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Re: glam and gothic metal Glam Metal bands such as Motley Crue and Poison are about the limit of my knowledge, though i think Heart technically classify, though listening to their stuff I disagree. There is also The Darkness as well, who are a newer band from the UK, they released an album and then disappeared into obscurity.

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The Darkness, as in the hard rock band? They have two albums, and apparently something planned for release this year. And no, I wouldn't put Heart under a glam label.
Yeah, The Darkness is clearly Glam Metal, look at them.... I say obscurity since "Permission to Land" was huge, and their follow-up failed to register for most. I would not classify Heart as Glam, however, in a program I saw a couple years ago called "The Seven Ages of Rock" they were lumped in with Poison and Motley Crue... Pigeon-holing artists is never going to work since we all have different ideas.
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Re: glam and gothic metal

Agreed. Stryper is awesome. First metal band I got into, actually :D
I heard Petra first. Before that, everything I'd heard from the Christian market categorically sucked...it was a breath of fresh air.
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Petra are pretty good' date=' yes. Their style continuously adapts to what is popular though. And by first metal band, I wasn't speaking in terms of Christian bands, but metal altogether, actually.[/quote'] Sure. I heard Metallica first, actually. It was 'Enter Sandman' and since I was under the impression that they served as an introduction to metal, I wanted to hear more...and that's how it started. But before then I always loved Def Leppard and Scorpions, anything 80's and corny appealed to me. So I got into more heavy metal groups like Triumph and Guardian (the latter is my favorite heavy metal group) and so my taste in metal began with this material.
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Re: glam and gothic metal I didn't care much for metal until a friend of mine started talking about Dream Theater constantly, and then my sister (for some reason) played some Dream Theater to me. She's not into the band though, she just loves a few songs, such as "Wait for Sleep", which was the first song I heard. Then I heard "Panic Attack", and as I was very new to metal and my mindset for interpreting it wasn't very developed, the fast playing and heavy sound was very appealing to me. That's pretty much how I got into music in general, progressive and metal in particular.

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Re: glam and gothic metal Are you nuts? Of course I have. They're my favourite band, in case you have not noticed. Not that I know why, there are plenty of other bands and artist which I find to have better music and musical style. The new album is pretty interesting yes, a fresh breath of air to a discography which has seen a fair share of lower quality, metal-focused releases since they got popular.

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