[Listening to Avantasia - The Scarecrow album]
I don't consider myself a metalheads. I am more of a music lover, who is more inclined towards Metal. My first discovery of guitar music is in the form of Greenday - Basket Case, Bon Jovi - Always, Gun N Roses - November Rain, and Nirvana - About a Girl. The year was 1994, and I was an awkward 10 years old. Of course before that, I listened to lots of pop music, courtesy of my 2 elder sisters. I owe pop music a lot. It is through this genre that I have come to love music, and although my preferences have changed over the years, there are still some songs that I still dig.
Why the hell am I talking about this? One afternoon, my friend and I went browsing - window shopping. One store played Rick Price's Heaven Knows, an old ballad song which I haven't heard for ages. I remember my sister playing the songs, and I would listen to it. My friend and I started reminiscing all those late 80s and early 90s songs that we dig. It was hillarious. I may have despised the state of pop culture these days, back then, pop has created some timeless tune.
At first, I was skeptical towards Metal. Seriously, my only taste of Metal was Metallica, which I have never fond of. I thought all metal sounds like that. Then again, when you are 12, and spend most of your time in an all-girls hostel, with no access of the music industry and whatnot, there's nothing you can do. I listened to rock music, in the form of Greenday(I kinda get bored now, anyone interested in buying some original cds?), Manic Street Preachers, Streophonics, Terrorvision, Third Eye Blind... When you're in an all girl school, its impossible not to get involved in the whole boy bands crazed. shameful as it, I was one of those teeny boppers! haha.
When I was 16, I changed school, and discovered the outside world (I am exaggerating!). Here I started watching MTV and listening to Nu-metal in the form of (Don't laugh!) Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park (anyone interested in getting original CDs for both bands? haha), Crazy Town, Adema, Dry Cell, Disturbed and Project Wyze. By The time I was 19, I started listening to Punk Rock (Oh yes, believe me), which is short lived! I get bored with it. During the crazed of another nu metal band, Evanescence, I started looking for female fronted metal bands. I discovered a genre, which best described who I am - a mixture of gothic metal and doom death, in the form of (early)Theatre of Tragedy, (early)The Gathering and Tristania. Hence the beginning of my Metal Journey.
See, I am no metalheads. I am just learning. Still in my way of discovering many great bands. I am grateful for the Internet, for providing me informations, and people who keep on recommending albums and bands. As of now, I have discovered many bands. Almost 8GB of metal songs from every metal sub-genre, and still in the process of adding up my collections. I still listen to rock every now and then. I have David Bowie, Manic Street Preachers, The Cure and Stereophonics to entertain me.
Why am I posting this? I get tired of all those scene kids... really I do. Metal has no law. There is no rule, in which it says, you have to dress like this and that, to be metal. Fine, I am a newbie, in this whole metal stuffs, but I definitely know my stuffs, and I probably know more than all those self proclaimed metal heads in the mall! Dress however you want. Black does not mean a thing, well unless, you're a bit in the chubby side (like yours truly), wearing black is better. hehe. Just because someone dresses like your mother (again, like yours truly), does not mean she has no clue about metal and stuffs. Huhu.
666?! what the hell is that. I've met someone who told me she and couple of her friends name themselves the 666 crew or something. She even showed me her mobile phone theme. I almost laughed, but remembering I am at someone's wedding, and look all proper with my baju kurung, tudung and heels, I just smiled sheepishly, or rather sarcastically. I asked her what the hell that was all about, although deep down inside I feel like reciting the beginning of Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast(You know, the spoken bits)-"Let him who have understanding reckoned the number of the beast, for it is a few number, its number is six hundred and sixty six"-. Haha. That would be hillarious if I started doing that. So I started taunting her with my stupid and childish questions, like what kind of bands does she listens to since she's all 666(satanic and all that). I was hoping she's going to say something like Cradle of Filth or Dimmu Burger (I have nothing against these 2 bands - I like couple of CoF songs, but its just every single self proclaimed black metal kids love them. Haha). She just shrugged me off. I didn't give up and started doing the whole 'OMG! Next time I see you guys I would hide somewhere, for you guys are way too scary what with the 666 and all that'. LOL. It was just funny when she brushed me off, and said that she didn't know a thing, it was not her idea with the 666. Ah! I assumed it was the friend's idea. Still I can't help laughing. In the end I decided to go back to my car, kicked off my heels (I hate wearing heels, but I love buying them!), and went home with Kamelot blaring
on my stereo. Ah! bless~~~
embraced your past kids! come on, you didn't came out of your mother's womb listening to Rob Halford doing his signature falsetto scream. haha. Its okay for metalheads not to wear black. haha. Its okay not to like gory stuffs and vampires and ghouls (I have to excuse myself, for I am a huge vampire fans. Blame it on Christopher Pike for making me a vampire fan, at the tender age of 12). No, 666 does not mean a thing. Listening to Black Metal does not make you the world's toughest kid(Okay, I never get Black Metal. Tried Darkthrone, Burzum, As-Sahar. still nada. but I like this one song from Mortuary Drape). Haha. If you want to use corpse paint, do it. just don't parade your gory self infront of me. I wouldn't mind if you're King Diamond singing Return of The Vampire or Abigail, but you obviously are not. No! Dream Theater is not the world's greatest band. Yes, they're good, but, not the greatest! Yeah yeah, you can talk endlessly about John Petrucci, and I still have no idea what you're talking about. I don't play guitar damned it! Haha. No, DragonForce is not the world's fastest guitarists, trust me, Roadrunner (beep beep), could do it better if he could actually play guitar. haha. Just because Arch Enemy has a female growler does not make them anymore cooler than In Flames. Both are just an okay Melodic Death Metal Band. You would need to listen to At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul and Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery. You still can't get over the fact that Michael Kiske is no more in Helloween, and cursed Andi Deris endlessly. You sucks!(The most childish shit a metalhead could do to retaliate back to haters). haha. You think Power Metal is gay, and you're fucking straight just because you listen to bloody Death Metal. Okay, Manowar may be gay with the loin clothes and super horrible pictures, but come on, I would be devastated to know Tobias Sammet is gay, I mean seriously, the guy is worth lusting over. haha. Unless one of the band member is gay *cough*Judas Priest*cough*! haha. Get your fact right! I'd kill anyone who dare come up to me and say Nirvana is metal and Evanescence is Gothic Metal. A Female fronted band does not make the band automatically gothic you dimwits! Within Temptation is symphonic Metal, Nightwish is Power Metal, Flowing Tears is Gothic Metal. You think melodic music is not metal. You think metal needs to be growling and cookie monster screams. Please allow me to drag iron Maiden, Judas Priest and dio to the torture chamber and castrated Ronnie James Dio's balls! hahaha.
Okay, I really need to stop. Do me a favor kids, stop the stupid rule. Be yourself. Enjoy the music as it is. Wear band shirts you love, support your bands. But please the drop the superior and "I'm doing this because everyone else is" attitude. its killing me.
BTW, I bought Dio's Holy Diver dvd for $11. For his age, RJD surely rocked! I'll talk more of the dvd in my next post, along with Kamelot's and maybe Helloween's once I get hold of it...
Labels: Music, Random, rants
