Is it Reading festivals 40th Anniversary in 2011

[Vieuphoria]

I'd say Incubus are really not metal

[ShockTK v4.0]

I'd say Incubus are really not metal

Edited May 11, 2010 by ShockTK v4.0

[Vieuphoria]

I agree with you. The festival has alwyas been Alt/indie festival. Metal has never been a big part of the festival really.

However..... I still don't think Incubus are metal.

[ShockTK v4.0]

I agree with you. The festival has alwyas been Alt/indie festival. Metal has never been a big part of the festival really.

However..... I still don't think Incubus are metal.

[mrtourette]

Sunday at Reading was always traditionally metal day, but i) that refered to the general line-up rather than the headliners, and ii) the term metal was lazily used to signify that it was generally heavier than the other two days, not that it was actually metal. "Heavier than the other two days but not necessarily regarding the headliners, more the whole line-up" day doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

[ShockTK v4.0]

Sunday at Reading was always traditionally metal day

[mrtourette]

To be fair, it hasn't been.

In fact, if I go back to 1989 and look at all of the festivals until 2010, there are only a handful of metal bands that appeared - not only on Sunday but throughout the whole weekend.

It's not really a tradition to say 18 individual metal bands have ever appeared there in the last 20 years when you have about 4 or 5 times that in Indie bands. It's not a Metal festival.

Edited May 11, 2010 by mrtourette

[kev1664]

Bands considered adding but didn’t due to the fact they’re not Metal:

Guns N Roses

Rage Against The Machine

Faith No More

Staind

Tool

Helmet

Pitchshifter

Lostprophets

Funeral For A Friend

Nine Inch Nails

Every other band that has ever played Reading/Leeds in the last 20 years isn’t Metal. You do the maths to work out how many of them there have been and then compare the ratio to see what bands are out of place.

[ShockTK v4.0]

My point is they are not out of place upon the bill, and to dismiss any band headling because they are a metal band is strange.

[Vieuphoria]

I think, with Incubus, they try to be Metal but just end up sounding like a cross between Korn and Backstreet Boys. They're more of an American phenomenon than, say, Linkin Park who translate as bullshit into every language.

Bit like Orgy, actually.

Remember when Orgy played at Family Values alongside Rammstein and were being tipped as the next big thing by Jonathan Davies from Korn? Nobody 'got' Rammstein but everybody 'got' Orgy for that brief embarrassing moment in time when it was suddenly cool for a Metal fan to like 'Blue Monday'. Then it all went to pot with the second album and everybody realised just how shit they were. Then, all of a sudden, Rammstein became huge.

We don't 'get' Incubus... but then why should we even try to? What a shit band they are.

[ShockTK v4.0]

I like Orgy's first album =/ I also quite liek Incubus. Are we not friends anymore.... Or does my Dinojr.pavement thing still stand?

[Vieuphoria]

ha... I figure nobody likes Orgy, bearly anyone knows who they are... i figured i would always be able to get away with my liking for them

and that was plenty dramatic enough thanks

[Yellow_Fellow]

Shock... did you just say Slipknot were metal?

[ShockTK v4.0]

Shock... did you just say Slipknot were metal?

[Vieuphoria]

Slipknot are gimmick, a gimmick that needs to die and die soon.

[Yellow_Fellow]

1) lol no, Slipknot aren't metal

2) good one vieu, doing the polar opposite of listening to their music

[Vieuphoria]

I have their first 3 albums... But the band are average. Masks aside, they make average numetal/metal/Shite

[ska_4_life]

I was having this very same convo with a rock night DJ in a bar.

We agreed that about 10 years ago there were alot more bands like slipknot and SOAD about. Not saying they are metal, but you need to progress there. You wont be lissening to the Killers and think "Hmmm, im gunna lissen to some Manowar tonight". You need to progress the stages from Killers > Rage > SOAD > Slipknott > Manowar.

Without the inbetween stages we get left with all these shitty indie kids and leaving the true metal scene to die. If you like them or not, there needs to be stepping stones to get you to the real metal which has now just became an underground music style.

P.S. I hate all metal and Indie

[Vieuphoria]

You hate all metal and indie?

[ShockTK v4.0]

1) lol no, Slipknot aren't metal

[ska_4_life]

You hate all metal and indie?

[5co77ie]

It'll be my 33rd anniversary of the first time i went next year - FRAK!.

[Yellow_Fellow]

They are.

[lharris92]

lemme say 1 thing

i <3 teh metal but i still listen to other music so its all good

[lharris92]

Oh no... I'm being laughed at by a minority of repressed leather wearing homosexuals!