Roll Call

MetalGuy71 wrote:

But apparently the uber-fan-boy ranting about the merits of unreleased Vinnie Vincent recordings or the best underground 80's power metal band from Bumblef*ck, Idaho that only 3 people heard of will repel ANY woman, no matter how "metal" she claims to be.

Well, they ARE good damnit.

DeathCult wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

But apparently the uber-fan-boy ranting about the merits of unreleased Vinnie Vincent recordings or the best underground 80's power metal band from Bumblef*ck, Idaho that only 3 people heard of will repel ANY woman, no matter how "metal" she claims to be.

Well, they ARE good damnit.

I didn't say they weren't. But no chick should be forced to listen to that discussion. There are rules against that sort of torture.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

DeathCult wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

But apparently the uber-fan-boy ranting about the merits of unreleased Vinnie Vincent recordings or the best underground 80's power metal band from Bumblef*ck, Idaho that only 3 people heard of will repel ANY woman, no matter how "metal" she claims to be.

Well, they ARE good damnit.

I didn't say they weren't. But no chick should be forced to listen to that discussion. There are rules against that sort of torture.

I once dated a girl who threatened to microwave my VV albums because she couldn't take it anymore.

Name: Rick Caudill

Age: 40

Status: Single

Location: Kentucky

Occupation: Maintance

Interests/hobbies:Music, playing guitar, pro wrestling

Website:www.myspace.com/rickcaudill2(there's a link to my Facebook page there as well)

Favorite metal genre: Death and thrash

Favorite Bands: Metallica, Slayer, Testament, Flotsam and Jetsam, Celtic Frost, old Fates Warning, Sanctuary, Dark Angel

Famous last words: I told you I was sick!

I like keeping my little info on here up-to-date, so I'm just gonna post again!

Name: Robbie Brouillette

Age: Not what it says on my profile, but then again, I don't like the stigmas attached to my real age.

Status: Single

Location: Chicago suburbs in Illinois

Occupation: Student/Singer

Interests/hobbies: Singing, metal, internet, pretty girls ;D

Website: https://www.facebook.com/ProphetofDio

Favorite metal genre: Power and anything melodic.

Favorite Bands: Dio, Demonous, Symphony X, Ayreon, Lost Horizon, Blind Guardian, etc.

Famous last words: FOR VALIANCE! (what valiance is, we'll never know...)

Name: Names are fleeting. Given so your kind can point and say "that is mine"

Age: 17 for less than two more weeks

Status: Taken

Location: unimportant

Occupation: college student

Interests/hobbies: music, listening to, making, losing self in, analyzing, etc, fornication, walking, internets, video games, daydreaming, and communism

Website: http://metalmayhem.forumotion.com (almost dead, am currently attempting to revitalize)

Favorite metal genre: Black & Doom (I will not choose between the two)

Favorite Bands: Acid Bath, Panopticon, Bathory, Electric Wizard, Grand Belial's Key, The Ruins of Beverast, Burzum, Inquisition, Candlemass, Peste Noire, Samsara Blues Experiment, Black Pyramid, Devin Townsend (and related acts), Worship, Esoteric, Beherit, Reverend Bizarre, etc and so on

Famous last words: Well it's about time.

Knyghtfall wrote:

Name: Names are fleeting. Given so your kind can point and say "that is mine"

Age: 17 for less than two more weeks

Status: Taken

Location: unimportant

Occupation: college student

Interests/hobbies: music, listening to, making, losing self in, analyzing, etc, fornication, walking, internets, video games, daydreaming, and communism

Website: http://metalmayhem.forumotion.com (almost dead, am currently attempting to revitalize)

Favorite metal genre: Black & Doom (I will not choose between the two)

Favorite Bands: Acid Bath, Panopticon, Bathory, Electric Wizard, Grand Belial's Key, The Ruins of Beverast, Burzum, Inquisition, Candlemass, Peste Noire, Samsara Blues Experiment, Black Pyramid, Devin Townsend (and related acts), Worship, Esoteric, Beherit, Reverend Bizarre, etc and so on

Famous last words: Well it's about time.

welcome to the board!! Pay no attention to the others here - they are all out on weekend passes...

exact33 wrote:

Knyghtfall wrote:

Name: Names are fleeting. Given so your kind can point and say "that is mine"

Age: 17 for less than two more weeks

Status: Taken

Location: unimportant

Occupation: college student

Interests/hobbies: music, listening to, making, losing self in, analyzing, etc, fornication, walking, internets, video games, daydreaming, and communism

Website: http://metalmayhem.forumotion.com (almost dead, am currently attempting to revitalize)

Favorite metal genre: Black & Doom (I will not choose between the two)

Favorite Bands: Acid Bath, Panopticon, Bathory, Electric Wizard, Grand Belial's Key, The Ruins of Beverast, Burzum, Inquisition, Candlemass, Peste Noire, Samsara Blues Experiment, Black Pyramid, Devin Townsend (and related acts), Worship, Esoteric, Beherit, Reverend Bizarre, etc and so on

Famous last words: Well it's about time.

welcome to the board!! Pay no attention to the others here - they are all out on weekend passes...

