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Hello everybody.

Name's Buttercheese and I am German Metalhead from the Rhineland in Germany.
No, that is not "Butter Cheese". It has nothing to do with butter. It's a German type of cheese.
A surefire way to make me dislike you is to make jokes about my username.
There is no cool or fun story behind that name. I just chose it one day and it stuck.

Man, I am sure coming of a pure ray of sunshine right from the get go, aren't I? :P 

Some of my currently favourite acts include (but are not limted to) Orden Ogan, Blind Guardian, Dio, Helloween, Galaktikon, Alestorm, Dethklok, Metallica, Ensiferum, Iron Maiden, etc. When it comes to concerts I am down for most anything metal, so long as I have somebody to go with. I definetly prefer small, intimate concerts over large stadium or festival concerts. Not the biggest fan of large crowds. I've been to quite a lot of concerts in my life, mainly smaller local bands. Been only to two large festivals, namely Rock am Ring 2011 (which I absolutely hated and some asshole spiked my drink) and to Wacken 2013 (which was fine in theory, but again, I don't like large crowds).

I have been listening to a bit of metal for as long as I could think, but as many people I didn't really develope a "taste" in music until my teenage years, where I found my true love for hard rock. My teenage years where mainly filled with German punkrock and whatever metal I could get my hands on to. Which wasn't a whole lot, thanks to not having a lot of money to spend on CDs (I mainly spend my money on comics at the time) and not having friends with the ... uhm ... best tastes in music. So I mainly got my fix from whatever was on MTV and the radio at the time, which wasn't a whole lot. So I mainly listened to In Extremo, System of a Down, Coheed and Cambria and Nirvana. Up until I finished school at age 16 I was really more of a punk rather than a metalhead, to be honest. Things changed tough when I found new friends after finishing school and was finally allowed to go out late, meaning I could finally meet some other metalheads. And the rest is history ;)

Generally speaking I am not the type of person who obsesses over bands. I usually don't care what bandmembers names are or what their history is, for the most part I really do only care for the music. Well, for as long as the band in question doesn't feature any Neo-Nazis in their ranks. Because boy, do I hate bigots. My other interests include drawing, comics, animation, video games, pen and paper roleplaying, movies, etc.

About two years ago I had to move town and lost contact with most of the people who I'd exchange music tastes with and since then the only metalhead friends I managed to make are all almost exclusively into black metal. That's why decided to join these forums, in hope to discover some music to listen to, because man, am I bad at finding music I like. And, well, maybe I find some other stuff to do here as well.

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Thanks for the warm welcome :)

@deathstorm I already listed my favourite bands, but my favourite genres are German power metal and classic heavy metal. Also some thrash, folk, NWOBHW and prog metal. Mainly I am into the epic stuff, if it has long guitar solos, double bass, a charismatic singer and lyrics straight out of a fantasy novel there is a good chance I'll like it. If I can sing along, even better. I'd probably be into a lot more folk metal, if I could actually understand the lyrics. Though don't be mistaken, I am not a fan of the italian style of power metal, that stuff's even too corny for me ;)

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57 minutes ago, Buttercheese said:

Thanks for the warm welcome :)

@deathstorm I already listed my favourite bands, but my favourite genres are German power metal and classic heavy metal. Also some thrash, folk, NWOBHW and prog metal. Mainly I am into the epic stuff, if it has long guitar solos, double bass, a charismatic singer and lyrics straight out of a fantasy novel there is a good chance I'll like it. If I can sing along, even better. I'd probably be into a lot more folk metal, if I could actually understand the lyrics. Though don't be mistaken, I am not a fan of the italian style of power metal, that stuff's even too corny for me ;)

That’s cool 

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Welcome. I'm not crazy about most modern European power metal, but I do love the older stuff and especially enjoy 80's American power metal. One of the few things that makes me feel patriotic is my country's long and fruitful history with nearly every metal genre, I just wish that power and thrash metal didn't die here in the early 90's. Hope you find some music you enjoy here.

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