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Benni

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  1. Thank you I've been by there and seen some great stuff. Your work is fantastic! I'll definitely share some things there too. Well, I know that it could have been longer than 4 but honestly, I thought it would be 3 years less than that. I still literally lay awake at night thinking "Why is everything taking me so long?" I can't believe you have that feeling too after doing this for 30 years. When I started drawing I thought it was going to be easy. It was a nightmare even just trying to grasp basics. I often would imagine what it would be like for me now if I had drawn throughout my entire life, and I always thought I'd be so competent and confident by now. But I guess even then I would still have this feeling of playing catchup. Maybe every artist always feels that way? What have you been in the mood for recently? Thanks! I think I will. I'm just trying to ease in slowly
  2. Really? I've never actually been on a forum like that before. I've always been on forums where if you talked too much or gave too much info at once people would perceive it negatively. Like you were showing off or attention whoring. Or they'd see how long a post or list was and just skip it out of laziness. So if I have finally found a place where I can speak freely that's really awesome
  3. Really? that's cool. I think the first death metal band i got into was Children of Bodom. I didn't really think I would ever like anything harder than just regular metal but after hearing them I just wanted to try every band and see how heavy I could go. Now I don't really have a limit. I'm always impressed by metal vocalists. I honestly want to learn to scream. I've been working on it. I'm a good singer in general but I've always had a very clean sound. I am able to get distortion of some kinds but right now its not very consistent. But I hear a lot of vocals in metal that just amaze me and then I want to do it too. Sometimes when I don't think about it I can produce a pretty amazing scathing sound, but then I cant recreate it and that makes me sad Oh yes, I like Dissection. That's definitely my kind of sound. I just didn't want my list to get too long so I had to narrow it down quite a bit. There are a lot of groups I like but brevity is good
  4. Thank you! There are so many. I kinda grew up on hair metal, but these days as far as genres go I tend to prefer melodic death metal, but I also dabble in Black metal, Technical Death Metal, Industrial, Heavy Metal, and Metalcore. Some favorites bands would be Iron Maiden, Motley Crue, Dark Tranquility, Scar Symmetry, Threat Signal, Children of Bodom, Necrophagist, Job for a Cowboy, Goatwhore, Gojira, Augury, Amon Amarth, Nightwish, Arch Enemy, Behemoth, The Black Dahlia Murder, Baroness, Type O Negative, Nine Inch Nails, and Godflesh. I like endless amounts of metalcore bands but my favorites are Every Time I Die, Norma Jean, Underoath, Between the Buried and Me, Atreyu, Sonic Syndicate, Escape the Fate, and A Skylit Drive.
  5. Welcome! I joined recently too Hope you enjoy it here
  6. well i feel like yes but then again I like metal from then and now its so different now but still good in new ways but i have such a positive association to the metal i used to listen to as a child. so to me it will always be special or "golden" i think being real would be to accept that many things we see now are just offshoots of great original creative ideas from the past there is no area of life in which the past has become no longer relevant. the past is what shapes the future and it's what created our current now "who cares about how great judas priest used to be?" me, for one. everyone I know. i think everyone should care about how great judas priest used to be. i think thats a very relevant topic in the art world in general, and in music, and it always will be. i would hope that my great grandchildren would one day find out how great judas priest was there are so many aspects of classic music that we just can't hear anymore. so its good to be appreciative of the then and the now. that way you can have a full understanding of music and how it has evolved
  7. Hi Everyone, I'm Benni I'm a writer and artist. I've been a metalhead for as long as I can remember. I used to watch metal videos as a kid and my mom found this curious which i found funny. But over my lifetime I really never stopped liking metal. I've been to a lot of metal shows over the years, more than I remember myself. I like a lot of bands, more than I could possibly ever name, but I do tend to really enjoy melodic death metal, black metal, and technical death metal. I'm a huge Nine Inch Nails fans, I think that bears mentioning. I like Industrial a lot. But I don't really get into categorizing subgenres and bands very closely, because I like to focus on what makes things similar rather than what makes them different. Besides, it doesn't matter to me what something is called in words. If I like a song or a band's sound that's what matters to me. I love horror movies, food, beer, concerts and festivals, books, sci fi, fantasy, and like I mentioned I like to draw. I typically draw and paint every day. My dream is to write and illustrate my own graphic novel and I'm working on that but it will probably take me a lifetime since it already took me 4 years just to learn how to paint and I'm not veryproud of that. But I really like to see other peoples art every day, so I tend to nose around design and concept art sites and i like to read comics and graphic novels, especially the darker content. I love Dark Horse comics or anything by Ben Templesmith (I think his style is so beautiful, his people always look like they're glowing from the inside). But i really don't have a whole lot of time for comics like I used to. Too much time spent at the canvas these days. Anyway, I really look forward to getting to know everyone and to learning from you all. And if there's anything you want to know about me, I'm an open book.
  8. I love a lot of bands, far too many to name, but I really enjoy Scar Symmetry, Arch Enemy, and Dark Tranquility
  9. I've always experienced a lot of judgment for listening to very dark or very hard/heavy music, especially with me being female. Everyone thinks I should always be happy and positive etc and that I should like pretty pink things and puppies and bubblegum pop songs. If I listen to metal they worry or discourage it. Many people I know have a belief that metal will "corrupt" me or others I would say that overall I'm not a dark or light kind of person, I live in both sides of the spectrum I think you touched on something real when you said that darkness is beneficial just like light, and that reality has its dark aspects which cannot be avoided I think we live in a society that wants us to avoid certain realities and only focus on the positive ones, but I think that theres a lot that can be learned and enjoyed on the darker side of things, too Many have worried about me due to the concepts that some of the albums that i like are about. But I see metal albums and songs as pieces of art. These aren't things for me to emulate, they are creative works that express a certain emotion or experience. I'm able to keep that separate from who I am and how I view the world, myself and my life. If I go to a horror movie or an art exhibit with extreme themes, that doesn't really say anything about me. I just went and consumed some art. And I view negativity or darkness in metal the same way - as merely some art I consumed Sometimes I'm in a dark place and so I'm really personally vibing with the themes in the music I listen to but sometimes I'm happy or positive and I'm just listening to metal because I appreciate the artistic complexity of it. Or the intensity of the expression Maybe I have a stronger appreciation for darkness and that's why I like metal and horror movies so much, but I don't think it's really something to worry about or analyze too deeply I don't know if I stayed on topic here, I hope I did
  10. Quick question: How exactly does black veil brides and pierce the veil give metal a bad name? In my experience no one I know even talks about metal or has any opinion about it, except for other metalheads. So I've never seen anyone going around saying "I would get into metal but black veil brides...eek amiright?" I just want to understand how they give the whole genre all this bad press you speak of
  11. I saw it, it was wonderful. Very imaginative. Very exciting. At first I was kind of unsure, but I got really involved and ultimately wanted to move to Wakanda Yesterday I watched Guardians of the Galaxy. Both movies. I didn't think I would like them and that's why I waited so long to see them. They just seemed odd and frivolous or something. But it turns out they're really good. The characters are just hilarious. I was screaming. I don't know why I found it so funny I also love Groot. But then again it seems everyone loves Groot
  12. i have also been listening to metal since i was a child and i consider Slipknot, Disturbed, Korn, etc to be metal i listen to a vast array of metal bands in various subgenres and I often experience my friends expressing a lot of judgment or exclusion towards certain groups and subgenres. I don't really have preferences like that and I don't really hold certain types of groups above or below others. If the music is enjoyable that is enough for me. To me, metal is what I feel that it is, not what someone else tells me it is
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