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It is OK not to like Judas Priest but to deny that they are metal is really fuckin' dumb. 
Cyth, kill them.
Cyth, kill them.
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Priest became a metal band later on, some of their latest stuff is metal. But there's this little thing called rock music, and that's what Judas Priest played for most of their career. As for Motorhead, I love them. But they play rock music, and I'm pretty sure Lemmy would agree with me. They play dirty, blues-based hard rock music, like AC/DC. Don't kid yourself, if any new band came out today who sounded like Motorhead, nobody on here would consider them metal. If they're metal enough to be metal, then that must mean Rage Against The Machine is metal too. And Van Halen. And Rush.
Ain't no shame in playing rock music. It doesn't lessen their greatness, influence, or importance.
zabu of nΩd
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Technically speaking, yes, Motorhead are rock 'n' roll, not metal. They do not have noticeable influences from Black Sabbath and their ilk.
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They're weird. I try to get them into awesome stuff but they're so stubborn. I failed trying to get them into Sacramentum - Far Away From the Sun, Possessed, Immolation, and of course Bathory. I don't understand these people.
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Well, one of them is mostly into trad stuff and thrash metal. Another has pretty good taste in death metal. He's been getting more into OSDM lately (I got him into Seance). And the other one stopped being metal and turned into a pot-addled hippie.
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I only have one friend that has identical tastes to me, actually. I have a few friends into metal but they're almost never open to suggestions and it's near impossible to get them into certain genres/bands. Most people don't understand the concept of "repeated listens = proper enjoyment/appreciation".
well atleast I know one thing is for sure. We can all agree Dragonforce is worse than a sack of sun dryed fish testicles
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Hence the reason why mainstream music lacks any structure. It's all about getting your attention that first time even though you'll grow old of it really fast. If the mainstream was like us they'd have the same song on #1 for years, not minutes. Thats what I love about my music.
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You mean like the Beatles, The Who, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Pink Floyd, etc.?
Mainstream does not equate to shallow, for fuck's sake.
Plus, some of us like actually hearing something new when we listen to music, not the exact same set of sounds over and over.
Im talking about modern mainstream, not the past. Stuff like that Delila song I always hear on the media which has the same riff from beginning to end. wtf is that? super catchy at first, but will it last?
Yes I do too, but I've been listening to certain songs for 5 years and they never get old. Songs like that (which are usually 9:00+) take awhile to get into but once you do, you're hooked for life. Currently trying to get into some virgin black, didn't like it at first thought the singer's accent was too strong. Yet as I continue to listen to it I begin to understand it's gloom and doom.
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It is OK not to like Judas Priest but to deny that they are metal is really fuckin' dumb.
Cyth, kill them.
Agreed.
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