Bigfooty General Metal Thread Mk.VII

[Paul Kersey]

I used to go to Charltons a bit. Used to be fun getting up in front of strangers and singing. Some of my 'hits' involved 'Africa', 'Take on Me', 'Bed of Roses' and 'Summer of 69'. 'Africa' is a really ****ing hard song to sing.

 

[SydneyBomber]

Atheist - Elements

Absolute classic

First two albums or gtfo!
Other than the samba track (?!) 'Elements' was a bust for me

 

[Paul Kersey]

How's that crash in Point Cook? FMD. Absolute dogs taking out people like that.

 

[dwwaino]

How's that crash in Point Cook? FMD. Absolute dogs taking out people like that.

I usually say sucked in and have no sympathy when morons take themselves out. Gutted when I read that innocent people are involved. Especially on Christmas Eve.

 

[Dee Snider]

The proportion of dickheads to decent human beings in this world has risen to unsustainable levels in the last 3-4 years.


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[Paul Kersey]

Be some clowns in a RS being heroes with no regard for anyone else.

Makes me sick.

 

[Paul Kersey]

Got on board my JAL flight. Checked what music they had. Saw 1987. As plane was taking off down runway had Still of the Night going loud. Haha.

 

[SELFCONFESDAFLNERD]

First two albums or gtfo!
Other than the samba track (?!) 'Elements' was a bust for me

I really enjoyed all their albums. No idea what order id place them in though

Currently listening to Coroner - Mental Vortex

 

[Paul Kersey]

Spent all day eating. I am at a hotel one block from Shibuya Disc Union - first raid in circa 12hrs. Probably go to Shinjuku one Wednesday. Spent ten minutes staring at my old friends the 7/11 fridge (beer and premixed shochu in the fridge). Left with my new friends (black coffee, green tea and coke zero).

 

[Paul Kersey]

37 cds for $400. Mostly second hand. Mixture of collection fillers, curiousities, things I am after, vinyl upgrades and even some repurchases (think its the 3rd time I have purchased Zyklon B). Never really worth purchasing new albums here unless hard to get as the prices aren't worth it. Death metal range at Shibuya a bit light. Will go to Shinjuku tomorrow. Yes, I listen to most genres and could not give two hoots about lyrical content etc. I did notice someone had sold their complete Lunikoff collection to the store, pretty funny stuff.

Edguy - Savage Poetry double edition
Zyklon B - Blood Must Be Shed
Haemorrhage/Impaled split
Stryper - Murder by Pride
Dissober - Sober Life....No Way
The Poodles - Tour de Force
Black Trip - Shadowline
Behexen - The Poisonous Path
Skarhead - Kings at Crime
Scorprions - Pure Instinct
Sheer Terror - Love Songs
Stryper - Against the Law
Murphys Law - Murphys Law/Back with a Bong
Anthem - Bound to Break
Impellitteri - Crunch
Impellitteri - Eye of the Hurricane
Anthem - Hunting Time
Integrity - Closure
Hades - Again Shall Be
Impellitteri - System X
Impellitteri - Answer to the Master
Helloween - Master of the Rings
Helloween - Time of the Oath
Edge of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow
Reverence - Gods of War
Crikey Crew - The One
The Adicts - And it Was
Animetal - Animetal Marathon
Animetal - Marathon V
Rocka Rollas - Metal Stikes Back
Necrophile - Awakening Those Oppressed
Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Tank - Honour & Blood
Razor - Armed and Dangerous
Ranger - Where Evil Dwells
Final War - Accoustic

 

[Dee Snider]

So Deathevocation goes to the Land of the Rising Sun with his better half and drops $400 on metal cds.

Dee goes to Eastland ( Land of the Rising Bogan?) with his better half and drops $400 on bed linen.

....which life to choose....??


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[Paul Kersey]

So Deathevocation goes to the Land of the Rising Sun with his better half and drops $400 on metal cds.

Dee goes to Eastland ( Land of the Rising Bogan?) with his better half and drops $400 on bed linen.

....which life to choose....??


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Eastland would have been chaos today. Terrible carpark.

