Necturion

I like most of Slayer's catalogue especially Reign in Blood but hey everyone's got their own taste. Show No Mercy is really good too though, I really like Tom's higher pitched vocals on there. I was asking Samiel666 that because he said metal is new to him, I think Slayer is a good place to start.

Blame Sainsburys, Nero (the cafe chain, not the Emperor, although him too) and Tesco. 
Luckily I live in a suburb where people still utilise independent butchers, bakers and fruiterers, but like I keep telling the Countess (who wants to save the witch-cursed coins of our infernal nekro-treasure), if we keep using the supermarkets soon all of these fantastic stores will disappear! 
People (eg the Countess of Erotic Blasphemy) will do anything to save a couple of dollars, even if it means buying all your shit from a couple of supermarket chains and everything else online. What sort of world do they want? 
My dream is to move to a small village in Oxfordshire and spend all my money (on whiskey and beer) on local businesses. 

Darkfall - "Ash Nazg - One Ring"
Gonna see them in a few days, I am so ready!

Man, the town I'm in feels empty to me right now. The best place in town just closed up permanently, and it's truly irreplaceable as a venue and social hub. A couple other good businesses run by good people have either closed or moved, a few others cut their hours, and a couple of friends moved out of the state... All in the past three or four weeks! Bummer. More incentive to stay home and work on paintings and practice playing my instruments, I suppose.

Darkfall - "Ash Nazg - One Ring"
Gonna see them in a few days, I am so ready!

"Further Down the Nest" - Mgla
Lucky!  It looks like (at least according to youtube) they have been playing some songs off of their new album at their concerts recently.

Should have had some pints with me. They were awesome. 

Cheers nice to have you here^^

I thought that I would share this here.  I made this for the art contest that Militant Zone recently put on, and ended up winning second place.  It is a collage - the first that I ever really made.  Any recommendations on where I can improve?

Hoping to find my way towards making album covers or art for doom / psychedelic metal bands. 

https://www.instagram.com/disodonelson/

Here is one i did a while back with pen and ink. its on a 15x20 illustration board.
I have a bunch of other oworks on my facebook.
 
http://facebook.com/learddesigntx

My first painting (October 2018).

 

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Perhaps without YouTube he'll be driven back to music. Wishful thinking though I expect, he'll probably just take the nonsense to another 'platform'.

His main account and then two backups were deleted by youtube.  When I head that Varg had a channel I thought that he would post more about Burzum and bm.  Honestly, it felt like his channel was 1/4 him fixing his car, 1/4 of actually interesting bm videos, and 2/4 racist junk.  Varg being deleted from youtube doesn't seem to be too great of a loss to me.
I wish he would make more music, though.  The few videos that he posted of him playing acoustic instruments had me hoping for an acoustic Burzum album (I am sort of surprised that this never came about, actually).

I feel silly posting a "Hi howya doin'" post but Hello! I have always loved heavy metal, from Whitesnake and Sabbath as a little kid to Slipknot (I was a teenager and it was their debut album, come on) to At The Gates in college and Buried at Sea and Napalm Death as an old man in my 30s. It's the best genre.
I like endurance athletic events like running really far and riding my bicycle even farther and I also make my own music and release albums. I make doom/drone metal in one project and make black/death metal in another project. I've been in grindcore and post-hardcore bands and have discussions at work about which nu-metal band was the best with unsuspecting coworkers. I have also given an academic lecture on the history of grindcore from 1981-2006 to a room of about 50 people with zero interest in the topic. 
I have mostly been a grind/death fan until about two years ago when I heard Belphegor's Bondage Goat Zombie and Oathbreaker's Rheia, which made me go down the rabbit hole of black metal and, once you weed out the gross Nazi garbage, is a really amazing style in terms of how noisy, brutal, absolutely ridiculous, and beautiful it can be. 
 
Uh ok cool!

