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Star Man posted:My girlfriend in high school was obsessed with Alexi and Children of Bodom was also one of my gateway bands into metal proper. I saw them in 2005 in Denver with Amon Amarth and Trivium (ick) opening for them. I'm going to go out on a limb and say they were all wasted for that show. I still have the copy of Guitar World with him, Steve Vai, and Zakk Wylde on the cover. Hey I went to that tour in Philadelphia! My buddy got kicked out for heckling Matt from Trivium too hard e: I just remembered that we actually went to a meet-&-greet beforehand, and as a result one of my guitars is signed by Alexi 
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I had to look up who CoB played with when I saw them in London in 2006 as I genuinely couldn't remember andquote:Children Of Bodom / Ektomorf / One Man Army & The Undead Quartet yeeeeeah now I can see why I don't remember. At least I got to see the glory of Edguy supporting Dragonforce the same week.
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Jan 4, 2021 22:01
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It's pretty crazy how common it is among metalheads for Children of Bodom being their gateway band into more extreme metal. I've had the exact conversations many times with others. Specifically it often went from CoB to Kalmah.
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Jan 4, 2021 22:09
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Snowy posted:I guess I stick to my own little metal bubbles too much because I don’t think I’ve ever heard any CoB and honestly had no idea they were so influential. I’ll have to check some out now, Were you a teen in the early or mid-2000s? I feel like that's the key.
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Jan 4, 2021 22:50
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i started high school in 2001 so that definitely fits
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Jan 4, 2021 22:55
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Henchman of Santa posted:Were you a teen in the early or mid-2000s? I feel like that's the key. This. I graduated high school in 2004, so Bodom was basically the de facto gateway drug for many kids to get into more extreme sub-genres of metal.
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Jan 4, 2021 22:56
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Henchman of Santa posted:Were you a teen in the early or mid-2000s? I feel like that's the key. No, I guess I was too old for that craze 
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Jan 4, 2021 23:02
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Snow Cone Capone posted:Hey I went to that tour in Philadelphia! My buddy got kicked out for heckling Matt from Trivium too hard he strikes me as the kind of person who'd be upset at getting heckled
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Jan 4, 2021 23:11
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EL BROMANCE posted:I had to look up who CoB played with when I saw them in London in 2006 as I genuinely couldn't remember and Not the one you were at, but they had a sloppy, but good version of Needled 24/7 from London in 2008 on a reissue of Hate Crew Deathroll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYbTzEfq1nM Snowy posted:No, I guess I was too old for that craze I'm also in the same boat as many people where Follow the Reaper and Deliverance by Opeth were the first albums I ever purchased with harsh vocals. I also loved Hate Crew Deathroll but by the time Are You Dead Yet? had come out I was already into more extreme poo poo and had kinda moved past them. Whereas Opeth were someone I continued to listen to as time went on. In that way, I feel like COB is for teenagers in the early 2000's what KISS was for teenagers in the early 80's.
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Jan 4, 2021 23:15
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The Muppets On PCP posted:he strikes me as the kind of person who'd be upset at getting heckled Listen if you're in Trivium and you're wearing a Trivium t-shirt onstage, you're asking for a bit of ribbing IMHO
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Jan 4, 2021 23:21
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FanaticalMilk posted:Not the one you were at, but they had a sloppy, but good version of Needled 24/7 from London in 2008 on a reissue of Hate Crew Deathroll: Oh fun, thanks!
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Jan 4, 2021 23:26
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Trivium unfortunately played a mostly hardcore show on Long Island and the entire crowd was completely unengaged while they were on. buddy of mine mooned the band and the singer just flipped the bird but you could tell he was so annoyed. i can't believe they bothered to finish their set lol.
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Jan 4, 2021 23:29
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he was also a teenager at the time I met him on that same tour and he was blown away at the fact my buddy asked him to sign a copy of from ember to inferno dunno, always seemed like a decent guy to me and there's WAY shittier music out there
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Jan 4, 2021 23:30
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Oh yeah he seems like a great dude but it was a prime reason for a heckle and he just didn't take it very well (probably because he was like 17 lol)
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Jan 4, 2021 23:40
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TeamJesus posted:It's pretty crazy how common it is among metalheads for Children of Bodom being their gateway band into more extreme metal. lol This is literally me
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Jan 4, 2021 23:58
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If you want a weird progression of favorite metal bands, my path went punk/ska-> Dream Theater -> Porcupine Tree -> Opeth -> CoB -> Symphony X -> Protest the Hero -> general -core I actually don't even really like other bands from any of those genres either, it was a weirdly specific progression lol
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Jan 5, 2021 00:24
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Snow Cone Capone posted:Listen if you're in Trivium and you're wearing a Trivium t-shirt onstage, you're asking for a bit of ribbing IMHO I usually assume they ran out of clean clothes and dipped into the merch
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Jan 5, 2021 01:23
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If Children of Bodom is metal for teenagers, then I have some bad news for everyone about the genre.
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Jan 5, 2021 01:32
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I usually think of metal as music for old immature guys
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Jan 5, 2021 01:39
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Star Man posted:If Children of Bodom is metal for teenagers, then I have some bad news for everyone about the genre. Nobody here is throwing that around as an insult. They are an extremely common gateway band for many people at that age. Super accessible and catchy but with more of an edge than what a young metal fan may have been exposed to otherwise.
