Alone

[troopsofdoom]

How many of you have to enjoy your style of metal alone because you have no freinds with the same taste?

 

[No-Mercy]

yeah dude, i have 1 friend, my guitarist matt who shares the same interest...before him i was always alone. so whenever we cant hang out- were listening alone.

thats why i get so excited to just hang out with fellow metalheads, its something rare to me...i enjoy it quite a it though

 

[kittybeast]

after we moved to Los Angeles I was going to shows alone for about 4 1/2 years...then Eddie via the Iron Maiden website and Long Beach show I meet the best metal partner in crime a girl can have! :Shedevil: Hail to the Chilean Beast damn we had a great run in 2005!

 

[Trans-Siberian Outcast]

I have a few friends who enjoy the same kind of music I do, but they mostly rely on me to find all the new bands. It's fun to listen to music with them because they are so wide-eyed at hearing something so good for the first time. I can re-live my own first experience of listening to a cd, through them.

That said, I still prefer to listen to music alone. No one else seems cabable of just shutting their pie-hole and listening to the music.

NP: Masterplan - Aeronautics

 

[Wyvern]

Me, me, me

Coincidence that this thread shows when I'm listening to Exciter. Several (and I mean several) yeras ago my then friend and schoolmate Sergio was getting hard into heavy metal (I wasn't) and I recall he being nuts about Exciter. A few years later he, Abraham and I were deep into metal each with different taste and approaches.

As time passed on Sergio dropped from metal (and sight), Abraham went into extreme stuff and I kept the middle road on. More time passed and also Abe disappeared from sight. Darren who I befriend at the start of college was into metal but never as much as I did and years afterwards he become a wider range taste person. The rest of the bunch I had before I left for USA were more into progressive rock. When I came back the group had split, only I have contact with Henry but he's into progressive rock, alternative stuff and Celtic Frost

So basically my friends in metal are in this forum nowdays

 

[Hawk]

That said, I still prefer to listen to music alone. No one else seems cabable of just shutting their pie-hole and listening to the music.

NP: Masterplan - Aeronautics

In the 80s I had the same 'problem' when I played people a new album I always hoped they shut up and listen but they never did.

So now Whe I have something new I just let them hear it when they are alone. It works better that way.


These days I have carnut and Pim as friend too share the metal with. Damn I am a lucky bastard

 

[carnut]

I still have 2 very good friends from the 80's I see and share music with alot. Also some guys I see not that often, just sometimes at concerts and stuff, but we now and than send each other some CD's and stuff...I have the luck to live pretty close to Hawk too, and he's just great to share and talk music with !!! We've become good friends in a relative short time ... So I'm pretty lucky, don't have to live my Metal on my own ....

 

[Saint_Vitus]

A few of my mates like the odd band (one of my housemates loves Testament, for example), but I'm the only person I know irl who likes old-school stuff as much as I do.

 

[Fangface]

I've always had some friends into Metal since the beginning, I guess I can't complain too much.

Being on a few (French and English-speaking) message boards have improved the situation too That's the best part of the Internet to me, meeting people for real and sometimes making true friends. Now when I go to a show I'm never alone wherever it takes place, or at least in France/Switzerland/Germany/Italy.

 

[Hawk]

I've always had some friends into Metal since the beginning, I guess I can't complain too much.

Being on a few (French and English-speaking) message boards have improved the situation too That's the best part of the Internet to me, meeting people for real and sometimes making true friends. Now when I go to a show I'm never alone wherever it takes place, or at least in France/Switzerland/Germany/Italy.

You should try and come to Belgium and stay over a few days. That would be great. I'd love to chat with you for a few days!

 

[Trans-Siberian Outcast]

So basically my friends in metal are in this forum nowdays

You said it, Wyv, ol' buddy!

In the 80s I had the same 'problem' when I played people a new album I always hoped they shut up and listen but they never did.
So now Whe I have something new I just let them hear it when they are alone. It works better that way.

This is the most effective way, most definitely. I've been doing "samplers" for the past few years...that way I can fit three songs from four or five different bands onto one cd and they can pick whatever bands stand out for them.

NP: Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve and Other Stories...

