You aren’t supposed to feel good when you listen to music it should make you feel awe or terror or gloom or METAL RAGE LOL (insert devil horns and exclamation points here). That’s something for pop music, some might sneer.
Sadly happiness and glee do not often fit in with the ambitions of these bands. A truly great band can effortlessly summon up any from a wide range of feelings and put you effectively into that frame of mind. You can incorporate as many styles as you like, or span five time signatures in as many seconds while sweep-picking a pentatonic arpeggio or whatever you like, but these are not signs of the true diversity of an artist. This kind of diversity is what really makes an artist good. Some bands, like Tool, cover every “dark” feeling there could ever be, and still more bands like System of a Down or Opeth target a wide emotional palette. Other bands like Jimmy Eat World or the Fray stir happy, floating-along kinds of emotions, with their upbeat tempos and poppy structures. Many have described a band like Slayer as “terrifying” or inspiring rage and anger. It can be both difficult and easy to say how music makes you feel. Review Summary: Executed brilliantly and written excellently, this album's chief problem is the monotony that inevitably comes when a band makes novelty its byword.
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