The Official 'Now Playing' Thread XIII

[JRA]

Rip This Joint
Exile On Main St.
The Rolling Stones

[overkiller]

Paroled in '54
Agents of Oblivion
Agents of Oblivion

[overkiller]

Big Black Backwards
Agents of Oblivion
Agents of Oblivion

[DethMaiden]

Sleep Together
Fear of a Blank Planet
Porcupine Tree

Gaah, why can't more bands make great prog like this anymore?

[JRA]

Scenario
The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest


Holy shit, Busta Rhymes is on this!

[Spiral_Slave]

It Won't Fade
Unia
Sonata Arctica

My favorite on the album for now.

[SomewhereInTime72]

Communion and the Oracle
V: The New Mythology Suite
Symphony X

Excited for friday.

[Spiral_Slave]

Under The Gun
Mask Of Sanity
Sinner

[Spiral_Slave]

Rust In Peace...Polaris
Rust In Peace
Megadeth

:rocker: :rocker: :rocker: :rocker:

[JRA]

Nightmare
Don't Break The Oath
Mercyful Fate

[Spiral_Slave]

Two Minds/One Soul
Reckoning Night
Sonata Arctica

[es156]

The Storm I Ride
Between Two Worlds
I

[overkiller]

Mayonaise
Siamese Dream
Smashing Pumpkins


No apologies, this song is awesome :bliss:

[JRA]

Show Business
The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest

[ADD]

Waist Deep In Ash
Phantom Limb
Pig Destroyer

Dammit what an album :bowdown:

[JRA]

Everything Is Fair
The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest

[Spiral_Slave]

Eva
Eva
Nightwish

There is no guitar in this song except a short solo. :bouville:

[Spiral_Slave]

Into Treason
Plague-House Puppet Show
Twilightning

[JRA]

Lost In The Supermarket
London Calling
The Clash

[Spiral_Slave]

At The Back Of Beyond
Trinity
Visions Of Atlantis

[ADD]

Think This
Think This
Toxik

:bouville: :bouville: :bouville: :horns: :horns: :horns: :rocker: :rocker: :rocker: :flame:

[ADD]

Into The Ovens Of Hell
Into The Ovens Of Hell demo
Enforcer

HOLY THRASH BONER :eek: :hecho:

This is so underground that it's even unknown WITHIN the underground :eyes:

[zgodt]

Think This
Think This
Toxik
:hecho:

[powerslave_85]

ADD, you should check out Warbringer. They're an LA thrash band, just look them up on Myspace. They're pretty fucking awesome.

Chesterfield King
Bivouac
Jawbreaker

Goddamn, I fucking love this band :bliss: :bliss: :bliss:

[SomewhereInTime72]

Accolade II
The Odyssey
Symphony X

:party: :party:

[ADD]

:hecho:

:lol: Sorry they can't all be Hot Water Music :tongue:

And Nick, fuck yeah bro, Warbringer obviously kill as well :bliss: I'm a sucker for ANYTHING old-school thrash/speed/classic metal sounding.

In fact, I've been inspired :party:



Total War
One By One, The Wicked Fall EP
Warbringer

:rocker: :rocker: :rocker: :rocker: :rocker: :rocker: :rocker: :rocker: :rocker:

[Spiral_Slave]

Plague Overload
Bedlam EP
Twilightning

On a huge fucking Twilightning kick right now. :horns:

[powerslave_85]

:lol: Sorry they can't all be Hot Water Music :tongue:
Too bad :(

Jinx Removing
24 Hour Revenge Therapy
Jawbreaker

[iggyb387]

Even Less
Stupid Dream
Porcupine Tree

[SomewhereInTime72]

Blind Eye
Wishbone Ash
Wishbone Ash

Whoa I really like this.

[iggyb387]

Stop Swimming
Stupid Dream
Porcupine Tree

[SomewhereInTime72]

Ghost Of The Sun
Viva Emptiness
Katatonia

:bouville:

[SomewhereInTime72]

Chrome
Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Katatonia

[Spiral_Slave]

Struggle For The Freedom Flag
Live For Rebirth
Galneryus

:party:

[SomewhereInTime72]

Fallen Angel
Red
King Crimson

:drool:

[es156]

Death Of It All
Educated Horses
Rob Zombie

[JRA]

Spiral Architect
Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath
Black Sabbath

[Spiral_Slave]

Whisper In The Red Sky
Live For Rebirth
Galneryus

GREAT DVD.

[es156]

Spookshow Baby
Hellbilly Deluxe
Rob Zombie

[zgodt]

It's Me
Beyond
Dinosaur Jr.


As far as I'm concerned, this is the album of 2007 so far.

[ADD]

It's Me
Beyond
Dinosaur Jr.


As far as I'm concerned, this is the album of 2007 so far.

I heard some of it from their MySpace, sucked.



All Hallow's Eve
Baptism Under Fire
Juggernaut


:horns: :horns: :horns: :party: :party: :party: :metal: :metal: :metal: :blaze:

[hot_turkey_ed]

Tonight's all-night development work is brought to you by a two liter bottle of Coke Classic, FreeBSD, PHP, Apache, Drupal... and an all Queensryche play list: The Warning, Rage For Order, Operation Mindrime, Empire, Hear In The Now Fronteir, Tribe, and Operation Mindcrime II

Now Playing...

Warning
The Warning
Queensryche

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Now Playing...