Knyghtfall wrote:

Name: Names are fleeting. Given so your kind can point and say "that is mine"

Age: 17 for less than two more weeks

Status: Taken

Location: unimportant

Occupation: college student

Interests/hobbies: music, listening to, making, losing self in, analyzing, etc, fornication, walking, internets, video games, daydreaming, and communism

Website: http://metalmayhem.forumotion.com (almost dead, am currently attempting to revitalize)

Favorite metal genre: Black & Doom (I will not choose between the two)

Favorite Bands: Acid Bath, Panopticon, Bathory, Electric Wizard, Grand Belial's Key, The Ruins of Beverast, Burzum, Inquisition, Candlemass, Peste Noire, Samsara Blues Experiment, Black Pyramid, Devin Townsend (and related acts), Worship, Esoteric, Beherit, Reverend Bizarre, etc and so on

Famous last words: Well it's about time.

Welcome! Looks like mc666 has finally got himself a play pal!

Name: Jared Hall

Age: 23

Status: Single

Location: Huntsville, Alabama

Occupation: Student at University of Alabama in Huntsville

Interests: Metal! (obviously) I'm a video gamer when I'm not doing anything else.

Website: Facebook

Favorite Metal Genre: Thrash, but that's not saying much. I listen to a little/a lot of everything.

Favorite Bands: Mastodon, Opeth, Iced Earth, Nile, Megadeth, Nevermore, Testament

Famous Last Words: "Aww crap"

Welcome kids

Well, I guess since I've changed handles and pretty much everything else in my life in the past few months, might as well re-introduce myself from scratch...

Name: Shawn Dudley

Age: 40

Status: Single (not for long!)

Location: Los Angeles, CA (almost, leave in less than 2 weeks)

Occupation: TBD - background is in recording & live Sound reinforcement, audio/video post production, mixing, mastering, voiceover recording (mixing and mastering). Some Foley, ADR, soundtrack design...I could keep going but I won't.

Interests: LIFE!, WOMEN!, after that....prog rock, jazz, metal, early 20th century classical and pretty much anything intelligent and well played by humans.

Website: Facebook (pro site coming once settled in LA)

Favorite Metal Genre: Not a genre nazi. I would also say that I'm not a "metal" fan, but I am a fan of "HEAVY".

I try to remain mostly on the "grown up" side of the spectrum, having jettisoned pretty much all "image" type bands somewhere around the end of high school (with the occasional side trips to listen to old Mercyful Fate albums). (KISS didn't make it past junior high, but that's because I didn't like anything they recorded after 1983)

I'm not a "backwards glancer", as long as it's got heavy guitars and I don't think it's sucking my intelligence away while it's playing, I'll probably dig it. Don't care if it sounds modern or if it sounds like Blue Cheer circa 1968. It's the HEAVY that's important.

Favorite Bands: Current: Porcupine Tree, Opeth, High On Fire, King's X (not a metal band, a heavy band), anything with Scott Weinrich.

Past: Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath and Black Sabbath. and anything that sounds like Black Sabbath - Trouble, Witchfinder General, Kyuss, Sleep, Soundgarden (shut up genre nazis)...and all the 80's usual suspects. proto-metal from '68-'73 or so, prog rock from '67 to around '75 when it started to wimp out, fusion from '67 to '75 (when it turned into smooth jazz and disco)

...and SLAYER!

Also what seems like an endless number of jazz records starting around 1941 with Dizzy & Charlie Christian at Minton's...up to around 1980 or so...and yes, I've heard alot of the earlier stuff too.

Famous Last Words: "I used to be detuned, but now I'm back to 440".

i just keep editing my original post in this thread when my situation/tastes change.

That's too damn boring, I like the attention.

Shawn D. wrote:

That's too damn boring, I like the attention.

^Ditto to this one; besides, I'm too lazy to find my original post

holydiver97595 wrote:

Shawn D. wrote:

That's too damn boring, I like the attention.

