True metal fans don't gatekeep music.
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Gotta say, IMO this has nothing to do with being a [insert genre] fan at all. It's just about not being a pompous, pretentious asshole. 😄 Let people like what they like! But I still have my opinions about what level of musicality and interesting aspects there need to be in the music I listen too. Again, the music ->I<- listen to. Other people can definitely listen to bland mainstream garbage if they want to. 😅 Not all mainstream music is garbage of course, some of it is popular because it's actually good, so not all awesome music is obscure/indie/whatever. 👍
True metal fans just keep spinning
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Love me some Megadeth
https://theonion.com/humanity-still-producing-new-art-as-though-megadeth-s-1819578062/
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My disappointment is immeasurable and the day is ruined
~~Make it happen then yourself.~~
They're just that underground, posers like you cannot fathom it!
Aha, a fellow FÄTHØM fan.
FÄTHØM, the German Satanic Black Metal band, that had members all over the political spectrum, released 4 demos and 1 full album. They all killed each other once they all got too drunk and started to talk about politics instead of satanism, though police reports point to that Holocaust-denying Neonazi bassist, Hans Mann started the first blow, but last-man standing ancap guitarist Kristoffer Johannson also got fatally wounded by the end, and spent more time trying to write "fucking communist scum" with his own blood rather than to get medical attention.
Too bad that the now christian tradwife ex-wife of Mann tries everything in her power to stop these albums from further circulation, because "metal bad".
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90s demo tapes hit different though. The crustiness really enhances the overall atmosphere of certain genres.
Ysigim - Ain Soph Or (1994) is a personal favorite. They did a digital rerelease recently and it's too clean, I don't like it.
Guys, I think I found the guy in the meme
Yes and I will judge anyone who doesn't recommend me their favorite demo tape
https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Majak/The_Claws_of_the_Red_Crown/1099606 Not my favourite music, but the tape came with a dead wasp wrapped in a little piece of paper. 😁 Also it’s limited to 60 copies.
Just looked it up on YouTube and someone in the comments called it "magick metal". I've been out of the metal scene for a while now but I see the tradition of inventing goofy names for subgenres is still going strong lol
inb4 Taylor Swift
Taylor swift is way too heavy for me. I respect people who like her but the wiggles are about as heavy as I go
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My favorite metal band is Ghost
Don't ratio me
I love my unpronounceable black metal bands and OSDM bands.
I also loved going to the Volbeat /Ghost concert a few years back. Variety is fun.
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/weird salute thing with my balls
"who who"
Hell, they'll give you this look even when you say you like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and of all bands - Motorhead.
People have particular subgenres of taste, but who the hell decided at one point that we should evaluate what is metal and what isn't?
I have given bands like Cannibal Corpse, Death and sprinkles of other Death/Black metal bands honest tries. To me it's all just noise and the vocalist guarantees me that I will not like them because it's just belching and barking lyrics.
who the hell decided what is metal and what isn't?
I recommend freeing oneself from the chains of genre altogether.
Humans have a tendency to turn descriptive language into prescriptive language. So what started as artists experimenting ends up getting categorized into market demographics that are easier to sell to. Separate communities who, in order to exist at all, need to create rules about who does, and thus who does not, belong. And so what starts as free artistic expression reflects off of the audience and becomes economic and social pressure to conform to these rules. We end up with bands making "metal" music for the sake of being metal, at the cost of true artistic expression.
Is an artist metal? Is an album metal? Is a song metal? Is a particular instrument in a song metal? Is a particular bar played by a particular instrument metal? Is it even about the music, or is it about other things? The clothes, the color schemes, the fonts, the lyrical subject matter, the community? Does any of it actually matter?
It's only metal if I like it, anything heavier is just noise, anything softer is poser
Thank you, this needed saying! It would be nice if we could return to just playing music without worrying at all what genre it is.
Foe me it's the opposite. I absolutely love cannibal corps. I love cannabis corpse even more. I always feel like these bands make tge music tgey really want and not what people want to hear. There is something honest about the music. If you don't like it you fon't like it, obviously. Maiden acdc and megadeth is really boring to me. It's not that it's bad or i don't like it, it's more that i think: i could listen to worm sheppard or job for a cowboy instead. One of my favourite bands is all shall perish, i liked them before ever seeing them live, but when i saw them i truly realised that these are massive music nerds. His vocal range is crazy, because i assumed they had two singers, the bassist and guitarist seem incredibly talented, and i think they could be really successful doing "good music" but that's what they do and enjoy and i appreciate that a lot.
What ... what ... what possible problem can anybody have with Motorhead?!
Maybe jealousy? They cracked the mold when they popped Lemmy🍰 out. Now the metals are left with only like 2-3 to choose from.
They just look like sad Kiss fans ..
I just went and looked up Ulgethroom, so disappointed.
As long as its not fash trash or country achy breaky farts i'll listen.
A friend once pointed out you can replace the words of any country song with "dingle dangle doo" and it works just as well as the original. It's how I cope when Achy Breaky is inflicted.
Here are my new words.
Ding dangle doo
A-dingle dangle doo
A-inky dinky dingle dangle dooAn' if ya dangle doo
My dingle dangle doo
A ding dang dingle dangle dooWOOOOOOooooOOOO
I gave it a go with “Chattahoochee” by Alan Jackson:
Well, ding dang doodle dingle dangle doodle
Ding dang dingle dangle doodle dangle
Ding dang doodle dingle Georgia asphalt
Dingle dangle doo but we dangle dingle doo
And “Thunder Rolls” by Garth Brooks:
The dangle rolls
and the dingle strikes
another dingle dangle doo
on a dingle doodle diiiiing
as the dingle doodle doOooo
dangle dingle ding
dingle dangle heart
the dangle rolls
They're Angry Again.
... and again and again, again ...
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