Used to. Still like to listen to Doom/Stoner/Sludge metal at work. Current favourites are Sleep, Monolord, Uncle Acid (heavy rock, think Sabbath with a dash of Tame Impala), and Stoned Jesus.
I can still remember hearing Fight Fire With Fire for the first time. I was 13 and it had quite an effect. Ride the Lightning is still my favourite Metallica album. Don't @ me.
I find it quite stress relieving. Current faves are Gojira and Meshuggah. Agree with Deafheaven but never quite sure they fit into the heavy metal genre (other than the vocals). I can also see a perfectly good case for Ride the Lightning being fave Metallica album. I think Master pips it but it would be a close no. 2 for me.
I like plenty of other genres but sometimes you just need some really heavy nosebleed chaos.
Metallica (with one or two others) basically invented thrash metal. Perhaps you have only listened to the albums from the Black album onwards, which are a bit lighter. I am not sure anybody could stick on Kill 'em All or Ride the Lightning and think it was not heavy metal, tbh.
Never liked Slipknot. Hard-ish, but little heaviness. Technically proficient, but ineffectively eclectic and harmed by the chaddy, Jimmy Pop-like nu-metal vocals.
Also, going to Hard Rock Hell Sleaze IV at end of August. Can't wait. Had a total blast last time (images below). Have 4 spare tickets. Anyone wanna come? https://hrhsleaze.com/line-up/
I fail to see how Metallica can be regarded as Thrash.
If you listen to Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer (widely accepted, I believe, to be the other three of the "big four"), Metallica sounds nothing like them.
I appreciate that I'm against prevailing wisdom here, and that it is regarded basically as unimpeachable canon that Metallica are, indeed, Thrash, but to me they're basically the rock version of Mike & The Mechanics. Nice, sensible lads playing harmless tunes.
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there’s heavy metal and heavy metal…?death metal ?
AC/DC or Motörhead- yes, very occasionally!
slipknot and real thrash stuff - no. it’s so relentless and relentlessly juvenile. boring.
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I am not a metal fan but have been introduced to Gloryhammer and Alestorm which are fantasy metal bands and they are hilarious and v tongue in cheek.
Actual metal like Slipknot et al tho? Noooo. Aural assault.
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I've been known to have a bit of Dio/Sabbath on while slaughtering zombies
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Not the really noisy heavy stuff, in fact I even get bored listening to Planet Rock nowadays.
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Saw Slipknot at Leeds in 2002. They were fooking dreadful. Never liked that style of metal anyway but I think they were booed and bottled off.
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Heavy metal is very Games Workshop
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Used to. Still like to listen to Doom/Stoner/Sludge metal at work. Current favourites are Sleep, Monolord, Uncle Acid (heavy rock, think Sabbath with a dash of Tame Impala), and Stoned Jesus.
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Is like any other genre and there are many sub genres . Some I like some I don't and it isn't all created equal. Quite like some soad or deftones
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Deftones I liked.
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I quite like a bit of Deafheaven
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It worked for Michael Burry.
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I like it up to a point. I top out at early naughties Machine Head these days. Used to listen to Slayer etc.
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10% of it is the greatest music ever written. 90% derivative shite.
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My eldest child first kicked in utero whilst pantera’s fooking hostile was playing in the car. We were just past Cambridge circus on the a10
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Almonds every day
I see you saying grace
A broken Pikachu
Herr Fritz your outer toe
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Naysayers should put Metallica’s first three records on and weep.
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I can still remember hearing Fight Fire With Fire for the first time. I was 13 and it had quite an effect. Ride the Lightning is still my favourite Metallica album. Don't @ me.
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As my formative years were in the 90s it was a diet of Maiden, Metallica, GnR, Nirvana and Soundgarden
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I find it quite stress relieving. Current faves are Gojira and Meshuggah. Agree with Deafheaven but never quite sure they fit into the heavy metal genre (other than the vocals). I can also see a perfectly good case for Ride the Lightning being fave Metallica album. I think Master pips it but it would be a close no. 2 for me.
I like plenty of other genres but sometimes you just need some really heavy nosebleed chaos.
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I wouldn't classify Metallica as heavy metal, faod.
