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  1. awesome taste. not sure i could listen to a band called genitals though.
  2. I thought a lot of tracks on the last 2 Sabbath albums with ozzy and Dio seemed to have riffs taken from older Zakk Wylde songs. Seems the inspired has become the inspiration. One example here.
  3. IMO Ozzy is underrated by people who say he's just a buffoon who got lucky by landing in good bands. I know he didn't write much of the music and lyrics on his classic albums, but he added a ton of character and atmosphere to them. Even with it's massive musical influence I can't imagine early Sabbath would have been as well loved without his cheeky personality all over the music. R Rhoads would have changed rock whoever he ended up with but Ozzy's persona made magic with his music. And I think just the person he is inspired a lot of the music that was made around him, after reading Iommi's book he said a lot of Geezers lyrics were started off after hearing ad libs sung by Ozzy. That's not to say he's not a complete buffoon with all his other flaws and has made some pretty bland music/celebrity life for the past 20 years.
  4. I don't think these are controversial, just not often said, but I always thought Iron Maiden's guitars sounded like folk fiddle music, Riverdance kind of thing, especially on tracks like The Trooper. I also think jazz sax players like Coltrane are not given enough credit for their influence on rock, his 60s Love Supreme record has a big Slash/Jimmy Page epic hard rock ballad solo feel.
  5. I sometimes think since grunge and nu-metal got big that metal fans are too quick at hearing a band play a slow, detuned riff and calling it a sellout. IE, if a metal band in the 80s tried a song with a slow, detuned Sabbath ish riff, it was just a different style and no-one minded, but now metal fans are over dilligent at making sure their favourite bands only play fast, sharp thrash or it is a sell out.
  6. I'm really enjoying Skalmold's Born Loka record at the mo. It is pretty much Viking folk metal, there are some very obvious nods to bands like Slayer, Opeth, Finntroll (who I only know 1 song by but I hear echoes of it here) , Amon Amarth, but they make it all their own, very distinct atmosphere. The vocalist sounds like some mad Norse holy man shouting incantations over a battle which pretty much makes the album. Definately more dark and disturbing than jolly.
  7. not 100 percent sure what a breakdown is either. Is the die die part of Creeping Death a breakdown? also I always thought thrash was a mix of punk and metal anyway, I mean the punkiest thrash, like 80s Anthrax. I can't tell much of a difference between that and Hatebreed, unless that would be considered core if it came out today. I'm really out of the loop on music.
  8. the soft parts on Sabbaths 13 remind me strongly of Blur, like it's the same psychedelic influence in both.
  9. Here's something weird I just rememberd. I got a proper bought copy of And Justice For All on cassette tape in the 90s, and on the end of side 1 after One finished, there was 5mins of opera and something that sounded like and instrumental Atomic by Blondie. Still have no idea whether it was meant to be there.
  10. finding it hard to realise what metal-core is. If it means Hatebreed I'm all for it, if it means soft metal with emo/pop-rock vocals , not so.
  11. odinnsman

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    lol-ed so hard at his statement from jail that today's metal fan has "the tattoos and piercings of the negro and the drink and drug habits of the homosexual".
  12. doubly guilty attempted seducer of said fangirls here *shame*
  13. Can't stand bands like them, a few years ago I worked with 2 girls who were into those bands and played them often, and I could not get into it. It really bothers me how they sound kind of like 80s metal with the power taken away over pop vocals. I'm not condemning them, I can hear that they can play their instruments and the singer is obviously good at singing emotional songs for teenagers, but I can't stand the sound personally. It also bothers me cause, when I was a kid in the 90s, I was always getting crap from Korn fans and being made fun of for liking classic metal, and now guitar solos and Maiden type influences are cool. Just shows how fickle the mainstream is. Not that I respect any of the emo-metal bands for having Maiden influences, they play such a neutered form of them.
  14. Never heard his stuff, but if he likes the ride the lightning album he can't be that bad a guy.
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