[batreleaser]

technical skills dont mean shit.

creed had technical skills.

[cellscape]

That would be your opinion. I think knowing how to play an insturment well is an important part of being in a band. Is it everything? No. The Beatles taught us that. In the case of Isis, I'm not comparing them to Tool, but I'm saying after hearing their last two releases I would like to hear some technical improvement along with the progression in song writing. Just my opnion.

[Everyneurotic]

i'm going to give an example.

pelican were their best when they aimed for mood in their music, i'm talking the fire in our throats will beckon the thaw; then, with city of echoes, they became a better band techniquewise, and boring and derivative as all shit.

talent doesn't mean how well you can play your instrument but rather what would can you make with it; there's tons of bands that are talented and technical and tons more that are talented and non-technical at all. fuck it, i bet glenn branca can't play "smoke on the water" but how many symphonies has he written and performed?