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I have been playing guitar for 10 years (Im 20 now). I got started because I've been listening to hard rock and blues since i was born and always wanted to learn how to play and write my own music. I practice everyday and try writing something new every day as well. its an obsession for me at this point. a very healthy obsession

Hello! My name is Joel and i am brand new here. I am here to talk about metal with like minded individuals. My favorite genres are Black, Death, and Doom metal. Hope to make some supremely metal friends here

Hey everyone. I'm Chris from Thailand. I'm generally a prog-head so my favorite types of metal are tech-death, prog-death, post-metal, etc. I also love thrash and I'm growing more into melo-death and the more experimental strains of black metal.
Right now, I'm conducting research about metal fans for my master's thesis about collaborations between metal bands and craft breweries. So if you would be so kind, I would greatly appreciate your help in the General Chat forum. Thanks! \m/

I haven't played to a metronome but will regularly play along to the song I'm practicing. I'd like to cut out the lead or rhthym tracks (depending on what part I'm playing).

That's great! I've always had a great amount of respect for drummers. Good luck with everything
I totally agree. Metronomes are very helpful. I haven't played drums, myself, but I hope that you're able to get that kit soon!

Playing to a metronome is great discipline. I always record my guitars and bass to a click. I enjoy rehearsing with a live band, but I find that my tempo accuracy actually suffers as I adapt to drummers' idiosyncrasies. I haven't owned a kit in nearly 20 years, and I was never particularly skilled, but I love playing drums whenever I get the opportunity. Once I have the space and money, I'm definitely getting a kit and committing some real time to it.

I've played drums for over 20 years now. I used to play in bands and did quite a bit of touring.  For the last 5 years, I've kind of been neglecting the drum kit for the apartment style piano I have in my home.  I just recently got back into playing my kit and WOW,  I cannot believe how quickly the skills deteriorate. I never claimed to be Mike Portnoy before, but I've had some issues playing AC/DC songs to a click without falling off time. I'm slowly but surely trying to rehone my skills.

I like it a lot! Thanks for suggesting cause I was eventually going to get to it, but it wasn't really at the top of my priority list. Awesome stuff

Hope you dig, it's got that early 90s Swedish DM approach, but with some cool dark melodies and hardly any of the rock and crust punk influences that other early Swedish bands had. 

I haven't heard the latest one, I'll have to check it out. Their debut is pretty ripping:
 

I like keemun and other assamica teas, and I like oolong a lot, I like matcha and Japanese tea sweets that go with it, I'll gladly drink whatever British breakfast tea with or without milk and sugar, that is all fine. Chai is too sweet for me usually, and I used to drink loads of Chinese and Japanese green teas, but don't seem to much anymore. there seems to be some sloppy spelling up there, sorry. I like Earl Grey, and do not like jasmine tea.

Normal tea. Tea in a mug with a splash of milk (skimmed) one in the morning if not working at home otherwise 2 or 3 in the morning and one mid afternoon.  Never seen the point of any other tea, although the girlfriend is an advocate of green tea and peppermint tea also.  I rarely pay for teabags though, because (until recently) I lived in hotels I would just pilfer their supplies that they left in my room each day and bring them home.
Other than normal tea I mostly drink beer and whiskey.

I too prefer "Tomb..." as their best album (and my "in" record for the band).  Last year I got hold of "Kill" which although miles away from the strongest material they have done is still a perfectly fun DM record.  A real plug in n play record.

I don't give things away easily. I guess you could call me stubborn. Besides I don't think we've had a blind metal musician yet so history beckones

More interesting than one would think. Of course it doesn't have the same effect on humans that it does on cats, but it's nice to have in almost any herbal blend.

Welcome to the forum. Like FA we have some bands in common. Hope you dig it here.

I've been playing guitar for about eight years. Two years back I was involoved in a rather serious accident and completely forgot how to play. In the last year and a bit I've started taking lessons again. My goal is to form a band playing a blend of death, doom, and black metal as those are my biggest influences these days. A far cry from the melodic thrash I envisioned myself playing three or four years ago.
 
In the short term though it's more about relearning chords, scales, techniques, and the fretboard. These things present their own little challenges as I have a significant vision impairment so can't read tabs or sheet music. I learn entirely by memory. Upside I'll never be nervous in a live setting 'cause I can't see if anyone is even there...

Yes ..the catnip tea ..that sounds interesting..ha!

Ha nice thread...I like teas.... particularly chamomile, green tea and I used to make rose tea with dried petals.

I've been playing electric guitar for 23 years. I'm alright, but I don't get enough practice right now to really be at the level I want. I've been doing harsh vocals for nearly that long, I sing clean a bit, and I picked up bass and a bit of drums along the way, but my primary goal has always been to write songs, pretty much exclusively metal. The same goal has informed my home studio use. Before I learned to play, I would hear music in my head and only be able to kind of sing it. I was writing as soon as I started learning chords, and as a result I never really bothered learning anyone else's music, which has been detrimental to me here and there. Attempting to mine what's in my head and make the most of my influences without repeating myself too much is just sort of an ongoing process at this point. Aside from metal and associated harsh music, I derive lots of inspiration from medieval European polyphonic chant, and lately a ton of Georgian folk music.

"Tomb Of The Mutilated" is my favorite early CC album. I enjoy "Butchered" and "Eaten" also; "Butchered" may be my favorite vocal performance from Barnes. I like a handful of the Corpsegrinder albums, too. Gotta admit I hardly ever play CC anymore, but those early albums were a big part of my introduction to DM in my early teens. I don't find them particularly technical; they had that sort of nonsensical chaos that makes early DM so charming.

I just wicked love Uriah Heep. They are for sure a big proto-metal deal, and the lyric content is pretty metal as well, and Roger Dean covers are a special interest of mine, but even the schmaltz disco stuff I'm glad to listen to.

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It's true that metal and classical are both heavily scripted (though Pyrrhon, an NYC band, is putting free improv sections into their songs...!). I'd say classical is more cerebral by a long shot - the underlying theory is more deeply understood, the available structures have been more thoroughly explored. And a much higher caliber of musicianship is required to play the stuff. Metal tends to be less cohesive, less centrally planned, and more intuitive; it often defaults to "verse-chorus-bridge-etc" pop structure, and some bands wind up mining the same boring melodic veins for years. At its best, its intuitive nature is a strength - classical composition can be so sterile. The success or failure of crossover acts depends on their sensitivity to the nuances of arranging for the instruments they're playing. That goes both ways; if the person doing the arrangement doesn't have a deep familiarity with the potential of the instruments they're writing for (or if they're just lazy), the piece will be lifeless. That's how I feel about Apocalyptica. I can't stand them. To the question of where one "draws the line" - I'd rather not. After my experiences of the past few months, I think it's a better approach to consider a piece on its own terms. That's vitally important when writing a crossover piece (and I'd say the same holds true for the genre-blending within metal, too). Very easy to wind up with unexplored potential, or a cheesy, predictable piece that's the worst of both worlds. The successes, though, can be transcendental. Earlier this year I did death metal vocals with a string quartet at a few shows in and around the city, and my take on mixing these genres is very much influenced by that association. They're all excellent musicians and playing with them has inspired me to take my own writing further. Here's a video, which I've posted to the forum before: https://vimeo.com/115837284

Welcome, we like some of the same DM. Hope you enjoy the forum.