En Force
The Warning
Queensryche

[hot_turkey_ed]

Now Playing...

Before The Storm
The Warning
Queensryche

[hot_turkey_ed]

Now Playing...

The Whisper
Rage For Order
Queensryche

[JRA]

Killers
Inferno
Motorhead

[JRA]

New World Order
No World Order
Gamma Ray

[zgodt]

I heard some of it from their MySpace, sucked.

They can't all be Toxik. :hecho:

[Spiral_Slave]

You
Crows Fly Black
Tarot

:rocker: :rocker:

[es156]

These Colours Don't Run
A Matter Of Life And Death
Iron Maiden

[es156]

Brighter Than A Thousand Suns
A Matter Of Life And Death
Iron Maiden

:rocker:

[JRA]

One Love
Illmatic
Nas

[JRA]

Something
1966-1970
The Beatles

[JRA]

Wish You Were Here
Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd

[DethMaiden]

Thick As A Brick (Side One)
Thick As A Brick
Jethro Tull

[JRA]

Jump
1984
Van Halen

[DethMaiden]

Thick As A Brick (Side Two)
Thick As A Brick
Jethro Tull

[JRA]

Innocent Exile
Killers
Iron Maiden

[powerslave_85]

Incomplete
Unfun
Jawbreaker

[JRA]

Shred
Under The Influence
Overkill

[powerslave_85]

Is the "Jawbreaker" in your user title in reference to the Priest song? :eyes:

[JRA]

Is the "Jawbreaker" in your user title in reference to the Priest song? :eyes:

Let me break it down like this: I wouldn't know Blake Schwarzenbach if he came up to me, tugged on my nuts, and then ran away.


That answer your question?:D

Crossroads (live)
The Very best Of Cream
Cream

[JRA]

Rip This Joint
Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones

[ChildrenofSodom]

My Twin
Great Cold Distance
Katatonia

[powerslave_85]

Let me break it down like this: I wouldn't know Blake Schwarzenbach if he came up to me, tugged on my nuts, and then ran away.


That answer your question?:D
Then how'd you know his name? :eyes:

Jinx Removing
24 Hour Revenge Therapy
Jawbreaker

[JRA]

Then how'd you know his name? :eyes:

Jinx Removing
24 Hour Revenge Therapy
Jawbreaker

I looked a member up on wiki so I could make that joke.:eyes:

Tumbling Dice
Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones

[powerslave_85]

I looked a member up on wiki so I could make that joke.:eyes: :lol: :lol:

[ADD]

Still Standing
Count Me In
Death Before Dishonor

:fist: :fist: :fist: :mad: :mad: :mad: :flame: :flame: :flame: :bouville: :rocker: :blaze:

[JRA]

Manic Depression
Are you Expereinced?
The Jimi Hendrix Experience

[JRA]

Hey Joe
Are You Experienced?
The Jimi Hendrix Experience

[JRA]

Love Or Confusion
Are You Experienced?
The Jimi Hendrix Experience?

[SomewhereInTime72]

Smoke And Mirrors
Twilight In Olympus
Symphony X

:rocker: :rocker: :rocker: :rocker:

[es156]

The Serpent's Kiss
Paradise Lost
Symphony X

:rocker: :rocker:

[SomewhereInTime72]

Neurotica
Beat
King Crimson

[SomewhereInTime72]

Requiem
Beat
King Crimson

[powerslave_85]

Turnin' On the Screw
Era Vulgaris
Queens of the Stone Age

Hooliganizing is so fun :party:

[ChildrenofSodom]

Still Standing
Count Me In
Death Before Dishonor


Malo Mori Quam Foedari

[Angelripper]

Grab your glocks when you see Tupac
Call the cops when you see Tupac
Who shot me but you punks didn't finish
Now you about to feel the wrath of a menace
Niggas!
Hit em up!

[JRA]

Gimme Shelter
Forty Licks
The Rolling Stones

[Spiral_Slave]

Caleb
Unia
Sonata Arctica

Chilling intro on this one.

[JRA]

Like A Rolling Stone
Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan

[ChildrenofSodom]

Daudingen
Grimen
Hardingrock

I dont understand Norwegian, but I like it. Ihriel has a good voice.

[iggyb387]

Trains
In Absentia
Porcupine Tree

[JRA]

Mean Street
Fair Warning
Van Halen

[Div]

Afraid To Shoot Strangers
FOTD
Maiden

[DethMaiden]

In Black and White
Unia
Sonata Arctica

[DethMaiden]

My Dream's But a Drop of Fuel for a Nightmare
Unia
Sonata Arctica

This title is one part :rocker: and one part :lol:

[SomewhereInTime72]

Girls Girls Girls
Girls Girls Girls
Motley Crue

[DethMaiden]

Good Enough Is Good Enough
Unia
Sonata Arctica

SA once again proving that their ballads fucking own 110% of the time.

