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    My profession has nothing to do with music; I am a computer scientist.
    I like many styles of music, from the "pop-music"domain the most Hard Rock/Heavy Metal, but also some other older styles. Though I play guitar for decades now (since my teens) and compose, I only started a band project this year -due to the long (time more or less) lockdown. Bands I like for example: Nemesea, Nightwish, Within Temptation, Helloween, Blind Guardian, Iron Maiden, Saxon, Judas Priest, AC/DC, Thin Lizzy, Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry...I still do discover new "old" Metal/Hard Rock bands for example from the 70ies and 80ies I did not know before - and new bands as well...
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  1. Oh, thank you!...so my post was inappropriate...I thought Dead1 was talking in general...now I see, he starts with "Local scene...". Thanks!
  2. Sorry, but I do not understand - perhaps because English is not my native language - or because I am not informed about it...What is "Tassie scene"? In generel, there a lot Bands of all kinds, as Sheol wrote, also Hard Rock, Rock and Roll...but you are talking about Tassie scene - you are talking about ...what?
  3. Sometimes I think if you are not from the time in which a band started/became famous and came very much later, when the band already existed 20 or 30 years, you often have a total different view than the fans who have grown up with the band. I remember having read Lemmy one day saying something like "often I meet people who used to listen to us and they they: ' Overkill was great, Ace of Spades was excellent, but now with the family and lack of time and staff I do no more listen to Motörhead, many year ago I listend to your music' what are they talking about? Why can't they listen any more to Motörhead? We did so many good albums after 'Ace of spades' Something like this he said. This may be true for great parts of the audience of many bands. As i wrote SAXON did really great albums after the 80ies. Which album of the 80ies is as good as Lionheart? Perphas Power and the Glory, though very much softer - do not get me wrong, I like the 80ies albums of Saxon - apart from Crusader and Rock the nations, Crusader is a good track, but there is not very much more, I like on these albums. I do not think that they did such bad albums after the 80ies...
  4. Well, this is probably an overgeneralization. There are quite some new Metal/Hard Rock bands and young Metalheads. We have some bands in Germany, I am also in one project and plan to present some songs here one day. But they are rather unknown, only known for a little, often local audience. If you look at soundcloud, you find everything, every style, every kind of quality, from very professional good songs with good audio quality which are as good as the bands that really earn the money to really bad songs and poor audio quality. However, since there are so many, you have to look a while to find what you like. But I am sure every one here can find bands there which s/he likes - new bands, new Metal bands or whatever. Heavy Metal is rather commercial, but not for younger bands. And not every Metalhead of the "older" generation is interested in new Metal bands. They have their old bands and are happy. So it is not just the bands, it is also the audience and the quantitiy of bands which might result in what you feel as "lack of new bands". The bands are there, but they hardly can reach their audience. And true, there are many cover bands, also really good ones. I saw Motörizer a few years ago, a German Motöthead-cover and it was absolutely worth it. I never saw Motörhead live, too bad - and now it is not possible anymore, but they did a good job, they did Motörhead all honor. Maybe that they are over 50, perhaps only over 40, I do not know, but it was a good show.
  5. The video from the 70ies is really cool, He's a woman...it was on Rockpop, is it a German show? The audience is a bit strange, no one moves, they just sit there...well a TV-show... The 70ies must have been special, I just saw an old AC/DC Video. Let there be Rock, also 70ies stuff, also cool...
  6. When I was a teenager, nightwish was very popular and brought many pupils to other metal bands and styles. I don't know if there is anything like that now. It would be nice. I started a metal band myself this year (due to Corona-Lockdwon and missing alternatives...) in the melodic/traditional area and we have a few listeners (anyway we have very few) who also listen to electronic or even rap - and at least with rap I can't do anything at all. The communication makes our (female) singer there, but there is certainly a group that does not really belong to the metalheads, but also listens to metal - and I don't mean Hard-Rock and ballads, but really Metal like thrash metal. What surprised us a bit is that you find so few bands in the metal area like us. If you search for #Metal on Soundcloud, for example, you'll find mostly death/black metal. So if you start from the side of the musicians, then this style must be incredibly popular. But I do not know about the listeners...
