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ok not to go all eddie trunk (the worthless metal poser loved by people who don't know metal) but seriously how clueless is this organisation, no Deep Purple, no Iron Maiden, no Judas Priest, no Black Sabbath, but you know who is in there? abba, jeff beck is in there TWICE, I mean seriously next thing you know jethro tull will be inducted, honestly how can some of the most successful rock/metal bands OF ALL TIME not get into a ROCK hall of fame? ok rant over

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rock n roll hall of fame

ok not to go all eddie trunk (the worthless metal poser loved by people who don't know metal) but seriously how clueless is this organisation, no Deep Purple, no Iron Maiden, no Judas Priest, no Black Sabbath, but you know who is in there? abba, jeff beck is in there TWICE, I mean seriously next thing you know jethro tull will be inducted, honestly how can some of the most successful rock/metal bands OF ALL TIME not get into a ROCK hall of fame? ok rant over
Jeff beck is cool, but abba can fuck off, i completely agree with this.
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Re: rock n roll hall of fame Well, it is the rock & roll hall of fame and not the heavy metal hall of fame. Despite some high selling mainstream bands being heavy metal, most of the critics and people making the decisions for stuff like this will keep them out, it's just how it is. It doesn't bother me though, people can think whatever they want about it, it won't change how much I love it.

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Well' date=' it is the rock & roll hall of fame and not the heavy metal hall of fame.[/quote'] The whole concept of a hall of fame wouldn't work for metal since I don't think metalheads gauge musical merit by albums sold. If you had something like a 'Metal Hall Of Significance' that might work in that you could recognize bands for important contributions to the genre. Iron Maiden might be there for helping launch power metal, Queensryche for synthesizing 80's metal with a more progressive aspect, Bathory for black metal, etc.
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hey Iceni' date=' I'm new to the forum and murph1990 told me you could give me some metal groups to check out. I'm currently on a symphonic metal kick. I'm open to listen to damn near anything.[/quote'] Awesome. :D Very nice of him. Check the power metal section, I think murph put up a thread there for material, (called 'great albums') where I posted a bunch of symphonic metal bands. This isn't the best place to make the recommendations since we'd be off topic. If you want to put up a thread in, say, General Chat, go ahead and I'll put recommendations there.
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i totally agree with you mate. it is stupid like the olympics no maiden? wtf maiden are the biggest exp[ort for he uk. musically that is. it is the same with the Grammys. its an continued attempt buy the powers that be to supress metal and its unique contributions to music. as for the rock roll hall of fame i refuse to have anything to do with Rollin stone magazine until they inducted sabbath purple and priest. until then they can fuck right off.

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