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Do we have many heavy metal fans on After Hours?

Links234

I'm curious, how many of the AH regular crowd like a bit of metal? And what styles/bands do you prefer? If you're listening to metal right now, what is it?

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Links234

For fans of the slow and heavy stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYHb42yTIqo

McChubbin

Magaggie wrote: »

Big Spinal Tap fan me.

Haven't seen that in years! Personally, my big go-to movie(s) for metal/rock-based comedy happens to be Wayne's World.
A little Bohemian Rhapsody, anyone? :pac:

Links234

McChubbin wrote: »

A little Bohemian Rhapsody, anyone? :pac:

Bad News perfected it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wM58YXp2x0

keith16

Opeth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oWhkjQWE24

Welsh Megaman

Warrant, Winger, Nelson, Trixter, White Lion, Poison...

You BET I'm a heavy metal fan!!

McChubbin

Links234 wrote: »

Bad News perfected it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wM58YXp2x0

That was ****ing woeful. Truly. :eek:

On the subject of rock-themed movies, anyone here ever see Airheads? I have vague memories of being strangely attracted to Steve Buscemi's glorious main of hair...

Links234

I haven't seen Airheads in years, only kinda bits of it when I was a kid. must try see it again properly

demanufactured

Yes

McChubbin

:pac: :pac: :pac:

Links234

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydHMU05BknE

Say Your Number

No mention of Dio yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZrsAWGZTW8

Filmer Paradise

I wonder sometimes, how many people who wore Motorhead T-shirts back in the '80s actually bought any of their records.

Not many, I'd guess.

McChubbin

Don't forget Ozzy!

beano345

This thread has me listening to old classics again,as much of a loose cannon that Dave mustaine was he's a genius with a guitar,had this album cover as a back patch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbgzSVzE8l4

McChubbin

Me right now. :pac:
This thread is not good for my hard-drive- I've barely got 85GB left! :eek:

Pinch Flat

Retired from the mosh pit many moons ago. And my stage diving days are over. Buy yeah - partial to the odd bit of metal in my old age.

McChubbin

Not the biggest Maiden fan but I quite enjoy this one:

EDIT: This popped up on my FB feed just now. Looks intriguing...:pac:

Los Lobos

Was at Soulfly last friday in whelans, listenin to coal chamber earlier then the prodigy and now die antwoord, bit of everthing here

McChubbin

Soulfly? Jaysus, there's a name I haven't heard in quite a while. Reminds me of when my brother was a dreadlocked metal-head who looked like yer wan out of Rage Against The Machine and he used to blast Slayer, Sepultura and Pantera tracks through the house much to everyone else's annoyance. Fun times.
My brother was the one who got me into metal in the first place- he stuck on KoRn's "Issues", I heard "Blind" and I instantly GOT it.
He also got me into anime by way of Akira but that's a story for a different thread.
Really loving how all this talk of bands and music is bringing back fond memories of growing up listening to metal in the mid-to-late 90s during the rise of nu-metal. Simpler times.

DazMarz

Not much mention of the uber-80's cliché: Glam Metal.

This is the music I love. It's my "go-to" music. It's just insanely fun. It's catchy as hell. It gets a lot of bad press from a lot of quarters due to being silly, overblown and "wuss-metal".

Fair enough on the "wuss-metal" charge; this kind of heavy metal was insanely commercial. It was not as heavy as other heavy metal out there at the time. It was not as "metal" as some liked. But Glam Metal paved the way for heavy metal becoming one of the most popular musical genres in the world. Metal was suddenly sexy and popular.

On the other charges (being silly and overblown), however, that's a moot argument. Isn't all heavy metal inherently overblown and silly? Even the most seemingly un-silly metal bands actually are, if you dissect them down a bit more.

This much maligned genre of heavy metal has given us some of the biggest legends of heavy metal, and some of the more (in)famous moments of heavy metal history. Bands like Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, Guns N Roses, Whitesnake, Def Leppard, Ratt, Dokken, Twisted Sister, Europe, WASP, White Lion, etc. all came from the glam school. Sometimes, it can be argued that they weren't, but for the most part, they were. Even bands like Van Halen and Judas Priest succumbed to the glam bandwagon and tarted their image up in the mid-80's in order to capitalise.

