GratuitousTK

Opeth- My Arms Your Hearse Amon Amarth-Twilight of the Thunder God Black Sabbath- Master of Reality Metallica- ....And Justice for All Mastodon- Leviathan

IT seems that they have morphed into a metalcore band. I tried to listen to War Eternal, but couldn't make it all the way through. The vocals are better, but the guitar work and lyrics have kinda taken a turn for the worse.

Hi I'm from about 170 miles south of St. Louis in a town called Lebanon, and I was born in the 80's!!! But seriously go Cards.

Its an old Celtic name.

The name Isolde in her screen name was a pretty good away give that she was probably a female.

Pretty much every song on Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill.

Mastadon- Crack the Skye for about the 120th goddamn time. Still snowed in.

Snowed in. Listening to old school Death Metal. Remembering why I hate it.

Pantera was a pretty great band and although they wrought a lot of crap in the form of overly masculine frat boy metal that came afterwards, they are still one of my favorites. One of the best rhythm sections in metal history. I really love bands that keep the rhythm going even when the lead guitar is in solo. And I really like bands that work the guitar around the music and not vice versa. I don't like absolute silents from the rhythm section so a pretentious little douche can play an overly technical series of scales at about two minutes and thirty seconds into a song.

Yeah Dark Angel is pretty awesome. And that album is brilliant.

Kids!!! If you can grow a chin strap beard, dye your hair bright yellow, wear a baseball cap backwards unironically, and learn to play nothing but finger cords in drop D, then you too can be a nu metal superstar!!!!!! But seriously the genre is awful, and filled to a great degree with misogynistic, dude-bro frat boy dumbfuckery. And the only band to come out of it that will have any lasting appeal to both metal historians and music fans in general is probably the Deftones.

Yeah I agree with you when you say they have done nothing of note since Justice. I am simply saying that trying to diminish the impact they had on the genre because they "sold out" is kind of petty. And by the way the same thing is happening now with Mastodon, since their sound has become slightly more commercial over their past two albums(which I have both disliked).

It seems like ever since Metallica teamed up with Bob Rock and transformed themselves from a slightly progressive Thrash Metal band into simply a radio friendly Hard Rock band, a lot of revisionism has taken place. Purists have seemed to want to write them out of the Metal history books altogether, or diminish the amount of influence that those four albums they released from 1982-1989 have had on the genre as a whole. No no no Metallica was fucking awesome in the eighties. They were making some of the most original and groundbreaking Metal in the genres history. Not many bands can claim to have the creative output that they had during the time period. Of course post 1992 they have had nothing but diminishing returns, and have gone to great lengths to destroy the reputation they built during Thrash's heyday. But they were special once, and no amount of revisionism is going to change that.

Yes. Yes it was.

Had some of this shit last time I was in Nashville. Its an 8.5 percent beer. I didn't know this of course, and I hadn't been drinking much in the months leading up to the imbibing. I drank six of them in a half hour period and had to have my brother in law and best friend carry me to the car after dinner. Awesome.

I DVR Better Call Saul, Justified and The Americans. Great shows. I have all five seasons of Breaking Bad on my DVR from when AMC did a marathon of it a month ago. Greatest show ever, other than The Sopranos.

Well that new Taylor Swift song "Shake it Off" isn't the worst thing in the world I thought it would be. Pull it up on youtube every once in a while and give her a listen. I'll show myself out. I also listen to The Cure quite a bit.

I had a buddy get stabbed in the shoulder at a Lamb of God concert in 2005. Pretty metal I guess. We were both pretty drunk at the time and he didn't seem to mind that much. It was a misunderstanding about a possible girlfriend gropage of another young white male that was prone to violent outbursts.

30 last November.

It is a very odd list. Good pop music appeals to me.

Radiohead-brilliant musicians(when I was 14 my two favorite albums were And Justice for All and OK Computer. They still are.) REM- sad that they broke up D'Angelo- Its great music to have sex to. Green Day- I know I know but American Idiot is probably the best pop album of the last 15 years. Fleetwood Mac- Rumours is a perfect album Pink Floyd- Anyone who hates Pink Floyd is a stupid stupid asshole. I'm sorry. That was mean.