Anyone else a metalhead?

[cheezyridr]

On 9/8/2022 at 1:09 AM, slonezp said:

I don't think any Megadeth album is good. Really "Hello me it's me again" as a lyric LOL The last time I enjoyed them was the day I saw them. It was Savatage/Megadeth/Dio ticket. 

 

The one band I won't turn off is Black Sabbath. First album I ever bought(maybe stole, I don't remember) was Paranoid. 

 

I listen to all sorts of stuff now. I get my 5yo grandson in the truck and we have to listen to "Rock and Roll!" His idea of rock and roll is Pantera which is fine with me. Picture a 5yo playing air guitar in his car seat. 

He's the hippie kid and I'm the old bald guy

 

 

if you like pantera, you'd probably like texas hippie coalition.  they used to be house band at vinne paul's clubhouse.  i first got turned on to pantera back when vulgar display was a new record. my buddies brought it around and i thought it was noise.  it took me a couple of listens before i understood what they were doing, and i was hooked from then on. before that it was judas priest, iron maiden, and there was nothing else. pantera was a turning point for me.

 

On 9/10/2022 at 11:08 AM, roadwarrior said:

I can't tell the difference between heavy metal and rap, they both sound just

like "noise" to me. 

 

i don't ask this to be rude, but rather because i'm curious:

if you don't like metal,  what brought you in here?  it's not like the tread title was ambiguous. 

as an aside, i like some country too,  but nothing past the 90's.  i think pam tillis is the most beautiful woman God ever created.  she's the only woman on earth that could draw me out of bachelorhood.  but reba could make me think long and hard about it.  she's a close second. 

 

i'm not much of a rap guy, although i can appreciate some of the real early stuff.  my son was a fledgling rapper, he used to hang out with icp, and he was a warm up for m&m once, many years ago.  i tried to raise him right.  i blame his mother

[LrgmouthShad]

Just as I am

 

2022 Spotify Wrapped

 

[Luke Barnes]

I don't know how I just found this thread. I'm a huge metalhead and have been for about 25 years. I started with Metallica, Pantera, Anthrax, medageth, and slayer. Then I discovered newer metal from around the world and fell head first into it and never looked back. Most of the bands I like no one will have heard of. They don't get played on the radio or anything. 

 

Bands like:

Soilwork

Circles

Twelve Foot Ninja

Meshuggah

[roadwarrior]

4 hours ago, Luke Barnes said:

Bands like:

Soilwork

Circles

Twelve Foot Ninja

Meshuggah

I wonder why no one has heard of them or why they never get played?

 

 

 

                                           

[MN Fisher]

18 minutes ago, roadwarrior said:

I wonder why no one has heard of them or why they never get played?

I don't know about those bands - but the ones I like are European and don't release on American or British labels...and that's basically what gets played here.

 

 

 

[Jar11591]

5 hours ago, Luke Barnes said:

I don't know how I just found this thread. I'm a huge metalhead and have been for about 25 years. I started with Metallica, Pantera, Anthrax, medageth, and slayer. Then I discovered newer metal from around the world and fell head first into it and never looked back. Most of the bands I like no one will have heard of. They don't get played on the radio or anything. 

 

Bands like:

Soilwork

Circles

Twelve Foot Ninja

Meshuggah

Used to listen to Soilwork a lot. Great band. A lot of good bands come from

that region 

[roadwarrior]

 

 

                                                 

 

I guess we all have different tastes...

[J Francho]

Stay in your Taylor Swift lane, Kent. They do get played. There's relevance in original artists, irrespective of the musical style. This is a metal thread. It isn't always necessary to excel at pleasing the masses. Some of the bands in that list will far outlive and be played by interested people than anything in your playlist. That is a hard pill to swallow, coming from a pop guy as myself, but it's true. 

Also, I'm about to write pop songs with my wife who happens to be a gigantic numetal fan. 

[MN Fisher]

7 minutes ago, J Francho said:

numetal fan

Define 'numetal'

All three I posted have been around at least 20 years - WT for almost 26.

[J Francho]

Turn of the century stuff. Korn, SoaD, Deftones, Disturbed, etc. 

[Hawgfinder]

Lots of great bands so far

 

Metallica, AC/DC, Volbeat, Slayer, Halestorm, GVF, Evanescence, 5fdp, Godsmack, Danzig, The Pretty Reckless, Roxanne, Killswitch Engage, The Cult maybe Alice Cooper because he drove my dad nuts lol

 

never understood rap

[Deleted account]

Not really, does Pantera, Eruca Sativa, and rage against the machine count? I don't like or dislike music based on it's genre, but a couple of chords played as fast and loud as possible with the effects set to 11 while screaming into the mike gets old fairly quickly for me,

[Bird]

Listen to mostly AC/DC, Zeppelin, ZZ top growing up but now prefer more Van Morrison type stuff.

 

There was never a day I could listen to that deep growling, screaming raspy stuff. Lol

I believe it's refered to as death metal, not 100% sure.

[LrgmouthShad]

17 minutes ago, Deleted account said:

Pantera

Pantera absolutely counts to me. Really enjoy them. Think "Cementary Gates" is a metal masterpiece

[Deleted account]

15 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

I don't know about those bands - but the ones I like are European and don't release on American or British labels...and that's basically what gets played here.

 

 

 

LOL. I was working in Paris in '87 or '88 when I heard Let be must the Queen, and I haven't been the same since...  

[Luke Barnes]

Why the bands I listed don't get played on American rock radio? They aren't rock. They are heavier than what radio will play. Plus they aren't popular by American pop music standards. But I don't care about popularity. I like the music they make and that's really it. 

 

I went through my numetal phase because it hit when I was a late teen so of course I latched on. 

[Deleted account]

13 hours ago, J Francho said:

Also, I'm about to write pop songs with my wife 

Are you going the Yoko or Linda route?...  

[MN Fisher]

6 minutes ago, Deleted account said:

Are you going the Yoko or Linda route?...  

I vote for the Tennille route

[J Francho]

Sonny & Cher

[roadwarrior]

Dolly Rap!

 

 

[Deleted account]

1 hour ago, J Francho said:

Sonny & Cher

Stay on the bunny slope...

[PondProwler9000]

 

[gim]

On 1/24/2023 at 8:26 AM, Hawgfinder said:

Metallica

They are playing at US Bank Stadium on August 16 and 18, 2024.  I might try to snag some tickets for it.  They are quite expensive though.

[MN Fisher]

11 minutes ago, gimruis said:

They are playing at US Bank Stadium on August 16 and 18, 2024.  I might try to snag some tickets for it.  They are quite expensive though.

I can't understand stadium shows - the crowd is huge, you never sit close enough to really see the band-members, and the sound system sucks...and the prices are outrageous for the average person.

 

That's what I loved about the Within Temptation show I went to. Skyway is a smaller venue, I was close enough that I could almost touch the band, and the sound-system is state-of-the-art...and it cost $35.

[gim]

3 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

I can't understand stadium shows - the crowd is huge, you never sit close enough to really see the band-members, and the sound system sucks...and the prices are outrageous for the average person.

I agree.  But beyond this, there's really no option to see a band like Metallica.  At least around here that I'm aware of.