I saw Headbangers Ball the new version, for the first time last night. In over TEN YEARS!
I missed half of the Nevermore vid, but that was okay...I'll see it again. Then this new song starts saying it's Nevermore, when it's obviously not, and thought the same thing as LOM did. WOW! Way to go professionals. Anyway, compared to the earliest Headbanbers to now...I would say it's half of what it used to be. I was glad to see the Nevermore, realized how many fucking hardcore bands there are, think DevilDriver is scream-core (I just made that up last night.) Don't like Mastodon at ALL, but saw a Testament video, so I was very happy. There was some cool stuff, I do admit that. The DIMMU vid was the best I may have ever seen.
So, let's move onto my boyfriend, who isn't really metal friendly anymore....(he likes some, but not as much as I think would work for us.) "So, what? Does everyone do these deathy vocals?" "Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha [In regards to the vocs on the dimmu vid]", "WHo the fuck is this? THis isn't Motorhead! That's Lemmy though....honey, who's this?" "Who the fuck is that?" "What is this shit?" "That dude could really sing. If he wanted to." "Who's most precious spilled blood?" ME: "That's not there name." Him: "I don't like this." "I liked them." --The bronx.
He may have liked the Nevermore!!! And the Everygrey he didn't say a bad word about, either. he almost liked the In flames. "That's not tooooo bad." ME: "I have some discs, want to listen to them" "No. Not really." Hmft. I do catch him with Pantera now and then. I should consider myself fortunate for that at least.
I had heard HBB went to more of a hardcore fan base, and now I realize that's true. I'm not sure it's worth it wade through all the other stuff, to get to the stuff I care about.
I wish I was the host for one evening. Just one! Let me at them!