Part metal head...

[Swabs]

Green Day, Panic! I'm an Emo, and all those other bands make music for girly men anyway.


Are you a girly man? ARE YA!?

 

[KillerGon]

Panic at the Emo Attack!

 

[Dead Winter]

Why are you in a COB forum if you don't want to be emo? COB isn't an emo band, but many of their fans are emo. Plus, Alexi is one step short of dying his hair black and getting the emo-cut. Go listen to Behemoth and Nile.

 

[inhe]

Um... you can't just listen to heavy music to become a metalhead, wtf. Seriously. It has to give you that feeling inside. When you hear a fucking guitar solo that makes 9/11 look like a firecracker or vocals that please you like an asian sexslave, you should just be immersed in that overwhelming feeling said things provide. If you're tr00, you'll be pulled into the music. Either you're a metal head or you aren't, there's no inbetween. It should invoke a certain feeling in you, or else you may need to seek alternative genres of music to obtain that emotion/bond us metalheads get from our favourite songs/bands. Being emo is ok, eventhough we joke a lot around here cause that lifestyle and its concepts seems to be the (laughable) contrary to ours.

A big part being metalhead is being yourself and listening to what you like despite what any other motherfucker says, so... considering you're only exploring this genre because of pressure from your friends, that's a good indication this maybe not be much more than a (forced) phase for you.



I honestly have no clue wtf is going on nowadays, but it seems more and more there's people who list a tonne of NON-metal bands (like kelly Clarkson, Greenday, Panic at the Disco, etc) on their myspaces and facebooks then they couple with that list a few metal greats, (like CoB, Iron Maiden, Dimmu Borgir, etc...). It's just a new and weird thing that's taken us metalheads by surprise. It used to be only one sort of people liked metal, and there was a lifestyle and attitude of individualism that accompanied it and no one else really went for it outside of that crowd.

Now it's sorta getting extremely mainstream. Young kids like the music but don't really have that lifestyle or attitude, which is fine. I just don't like the idea that listening to heavy metal makes them metalheads. (Same with if you listen to rap you're a gangster or listen to emo music, you're emo [eventhough I don't listen to either, I'm just saying to illustrate my point])

Not to be elitist, cuz I don't care for that bullshit unless I'm kidding around, but I'm just saying, in my books, it's a lifestyle/attitude not the bands you listen to that gives your the title 'metalhead'.

That's my opinion anyways, who's with me?

(REPOST CUZ IT GOT FLOODED OUT BY RANDOMNESS)

Pretty much agreeable (i hope thats a word). The thing with metal as you said is to get that certain feeling when you listen to something, if you dont get it, you probably shouldnt be listening to metal. Its nothing wrong with liking more "easy-listened" music, like pop/rock. But once you start appreciating the complexity of compositions you will be able to enjoy all sorts of music genres, like jazz, metal, classical.

But if it doesnt come natural, then its nothing to be ashamed off, people are different, metalheads arent cooler than normal people, its just another "lifestyle".

 

[Night Reaper]

i have to listning to a band a lot to like them

 

[inhe]

Yeah, if its a sucky band, but some riffs/intros are just mindblowing and they make you want to keep listening.

 

[Night Reaper]

^ no
when i listing to all that remains- this calling
the start is so fuckin awsome but the rest of the tune aint that bad then the chorus sucks so i dont like them

 

[Swabs]

Ah! All That Remains are bullshit! they were supporting at the Dragonforce concert two weeks ago (along with Firewind, who are brilliant btw) and they were terrible, just crap.

 

[inhe]

^ no
when i listing to all that remains- this calling
the start is so fuckin awsome but the rest of the tune aint that bad then the chorus sucks so i dont like them

According to swabs its a sucky band, so my theory is right!

 

[Night Reaper]

ur theory is not right u said if the intro is mind blowing u want to keep listning to them and thats what swabs or me said

 

[inhe]

heh?

If a song has something that is awesome, you listen to that part, then eventually you will probably like the rest of the song. But imo a song with 1 totally awesome part > 1 mediocre song.

 

[Night Reaper]

^ if theres only one awsome part i wont like welle it depends how good is the part and how shitty the rest is

 

[MegustaMucho]

listen to some wintersun, norther, kalmah, ensiferum, turisas, old in flames, deicide, behemoth...see which one you'll like

that's all mainstream
but it's good to start with metal there lol

 

[Night Reaper]

^ whats metal to continu whit ?

 

[inhe]

that's all mainstream
but it's good to start with metal there lol

thats bullshit, listening to underground metal is for people who need something to brag about.

 

[Axel]

fake account

I know the dude.

 

[Anonymous]

Firewind is such a great band, I can't believe how underrated they are.

 

[Swabs]

Firewind is such a great band, I can't believe how underrated they are.

Ya, Gus G is a great guitarist.

 

[SilentChildBodomChild]

fake account

no, i'm real.
oh yea one more thing

I listen to Panic! and i LOVE COB. Insulted enough?

 

[KillerGon]

that's all mainstream
but it's good to start with metal there lol

mainstream?