Metalheads! Confess & Brag

[Thunderfoot]

I feel your pain Danny...

More Confessions: I like the Sugarcubes, I mean Bjork ROCKS! Ok, maybe not rocks...but she is hot....well sort of.... okay, maybe I should re-think this post.

Christian metal was definately a love of mine during the 'grunge' blot of the early 90s (it was the only real new metal out there /and frankly that's kind of sad/). A couple of other groups that were pretty good were:
POP/Hard Rock Metal: Angelica and Holy Soldier - both had awesome musicianship and pretty tight vocals and lyrics.
Speed: Tourniquet - yep, speed and Christian lyrics and their drummer is STILL one of the fastest in the world.
Hardcore: White Throne (started growling WAY before a lot of other more popular bands)

Funniest thing I've noticed - Mastadon is a hot new metal band, in the 80's and 90's there was a Chirstian Metal/Progressive group named Mastadon. (Had the Elephante brothers, hence the name), they are NOTHING alike....

 

[Fishbone]

Confessions:
I'm into rap almost as much as metal and I'm a huge Wu-Tang Clan fan. If it is Wu-Tang clan related, I got it. I'm the whitest guy on the face of the earth and its strange for people to see Only Built 4 Cuban Linx sandwhiched lovingly between Speak English or Die and Swallowed in Black.
Brag: I'm responsible for a bunch of Kataklysm fans after putting Ambassador of Pain on my little brother's mix CD. Its always good to convert people to death metal fandom.
Edit: Further confessions: I'm a big time time lover of banjo music. Shhhhhhhhhh.....

 

[xrpsuzi]

Edit: Further confessions: I'm a big time time lover of banjo music. Shhhhhhhhhh.....

*makes room in the bluegrass closet for fishbone*

Banjos, mandolins, fiddles, all are welcome.

-Suzi

 

[jhallum]

I'm into both metal and Prog rock. My wife and I have an extensive collection that includes the following bands:

Dream Theater (the band that brought us together), Angra(the best band that Brazil has to offer), Queensryche, Iron Maiden, Therion, Rage, Nightwish, Morgana LeFay(best thrash metal ever!), Evergrey, Spock's Beard, Pain of Salvation, Vanden Plas.

Safe to say, but IMO, the best metal in the world isn't being released here, but rather in Europe, where the metal scene never died in the nineties.

I have my Heaven and Hell tickets, looking forward to finally getting a chance to see them live!

 

[Kyuss Knight]

I have such a varied musical taste (at least in my opinion)

"Metal" bands that I listen to regularly (in no particular order):
Metallica (first 4 albums), Megadeth, Down, Electric Wizard, Black Sabbath (Ozzy or Dio), Saint Vitus, Wolves in the Throne Room, King Diamond, Motorhead, Sleep, Pentagram, Between the Buried and Me, Blue Cheer, Ocean, Cathedral, Isis, Mastadon, Vio-Lence, Anthrax (w/ Joey singing), Sunn O))), Yob, Earth, High on Fire, Death, Napalm Death, Venom, Obituary, Appleseed Cast, Melvins, Kyuss and a crap-ton that I can't think of.

Some of the "non-metal":
Jets to Brazil, Weezer, Nirvana, The Clash, The Ramones, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy, Talib Kweli, Johnny Cash (probably what I listen to the most), The White Stripes, Gnarls Barkly, Bad Brains, Outkast and hundreds if not thousands more.

 

[D.Shaffer]

*makes room in the bluegrass closet for fishbone*
Banjos, mandolins, fiddles, all are welcome.

Mmm. Bluegrass.
Can we exclude steel guitar? That's probably the only instrument in the world that'll make me automatically reject anyone. I can usually find something worth while from any artist.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Confessions:

I own at least a couple of CDs (each) of Native American music, Bagpipes, Pan flute, and a host of stuff by a guy named Rabih Abu Khalil- Lebanese Traditional/Western Jazz Fusion stuff.

Brags: Just picked up the latest by Corrosion of Conformity. If you like "stoner rock" or "southern rock" you need to know this band. At times, part Lynard Skynard, at times Black Sabbath, this band has been around a while, and they still rock...but nobody ever talks about them.

Aside on cover tunes: I say count 'em towards your "hit" list. If you can make a semi-obscure song rock, you deserve credit. Almost any band you can name has some killer covers to their credit, even if it takes them a decade to actually commit them to a recorded media format. Metallica, for instance, was doing Budgie's Breadfan for YEARS before they actually released it. A lot of early rock bands wouldn't be anywhere without blues or folk covers. Led Zep covered Robert Johnson. Hendrix made hits of "All along the Watchtower" and "Hey Joe." Yes, I know that few of the songs actually rose high in the charts, but if its still in rotation after a decade or so, I'd call that a hit. After all, very few directors (to switch genres for a second) are as critically acclaimed as Scorsese...but while he didn't win an Oscar until this year, the films he lost to have not aged as well as his...

 

[Mark Hope]

Shame: Depeche Mode. Love them to bits. Once cited them as a major influence during an interview, much to the horror of my fellow bandmates ...

Fame: Creepmime. My band from back in the day. No, I know you've never heard of us, but we had a brief spell in the spotlight back in the early 90s. Played with Death and Cynic amongst others. Fun times.

 

[Nyaricus]

Shame: Depeche Mode. Love them to bits. Once cited them as a major influence during an interview, much to the horror of my fellow bandmates ...

Fame: Creepmime. My band from back in the day. No, I know you've never heard of us, but we had a brief spell in the spotlight back in the early 90s. Played with Death and Cynic amongst others. Fun times.

Awesome! I just looked you up at the Metal Archives - death metal, eh? What other DM bands do you listen to?

cheers,
--N

 

[Mark Hope]

Awesome! I just looked you up at the Metal Archives - death metal, eh? What other DM bands do you listen to?

cheers,
--N

Well, we were more in the vein of doom than death, although I've always thought that those categories weren't very useful in the long run. I've always been fond of Cynic and Death, and enjoyed good old Paradise Lost and Carcass and Opeth really impress the hell outta me. I love the whole sweeping atmospheric thing. I have a lot of time for thrash (Bay Area stuff like old Exodus and Testament) so I was always trying to get more of that groove into our music. I think that the vocals of many death and doom bands can be self-defeating at the end of the day - we suffered from that problem a bit to be honest. I remember trying to explain that to the interviewer in the same interview that I was rambling on about Depeche Mode in, actually. He looked at me like I was insane - the other guys in the band were like "yeah, ok Mark, you can shut up now!", lmao...

I have to add Bjork, Jamiroquai, old Motley Crue and Goa Trance music to my Shame list as well, in all honesty. At the first Dynamo festival in Holland there was a guy with a homemade t-shirt that said "Motley Crue is disco, and disco is sh*t!" Funny stuff. I probably shouldn't mention Stryper at all either...