[SomewhereInTime72]

One More Red Nightmare
Red
King Crimson

:rocker: :party: :bliss: :allan: :mad: :bliss: :light: :party: :blaze: :horns: :drool:

[es156]

Communion And The Oracle
V
Symphony X

[SomewhereInTime72]

Sending Of Dead
Voodoo
King Diamond

[SomewhereInTime72]

The Storm
Abigail II: The Revenge
King Diamond

:rocker: :rocker: :rocker:

[JRA]

Holy Diver
Holy Diver
Dio

[SomewhereInTime72]

Illuminati
Merveilles
Malice Mizer

[SomewhereInTime72]

The Poltergeist
The Spider's Lullabye
King Diamond

:party: :rocker: :horns:

[DethMaiden]

My Land
Ecliptica
Sonata Arctica

[JRA]

Resist (live)
Rush In Rio]
Rush

[JRA]

Cornucopia
Volume 4
Black Sabbath

[Spiral_Slave]

Ghost Opera
Ghost Opera
Kamelot

[JRA]

Satan's Fall
Melissa
Mercyful Fate

[sneakbobcat]

The Howling
The Heart Of Everything
Within Temptation

[SomewhereInTime72]

You're Not The Only... I Know
Hands Of Time
Kingdom Come

[Spiral_Slave]

Never Again
The 8th Sin
Nocturnal Rites

[JRA]

Prowler
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden

[JRA]

Rainbow Eyes
Long Live Rock & Roll
Rainbow

[es156]

Potters Field
Sound Of White Noise
Anthrax

[SomewhereInTime72]

Succession
Killer7 Original Soundtrack
Masafumi Takada

[es156]

Black Lodge
Sound Of White Noise
Anthrax

[SomewhereInTime72]

Flesh
Nihil
KMFDM

[JRA]

Achilles Last Stand
Presence
Led Zeppelin

[Human_Metal]

I Am Death
Resurrection
Dungeon

[Spiral_Slave]

Caleb
Unia
Sonata Arctica

" There is a man in this world, who has never smiled. You may know his tragedy of later years by heart. In the beginning there was a mother, a father, and a child. A troubled, little silent boy, who's life they worked to destroy. Known to us from this day on, like his father Caleb... "

:bouville:

[ADD]

Kid Gloves
Grace Under Pressure
Rush

If they played this live man, they could play for an hour and I'd happy :bliss: They have such an amazing back-catalogue that its sad there's sooooooooooo many songs that they'll never play because they're obliged to do Spirit Of Radio, Limelight, Tom Sawyer, etc a million times. Their problem isn't as big as Maiden's though because they play 3 hour shows anyways :cool:

[DethMaiden]

Kid Gloves
Grace Under Pressure
Rush

If they played this live man, they could play for an hour and I'd happy :bliss: They have such an amazing back-catalogue that its sad there's sooooooooooo many songs that they'll never play because they're obliged to do Spirit Of Radio, Limelight, Tom Sawyer, etc a million times. Their problem isn't as big as Maiden's though because they play 3 hour shows anyways :cool:

Agreed. I still think that they underrepresent the 70s though. :hmm:


For the Sake of Revenge
Unia
Sonata Arctica

[ADD]

Agreed. I still think that they underrepresent the 70s though. :hmm:


For the Sake of Revenge
Unia
Sonata Arctica

Yeah definitely. Everything is underrepresented :lol: I demand a 5 hour set :mad:

Between The Wheels
Grace Under Pressure
Rush

At least my soul will indeed rest a bit easier since I did get to see this one live :drool:

[ADD]

Witch Hunt
Moving Pictures
Rush

It just hit me that I am very excited to see Rush, so I am pronouncing this official "Listen to Rush" :party:

No, not THAT Rush, you political jackasses :party:

http://www.synthstuff.com/mt/archives/rush-limbaugh.jpg

[JRA]

It just hit me that I am very excited to see Rush, so I am pronouncing this official "Listen to Rush" :party:

No, not THAT Rush, you political jackasses :party:

http://www.synthstuff.com/mt/archives/rush-limbaugh.jpg

He reminds me of one of those gay guys who likes to lie in a tub while other men pee on him. :D


Buggin Out
The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest

[JRA]

Battle Hymn (live)
Hell On Wheels
Manowar



FUCK YES! DEATH TO FLASE TUNING!


:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Spiral_Slave]

He reminds me of one of those gay guys who likes to lie in a tub while other men pee on him. :D

Sweet christ...:hecho:

Vice Jesus
Swinelords
Twilightning

This song is just made to be cranked up while driving with the windows down. :horns:

[JRA]

Sweet christ...:hecho:
:

There's one guy who doesn't know his Bill Hicks


Let's Spend The Night Together
Forty Licks
The Rolling Stones

[Spiral_Slave]

There's one guy who doesn't know his Bill Hicks


Let's Spend The Night Together
Forty Licks
The Rolling Stones

Nope. I sure don't. The only comedian I really know a lot of the material by heart is Lisa Lampanelli.

Take Me Up
Dominator
W.A.S.P

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Now Playing...

Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath [R]
Black Sabbath

[JRA]

Nope. I sure don't. The only comedian I really know a lot of the material by heart is Lisa Lampanelli.


Ah. I have a lot of stand up comic material memorized...:eyes:


Hell Bent For Leather (live)
Unleashed In The East
Judas Priest

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Hell Bent For Leather (live)
Unleashed In The East
Judas Priest

:fist:

Now Playing...

The Wizard
Black Sabbath [R]
Black Sabbath

[JRA]

:fist:

Now Playing...

The Wizard
Black Sabbath [R]
Black Sabbath

:allan:

Make It Funky (Pt. 1)
20 All Time Greatest Hits
James Brown


Ugh...it was getting REALLY repetitive for a while. Thank God James Brown uses the Bridge in writing songs.

[ADD]

Atomic Nightmare
Chemical Assault
Violator

LOL @ Sepultura, these are some Brazilians that actually know how to thrash :dance:

[DethMaiden]

LOL @ Sepultura

Ohh, fuck you.

