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Aye, Solitude Aeternus sure doesn't freak me out at all. Now if they wanted to avoid Khanate that's understandable. But still, no prog... I don't mind if you don't have interviews but even then you could at least give it some coverage. Outside of the regular bands. THERE! I was online when you were. Now I'm off to the ONE class I have today, and after that I'll have free time, more or less.
Yes, but prog is still much better represented overall in the metal world, bands like Dream Theater and Queensryche are arguably just as popular as Megadeth or Slayer, but even bigger doom bands like Candlemass are nowhere near as well known as those guys.
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bands like Dream Theater and Queensryche are arguably just as popular as Megadeth or Slayer
:shock::lol: You've GOT to be joking. I have seen ONE guy with a Queensryche shirt, and ONE guy with Symphony X shirt through the course of my entire life. Megadeth and Slayer shirts, on the other hands, are a dime a dozen. I very strongly doubt that Dream Theater equals Slayer or Megadeth in popularity. Not that doom is more common than prog, I haven't seen a single solitary doom shirt. But still, even relatively popular prog bands like Symphony X and Vanden Plas don't get much attention.
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:shock::lol: You've GOT to be joking. I have seen ONE guy with a Queensryche shirt, and ONE guy with Symphony X shirt through the course of my entire life. Megadeth and Slayer shirts, on the other hands, are a dime a dozen. I very strongly doubt that Dream Theater equals Slayer or Megadeth in popularity. Not that doom is more common than prog, I haven't seen a single solitary doom shirt. But still, even relatively popular prog bands like Symphony X and Vanden Plas don't get much attention.
No one likes Symphony X. :idea:
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:shock::lol: You've GOT to be joking. I have seen ONE guy with a Queensryche shirt, and ONE guy with Symphony X shirt through the course of my entire life. Megadeth and Slayer shirts, on the other hands, are a dime a dozen. I very strongly doubt that Dream Theater equals Slayer or Megadeth in popularity. Not that doom is more common than prog, I haven't seen a single solitary doom shirt. But still, even relatively popular prog bands like Symphony X and Vanden Plas don't get much attention.
No, I'm absolutely not joking. The amount of shirts you see doesn't really have much to do with it, as I've seen many dumbshit teenagers in Slayer shirts that don't even own any Slayer albums, they just bought it at Hot Topic because it was fashionable, much like their Ramones and Sex Pistols shirts. Also, most of the Dream Theater and Queensryche fans I know either don't own or don't regularly wear band t-shirts. Remember that many Rush fans crossover to being Dream Theater fans, and many Queensryche fans were into Iron Maiden and Judas Priest in the 80's, but couldn't get into heavier stuff like thrash and either migrated to grunge in the 90's or lost touch with later music altogether. Shit, even our former governor (this is Utah, mind you) was a Dream Theater fan, and declared the day that they came to play in Salt Lake City (July 30th I think) to be a state holiday called "Dream Theater Day".
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our former governor (this is Utah' date=' mind you) was a Dream Theater fan, and declared the day that they came to play in Salt Lake City (July 30th I think) to be a state holiday called "Dream Theater Day".[/quote'] I completely forgot about that.
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Re: Favourite metal quote we actually had the opposite a few years back, our premier at the time (I think that's similar to the governors in US states) tried to BAN Slayer from performing in my home state and he almost succeeded, and his reason? because he didn't like how long Tom Araya's hair was

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we actually had the opposite a few years back' date=' our premier at the time (I think that's similar to the governors in US states) tried to BAN Slayer from performing in my home state and he almost succeeded, and his reason? because he didn't like how long Tom Araya's hair was[/quote'] Well it's important to exclude those who don't fit mold of what society considers normal.
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that premier also imposed a curfew on all rock and metal concerts stipulating they had to finish by no later then 10:30pm' date=' fortunately we have a new premier now, and he lifted said curfew as his first act as premier[/quote'] That's stupid. I live in a very fucked up state where a cult runs things and inner city shows are shut down at 10. Unless they're bar gigs or the mayor of said city happens to be fan. Funny because the city I live in has its noise ordinance cut off at 11 where as the rest of the state is 10. How that's funny is I live in the northern most cult infested spot in my state. It's also illegal to dance after 12 or 1 am. No shit.
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Re: Favourite metal quote WTF!! that's just weird, I mean the former premier of my state was really just a slave to the catholic church, he'd bend over backwards to make them happy, which does explain why he tried to ban so many bands from performing here because of course the church would lobby to get these "evil, corrupting satanic" bands barred from my state and so the premier would attempt to make it happen

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Re: Favourite metal quote Most of the Hispanic guys here like thrash metal or rap (even though they are also primarily Catholic), so I wonder what your premier would have to say about that. Of course, I also wonder whether they'd allow any rappers or pop musicians to perform. Their music is much worse as far as corruption goes - it reaches a larger audience and masquerades as fun. Last I checked, Slayer wasn't treating sex as a fun teenage after-school activity...

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Re: Favourite metal quote that they don't but of course metal has been viewed as an "evil" music since Black Sabbath, and when you look at the lyrics of bands like Slayer and Venom it's not hard to see why some of the more extreme christian groups would want them banned, ironically however Slayer's vocalist and bass player Tom Araya is actually catholic

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