METAL!! Metal is the BEST!!
POSTED BY: shinykitten
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 21:12
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Originally posted by Tristan:
Oh, and speaking of "metal"...how about Iron Butterly? Inna Gadda da Vida, anyone?
Yeah, them too.
♪In a garden of Eden baby
Don't you know that I'm loving you.♪
And it's gotta be the album version, not the crappy AM version.
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RMMC
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Sounds to me like some people here need a tutorial on the difference between metal and rock.
All metal begins with ManoWar
All metal ends with Running Wild
In the middle you got everything from Dragonforce (Herman Lee OWNS YOU), to Metallica (prior to Load), to Iron Maiden, and back to Elvenking.
Seriously, if none of you have ever heard Running Wild, your existance is not yet complete.
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ooohh! i don't want an incomplete existence!
who are Running Wild? why is my existence incomplete without them?!
also, i really don't like 'rock' as a catagory...i don't know why, but it just bugs me. some music can be put into that catagory, cause its not metal and not anything else, but i just think its an inadequate genre...
i choose to put music into my own, personal genres, which aren't so defined 
sorry for my random tangent-y ranting, just a thing that bugs me (like so many things)... 
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If Cavemen and Astronauts had a fight....
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Running Wild is a German metal band that started back in 1978, and is still making music today. Actually, the only mainstay is the lead singer/guitarist, Rockin' Rolf Kaspareck, and he switches up people on the rest of the instruments pretty regularly. The end result, in my opinion, is that the music stays fresh and unique.
All of their songs are in English, which because of them being German sometimes results in strange/corny lyrics. In general, song themes revolve around battle and piracy, dating more around the 1600-1800's rather than the ancient sword and shield themes of many other war oriented metal bands. Actually, the band's entire "theme" is pirate oriented which is often depicted in their songs (The Privateer, Marooned, Balld of William Kidd), cover art and albumn names.
Rolf Kaspareck's vocals are the stuff of true metal, high pitched but not screeching, with just a little bit of harshness. He tends to sing WITH the music, pitch, tone, beat and rythm where appropriate, which is a concept that seems lost on a lost of modern metal where the singer just screams incohearently into the mic.
Guitarwise, there's nothing significantly impressive. Suffice to say, it's professional, offers a lot of variety, and he minipulates it in such a way that it often sounds much more impressive than it actually is. It's simplicity allows it to blend nicely with the rest of the band, so you get an actual band experience and not one solo feature that has no place amongst the other instruments.
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Also, how do you not catagorize rock!? There would be no metal without rock! Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Johnny Cash MADE the electric guitar, damnit, and I hail them as the grandfathers of metal!
But... since you seem to have thought this through, would you care to enlighten me on how you think that "rock" is an inadequet label?
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Originally posted by LightMeDark:
(sure i'm missing some favs, but oh well ;D)
came back to look, and surely enough I'd forgotten many (including top 10 bands, eep): Despised Icon, Burst, Botch, Burnt by the Sun, Agony Scene, All Shall Perish, The Haunted, Into the Moat, Pelican, The Red Chord...I like some of the other bands mentioned in this thread, but I don't consider them metal.
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I like experimental/progressive and odd kinds of Metal. Nothing generic for me...
so I guess that means I like Tool a lot. Heh.
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Through the fire and the flames we carry on"
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Dude way to miss out practicly every Death Metal, Black Metal, Prog Metal, Grondcore, Regular Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal, Speed Metal, Sluge Metal, Doom Metal, Southern Metal band and even Folk Metal that ever exsited....now who needs the lesson
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yes, just one word-----MOTORHEAD
WE'RE GONNA CRASH? I DON'T WANNA CRASH!
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Now, I do not consider AC/DC to be a metal band (and neither do they, for that matter).......i put them more on par with Aersosmith.....a hard, tight blues-oriented band.
WE'RE GONNA CRASH? I DON'T WANNA CRASH!
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Quote:
Originally posted by shinykitten:
ooohh! i don't want an incomplete existence!
who are Running Wild? why is my existence incomplete without them?!
also, i really don't like 'rock' as a catagory...i don't know why, but it just bugs me. some music can be put into that catagory, cause its not metal and not anything else, but i just think its an inadequate genre...
i choose to put music into my own, personal genres, which aren't so defined
sorry for my random tangent-y ranting, just a thing that bugs me (like so many things)...
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If Cavemen and Astronauts had a fight....
Good point kitten! Journey, REO Speedwagon, Night Ranger...Rock maybe...Metal? Yah right.
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