^Ditto to this one; besides, I'm too lazy to find my original post

i just realized I never filled it out....

exact33 wrote:

holydiver97595 wrote:

Shawn D. wrote:

That's too damn boring, I like the attention.

^Ditto to this one; besides, I'm too lazy to find my original post

i just realized I never filled it out....

Now's the perfect time! Tell us about yourself, Exact!

holydiver97595 wrote:

exact33 wrote:

holydiver97595 wrote:

Shawn D. wrote:

That's too damn boring, I like the attention.

^Ditto to this one; besides, I'm too lazy to find my original post

i just realized I never filled it out....

Now's the perfect time! Tell us about yourself, Exact!

I dont think it would really work now - no one would really believe I am a normal joe....

exact33 wrote:

holydiver97595 wrote:

exact33 wrote:

holydiver97595 wrote:

Shawn D. wrote:

That's too damn boring, I like the attention.

^Ditto to this one; besides, I'm too lazy to find my original post

i just realized I never filled it out....

Now's the perfect time! Tell us about yourself, Exact!

I dont think it would really work now - no one would really believe I am a normal joe....

Then lie! That's what most people do probably... But don't lie about your age! NOBODY does that. Especially not me... >.>

Hey everyone. I'm a long-time lurker and I figured I'd join in the fray.

I've been a near life-long fan of metal and I'm passionate about the music and history. The first metal albums I ever heard were Kill 'Em All, Love at First Sting, The Number of the Beast and Rising Force (Yngwie Malmsteen) when I was about 5 or 6 years old. I've been corrupted ever since! The first album I ever bought with my own money was ...And Justice For All on cassette, I begged my mom to let me buy it. First concert I ever saw was AC/DC when I was 11 on the Ballbreaker tour - I still have the t-shirt and the ticket stub! I grew up in the '90s, but I was more into collecting every Iron Maiden and Megadeth album at the time than Nirvana or Green Day. I just didn't have any interest in most of the popular rock back then. Most of the kids my age I knew then couldn't understand why I was into "that '80s crap," but whatever, I don't feel like I missed anything too important.

I almost hate to admit it but in my teens I started drifting away from metal to other music, mostly because I hated the nu-metal crap coming out that the press was calling "metal" and it was getting even harder to find good quality music (remember when Limp Bizkit and even Kid Rock were being hailed as "the future of metal"? Ugh.). Plus all the stupid obnoxious mallcore kids started to wear on me. So I felt like I had to find something else. I went a few years off of metal trying this and that. All it took was a chance listening of Defenders of the Faith to reignite my passion one day and get me digging out all of my old CDs and vinyls again and catching up with all of my old favorite bands, and then finding other bands that I had missed the first time around, plus the newer bands and albums, and realizing that the music was still very much alive and well. I'm totally in love all over again.

I'd like to thank Scott for No Life 'til Metal and his CD reviews. It's a brilliant site and thanks to his reviews and commentary I've found a ton of discs and bands that I might never have heard of that have become favorites.

I've been playing guitar since I was 17 and have a band. Kind of an aggressive, dark, heavy mix of rock / punk / metal. If we ever get anything recorded I'll post it sometime.

Anyway, that's my long-winded story. Looking forward to getting to know everyone here. \m/

Name: Mike.

Age: 26.

Status: In a relationship.

Location: Sweet Home Alabama.

Interests/hobbies: Metal! But music in general, guitars, old horror movies, true crime, history, computers, acquiring useless knowledge, etc.

Favorite metal genre: A bit of everything. Love Heavy, NWOBHM, Speed, Thrash and the heavier Power Metal bands (mostly German), and lately I've started to dip into Doom and even a little Black Metal. I tend to lean towards the more melodic bands but I'll give most anything an honest shot. I'm not a major genre-Nazi, unless it's metalcore or nu-metal. Besides metal, I also like most of the usual stuff: classic rock, oldschool punk and hardcore, '70s progressive rock and currently obsessed with psych / doom rock stuff from the late '60s / early '70s.

Favorite Bands: Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Black Sabbath (all eras), Judas Priest, Ronnie James Dio (all bands), Kreator, Blind Guardian, Megadeth, Slayer, '80s Metallica, Saxon, Accept, Grave Digger, Running Wild, Riot, Thin Lizzy, loads more.

Famous last words: "Shut up, I know what I'm doing! ... AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" *splat*

Salutes and hoots!

Welcome!

Welcome Aboard !

Welcome!!!!

Welcome to the show!!!!