[ADD]

Ohh, fuck you.
:lol:


UxFxTx (United For Thrash)
Chemical Assault
Violator

UNITED! FOR! THRASH! :fist:

[Spiral_Slave]

Hell Patrol
Painkiller
Judas Priest

Holy fuck what a song!

[hot_turkey_ed]

Now Playing...

A Bit Of Finger / Sleeping Village / Warning
Black Sabbath [R]
Black Sabbath

[ADD]

Addicted To Mosh
Chemical Assault
Violator

TAKE YOUR LIFE BACK IN THE PIT!!!!!!!!

[JRA]

I was in a car and reeeeeeeeeaally wanted to play Tool, but these real metalheads said "That shit is gay" and put in Sepultura instead. As a result, I will hate Sepultura for as long as I live.


Fixed.

A Little Time
Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part 1
Helloween

[JRA]

Now Playing...

A Bit Of Finger / Sleeping Village / Warning
Black Sabbath [R]
Black Sabbath

Someone needs to play that live, extended jams and all. :fist:

The Clairvoyant
Seventh Son Of Seventh Son
Iron Maiden

[ADD]

Fixed.

A Little Time
Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part 1
Helloween

:lol: :metal:



Brainwash Possession
Chemical Assault
Violator


I LIVE FOR THRASH BREAKS :boohoo: :bowdown:

[JRA]

Buried Alive
Dehumanizer
Black Sabbath

[JRA]

:lol: :metal:



Brainwash Possession
Chemical Assault
Violator


I LIVE FOR THRASH BREAKS :boohoo: :bowdown:

Speaking of Brazilian Thrash, you ever hear of Torture Squad? I've only heard two songs, but... holy fucking shit!

Centre of Eternity
Bark At The Moon
Ozzy Osbourne

[ADD]

Speaking of Brazilian Thrash, you ever hear of Torture Squad? I've only heard two songs, but... holy fucking shit!

Centre of Eternity
Bark At The Moon
Ozzy Osbourne

Torture Squad are yet another band that makes Sepultura sound like a bunch of 10 year-old girls trying to cover Britney Spears :party: Highly recommended.


The Plague Returns
Chemical Assault
Violator

:rocker: :rocker: :rocker: :rocker: :rocker: :rocker: :rocker: :rocker: :rocker: :rocker: :rocker:

[ADD]

After Nuclear Devastation
Chemical Assault
Violator

:shred: :shred: :shred: :rocker: :rocker: :rocker: :mad: :mad: :mad: :metal: :punk: :flame:

[overkiller]

:lol:


UxFxTx (United For Thrash)
Chemical Assault
Violator

UNITED! FOR! THRASH! :fist:

You know, as much as I love even new thrash, does the whole "scene" piss you off sometimes? These thrasher kids who think they're big shit because they know all the old-school bands and dress in the thrash uniform (tight jeans, reebok hightops, patch vest, Mike Muir-style hat, etc.) and talk about how much POSERZ SUCKSZ LOL really get on my nerves sometimes.

[ADD]

You know, as much as I love even new thrash, does the whole "scene" piss you off sometimes? These thrasher kids who think they're big shit because they know all the old-school bands and dress in the thrash uniform (tight jeans, reebok hightops, patch vest, Mike Muir-style hat, etc.) and talk about how much POSERZ SUCKSZ LOL really get on my nerves sometimes.

The scene doesn't really affect me too much, as really it's not around these parts save for a couple people, including the guy I jam with sometimes. It's definitely growing though, lots more thrash bands popping up and I think that's great. But yeah those guys do fit the description and are pretty bent on staying true or whatever. I haven't encountered too many though so its really a non-factor as far as I'm concerned. Plus, I mean if they really like it and believe in it (which they seem to be pretty dedicated) I mean I don't see anything wrong with that. It's a scene, either you like it or not. And I think it's much more noble cuz these are people actually into the music and the lifestyle, you have to do your research and know your shit if you're staying up all night bidding on an Exumer patch off Ebay (which is what my friend did one night and he lost :lol: ). It's being a part of something pure that they can identify themselves with, something outside the metal stereotype of baggy jeans and Machine Head shirts. I don't ascribe to it myself but I definitely don't condemn it.

:2cents:


Scorned
Icons Of Evil
Vital Remains

Cheesy as this is, the music is still there at least :metal:

[JRA]

You know, as much as I love even new thrash, does the whole "scene" piss you off sometimes? These thrasher kids who think they're big shit because they know all the old-school bands and dress in the thrash uniform (tight jeans, reebok hightops, patch vest, Mike Muir-style hat, etc.) and talk about how much POSERZ SUCKSZ LOL really get on my nerves sometimes.

Ultraboris's epitaph comes to mind...


The Ways Of A Woman In Love
The Legend Of Johnny Cash Vol. II
Johnny Cash

[ADD]

Ultraboris's epitaph comes to mind...


The Ways Of A Woman In Love
The Legend Of Johnny Cash Vol. II
Johnny Cash

Never saw that.......?

Basically I see it as a statement against the perceived "mainstreaming" of metal these days. Metal ought to be counter-cultural anyways as far as I see it, and the lifestyle/fashion/etc. of the old school thrash metal kind of defines that I think.

[JRA]

Never saw that.......?

I've showed it to a couple of people on AIM. I'll post it here sometime.

