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actually hated Megadeth at first because of the whole Mustaine vs Metallica thing but when I started listening to them I instantly changed my mind
Indeed! I also didn't like death metal at first. I think cuz of the growling. Love it now tho.
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I'm beginning to develop a tolerance for sludge' date=' not a lot of it but Eyehategod and Crowbar are pretty cool[/quote'] The first time I heard Broken Glass by Crowbar I didn't like it, but persevered and now they're on of my favourite bands.
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Amon Amarth, and just folk metal in general. Over the past few months that's changed and Finntroll and Amon Amarth are two of my favorite bands, along with Falkenbach.
There's a Finntroll shirt in the metal shop. If you don't listen to Equilibrium already I highly recommend them. They are superb folk metal.
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Bathory's viking metal material' date=' didn't like it first time through black metal, didn't like it when my interest in BM was rekindled but (thanks to youtube) it's really growing on me now[/quote'] It's pretty different from his black metal stuff, but albums like Hammerheart are among the best and most epic metal albums ever written. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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Shining, Were reading a interview with Kvarforth as first impression and just made a choice to not care abut his music at all. But times changed and i now find some of his albums decent, and some songs really good.
Kvarforth is a fucking douchebag, but he makes good music. I buy his albums, but I don't have to be his friend because of that. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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I never hated Gorguts but I didn't really understand why people liked them so much. I thought they were just a particularly loud death metal group and so that was what caught people's attention. Still, I decided to give them another go. And after having heard all of about five songs from them today I want a shirt.

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Went to see Metallica a few years ago in Dublin and Mastodon were supporting...a band I'd not listened to before then and hated them they sounded shit an absolute mess!!! I gave them a wide birth since then until a friend brought round an album n I gave it a listen....wow thats not the band that were on stage that night!!! Outstanding technical music....I now own all their albums, the only thing I can think of that gig was that their sound was messed up or something, I'm dying to see them again just to see!!!!

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