 

[Schauermann]

Hades - Again Shall Be

Love that release. Underrated band that is often forgotten.


And yeah, my parents bought a Tormentor ticket. Can only be great: https://www.a38.hu/en/program/tormentor-hu-cult-of-fire-cz-perihelion-hu

 

[Paul Kersey]

12 hours until Shinjuku gets raided.

 

[dwwaino]

I reckon Akihabara would be my sort of thing.

 

[Max_very_well]

So Deathevocation goes to the Land of the Rising Sun with his better half and drops $400 on metal cds.

Dee goes to Eastland ( Land of the Rising Bogan?) with his better half and drops $400 on bed linen.

....which life to choose....??

You went bed linen shopping and only spent $400, that's the life I want!

 

[Paul Kersey]

Up to 51. Going rural for next week and a bit. Will have one more run when I return.

 

[Max_very_well]

Anyone got any good stories on what song/band/event pushed them towards metal?

I remember getting this AC/DC boxset for Christmas one year, it came with a VHS of a live show in Madrid, and I loved it. I would have been about 10 or 11 and it was just the craziest thing I had ever seen. From there one of my cousins showed me either Anthrax or Megadeath, can't remember exactly but it was another oh shit moment. I do remember thinking, do i have to hide this from my parents...?

 

[dwwaino]

I just kept looking for heavier stuff. A mate’s Dad from school was handy too. The mate wasn’t really into much metal but his old man was and he used to dub off stuff like Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Bolt Thrower and Slayer to give to him and pass it on to me at school. My own dad tries to claim credit because he’s an old school Black Sabbath fan but I swear all I ever heard him play when I was growing up was Joe Cocker and Bob Dylan.

 

[Paul Kersey]

Gradually went from hard rock to heavy metal. Got exposed to thrash metal around late 1988 and by some time in 1990 it was death metal. When second wave of black metal was at its peak I was listening to a lot of punk/hc too.

 

[Dee Snider]

I blame my dad in part - he had a big vinyl collection (including some heavy stuff eg Deep Purple, Slade, Suzi Q etc) and somehow Alice Cooper's 'Welcome to My Nightmare" became fav of mine when I was 5-6yo. He and I watched the 'Welcome' Musical Concert on TV one NYE with Alice getting his head chopped off under the guillotine, spending half the concert in a straight jacket etc. Incredible for a little kid. So then one day not long after he walked in with KISS Alive II double gatefold LP for me - said he thought I might like it?? That was the first music I ever got. Gene Simmons with blood all over him singing God of Thunder. Had an incredible impact on a little kid at primary school.

Fast forward a few years and I saw Motley Crue on the cover of Circus magazine at Doncaster newsagency and that was like a whole new world to me..all these bands blew me away visually. I had no idea what they sounded like - wasn't so easy back in the day with no internet - but I grabbed their stuff as I could. The Crue, LA Guns, Ratt, Twisted Sister, Queensryche, Lizzy Borden, Savatage and W.A.S.P. Spent most of my late high school years 'Shouting at the Devil"...and loving all things Sunset Strip. Thrash was too heavy for me early on - yet for some strange reason a couple of mates and I loved early Celtic Frost, Venom, Destruction and Mercyful Fate. I remember when a mate bought Possessed "Seven Churches" and wow that was taking heavy to a whole new level. We are in about year 8...

Hated Death & Black metal for the longest time and maybe mid 90's it was the 'Gothenburg-sound' that provided a gateway to more extreme sounds. Dark Tranquillity, In Flames, At the Gates...very early Soilwork, and Insomnium. And the mighty Carcass (sorry D'eveo but Heartwork is 10/10 in my book). Around then I also fell in love with Paradise Lost, Sentenced, Anathema etc and I guess that pushed me to explore the Gothic/Death/Doom sound that I love so much now.

Was thinking what the hell got me to open up my eyes (ears) to Black Metal and I am certain it was Naglfar's 12th Rising demo (not the album version) off a compilation cd I bought. A stunning masterpiece this song..I can get lost in its magnificence even to this day.