[ADD]

I've showed it to a couple of people on AIM. I'll post it here sometime.

Now? :D

[overkiller]

Never saw that.......?

Basically I see it as a statement against the perceived "mainstreaming" of metal these days. Metal ought to be counter-cultural anyways as far as I see it, and the lifestyle/fashion/etc. of the old school thrash metal kind of defines that I think.

I guess. I think at this point I've grown out of the culture and I just don't care about it anymore, I'm only concerned about the music these days.


Roadkillers
Multiplex Massacre
Blood Freak


Finishing this album which I started on the last stretch of the ride home from MDF. It is fucking INTENSE. Can Blood Freak be better than Ghoul!?!?

[overkiller]

Savage Streets
Multiplex Massacre
Blood Freak

[JRA]

Now? :D

You know what? Why the hell not?

"wow, I fucking hate heavy metal

not the music, mind you - the music is great. The culture that goes along with it. It (especially the "metal-rules.com" subfaction thereof) turned me into a stone cold goddamn killer, and no I don't like it one bit.

I don't like Testament. I do like Overkill. Can I call benefit-of-the-doubt or some other rhetorical device here, so I don't have to dissect every goddamn riff to explain why?

I sure as Hell don't like Metallica.

I hate the fact that I am being forced to come up with more and more over-the-top justifications of my opinions... I've been reduced to a salivating canine that has some sort of primal need to say bad things about fucken Metallica every time I read about them, and obviously that just generates more shit from people. Yeah, I do feel bad. Would you be surprised? I feel bad that I've been reduced to a slobbering idiot that's been forced to either tuck his tail between his legs and run for the border, or start sucking troll cock. Neither is particularly healthy for my dignity.

You've read my "world-famous" review of Master of Puppets. I believe every word of that - I just didn't think it would ever come to the point where I would have to detail it in such a rigourous manner. The worst is, I have gotten *very little* intelligent criticism of that. A lot of "duuh, I agree, you're a visionary" from a bunch of clones, and "duuh, you're an idiot, Metallica are gods" from an equally cloned contingent. Couldn't we just have stopped at "I don't feel the need to listen to that album", without being smashed in the face enough times that I built up a resistance? Do I need to have a mathematically sound reason for *everything* I do!? I can't possibly maintain that standard. The cracks are showing - every once in a while the trolls come out.

As I said, I hate the goddamn metal scene. I know what I like. I wish to Hell it would be sufficient if I could just claim "I like it", and not have to pull teeth to explain WHY, to a predeterminedly hostile audience? That's all there is - just two sets of thoughts. a) let us list every popular album in the history of metal, throw in a few obscure ones, and yell "yeah dude that's a CLASSIC!!!" as a refrain? (Hm, sounds like a Regurgitated Cow Fetus song!) or b) start comparing Band X to Band Y, and deride the fan of the 'wrong' band as being a poseur.

Scenario a is necessarily terminating; after a while you run out of albums, so you degenerate to b if you're not careful. Because no one is going to like *every* metal album. That's not just a corollary of the "duuh, metal is about rebellion, man, don't accept everything!" stereotype - it's actually the truth. From that point on, it's all hate, all the time. And bringing 'reason' into it is apparently not the answer.

So I would say 'fuck the metal scene', except even that has been reduced to a cliche, as is basically *every* point of view, legitimate or otherwise, when you have a reactionary system, which is basically all the metal scene is.

I don't give a fuck about reactionary - I just like the riffs. Fuck you."



There's part 1...



...and here's part 2.

"Fuck Manowar, and fuck religion.
And fuck those that think metal is a "chosen way of life". All it does is breed corruption and hatred. Metal, when taken from this perspective, is absolutely and completely identical to that other fool's masquerade: organised religion.

Metal is elitism. Unfortunately, I am realising more and more that it is an arbitrary elitism. Christianity says that you must worship Jesus. Metal says that you must worship old Metallica. And don't let that "grah! independent thought!" shit fool you - metal culture is all about conformity.

Seriously - I can't think of why basically every thrasher seems to enjoy the song "Orion". It doesn't make any linear sense, because it's nowhere near a thrash staple. If a band like RATT came up with it, you can be sure they'd be labelled as even worse "poseurs". But because it's Metallica, I'm supposed to worship it because that makes me thrash? It's almost as inexplicable as all thrashers suddenly declaring that Donna Summer was to be exalted.

Same with Testament (known more for their blazing leads than anything else)... same with a bunch of other "sacred cows". And of course, people will not justify the evangelism of their opinion... "wait, what's so good about Jesus?" "He died for our sins! If you don't like him, you're going to Hell!" "What's so good about The New Order?" "It rules, man!! If you don't like it, you're a poseur!"

Sound a little familiar?

Yeah, I definitely fell into the metal deathtrap. It all started when I first hit college, which gave me a few basic freedoms: constant internet, unfettered by parental control. So at some point I hit upon my first heavy metal discussion forum (metal-rules.com), where I discovered that there were more than about 16 metal bands out there. Quickly I discovered bands I liked (Sodom, for example), and bands I didn't like quite so much (In Flames comes to mind). And it was a generally peaceable time, because the forum had about 20 regulars and the occasional slop, which basically came in with a "yea dude metal rullzzzz, yo yo yo word to ma homeyz!!!", tested for echo, found none, and slunk away.

