I appear to have grown tired of metal

[Afghan Dave]

I agree with everything Jon has said.

To add.. If you want to taste the Harder side of the genre start with the following master pieces.

WASP - Headless Children

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGhpoLF8nj0&feature=related

Skid Row - Slave to the Grind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAb3lovDp2c

Both are the bands at the top of their game, melodic and HEAVY! \m/

Plus Lynch Mob - Wicked Sensation... The master:

http://youtu.be/5-QHZzWRp0o

Danger Danger - Beat The Bullet (LIVE)

Awesome Andy Timmons !!!

http://youtu.be/Cvc5pHMSewk

[juansolo]

Queensryche - rage for order, opeeration mindcrime, Empire , promised land

Oh man you can't leave Warning out. Awesome album! Rightly though, everything since Promised Land is patchy at best.

[Toe-Knee]

It's been happening for quite a while now. I feel i've exhausted all the good stuff and the newer metal really doesn't appeal to me at all it seems very childish/nu metal like.

As always (:lol:) I am forced to respond that there's vast amounts of great new metal if you want to look for it. If you don't that's fair enough, but it's there if you have the impulse. Most of the good stuff is far more grown up than that of the 80's and 90's, too :lol:

Oh no ive looked for it. It just generally isn't what i like. Metalwise i generally just listen to thrash and power metal and all the more modern bands doing this just really dont do it for me.

The sooner power metal rots and dies the better and I've little time for many of the bigger new thrash bands but no love for folks like Toxic Holocaust, Skeletonwitch, Municipal Waste, Pitiful Reign, Amok, SSS, Mutant, Bludvera, Nebukadnezza, Hospital Of Death, Ravens Creed, Warpath, Flayed Discciple, Nuclear, Warbringer?

Some of those are pretty small and it's stuff off the top of my head but I'd like to hope there's something for a fan of pretty much any brand of thrash, from the just-off-NWOBHM to the Possessed-ish.

I know of most of those. Especially Pitiful Reign & HOD great guys that are a good laugh in both bands. I think i'm just outgrowing all the heaviness in general. I must be getting old! Either that or its because of the strat...

[Philly Q]

They make Manowar look straight!

Nothing could make Manowar look straight.....


Anyway....



WINGER!!!



(Good list, Jonathan!  :D )

[Shag101]

seems very childish
Steel Panther

seems very childish and steel panther in same sentence.  arnt they the definition of childish...lol.....with songs like Girl From Oklahoma....i think so.....

if your not into metal.....you are not my friend.....heavy metal....or no metal at all.......(manowar) :lol:

if you want really give metal a rest...then try these folk bands.....yes i said folk......i find it great for relaxing and drinking....

good intro and not too "folky" is
The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
Langhorne Slim - Be Set Free

[AndyR]

Yeah, I was wondering about stepping right off the path as well, and going for something completely different like folk.

The reason I didn't post earlier is because I would have said "blues" - and I can't remember whether you're one of the guys where "blues" turns you off.

But definitely consider going right off the path of metal/rock - or go further back into the early-mid 70s with it, anything to change the scenery.

I've found in the past that if you do go looking elsewhere, find something to connect with and get into another type of music as well, you'll soon be enjoying your usual stuff again. Music, especially if you make it yourself, is like a journey. If you keep going on the same journey over and over and over, never going anywhere else, it can lose its appeal. If instead you leave it for a while and go somewhere else, when you come back to it, you'll love it for a whole load of different reasons.

[Toe-Knee]

seems very childish
Steel Panther

seems very childish and steel panther in same sentence.  arnt they the definition of childish...lol.....with songs like Girl From Oklahoma....i think so.....

if your not into metal.....you are not my friend.....heavy metal....or no metal at all.......(manowar) :lol:

if you want really give metal a rest...then try these folk bands.....yes i said folk......i find it great for relaxing and drinking....

good intro and not too "folky" is
The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
Langhorne Slim - Be Set Free

Steel panther for me is a transitional band as such.

I think one of the biggest things i've got sick of is all the chest beating that goes on. Theres this overly macho image that goes with the whole metal scene that just seems so false.

Especially the local metal scene. It's as if everyone thinks they have something to prove

[Toe-Knee]

Yeah, I was wondering about stepping right off the path as well, and going for something completely different like folk.

The reason I didn't post earlier is because I would have said "blues" - and I can't remember whether you're one of the guys where "blues" turns you off.

But definitely consider going right off the path of metal/rock - or go further back into the early-mid 70s with it, anything to change the scenery.

