GIVE THANKS TO METAL, WIN A SIGNED GUITAR FROM THE SWORD!
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 at 5:07pm by MetalSucks
In the spirit of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, MetalSucks is giving you the chance to win an Epiphone guitar signed by the members of The Sword! This sweet Sword sword — which is also imprinted with the band’s logo — can be all yours for the price of FREE; all you have to do is write a comment below or email news [at] metalsucks.net (with “Sword Sword” in the subject) and tell us why you’re thankful for metal. Monsieurs Axl and Vince will pick their favorite entry after Thanksgiving on Monday, December 1st, and the guitar shall be yours. U.S. entrants only please, as we gots to ship this thing and it ain’t cheap. Praise be metal!
They couldn’t have signed a better guitar?
Who cares what the guitar costs or what kind of quality it is? These last couple of guitar giveaways have earned the MetalSucks fellas a number of kudos in my book because nothing says metal like literacy, humor, and free fucking guitars.
Here’s my “Thank You” to metal…for making basically every white person on the face of the Earth who praise Lil’ Wayne and Kanye West, thank you for making those kids think I listen to angry music….and thank you to every metal band for not having the same lyrics about getting your dick sucked.
Why am I thankful for metal?
Well, because metal is the epitome of music to me. Metal as a genre is the largest and most diverse form of popular music in existence. The history and genealogy of metal is long and complex, as well as fascinating. Some people don’t understand the need for sub-genres and distinctions, but it’s part of what defines metal. The elitism and conflict it breeds is a sad by-product, but that is unavoidable.
The great thing about metal is that anything you want to represent can be represented. Any idea, belief, story, or message, from the most personal, serious matter to the broadest world ideology to the most fantastical, fictional story. It all can be found in metal. I often say to friends and family, that if they give me time and have an open mind, I guarantee I can find at least one metal band they could like or relate to. And usually I’m correct.
On a personal level, the cliched phrase ‘it’s always been there for me” is true. Some people listen to music just because their friends do, or because it’s cool, or because they are trying to fit an image. But metal to me is a strong personal association. I could probably write a book on the greatness of metal, but I won’t proceed to bore everyone on this board. To put it simply, I’m thankful for metal because it’s metal.
I’m not thankful for metal. Metal sucks.
I’m thankful for metal for constantly providing me with the heaviness, brutality and virtuousity that is missing from all other forms of music. I’m thankful for metal for allowing me into a brotherhood that crosses ethnicity, nationality, and language. I’m thankful for metal for providing the perfect soundtrack for me to raise my bourbon bottle and toast those who have fallen, those yet to come, and those with me now. I think most of all I’m thankful for metal giving me a place I actually belong.
I am thankful for the chance at a free guitar.
Gimme, gimme, gimme.
I’m thankful for metal. It makes me feel like a Viking warrior instead of wimpy, stay-at-home-dad with a baby rubbing snot on me.
Is this a fucking joke? Metal SUCKS. I’m thankful that metal exists so I can read this shitty fucking website and how they make fun of shitty fucking bands, and give praise to even WORSE shitty fucking bands. METAL SUCKS is the name of this site, and that’s about the only thing you fucks have ever gotten right. Now, if you want to get another thing right, give me the fucking guitar, you fucking pussies, so I can play smooth jazz, music that takes real heart, real soul, real fucking BALLS and real talent to perform, not this neanderthalic bullshit that you call “metal.” Fuck metal, METAL SUCKS!
Metal, for some is a form a thearpy, for some is a form of release, for some is a joke, for me, its all of the above. I love hearing a breakdown and laughing at the stupidity of the structure but yet banging my head in approval. To love metal you must have a sense of humor and a middle finger to anyone that oppeses you, and I have to agree that I posssess both. I have been thankful for my favorite genre of music for as long as I have been listening to music, but I have to admit my number one thing I love about metal: the moment people jump into your car for a ride and you could be listening to any form of the music and you automatically recieve the “what the fuck is this” look. That to me, is the most rewarding part, to be appreciating, respecting, and loving something on a level that to so many others is just noise, they just want pop, and all you want is rock!!! Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
I am thankful for metal cuz metal is ME.
Why am I thankful for metal?
Because metalheads tend to play better guitars than Squiers like the one pictured above.
Lmao.
I am thankful for metal because of all of the technological progress it has allowed us to make. Think of all of the crowning technological achievements of mankind. The sword, gun, bridges, skyscrapers, cars, planes, ships, etc. Without metal they would not exist. We also worship metal. Gold being the most prominent.
So, why be thankful for metal? Society as we know it would not exist. Think about that.
