I love this song: Queens Of The Stone Age - No One Knows

I know the song well, but I had not seen the video.............


I didn't realize Groel was drumming with them............

zungle

Nice bit of early Def Leppard, before they completely sold out  - Overture

I used to listen to a bit of Def Leppard  Prior to Pyromania...........after that I tuned 'em out.


"On Through the Night" and "High and Dry"

 
On Through The Night is a great album for sure.
 
I saw Def Leppard back in 1980 at the Reading Festival, and there was much talk then of them selling out to the American market instead of staying true to their New Wave Of British Heavy Metal roots. I do remember they were pelted on stage with a barrage of beer cans - most were empty, but a few had been used as er...... portable urinals first!
 
They were good though, you could tell then that they were going to be massive.
 
 

zungle

This morning - Nescafè Gold instand "coffee" and Fear Factory

ProjectM,


This particular video and song are a great example of beauty,art and musicianship.


For me or you and likely most posting in this thread they see and hear it all to clearly..............it may not be their cup of tea but they know whats going on.


Yet to some they are blind to it  or confused, many dismiss it with the standard terms like ...........


No soul,No melody , to much  distortion with power chords,lack of vocal range etc.................


They don't hear the tight alternate picking,the economy picking,  the expansive use of modes , the string skipping, arpeggios.

The down tuning's and alternate tuning's

The tight kick with the bass.

The overall dexterity on the instruments and vocals..................

You know how hard it is to sing that powerful for one song  let alone an entire set?



Rant over.................

I loved it.

Good points Zungle! Fear Factory is one of my all time favorites as well. It all started with this video - Replica. When I first saw it I was lying awake in bed at night for weeks waiting for the album to come out. This was the point where I learned that metal is one of the most expressive genres of all times, full of stories and message, excellent musicianship and where a song as a whole clearly is more important than any single cool riff or motif. I was already fan of Sepultura, Obituary, Pantera etc but Fear Factory made me listen to it in a totally different way. Then Machine Head came out with Davidian and the world started moving forward for me.  I recognise this excelence in a lot of other types of music but for anyone dismissing metal as some loud noisy rubbish, I ask what they listen to and it's usually something containing a beat, some boobs and very little else. However, anyone is alowed to not like metal - by all means - but there's definitely talent to be appreciated there.
 
Of course, a lot of metal is just some simple trendy crap too and there's definitely a trend thing happening these days. And I don't like it too much. Over here, metal heads are very totalitarian. You have the entire "Real" vs "Fake" black metal debate going on for example. IMO good music is great music nomatter what but to me, metal have more to offer in terms of all the things you mentioned.
 
Which brings me to todays morning entertainment:A very hated effort from Napalm Death - which I couldn't stop listening to back in the days, followed by In Flames' very excellent offering from the Whoracle album and breakfast ended with Roswell 47 by Hypocrisy - the 1997 version which tought me that if you see no limits in production, vocals can be larger than life.
 
And I drank tea... I ran out of coffee....

Good Late Morning.............


From Shadows Fall...................Destroyer of Senses....................Killer track,check it out!!!!!







http://youtu.be/AbSRPn0BJsU

Great song: UFO - Love To Love

Arabica, 100% strong and short, and some Orphaned Land - the best Israeli metal band, awesome! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUi1yf97paw

SteveStrummerUK


This morning consisted of a large mug or three of Carte Noir and a juicy metally slice of: Bob Oister - Hearts On Fire
 
 
(And the other 11 tracks!!)
 
 

Definitely this!!!!

My intro to Savatage, Jon Oliva and T.S.O...........

I saw them on this tour at the "FarSide" in North Seattle, the best live show I have ever experienced.............


Hall of the Mt. King...............




http://youtu.be/jAukGWuVyEo

Litmus - Lost Stations And Tim Horton's coffee....

Sounds very much late 60's................


Was it done 2009 or is that just part of the title?


This definitively sounds like something some of the other C.H. folks would like.


Its a bit catchy

Can't drink coffee anymore though. Are tea drinkers allowed?

Can't drink coffee anymore though. Are tea drinkers allowed? No..................

Ha, just kidding...............




  Post something aggressive,distorted,with some screams,double bass and overly compressed and your in........

And I may or may not have been personally responsible for many bloody moshpits from the vantage point of the stage or otherwise in my day. ;-)

These days? Perhaps more like a Bill without a pecker... but I digress.

I know some peckerless metalheads that would instill fear in the hearts of even the most hardcore dudes. Plus I like girls who dress in black and punch people.

2 teaspoons of Arabica, water and nothing else.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxE5-Duhpnc