Also, glam metal is home to some of the greatest so-called "guilty pleasure" songs that people love. Think:

'The Final Countdown'
'Livin On A Prayer'
'You Give Love A Bad Name'
'Pour Some Sugar On Me'
'Home Sweet Home'
'Is This Love'
'Here I Go Again'
'I Wanna Rock'
'We're Not Gonna Take It'

and so on.

It has not been mentioned much, some people think it's silly and undeserving... but glam metal/hair metal/whatever is as much a piece of the intricate history of heavy metal as thrash, nu-metal, grunge or black metal. In fact, it was the era of glam metal that brought heavy metal fully onto the public consciousness and contributed hugely to the status that heavy metal enjoys today. Even for people who hated it, it spurred them on. Bands like Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer (even though they, in their early days, wore makeup!), etc. were all formed as a metallic response to the glam bands, in order to give metal legitimacy again (in their own eyes anyway).

Fair enough, it DID become awfully predictable and formulaic towards the tail end of the 1980's and the music had become stale. The glam bands based their successes upon teenage girl fans. Winds of change (both societal and hormonal) meant they were building a house of straw. Underground bands (grunge bands) had built incredibly strong grassroots fan bases by the late-80's/early-90's. It was only a matter of time before one or more of them broke big.

There was never a genre in the history of music like glam metal; it was so huge, so popular, sold so much, had so many fans... and then *POOF*. Overnight, it was gone. It was staggering. It evaporated from the airwaves and the public consciousness in an instant. It was like a mirage. Very few glam bands survived the onslaught intact. Arguably only Bon Jovi weathered the storm, being perennially popular for the last 20-odd years or so, regardless.

Despite its meteoric rise, and ignominious fall, glam metal is forever engrained upon the psyche, as a stereotypical piece of the 1980's.

Despite all its flaws, it was actually brilliant and I think it's time to give Slippery When Wet a blast!

Dyr

McChubbin wrote: »

Not the biggest Maiden fan but I quite enjoy this one:

EDIT: This popped up on my FB feed just now. Looks intriguing...:pac:

Never really cared for that track as a kid,

I have a weird compulsion to play the title track offa powerslave a lot these days though

Most of the stuff in this thread makes me want to vomit, all that poxy sugarcoated gothic cabaret metal. Its come to a sad pass when someone calls that metal. Marilyn mansauce has a lot to answer for, de bollix.

Cetlic frost had all that nonesense beat back in the 80s while worshipping bryan ferry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfRgu2UStHo

e_e

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRHeyYanEok

Drone/Doom Metal FTW!

Shakespeare's Sister

DazMarz, there's nowt wrong at all with some Def Leppard and Whitesnake tracks.

DazMarz

Magaggie wrote: »

DazMarz, there's nowt wrong at all with some Def Leppard and Whitesnake tracks.

Seeing as they're my two favourite bands... I would be inclined to agree with you!

I love glam metal, btw. :cool:

Mental Mickey

*raises hand* Yup!!! I am!

rainbow kirby

Awful lack of Dream Theater in this thread. :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4ids4rOegI

I prefer prog, power, folk and symphonic metal (have a serious preference for clean vocals), but will listen to just about anything.

e_e

calanus wrote: »

Also, just been listening to a bit of this.

Yes! The Mantle is one of my favorite albums of all time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obDFoRNv_U4

Also the last 4 minutes of this are just immense:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5ZA2x1CH-8

Say Your Number

Can't beat a bit of pirate metal either

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYd91Efvbeo

Dyr

Thread needs suicidal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoF_a0-7xVQ

Herb Powell

Some of my absolute favourite metal bands are from Ireland, and I think deserve a bit more attention. Ye probably know already, but for those who don't........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwkz10_D30Q

I'll Eat Your Face, from Cork, were a duo who invented their own genre, SUPERGRIND. The song names still make me laugh. Extremely catchy riffs with massive groove and rhythms hopping all over the place. They could do it all live too! So disappointed when they broke up, definitely in my top-10 bands, of any genre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok454hznwoc

Altar of Plagues, also from Cork, and also dead, often called black metal. I dunno what to call them tbh, after they released their last album. Again, a very original sound. Just fantastic music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iem9uIBaOCg

Slomatics, very much still on the go, from Belfast. Spacey doom, for the listner who likes his ceol slow, loud, and heavy. Wonderful stuff altogether.