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Band name: VADER.

Country: POLAND.

Genre: Pure DEATH METAL, with some 'Thrash Metal' influence.

Though I consider them to be pioneers of Polish Death Metal genre, and the best DM band to spawn out of Poland. Because Polish DM sound differs from the original DM notes, and old school Death Metal from Tampa, Florida.

Lyrics mainly focus on these topics, "War, darkness, Necronomicon, Magic, Humanity, and Dark art." The older circa albums are far better than the new ones.

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DUTCH underground BLACK Metal band ! From Netherlands. It's more of a RAW and MELODIC black metal genre, but with originality.

Within the Netherlands' underground extreme black metal scene, Cirith Gorgor were one of the most respected bands.

To some extent they can be seen as the Dutch equivalent to "Marduk" (Sweden), though Cirith Gorgor sticks to a more old-school (meaning: 1990s) sound and style.

Every album takes you back to that time when bands like Marduk and, for example, ''Thy Primordial (Sweden)'' unleashed their instantly recognizable, "ready for war" brand of music upon the world.

Band's name: Cirith Gorgor. I know these guys personally. They are still playing local gigs around town/home.


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Colif said:
Don't they know they meant to look angry, none of this smiling stuff. Look at all your other photos, a lot of them look the same... easy to work out right way to look :)
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Lol. Yes, I know what you are trying to say. These guys are different btw.

But on some other related point, this band actually ignored the "stereotypical" image/looks that other metal bands had.

That was one of the recent pics, but back in the early days when the band was formed and was young/active, they did had some of the early Black Metal looks, but mostly ignored the trend afterwards. There are more similar photos of the band !

Even their lyrics were different, focusing on clean/creative topics like Mythology, War stories, History/culture etc., unlike other Black metal bands who embraced that same stereotypical darker aspect/side of black metal, which to be honest was total nonsense and profane at the same time.

In my opinion, any band doesn't have to follow the trend to blend in with the crowd, and/or genre, and they can still deliver the message through their music, if they have talent and dedication. Those who chose to follow lack some originality IMO !


Anyway, it seems this guy just got 'angry' after reading our comments ! 😆

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I am sure there are other bands that don't go with the cliche looks.

Anthrax is about only one that wasn't as serious in the 1980's - obvious from some of the songs I have heard too many times.
been waiting for new Album for 4 years, they keep touring instead. Now I know one of them is playing with another band now, just touring though. So I sit waiting...

40 years ago this would have been a show to see

ANTHRAX, KREATOR and TESTAMENT announce fall 2024 European tour – Arrow Lords of Metal

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Band Name: Dawn Of Relic.

I absolutely like this band's Music. Pure "epic and atmospheric" Melodic Black METAL from Finland.

And their "One Night in Carcosa" album is just pure classic ! Lyrics basically deal with "H.P. Lovecraft, Finnish poetry, introspection, and soul-searching" themes.

If anywhere in the world is known for its quality of metal its 'Scandinavia'. And if anywhere in Scandinavia is known for melodic metal, its Finland. Finland proved it with "Dawn of Relic". Too bad but this band got highly overlooked in the underground metal circle !

But there's not a lot of bands I would compare this group to, anyway. Hidden gem of a talented group !


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Metal Messiah. said:
Glam Rock/Metal band W.A.S.P.
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As someone who was there and lived it the Glam bands were all in the early 70s .

I will own that we had our updated version of bands with makeup and long hair when we hit heavy metal but glam was dead by the 80's

The link was a typical glam band

www.toppermost.co.uk

The Glitter Band - Toppermost

Playing hard-stomping glam rock with singalong choruses as well as more straightforward romantic pop, the Glitter Band were named for their association with glam idol Gary Glitter. The band originally came together in 1972, following Glitter's own breakthrough with the hit "Rock and Roll"…
www.toppermost.co.uk

Anyway great song from W.A.S.P
 
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I'm pretty sure there isn't a soul living on this planet earth who doesn't know this pop artist, MJ ! Even though some may have never even listened to his songs/albums, but at least everyone knows him. He was/is THAT popular.


What is SLASH of Guns N' Roses fame doing with MJ here, btw ?:laughing::innocent:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ7qXHjxj_0
 
Metal Messiah. said:
I'm pretty sure there isn't a soul living on this planet earth who doesn't know this pop artist, MJ ! Even though some may have never even listened to his songs/albums, but at least everyone knows him. He was/is THAT popular.


What is SLASH of Guns N' Roses fame doing with MJ here, btw ?:laughing::innocent:

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Slash is like Lemmy. He can be in any damn music video he likes.


The boring answer is that Michael loved to collaborate with talented artists and Slash was arguably the best guitarist (that people knew existed 😀) at that time. In fact, as legendray as Michael Jackson is, at that time Slash was the more popular of the two.
Really, Michael was chasing "cool" and trying to stay relevant. Having Slash and his Gibson in your video was the ultimate peak in the early 90s.


I remember a few years after this, MJ reinvented himself and it was... bad. It didn't work and it was the beginning of the end for him.
After that his career became a series of blunders, scandals and him becoming less and less of a human being. Nothing at all to do with music. He still had the touch, but he didn't put much out.

In a way it's sad about these celebrities that their fame literally prevents them from being human beings after some point.
MJ and Hulk Hogan come to mind as prime examples.

Cobain shot himself, Axl went weird, Slash kinda shut fame out though he was an alcoholic for a long time. I think JayZ would still ride the subway, just trying to be normal. Tyson threw it all away but seems to have gotten it together later in life. Maybe he's still in the ring though.
His Purpleness was worn out by the end but he was still reasonably sane. He never was too sane to begin with though 😀

For many others fame brought such excesses that robbed them more and more of family and friends, and with that of normality.
Michael had everybody beat at this though. He was more of a workaholic, waaaaay more neurotic and unstable, unbelievably popular and marketable, and once he was rich enough there was no going back. He could be anything except normal.

Hype had the last laugh on him because his music isn't really that good to earn him such a level of notoriety.
It's good and the best is extremly good but is it worth THAT much insanity?
Jackson also had some duds and thuds, and some very mundane stuff. The more the general public got bored of him, the weirder his excesses and the harder the hype. His remaining fans turned increasingly rabid but for most everybody else, they just moved on. And away from the clown.

When he was on point though, he was maybe the greatest entertainer. Went farther than anyone else, in more ways than one.
 
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impulse bought a pair of HD600 as they were $230 off. I had been wanting to try them out anyway.
My DAP needs most of its power to run them. My dongle dac seems to run them better. I will buy a better answer later.

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I already had the PXC550, I had watched reviews for the HD600 and everyone got a bigger box so I was expecting it... nope, just a cardboard box

open back, i don't even need to wear them to hear them.


I saw them 3 times, they were cool.
 
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