Metal never dies...

Matt Pike's been around a long time. True road warrior, does it for the music and the spirit of comraderie with the fans and other bands. A bad ass...

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Metal...

How about some Electric Wizard?

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Not a huge metal fan, but...I can dig on some doom


love Sleep, and Electric Wizard




Wot a shock to see this today! Cool stuff T

It probably should.

It probably should.

Hilarious.

I'm not a big metal fan but I like bits and pieces..

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I am amazed by Angela Gossow in Arch Enemy. Totally not my style - but she amazes me...

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Just as a side note - I use Arch Enemy to blow away the neighbours when they don't turn their music down at 3am in the morning. I route it into two of my guitar amps, open the windows and they give up on their party and disperse every time :mrgreen:

Ironically I've also used Opera. :mrgreen:

It probably should.

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Your avatar reminds me of these guys ...
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Not a huge metal fan, but...I can dig on some doom


love Sleep, and Electric Wizard




Wot a shock to see this today! Cool stuff T

I think of more heavier, doom laden stuff when I think of metal. The 80's did a good job of almost killing metal off, just like the 90's watered down the 'punk' label. Music labels should be killed off, just take a band for what it is, but the idea and sound of the words "Heavy Metal", like Burroughs "Heavy Metal Kids" from Naked Lunch always had more connotations of toxicity, and doom, something rough. That's the kind of Heavy metal I like. Can't stand the Hair bands, or anything that has that glam, or power ballad thing in it.

Lemmy is Metal.

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So, you don't like Poison?:lol:

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RAWK!

I'll take the New York Dolls over Poison any day.:lol:

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Hearing the instrumental version (Royal Edition) of Mastodon's "Crack the Skye" album brought me back to metal after many years. The shift at the 4:00 mark slams harder than anything Metallica have done in decades!

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Your avatar reminds me of these guys ...
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My current Avatar is of Dr. Zook from the Hagar the Horrible comic strip.

I'm quite partial to a bit of Baroness...

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Hearing the instrumental version (Royal Edition) of Mastodon's "Crack the Skye" album brought me back to metal after many years. The shift at the 4:00 mark slams harder than anything Metallica have done in decades!

I really love that track. It was their fourth album if memory serves and their best one. It's very Prog metal in all the best ways.

RAWK!

I'll take the New York Dolls over Poison any day.:lol:

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Yeah, I'll take some real gutter trash and bash anyday. They had a great sounds. Johnny T is a really underated guitar player. err , was.

czook wrote, "my current avatar is of Dr. Zook from the Hagar the Horrible"



That was one of my favorite comics to look at daily, and on Sundays.

I don't know why, but that reminds me...some language applies.
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I think of more heavier, doom laden stuff when I think of metal. The 80's did a good job of almost killing metal off, just like the 90's watered down the 'punk' label. Music labels should be killed off, just take a band for what it is, but the idea and sound of the words "Heavy Metal", like Burroughs "Heavy Metal Kids" from Naked Lunch always had more connotations of toxicity, and doom, something rough. That's the kind of Heavy metal I like. Can't stand the Hair bands, or anything that has that glam, or power ballad thing in it.

Lemmy is Metal.

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+1,000. No Sleep To Hammersmith has been in heavy rotation lately.

Part of it is because it fits my mood. Part of it is to see how long it takes Mrs Fart to hide the disc :twisted:

Doom Metal is where it's at. Can't stand all the -core bands that seem to be all the rage these days.

Hearing the instrumental version (Royal Edition) of Mastodon's "Crack the Skye" album brought me back to metal after many years. The shift at the 4:00 mark slams harder than anything Metallica have done in decades!

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I got to see Mastodon with Clutch a few years ago. There really isn't an accurate way to describe how awesome they are live.

Clutch is still my favorite though.

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or more metal

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Clutch are probably the most accomplished band around for me.
Everything is killer but no-one is trying too hard.

I have a love hate type thing with metal but it's like anything i guess when it's done well it can really rip you of your ass

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What I love about being a metal head is no matter where I go, I'll always be welcomed as being a Brother, metal has been the music for outcasts, people who found solace in a kind of music that sums up their anger about daily life in high volume, high gain levels and a lot of beer.

Metal is a lifestyle, a community a nation without actual landmarks. And it's that whole thing of being united as metal heads that people find threatening. I know I shouldn't be talking religion and politics here but metal has been on the receiving end of religious groups and Politicians alike who have been slagging the music and the fans for just existing.
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What Dee Snider was representing here was the whole sense of Community that metal heads have and no politician has ever changed their point of view.

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I guess we can thank Kiss for coming up with the idea that all metal fans should be a family, songs like the one I posted, "Rock N Roll all night" and "Detroit Rock City" speak of a community, united in their love of heavy metal. It's a message that many band have since carried.
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If you go to a metal fest wearing an Iron maiden shirt and you encounter somebody wearing an Slipknot shirt, the reaction of that other fan will be "Yeah man, I saw them at that festival, wanna beer?"

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And let nobody tell you that Metal bands and metal fans don't have a sense of humor, people who listened to Gorefest would just as easily sing along with "Blaas of Glory" who are a marching band which performs metal songs, they've opened for Iron Maiden, Metallica and Slipknot.
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Pretty epic, causing a mosh pit in a swimming pool.

