[Kane]

Hi guys, I'm pretty new here. I don't have any pictures playing my guitar, but I do have a little video clip I made while playing around with my new camera. It works best with a program that you can boost the brightness.

http://grindbomb.com/messaround.MPG

[Dylan7620]

one more from the last show... kinda crappy because its a cell phone pic but it looks cool.

[The Dark Wolf]

Originally Posted by Toshiro

I could go back and quote how all this arguement started based on something AILD's singer said on Uranium in the first place, but it's not worth going over again.

Of course, I get basically flamed for quoting the guy, and calling him a moron for saying what he did. That's my opinion, but anytime someone has a negative opinion they're either a 'hater' or an elitist. I don't post in 90% of the music related threads on Jemsite for this same reason, either you're 'insert random name here', or you should be banned, just for having a negative opinion of something.

I'm not gonna stop posting my opinions, because it's not worth signing on in the first place if I have to nod and smile. :p

I admit this got way out of hand, and some of what I said was harsher than it could have been, but at the same time I'm not the only one at fault here.

Well, I still think you can come across as pretty contentious, and maybe you don't realize it or don't care. Whatever. I just respect the hell out of and admire your no-backing down attitude, even if I disagree with you. Just remember to take it all with a grain of salt. Or in the case of my posts, a ton!

Give 'em hell, Toshiro.

[nyck]

Originally Posted by Kane

Hi guys, I'm pretty new here. I don't have any pictures playing my guitar, but I do have a little video clip I made while playing around with my new camera. It works best with a program that you can boost the brightness.

http://grindbomb.com/messaround.MPG

Dude, that's some incredible chops you got! Your vocals sound soooo similar to the vocalist of Nile. Please don't tell me you're him!

[Kane]

Originally Posted by nyck

Dude, that's some incredible chops you got! Your vocals sound soooo similar to the vocalist of Nile. Please don't tell me you're him!

Thanks. I'm not sure which Nile vocalist you think I sound like, they have three. I became a Nile fan the first time I listened to them in 2001, and they are proably my favorite band. But my vocals are something I've been working on for many years.

[Drew]

Originally Posted by Toshiro

I'm not gonna stop posting my opinions, because it's not worth signing on in the first place if I have to nod and smile. :p

You don't have to nod and smile, you just have to pay attention to your tone when you disagree. And I'm saying that in general, and not just specifically at you, Toshiro - we like differing opinions here. We don't like differing opinions that are voiced in such a way as to be as irritating as possible to those who don't hold them.

FWIW, there's only two genres I can think of where the subject of whether or not a band is included in the genre commonly becomes a point of contention, punk and metal. Of the two, I think the former makes slightly more sense to me, as punk started off as somewhat of an anti-pop/anti-culture movement, and was an intellectual stance as much as a musical one. Emphasis on "slightly"

HB'er, great link, bro. The inclusion of "Grunge" there threw me for a loop, but I threw "Bleach" in last night after not listening to it for maybe 6 months, and you know, they've got a point - it has a lot more in common with Black Sabbath than it does with most of the remainder of Nirvana's canon. It's very riff based and quite a bit heavier than the rest of their work, particularly stuff like "Paper Cuts" and "Sifting." Nirvana's punk influences were a little more obvious later on, but they were also tuned into some heavier stuff earlier on, it seems.

-D

[Metal Ken]

Originally Posted by Drew

FWIW, there's only two genres I can think of where the subject of whether or not a band is included in the genre commonly becomes a point of contention, punk and metal. Of the two, I think the former makes slightly more sense to me, as punk started off as somewhat of an anti-pop/anti-culture movement, and was an intellectual stance as much as a musical one. Emphasis on "slightly"

HB'er, great link, bro. The inclusion of "Grunge" there threw me for a loop, but I threw "Bleach" in last night after not listening to it for maybe 6 months, and you know, they've got a point - it has a lot more in common with Black Sabbath than it does with most of the remainder of Nirvana's canon. It's very riff based and quite a bit heavier than the rest of their work, particularly stuff like "Paper Cuts" and "Sifting." Nirvana's punk influences were a little more obvious later on, but they were also tuned into some heavier stuff earlier on, it seems.

Drew,
The anticommercial sentiment is and always has been fairly strong with metalheads. some of us are just a bit less vocal about it ;p
Its fricking extreme within the hardcore blackmetal circles, way more anticommercial than punk ever was.
And that link is cool. BNR metal was the site where i look for bands when i need something new, and im not sure what i want. great resource site.

[Drew]

Ahh. Learn something new every day. Like I said, I hung with the punks back in high school - the "jocks" listened to country/top-40 and AC/DC, the rest of the "honors kids" listeed to Alanis Morrisette, and any way, the punk/ska crowd threw way better parties, as crazy as the jocks but with less drunk driving and testostorone-induced violence.

sheerly by the descriptions, I have a feeling I'd love doom metal.

[Metal Ken]

Originally Posted by Drew

Ahh. Learn something new every day. Like I said, I hung with the punks back in high school - the "jocks" listened to country/top-40 and AC/DC, the rest of the "honors kids" listeed to Alanis Morrisette, and any way, the punk/ska crowd threw way better parties, as crazy as the jocks but with less drunk driving and testostorone-induced violence.

sheerly by the descriptions, I have a feeling I'd love doom metal.

Want me to send you some?

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Drew

Ahh. Learn something new every day. Like I said, I hung with the punks back in high school - the "jocks" listened to country/top-40 and AC/DC, the rest of the "honors kids" listeed to Alanis Morrisette, and any way, the punk/ska crowd threw way better parties, as crazy as the jocks but with less drunk driving and testostorone-induced violence.

sheerly by the descriptions, I have a feeling I'd love doom metal.

Hey! I was a jock, and I listened to metal.