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Ello all!

Bear with my intro, I can get a little wordy.

So a friend texted me to say a Linkin Park cover band was playing at a Beer festival in Singapore and I being all heartbroken still about Chester, I rounded up like 7 people so we could go do some yelling as it's obviously good to yell to music, relieves all the bad juju and all that. I then got stuck in a huuuge black hole and read a bunch of line-ups for festivals seas away from me as I'm in a tiny little dot on the map. Felt crappy about missing out such dope line-ups (I like most metal music but something about nu-metal has me hyped all the time or maybe more so when I was younger but I still enjoy it). Thought I could find at least one friend to rave about all these festivals to and be like "OHHHHH THAT LINE-UP IS CRRAAAZZZZYYYYYYY," but no. Not a single one felt my joy and sadness. So I figured I had to branch out and find people who might share and empathise with all my feelings.

Thank you very much my favourite bands are Deftones, The Prodigy and possibly Bjork but a lot of bands fight for position #3 all the time (Glassjaw, Slipknot, The Locust).
Plz be my friend.

I should also probably add that I started listening to metal because of WWF and being 12 on AOL Instant messenger changed my life. Someone sent me Mushroomhead, From Autumn to Ashes and Poison the Well and I was well hooked ❤️

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16 hours ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

12? That's about the age I discovered metal, what are the odds? Welcome to the community.

I think I got really lucky with my bestfriend in school, my this one aunt and the coming of the internet. 2002 was such a good time to lie about your age online so older people would talk to you hahaha and hey they thought I was 16! Great! How old are you, Relentless?

2 hours ago, MacabreEternal said:

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Welcome, I am currently revisiting 'White Pony' after 'Korea' popped up on a shuffle playlist earlier this week.  Tried to get to grips with The Prodigy's last effort but it feels to commercial for me, not terrible just a bit too polished.

? that took me waaaaaaaaaaaaay too long to get, i blame 3 hour evening class on therapy.
white pony is always a great album, i think anyone would say so and my favouritest song Pink Maggit is on it and beautiful Maynard, what a solid album. actually if i remember correctly, i only started listening to deftones and getting more into heavier music after watching queen of the damned - that was a great soundtrack.

i know what you mean about the prodigy, i don't disagree but i think i am naturally biased with any of their releases so No Tourists grew on me eventually but no particular song stands out.

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