And that genre of music called metal is all right. Couldn’t make that without the metal used to make guitars and amps and shit. It all comes back to metal.
im thankful for metal because it CAN run crysis.
I’m thankful for metal because in a world gone soft, metal has kept its BALLS
M is for the multitude of styles available.
E is for the ear shattering power of metal.
T is for the titties Duh…
A is for anvil.
L is for longevity. LONG LIVE THE METAL!!!
Now hook a brotha up.
I’m thankful for Metal because it’s inspired me countless ways. It helped get over my OCD by constantly telling me about things most people find disturbing it inspired me to expose myself to the things I found terrifying. It inspired me to live my life. And it continues to inspire me as a guitarist.
I am thankful for Metal because I could never listen to Kenny G.
I am thankful for metal because metal never murdered and relocated any native groups of people.
Maaan where do i start. Metal has been there for me through the good and the bad. I listen to metal when i wake up, when i walk to class, sometimes during class, when i hang out in my room, when I’m driving, and so on. I was supposed to see the sword along with Metallica and Machine Head but sadly I will be back at school around that time. Music has inspired me to pick up a cheap guitar but it recently broke (Cheap Dimebag Darrell Lightning bolt copy). I only played guitar for about 3 months and now i need to find another 1. This is a perfect opportunity to practice more guitar and have a great bands autograph.
Its an epiphone… not a squier…
Im thankful for metal because it means I dont have to settle for other forms of music…. for that, I will be forever thankful!
I am thanksfull for metal beacuse it is more than a nusic form, it is a culture a way of life, a being. Metal is the only musical style that truly is for all races , creeds , people of alternative lifestyles and sexual orientation. Can you imagine a gay rapper? A black country band, you just never see that.Artists like Rob Halford can express his sexuality and still be one of the icons of metal, and thereare several bands that feature multui racila backgrounds , Killswitch Engage, God Forbid, Ill Nino. Metal gives everyone a chance to feel they belong to a “tribe” ( As Soulfly ) would say and not be treated as an outcast by their adopted metal family. Slayer, Canibal Corpse, Nine Inch Nails, Posion, Metallica something for eveyone all metal.
There are songs and bands forevey mood that a human can experience and there are the same for EVERY subject matter you can imagine. Also most talented metal bands can take the good parts of other musical styles to form a hybrid that keeps metal forever changing. Metal Is LIFE
Why I am thankful for metal…
Because metal lets me escape the boring day to day world of classes, exams, and homework (and other boring blogs).
I don’t have to dress nice, I don’t have to be friendly to people, and I can scream and shout whatever I want. I love drawing stares on the subway while silently screaming verses to Lamb of God or whatever is currently on my iPod.
It gives a form of primal release that I cannot find anywhere, in sports or exercise, videogames or TV or even beating the shit out of people (ok sometimes that helps).
i define metal as my reason to live. before it i was depressed and shy as hell and then my friend chino referred me to cradle of filth and i watched the video for “born in a burial gown” and my eyes opened; i have never heard music so heavy, so evil, so unheard of.
After that i explored into that music and found more music. To me metal is like a giant grocery store; so many selections and i can get what i want; and other music are like hot dog stands in New York; very few choices and after you try it you wonder why the fuck you got it and wanted it.
Metal is the most diverse genre but not the most popular and i like it that way cause if it played on the radio all kinds of people would just listen to it and not examine the meaning. it is the only music that actually has a message and crushing music along with it and i can represent myself in anyway and not be considered a fake or poser.
i used “sword sword” in the subject!!! yayy for me
Should’ve referenced “how heavy this axe” in the post somewhere…
bunch of amateur bloggers around here
I’m thankful for metal because without it, first-person shooter games and satanic rituals wouldn’t be as fun
I like metal because it reflects my anger. I was severely abused by my father and both my parents are alcoholics. If people treated me like sh*t at school, I knew I would have my metal waiting for me at home. I listen to metal so I can raise my middle finger high and proud to all those who give me sh*t for what music I listen to. I am pissed off 99% of the time and have a ton of energy, turning on my Cryptopsy or Cannibal Corpse helps me to regular my feelings and return to a safe place in my mind. It also helps me to contain my violent urges and impulses by providing a safer outlet then displaying violent acts in real life.
I love Metal because Metal is fucking ecstasy. Whether your thrashing, grind-coring, or “progressing” Metal is pure fucking ecstasy. It’s like an avenue of release for any emotion. I listen to Sonata Artica when I’m sad, like when my dog died, or I can listen to Dream Theater when I wanted to be amazed and inspired to reach great heights, or Between the Buried and Me when I wanted to be impressed by the interbreeding of genres that Metal has brought together. Metal is life, Metal is for life.