I've found in the past that if you do go looking elsewhere, find something to connect with and get into another type of music as well, you'll soon be enjoying your usual stuff again. Music, especially if you make it yourself, is like a journey. If you keep going on the same journey over and over and over, never going anywhere else, it can lose its appeal. If instead you leave it for a while and go somewhere else, when you come back to it, you'll love it for a whole load of different reasons.

Very well said. a change of scenery is exactly what im looking for.

[dave_mc]

Anyway....



WINGER!!!



(Good list, Jonathan!  :D )

+1

[Philly Q]

Please avoid using hair metal as a term - it is viewed as a pejorative term by those actually into the music of the era
We know what you mean by it but it's a bit like using the equivalent of the "N word" if you know what I mean.

Really?  :?

I've never heard that said before, and I was into the music - although I was always into other stuff as well.

And it must be said that - unlike some! - I never actually embraced the glam metal lifestyle or image.... 

[FELINEGUITARS]

seems very childish
Steel Panther

seems very childish and steel panther in same sentence.  arnt they the definition of childish...lol.....with songs like Girl From Oklahoma....i think so.....

if your not into metal.....you are not my friend.....heavy metal....or no metal at all.......(manowar) :lol:

Steel panther for me is a transitional band as such.

I think one of the biggest things i've got sick of is all the chest beating that goes on. Theres this overly macho image that goes with the whole metal scene that just seems so false.

Especially the local metal scene. It's as if everyone thinks they have something to prove

Steel Panther ....childish?!! :P
Yeah I suppose they may be....although having a sense of humour and not taking myself ( & my 80s glam rock persona) too seriously I revel in the tongue in cheek  self mockery of it all.
It's about having fun surely and they certainly do that , as do their audience.
Goodness knows I feel like a bit of escapism from the drudge of day to day life.
I also know when a band rocks like a bar-steward, and Steel Panther do that - both on record and live.
Superb playing !


I used to be a bit tribal over music when I was younger
I was so invested in the bands I liked I kind of resented thrash and later grunge and Nu-metal  when it came along.
But as I got a bit older I saw the folly of that and found myself realising that I was missing out on some good music  by being blinkered.
There is a lot of thrash that I like and certainly lots of the better grunge like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden etc.

I find now that if I like something, I like it - doesn't matter what genre it falls into.
It may be just the one track by an artist rather than their entire albums  etc
If I like a melody or a riff or vocal style then I like it.

Really liking the System of a Down stuff that my workmate plays on the workshop stereo of late.
Loving the new Accept album - really freaking amazing!
Looking forward to seeing Night Ranger, Y&T, Judas Priest, MSG, Europe etc later in the year.
Also enjoy the old school soul and R&B/Motown stuff my girlfriend likes.

Music should move you, and I find that some bands sadly only do "ANGRY" as an emotion, and sometimes I want to listen to bands that make me feel happy or like dancing - so variety comes in handy.

[FELINEGUITARS]

Please avoid using hair metal as a term - it is viewed as a pejorative term by those actually into the music of the era
We know what you mean by it but it's a bit like using the equivalent of the "N word" if you know what I mean.

Really?  :?

I've never heard that said before, and I was into the music - although I was always into other stuff as well.

And it must be said that - unlike some! - I never actually embraced the glam metal lifestyle or image.... 

Yeah I get tired of people referring to "hair metal" in a sneering way - overlooking the awesome musicianship that was on display and only seeing the presentation aspect.
Okay the N-word reference was maybe a bit strong on my part, but it's a negative dismissive term usually

I also get pissed off when guys say I like Whitesnake (or whoever) in a "post-modern ironic kind of way", like they have to feel shamefaced about it.
It's just music, some of it had pathos, some was rude and much was tongue in cheek, and some was silly (but fun)

It's almost like a feminist agenda got it all seen as misogynistic drivel that must be stamped out, and that to now admit you like the tunes you have to apologise for it.

It's just music - if you like it , then enjoy it.

I don't see fans of gangsta rap apologising for the content of their favourite artists (or death metal for that matter)

[Afghan Dave]

I have never and will never be ashamed.

If anything I'm listening to the music and living the lifestyle MORE these days than when I was younger.. I don't have the perm anymore but have much more casual sex..  PDT_003

Though after last bankholiday weekend of drinking, fighting and shagging - I've been stuck crippled in bed with a compressed disk, I'm too old for this sh1t.. (I did get back to my own bed before the booze wore off).

 PDT_001

[tomjackson]

compressed disk?

Have you tried WinZip? 

[Afghan Dave]

Ha, ha... I don't think that would work as I'm certain my disk is corrupted (just like the rest of me)