Yeah, the song goes above the ability. If you have great skills but lack the ability to write a memorable song, you're not good. Don't know why I like DT so much, perhaps it's something with the drumming. Mike Portnoy is such a diverse drummer, and he does seem to come up with the right parts for each song.
And i seem the love every band other metalheads hate. I like Trivium and Dragonforce, I enjoy a good bit of metalcore at times and I was a really big deathcore fan for a time. But if there's one genre that fits with this:

it's deathcore. Still, I do enjoy Despised Icon, Whitechapel and yes, even Job For A Cowboy.

And I listened to Khanate but I can't handle it for now :P That's pretty heavy stuff, hell that's a understatement, it's like being kicked in the groin by someone with armyboots on. Whoever said black metal was the most extreme metal could get shoud listen to this.

Oh prehaps that is the reason I have screwed up everyday things this week such as taking the right books to school Khanate just f**ks up my head :p

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I think you have me mistaken. When I talk about musicianship I mean how unique/interesting their playing is. For instance, if you take any Pantera riff, the minute you hear it, you know its Dimebag playing, whereas take a riff by, say, Suicide Silence, and it sounds like any run-of-the-mill deathcore band. I find the sheer brutality of some death metal just over the top and ridiculous. It's as if they have a certain set of riffs and movements, and they just keep on recycling them. That's why when a band like TBDM or Death comes along, I'm really hyped, cause it's something new and interesting made by people who have the balls to do something different. One case of this is glam. The only glam band I genuinely like is Motley Crue, and thats cause at the time they did something new and it was rather good (talking about pre-Girls, Girls, Girls). I can't stand, however, the thousands of Poisons and Cindarellas who saw Motley's success and tried to copy them. Technical ability can be cool, but once you've got 10 dudes playing solos for 30 minutes apiece, it gets a little ridiculous. This is semi why I find I don't like genres as a whole, but rather bits and pieces of almost every genre.