Then along came the popular tyranny... the slop turned to white noise and got louder and louder, and suddenly the whole thing wasn't as much "hey, behold this kinda obscure album that rules" (thanks, EvilRocker, for sending me that Griffin CD in Dec '99! Seriously, I still got that shit!) to "let's name the top 10 thrash albums."

Then, the week after, "let's name the top 10 thrash albums AGAIN". And this is where the whole thing hit parody stage, and if I had had any self-respect, I should've bailed out right then and there. But no, again this was barely into my "holy shit! I am permitted independent thought! (except on weekends, when I have to go home and die)" stage of my life. So here was a glimmer of hope... I had moved up from "never, ever, ever be allowed to be correct, by imperial edict" to "hey if I play my cards right, I can be *correct*. I can WIN." Holy lord, what a revelation.

And, more importantly, for once, I belonged. That's what all cults do - they make the member feel like they belong, and only then do they bring out the Kool Aid and only then do they slowly but surely turn the knob to 11, and watch the ideas get more and more ridiculous. Metal is full of ridiculous ideas and contradictions - anything from an anti-popular notion (if more than 2 people like it, it's bad), contrasted with the Unquestionable Classics, which certainly more than 2 people like, but are not bad. Why? Because that's how it's written. That's how it's done. Meanwhile, everyone's expected to hate one sacred-cow band. In fact, every behaviour has already been predicted - by this stage in the game, everyone is a self-parody.

And I got good at my own little niche, which was thrash, and riffage. I understood riffage. I did not understand anything else musically, but I could point to riff #17 in song #61 and claim that it was a good one, and you could just go and listen, and understand. I liked more than just riffs, but I could not explain why Fates Warning's second album affected me so, while I could sure tell you how face-ripping and penis-mutilating that such-and-such Exodus song was. So I just went with the one functional policy. Instant winnar. And I got high on the Absolute Power... and it soon degenerated into extremism and hate.

Within a few months, I went from "your opinion is instantly invalid" (parental subjugation) to "your opinion is valid if you can rape the enemy and force it down his throat" (revenge). I had thought that all problems were just a matter of insufficient brains, and insufficient effort - both of which would be rectified in due time. I had conveniently bypassed - and had never even considered the existence of - "you have the right to your own opinions". I had never considered that to be self evident... the pursuit of happiness, what the fuck does that have to do with me?

I never got good at answering the Hard Questions... the impossible questions, as things would turn out. I had only one simple plan... one small strategy that covered not only a small subsection of the world as a whole, but even a moderately small subsection of what I liked. I could go on for hours about why Overkill's riff #45 in song #12 was so much better than anything Testament had ever done, but still I could not manage to convince anyone that Overkill were *better*. More brains needed... more brains. That's all I kept thinking - that in time I could rewrite the dogma.

Yeah, good luck with that. Organised religion doesn't quite work that way.

I never really *hated* Testament... or Forbidden, or whatnot. I did not plot their deaths at night while drinking goat's blood. I just never particularly liked them, and never thought that it was sufficient internal conquest to not listen to them. I had to get people to stop talking about them, otherwise the battle for Overkill and Sodom and Dark Angel (the bands I *did* like) would be lost in some manner. Never mind that Overkill and Testament are similar enough that people could actually like - horrors! - both bands!

Hell, I never even hated Metallica... sure, I thought they were assholes. Again, that Puppets review is pretty damn plausible, methinks. I just don't feel nearly as strongly about it as it comes off there... I don't particularly believe Ulrich is the anti-christ. I'm just more sad than anything else that "Orion" begat Opeth, "The Thing that Should not Be" begat Pantera, and the proportion of bands that I enjoy just keeps going down, while the Fundamental List of Metal Correctness keeps getting larger and larger. I was getting forced out - of course I was expected to fight! That is all I knew of.

The 'metal scene' is basically just a breeding ground for trolls, and I unwittingly fell right into the middle of it. I had come off a childhood of extreme flaws and ignorance, and pretty much chose the worst possible next step: I had unwittingly fallen into a place that would cause me to act on my destructive tendencies, reinforce my flawed beliefs, and convince myself that that was the Right Way to Go.

So no, I can't say that I'm a "h00ge fucken metalhead". I don't think I ever quite was. I don't enjoy 85-90% of the bands that are considered "metal". I'd much rather listen to Madonna than Metallica. However, the scene never would support such a belief. There are a precise number of exceptions to be made in the Holy Bible, and - even worse - one does not get away with writing new ones.

I will keep my own time."


Discuss.

[powerslave_85]

Metal is elitism. Unfortunately, I am realising more and more that it is an arbitrary elitism. Christianity says that you must worship Jesus. Metal says that you must worship old Metallica. And don't let that "grah! independent thought!" shit fool you - metal culture is all about conformity.

Replace "old Metallica" with "Judas Priest" or "Dio" and this could have been written by me.

[overkiller]

Replace "old Metallica" with "Judas Priest" or "Dio" and this could have been written by me.

But you don't worship Judas Priest, and therefore you are wrong.





















:D

[overkiller]

It Was Just An Accident
Sewn Mouth Secrets
Soilent Green

[overkiller]

Build Fear
Sewn Mouth Secrets
Soilent Green

[overkiller]

Breed in Weakness
Sewn Mouth Secrets
Soilent Green

[overkiller]

Gagged Whore
Sewn Mouth Secrets
Soilent Green

[overkiller]

Through Silver in Blood
Through Silver in Blood
Neurosis

[JRA]

But you don't worship Judas Priest, and therefore you are wrong.








