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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:18:00 EST
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- From: gmgettie@THAMA1.APGEA.ARMY.MIL
- Subject: re: Warning: contains self-promotion
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- From: MHB%MITVMA.BITNET@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU at INTERNET 12/23/92 2:31PM
- Subject: Warning: contains self-promotion
-
- >> different types of music. There are many types of heavy metal. You got
- >> Progressive (Fates Warning, Queensryche), Thrash (Pantera, Metallica,
- >> Megadeth), Industrial (Ministry), Death (Entombed, Possessed, Napalm Death),
- >> Black (Venom, Celtic Frost), Pop [aka poseur glam crap] (Poison,
- >> Warrant, Bon Jovi, ad nauseam), and then there's Hard Rock (Trouble, Tesla,
- >> Great White) etc.
-
- >I can (sometimes) tell these apart, but dollars to doughnuts Marcia can't,
- >Leonard can't (and this isn't a criticism, I'll get to that later :-), and
- >I might even bet against Tim on this one.
-
- OK, I can buy this. But, anyone, *anyone* can tell the difference between
- pop metal and death metal. Geez, what was I thinking. I forgot Alternative
- Metal (Soundgarden). Oops, I seemed to have sparked some debate with the
- 'Progressive' sub-genre. Hey, I don't make up these classifications. Ya gotta
- call them something, though.
-
- >> ... Have any of *you* heard of Mekong Delta? Well, you'll hear about them
- >> in a few weeks after I receive the CD by them I had to order specially from
- >> Germany.
-
- >Yeah, got a record (on a German label) titled after that Poe story, "The Music
- >Of... " and I can't remember the guy's name. I thought it was impressive-- as
- >apposed to most metalheads, they knew the virtues of judicious silences (and
- >if that's not a straight line for Leonard, I don't know what is :-) and had
- >some unusually bizarre changes and rhythms. Definitely a winner.
-
- Fuck! Shot down in flames. Mr. Bloom, is there anything you *don't* have,
- anything you *haven't* heard? For once, just once, I thought I mighta had
- something none of you all heard of. Fuck! You even have the same album (they
- have 5 or so) I am ordering. It's called _The Music Of Erich Zann_. Shit!
-
- The song that turned me onto them was "Interludium (begging for mercy)". An
- instrumental kinda Classical meets Heavy Metal. I have been told that the rest
- of their music is unlike this though.
-
- > ..
- >I tried to not be Queensryche impaired, so I acquired a "preview copy" of
-
- I like your umulat.
-
-
- Seeya, gmgettie@thama1.apgea.army.mil
- Gary
- "I broke a mirror the other day. I'm supposed to get 7 years bad luck,
- but my lawyer thinks he can get me 5."
- - Steven Wright
-