Quote Originally Posted by SummerOfSam
Well lets look at this like rock.
The best rock is the stuff that sounds like they really payed attention to the essentials and built from that.
Even now
Bands like Slayer who come out with the goods because they stood to their essential recipe.
Or the Mars Volta who embodied everything good about music period.
Amen on the Slayer. Haven't made any drastic changes but have kept it fresh all these years. Are still as good live now as they were on the Reign In Blood tour. HAven't made major instrumentation changes, haven't minimized their sound, set trends-not followed them, haven't lost any of their energy and don't think they are the next big thing in their genre. Lots of applicables towards techno. Old school sound STILL done right.