Hailing from Ontario, Canada and sliding under the genre of "djent/progressive metal", The Healing is one of my favorite bands right now. Their debut album Transcendence is a great start to these guys' music career.
The overall feel of the music is fantastic, with hard hitting drums and great distortion on the guitar. I particularly love Garant's vocals - deep and powerful. I won't go into great detail on this album because I would like to discuss something else. However, I highly recommend checking them out - Bandcamp
The main point of this post is that I would like to generate some discussion on metal genres and the seemingly infinite amount of them. I know some genres seem to get slammed continuously (nu-metal and metalcore come to mind) and this gives negative connotations to any band/music that claim to fall under these genres. Which is unfair. For the most part, sub/genres of metal serve as a fairly useful way of giving us an idea of what kind of tuning bands use, vocal style and overall musical themes they may use. But is it fair to ignore a band just because it falls under a certain genre? Do you think the amount of sub-genres is ridiculous? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
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