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Hello all, First off; no I don't really work in a button factory I just have a very silly, Monty Python-esque, sense of humor. I'll probably try to stay reserved on that too much in here since it's a pain to convey sarcasm on a forum. Second; I am an American, I grew up in Columbus Ohio and recently moved to Albuquerque New Mexico following a job. I am a professional Firefighter. I'm married, with two four legged furry children, no human babies yet. I've been many places in the world courtesy of Uncle Sam, at least half of which you couldn't pay me to go back to. I'm generally a nice guy, but no I will not add you on Facebook if you find me because I don't add people I haven't met. Talking on a forum does not qualify as meeting. Just a personal policy. That's all I can think of right now. If you have a question for me, feel free to PM me, not sure how active I'll be on here but if I notice it I'll reply. If you want my opinion on something, be sure you want my opinion because I'll give it. That's it. Cheers!

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Welcome to the forum. NM needs more metal fans.
AYE! Goodness knows Santa Fe would be so much more epic if all of those purple-windowed early 90's Civics with soup-can exhausts were belching crunchy riffs instead of amplified Morse code.
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Oh huzzah' date=' another New Mexico resident. Welcome aboard.[/quote'] Thank you, thank you.. am I officially a resident if I haven't changed my license/ registered to vote yet? I'm kinda holding off on those things to the last minute out of pure stupid sentimentality.
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Welcome to the forum. NM needs more metal fans.
I'll have to take your word for it. I don't know anything about the scene in NM. Your radio stations suck balls 90% of the time here but at least you guys seem to get some decent concerts through here.
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Re: Hello, my name is Keith and I work in a button factory..

Well, it seems like there are sometimes too many genres of metal, especially since everyone classifies artists/sounds differently. To answer the question in my best terms... it mostly depends on the mood that I'm in...generally speaking I like Thrash, Hardcore, MetalCore, and Punk. I typically stay away from death metal or black metal but every now and again I'll hear something there that gets my blood to flow (i.e. I like a lot of the stuff that Metalocalypse has done and some people would classify them as black metal,even though technically I know they're kinda real and kinda not).
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