rvi

12mo

hope youve been listening to your goated hard rock countrymen Scorpions then

maybe check some of these classics if you havent heard. good range of subgenres

Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Gorguts - Obscura
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Immolation - Close to a World Below
WASP - The Headless Children
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Suffocation - Pierced From Within
Gamma Ray - Land of the Free
Weakling - Dead as Dreams
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
Terrorizer - World Downfall
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Eyehategod - Take as Needed for Pain
Vektor - Terminal Redux

Aruji

12mo

thx a lot. listened to some (Gorguts, Atheist, Opeth, Vektor, Sleep etc.). I'll check all of them out

i wasn't too much into Emperor though. thought it was a bit overblown

rvi

12mo

any styles in general that you are feeling the most?

Aruji

12mo

I'm mostly listening to Death and Thrash Metal atm but I'm open to everything. I really loved Helloween's Wall Of Jericho but I like Iron Maiden so that was sort of a given

Individual Thought Patterns is my favorite Death album. For the gerne as a whole, either that or Nile's In Their Darkened Shrines so far.

Master Of Puppets and Reign In Blood still reign supreme for me when it comes to Thrash

rvi

12mo

maybe check some of these bands also

Demigod
Asphyx
Demilich
Nocturnus
Miasma
Lykathea Aflame
Demolition Hammer

gotta be careful with metal, theres like an infinite amount of amazing stuff and its easy to find yourself in a hundreds album deep rabbit hole /

Noir

12mo

Late last week I started having some really troubling visual migraines. About a quarter of my vision was getting taken out for 30-40 minutes in a row. The only other time in my life I was having them frequently was when I was drinking the most caffeine I ever have, so I decided to cut my caffeine intake to basically nothing. I'm trying to keep it to under 40mg a day so I don't reset the process.

I expected the headaches, which after 4 days are basically gone, but I didn't realize how impactful caffeine is on your dopamine. I am so depressed and irritable rn. I have to teach again in 3 weeks so I have time to get it under control, but wow, this s*** is weird. It feels like a really long molly comedown. I didn't realize how much my emotions have been impacted by substances for years now. I haven't skipped caffeine for more than 24 hours since the pandemic.

Point of this post: don't forget that caffeine is a d***. Getting off of it feels just as bad as other d****.

Elric

12mo

Sounds more like a brain tumor or something than caffeine withdrawals fam I'd go get checked out

Noir

12mo

Oh the migraines stopped as soon as I cut out caffeine I haven't had one since Monday

Elric

12mo

Vision loss sounds crazy though.

If I quit coffee for a few days I just get slightly fatigued and that's it.

drjdeponytail

12mo

Check out Left Hand Path by Entombed. Probably the quintessential European death metal album.

rvi

12mo

now we gotta get @Elric to overcome his fear of harsh vocals and became a death metal fan too

Aruji

12mo

I'm mostly listening to Death and Thrash Metal atm but I'm open to everything. I really loved Helloween's Wall Of Jericho but I like Iron Maiden so that was sort of a given

Individual Thought Patterns is my favorite Death album. For the gerne as a whole, either that or Nile's In Their Darkened Shrines so far.

Master Of Puppets and Reign In Blood still reign supreme for me when it comes to Thrash

Elric

12mo

Lol all these metal posts are giving me anxiety for the period where I have to dive into all of that my ears are already pooched

I'm good with my Sabbath and Priest for now

Elric

12mo

Made a Budgie post the other day

What other mid 70s metal you got for me

rvi

12mo

theres not that much. doesnt fully kick off until last few years of the decade once the Priest and punk influence really settle into the landscape

think i posted most of what i have until that point

Elric

12mo

figured. It's annoying cause my blind spot for modern music is rivaling Noirs caffeine blot outs but I'm trying to stay focused on that project.

Elric

12mo

Lol all these metal posts are giving me anxiety for the period where I have to dive into all of that my ears are already pooched

I'm good with my Sabbath and Priest for now

Koala

12mo

Is it just the vocals that throw you off cause I remember you liking some metal bands.. I think..

i'm sure you can get into stuff like Sleep, Mastodon, Down, Earth, OM

Koala

12mo

Is it just the vocals that throw you off cause I remember you liking some metal bands.. I think..

i'm sure you can get into stuff like Sleep, Mastodon, Down, Earth, OM

Elric

12mo

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Other than rap my formative bands were strictly Metallica and Sabbath, who are now my favorite band of the '70s. Judas Priest one of the best bands I discovered over the last half decade or so. Just haven't really dove into to the millions of bands that spring off from those guys yet except like Electric Wizard.

I think stoner, sludge and maybe doom are fairly easy for me to dig but again I just need time to put in the effort which I haven't had since I started my year by year spotlight project from 1955 on.

Aruji

12mo

What an amazing opener