Udinaas wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
Playing to the grid sounds boring.
I'd rather hear a roughly produced 90s era demo that 'breathes' than most current metal.
For most extreme metal I prefer production that's raw and atmospheric but also loud and not muffled. Celtic Frost's
Monotheist and Katatonia's
Brave Murder Day are the best produced albums I've heard in this regard. I think cleaner production can still sound good if it's atmospheric (especially if it's being combined with other genres and the point isn't just to be brutal) and overproduced metal is less annoying to me than extreme lo-fi where the static is literally louder than the instruments. But overproduction can still annoy me a lot. I was very disappointed with the production on
Magma compared to Gojira's previous albums and after hearing the live recordings of songs from that album I can't listen to the studio versions anymore.
For what it's worth I'm not describing lo-fi vs. hi-fi production, or highly compressed production vs. more dynamic production (although those are also things I have strong opinions about). What I'm fixating on is basically a matter of how time is kept on a production.
If you listen to the Burzum album
From The Depths of Darkness compared to the original recordings of those songs you'll see what I mean. The original recordings are far less consist in terms of bpm, he's playing 'in the pocket', but not to a metronome so sections subtly change tempo all the time.
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