Of course not every metal band is taken seriously and none more than Manowar. Who's songs about fighting and going to war to defend metal and their leather clad image evoked ridicule for as long as the band has been around. But Manowar are in fact much like the metal fans: They find a sense of community with each other, a shared interest and the don't give a damn about what the naysayers have to say.
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The 80's did a good job of almost killing metal off, just like the 90's watered down the 'punk' label.

Lemmy is Metal.



Well I wasn't listening to the radio in the 80s, but in the UK, Lemmy, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and others were actually defining metal, not killing it. There wasn't any subjective sub-genres of metal back then, as Lemmy et al hadn't enabled people to invent them yet.

Metal will never die!!!!

Metal will never die!!!!

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that made me shoot some antidote...

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I am really digging this song, and the album. They are using a little more color on the guitar tracks, which I think is great. A lot of Doom/Stoner purists don't like any variance form the formula, , but it's pretty damn heavy!

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I think there is a good deal of King Diamond/Mecryful Fate influence on Electric Wizard's Jus Osborn's vocals. Not a bad thing, unless you don't like Mercyful Fate...

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I dunno T, they set a pretty high bar with Dopethrone. So much so, that everything since can't help but be a bit of a letdown

My wife and I agree 100% on Clutch
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Ms Mania doesn't like other stoner metal bands, and definitely doesn't like doom, that's all me

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I dunno T, they set a pretty high bar with Dopethrone. So much so, that everything since can't help but be a bit of a letdown

yeah, there is only one, and there will only ever be one Dopethrone. Kind of like Slayer and Reign in Blood, nothing can compare after that in the Thrash vein.

I remember hearing System of a down for the first time around 11 years ago and it was like a solid punch to the gut.

And I saw them live a couple of times and I was always amazed how incredibly tight they were as a unit, unbelievable.

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I was at this very performance, going out of my skull here.

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I guess we can thank Kiss for coming up with the idea that all metal fans should be a family, songs like the one I posted, "Rock N Roll all night" and "Detroit Rock City" speak of a community, united in their love of heavy metal.

Huge KISS fan since '76. But they are most definitely not a Metal band. They have put a toe in a time or two but the efforts just don't fit into the KISS formula. With Ace Frehley, KISS always had more of a Stones vibe than anything that might approach Metal.

As far as community and family, sure Gene and Paul believe in it - as long as that community and family is buying KISS merch! :wink:

Who said Kiss? Surely that man misspoke? He no doubt meant:

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Thank you Mr. Gibbs, for getting us back on track!


Here's a newie but a goodie

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Yeah, they got better songs, so what, wanna fight?

Who said Kiss? Surely that man misspoke? He no doubt meant:


I meant KISS and not any other band.
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Kiss as in Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, Peter Criss and Gene Simmons and albums like "Destroyer", "Love Gun", "Hotter than Hell"

Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE KYUSS! In fact I saw them live at the Pinkpop festival last month, they kicked major ass.
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But Kyuss is NOT a metal band, they are a stoner rock band, as is Queens of the Stone age.

Now Pantera, THAT'S a metal band.
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C'mon Johnny Blaze! People don't wanna hear Pantera, they

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you will start a cult after hearing this

i know... i keep telling it to go away but it doesn't listen! :lol:

I grew up on metal and I dig the attitude, aggressiveness and musicanship of many metal artists, but I just can't handle the cookie monster vocal stylings many of today's metal artists. Give me someone who can sing. I'm not sure if I would classify Tool as a metal band, but they're far and away my favorite "heavy" band. They have some awesome skull-crushers like this one.

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I also love this song by the great Black Sabbath. I can't believe they had this kind of filthy sludge in 1971....OH THE RAWK!!!!

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I grew up on metal and I dig the attitude, aggressiveness and musicanship of many metal artists, but I just can't handle the cookie monster vocal stylings many of today's metal artists. Give me someone who can sing. I'm not sure if I would classify Tool as a metal band, but they're far and away my favorite "heavy" band. They have some awesome skull-crushers like this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTPPysfYfUM&feature=related

I gotta say that Corey Taylor of Slipknot is a very capable singer.

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Note also: TELE CONTENT!

I grew up on metal and I dig the attitude, aggressiveness and musicanship of many metal artists, but I just can't handle the cookie monster vocal stylings many of today's metal artists. Give me someone who can sing. I'm not sure if I would classify Tool as a metal band, but they're far and away my favorite "heavy" band. They have some awesome skull-crushers like this one.

Metal was the first music I got into at 13, and it wasn't til I started using forums that I saw people were dividing it into pointless sub-genres. No other genre of music does this.

'Course R&B is a catch-all for anything pop, that sounds nothing like R&B, but I digress.

Back in the day, everything from Deep Purple, Rainbow, Zep, Sabbath, Priest, Motorhead, Hawkwind, etc was all metal or Hard Rock and these were interchangeable terms. They just had their own way of doing it.

Doom, speed, thrash, death, prog, melodic, orchestral and whatever other new term comes up next week - it's all the same stuff. I don't care for anything that simply chugs power chords and shreds at 200mph, over the drone that sound like an elephant vomiting; I don't see that as musicianship.

This is a pretty good generalized roadmap:

If metal was dead, these companies wouldn't be selling this *******, (cool stuff):

And a few others from well known companies:

I said "Metal Never Dies"!

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Now Pantera, THAT'S a metal band.
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I like a lot of metal but I don't like Pantera. And I've tried really hard.