Ok, but this is a matter of opinion and in my view heavy metal music was born in the slums of England.
The worst heavy metal songs
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Ok, but this is a matter of opinion and in my view heavy metal music was born in the slums of England.
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It woud be great that if those who do not speak English receive their own sub-forum.
Forum language would still be England.
(Just in case that someone may want to read what I wrote)
Dokken's greatest hits. All of them.
As cheesy as Dokken's music was .. George Lynch is still one of the greatest guitarists I have ever seen. Imagine how much they would have sucked had he not been in the band.
I love Heavy Metal and I love all that stuff.
Alright, school's in session. assari's the only one here besides me who knows metal. True Heavy Metal is like Manowar, Iron Maiden (the kings of metal for me!) Judas Priest, Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, etc.
Some other favorites of mine: Nasty Savage, Queensryche, Fates Warning, Watchtower, Slayer, Voivod, Destruction, Sodom, Kreator, Celtic Frost, Hellhammer, Living Death, Whiplash, Bulldozer, Bathory, Venom, Motorhead.
The second wave of Black Metal started in Norway and if you ask me, it was the kick in the ass that extreme metal in the 90s needed. When all these Death Metal bands were gettin' stupid, wearing jogging pants and talkin' about politics, the second wave of Black Metal made it a threat again and brought back the true spirit of Death. They made it Satanic and Nihilistic, the way it should be. Black Metal started with bands like Venom, Slayer, Hellhammer/Celtic Frost, Bathory, Destruction and Sodom. While those bands used those kinds of lyrics more for shock value, the second wave took em' seriously and personally, I think they should be taken seriously.
You can learn a lot from Manowar and Iron Maiden lyrics. I would much rather have lyrics about Satan, Mythology, Magick(k) and the Occult than Soci-Political lyrics. I think people think they're cheesey because they can't relate them to their lives because they don't know what those names mean. Using metaphors is what makes lyrics poetic and exciting. It's only fantasy to those who don't believe. That's science. A wave can be a wave or a particle depending on the observer. Our beliefs structure our realities. No one sees the world the way it really is. It's all filtered through our perceptual filters. I really went off there. I apologize if I come off as preachy. I just wanted to explain what one of my greatest loves next to porn, Magic(k) and the Occult means to me. It's something very near and dear to my heart. It's everything.
As for Guns N' Roses and Skid Row, I love em'. Not metal but some of the most metal sounding bands that get lumped into the whole Hair Metal thing. I love Sebatian Bach's attitude. It's a laid back party-metal attitude with a great sense of humor.
I also love hardcore punk like GG Allin, the Mentors (GG and El Duce had very metal attitudes, fuck everyone and everything). Discharge (there would be no Trash/Black Metal if it weren't for this band. Oh, for first-wave Black Metal I forgot to mention the almighty Sarcofogo and Bulldozer.
70s punk:the Dead Boys, X-Ray Spex, the Buzzcocks, the Sex Pistols etc. I'm also a huge Plasmatics fan. Love technical thrash(Watchtower) and Speed Metal(Motorhead,Venom,Acid) Speed Metal and punk crossover a lot and often gets confused with Thrash which I also love. One genre often has elements of the other.
Progressive Rock:Genesis,Yes, Supertramp, Soft Machine, etc.
Country/Southern Rock:the Allman Brothers, ZZ Top, Hank Williams Jr., Merle Haggard etc.
New Wave: Nina Hagen(HUGE fan), Flock of Seaguls, Grace Jones, the Tubes(HUGE fan) etc.
Dark ambient like Endura
and just plain fucked up stuff like Mr. Bungle
Some other favorites of mine: Nasty Savage, Queensryche, Fates Warning, Watchtower, Slayer, Voivod, Destruction, Sodom, Kreator, Celtic Frost, Hellhammer, Living Death, Whiplash, Bulldozer, Bathory, Venom, Motorhead.
The second wave of Black Metal started in Norway and if you ask me, it was the kick in the ass that extreme metal in the 90s needed. When all these Death Metal bands were gettin' stupid, wearing jogging pants and talkin' about politics, the second wave of Black Metal made it a threat again and brought back the true spirit of Death. They made it Satanic and Nihilistic, the way it should be. Black Metal started with bands like Venom, Slayer, Hellhammer/Celtic Frost, Bathory, Destruction and Sodom. While those bands used those kinds of lyrics more for shock value, the second wave took em' seriously and personally, I think they should be taken seriously.