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OK, well, I think you might be alone on that one. What bands do you think ARE heavy metal?
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Slipknot etc. Where there is a relentless wall of noise and barely audible gutteral lyrics being shouted alongside.
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Metallica is hard rock or something
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Metallica (with one or two others) basically invented thrash metal. Perhaps you have only listened to the albums from the Black album onwards, which are a bit lighter. I am not sure anybody could stick on Kill 'em All or Ride the Lightning and think it was not heavy metal, tbh.
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Sad about the drummer dying so young and everything but Slipknot were shit.
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Oh yes, my most listened to genre. Love Slipknot, Nero Forte is aural heaven.
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Never liked Slipknot. Hard-ish, but little heaviness. Technically proficient, but ineffectively eclectic and harmed by the chaddy, Jimmy Pop-like nu-metal vocals.
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slipknot were great, and were great live!
I listen to metal but Screamo probably best covers my music preference
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Nu metal is commercial garbage.
Agree that Master is the one. Meshuggah are devastating.
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you are garbage m3
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Whack this on and tell me you can't listen to heavy metal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeQM1c-XCDc
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Wouldn't condemn nu metal entirely. The label is pretty fuzzy (ratm?), and KoRn has a couple of great tracks.
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When Korn released whatever dross they put together in 1995, Morbid Angel released Domination. Just sayin'.
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Weird comparison, JC. I prefer heavy over hard, so Morbid Angel doesn't do anything for me.
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In that case it's death metal I really can't abide. I should have named the thread Death Metal. Dammit.
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Does anyone like viking metal?
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Yes love Viking metal. Hoping to go to HRH Vikings in December, that'll be mad. Also loving the Mongolian metal too, like The Hu
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Fence Foal
Heavy metal is very Games Workshop
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DON'T YOU JUDGE ME!
Also, going to Hard Rock Hell Sleaze IV at end of August. Can't wait. Had a total blast last time (images below). Have 4 spare tickets. Anyone wanna come?
https://hrhsleaze.com/line-up/
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Obvs, can't wear the Taylor shirt again. Think I might go Beiber this time. Open to suggestions. Hanson?
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A mate of mine in DXB (who has supported Metallica), does metal, arabic fusion. Its absolutely amazing.
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Oh, and, obvs, the absolute paragon of Metal listening Solicitors is, of course, Richard Burgon.
Rawk.
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Shooty--you need to go K-pop this time.
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Like it. Will research. Thanks.
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The Quireboys! There's a band I haven't heard for a long time.
Good reasons for that, of course.
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Shooty, when is HRH Sleaze? And is it Sheffield? May be interested in 2 tickets for me and woman if it's doable
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98% of it is complete shite.
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"98% of it is complete shite."
Same proportion as any genre of music then, yeah?
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Tromb,
I should be delighted. Think they're still available, and yes, HR Sleaze, sheffield. My mate Tim got 6.
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Sorry: 28 and 29 August
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Wooooot. Have emailed.
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Better hit rate than a cookie post, tbf tbf.
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Threep, I wouldn’t describe that as heavy metal.
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Rammstein aren't heavy metal?!
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Rammstein is industrial metal, more specifically NDH.
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Tromb good shout for the Hu
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even metalheads don't know this one -
bulletproof rebellion - sick as a dog
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I liked Korn back in the day and Rammstein and then moved on to bands like A7X and then Atreyu and Trivium. Quite like some Parkway Drive.
It's more metalcore, however.
I always liked Metallica‘s earlier stuff.
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I had never heard an Iron Maiden track until I was about 35.
The black jeans-wearing kids coming out of Games Workshop with their Maiden t-shirts just made me assume Maiden were sh1te.
But they're actual gr8. Bruce Dickinson can really sing.
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I fail to see how Metallica can be regarded as Thrash.
If you listen to Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer (widely accepted, I believe, to be the other three of the "big four"), Metallica sounds nothing like them.
Am I missing something?
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I appreciate that I'm against prevailing wisdom here, and that it is regarded basically as unimpeachable canon that Metallica are, indeed, Thrash, but to me they're basically the rock version of Mike & The Mechanics. Nice, sensible lads playing harmless tunes.
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Lolling at the person saying Nirvana and Soundgarden are metal up above.
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