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Hello everybody, I am a Spanish nurse living in London recently, discovering everyday the metal world here. I'm into all sorts of metal, from trash to hard rock, glam and power. But overall, I love their satanic majesties, The Rolling Stones. I usually go every year to a festival, I've been twice in Wacken and this year in Hellfest. It's great to meet new bands, that is what I'm looking forward here and also, meet metalheads from all over the world. See you around!

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Wow - The Rolling Stones described as satanic majesties? Fair enough, never been a fan of them myself but each to their own. Welcome to the forum anyway, stick about it's a decent place. I work for the NHS also (unless you work private sector) but not in a clinical capacity (anymore). Are you general nursing or psychiatric?

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Wow - The Rolling Stones described as satanic majesties? Fair enough' date=' never been a fan of them myself but each to their own. Welcome to the forum anyway, stick about it's a decent place. I work for the NHS also (unless you work private sector) but not in a clinical capacity (anymore). Are you general nursing or psychiatric?[/quote'] They did have an album called Their Satanic Majesties Request, and were once a pretty dark blues rock band. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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welcome to this hall of the damned we call the metal forum :D Personally I feel satanism is the most hackneyed, over-used, ludicrous theme in metal. Predominantely satanism is used to make talentless bands appear frightening. That being said there are many excellent bands which flirt with the idea of satanism and satan in general.

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Hi guys! Thank you for the welcome! The Rolling Stones are known as Their Satanic Majesties from 1967 because of the song Sympathy for the Devil and obviously, for the Album Their Satanic Majesties Request. And this name is not related with Satanism, the title is a play on the "Her Britannic Majesty request and requires..." text that appears inside the British passport. But, at the same time, they were known for being the bad guys in Rock and Roll as well as The Beatles were the good guys, so this nickname was perfect. macabreeternal I am working for the NHS too, in a lovely hospital here in London, in PICU.

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