Metal: A Headbanger's Journey...

[OfSinsAndShred]

Has anyone seen this yet? I saw the previews and was pretty pumped, but I didn't get to see it until last night.

I thought it was really cool. AND, on the "family tree of heavy metal subgenres," Symphony X is one of the few bands listed in the Prog Metal section!

 

[War_Blade]

What channel is this on? Or is it a movie?

 

[Burnout]

What channel is this on? Or is it a movie?

It's a movie, I still need to check it out myself.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...0074942-1808655?_encoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=130

 

[War_Blade]

Bruce Dickenson and Dio are in it!!!!!


This is pretty cool, although nothing can be better then the decline of western civilization...

 

[Anonymous]

I saw it, I laughed at the interview with the guy from Gorgoroth
And the fat guy who wakes up with a beer glass suctioned to his belly fat

It's a great movie! Go watch it now!

 

[OfSinsAndShred]

The Gorgorth guy is awesome. "What inspires your band?" "... ... ... Satan."

And Dio pretty much rips the shit out of Gene Simmons.

 

[SilentRealm]

hmm! That seems really cool.. *puts it in favourites list for later*

 

[Anonymous]

The Gorgorth guy is awesome. "What inspires your band?" "... ... ... Satan."

And Dio pretty much rips the shit out of Gene Simmons.

I love how he takes like 20 seconds to answer the questions, during that time he just sits there with a grim expression on his face swirling a goblet of wine around

 

[Snowmaker]

I watched it yesterday. Pretty good.

 

[meisteh]

I laugh out loud watching the guy from Gorgoroth's answer to that question. The 5 second pause and sip of wine following is just perfect.

 

[turke]

Metal for me, is just music. Not a culture. I think culture is something that formed by people who speak the same language and share the same land for a very long time. Language, traditions, customs, cuizine, traditional arts; these are what forms a culture i think. "Metal" could be a part of a culture of course, but we gotta look at where its roots are. So that we can understand which culture it belongs to. I didn't make a research, so i don't know where metal come from. I've watched a part of this documentary, and i didn't like its approach to the subject. Burning churches, killing people, blood etc... If these are metal, then we are not listening to metal. Or we have no idea what metal is. I like to approach music, as a part of a culture, but not a culture of its own.

I am not a metal head, as you might have guessed

 

[OfSinsAndShred]

I think metal is a culture in some ways. Actually, I think "subculture" fits it more accurately. Just like the punk rock subculture.

For example, when I see someone wearing a shirt of some obscure band I listen to (Symphony X, or something), there's a kind of mutual respect there. It's cool. I guess maybe more of a community than a culture.

 

[Anonymous]

I guess maybe more of a community than a culture.

Perfectly said.

 

[DoomsdayZach]

Metal for me, is just music. Not a culture. I think culture is something that formed by people who speak the same language and share the same land for a very long time. Language, traditions, customs, cuizine, traditional arts; these are what forms a culture i think. "Metal" could be a part of a culture of course, but we gotta look at where its roots are. So that we can understand which culture it belongs to. I didn't make a research, so i don't know where metal come from. I've watched a part of this documentary, and i didn't like its approach to the subject. Burning churches, killing people, blood etc... If these are metal, then we are not listening to metal. Or we have no idea what metal is. I like to approach music, as a part of a culture, but not a culture of its own.

I am not a metal head, as you might have guessed

you must not have watched the whole dvd. first of all, murder, church burnings etc. ARE part of the metal history, just as the crusades and all kinds of wars are part of european history. it's there, you have to live with that. also, i think that you exemplified the reasons why metal IS a culture. Language (or at least forms of communication), traditions and customs (there are many unspoken metal "rules"). Maybe it's just because i've been to wacken that i realize the metal culture and community is very real, but even here on these boards you should get a strong grasp of that.

i like the documentary overall. it's cool.

 

[J-Dubya 777]

you must not have watched the whole dvd. first of all, murder, church burnings etc. ARE part of the metal history, just as the crusades and all kinds of wars are part of european history. it's there, you have to live with that. also, i think that you exemplified the reasons why metal IS a culture. Language (or at least forms of communication), traditions and customs (there are many unspoken metal "rules"). Maybe it's just because i've been to wacken that i realize the metal culture and community is very real, but even here on these boards you should get a strong grasp of that.

i like the documentary overall. it's cool.

I have not seen the DVD, I will eventually, but I couldn't agree stronger that
there IS in fact a metal culture. I've been immersed in it since I was in my teens. You don't need to go to Wacken or Prog Power to see it, just go to a show where you live. Then go to another, and another. Even Helen Keller could see it!

J-Dubya