Metal Reviews

So, when was the time in your life when you said to yourself: "I can't listen to this kind of music anymore!" Or you had grown tired or needed a change or simply got bored of it. How long did it last? Did you ever contemplate selling your whole Metal collection and starting over with another genre, another world. Were you always akin to the "Metal lifestyle" or were you just someone who loved heavy music? The question remains. Will you love Metal for the rest of your life? Will you be listening to heavy music 5 years down the road? How about 20 years? What do you think your taste will evolve into? What might be next for you to discover?


Or is it really true... is METAL music the greatest music on the face of the earth and purely infinite passion of diversities at play?

I must have been around 16/17 (almost 25 years ago!) when I felt the urge to stray away from metal while still keeping an eye on it. I just needed more than what metal, in all its diversity, could provide. I still love metal but it's just a tiny part of the music I play.

No, never given up on metal. I've only gotten more loyal. I have abandoned and have no more interest in most of the metal subgenres. Remember when I first joined the site and had a few black metal albums I was still talking about?

Interesting topic for the monomaniacs most of us are.

Five years ago, I was 25 and was with this girl who had little love for metal music. I was very, very busy a the time and had basically no time for music listening activities, so I spent a few months without listening to anything. I sincerely hope it won't happen again, ever.
Anyway. Metal seemed far away at the time and, with the GF, hitting 25 and all, I thought about moving on and stopping listening to it. It thankfully didn't last long (it took me a few more weeks to understand I can listen to what I effing want), I'm now 30 and more in love with loud music than ever. Difference is, I now like more kinds of music.

As for metal outfits and all, it never was my cup of tea. Aside from band T-shirts, for the gigs.
And finally, I don't know how long I'll be into metal. All I know is it's been 16 years now and my flame is still burning like a thousand suns. I like saying it will last till the day I die, but we'll have to see about that.

I had the whole attire when I was thirteen... and then realised how silly and pointless it was. Music loving (metal or else) is not about how you look, it's about what it does for you "inside" and whether you're naked, wearing a tux or a drag outfit shouldn't matter. I know it doesn't for me (not that I ever wore a drag outfit, mind!).

I don't think I'll ever give up metal. I've found other styles of music that I love for the same reasons, but metal's still cool.

I was only part of the metal "lifestyle" steadily for about a year, but it was cool. Lots of dudes - usually socially awkward, or drunk - in black leather and military surplus playing loud music and flailing violently wherever there's a place to do it. Dingy clubs, karaoke bars, dull community center gyms, peoples' basements. Even in a forest, once. Good times.

There was a transition that I didn't listen to metal with the exception of bits and pieces here and there for about 6-7 years because grunge really killed my interest in music period.

Then I heard in 2001,Stratovarius's song Hunting High And Low off of their Infinite album which sparked a renew interest and me going back to buying and listening to metal.

Woah. SERIOUS signature material here.

I realised I couldn't get into Black Metal or brutal Death Metal so offloaded most of it.

Never given up on Thrash, Power, NWOBHM, Melodic DM, Symphonic Gothic pseudo-BM ( COF ) and early Death.

u better not bes makin fun of me english

Man no, I wouldn't. I was referring to Hunting High and Low, renewing interest in metal. I've always thought that song was horrid to say the least. But that's easily the most listened to Stratovarius song on Youtube so, who cares what I think.

"Hun-tin' Ha-y and Looow!" Oh boy.

I have yet to experience anything like this and hope I never do.

Yeah seriously. I think if you're tastes are diverse enough you never really get the urge to leave it entirely. We'll see, though, I'm still young.

I think when I got really into maudlin of the Well, I started thinking I wouldn't be able to appreciate straightforward metal anymore. (Or any rock/pop music that didn't blend ideas the way they do.) That only lasted about a week though.

I became a pothead for a year and didn't care about metal at age 18. I also started playing basketball obessive compulsively during that time and didn't feel like listening to metal. Then I went completely insane manic when I was 19 and my schizoaffective disorder flared up heavily again and I was institutionalized for 2 months with no music to listen to other than the last 2 weeks where I got a little headset and would tune into the classic rock radio station. Once I got out I started listening to metal again but I had deleted my 160gb mp3 collection and had sold my 300+ album collection when I got tired of metal. So I just started listening to old favorites, I started practicing my drums again. I met a guy into black metal in the area who was an alright guitar player. I jammed with him like 5 times a week for 2+ hours and really honed in on my blast beat playing. It was great.

I would say ditching metal for a couple years was good for me because I became a more well-rounded eperson because in high school I was kind of just a metal head other than playing water polo in the summers. However I have no regrets about it because I love metal and have got to see tons of great bands since I was 14 and attended my first metal concert (Hypocrisy, Dark Tranquillity). However now I'm in love with metal again and have been for the past 3 years almost. I've become a much better drummer, which I always wanted to be a good metal drummer since I was 5, however I didn't get to start playing until I was a doped up 14 year old. But now I can play songs like Angel of Death, I can blast through intense black metal records and I only have one class left for my Audio Production degree at a good audio school here in the area.

There's not many metal heads around where I live and a lot of the one's who are are drug addicts or used to be so that's kind of a bummer. Most of the people I went to school with were Mormons(LDS religion) and I wasn't raised that way and never will become that religion. I do have some angst against religion for that reason but I feel I've channeled it into basketball and drumming.

I wish I would have had more exposure to heavy metal music at a younger age however. I feel I could have learned more instruments and maybe even had a one man band or something like that. I've learned some guitar but have never stuck with it. I played saxaphone in school band growing up.

Husker: one advise: you don't need to tell everyone about your mental health condition. It can easily be turned against you leading you to feel awful inside.

Just a very friendly advise .

I don't, but I don't care what anyone thinks about me either.

I have to pick up some pills and take them at night, big whoop.

I wouldn't go advertising it to everyone you meet, but I think we all on here know because we asked you where you went when you came back lol.

Oh I don't tell anyone I know in real life until I know them well.

I phase in and out of metal every few months.

It's not a conscious thing. I just get tired of listening to metal all the time, and then slowly i might introduce another couple of genres into my listening schedule until eventually im just not listening to any metal whatsoever.

Then typically about 4 - 6 months later I will hear an awesome new metal album, or maybe randomly listen to an old favourite and all of a sudden I'm back in a metal phase for a few months again where I pretty much only listen to metal. I tend to go back and buy all the awesome releases I missed in the intervening months.

You may or may not have noticed I sort of disappear from around here for a few months at a time.

It's a beautiful cycle that always keeps my love for metal fresh.