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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 8:28 pm
by Kaiser
Thought it might be fun to share stories of how we discovered our favorite metal bands.
In the early 90s I had just started to really get into music and discovered metal thanks to the Black Album and MTV actually still playing videos (and Beavis and Butthead).
I was on a camping trip and my uncle who was a garbage man handed me this cassette that he found that he thought I might like.
It was a little album known as Live After Death. So I popped it into my walkman and was greeted with Churchill's speech and then they busted into Aces High. Pretty nice find. One of my favorite live albums to this day.
Maiden did not become my favorite band for a few years, but the seeds had been sown.
The first concert I ever attended was Maiden and Fear Factory at Metropol on the X Factor tour. Despite Bruce not being in the band at the time, that was one hell of a show and definitely a unique experience to see such a big band as Maiden in a small venue.
I think I've now seen Maiden 6 times, easily the most of any band. They never fail to deliver a great show.
I was fairly lost, musically, when I was growing up. Metal came exclusively from my skate punk friends. They took me to Pantera/Soulfly before I knew what those were. I preferred Soulfly, and I rarely left that lane until I found SOAD and metallica. Never seen either of them live though.
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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 10:11 pm
by PFiDC
Thought it might be fun to share stories of how we discovered our favorite metal bands.
In the early 90s I had just started to really get into music and discovered metal thanks to the Black Album and MTV actually still playing videos (and Beavis and Butthead).
I was on a camping trip and my uncle who was a garbage man handed me this cassette that he found that he thought I might like.
It was a little album known as Live After Death. So I popped it into my walkman and was greeted with Churchill's speech and then they busted into Aces High. Pretty nice find. One of my favorite live albums to this day.
Maiden did not become my favorite band for a few years, but the seeds had been sown.
The first concert I ever attended was Maiden and Fear Factory at Metropol on the X Factor tour. Despite Bruce not being in the band at the time, that was one hell of a show and definitely a unique experience to see such a big band as Maiden in a small venue.
I think I've now seen Maiden 6 times, easily the most of any band. They never fail to deliver a great show.
I was fairly lost, musically, when I was growing up. Metal came exclusively from my skate punk friends. They took me to Pantera/Soulfly before I knew what those were. I preferred Soulfly, and I rarely left that lane until I found SOAD and metallica. Never seen either of them live though.
Was Morbid Angel at the Pantera show as well? I saw those 3 back in 2000 something at the Patriot Center. Awesome show. Dimebag and rex didn't use the PA. They each had a wall of speakers instead.
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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2020 11:17 am
by the wicked child
Saw that tour in da burgh. Morbid Angel were indeed the openers. Last time I saw Dime live
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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2020 7:54 pm
by Kaiser
Reinventing the steel tour. Nothingface opened in Casper, they sucked.
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Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2020 7:56 pm
by PFiDC
Ugh Nothingface. Played a gig with them back in 2000ish. They were dicks.
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Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 5:10 pm
by skullman80
Some new Gojira...old unreleased song from 2003 that they recorded recently. Awesome stuff.
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2020 9:14 pm
by the wicked child
Not the best quality, but Rob Halford filling in for Dio w/ Black Sabbath
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Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2020 9:48 pm
by the wicked child
I completely gave up on Queensryche after the utter snoozefest that was Operation Mindcrime 2 and hadn't really thought about them for years.
I recently learned that they had given Geoff Tate the boot a few years back and got a new singer and were back to sounding like... Well, Queensryche.
Lo and behold, I listened to some of their latest album The Verdict and they are back to making good music again.
I've had Light-years stuck in my head for days now. the new guy can hit all of the notes Tate did but still has enough of his own style to not be a simple clone.
Checked out some live videos of him doing the old stuff and he nails that too. Pleasant surprise.
Also inspired me to revisit the original Operation Mindcrime which is just a goddamn classic and packed with awesome songs from top to bottom.
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Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2020 10:38 am
by Dickie Dunn
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Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2020 10:40 am
by skullman80
Gojira is incredible live. Incredible.
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Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2020 10:42 am
by NTP66
lol, not even through the first song and my wife IMs me "need you to turn your music down a bit".
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Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2020 10:46 am
by Dickie Dunn
Gojira is incredible live. Incredible.
Gojira and Mastodon are my two favorite “modern” metal bands, but the Gojira live experience seems to blow Mastodon away. Joe’s vocals easily surpass what Mastodon’s trio of singers can do live.
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Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2020 10:50 am
by NTP66
I was thinking about posting my favorite song from all of the metal bands I really listen to, but I'm not sure that I could even do that for some of them.
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Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2020 10:54 am
by skullman80
Mario is a human metronome as well. Always perfect and makes it look effortless.
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Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2020 11:00 am
by skullman80
Another great live set -- Jinjer. Tatiana gets all the attention (and I understand why), but the rest of the band is really tight as well.
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Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2020 11:37 am
by NTP66
That was fun. Would have been better with Heaviest Matter of the Universe, though.
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2020 1:27 pm
by tjand72
GOJIRA And PUCK HCKY Release New Hockey-Themed Collaboration
https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/gojir ... aboration/
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2020 1:29 pm
by NTP66
I prefer Slayer's version, personally:
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 11:35 am
by skullman80
I feel like this reaction is the same one everyone has the first time they get to the "GO" part and the crunchy riff after that in The Heaviest Matter of the Universe.
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 11:36 am
by NTP66
It 100% is.
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Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2020 9:27 pm
by MR25
May be my one and only contribution to the metal thread
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Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2020 10:54 pm
by tjand72
That's a great story.
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Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2020 11:02 pm
by tjand72
New Soilwork EP is fantastic.
The opening song is over 16 minutes long, but it doesn't drag on.
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Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2020 9:29 am
by NTP66
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Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2020 9:34 am
by skullman80
That's amazing and still heavy as **** even in midi format.