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Jan 5, 2021 01:39
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sometimes i catch myself jamming to brutal slamming death metal in my car and remember i'm 36 and think about how silly it is that i'm an adult listening to gurgly incomprehensible vocals about dismembering people while on my way to pick up avocados from trader joe's then i turn up the music louder and just headbang the existentialism away
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Jan 5, 2021 04:01
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The best part about getting old is you stop giving a gently caress what others think and listen to whatever goofy poo poo suits your fancy. I'm gonna toot around town in my extremely responsible hybrid car with the windows down and crank modern thrash as loud as my tinnitus ringing ears can handle. Anyone that gives me a look gets a thumbs up. Which rarely happens, no one actually gives a gently caress, but once a year or so it makes my day.
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Jan 5, 2021 04:06
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eh certain bands really havent aged well for me and sometimes it makes me question how much i liked them to begin with. CoB i think is one of them. i agree being old and not giving a gently caress is cool though bc it allowed me to embrace blind guardian again.
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Jan 5, 2021 06:17
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I guess it was booze poisoning? I seem to remember the guy was a big drinker. It must have been bad because his entire band pretty much quit last year. I like CoB. Yow yow!
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Jan 5, 2021 09:35
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henpod posted:I guess it was booze poisoning? I seem to remember the guy was a big drinker. It must have been bad because his entire band pretty much quit last year.
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Jan 5, 2021 11:49
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Henchman of Santa posted:Were you a teen in the early or mid-2000s? I feel like that's the key. I picked up Hatecrew Deathroll from Fry's in the mall when I was like 14, so yeah that tracks.
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Jan 5, 2021 15:17
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Henchman of Santa posted:Were you a teen in the early or mid-2000s? I feel like that's the key. Between mall cd shops and guitar world having something about him every other issue, its kinda obvious
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Jan 5, 2021 15:38
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ShoogaSlim posted:sometimes i catch myself jamming to brutal slamming death metal in my car and remember i'm 36 and think about how silly it is that i'm an adult listening to gurgly incomprehensible vocals about dismembering people while on my way to pick up avocados from trader joe's Eh, it only matters if you roll your windows down on the way to TJ's and disrupt the neighborhood. If people keep that stuff to themselves, I don't think anyone should worry about what they listen to. Maybe that's a little "get off my lawn!" but gently caress it.
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Jan 5, 2021 17:49
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Snow Cone Capone posted:punk/ska-> Dream Theater  although I did the same Porcupine Tree --> Opeth progression after Steven Wilson produced Blackwater Park, which was my first exposure to harsh lyrics/more extreme metal.
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ShoogaSlim posted:sometimes i catch myself jamming to brutal slamming death metal in my car and remember i'm 36 and think about how silly it is that i'm an adult listening to gurgly incomprehensible vocals about dismembering people while on my way to pick up avocados from trader joe's grown man who goes into public in Korn gym shorts regularly here, I do not give a gently caress and don't think there's any shame in enjoying any music
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Jan 5, 2021 18:07
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Snowy posted:I guess I stick to my own little metal bubbles too much because I don’t think I’ve ever heard any CoB and honestly had no idea they were so influential. I’ll have to check some out now, yeah same, i know i've heard a song or two but that's it. iirc you're older though and i had a teenage uncle who raised me on florida death bands and carcass and bolt thrower and poo poo so i didn't really have a transition to extreme stage as a teenager. my bony fealty posted:we got a place here called Heartwork that is infact named after the album and they display the LP prominently and also have good coffee i googled it and it appears to be in san diego? if so black forge is going to be doing a traveling pop up thing there on the 16th as part of the oddities and curiosities expo. they rigged up a van and are going around with the save our stages tour and o&c all year.
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Jan 5, 2021 18:33
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Hawklad posted:
Punk was my first exposure to counterculture and I loved it, but the music got old pretty fast, and having zero prog/metal exposure at the time, Scenes From a Memory absolutely blew my mind
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Jan 5, 2021 18:46
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Snowy posted:I guess I stick to my own little metal bubbles too much because I don’t think I’ve ever heard any CoB and honestly had no idea they were so influential. I’ll have to check some out now, probably just an age thing. i graduated high school in 2000 and i never heard CoB at all.
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Jan 5, 2021 18:58
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xzzy posted:The best part about getting old is you stop giving a gently caress what others think and listen to whatever goofy poo poo suits your fancy. I'm gonna toot around town in my extremely responsible hybrid car with the windows down and crank modern thrash as loud as my tinnitus ringing ears can handle.  I'm on a Judas Priest kick at the moment because why not? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO_EdmtR5Ck
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Jan 5, 2021 22:07
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sean10mm posted:
I'm cool with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yyO_HozK0c
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Jan 5, 2021 22:15
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yea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-lBDsGMbRo
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Jan 5, 2021 22:20
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Remember when Judas Priest wrote a 13 minute song about the loch ness monster? i do. and im not ashamed to admit i kinda liked it. https://youtu.be/gzn5vs_Ki2Q
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Jan 5, 2021 22:27
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Even Judas Priest's bullshit albums like Ram It Down are pretty sweet. What I'm saying is, listen to Priest every day like I do. Your life will be better for this.
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Jan 5, 2021 23:15
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ultraviolence123 posted:Even Judas Priest's bullshit albums like Ram It Down are pretty sweet. What I'm saying is, listen to Priest every day like I do. Your life will be better for this. I generally do, it depends on how kind the shuffle button on the iphone is. My "metal" playlist covers 50 years of metal and every day is stuffed with the stuff I like best from each decade.
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I've been cranking out Hatecrew, Follow the Reaper and Hatebreeder for the first time in at least a decade and they loving rip. Follow the Reaper has a special place for me cos it was the first one I got into and it blew my mind.
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