When I’m on my guitar (piece of shit that it may be *wink wink*) I feel like I’m so fuckin’ free and I can do whatever the hell I want. That feeling is like nothing else.
Praise be the god’s of Metal.
And God for creating them in the first place…
Being a musician, metal seems to be the only style of music accepting of fusion between lifestyle, musical genre, and ideologies.
You have bands that create music with influences ranging from latin jazz, psychedelic, prog rock, traditional jazz, hardcore, rock, jazz fusion, opera, folk, to classical and so on. Where else do you really hear such a myriad of genres fused together as such? And even if you can think of one, is it likable? Probably not.
Now, as I said, being a musician, I find that the metal community is VERY open to dedicated followers, and VERY closed to the obvious part-timers. You can almost treat metal as a close friend or family member you love: you know once that person is gone, you’re still going to love them no matter what; similarly, the metal community might be a big trend at the moment, but once the kids move on to the next big thing, you don’t move on with them, you stay with your community, and wait out the next wave.
Metal so far, has been a way to express myself ENTIRELY. Being a young man raised in a jazz household, I was always shown to express myself fully. Back in the early 1950s and 1960s, jazz was a style of music that was frowned up across the continent. Elvis Presley would show up at music business gatherings, and listen to people bitch about how jazz is just “noise”, and the guys playing it were, “out of their minds”. We all get the same thing today. Our parents misconstrue the violent nature of the emotions behind screaming as a sign of anger and hatred. In my life, it’s quite the opposite. I feel that metal has some of the best singers, guitars, bassists, drummers, etc, and the emotional expression is so vast that it’s too much to discuss in a mere comment on a metal website.
Metals in a physical aspect are the densest, hardest, and tightly bonded elements in our world. There is NO mistake behind calling our community “METAL”.
Metal is the only reason I’m still alive. Sometimes I’m not sure if that’s worth thanking or not but I’m sure my mother would thank metal for me if she only knew all the times that metal was all I had when the world seemed darkest and bleakest. I remained here for another year and metal is the only reason. Metal is god for me and I suspect most who visit this site. I’m thankful for metal and metalsucks for giving me something to live for everyday.
I am thankful for Metal because it has allowed me to connect with my family and peers (as well as those I don’t care about at all) in a way that just cannot be done with any other genre of music. After a day of unsettling at the crummy jobs we keep so we can continue to pray for at least one day of happiness, it’s nice that we can all gather ’round the fireplace with scotch and chat away with Psyopus blissfully playing in the background. Those nights where I didn’t perform in bed as well as my girlfriends ex’s I can cry myself to sleep right next to my CD player with Ire Works popped in. And when the economy is slowly eating away at all my assets, or just my car, I can still find comfort in the fact that I can connect my iPod in it, stick the bastard on shuffle, and scream away with Alexi Laiho (and pretend to do all the guitar solos!) while I get stuck in traffic with terrible drivers (I live in Austin). So thank you Metal, for not making my life a TOTAL hell.
Shut up, guys. #1 you’re supposed to be e-mailing entries, #2 canea already won.
I’m thankful for metal because it speaks to my soul in a way that no other form of music can. I’m thankful for metal because it makes life fun. My three year old daughter dances to Blessed Are The Sick and sings along to Det Som Engang Var. Throwing my fist in the air and roaring like a barbariean at a show fills me with a feeling that is impossible to describe and even harder to re-create at any other time. I’m thankful for metal because it gave me a way to find friends when I moved to a new school as a kid, and a way to simultaneously better understand and escape from the world around me.
Also, I’m thankful for metal because it is WAY easier to get metal chicks to put out.
I’m thankful for metal because my parents conceived me during an Iron Maiden concert.
I’m thankful for metal because eh is very heavy and doesn’t afraid of anyone
im thankful for metal because plastic just didnt cut it for me.
Beer Metal = Thanksgiving
Is this a axe or a sword? I never would of thought the band Sword would buy a Epiphone. Can’t you buy these out of the Sears catolog? Oh yeah, Metal gets me up every afternoon. and helps me through the day.
I am thankful, for being able to see them this sat.
Thanks Metal for being my comfort food without the calories.
I thank metal for the fat kid singing along to Dimmu Borgir.
I’m thankful for metal because it is a means of self expression for me. Even though I’m only a mediocre guitar player, I’m a great public speaker, so I do a radio show that plays metal in hopes of promoting the bands I love. I like to express myself through my musical tastes and I love it when my girlfriend, friends, sister or even parents are riding with me or hear one of my songs and actually enjoy it.
