If I had two working VCRs I would just make you a copy.
My local pharmacy use to rent out videos. A few years back, they decided to get out of the rental business and sold off their stock at cheap prices. That's where I picked up the Guns video. I also got a John Mellencamp video (with music videos, similiar to the Guns one) and Paul Simon's "Graceland" concert.
Metal bands I consider right now-death metal, aka Death, The Crown(the best band on the planet) Morbid Angel, Deicide, Meshuggah, and the likes. Also melodic death metal like old In Flames, Dark Tranquility, Arch Enemy. black metal like emporer, dark funeral. goth/doom like type o negative. thrash-slayer, prog. metal-dream theater, plain metal-pantera, shadows fall.
these are only a handful that i can think of, there are way too many to list here
I just heard this band on the Music Choice metal channel (digital cable) called Six Feet Under, doing the old Scorpions tune "Blackout" with John Bush duetting on vocals... awesome stuff, I loved it... sort of true to the original version, but more choppy and aggressive, with cookie-monster vocal thrown in.
On another note, I see in the PA Musician mag that Jack Starr is looking for a metal vocalist...he's a great old-school metal guitarist who played with Virgin Steele, and did a few solo records with one of my heroes, Rhett Forrester, who was with Riot. If I wasn't an old married fart, I'd move to NYC for that gig!------->JMS
Songsmith,
That would be cool to hear you w/ Jack Starr! Not many singers could even think about following up the work of legends (well... legends in metal circles anyway) like Forrester and David DeFeis (Virgin Steel), but I'm sure you could pull it off. Actually, the rest of Starr's band (at least for his last CD) were semi-local guys. Ned Meloni played bass for him (he played in Monarch from Hagerstown, MD and then much later Funny Money). I think Joe Hasselvander (from Maryland's Pentagram & later Raven) played drums with Starr for a while too.
Metal is just like punk, as far as I'm concerned. It's not all about the sound, it's about the attitude going into the sound. I like all manners of heavy music and there is a fine line between what would be called metal and what would not be called metal, in my eyes.
I just like good music no matter what, if it's metal it's metal.
metal is when your employees die from easily avoidable work related accidents, employee corpses are plugging up the drainage systems, and you have flesh eating parasites in your sewers. Also, its not metal to care about any of that.
Laugh if you want to, really is kinda funny, 'cause the world is a car and you're the crash test dummy.
songsmith wrote:I just heard this band on the Music Choice metal channel (digital cable) called Six Feet Under, doing the old Scorpions tune "Blackout" with John Bush duetting on vocals... awesome stuff, I loved it... sort of true to the original version, but more choppy and aggressive, with cookie-monster vocal thrown in.
On another note, I see in the PA Musician mag that Jack Starr is looking for a metal vocalist...he's a great old-school metal guitarist who played with Virgin Steele, and did a few solo records with one of my heroes, Rhett Forrester, who was with Riot. If I wasn't an old married fart, I'd move to NYC for that gig!------->JMS
Six Feet Under kicks freaking ass! They also have albums (2 I believe) where they purely cover AC/DC... pretty interesting stuff! They also have THE best slow metal groove, the song is Burning Blood off of the album Warpath. Everyone should check it out sometime!
If I ever see an amputee getting hanged... I'm just gonna start yelling out letters...
"Graveyard Classics" was a disc by SixFeetUnder which did include some AC/DC covers as well as others like Scorpions,Sabbath,Maiden,Deep Purple.
"Graveyard Classics Vol.2" was the entire "Back in Black" album, which is so kick ass I might add!!
SFU reminds me so much of AC/DC in the respects of the drum beats and the slow tempo of much of their songs.
Definitely one of my all time fav bands no doubt about it! I have every album by them and that's one band that I do not hesitate to buy their latest album, cause to me they always deliver the brutality.
Metal is... Well,... Metal. I'd rather not waste my time trying to describe it if someone doesn't get it. Dressing in black with spikes and band shirts doesn't make you metal necessarily, and the kid who dresses in poppy, preppy clothes can be the most metal MFer out there. It's a definite case where either you get it, or you don't. The instruments and vocals burn with a certain angst
Something to ponder... If Alice In Chains wasn't from Seattle, would they have been considered grunge?
Oh, and for a quick fact cracking for that chart that made my eyes bug out for a minute... Uhh... Cradle Of Filth isn't even from Norway. I believe they reside in the UK most of the time. As for the rest of it,... Yeah, it's off and overkill on genre stereotype
That list is certainly missing a few of the epic bands, Overkill among them, but it is still a nice little family tree so to speak.
And I urge all of the youngsters out there to research the roots of metal and learn where you came from!
