Mehtahl (or Metal, as it is better known) is a development of Rock Music that largely developed in England and the United States during the onrise of true headbangers from the classic styles still developing during the 1960s and 70s. If I could summarize anything about this genre of music, it's that it comes in a variety of 'flavors', and that Metal Will Never Die. (That and that you are most certainly NOT Ironman)
From Led Zepp to Black Sabbath, Queensryche and Judas Priest, Motörhead and Megadeth, Iron Maiden and Def Leppard, Pantera and Metallica, came the years of heavy metal music, thrash metal, and lead to the onrise of the unique subsets of music that one type of music leaped forth to the world from the main bread of the genre, Rock.
Metal is almost everywhere on earth, though it has never been 'in'. It was far from the black sheep in the family, just look at the Glam that developed from it. Universally, Metal has spoken of itself a variety of emotions, and delivered powerful messages. Anger, strife, hate, war, love, fear, melancholy, usually extremely powerful emotions and the messages born with this music were heavily seeded with them.
Now I know what you're thinking. How can I possibly know you listen to anything metal? "WorkerDrone, I don't like >so and so, this or that<" in one particular genre, but that's where things start getting 'flavorful'. I can tell you now, you listen to metal. Power Metal, Thrash Metal, Heavy Metal, Black Metal, Death Metal, Groove Metal, Glam Metal, Progressive Metal, Speed Metal, of course! Even Viking Metal. And various breeds of music with metal influence, possibly from multiple subgenres.
I guarantee you have listened to some form of music influenced by this genre somehow. Even classical music could be attributed to metal, at least in reverse, as there are obvious implementations of many forms of music, to make what we know today as the Heavy Metal music of the modern era.
There are possibly thousands of bands of this genre, all a variety of themselves, with different styling of their music in shape and form. Whether it be theatrical or musical in aforementioned form, or comical and dark in shape.
Metal will never die, and hopefully this thread won't die like the previous. It now has a firm topic. And that topic is metal.
Notes:
Vester gave me the go ahead to make this thread due in part to her thread being dead. I only did it because that previous thread wasn't actually about metal, but about suggesting Vester metal.
The topic specifically can be about any sort of metal, but you may not get into an argument about a person liking a sort of metal that you do not. The topic is very wide open, you can talk about albums being released, concerts you went to or want to go to, or general discussion about songs and so forth. Lots of movement space, as long as you are here to talk about metal.
I only have three rules; follow 'em or leave, very simple.
Talk about metal in your posts. Don't get off topic, please, go to a thread more appropriate for whatever other topic. Or PM.
Do not argue. At all. Civilly talk about something or don't mention it at all, I know a person's selection in music might aggravate you if you especially dislike a certain brand, but unless you are idling mentioning your dislike for a certain brand, attributed to an introductionary post, you are at fault.
Do not violate Forum Rules and Guidelines in any shape or form, you will be immediately reported. This is a given for any thread at all people, so just note that I will watch for violations Toady put into text himself, and I'm not TRYING to get you in trouble. It can happen in any thread, I'm just saying, don't dick around.
Post Example:
There's a upcoming Metallica concert in Anaheim I'm contemplating at the moment, and I do indeed want to go. The drive would be a pain in the ass, but for once I wouldn't have to make one of these trips alone, so it'd probably go off without a hitch.
Whatever the case, I just gotta be ready by December. It reminds me that I switched my 'thinking' music from Ride The Lightning to ...And Justice For All, about a week ago. Combined with whatever the fuck my shuffle brings me to, I've decided to just move it right on over to a mix from now on, I'm getting odd looks, sitting in my armchair, reading science fiction, blasting whatever loud music that comes up.
She's one to talk. I swear I heard Slayer coming from the bathroom. MY BATHROOM.
Though that's probably my imagination.
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