Funny thing is now its my dad who is borrowing my music ha ha.He's not a metal guy by any stretch but regularly spins Sabbath (he still has his original LPs), loves the Heaven & Hell album from a few years back, loves Iron Maiden & early AC/DC and for some reason he seems to be all over Within Temptation. Odd unit sometimes the old man.

 

[Pacman82]

Come to think of it, Epic by Faith no More was the first track I got excited about, started collecting tapes around then. AC/DC's Razors Edge & MetallicA's Jump in the Fire/Creeping Death EP were early gets, followed by Sabbath & Maiden etc.

I was well aware of what metal was years prior having older cousins & growing up around Doncaster/Lwr Templestowe where every campaigner was sporting Metal shirts & writing band names around the place.

Got into heavier stuff a couple of years later by hearing RRRs metal shows on the weekend...

 

[Magus]

Was always fascinated by scary themes and darker vibes. I remember studying the LP sleeve of Dad's self titled Black Sabbath album and being fascinated by the woman on the cover. Music with loud guitars was always what I wanted to hear.

When I was 10 or 11 I discovered The Black Album and that was it for me. Went backwards from there and was just floored by Kill/Ride/Puppets and Justice. Just couldn't believe what I was hearing. The themes, the artwork, the way the band looked, the overall aesthetic of those albums I knew I was on a journey.

Pantera, Slayer and Sepultura were the next logical step. I still love all of those bands to an extent (some albums more than others) After a few years of being into that stuff, I met up with like-minded people and we always lent each other stuff in the realms of death and black metal and it was an exciting time to have all this new stuff to discover together. I'm glad this was at a time where downloading wasn't really an option and finding gems at the local music store was the only way of getting stuff. Carcass, Morbid Angel, Napalm Death, Cannibal Corpse followed by Mayhem, Burzum, Darkthrone were the biggest obsessions at that time.

After trying to find as much obscure stuff as possible, ordering from Aussie distros (I miss those) and attending as many gigs as possible, I tried to go backwards and listen to all the innovators of rock music and went right back to early blues, Australian rock, punk rock, hardcore and everything in between. The only thing that hasn't changed is that everything I listen to is guitar dominated. I'm now in the realm of about 2000 CDs and 500 Lps and that's always growing.

 

[Dee Snider]

Was always fascinated by scary themes and darker vibes. I remember studying the LP sleeve of Dad's self titled Black Sabbath album and being fascinated by the woman on the cover. Music with loud guitars was always what I wanted to hear.

When I was 10 or 11 I discovered The Black Album and that was it for me. Went backwards from there and was just floored by Kill/Ride/Puppets and Justice. Just couldn't believe what I was hearing. The themes, the artwork, the way the band looked, the overall aesthetic of those albums I knew I was on a journey.

Pantera, Slayer and Sepultura were the next logical step. I still love all of those bands to an extent (some albums more than others) After a few years of being into that stuff, I met up with like-minded people and we always lent each other stuff in the realms of death and black metal and it was an exciting time to have all this new stuff to discover together. I'm glad this was at a time where downloading wasn't really an option and finding gems at the local music store was the only way of getting stuff. Carcass, Morbid Angel, Napalm Death, Cannibal Corpse followed by Mayhem, Burzum, Darkthrone were the biggest obsessions at that time.

After trying to find as much obscure stuff as possible, ordering from Aussie distros (I miss those) and attending as many gigs as possible, I tried to go backwards and listen to all the innovators of rock music and went right back to early blues, Australian rock, punk rock, hardcore and everything in between. The only thing that hasn't changed is that everything I listen to is guitar dominated. I'm now in the realm of about 2000 CDs and 500 Lps and that's always growing.

My dad had the self-titled and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath albums too. I used to look at those album covers too. Both great imagery. Strangely enough I never remember him playing them. He used to flog Heart’s Barracuda so loud the windows would shake ha ha. That bass.....

 

[Dee Snider]

I was well aware of what metal was years prior having older cousins & growing up around Doncaster/Lwr Templestowe where every campaigner was sporting Metal shirts & writing band names around ...

Some great early metal memories from the Lwr Temp/East Doncaster area. Most of my mates starting their journey here....metalheads in every street.