You can learn a lot from Manowar and Iron Maiden lyrics. I would much rather have lyrics about Satan, Mythology, Magick(k) and the Occult than Soci-Political lyrics. I think people think they're cheesey because they can't relate them to their lives because they don't know what those names mean. Using metaphors is what makes lyrics poetic and exciting. It's only fantasy to those who don't believe. That's science. A wave can be a wave or a particle depending on the observer. Our beliefs structure our realities. No one sees the world the way it really is. It's all filtered through our perceptual filters. I really went off there. I apologize if I come off as preachy. I just wanted to explain what one of my greatest loves next to porn, Magic(k) and the Occult means to me. It's something very near and dear to my heart. It's everything.
As for Guns N' Roses and Skid Row, I love em'. Not metal but some of the most metal sounding bands that get lumped into the whole Hair Metal thing. I love Sebatian Bach's attitude. It's a laid back party-metal attitude with a great sense of humor.
I also love hardcore punk like GG Allin, the Mentors (GG and El Duce had very metal attitudes, fuck everyone and everything). Discharge (there would be no Trash/Black Metal if it weren't for this band. Oh, for first-wave Black Metal I forgot to mention the almighty Sarcofogo and Bulldozer.
70s punk:the Dead Boys, X-Ray Spex, the Buzzcocks, the Sex Pistols etc. I'm also a huge Plasmatics fan. Love technical thrash(Watchtower) and Speed Metal(Motorhead,Venom,Acid) Speed Metal and punk crossover a lot and often gets confused with Thrash which I also love. One genre often has elements of the other.
Progressive Rock:Genesis,Yes, Supertramp, Soft Machine, etc.
Country/Southern Rock:the Allman Brothers, ZZ Top, Hank Williams Jr., Merle Haggard etc.
New Wave: Nina Hagen(HUGE fan), Flock of Seaguls, Grace Jones, the Tubes(HUGE fan) etc.
Dark ambient like Endura
and just plain fucked up stuff like Mr. Bungle
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Well fuck, you should sue Sam Dunn for stealing your thunder.
Here's one for ya: Death SS(Black Metal before Black Metal) They were playing Black Metal in the 70s! How badass is that?! I also love 70s Hard Rock like Deep Purple, Grand Funk Railroad, Nazareth, Thin Lizzy(huge influence on New Wave of British Heavy Metal)etc.
I love the Stooges "Raw Power". To me that album is Thrash Metal in the 70s. It's so aggressive for it's time. Every time I listen to it I wanna start punchin' people and breakin' stuff. Heh.
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I love the Stooges "Raw Power". To me that album is Thrash Metal in the 70s. It's so aggressive for it's time. Every time I listen to it I wanna start punchin' people and breakin' stuff. Heh.
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I posted a link to Sam Dunn's Metal Evolution Family Tree. Not familiar with Metal Evolution?
I think I've seen a DVD called that.
I consider Sabbath, Motorhead, Iron Maiden , Judas Priest, Metallica (although both wussed out at one point during their career) Straight up metal
Bands like Rush, KISS, Aerosmith and Deep Purple get tagged as metal but they are hard rock.
There are so many sub genres now it is difficult to keep track.
Poison, Def Leppard, White Lion are all candy coated power pop bands and bastardize the heavy metal label.
Bands like Rush, KISS, Aerosmith and Deep Purple get tagged as metal but they are hard rock.
There are so many sub genres now it is difficult to keep track.
Poison, Def Leppard, White Lion are all candy coated power pop bands and bastardize the heavy metal label.
The Def Leppard album High N Dry was bordering on metal . I think it was their best album. Mutt Lang almost turned them into AC/DC
The term Heavy Metal comes from William Burroughs' "the Soft Machine" and "Naked Lunch". He used it to describe the feeling of addiction. One of the guys from Blue Cheer called people who did drugs and listened to Hard Rock the Heavy Metal kids. And then of course there's the Steppen Wolf song "Born to Be Wild with the line Heavy Metal thunder. It was first used in a review of Alice Cooper but I don't think it was referring to the music but the feeling. Then it was used in a review that was intended to be bad, describing Black Sabbath's music. And thus Heavy Metal was born. But if ya ask me it didn't come into it's own until the NWOBHM movement of the 80s. Kings of Metal: Iron Maiden!! I love Metal...and Jynx Maze...yum,yum. 
He did, they call it Jim Beam
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Too bad him and Mustaine didn't join forces after Dave was unceremoniously dispatched from Metallica for the same reason.
Pyromania. And I'm not Foolin'.
