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- From: pw15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Philip Wang)
- Subject: Re: WHEN DOES THE *REAL* METAL DISCUSSION BEGIN?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.051139.15959@news.columbia.edu>
- Keywords: Sauron, Maple, Good 'ol days
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- Reply-To: pw15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Philip Wang)
- Organization: Columbia University
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 05:11:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.005528.16795@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> rshvern@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Rob Shvern) writes:
- >I am awaiting the day school starts up again in the fall so this
- >discussion can once again turn to heavy metal, not hard rock and
- >more of this Def Leotard and other weak music.
-
- Well, it would be fun to talk about less known stuff than the likes of
- Metallica, Slayer, Danzig, Def Leppard, etc., but those seem to be the only
- heavy metal bands anyone knows. Ever hear of Desolation Angels? Blood?
- Hellhammer? Tank? Venom? Angel Witch? Evil? Satan? You haven't? Well, maybe
- you should reread your post and get into less mainstream nonconformist
- metal. Not that I have anything against the bands I mention, but just that
- everyone seems expected to like them and it's almost automatically assumed
- that if you like heavy metal you would like Metallica et al, which isn't
- necessarily true but taken to be so.
- >
- >Better yet, see if someone with power can get an alt.metal.death
- >conference created so we can abandon this one and let the spandex
- >lovers talk about Axl rose's screachy voice some more.
- >
- Nothing wrong with spandex, but from what I get out of what you say, yes, it's
- the music that matters, not what the band looks like. Well, I don't give a fuck
- what the band looks like so long as they can play. I don't even care if they're
- posers as far as media attention, etc., so long as they can support their
- claims to greatness with what they can play. Lots of great bands wore spandex.
- Even Slayer at one time.
-
- And finally, what's there to say about death and grind? SOmeone asks "What's
- goingone with" or "Who is" __<insert death / grind band here__ and always
- there's a reply and then nothing more is said. Everyone who responds seem to
- like it, and those who don't like death and grind seem to just ignore those
- posts, so there's not much discussion that can be gotten out of something
- that doesn't seem so controvertial. It would be nice to get into other topics
- other than the Metallica/GNR show, why GNR is a great/lousy band, is Def
- Leppard really heavy metal after all, stuff like that. I think the topics are
- getting dry now, but there's not much to argue when everyone more or less
- agrees on who they like or don't like. Anyway that's how I see it.
-
- And one more thing. If you really want to be technical, death and grind aren't
- really heavy metal. I personally don't care what gets discussed in this group,
- so long as here the bands mentioned use a distortion pedal somewhere in their
- music. Heavy metal does not translate into "bands I like that wimps don't
- like."
-
- philip
- "Washington Boulevard, east-bound. Thirty-three...Can I get a transfer, man?
- Ninety-five cents?! FUCK YOU I'LL SKATE TO THE BEACH, AND I'LL LOOK BETTER
- GETTING THERE!!!" - Faith No More, "Death March"
- e-mail Philip Wang at pw15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
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