Life is odd

[Refugee]

Unplanned, unexpected is so right there Wrighty.

Didn't plan on Mom passing away.
Didn't expect to catch COVID twice in 8 months.
Didn't plan on my car getting stolen, with 2 of my 3 last guitars, and a Marshall SV20H, as well as all of my other possessions.
Didn't expect to acquire cirrhosis.
Didn't expect dual kidney failure.

Fingers crossed I won't need a liver transplant.

All this in just the last 18 months.

But, as soon as I can wrap my hand around a guitar neck regularly again I will be right back at it.

 

[cometazzi]

Unplanned, unexpected is so right there Wrighty.

Didn't plan on Mom passing away.
Didn't expect to catch COVID twice in 8 months.
Didn't plan on my car getting stolen, with 2 of my 3 last guitars, and a Marshall SV20H, as well as all of my other possessions.
Didn't expect to acquire cirrhosis.
Didn't expect dual kidney failure.

Fingers crossed I won't need a liver transplant.

All this in just the last 18 months.

But, as soon as I can wrap my hand around a guitar neck regularly again I will be right back at it.

Oof man... best wishes to you. (and Wrighty as well)

 

[Mjark]

Is Death Metal to Shoe Gaze a big leap?

There’s so much really beautiful music out there. Find some.

 

[cometazzi]

Thrash-related metal did die in the early 90s, as far as I'm concerned. I don't think grunge killed it. I think the black album started killing it, megadeth's response to the black album to get their own radio hit with a dumbed-down version of their own music helped, and then finally it was killed off by pantera, who made it into dumb meat-head redneck fake tough guy bragging music. It started seeming irrelevant and stupid, and then no one was doing anything interesting with it.
Nirvana just kicked it's corpse off the airwaves the way metallica kicked hair metal off.

I hated radio rock in the 90s. There were so many pearl jam soundalikes. To me grunge will always be Tad and Melvins, not Pearl Jam and bands like STP. I like to pretend grunge only existed in the late 80s, and then skip right to the good stuff from the 90s.

There was tons of great underground music in the 90s with a large variety. And for guitar fans, there was lots of stuff with real guitar sounds, not just distorted power chords and weedly weedly.
I really don't care if music is "guitar music", but when I do want to hear some guitar, rock doesn't do it for me. There has been no shortage of great guitar playing and sounds in my new music listening, but I haven't cared about mainstream commercial music for over 30 years. To me it feels like guitars have just sounded better and better since about 1995.

Your description of Pantera nails it. Funny story, I was a Junior in HS and I went to a Skid Row concert in the next town over. I wasn't at all a fan of Skid Row, but I was invited by a hot senior girl who paid my way, so I couldn't refuse. Opening for Skid Row was none other than Pantera. I had never heard of them before that, and when they came out and started playing my first thought was "Jeesh this guy's tone sucks..." and after a few songs it was "...every song sounds about the same, every solo sounds about the same, and they all end with the exact same pinch harmonic". Between almost all the songs Phil Anselmo was trying to pick fights with people in the audience.

Agreed that in the 90s a lot of the thrash bands lost their way. I feel like Megadeth learned from their mistakes and went back to their true selves. I feel like a few of their post-90s albums are some of their best.

And yes the Pearl Jam/STP/Bush/ and similar dreck was no fun. Alice In Chains was alright though, IMHO.

 

[bottlenecker]

Is Death Metal to Shoe Gaze a big leap?

Yes. It's a massive canyon filled with nothingness... after you pass the piles of corpses.

 

[Fiesta Red]

Yes. It's a massive canyon filled with nothingness... after you pass the piles of corpses.

And all the corpses are wearing black eye liner…

 

[HolmfirthNJ]

I think it’s great to rediscover and honour your roots like this - wishing you well

 

[MTPoteet]

@Doomguy

You're just growing up, your musical tastes are maturing. It happens.