Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Steve Dore]

I have worked on a project with this guy.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

People told me My Bloody Valentine were the loudest live band ever, saw them at the Enmore in Sydney and while it was loud it wasn't that bad. Saw Minstry a few years back and they were ****ing loud. The Mark Of Cain are ****ing loud and I'm thinking of trucking along and seeing them this weekend. But the loudest gig I have ever been to was Helmet/Melvins. During the Helmet show I am positive I suffered brain damage. My head and body were being physically moved by the speakers. I thought it was the loudest thing I had ever heard. Then The Melvins came on. Slowly at first but then as if the gig was in an SAFM/Dire Straits simulcast with my body my internal organs seeped one by one out of my anus. And I died.

**** that was loud.

 

[Magus]

People told me My Bloody Valentine were the loudest live band ever, saw them at the Enmore in Sydney and while it was loud it wasn't that bad. Saw Minstry a few years back and they were ******* loud. The Mark Of Cain are ******* loud and I'm thinking of trucking along and seeing them this weekend. But the loudest gig I have ever been to was Helmet/Melvins. During the Helmet show I am positive I suffered brain damage. My head and body were being physically moved by the speakers. I thought it was the loudest thing I had ever heard. Then The Melvins came on. Slowly at first but then as if the gig was in an SAFM/Dire Straits simulcast with my body my internal organs seeped one by one out of my anus. And I died.

**** that was loud.

Saw the Melvins at Soundwave. They were amazing, with their two drummer set-up. Wasn't that loud though due to Adelaide City Council noise restrictions.

The two loudest gigs I've attended were at The Thebby. First was Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds. My eardrums were physically in pain, but I had no ear plugs, so I chewed up some old receipts from my wallet and stuffed them in my ears. Everyone else around me stood around with their fingers in the ears. Pretty sure it was accidental, too. The sound guy butchered that one.
The other time was seeing Motorhead. Half way through the set, Lemmy says to the audience that they're gonna turn it up. It went from satisfyingly loud, where you can feel it through the floor, to "I think I'm suffering irreversible damage."

Oh yeah, forgot about seeing Jucifer this year at the Crown and Anchor. No word of a lie, the roof was crumbling and bits of plaster were falling on the band as they were playing.

 

[Dylan8]

At what age did you grow out of metal and why was it 14?

Aren't you always around for the video game chatter?

 

[edgie]

At what age did you grow out of metal and why was it 14?

Because that is around the time Trivium made The Crusade, the beat metal album of modern times IMO, then reverted to shitty metalcore form after a backlash from people that wear makeup and dress blacker than spinal tap. That's when I realised the genre was doomed and the glory days had passed, melody had been lost to the quest of who can be more brutal than anyone else.

I'm a lightweight when it comes to metal, nothing heavier than Slayer thanks. Lamb Of God for instance, is noise pollution that makes my ears bleed.

 

[Macca19]

People told me My Bloody Valentine were the loudest live band ever, saw them at the Enmore in Sydney and while it was loud it wasn't that bad. Saw Minstry a few years back and they were ******* loud. The Mark Of Cain are ******* loud and I'm thinking of trucking along and seeing them this weekend. But the loudest gig I have ever been to was Helmet/Melvins. During the Helmet show I am positive I suffered brain damage. My head and body were being physically moved by the speakers. I thought it was the loudest thing I had ever heard. Then The Melvins came on. Slowly at first but then as if the gig was in an SAFM/Dire Straits simulcast with my body my internal organs seeped one by one out of my anus. And I died.

**** that was loud.

Prodigy at Thebby in 98 was ****ing loud. Ears were ringing for about a month after that.

 

[edgie]

Thanks facebook memories.

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Jackson could find himself on the list, Blunt will make a fool out of him like everyone else that talks about him on twitter. Even the conplimentary ones.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Prodigy at Thebby in 98 was ******* loud. Ears were ringing for about a month after that.

I was begging for my ears to ring that night at Helmet/Melvins.

Maybe they were I was too busy stuffing intestines up my arse to notice.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Aren't you always around for the video game chatter?

Ooohh.... smack.

 

[Macca19]

Because that it around the time Trivium made The Crusade, the beat metal album of modern times IMO, then reverted to shitty metalcore form after a backlash from people that where makeup and dress blacker than spinal tap. That's when I realised the genre was doomed and the glory days had passed, melody had been lost to the quest of who can be more brutal than anyone else.

I'm a lightweight when it comes to metal, nothing heavier than Slayer thanks. Lamb Of God for instance, is noise pollution that makes my ears bleed.

