Seansuree Moonsuree vs. Jeffrey Galero

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They got too much flack over Cold Lake, IMO - that album is ****ing hilarious as long as you don't take it too seriously. :yep

(Just listen to it as though it were CF making a parody of cheesy glam metal, and it rules...)

Kind of the same deal with Carcass & Swansong, although in that case I actually consider it a good record on its own even though older fans saw it as them 'selling out' because it was so far away from grind. But really bands like In Flames moved even further away from their original sound and don't get dumped on for it nearly as bad.

I went about it backwards - I got into Florida DM after having already discovered Scandinavian. (but had already liked 80's thrash - which paved the way for American DM - when I was much younger)

I managed a band here, actually, the drummer used to play in A.C. (I'd spell it out for you if you're unfamiliar but they're both filtered words...) but yeah, they didn't go anywhere, too unwilling to compromise yet they somehow wanted to get on the radio. :blood

That could totally be a random shuffle playlist on whatever cheap-ass mp3 player (never had an iPod until recently) my broke ass had like 10 years ago.

Yeah, that kills a lot of BM for me, having always been totally irreligious and therefore not really scandalized by Satan worship the way people raised Christian would be, just comes across super lame to me.

Especially the knuckleheads that obviously took it to heart, like Vikernes or the scumbag (extremely talented, but a scumbag) from Dissection.

Still, every once in a while, in small doses, that stuff can be fun even once you get older. :firedevi:

 

If this place had "Asian & general below-featherweight boxing" and "extreme metal" sub-forums they'd probably contain 95% of my posts.

 

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I saw Morbid Angel open for Motörhead, weird pairing but hell of a show (among the loudest I've been to)

 

That's **** luck!

I actually was invited by this crazy Albanian kid in high school (he and I were the outcasts, both had shaved heads and wore black and made all the adults nervous in the wake of Columbine, then still very topical, by our mere appearances...but we never really bonded for some reason despitd having so much in common and just kept to ourselves - probably exactly because we had being surly miserable aloof *****s in common :yep) to go see PanterA themselves, at their peak. He told me in passing while both of us were serving detention that a buddy of his had to bail leaving him with an extra ticket. I would have gone but was grounded. :verysad

I have seen a few of the side projects, though (mostly Phil's) - Down a whole bunch of times, Superjoint Ritual once and Crowbar (if you count them since Rex was a member for a while) a couple. Never saw Damageplan or Hellyeah.

 

Try standing three feet away from the speakers at the end of a My Bloody Valentine set. :scaredas:

 

BTW, Drew, not sure if you saw my question (back when the ratio of topicality favored boxing and not music :yep) a few pages ago.

I'd love to hear a detailed impression of Galero if you've indeed seen a full match of his, as it sounded like you might've.

 

Yeah, same logic here with all we have to go on. Galero would have to be more than "a little special" (which is what I've heard said about him, even before his first quasi-step-up against Mabao) to smuggle the belt out.

...in broad daylight no less.

 

Oh yeah, Corrosion, seen them a few times as well. I think between Down itself and the constituent bands all the members of the "supergroup" are from, I've probably seen over a dozen shows.

Same applies to SJR (I've seen Hank III do his tripartite country/hell-billy/punk-metal set many times, and chatted with him. Nice fellow but total space cadet, or else he was impressively high considering how well he managed to play)


..and yeah, the Abbott brothers seemed the less appealing side after the rift. Anselmo had much better taste in music (a lot more varied, anyway...Vinny & Dime pretty much just listened to stuff like KISS, Ted Nugent, and David Allan Coe...:! and was a hardcore boxing fan so my allegiance was virtually a moral imperative.