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The Metal Thread

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Doomshine

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dreamcastfan said:
Has everyone here always been into metal music? Personally I grew up listening to country. It wasn't until about 1985 that a friend of mine loaned me Bostons first album. Not metal, but my first listen to hard rock. Grew to Bands like Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, etc. Eventually Iron Maiden, Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth, Tourniquet, etc. Still love what I grew up on. Everything from classical to pop, country to metal. Pretty much everything but rap (though I won't deny the talent of some of those artists)..
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I don't know if I can pinpoint it exactly, but I've been listening to metal since I was at least 11 or 12. I think the first bands were Manowar and Stratovarius.
 
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pablito

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dreamcastfan said:
Has everyone here always been into metal music? Personally I grew up listening to country. It wasn't until about 1985 that a friend of mine loaned me Bostons first album. Not metal, but my first listen to hard rock. Grew to Bands like Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, etc. Eventually Iron Maiden, Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth, Tourniquet, etc. Still love what I grew up on. Everything from classical to pop, country to metal. Pretty much everything but rap (though I won't deny the talent of some of those artists)..
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nope, but i still remember how i got into it all. i grew up around old school soul/funk and 90s rnb, thanks to mainly the elders of my family. i still like that stuff, though. but street fighter: the animated movie is to thank for my korn phase (i was 11!) and i just pretty much kept going from there. eventually i learned my lesson, got introduced to sabbath, and the rest is history.
 
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Flynn

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  • Started out listening to top 40 -- in the early '80s
  • Really dug electro and breakdancing stuff. Still do.
  • Got into classic rock around 13. Probably thanks to Van Halen.
  • Got into metal, Metallica and thrash.
  • Burnt on metal and got into alternative. Blame RIP for introducing me to Jane's Addiction.
  • Discovered "electronic" and reconnected with hip-hop in the early '90s. Did the Florida rave scene and E and whatnot from like '93-96
  • Continued digging on indie (Thrill Jockey, Pavement) got heavy into EDM -- started DJing that stuff
  • Went to grad school, got involved with radio, still heavy in EDM and 90s hip hop
  • Start discovering jazz, psych, garage
  • burn on electronic and hip hop and start connecting with metal again
  • kind of full on into metal now with my attentions still kind of exploring all the past stuff

For a long time I was the kind of person who had to abandon and/or hate the old kind of music when I got into a new one. I am over that now and am sort of reconnecting with everything I used to like, finding that most of it has merit or is/was awesome.
 
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Vio-Lence

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Andrew_Korenchkin said:
Sorry dude. I've just personally never been able to get into Sabotage, that includes that song.
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lay down that crack pipe and step away from the computer.

Sabotage might be my favorite Ozzy era album. Hole in the Sky, Symptom, and Megalomania are EPIC as FUCK. I also think its the most "metal" early sabbath album. It's the direct link in the evolutionary chain to Priest and the rest.
 
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Andrew Korenchkin

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Vio-Lence said:
lay down that crack pipe and step away from the computer.

Sabotage might be my favorite Ozzy era album. Hole in the Sky, Symptom, and Megalomania are EPIC as FUCK. I also think its the most "metal" early sabbath album. It's the direct link in the evolutionary chain to Priest and the rest.
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How am I suppose to respond to this? It's a music album. Just because a certain album doesn't personally do much for the individual does NOT mean they find the album to be bad in ANY way.
 
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Giant Robot

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Vio-Lence said:
lay down that crack pipe and step away from the computer.

Sabotage might be my favorite Ozzy era album. Hole in the Sky, Symptom, and Megalomania are EPIC as FUCK. I also think its the most "metal" early sabbath album. It's the direct link in the evolutionary chain to Priest and the rest.
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When Megalomania starts to pick up...fuck, one of my favorite Black Sabbath moments.
 
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Gr1mLock

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Vio-Lence said:
lay down that crack pipe and step away from the computer.

Sabotage might be my favorite Ozzy era album. Hole in the Sky, Symptom, and Megalomania are EPIC as FUCK. I also think its the most "metal" early sabbath album. It's the direct link in the evolutionary chain to Priest and the rest.
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Sabotage is seriously underrated.
 
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OmegaDragon

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dreamcastfan said:
Has everyone here always been into metal music? Personally I grew up listening to country. It wasn't until about 1985 that a friend of mine loaned me Bostons first album. Not metal, but my first listen to hard rock. Grew to Bands like Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, etc. Eventually Iron Maiden, Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth, Tourniquet, etc. Still love what I grew up on. Everything from classical to pop, country to metal. Pretty much everything but rap (though I won't deny the talent of some of those artists)..
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Sort of. I didn't actively listen to music until I was almost 18. I started with listening to VGM music (well, primarily Metroid OSTs I think) and to Metroid Metal. Next bands were basically an entry to metal for me: Rammstein, Maiden, Metallica, Slayer, Linkin Park and Apocalyptica. A friend of mine introduced me to things like Opeth, Ensiferum and Tristania and by then I primarily listened to metal.
 
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Z..

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Rust in Peace is the only answer, here.

As for Slayer... either Seasons in the Abyss or Reign in Blood. Can't pick one. =/
 
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OmegaDragon

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Anyone know Lugubrum? A quite unusual metal band from Belgium, that started out as 'farmers' black metal. To be honest not something I would listen to.

http://youtu.be/g_MrFfXCTcg
http://youtu.be/QqXAmbLzcT4

Somewhere in their career they decided to incorporate jazzy structures and apparently all kinds of instruments ("bottleneck guitar .. mandolin, five string banjo, bones, alto saxophone"). The results are... interesting (bolded are recommended tracks)?

http://youtu.be/2jlC7wbOCJI
http://youtu.be/yUsafK7NgIw
http://youtu.be/ZfwhalYgaAk
http://youtu.be/nNxygfO04QU
http://youtu.be/zA5HQMPXYY4

And currently listening to Sear Bliss, melodic/symphonic black metal, pretty nice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA-PbrKkXY4&feature=share&list=PLB045F92969D7F8C8
 
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