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[dronestate]

I've been on another metal kick as of late. I was on a metal kick with everyone else a little less than a year ago, back when it was officially cool to like metal in a non-ironic way. You know, when The Sword released their album and people were excited about 6/6/06? Back then. But I'm on another one and I feel like I'm the only one. Which is fine

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[throgmorten]

Good (or shall I say real) metal comes from Norway, and other such Scandinavian countries. Ya know, those sorts of places where there is nothing better to do than get banned from the US for burning churches or entire countries for attempting to film a music video that reenacts a crucification in the country the current Pope was from.

And, I never realized metal had a "cool" phase. Most all of my friends are die hard metal fans. They always have been and always will be. Liking metal because it's cool just simply isn't metal.

[dronestate]

Well modern "black" metal maybe, but that's not really what I'm talking about. The metal I am talking about is the stuff that was relevant back in the late 70's and throughout 80's. For me, after '89 metal stopped being relevant and became the stuff of parody. Like Ozzy Osbourne on TV and Alice Cooper doing Insurance commercials. But again, that's just the metal I'm talking about. I'm not trying to say that the stuff your friends like is good or bad or irrelevant for that matter.

And the cool phase I was taking about had to do with that "80's" brand of metal, not so much the stuff that's going on in the Scandinavian countries right now. And perhaps cool isn't the proper word, but it had like more of a resurgence because all of a sudden people stopped trying to sound like demons and started trying to sound like banshees again. People were posting old metal videos in blogs and talking about old metal again. It just came back and went away. It's a good thing really.

That Saxon video is a good example of what I'm talking about.

[bloodonthesnow]

i watched it three times in a row. i'm stealing it.