In addition, I think that listening to metal has opened my mind. Growing up in an abusive household and going through an abusive religious high school was tough, but metal was always my escape. It allowed me to open my mind even though my parents and school tried their best to make me close my mind and follow everything they told me to do. Listening to metal was one of the few joys I had throughout high school.
Finally, thanks to metal for giving me something to drive to, something to see in concert that isn’t bland and overproduced like mainstream pop and rock bands, and for something that challenges me and isn’t musical fast food that is in and out of my cd player in a month.
I would like to thank metal, because now I am known as that kid that plays “shitty music” at random parties when people are trying to play rap. The sweet sound of people covering their ears puts a smile on my face :)
I am thankful for metal for something to drive those goddamn hippies away with.
Why i’m thankful for metal: Well, I love metal so much..mainly the physical aspect of hearing a stack of Marshall Amps pound away at your soul.
But seriously, I have a couple of THE SWORD STORIES: The Sword was the first band I had ever seen that I felt I needed earplugs! Now, I was probably about 27, it was around 2004-05 on the inside of Emo’s in Austin. If you have ever been in that room, you know it is loud & small. I went in hearing a lot about them being super loud, so I got right up front and they started HURTING my ears, it was great, but after about 2-3 songs, I actually had to MOVE BACK! and almost after each song I had to move back a little more.
Then this year I saw The Sword open for Clutch (who I love) and they blew Clutch off the stage, I actually left because Clutch sounded like a jazz band after The Sword.
Oh, how heavy those axes are…
I thank metal for teaching me “…Power and Dominion are taken by the will…”
I’ve learned to stand up and be my own man, lead my own path and not follow. I often say it’s stupid to live your life by song lyrics. Rather than live by the lyrics of Hail and Kill by Manowar that I cited, I take inspiration from them, and mold them into my own style.
Thank you.
Metal is the best genre around because of the range of emotions you get when you listen to it. Go to any metal show and you will see kids, adults, men and women thrashing around and into each other like a riot has just broken out. But look closer, if someone goes down, there are three people with their hands out to get you back on your feet. Metal is just that, brutal but not in the way it is perceived. Anyone who thinks metal-heads are ingorant beer drinking frat boys have never spent time at a metal show. It’s almost like one big (dysfunctional) family. Thanks Metal.
I am so thankful for metal because it gets my stinky dick hard, especially in a crowded concert floor, where my rod pokes everyone who walks by me and stains them with the smell of my smegma.
I’m thankful for metal in that it provides a solid base for my life, something I can always rely on in times of need. In addition, the raw emotion and adrenaline it evokes in me is unexplainable, somehow primitive and emotionally complex at the same time. A metal concert is intense, but when you fall there’s always someone there to pick you up. The connection you feel is indescribable, and something I could not live without.
I LIKE METAL BECAUSE METAL MAKES MY BEARD GROW!!!
Im thankful for Metal, because i love art, and metal is Art. the way you play it, write it. the designs metal bands have, and their amazing shirt. im also thankful for Metal, because it gives us listeners, the amazing feeling of raw power. gives us listeners a chance to use our energy to help preform amazing shows, and so we can headbang till we cant feel anything in our necks anymore. From the the slow hard drums and slow heavy riffs, to amazingly fast drumming to insane guitar playing and solo’s. It gets you up, gets you pumped, and gives you that amazing feeling. I love metal and i always will, no other type of music genre compares to Metal, and thats why im Thankful for having metal around and being in my life.
-Thanks
I’m thankful for metal because it gives me something to listen to when I’m not curb-stomping emos.
I am thankful to metal for the mere fact that it’s the most kickin ass music ever. Nothing says Anti Government, or tells an actual story. Like guy said above about it not being about getting your dick sucked, or how much money you have, or how many bitches you pimp. Metal has a lot of meaning, and it’s like coffee in the morning, the best part of waking up is metal up your ass!
Hail death metal! hard core! industrial! grunge! rock! heavy metal! goth! and all the rest of the genres that should be put into one called kick your ass!
And to all of those underground bands, and local bands keeping it alive, I thank them for busting their asses, and to the bigger bands out there, thank you for keeping it real. Metal bless you all!
And lets eat turkey…
Without metal my suicidal and homicidal urges may come true.Every sane person on earth wants to kill.Metal brings that and everything that religion and the norm stands against into the light and gives them the finger.Not everybody can say fuck you to the world and talk about slaughtering millions and dressing up with battleaxes and such and not be commited.Those few that do are the ones that live the life we all dream of and sing the evilest and darkest stuff that mankind deserves.
