Neighbors and metal

[metalman45]

Just like my earlier thread "Noiseless" in again branching out in the sound territory. The million dollar question this time is: How does listening to metal affect and alter your general relationship to your neighbours? Like do you take cauction not to be too loud or just say "fuck em' and blast away? Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to bash metalheads, I'm just curious. In my case I currently live in an apartment with thick, good walls that block most noises (banging, music etc.) and I listen most of the time in headphones so it doesn't matter. How do you do?

[BlutAusNerd]

My band plays in my basement, and pretty loudly at that, and I have yet to receive any complaints. I don't have quite the proximity to my neighbors as many in more populated communities do, but our communities are also more closed minded for the most part (in the heart of Utah), so it's surprising that I've met with no resistance. When we were jamming at the other guitar player's house, we received a noise complaint and a police visit due to one of the neighbors, but the police actually sided with us.

[Iceni]

Cops come out for absolutely anything in Los Alamos, my brother was once accosted by two policemen responding to a complaint that he was throwing rocks at trees...in a wooded public area. My mom, my speech coach and I were approached by two squad cars because we were conversing late at night under a lamppost, and I guess because I was wearing a hoodie. Bear in mind, my mom and speech coach are in their fifties. I was once ordered to produce an ID when walking home from work, because it was dark and I was wearing black, and apparently they were looking for someone dressed in black...even though it was in fact my work uniform! Naturally none of the resulted in fines or legal action, but annoying nonetheless because of how mind-bogglingly petty it was. Great use of state resources, calling cops away from guarding one of the nation's premiere research and weapons-building institutions to respond to the most asinine nonsense. On topic: never got a complaint for blasting music, which is very surprising considering walls in this dorm are virtually transparent.

[deathstorm]

I remember. Pissing off my rap loving. Neighbor. With metal blasting. All the time. He called it demon. Lol he doesn't want a recognized me as a neighbor. Lol. That was back in the day

[BlutAusNerd]

Cops come out for absolutely anything in Los Alamos, my brother was once accosted by two policemen responding to a complaint that he was throwing rocks at trees...in a wooded public area. My mom, my speech coach and I were approached by two squad cars because we were conversing late at night under a lamppost, and I guess because I was wearing a hoodie. Bear in mind, my mom and speech coach are in their fifties. I was once ordered to produce an ID when walking home from work, because it was dark and I was wearing black, and apparently they were looking for someone dressed in black...even though it was in fact my work uniform! Naturally none of the resulted in fines or legal action, but annoying nonetheless because of how mind-bogglingly petty it was. Great use of state resources, calling cops away from guarding one of the nation's premiere research and weapons-building institutions to respond to the most asinine nonsense. On topic: never got a complaint for blasting music, which is very surprising considering walls in this dorm are virtually transparent.

That's appalling, there must really be nothing else for cops to do down there, but I guess that's not the worst thing ever. I've never had a run in with the police of any kind, other than being pulled over for speeding.

[deathstorm]

Cops got a be pretty bored down there

[BlackFuckingMetal666]

My neighbors are cool as hell with me. No one around me likes metal but if I ever play it too loud or too late at night they call me or walk over and ask me to turn it down and I do. Same goes for them whenever they have parties. Me and my neighbors get along great but then again I do live in the middle of the desert and I'm pretty much never home.

[H34VYM3T4LD4V3]

My neighbors are cool as hell with me. No one around me likes metal but if I ever play it too loud or too late at night they call me or walk over and ask me to turn it down and I do. Same goes for them whenever they have parties. Me and my neighbors get along great but then again I do live in the middle of the desert and I'm pretty much never home.

You sound like an awesome neighbor, our neighbord next door have bloody parties til 3 oclock in the morning, (our house is semi detached) we've told them but they haven't done anything, bullshit.

[FatherAlabaster]

I record in my room. I know my neighbors can hear me screaming my fool head off but I've only had a couple of complaints over the last ten years. Never had the cops called on me. I read an interview with the guy from Jute Gyte where he said the mailman heard him recording vocals and called the cops, and he had to actually show them his recording studio to convince them he wasn't torturing someone.

[Iceni]

That's appalling' date=' there must really be nothing else for cops to do down there, but I guess that's not the worst thing ever.[/quote'] Absolutely, it's one of the most crime-free areas in the US and definitely in New Mexico, so they're doing something right on some level. One can easily tell the difference between state cops and government forces given to protect the lab: State cops are constantly having to nitpick over the slightest bollocks to justify their existence. On the other hand, government security are Judge Dredd kinda guys dressed in level III body armor, who carry M4s and don't usually talk so much.

[deathstorm]

Oh shit Iceni you mean salem and rios are in New Mexico

[mindy6158]

I have never had any complaints thus far, although I DO wonder from time to time what my neighbors think of my random outbursts of screaming or singing on occasion, or trying to growl akerfeldt style, or just the daily making up my own names for my dog and yelling them from the other room at her and making weird noises to her....................

[deathstorm]

Mindy you need to get out that funny farm ASAP

[mindy6158]

Mindy you need to get out that funny farm ASAP

What EVER do you mean my friend???

[deathstorm]

I mean by that your interning there is affecting you

[mindy6158]

Think I was already that way LONG before. haha

[Black Milk]

I'm lucky with my current residence since its a house and not an apartment, and my neighbors are really close friends/ex roommates even so we're pretty much complaint proof. I do share a wall with one of my roomies who works very early in the morning so I try my best to respectful with the volumes on the weeknights. When I was in Chicago, however, both of my upstairs neighbors were total cunts about it. I was in the garden level and seriously got regular complaints from the third floor guy. They would complain about my music but had no qualms of what seemed like aerobics sessions at 2am. Humorous story, that year in Chi was the biggest blizzard since the 60's, and the snow ended up piling up in the alley to my door to where we couldn't even open it. So its four guys stuck in an apartment chock-full of booze and drugs so it quickly became an unruly affair, and I remember blasting Agoraphobic Nosebleed's Frozen Corpses Stuffed with Dope to fit the winter fucking wonderland atmosphere. A little after the record had ended we heard knocks on the door which was confusing, open up and its two cops, called by the cunty neighbors, who had shoveled out our walkway just to tell us to shut the fuck up. Luckily Chicago cops have better stuff to do then fuck with some college kids, they seemed irritated that they even had to make the call.

[Riverlioness]

My neighbor is 80 years old, and half deaf.

[sleastak]

I listen to all of my music with headphones. The only music that plays out loud through speakers is music from, well, everyone else in my family. None of which is rock or metal.