Metal and Minds

Metal, a name so badass even the manliest of men wouldn’t even dare tread on the borderlines of metaldom. Let’s just put it like this, if there is a country named Hell would you even have the guts to step into it? That’s what metal is (sort of), and that’s why a lot of people don’t listen to it.

To elaborate further, I’ll use myself as an example. Years ago, I myself too wouldn’t listen to metal. Why, you may ask? CAUSE IT’S SO FUCKING DANGEROUS!! Metal is like beating a man in his sleep and jerking off on his corpse after that. Well, that part isn’t necessary but it’s there just to help you imagine how badass metal is. Metal itself screams threat and menace. Metal is hard, metal is solid, it’s sometimes gray or black. It just gives you a scary feeling which will make you avoid it. That’s what I did.

What I’m trying to imply is, a lot of people don’t even try to listen to metal cause they think it’s about killing people and masturbation at mosh pits. I remember there was once when Malaysian newspapers were all about black metal fans joining cults and shit. Or something like that. So I decided the best thing to do is generalize the genre as screaming music with no musical sense at all (also about killing dogs for sacrificial purposes). All of this because of the black metal shit. And also fucking Slipknot. Well yeah, they’re not death metal but damn they are one big bunch of ugly motherfuckers with those masks on.

Skip right to early 2008, I started listening to metal thanks to Vincent. I have no idea why I started listening because of him but I know he had something to do with it. At that time, the name Megadeth and Pantera sounded like a very matter of fact metal name so I started with them. Kinda gave me a good impression, Walk is fucking cool with its anthemic riffs.. Symphony of Destruction has a good riff too. Dave Mustaine’s vocals sounded like pigs squealing in butcher factories but it slowly grew on me.

With Megadeth and Pantera out of the way, I dwelled further back into the archives of metal and found out that Megadeth and Pantera are classified as “Trash Metal”. Okay, trash = rubbish so if the worst of metal satisfied my musical taste, so there must be more to metal, right? If you knew me, there was never really a question. I was right, there are more to metal. So I started listening to Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne who are classified as “Heavy Metal”. I was dreadfully disappointed though, cause I thought heavy metal should be more.. uh… ???metaller??? than Megadeth. I swear, the first time I heard Crazy Train I thought it’s fucking country music when the verse came in.

To conclude, after my experience with metal I’ve decided to only hate a band only after I listen to its music. Fuck yeah I don’t expect those Taiwanese pop-loving from my hometown to start headbanging at night markets and shopping malls cause I know some people really don’t like metal even after listening to it. But hey, what IF you will come to like metal? What IF it opens doors to new musical realms you have yet to discover? I know metal did for me, and I’m glad I listened.

Oh yeah by the way, listen to this (there's a neat little solo at the end).
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You see, the thing is I wouldn’t stoop that low and tell you to “Support Local Music.” Rather than that, I’ll tell you, support good music made by talented people. I can’t even remember when was it that I bought an album by a local artist (sure there are some good shit that I've missed out). The last band with a catchy song that I honestly liked is Hujan, what what gelap song. Other than that, Enstranged's Yang Pernah can also qualify as a great modern rock track. Oh yeah, one band that can definitely top them is Ocean of Fire (but that’s just because I listen to alotta instrumental guitar shit). Nice guitar work, but nothing TOO technical. What I really liked about the album is the songwriting, nicely composed melody all around.

With all that said, let’s get straight to the point. BUY THIS SHIT cause I ALREADY DID.