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Re: I'm losing interest in metal, WHY?!? ^ Exactly, one can only spin the same albums especially if you're only narrowly listening to staples, i,e Judas Priest, Sabbath, Maiden, Motorhead, etc. Check

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I've been listening to metal for about 13 years now, and I've burned out on bands or even genres from time to time, but the interest always remained in the end. The biggest thing is learning to discover bands for yourself on a regular basis. If you don't do this, you burn out on old material. Try new bands similar to other bands you like, or even try new sub genres. I haven't never really needed to leave the metal scene to find stuff i like.

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I like some blues. Like the Los lonley boys. Plus I listein to some techno. Like rednex. AND EFFEL 65. Another genre of music. Which. All of us metal heads hate is dubstep. That's is gloried. Video game music. True murph. I agree. You know. I used to hate. Country. Music. But now as I got older. I like it. They are songs about every day lives . I still cabt stand. Boy band garbage.

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I'll be honest I don't hate dubstep, I don't actively search for it but I'm cool if it's on. then again my gf loves it along with gabba and techno. Boy band stuff is bubblegum tho, so sweet it'll make ya teeth rot. To add my thought to the thread title tho, there's a lot of great music outside of metal, definitely not the be all to end all (tho it is my favourite genre) I love punk (real punk not the simple plan bullshit) love reggae, like a lot of EBM and funk and there's a lot of modern rappers I enjoy. Hell if I'm feeling particularly corny I'll even throw on some 80's pop, super cheesey lol

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Yes. Not limited to strictly early 90's west coast rap but a lot of mid-90's Houston area rap like UGK and Scarface, all sorts of stuff from that era really. It was what I knew long before I discovered my passion for metal, and simply a part of me that will be there for life. Because its just LUDICROUS to enjoy variety in life right?
You would get on great with my mate, he came up surrounded by New York hip hop, he's turned me on to a lot of stuff I wouldn't have given much of a chance. I'm assuming your username is a reference to the rap producer, u hear the record he did with Danny Brown?
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[ATTACH=CONFIG]1615[/ATTACH] I should point out that I can mock people fairly well in 6 languages, although I'm still working on that Romanian.
Tapatalk, as usual, isn't loading what I'm sure was a very clever and pertinent image or moving gif. I would say that your English mocking skills are better than fair, and that your occasional failure to grasp certain idioms or your general tendency towards youthful sincerity handicap you no more than they do many of our native English speakers.
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Tapatalk' date=' as usual, isn't loading what I'm sure was a very clever and pertinent image or moving gif. I would say that your English mocking skills are better than fair, and that your occasional failure to grasp certain idioms or your general tendency towards youthful sincerity handicap you no more than they do many of our native English speakers.[/quote'] I'm not sure whether you just subtly mocked me or actually complemented me, but thanks :D
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