Slayer would be heavier than Lamb of God imo

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Because that it around the time Trivium made The Crusade, the beat metal album of modern times IMO, then reverted to shitty metalcore form after a backlash from people that where makeup and dress blacker than spinal tap. That's when I realised the genre was doomed and the glory days had passed, melody had been lost to the quest of who can be more brutal than anyone else.

I'm a lightweight when it comes to metal, nothing heavier than Slayer thanks. Lamb Of God for instance, is noise pollution that makes my ears bleed.

your ears are girls.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Slayer would be heavier than Lamb of God imo

Faster and louder too.

 

[edgie]

Slayer would be heavier than Lamb of God imo

You think? I don't think so. Lamb of God was just a name plucked from the modern metal band scene, they all sound the same to me.

Perhaps Slayer is balanced by a shred of songwriting ability and melody. Seasons in the Abyss is very melodic for instance.

"Close your eyes, look deep in your soul..."

Its almost a singalong.

 

[Steve Dore]

I grew into metal at 30.

Missed all that horrid hair shit but metal is the most misunderstood and maligned genre of music from people that should know better that has ever existed.

Well except for this little beauty.

Does she yodel in the valley?

 

[edgie]

Where do Fear Factory rank on the heaviness scale, to people that listen to metal since 2005?

 

[Magus]

Where do Fear Factory rank on the heaviness scale, to people that listen to metal since 2005?

Depends how you define heavy. I'd kinda put them on the 'not very good' scale.

 

[Dylan8]

Because that is around the time Trivium made The Crusade, the beat metal album of modern times IMO, then reverted to shitty metalcore form after a backlash from people that wear makeup and dress blacker than spinal tap. That's when I realised the genre was doomed and the glory days had passed, melody had been lost to the quest of who can be more brutal than anyone else.

I'm a lightweight when it comes to metal, nothing heavier than Slayer thanks. Lamb Of God for instance, is noise pollution that makes my ears bleed.

The Crusade is wack as ****. Shogun is a pretty ****ing cool album though, and Ascendancy. Trivium are pretty lame on the whole and The Crusade is the lamest Metallica knockoff ever.

 

[Portia]

Sepultura playing at a festival is the only time I felt like I was having bowel movements before eating a taco. I couldn't even see the stage from where I was.

 

[Macca19]

The Crusade is wack as ****. Shogun is a pretty ******* cool album though, and Ascendancy. Trivium are pretty lame on the whole and The Crusade is the lamest Metallica knockoff ever.

Ascendancy is good and I liked In Waves (shoot me).

 

[_VXV]

People told me My Bloody Valentine were the loudest live band ever, saw them at the Enmore in Sydney and while it was loud it wasn't that bad. Saw Minstry a few years back and they were ******* loud. The Mark Of Cain are ******* loud and I'm thinking of trucking along and seeing them this weekend. But the loudest gig I have ever been to was Helmet/Melvins. During the Helmet show I am positive I suffered brain damage. My head and body were being physically moved by the speakers. I thought it was the loudest thing I had ever heard. Then The Melvins came on. Slowly at first but then as if the gig was in an SAFM/Dire Straits simulcast with my body my internal organs seeped one by one out of my anus. And I died.

**** that was loud.

Brown note? 20 Hz is hypothetically what can cause this. Thebby is notorious being too loud.
Can't wait for SunnO))) next year.

 

[Macca19]

Where do Fear Factory rank on the heaviness scale, to people that listen to metal since 2005?

First two albums were relentless. Loved them. From Obsolete onwards they were after commercial success and softened up a bit

 

[Dylan8]

Ascendancy is good and I liked In Waves (shoot me).

In Waves had a few cool tracks iirc but I didn't dig the production. Been a while though. The riff in the title track is a blast.

 

[edgie]

The Crusade is wack as ****. Shogun is a pretty ******* cool album though, and Ascendancy. Trivium are pretty lame on the whole and The Crusade is the lamest Metallica knockoff ever.

I can't stand bands that deliberately sing worse than my dog. The Crusade has a lot more in common with Judas Priest and Motley Crue than Metallica FFS, the Metallica knockoff line is super ill informed, but if it were true, what's wrong with aspiring to be like one of the biggest metal bands of all time? Probably the second biggest behind Sabbath.

 

[edgie]

First two albums were relentless. Loved them. From Obsolete onwards they were after commercial success and softened up a bit

Digimortal was woeful, Archetype I loved, Transgression was very uneven and featured too many covers, and I'm yet to listen to the new one in full.

I wouldn't say they went commercial though (Digimortal aside), it was just a natural progression of their sound.

 

[edgie]

The riff at 2:27 blows my balls off more than Butcher's pack mark vs Essendon 2011