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Re: MotorHead I saw Motorhead live a while ago, with Cluch and Valient Thorr. The show was pretty amazing. Motorhead only played about 5 songs from their new album, but they played a lot of their older stuff in between. ... I couldn't understand a single thing that Lemmy was saying, though. xD

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I saw Motorhead live a while ago, with Cluch and Valient Thorr. The show was pretty amazing. Motorhead only played about 5 songs from their new album, but they played a lot of their older stuff in between. ... I couldn't understand a single thing that Lemmy was saying, though. xD
yeah his voice makes words generally hard to distinguish :L rather like the singer from airbourne :L:L:L i saw them at t in the park last year and the singer was useless, then again, i really dislike that band
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Heh. I like Lemmy's voice when he sings' date=' since it's so deep and gnarled. But his heavy British accent + beer = words that cannot be understood when spoken.[/quote'] don't get me wrong, lemmy has a great singing voice, it's just as you said, difficult to understand :L
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Re: MotorHead The New Wave of British Heavy Metal existed from roughly '79-'87, but these could be inaccurate figures. I'm no expert, but the main bands from the genre got going around that time, and many kept going and new bands were still forming while thrash metal was getting underway. Older bands that influenced the movement and newer bands mimicking the sound don't really count, because it was a movement and not really a genre.

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Re: MotorHead It really wouldn't be a big deal to me under normal circumstances, as they were in that place in that time and weren't incredibly different sonically, but I often see this as a way for people to devalue their status as the founders of black metal. This is especially true of modern black metal fans, only seeing what currently is called black metal without any regard for it's roots, downplaying their significance as part of their revisionist version of metal history. This is something that genuinely makes me sick with all forms of metal, black, death, doom, even heavy metal itself. The fact that the sound has moved on and evolved over the many years of it's existence is no reason to cast away the foundation.

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Re: MotorHead The founders of a particular style are usually cool and interesting to listen to, but I've found (in my experience anyhow) that it's the second wave of bands that end up being the most diverse, creative, talented, and awesome. Not true in every case, but I would definitely say so with black and death metal.

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