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You should know by now that I'm sticking around. Why would the others not? Are they pushed away' date=' hazed, what's the reason? Honestly curious.[/quote'] I don't know, we seem to retain fewer than one percent of new members here for more than a few posts, despite having a mellow and diverse crew of regular posters and a wide variety of topics and opinions on display. Getting people to stick around is a problem I've noticed with every forum I've been on though. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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I've spent the past two years looking for a good forum to spend my time on. I used Dead Frontier's (it's an MMO) forum for about three years before finally saying goodbye, I never really even played the game itself. This forum is pretty much exactly what I've been looking for, so I plan to make my stay a long one. I hope you don't mind. :)

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I've spent the past two years looking for a good forum to spend my time on. I used Dead Frontier's (it's an MMO) forum for about three years before finally saying goodbye' date=' I never really even played the game itself. This forum is pretty much exactly what I've been looking for, so I plan to make my stay a long one. I hope you don't mind. :)[/quote'] I'm not sure if I should take the liberty of speaking for everyone, but you seem cool in my book, stick around as long as you like. Maybe we'll start to rub off on you after a while... Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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You've already started to rub off on me. You all have opened my eyes to a lot more of the metal world. Hell, my playlist has gone from 1.6k to nearly 5k songs in the past month. Anyway, I'm not really trying to give a sappy speech here, so I'll stop before I get ahead of myself. My love for metalcore seems to be somewhat decreasing as well, which I can only blame the lot of you for. Especially my love for bands like FFDP and Machine Head, that's been getting washed down the drain since I've joined this forum. Even though I still enjoy it, whenever it plays, my brain instantly wants me to skip to the next song.

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You've already started to rub off on me. You all have opened my eyes to a lot more of the metal world. Hell' date=' my playlist has gone from 1.6k to nearly 5k songs in the past month. Anyway, I'm not really trying to give a sappy speech here, so I'll stop before I get ahead of myself. My love for metalcore seems to be somewhat decreasing as well, which I can only blame the lot of you for. Especially my love for bands like FFDP and Machine Head, that's been getting washed down the drain since I've joined this forum. Even though I still enjoy it, whenever it plays, my brain instantly wants me to skip to the next song.[/quote'] The sound of progress... Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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i would describe lamb of god as Groove metal....although the band them selves have described their music in many genres' date=' Metalcore has not passed their lips.[/quote'] They don't have to admit it for it to be so. There is definitely Pantera worshiping groove metal in there, but there's just as much, if not more metalcore. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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i say metalcore is my mind is a hybrid of metal with hardcore breakdown it 's putting metallica and hatebreed in to a blender mix it up you get metalcore that is my though of metalcore
Metalcore should be a mixture of metal and hardcore, but tends to be more of a mixture of emo and the most banal aspects of melodeath and hardcore. Legit metalcore can be good music, but the pop music bands that most people associate with the genre (As I Lay Dying, Trivium, Bullet For My Valentine, etc...) do a great deal to give metalcore a bad name. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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i would describe lamb of god as Groove metal....although the band them selves have described their music in many genres' date=' Metalcore has not passed their lips.[/quote'] Well yes, but then Taylor Swift never describes herself as a fantastically naive lyricist. Black Eyed Peas don't call themselves lazy, and Ke$ha never describes herself as the voice of drunk white trash everywhere. I think Lamb of God are metalcore whether they believe so or not. A bit better than the other bands in said genre, but definitely not a groove metal band. Polkadot Cadaver and Carnival In Coal are groove metal, and a better listen too.
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