*insert greeting*

[Avaline]

Hello. Pew pew.

[Midi]

*Insert response*

[Avaline]

Yeah!

[FatherAlabaster]

Insert good wishes for an enjoyable stay, relevant personal information, and discussion of musical interests. 

[Avaline]

Thank you, thats nice! Relevant personal information? Does this forum have a problem with people sharing tmi? :))

[RelentlessOblivion]

No, no, Alabaster was merely trying to be funny with a cleverish response to your intro title. G'Day by the way.

[Avaline]

Well G'Day day to you too sir or..lady. I think ill just stay here greeting all of you until i find a topic that i believe without my contribution would be flawed. : D

[RelentlessOblivion]

Oh come on dive right in. We're a small community but we're plenty friendly...most of the time. Last I checked I was a bloke so unless that magically changes once one has turned 25...

 

Tsk tsk I didn't finish that sentence with the word mate now no one will believe all Australians really do talk like this

[Avaline]

Ha, the change happens at 25? I await my long lost castrated falus.

Bloke is a funny word.

[RelentlessOblivion]

We Aussies have many funny words and phrases. Also funny wildlife - seriously kangaroos are hilarious.

[FatherAlabaster]

Thank you, thats nice! Relevant personal information? Does this forum have a problem with people sharing tmi? :))

It would be cool if you told us a bit about yourself and the music you're into, but you don't have to.

 Last I checked I was a bloke so unless that magically changes once one has turned 25...

You can change anytime you want to, we'll be here for you... Candy Fluffy Bunny Bear.  

[RelentlessOblivion]

Nah I like wearing pants too much, you and Chewbacca can uh enjoy? the change if you wish...

[Avaline]

Oh ive never seen a kangaroo up close. It would probably kick me for invading their personal space. :/

Thats a hard task Alabaster.

25/f/eu (lets just leave it at EU for now : D), currently finishing my MA (i have a book in front of me but for some curious reason answering this is prior to that : D), interested in every aspect of society, very much a social justice warrior with a specific hate towards nazi, racist types of "people", i listen to pretty much everything, but since this is a metal forum, i prefer..hm hard to tell..i like bm, but i cant enjoy the bad production, so im stuck with just a few bands, i like progressive to the point where clean vocals begin to kill me, love doom if the vocals arent just deep growls all the time, i really enjoy experimental metal bands, love the fusion of different genres.. i dont like brootal death and im not a big fan of heavy... i also listen to nu..i like thrash but newer productions and stronger vocals..weird ha. In short, i like it a bit more complex, with vocals that are either screaming, somewhat deep growling (hmm..Swallow the sun type, not Cannibal corpse type) or cleans that arent..iron maiden typish. : D

Eh, its clearer with bands, randomly from the top of my mind: swallow the sun, anaal nathrakh, alcest, deathspell omega, warbringer, nevermore, agalloch, dark tranquility, ne obliviscaris, biomechanical.. Its just a big mix.

This WAS hard.

[Midi]

deathspell omega

That was a great point

[RelentlessOblivion]

Quite the mix of bands there, I can dig that, I too struggle to name favourite bands. When pushed I'd say Death, Bathory, Type O Negative, Blind Guardian, and Mournful Congregation but that's solely because those are the bands who stand out among the plethora for which multiple albums feature in my collection (I have every Death album, Bathory's first four, 5 TON albums, Blind Guardian's first 4, and aside from their splits everything Mournful Congregation have done). I'm a genres guy really doom is my favourite and particularly funeral doom, black metal second because I've just come off a huge BM binge, death, thrash, folk, power, prog, and traditional metal also appeal to me a lot.

[GorboGorboze]

Hey Avaline, Welcome to the forum, I hope you enjoy it here.

[BlutAusNerd]

Welcome. I dig the variety of bands listed on your post, we tend to be a varied group as well. Feel free to get involved in discussions and check out our recommendations threads. Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk

[Avaline]

Thank you Gorbo and Blutausnerd.

Well i cant really stay focused on one genre for a long time, i kind of lose interest when it comes to constant repetition. When bands tend to stick to their genres without even trying to spice things up, it gets boring (for me) and then i just end up listening to a couple of songs from a certain band. Thats why i dont have many favorite bands and i certainly dont know how to name all of their albums and their band members. : D

[RelentlessOblivion]

Yeah I'm not that devoted to learning band members names outside of my favourite musicians like Chuck Schuldiner and Pete Steele. I either listen to the iPod on shuffle or go album by album most of the time. Right now I'm in a big doom phase so that's all I'm listening to. Fortunately there's plenty of variety in that subgenre - covers everything from Pentagram and Trouble through Katatonia and My Dying Bride to Evoken and Shape Of Despair.

[FatherAlabaster]

Thanks for sharing, Avaline. I tend to prefer more complex music as well, and I like a few of the bands you mentioned. Several of our members are students. What are you studying?  

[Avaline]

Sociology and pedagogy. I finished with all my lectures and exams, i already miss them. : /

[RelentlessOblivion]

That's cool. I took a sociology subject as an elective my first year at uni and wrote a paper on the idea of 'compulsory social deviance" - subcultures where the idea of social deviance was not only tolerated but encouraged. My two examples were the jazz culture of the late forties and early fifties where drug use was encouraged and the metal culture where a particular look at odds with social norms, greater tolerance for substance abuse, and occassionally occult practices were/are similarly encouraged. I'm studying law so sociology was a fascinating break.

[Avaline]

That sounds like an interesting paper. Subcultures are in general described as anti-cultures, so i guess some sort of deviance is written in almost every one of them. It just varies on how strong this deviance is or how socially non accepted it is. Through time, almost every subculture was swallowed and embraced by capitalism, so now, it only benefits from the "deviance". It happened with the civil rights movement in the 60s, with hippies, punks, even skinheads. I guess anarchists are the only real resistance. And they basically dont exist.

By the way Shape of Despair are great. Since i like doom, i decided to check them out. But i guess, theyre best listened to when youre in a more melancholy mood.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Yeah they're a fine example of the funeral doom subgenre. Perfect winter listening material. We've got a ton of recommendations threads stickied to the top of our genre subforums which come with videos courtesy of BlutAusNerd.

[Natassja]

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