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    Depraved given a Damn from agamerwholovesmetal in Metal Memes   
    Sorry I'm just shitposting now. ?




  2. Horns
    Depraved given a Damn from agamerwholovesmetal in Metal Memes   
  3. Horns
    Depraved gave a Damn to Requiem in Greatest Album Openers   
    'Silvester Anfang' has haunted my dreams for decades. 
  4. Horns
    Depraved given a Damn from Balor in What Are You Listening To?   
    Slayer - Reign in Blood
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    Depraved given a Damn from MacabreEternal in What Are You Listening To?   
    Slayer - Reign in Blood
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    Depraved given a Damn from Balor in What's on your mind?   
    Yes hahaha but what I mean is that most metal in general requires one to do some thinking in order to understand it and find enjoyment in it.
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    Depraved given a Damn from Thrashman in What Are You Listening To?   
    Slayer - Reign in Blood
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    Depraved given a Damn from Parker in Genres you dislike/hate and why?   
    Yeah I have to agree with you a lot on these. I cannot stand metalcore. It's like the frat boy version of metal, it's not interesting, and it all sounds the same to me. Most boring and generic tripe I've heard outside of pop and/or rap. Unfortunately where I live, local shows have been inundated with metalcore bands for like 10 years now and it's nearly impossible to catch a band that isn't metalcore.
    Same with numetal. It's just the stupidest hybrid genre I've ever heard. Makes me cringe. Also it reminds me of high school because everyone was listening to it back then. Ugh.
    (I actually like glam/hair bands though lol. Well to a certain extent; it's about the heaviest thing I can get away with playing at work and it's really grown on me. Motley Crue, Scorpions, and Dokken all the way.)
    Idk wtf djent is but from the description alone, I already know I hate it.  Okay, just listened to some of it. And I was right. **Yawn**
    Other genres I can't stand:
    Industrial
    Sludge
    Stoner
    Symphonic (actually I wouldn't mind this too much if not for the operatic vocals)
    Pretty much anything else that ends in "-core". ?
  9. Horns
    Depraved given a Damn from Parker in What's on your mind?   
    Most people are too stupid to understand metal.
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    Depraved gave a Damn to Parker in What's on your mind?   
    So, I was at the bottle redemption center today. The guy that works there is into metal, and started playing some death metal.  I gave him the sign of the horns, and he smiled and nodded in appreciation. Then an old guy turned to a middle aged guy and said, "You call that music? This isn't music." So I turned to them and said, "Well, it exhibits melody, harmony, and rhythm, so it is music." The old guy said, "I could do this with a shovel and bucket." Then I replied, "No, you couldn't. This is complex music and it's very hard to play. You would need several years of practice on a drum kit to play it." At this point they both had nothing to say. They simply went back to putting bottles into the machine, because they knew I owned them and they had nothing to say.
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    Depraved given a Damn from Parker in What's on your mind?   
    Yeah, I think it's pretty poorly defined, but once you're used to identifying it they're pretty easy to spot. It usually sounds noticeably different from the rest of the song and there's typically a break in the melody or the melody changes entirely for the duration of the breakdown. It can also be a bridge or directly precede a bridge, I believe, although my understanding was that the bridge typically has lyrics/vocals and is used to transition to the final chorus or outro. Not every song has a breakdown, and they're more prevalent in certain genres - folk metal has a fuck ton of them and it's usually the most folky/dance-y part of the song with lots of keyboards or traditional instruments or whatever so it's always pretty obvious.
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    Depraved gave a Damn to Benjaminc81 in When Did You First Get Into Metal?   
    My earliest memory of listening to metal was around ´92 while listening to Guns N Roses on my brothers walkman while going on vacation to Norway. After that vacation i would sometimes listen to some of the album my brother owned. Stuff like Body Count, Pantera, Metallica. But i only liked a few songs, never the whole album.
    Then i was about 14 i really got into rap music and that lasted about a year 5 until i got bored with the new wave of rappers. So when i was about 20 i decided to rekindle my love for metal. I remember seeing Korn on TV when their album "Follow The Leader" dropped and that was the perfect gateway album for me. It still had those hip hop influences i liked at the time but also the heaviness that was missing from hip hop. The next big influence was Rob Zombie. After having bought the DVD of "House of 1000 Corpses" i almost instantly fell in love with the soundtrack. So i started buying all his solo and White Zombie records which turn led me to other bands like Slayer, Misfits, Body Count and Pantera amongst other.
    When i turned 25 i decided it was time for something more extreme and started exploring black metal. I started fairly innocent with Satyricon since i really like their songs K.I.N.G. and The Pentagram burns. And after that i slowly worked my way up the list of famous/notorious black metal bands (Darkthrone, Mayhem, Burzum, etc) and now 12 years later i´m still knees deep in the black metal genre just looking for the next band to discover. To this day black metal remains my biggest passion of all the metal genres that i´ve tried exploring.
    The thing is can´t imagine living without metal anymore. Even back in my youth it had a very strong attraction for me but as i got older it only got more intense. For me it has become a really cathartic medium through which i can channel my emotions whether it be anger, sadness or some other emotion. Living without metal would really diminish my quality of life.
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    Depraved gave a Damn to VolcanicSlut in When Did You First Get Into Metal?   
    Around 1981, my older cousin used to watch a TV show called The NewMusic. I remember seeing Motorhead and Venom videos, but I didn't appreciate it yet because I was only 11.
    Around 1983, my dad finally got cable television. I saw Iron Maiden featured on some late-night video program, and I loved it right away. Guess I was finally old enough to get it. They were referring to Maiden as 'heavy metal' and it was the first time I heard the term.
    Then my cousin gave me some records she didn't want. It included Black Sabbath's Master Of Reality which made quite an impact.
    Throughout the eighties, I tuned-in to MuchMusic's Power Hour on TV, every Thursday without fail. I started liking thrash and the more extreme metal.
    Before the internet existed we were literally in the dark. Learning was a slow process.
    I started buying albums by Maiden, Motorhead, Metallica, Anthrax. Those were my gateway bands.
    Around 1987, somebody at school was supposedly into 'underground' and 'Satanic' metal. He seemed like a freak and I was pretty interested. We started tape trading. He gave me recordings of Venom, Bathory, Hellhammer, Destruction, Possessed, Sacrifice, Exorcist, etc. - bands I didn't know even existed.
    After hearing that, I was totally possessed by metal.  By 1990, Death Metal was getting pretty big and I was buying stuff like: Deicide, Obituary, Death, Entombed, Carcass, Napalm Death, etc.
     