  7. Oh, i just realized I forgot one of Saxon's best album ever, to my mind, or to put it more neutral, one of Saxon's album I like most: Lionheart (2004). This is one of my all time favorites in Metal. It has such brilliant songs as the title track, Justice, to live by the sword - and the real heavy ballads, searching for atlantis and flying on the edge. If you don't know them, check it out, the songs are worth it. Surely they sound different from their 80ies songs, but doesn't matter, Heavy Metal at its best, I think.
  8. Though this thread is a bit old....I think Saxon has more than only the 80ies. The Inner Sactum is something I really like. There is not a single Maiden album later than Brave new World to which I listen that often...Battering Ram and Into the Labyrinth, Call to Arms are also solid Metal albums worth its moneney - and what about the 90ies? Unleashe the beast, Metalhead, to my mind rather good Metal, let's take "The thin red Line" a real Metal Ballad, not a Love song, there is so much power in the song...
  9. They (the scorpions) are all ower 70, I guess, doesn't matter...the song peacemaker sounds "fresh" to me... and not everybody has an age that he could have seen the old bands in their early stages...I am glad there are still some active bands at that age...I also would like to see Jimi Hendrix live, but he passed away long before I came - and- I saw some of the old bands live and they were still great...why not, I also would like to see Maiden in the 80ies, but not possible for me, never was, so it is better to see them now than never seeing them play ...sure you never know how they will sound, but the concerts where I was were worth it ...There is surelly an age when it is not possible any more - I saw one of the last Chuck Berry concerts on video, well he hardly could play the guitar anymore, anyway it was Chuck Berry ...wasn't he the one (or one of them) who all started the Rock guitar which lead to Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal ...
  10. I just listend to a new Scorpions song on the radio. I looked it up in the internet: There will be a new album in February. On the radio they played the new song "Peacemaker". If you like them, listen to it. It was "harder", more rocking than i expected. I like the song.
  11. Thank you, blaaacdoommmmfan for your greetings! Well, when cooking or doing something else in the kitchen, I rather listen to the Radio (A Rock/Hard-Rock/Metal station), sometimes I discover new music this way... Hoovering is also new as a brand for me. And yes, there are several genericized trademarks around the world. In German, we say for example "can you give me a tempo, please?" meaning a handkerchief...and what about using a search engine, many people say "to google" in German...though a few people (like me) also use different search engines...
  12. Well, usually I only listen to music and do nothing else, move a bit to it perhaps...I enjoy the music without doning something else... Wenn I ride by bike to the train, I also listen to music and somtimes in the train - or when vacuuming with headphones
  13. Well, proably I am the exotic. When I discovered them, I thought they were really underrated. As I already mentioned, they have songs which somehow made way for the Metal period and some songs sound like Maiden-precursor, as I mentioned "massacre" beeing the best candidat. Even the lyrics are a bit like "Run to the Hills". They have also other good Hard-Rock songs, and to my mind, the albums became better and better starting with Jailbreak, from then on there were always really good songs on it. And their life album is really great. And yes, sure, they have quite some "gap fillers" - but this was not unsual at that time, was it?. The Hard Rock album of that time often only had a few real Hard-Rock songs on it. When I started with Judas Priest, my first album was Unleashed in the East, a real cool live album from that time. Rock forever, tyrant, Victim of Changes.... all songs with such power. When I later listend to the studie versions, I was a bit disapointed - they sound so "soft"... Okay, thank you for your asmwers!
  14. Well, I could not find Nemesea here...Since I got many results searching for Metallica, it may be possible that they do not exist here. I do not know where exactely to classify them, a bit symphonic... Anyway, they have a couple of good songs, I think. Let's take the Rammstein & Whatever Crossover-song "allein" (German, meaning "alone"): Oh shit, sure they are here I dropped the 'e' from ...sea...Well then you can delete this post...I cannot, I guess
  15. yes, they have some got ballads, "no one like you" is one, but still heavy, (the song just mentioned in the thread above) and "still loving you" also a good love-song, though not very heavy...and yeah I also like "Rock you like a..."
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