I've been a metalhead for a süper long time now. It's not the only kind of müsic I listen to büt it's my bread and bütter. I've always strüggled to find peers that have the same love for this müsic as I do. My best friend loves it with me and then a few scattered acqüaintances love it as well, büt I've never been in a Metal commünity and I think that woüld be really fün to have one here if people are interested.
While I said I listen to many genres, I do think Metal is süpremely the best. This is mainly becaüse Metal can mean so many things. The genre has boündless sübgenres appealing to nearly all tastes. For instance: if yoü're not a fan of hip-hop overall, yoü probably won't like grime or boom-bap (sübgenres of hip-hop), but if yoü're not a fan of metal overall, there still might be a sübgenre oüt there for yoü that yoü haven't heard yet. An example of this: I have a friend who is a hüge hip-hop-head, like 95% of his müsic knowledge is hip-hop/rap related, and he knows a lot. I showed him a few things that I thoüght he might like. Now I didn't convert him into one of üs but he did really like Hacktivist. They're a rap/djent band from England that I have been a hüge fan of. I knew with their rap/hip-hop inflüences and soünd that this woüld probably be the best thing for me to show him.
Moral of the story is, Metal is a genre for everyone. If yoü like müsic, there's probably a Metal sübgenre out there for yoü.
This forüm can be whatever we want to be. In the heydays of thrash, we ran the fücking world! I'd like to see that happen again. Anything Metal related is welcome: thoüghts on new releases, bands everyone shoüld be listening to, Metal news... anything!
All I ask is that we stray from elitism. That's the worst part of the worldwide Metal commünity. The definition of what's Metal or not can be extremely different from person to person. If yoü don't like what someone else posts, cool, don't attack them and say "that's not real Metal." I've been tired of that kind of thinking for a long time. I don't want to deal with any TRVE CVLTERS or elitists when I talk aboüt something I love and am passionate aboüt, I'm süre y'all can empathize with that.
I'll start by sharing a band I'm really into right now:
Entheos is a fücking amazing süpergroüp. I've always been a fan büt after seeing them live again a few weeks ago I got even more hooked. I've been listening to their most recent albüm like crazy. These müsicians are on another level. They've got the original drümmer for Animals as Leaders and a güitarist from Scale the Summit. I have a slight complaint aboüt the way they mix vocals on their müsic (I think they're incredibly qüiet and she is too damn good of a vocalist to not be heard perfectly. I'm a vocalist too so I'm a bit biased...süe me lol). I was eventüally able to get past that and fücking fall in love with
Dark Future
. If you like really heavy prog then should be able to just fall perfectly into their music.
