Your boyfriend listens to shitty metal :(. Disturbed is watered down garbage, Metallica hasn't been good since '88 (and I'm sure he just has the Black Album on loop), and Skillet is Christian hard rock: holy shit. I seriously do not blame you for not enjoying that stuff.

In all honesty, he's hopeless. Sorry.

EDIT:

Well, there's really a lot of stuff out there. Metal is a genre of tolerance, so it depends musically and vocally on what you're able to tolerate. A good start for non-metal people would probably be in progressive sludge stuff like Baroness or maybe Mastodon's latest record... or you could go the thrashier route with early Metallica or Megadeth or Anthrax. You wouldn't be able to handle death metal or black metal right now, but maybe you could stomach the atmospheric expanses of post metal like Isis.

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(Rating: 5) Ha, well what good metal would you reccommend then? :P If all else fails, I will convince him to like my music! I already know he would dump his music for me anyday, haha ... gr8fruit

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