:D

:lol:

The thing is, Metallica have fallen so far from grace that they've probably been usurped by Priest in the "sacred cow" factor. But that's not even the point, the point is if you don't worship at least 10 sacred cow metal bands, you are doomed for mockery, according to the "rules".

[overkiller]

Strength of Fates
Through Silver in Blood
Neurosis

[overkiller]

Crash Boom Gang Bang
Home Sweet Home
Nunwhore Commando 666

[overkiller]

Anti-Virgin-Machinegun-Dildo
Home Sweet Home
Nunwhore Commando 666

[overkiller]

Nasty Nunslut LSD Party
Home Sweet Home
Nunwhore Commando 666

[overkiller]

Militant Crackwhore Convention
Home Sweet Home
Nunwhore Commando 666

[overkiller]

Molotov Cocktail Hammer Slammer
Home Sweet Home
Nunwhore Commando 666

[overkiller]

45mm Spermshotgun Excess
Home Sweet Home
Nunwhore Commando 666

[overkiller]

Kalaschnikow Slamdunk
Home Sweet Home
Nunwhore Commando 666

[overkiller]

Trench Mortar Penalty Shootout
Home Sweet Home
Nunwhore Commando 666

[overkiller]

Dead Wanking Rocket Launcher
Home Sweet Home
Nunwhore Commando 666

[overkiller]

Slut Enslavement Breakbeat
Home Sweet Home
Nunwhore Commando 666

[JRA]

Microphone Fiend
Follow The Leader
Eric B. & Rakim

[overkiller]

Coffin Fucker
Night of the Ultimate Mosh
Birdflesh

[JRA]

Try Me!
20 All Time Greatest Hits!
James Brown

[overkiller]

Catmouth
Night of the Ultimate Mosh
Birdflesh

[overkiller]

Bowelthrasher
Night of the Ultimate Mosh
Birdflesh

[overkiller]

The Evil Pig
Night of the Ultimate Mosh
Birdflesh

[overkiller]

Butchermobile
Live Fast, Die Young... and Leave a Flesh-Eating Corpse!
Blood Freak

[overkiller]

Gobble Up Your Guts Part 2 (Revenge Of The Turkey Monster)
Live Fast, Die Young... and Leave a Flesh-Eating Corpse!
Blood Freak


:lol:

[overkiller]

Goretits
Live Fast, Die Young... and Leave a Flesh-Eating Corpse!
Blood Freak

[overkiller]

Doctor Bitch SD (Sexual Deviated)
Live Fast, Die Young... and Leave a Flesh-Eating Corpse!
Blood Freak

[overkiller]

They (The Eternal Myth and Paradox)
In Darkness There Is No Choice
Antisect

[overkiller]

Education Or Indoctrination
In Darkness There Is No Choice
Antisect

[JRA]

Dethrone Tyranny
No World Order
Gamma Ray

[overkiller]

Pretty in Casts
Terrifyer
Pig Destroyer

[ChildrenofSodom]

Close Your Eyes
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost

[overkiller]

Gravedancer
Terrifyer
Pig Destroyer

[overkiller]

Nowhere Fast
Evil Invaders
Razor


:rocker:

[powerslave_85]

Pretty in Casts
Terrifyer
Pig Destroyer
Whaddya think?

I'm Gonna Strangle You
Anthem For a New Tomorrow
Screeching Weasel

[overkiller]

Whaddya think?

So far I've heard Phantom Limb and Terrifyer, and both were pretty damn solid, I really enjoyed them both. Fucking relentless as shit.



Instant Death
Evil Invaders
Razor

[overkiller]

Mangled by Mongoloids
Weight of the Wound
Birds of Prey

[Div]

CAUGHT SOMEWHERE IN TIIIiiiIIIIiiiIIIIIME!!!

[overkiller]

Buttfucked with a Shotgun Barrel
Weight of the Wound
Birds of Prey

[overkiller]

Den Yttersta Dagen
Enkel Resa Till Rännstenen
Skitsystem

[JRA]

Heaven Or Hell
No World Order
Gamma Ray


:rocker: :rocker: :rocker:

[overkiller]

Knytnäve Med Vigselring
Enkel Resa Till Rännstenen
Skitsystem

[powerslave_85]

So far I've heard Phantom Limb and Terrifyer, and both were pretty damn solid, I really enjoyed them both. Fucking relentless as shit.For me, listening to Terrifyer for the first time was like being run over with a truck. I hadn't had my ass kicked by a metal album like that since I first heard Reign In Blood back in high school.

[overkiller]

Jag Talar För De Tysta
Enkel Resa Till Rännstenen
Skitsystem

[overkiller]

The Beginning and the End
Oceanic
Isis

[powerslave_85]

The Beginning and the End
Oceanic
Isis
I didn't know you liked them.

Back to Oregon
Broadway Calls
Broadway Calls

[overkiller]

I didn't know you liked them.


First time I'm listening to them. I'm expanding horizons and listening to a LOT of new stuff lately.

[overkiller]

The Other
Oceanic
Isis

[ADD]

Basically, in response to the UltraBoris thing, don't fret about scenes too much or looking cool or whatever cuz that's what metal is not about, aside from the aesthetics the bottom line is the music, and I agree with him when he makes the point of how closed-minded many metal heads (myself included) can get sometimes and I like how he related it to organized religion. In short, just do what you want and don't bother with the extra stuff otherwise you'll end up disillusioned like Boris got. But if you really love the music you probably wouldn't fret about such trivial things anyways, most people would just not really care but it bothered him enough to write it so whatever.



