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Greetings all... it's with my extreme gratitude to be here amongst ALL of you AMAZING PEOPLE HERE today!    \m/...(>.<)…\m/

I've always been a huge audiophile my entire life and have what I's say is an extremely large music collection I've amassed over the many years.  Even though I've been to hell and back several times I've always managed to keep my collection complete as I'd throw down in a heartbeat to protect it!  Through all of life's challenges and some even of my own bad choices it's always been the MUSIC in my life that keeps me focused onto what's important (my inner peace of mind).  Everything in life is temporary - even life itself but I've discovered for me that no matter what darkness awaits or what friends I'll continue to lose to the streets my MUSIC will be my "Co-Pilot"!!! I've developed tastes to a lot of different genres through the decades but METAL is what's only stuck with me for the long haul... now with so many sub-genres I find it very challenging to even identify between some of them as this internet and all of it's ill-trained authors have let things get out of control in that regard... but the HUGE TRADE OFF (for me anyway) is having everyone here to get to know and learn about bands/musicians within the METAL world I'd never have ever found alone.  I only hope I can also contribute here to some of you as well...  time will certainly tell us all and I remain eager to cross paths with all of you at some point... 

Here's some flavors of Metal that I'm still going strong over... maybe anyone who dared to read this far might also recognize or identify some of these groups as their own favorites too.  I'd like to invite anyone to reply with any of their own favorites that play off any of the following.. unless that should become a new thread. Honestly this is a first FORUM post I've dared to make!  Anyway, here's some groups that have helped me stay out of my own head and give me some amazing energy to PLOW through anything!!!

Tool (of course), Black Sabbath, EARLY Blue Oyster Cult (first 2 albums pretty much), Monster Magnet, Clutch, Soundgarden, Hellyeah, Opeth, OTEP!!!, Ministry, Dope, Alice in Chains, Municipal Waste, Gojira, Dagoba, Wo Fat, Elder, In Flames, Fear Factory, Dry Kill Logic, Six Feet Under, Cannabis Corpse, Barry the Mortician, Dopelord, Orange Goblin, Lich King, Sepultura, Slayer, Spacelord, Kyuss, In Flames, Lacuna Coil, Walls of Jericho, Lamb of God, Pantera, Primer 55, High on FIre, SNOT (R.I.P. Lynn Strait!!), Mushroomhead, Prong, Stoned Jesus, Planet of Zeus..... I could keep going on and on there's so many amazing groups out there and like I said above, I can't wait to find MORE by sharing some time together in here with you all!

Thanks again for allowing your gates to swing open for me to stroll in here with you on this fine day!  Be well and all the best for health and happiness!!

 

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@ Balor, thanks for warm welcome!  I should have taken pics last house I lived in but didn't get around to it... those days I was married and during those years I was drawn away from my collection... "honey-do" distractions...LOL  Recently I've relocated from West Palm Beach, FL up to outside of Richmond, VA area and most everything I still own is in storage while I'm staying with family that is struggling with cancer to help out while I figure out where I'm going to work next!!  At least I had converted a boat load into digital medium like FLAC and MP3 that is what I'm finding joy in while at family's house... also, you'll have to stop by the radio station I've included as part of my signature.... WOW they have EVERYTHING covered within the several metal stations... a bunch of GREAT guys too!!!  I'll start a separate post to talk more about that as I know this is merely and introduction place...

Thanks again for the immediate welcome, brother!  I hope you're able to have an amazing weekend wherever and whatever you're getting into... 

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