 

[Evil?]

i have a few friends that are some what into metal and a couple are pretty into it, but they all get most of what they like from me. I'm the resident metal guy around here. I do my best to turn people on to music actually worth listening to. I keep them from going astray

 

[SavaRon]

Not to many people I know listen to metal like me. Definately as extreme as me. My wife Kathy listens to metal, so that is really cool!!! We go to plenty of shows and listen to alot of the same stuff. It makes for easier trips in the car, that's for sure. As long as I don't put on Dream Theater. She hates them with a passion. Funny thing is we are flying up to New York to see the 20th anniversary concert in April with another couple. Me and my buddy are going to the concert and our wives are going to hang out with his sister, not going to go to the concert. His wife hates them as well.

To get back on subject, the net has made it so much better. Especially places like UMOS. Everyone here has the same interests, so it makes it a ton easier for everything. Even if you listen alone, you can log on here and share what you are feeling or give some feedback about something new or whatever. Your never that far from somebody with the same tastes in music as you think you may be.

 

[Wheezer]

All my metal friends are on the net. The one time I get to see a few of them is at Prog Power. I sure am glad I made the decision to go three years ago. One weekend a year is not enough though!

I do go to shows alone but it's funny how many total strangers I meet and talk to at every show. That's what has kept me going to the shows. I think there's a lot of us out there that go to the shows alone but aren't alone once we get there.

 

[Bryant]

My wife is a fan of many of the bands I like. Other than that, I don't have any "local" friends into the same styles of metal I am into. I have some friends in Atlanta that are into the stuff I like, but I don't gwet to see them much, so here (and a couple other forums) is where I discuss music. More often than not, I listen to music alone.

Bryant

 

[SoundMaster]

For the last 15 years, or so, I've gone it alone.

I have friends into the more 'mainstream' of metal, such as Maiden and Priest, Dio, etc., who I go tp concerts with, but for reasons unknown, these 3-4 people just refuse to consider 'new' bands.

All of the new wave of great bands (Anathema, Opeth, Katatonia, Porcupine Tree, etc) I'm into on my own.

 

[Wyvern]

Not to many people I know listen to metal like me. Definately as extreme as me. My wife Kathy listens to metal, so that is really cool!!! We go to plenty of shows and listen to alot of the same stuff. It makes for easier trips in the car, that's for sure. As long as I don't put on Dream Theater. She hates them with a passion. Funny thing is we are flying up to New York to see the 20th anniversary concert in April with another couple. Me and my buddy are going to the concert and our wives are going to hang out with his sister, not going to go to the concert. His wife hates them as well.

Interesting fact. I would have expected that most metalheads wives (that are not metalheads themselves) will go for mellower stuff.

I would like someday to find a girl into either the same music I like or into jazz and prog rock (to diversify) I'm afraid to finally find a metalhead lady for myself and she'll be only into extreme stuff

 

[rokk]

I would like someday to find a girl into either the same music I like or into jazz and prog rock (to diversify) I'm afraid to finally find a metalhead lady for myself and she'll be only into extreme stuff

Fell in love with a country girl, morning sunshine
She was up from a nether world, just to bust another soul
Her eyes were an endless flame, holy lightning
Desire with a special name, made to snatch your soul away, yeah

We sailed away on a crimson tide, gone forever
Left my heart on the other side, all to break it into bits
Her smile was a winter song, a sabbath ending
Don’t sleep or you’ll find me gone, just an image in the air

In dreams I think of you
I don’t know what to do with myself
Time has let me down
She brings broken dreams, fallen stars,
The endless search for where you are
(sail on, sail on)

Fell in love with a country girl, morning sunshine
She was up from a nether world, just to bust another soul
Her eyes were an endless flame, unholy lady
Desire with a special name, made to snatch your soul away, oh!

Don’t sail away on a crimson tide!
Don’t leave your heart on the other side!
Her eyes are an endless flame
Desire with a special name
Don’t ever fall in love!
Don’t give your heart away!
No never, never fall in love with a country girl!

 

[Fredy_Brown]

I live in quite small town (50 000 citizens) but I know about 50 people that listen to extreme metal here....some of them are my close friends. We have few local bands but they´re not good much.

 

[Wyvern]

No never, never fall in love with a country girl!

Most definitively, I don't like country at all!