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Furiosity Killed the Alternative Band

As I ride the train into Chicago I am listening to my mp3 player on shuffle. So far bands such as biohazard, hatebreed, and job for a cowboy have permeated through my ear drums while I read what may be the most asinine music magazine ever - Paiste. This magazine exemplifies a music/lifestyle genre of the worst kind, something - call hippie/indie/faggy/scruffy haired pussy rock. The only reason I'm reading this magazine is because it comes to my house monthly free of charge; there's no way in hell I'd pay a penny for this magazine. Every month I stare at the cover at the likes of Elvis Costello, wilco, and a bunch of other so called musicians and artists and ponder how many wigs could be made and given to cancer patients if this magazine's target audience would get a haircut, shave of their dreads, get rid of the chin beard, etc. The type of music popularized by these people is the bane of my existence. I am moved to tears as I think of the great 40-year old virgin quote "know how I know you're gay? You like coldplay." My mind is racing as I picture some femme wanna be jack Johnson complete with long hair protruding from a ski cap, jeans with a hole in the knee, woven bracelets on both wrists, and a t-shirt from some microbrewery in Portland playing his acoustic guitar and singing a lame song in front of 20 or some of his closest naturalist friends at a bonfire. Now I'm starting to get really pissed - I hate the whole existence of these people. The people need a dose of morbid angel to wake them the hell up.

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Who are the forefathers of metal as we know it today? To answer this question one must ponder what true metal really is? VH1 wants you to believe that bands such as Led Zeppelin and Aerosmith paved the way for today's metal gods with their "oooh" and "ahhh" lyrics and undistorted sound. If a band is inpired by the likes of Aerosmith, should they really be considered part of the metal genre, no matter how far it continues to expand? Do metal bands really play at the MTV music awards? Do true metal bands really wrap scarves around their mic-stand? To me metal is defined by bone-chilling, heart-wrenching, pulse intensifying guitar riffs in standard or drop tuning combined with throaty, screaming lyrics and growls about death, dishonor, payback, retribution, war, religion, and the like, not about girls and love - unless of course we are referring to certain songs by Cannibal Corpse and Pantera. To the first-time and experienced listener alike, true metal (including underground, black metal, pagan metal, dark metal, death metal, extreme metal, gothic metal, grindcore, hardcore, heavy metal, metalcore, sludge metal, speed/thrash metal, viking metal, and the like) should conjure "a new level of confidence and power", not something that I have experienced while listening to Stone Sour. Metal should make you want to reach out and decapitate someone.

 

In my mind, the forefathers of Metal (bands formed pre-1990) are:

 

BLACK SABBATH

SLAYER

CANNIBAL CORPSE

IRON MAIDEN

JUDAS PRIEST

 

 

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