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I hear about people getting their shit stolen here all the time. really sucks.
This has been going for as long as I've been keeping up with touring bands. Is it like a family business?
its possible. security at a lot of the small venues aren't that great, this venues a little bigger/newer, but the vans aren't really tucked away or anything.
idk if it's just part of the underbelly of houston being a lot of smuggling that people would be good at stealing gear, I've seen some reports where people have used cutters/torches to get into stuff. we're not first in crime or touring artists so it's weird to me i hear about band theft in houston more than other places
It's been a few years but I've seen both Worshipper and Shadows Witch. Worshipper is pretty par for course. Slow,gloom, doom. I feel like the vocalist made me meh about the band. That said, it was 3 or 4 years ago and I'd give it another shot.
Shadow Witch is decent but nothing to write home about.
Post by garageland on Nov 17, 2019 19:32:23 GMT -5
Also curious. How did you guys get into metal? I was having a discussion with friends last night and we started talking about this. It always interests me how people got into this kinda stuff.
Also curious. How did you guys get into metal? I was having a discussion with friends last night and we started talking about this. It always interests me how people got into this kinda stuff.
When I was about 13, my cousin gave me some Cannibal Corpse cassettes, and I remember being horrified but also intrigued about metal. Then in early high school, I met a friend (still a very close friend of mine) that was into metal and we started talking about Iron Maiden and all. Rest is history.
Also curious. How did you guys get into metal? I was having a discussion with friends last night and we started talking about this. It always interests me how people got into this kinda stuff.
Parents/Uncle (hair metal, bwohm, pantera, ozzy things), but I definitely veered more heavy/dark correlated to how much I was over church.
Also curious. How did you guys get into metal? I was having a discussion with friends last night and we started talking about this. It always interests me how people got into this kinda stuff.
Less than ideal childhood creating a resonance with me for music that was not super happy along with some influence from uncles.
Also curious. How did you guys get into metal? I was having a discussion with friends last night and we started talking about this. It always interests me how people got into this kinda stuff.
I'm going to guess it was Pantera when I was 13-14. Pantera is the gateway metal.
The tl;dr version is my step dad used to manage an apartment complex. I'd go in and clean the units for him when people would skip out on rent and up and leave. My pay was I got to keep stuff I found. I was also 13 and had no clue he should be paying me for real.
I went into this one apartment and cleaned a ton of vinyl out. Maiden, Priest, Angel Witch, Saxon, Battleaxe .. pretty much all 80's NWOBHM stuff. I kept those and the stereo system that came was there. It was a turning point for sure. Still weird dude just left all his shit.
I ended up moving into that same unit when I moved back to Roanoke in the 90's. That's when I was informed that said dude had killed himself and that's why all his stuff was still there. Still crazy to think about some almost 30 years later.
I first got into metal from alternative rock radio, because when I was 10/11 nu-metal was really big, so at first it was all Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit and Staind and trash, with some stuff like Tool, NIN, and System of a Down creeping in and the rest eventually falling by the wayside.
Then in high school I got into Buddyhead and Pitchfork and Stylus and they were praiseful of certain metal bands like Mastodon, who I got super into with Leviathan and then went back to Remission. Stylus in particular were all over the place with what genres they liked. They were simultaneously more poptimistic and more metal than Pitchfork. They'd have Beyonce next to semi-obscure doom acts like Khanate on their year-end lists, so they helped me branch out that way. Buddyhead also had a mantra that the two most important rock albums ever were Funhouse and Reign in Blood, so of course I got into Slayer after a friend burned me a CD-R of that album (all-black face, of course).
My cousin burned me a copy of Vulgar Display of Power even before that. I was never very into them. I listened to some last night and I guess it just sounds a little too clean, and there's not very much low-end, which I don't like either.