     
     
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    Depraved gave a Damn to Hiwatt in When Did You First Get Into Metal?   
    I got 2 front row tickets to see Iron Maiden and Judas Preist in High School.  My buddy was like, "who are they?"
    I didn't really know either, but hey it was front row! 
    After that concert I realized that other concerts I had seen really sucked.  I didn't know any better until then.  I bought every Judas Preist and Maiden record in the following months and never looked back.  I also got a guitar, but that is another thread.
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    Depraved gave a Damn to Requiem in When Did You First Get Into Metal?   
    Yep, come on. Let's hear the story. 
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    Depraved gave a Damn to Will in When Did You First Get Into Metal?   
    Nope.
    You've started now.
    I demand whacky story time.
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    Depraved gave a Damn to LaughsInHidden in When Did You First Get Into Metal?   
    For me it all started just over 10 years ago when I was about 12-13.  I didn't really have much knowledge of the genre at all (Guns n Roses was about as close to metal as I had ever experienced) and didn't have any particular interest in any other kinds of music either.  I did a lot of online gaming back in the day (more specifically WoW ) and a few of the guys I played with got into the habit of playing Linkin Park through their mics for the rest of us to hear.  This sounds laughable now but at the time this was pretty much the heaviest stuff I had ever heard!  One day I found myself in a record store and decided to pick up one of their albums.  I listened to it pretty much on a constant loop, and looking back that's really what planted the seed.  From that point I was driven to discover more of this heavy, aggressive sounding music, and eventually graduated to the likes of Metallica, Maiden, Ozzy, Motorhead etc.
     
    Since then I've explored the various sub-genres of metal and even today my tastes range from Sabaton, Volbeat, Ministry, Obituary and Celtic Frost just to name a small few.  But that's the long and short of how I came to be a metal fan - from some crackly background music to Slayer mosh pits .  Naturally I've moved on from Linkin Park but will always give them credit for bridging myself and many of the younger generations as a whole into the world of metal.
     
    Metal is a wonderful genre that speaks to me in a way that no other kind of music ever will.  And behind the heavy sounds and "don't give a fuck" attitude that we all know and love I'd be hard pressed to find a scene/sub-culture that fosters such comradery and inclusion among its followers as metal does.
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    Depraved gave a Damn to FatherAlabaster in What's on your mind?   
    When you put it like that, I think it kind of answers itself...
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    Depraved gave a Damn to Athame in What Are You Listening To?   
    Gorgoroth - Antichrist
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    Depraved gave a Damn to True Belief in What Are You Listening To?   
    Opeth - Orchid
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    Depraved gave a Damn to MacabreEternal in Metal bassist needed   
    This is my favourite thread ever.  Spent so much time reading it and I can't play bass (or sing).
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    Depraved gave a Damn to FatherAlabaster in Metal bassist needed   
    I'm getting mixed messages here.
  23. Horns
    Depraved gave a Damn to Balor in Favourite metal EPs of all time   
    Other eps that I have greatly enjoyed:
    -Mgła - Mdłosci:
    -Mgła - Further Down the Nest:
    Mgła highlight their amazing riff skills in both of the eps, but also used a raw recording style that I like a lot.
    -Satanic Warmaster - 瘴疠禁室:
    A recording of demo songs that are rac-like in their catchiness and attitude.  I thought it was terrible when I first listened to it, but grew to find its crude nature endearing.
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    Depraved given a Damn from GorboGorboze in What's on your mind?   
    I dreamed last night that I was exploring ancient ruins and playing poker with Mayhem and Darkthrone on some tiny quarantined island in the north Atlantic while "In the Shadow of the Horns" played over and over again and we were all dying from plague. Wtf, brain. ?
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    Depraved gave a Damn to FatherAlabaster in Favourite metal EPs of all time   
    I love all of those. The non-album tracks on Saw You Drown are wonderful IMO as well. It makes sense to save standout tracks for the singles, that way your songs don't get overlooked on a bloated album and you have an awesome little extra for the real fans to enjoy. 
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