I'm saying hi as requested by the forum.
I'm a long time metal fan and metal musician. The artist I've been listening to the most lately is Cryptopsy although I listen to many genres of music. I would enjoy discussing anything and everything. Does anyone have any tarantulas?
 

C'mon lazy bones, start your own intro thread please.

Hi everyone! I am 22 year old singer and came here to have fun, discover new music and discuss some vocals! 
Cheers \m/
 

Well I've just gotten done wrecking my cousin with Cap Falcon in Smash Ultimate, seems like these days I can half-manage games where I just push buttons and win but it's not as much fun as back in the day when I was actually good at games like Smash. Man I miss being  a ranked player in the old Dead or Alive 4...

Must have been amazing being a teenager in the 70s and 80s. What else took place?

This is a thread for people who remember a world before youtube, facebook and google, where there was a great mystery around metal. I'm interested in hearing how people accessed metal and metal related things prior to the internet. 
Some of my fondest musical memories are from that romantic era in the late 80s to mid 90s. I grew up in a small town where we didn't even have a music store, so trips to the larger town nearby would be focused around heading to one of the two record stores. There was a small but ok metal section, and I would trawl through the tapes (at first), then CDs (once they became more prevalent). Most of the time I would end up buying something (if my parents were kind enough to shell out) that I had never heard of but really liked the cover. If there was a band that I had heard of before and really wanted, like My Dying Bride, Anathema, Paradise Lost etc the store would order the CD in and it would often take a month before it arrived at mega prices. I'd be lucky to get a new tape maybe once every two months. 
News and information about bands was also minimal and clouded by mystery. Metal magazines were mostly from the UK and US, so were often months old by the time they reached my friends and I in Australia. My walls were covered in posters of metal bands. Do kids still do that these days? I remember reading about the rise of the second wave of black metal and Euronymous' murder in a magazine and just being amazed at the whole black metal thing in general. This would have been early 1994 I think. I hadn't even heard a black metal song before, but ordered Satyricon's 'The Shadowthrone'. Can you imagine the first time I put it on after the 4 weeks it took to come in to the store, and heard the intro to 'Hvite Krists Dod'?
Everything was shrouded in mystery when it came to figuring out who was in various bands, what they looked like, even what their discographies included. It was a real jigsaw puzzle of information from here and there. A lot of word of mouth too from kids at school. 
I remember being amazed when I first discovered the name My Dying Bride, which I thought was the coolest thing ever. Talk about a mystery band back in the mid 90s. I first heard them on a metal radio show and taped the track 'Like Gods of the Sun' onto a blank tape. I had heaps of blank tapes full of tracks from that metal show. You had to be really quick when the song started, and if you discovered you were recording a dud you would stop the tape and rewind, ready to go again when the next track started. 
We also swapped a lot of tapes at school with the few other metal fans back in the 90s. I discovered Ozzy, Maiden and even early Metallica this way. 
Nowadays I google any band's discography immediately, with a plethora of band photos etc. Metal Archives contains all the information about band members past and present, and youtube has almost every album you can think of, ready to be heard. It's a totally different world. 
While it's handy being able to listen to every single band anyone ever mentions, there is also an element of sadness in instant gratification. Never again will I wait for weeks for an album to come into the store, then get to the next town to get my hands on it, gaze at it, amazed, before putting it in the tape player and discover what they actually sound like! Sure there were some misses amongst the hits, but the magic of the newfound hits remains with me to this day. And because music was so damn scarce, the classics were revered and worshipped with unprecedented obsessiveness. Every lyric learnt, every speck of artwork digested and understood. I'm sad to say that rarely happens now, even though I still buy a lot of stuff. 
Anyone else got any memories/stories they would like to tell about the old days? 
EDIT: Can someone please move this to Deep and Meaningful? I think it fits that forum better. 

Happened to me also when learning high. You will get it at some point. Just try to not do the exact same thing over and over but adapt, maybe tongue position or practice your breathing technique from time to time also.