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Bogey079

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  1. My favourite form of music is thrash metal, and I pretty much will listen to almost anything, old or new, as long as the production isn't too bad or the vocals are annoying I know all the big ones, and quite a few of the smaller ones, I'm hungry for more though and open to suggestions
  2. Black Sabbath, the song, was inspired by the tonality used in Gustav Holst orchestral suite The Planets, it's got nothing to do with blues Elements of metal was around earlier, distorted guitar riffs and such, like The Kinks, it wasn't until Black Sabbath, the record, was released that all the elements of metal was in place though, so yes, it was the first metal record. Pentatonic scales, which Black Sabbath also used a lot, are not exclusive to blues either, it can be found in traditional european and asian music as well, the tonality of metal is heavily influenced by classical music
  3. Testament, Overkill and Annihilator, thrash metal in general as I find that kind of music most relaxing
  4. Exactly, though I would claim that you can't underplay how important Iron Maiden was for the evolution of metal. I don't really listen to them much these days, and anything after Powerslave is of little interest to me. Anyway, I would say Killers and The Number of the Beast are two of the best metal records from that period Growing up in Norway, we had one government run TV channel and two government run radio channels which rarely played anything heavier than the Rolling Stones, commercial TV and radio didn't appear until well into the 80's, so we relied heavily on what friends and acquaintances had, trading tapes and such. There are bands I never even heard of until much later. Riot for example, judging from what I've heard from the period I got into metal I think would have been right up my alley at the time, I didn't even know existed until a couple of years ago. Fortunately metal fans were always eager to share, so I quickly got a taste of bands like Judas Priest, Accept, Dio, Scorpions, and even Y&T, to name a few
  5. Thanks for the welcome! Few people outside of Japan has ever heard of Show-Ya it seems, they were pretty much the original all female japanese metal band and quite succesful in Japan in the last part of the 80's though. They are perhaps an aquired taste to some degree, at least for western listeners, fair warning though, if you start liking them you're in for the quintessential rabbithole. If you actually want to give them a try I would recommend starting with some of their more classical material, such as their most sold record Outerlimits Out of Limits from Outerlimits
  6. I can't recall the exact year, 1983 perhaps? My brother had already exposed me to Iron Maiden, and I annexed a casette I found in his room, Denim and Leather with Saxon, which was the first record which got me into metal. I then got my hands on Iron Maiden's Killers and The Number of the Beast, and the rest is, as they say, history, it's impossible to replicate the impact of those two Iron Maiden records
  7. Judging from what I listen most to right now Testament Show-Ya Overkill Annihilator Alien Weaponry
  8. Saxon was one of my favourite bands when I got into metal, and their record Denim and Leather was actually my gateway into metal, it doesn't sound very hard now, it was back then though In retrospect I'm not sure I would say they have any great albums, they do however have quite a few pretty good tracks, even up to the most recent releases
  9. I got into metal first half on the 80's, yes I'm old, it felt more like metal quit on me at the end of the 80's, so through the 90's and well into the 00's I really didn't listen much to metal. I know now there was some good metal during the 90's and 00's, this was pre internet though, at least for me, so I didn't have the opportunities we have now to look up other metal. I've always listened to other types of music though, so it wasn't a huge deal at the moment When I started to listen to metal again it was mostly early 80's metal, I didn't really get properly back into metal until I heard Megadeths Dystopia in 2016 though, and from then I discovered both some old bands I didn't know of, other than their name perhaps, and some newer bands, and in my opinion metal is better than ever. I mostly listen to metal from the last decade now
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