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Or Florida as some call it. Just a screeching little autist with a preference for loud music. I am especially listening to classic metal from the 80s, 90s and 2000s. Also, I listen to something called Taqwacore (Islamic Punk) sometimes, along with First Nation Rock like Buffy Sainte-Marry, and some other types of Loud and Rebellious Music. I am actually white as fuck, blood-wise, and probably if I weren't Gay and as mentioned Autistic with deformed feet could pass a Hitlerian Ancestry Test with Flying Colors. I basically first got into Metal with (Yes I am Gen-Y) Linkin Park and Papa Roach, but slowly got into older stuff. Now I am into something called Metalstep which is basically a combination of the Metal and Technos most violent and loudest sounds. I am also heavily into German Heavy Metal (and not just Rammstein, like Idiots who don't know about even harder stuff.)

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Interesting. You don't often see people using "Gen-Y" over "Millennials." My daughter's a Millennial (1990) and as it happens she also lives in hell which kinda sucks. Maybe if Floridians got together and elected a new Governor it would be a bit less horrific. But I think Millennials got a bad rap. For many years us old people made Millennials the butt of our jokes, and many wondered aloud how they'd ever be able to get their shit together enough to successfully navigate their way through life. But now that they've grown up a bit and the oldest ones are in their early 40's, and even the youngest ones are pushing 30, turns out they're about as normal and typical and unremarkable as all of our previous generations. I don't know too many of yiz in real life though. Besides my daughter obviously. Mostly I just have a few token Milennials that I interact with on the forum here: Blivvington, James Thomas, Serpico and Le Cabbage come to mind. And Zack if he ever decides to come back and visit his old friends. Anyway, welcome to our little metal forum. Hope you have fun poking around and can find some better music to listen to, assuming of course that you've come here at least partly in search of new musical recommendations.

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On 9/29/2023 at 4:54 PM, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Interesting. You don't often see people using "Gen-Y" over "Millennials." My daughter's a Millennial (1990) and as it happens she also lives in hell which kinda sucks. Maybe if Floridians got together and elected a new Governor it would be a bit less horrific. But I think Millennials got a bad rap. For many years us old people made Millennials the butt of our jokes, and many wondered aloud how they'd ever be able to get their shit together enough to successfully navigate their way through life. But now that they've grown up a bit and the oldest ones are in their early 40's, and even the youngest ones are pushing 30, turns out they're about as normal and typical and unremarkable as all of our previous generations. I don't know too many of yiz in real life though. Besides my daughter obviously. Mostly I just have a few token Milennials that I interact with on the forum here: Blivvington, James Thomas, Serpico and Le Cabbage come to mind. And Zack if he ever decides to come back and visit his old friends. Anyway, welcome to our little metal forum. Hope you have fun poking around and can find some better music to listen to, assuming of course that you've come here at least partly in search of new musical recommendations.

I happen to be very glad to hear your greeting. Thanks for the Kindness, I thought the whole fact that I was into Linkin Park as a teen and got into metal due to them might anger some people. By the way, I have a huge range of music I like. I love everything from Cannibal Corpse to Thor to Black Sabbath and Ozzy. As well as a lot none metal genres. 

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Welcome aboard, it’s always nice to have fresh meat…I mean fresh faces around here.

 

we all had our gateways into metal, I don’t think many people here care where your journey started. It is the metal journey that’s important.

 

Oh and GG I think we both know the chances of Ronnie losing basically hinge on how petty the orange goblin is feeling at the time. This probably isn’t the appropriate place for that conversation.

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