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SEP 12, 2007 05:35 PM
OH MY GOD!!!! Im sorry but how can anyone question if metal is still alive!!! Metal is huge, in fact so huge it now has sub genres!
if you ever see job for a cowboy, machine head, ted maul or stone sour live you will see what im talking about, just because they dont play it mainstream doesnt make it dead.
ITS FUCKING METAL DUDE!!.....dont be a victim to radio favourites!!
ps NU metal is dead you want edgy put some Nile on! 
SEP 18, 2007 05:19 PM
SEP 18, 2007 05:22 PM
TRUE FACT: the original poster was a cool dude.
TRUER FACT: as long as there is metalocalypse, there is metal. 
SEP 18, 2007 05:39 PM
SEP 18, 2007 06:54 PM
Formus
Milwaukee, WI
May 2007
SEP 18, 2007 07:37 PM
_DictionaryGirl_ said:
TRUE FACT: the original poster was a cool dude.
TRUER FACT: as long as there is metalocalypse, there is metal.
TRUEST FACT: "Bat Country" by Avenged Sevenfold is the reason Doctor Thompson killed himself. Rest his soul.
SEP 18, 2007 07:41 PM
Formus said:
_DictionaryGirl_ said:
TRUE FACT: the original poster was a cool dude.
TRUER FACT: as long as there is metalocalypse, there is metal.
TRUEST FACT: "Bat Country" by Avenged Sevenfold is the reason Doctor Thompson killed himself. Rest his soul.
I think Avenged Sevenfold has that effect on a lot of people.
*pours one out*
SEP 18, 2007 07:43 PM
Cigarette said:
SinisterMike said:
Rod Stewart was really only taken seriously to rock fans when he sang for the Jeff Beck Group.
Incorrect.
SEP 18, 2007 07:52 PM
_DictionaryGirl_ said:
Cigarette said:
SinisterMike said:
Rod Stewart was really only taken seriously to rock fans when he sang for the Jeff Beck Group.
Incorrect.
yep. 
SEP 18, 2007 08:05 PM
SEP 19, 2007 02:59 AM
erleichda
Germany
May 2003
SEP 19, 2007 06:27 AM
I'd like to thank everybody for the Rod Stewart love.
*puts Gasoline Alley on*
SEP 19, 2007 07:17 AM
_DictionaryGirl_ said:
Formus said:
TRUEST FACT: "Bat Country" by Avenged Sevenfold is the reason Doctor Thompson killed himself. Rest his soul.
I think Avenged Sevenfold has that effect on a lot of people.
*pours one out*
For serious.
Which brings me to my point... a lot of this newer "cookie cutter" metal is giving the whole damn genre a bad name. It's marketable, it's accessable, gives angry kids something to hold onto. In my eyes, and damn near any one real metalhead I've come across feels the same. There's an upside, though... it's getting people more into the genre. Everyone's gotta start somewhere, right? Even the most high-strung metalhead has probably made some questionable purchases in the past (in comparison to their total kvlt status these days).
If you like it enough you'll delve deeper and deeper and look much harder to find certain albums that so and so told you about. You'll go to shows and flip through the distros seeing bands you've never heard of before mixed in with some of your absolute favorites, and aparently it sounds like an awesome artist you're a fan of.
Metal is far from dead, it's just that most of the stuff isn't as easy to find and the shows aren't as publicized and are often at smaller venues. Die hard fans don't care.
That said, I hate Manowar 
SEP 19, 2007 07:47 AM
Formus
Milwaukee, WI
May 2007
SEP 19, 2007 10:04 AM
SEP 19, 2007 10:04 AM
SEP 19, 2007 10:29 AM
Formus said:
Granny said:
a lot of this newer "cookie cutter" metal is giving the whole damn genre a bad name. It's marketable, it's accessable, gives angry kids something to hold onto.
That's been heavy metal's MO from the very start. The problem with the newer metal is not that it's marketable, it's that it fucking sucks.
A lot of bands do form in hopes of taking over the world and making it big, yes. However, bands that I'm mostly talking about didn't have the aspiration to get as big as some of them did, they just wanted to make music that meant something to them. Sodom, Carcass, Death, Bathory, Kreator, etc. Mainstream? Maybe slightly, but these bands are legendary, putting out some of the most notable metal releases in the genres of thrash, death, and black metal. Certainly not mainstream at the time!
And d20 and others are right, there's plenty of new material coming out that still rules. Here's my abridged list of awesome '06-'07 releases from bands not listed yet in this thread (Belphegor was, but it was spelled wrong
):
Municipal Waste: The Art of Partying (thrash)
Ghoul: Splatterthrash (thrash)
Dismember: The God that Never Was (death)
Enslaved: Ruun (black)
Watain: Sworn to the Dark (black/death)
Belphegor: Pestapokalypse VI (black/death)
... etc. and so on.
SinisterMike
Buffalo, NY
June 2004
MAY 23, 2006 06:10 PM