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Originally Posted by tercet
Soilwork coming by locally(Toronto) in 2 weeks, they might be not heavy enough by this threads standards, should I go or not?
**** and YES.
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Originally Posted by Ron Burgundy
love me some soilwork. I know they were working on a new album, not sure if it's out yet.
I believe it's coming out next week.
I got into metal when I was a freshman in high school and a buddy slipped me his copy of Antichrist Superstar to listen to at home. That cd was basically contraband, so listening to music and having that sneaky "wrong" stigma attached to it was pretty cool. And it was better than anything on the local rock radio so I was pretty blown away at how deep and meaningful music can be, yet still be really heavy and makes you want to move. After that I would basically go to the mall every week and buy albums that were in the metal section, based only on the album cover really.
I was thinking about this the other day, too. It really bums me out that kids will never get that experience again. Nowadays, you can hear about a band, read their wiki, listen to all of their stuff on youtube, and if you want buy the music on itunes. Taking over an hour just looking through all of the CDs in the record store, reading the backs of most of them, finally choosing which one to buy, and then going home to give it a first listen was awesome.
I'm super hit and miss when it comes to black/extreme metal. Most of the super growly stuff just doesn't sound good to me. I do love BDM, Devildriver, Lamb of God, Children of Bodom, and on the lighter end of the spectrum, In Flames, Soilwork, Slipknot. For me the big three will always be Manson, NIN, and Tool. I wore those CDs out when I was a kid.
I'm curious to see what everyone's first metal concert experience was like. Mine was Ozzfest '99. There were 4 of us and one guy's dad was good enough to drive us the 3 hours there and 3 hours back the next day. I had read about Slipknot who hasn't come out with their album yet and it interested me so I made us leave at like 7am so we'd get there in time to see them open the 2nd stage. There was obv nobody there so we got right in front and I can vividly remember Clown pointing at me all menacingly and it legit scared me for a minute. Good times. That was also one of the years where they scheduled the main and second stage to go back and forth, so you'd have to run across the place to see every band.