For more videos visit metalinjection.net - We asked bands on this Summer's touring festivals, both Mayhem Fest and Summer Slaughter about what they think are the best stage moves in metal.
Seeing Corey from Trivium do the windmill and then pretty much all of Amon Amarth do it is the reason I first grew my hair out. I miss it and regret terribly cutting it.
I like how Suicide Silence said the worst move was crab stance headbanding. Pretty sure Mitch did that a couple of times. Especially in one of their music videos he did that pretty much the whole time
when mitch had the bird thing bobbing up and down that was pretty cool because all the band is synchronized. But behemoths just standing there looking intimidating is the coolest thing i have ever seen
I like Adam D's girly running, no one else has the balls to do that. And I guess no one else can pull that off, imagine Cannibal Corpse doing that shit :D
-"I'm more metal than you" -"No, i'm more metal than you" "Asking Alexandria is not metal" please tell me at which point every metal elitist is not close minded...
I saw Trivium @ Soundwave Melbourne Australia this year for the first time & I really felt sorry for Corey's neck; thought he was gonna turn into a helicopter & take off cause he was windmilling so hard. That's commitment.
I saw Suicide Silence live a few years back and me and my friends were just laughing at the singer's swan dance thing he was doing. That one dude called it Jesus on the scarecrow cross... to us it's the swan dance.
I think its funny how trey from dying feftus makes fun of the whole standing on a box thing and right after they talk to phil from whitechapel and he stands on a ego box haha
I think people forgot that it's called "headbang" and not "hairbang" for one only fuckin' reason : it's your HEAD that is banging, so you don't need to have long hair.
Deathcore kinda fits that description, too. *Cough* Whitechapel, Black Dahlia Murder, Within the Ruins, Oceano, Suicide Silence, pretty much every band on here *Cough*.
Crabcore is awesome!!!!! If i would have to say what the best crabcore move is my choice would probably be the crabhammer(fyi, its when the guitarist raises his guitar above his head and slams it down like a boss).
Anyone else think the Till Hammer is one of the best? I've been in such a Rammstein mood lately and I love when Till does it, especially with both hands at once.
It's not so much what you do, but how you do it. Fans can smell artificial behaviour. A well timed guitar spin can add to the show. Some can really pull it off to start instantly playing after the swing and emphasize a bit they're playing. If it is out of context, it's just a cheap move. It has to be planted at the right time. In the end it's just about if you can pull it off and that you mean the shit you do. Everyone looks stupid if they try a bad jump kick. All those tricks are like fireworks. If it's timed well with music and the other effects, it rocks. What i find worst above anything is that bands that surely feel that they don't have the audience specifically ask for a freakin circle moshpit. You either have the people fired up and they already go apeshit and you just go for it or you don't. It's like making a big pause after a mediocre joke so people might clap to fill the void. Another thing...stupid mic grabbing "techniques" and cupping the mike (which also shows you don't know shit about your instrument as a singer) Oh and constant air guitar from the singer (looking at you Chuck Billy...nothing against him personally)
im fine with those bands, i listen to suicide silence's first album and i liked whitechapel when i unintentionally saw them live at mayhem fest, and i bought a within the ruins cd for a friend as a birthday gift a few years ago and we listened to it, i thought it was pretty cool with memorable songs like ataxia (sorry if its spelled wrong) i just dont like the attitude that comes with the music mostly from fans who literally think theyre superior over everyone else because they listen to atr
Metal is full of elitists who think they "know" what "real metal" is. Music is interpreted differently by different people. Some people like death metal and some people like deathcore. Both of those genres can be called "real metal" as they are both genres of metal, whether you like it or not.