Jabberjaw
Shark Attack
Wehrmacht

:rocker: :rocker: :rocker: :bouville: :bouville: :bouville: :mad: :mad: :mad: :shred:

[JRA]

Mountains
Sign Of The Hammer
Mountains

[ADD]

:eyes:

Mountains
Sign Of The Hammer
Mountains

:eyes: right back atcha :D

[ChildrenofSodom]

I heard the new Birth of the Wicked today. It was pretty good.

[JRA]

:eyes: right back atcha :D

GODDAMMIT! :lol:


Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
Public Enemy

[ChildrenofSodom]

Prophecy
Overture of the Wicked
Iced Earth

[JRA]

Horus/Aggressor
Apocalyptic Raids 1990 A. D.
Hellhammer

[DethMaiden]

Ain't Your Fairytale
Reckoning Night
Sonata Arctica

90% of my listening the last four days has been SA :eyes:

[JRA]

The Duelists
Powerslave
Iron Maiden

[DethMaiden]

Abandoned, Pleased, Brainwashed, Exploited
Winterheart's Guild
Sonata Arctica

Goddamn! :drool:

[JRA]

I Am One
The Crimson Idol
WASP

[SomewhereInTime72]

Impossible Brutality
Enemy Of God
Kreator

:rocker: :rocker: :rocker:

[DethMaiden]

For the Sake of Revenge
Unia
Sonata Arctica

I AM TIRED YET I KEEP SWIMMING
YOU WILL NOT LET GO OF ME YOU ARE DROWNING
AS YOU'RE QUIETLY PULLING ME UNDER
WE WILL NEVER MAKE IT UNLESS YOU LET GO

[SomewhereInTime72]

Murder Fantasies
Enemy Of God
Kreator

:horns:

[JRA]

Hey Ladies
Paul's Boutique
Beastie Boys


:cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

[SomewhereInTime72]

Phobia
Outcast
Kreator

:rocker: :rocker: :rocker: :rocker:

[es156]

Burnt Ice
United Abominations
Megadeth

[DethMaiden]

Destruction Preventer
Ecliptica
Sonata Arctica

[JRA]

Redemption Song
Legend
Bob Marley

[JRA]

Show Business
The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest

[DethMaiden]

Misplaced
Reckoning Night
Sonata Arctica

[JRA]

The Frayed Ends Of Sanity
...And Justice For All
Metallica

[SomewhereInTime72]

The Pestilence
Pleasure To Kill
Kreator

[es156]

United Abominations
United Abominations
Megadeth

[JRA]

Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX)
Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd

[JRA]

Free Bird
Lynyrd Skynyrd

[powerslave_85]

Suffer the Kids
Broadway Calls
Broadway Calls

Say something, you damn lurkers :hmm:

[JRA]

Set The World Afire
So Far, So Good...So What?
Megadeth


Megadeth marathon!:party:

[JRA]

Elysian Fields
Youthanasia
Megadeth

[Spiral_Slave]

Eva
Eva
Nightwish

[zgodt]

Suffer the Kids
Broadway Calls
Broadway Calls

Say something, you damn lurkers :hmm:
Fuck off. :)

[Spiral_Slave]

Follow The Blind
Suffer Our Pleasures
Tarot

[SirLardsAlot]

The Skull Beneath the Skin
Killing is My Buisiness and Killing is Good
Megadeth

[ADD]

Miami Morning Coming Down
Hibernaculum
Earth

:bouville: :bouville: :bouville: :bliss: :bliss: :bliss: :drool: :drool: :drool: :cool:

[overkiller]

Sin Nanna
Black One
Sunn O)))

[overkiller]

It Took the Night to Believe
Black One
Sunn O)))

[JRA]

Don't Talk To Strangers
Holy Diver
Dio

[JRA]

Wrecking Crew
Taking Over
Overkill

[SomewhereInTime72]

Don't Hurt Yourself
Marbles
Marillion

[JRA]

Memory Lane
Illmaitc
NaS

[JRA]

Rocks Off
Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones

[JRA]

Shake Your Hips
Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones

[JRA]

Tumbling Dice
Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones

[overkiller]

Bathory Erzsebet
Black One
Sunn O)))

[JRA]

Sweet Virginia
Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones

[overkiller]

Pleasant Screams/Forbidden Crypts
Maniaxe
Ghoul

[overkiller]

Maggot Hatchery
Maniaxe
Ghoul

[overkiller]

Sewer Chewer
Maniaxe
Ghoul

[overkiller]

The End?
Maniaxe
Ghoul



50s horror surf rock!! God, Ghoul are awesome.

[ADD]

Bathory Erzsebet
Black One
Sunn O)))

Did you know Malefic recorded those vocals while locked inside a coffin in the back of a hearse? :D :bouville: :eyes:




Straight Edge-Closed Mind
Miserably Ever After
Grief


:bouville: :bouville: :bouville: :blaze: :blaze: :blaze: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[overkiller]

Did you know Malefic recorded those vocals while locked inside a coffin in the back of a hearse? :D :bouville: :eyes:



Haha, I didn't.




Blank
Take As Needed For Pain
Eyehategod

[overkiller]

Sister Fucker (Part 1)
Take As Needed For Pain
Eyehategod