Ok, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin are the forefathers of METAL and we all know that. However the METAL bands of today have transformed the genre in its entirety. Bands like Metallica and the other thrashers started thrash and Death undeniably started Death METAL. Opeth has changed Death METAL and become an entity undefinable. Combining musical elements as different as folk and voice harmonies that aren’t even associated with METAL. Gladly accepted in the METAL community as progressive. The Sword continues in traditional heavy metal and stand as one of my favorite bands along side Death, Opeth, Cynic and Porcupine Tree.
Nowhere else will you find music so empowering. You’re transformed after listening to music this good. It makes life worth living. I’m glad my older brother got me into it. If I wasn’t then I don’t think I would know what music was.
Thanks HEAVY METAL!! My life is complete.
I am thankful for Metal because it gave me an outlet for my anger and sadness when I couldn’t control them. I spent almost a year at one point in a mental hospital.I had major problems especially when I was younger. I had a really hard time controlling my tempe.r I would lash out at people and get into fights, I constantly was expelled from schools and I tried to take my own life several times. I tried to hang my self, which is how I met a friend who played in a metal band he cut my stupid ass down. He taught me to play guitar and got me into metal music. Really most of all I am thankful for him even though I can’t talk to or see him anymore he was the best thing that happened for me.Metal got me through that too, and I am now thankful that because of him and Metal I am a better adjusted person. I was able to have the chance to be a mother, now when I get angry or sad instead of fighting or trying to hurt my self. I put on music and my amp as loud as they will go and jam out with my music. The neighbors dislike it and call the police,but I do it anyhow. Besides if they can blare Crap I mean rap all hours of the night and day and nothing is done to them, then they will just have to deal.
I am thankful for all that is heavy metal. I love the feeling of being part of something much larger than myself, something that is tangible and real. That feeling you get when you’re in a crazed mosh pit of metal fans just loving the music and becoming one with it. There’s really nothing else in the world that can quite compare to it.
When you’re in the crowd and your favorite band hits the stage, you just wanna go crazy out of your seat and raise the horns of heavy metal high in the air. When you get to see your favorite guitarist shred through a crazy overdriven solo that sends the crowd into a frenzy and melts the faces of those who are in the first 20 rows. When the lead singer stage dives on to you mic in hand still screaming the song at the top of his lungs, when the bassist smashes their axe on the stage and throws it twenty feet in the air, watching the crowd scramble to get it. When the drummer preforms a gut busting solo and knocks over his kit in a rage.
Theres nothing cooler than being caught in the crowd of a really good show. Being just one of the millions of crazed metal heads launching sod at the stands of an Ozzfest show. Watching drunken crazy bastards like yourself slam into each other as the music rages well past “eleven” on stage. When you can feel the heat of the pyro on your face in the front rows. When you and thousands of other metal fans are headbanging till your eyes come out of your skull, sweat and whatever other liquids streaming off greasy sweaty metal heads. The cloud of certain substances that fogs the arena as everyone lights up and rocks out.
Of all these things the best part of heavy metal is that everyone is accepted, It doesn’t matter if what your race is, what class you belong to, what religion you believe, your sexual identity, or anything else. The heavy metal community is there for everyone. All of those who stand and raise the horns of metal and love it as much as I do, will agree that these are the things to be grateful for. These are just a few of the reasons that metal heads and myself alike are thankful to have Heavy Metal in our lives.
Im thankful for metal because it is so diverse, you got the ugly(Devin Townsend) the hot(zakk wylde) well thats according to revolver 2006, and the hairy(anyone ever seen randy blythes mole?), the fact that theres people with screen names like enemy of god, and the fact that bands from texas give away free shit
I am thankful for metal, becuase it helps me concetrate in the battlefield and helps me stay calm when stupid f***ers wanna get in my face about stupid shizzo. that concentration is important for soldiers…
why am i thankful for metal?
Im thankful for metal because as i walk through the shit suburbia i live in and next to i know that im better than all the Jappy shits around me. The preppy girls can scoff and the guys can joke about how gay i look in tight pants. But at the end of the day my metal-listening-cock can still hit them in the face.
I’m Thankful For metal because it gave people like Chad Grey, Cory Taylor, Max Cavalera, Dimebag Darrell, Etc. and people like me an outlet, a chance to express the darker side of our lives. To instill passion into those brave enough except it. I am also thankful for the sheer BRUTALITY. theres nothing like letting it all out in a pit at a Pantera concert. I mean Fuck, After smashing a few faces and breaking some dude rib cage, Ya can’t help but to feel better. And chances are you and Broken ribs are going to go out back latter and reminis while smoking A big Fat Doobie, and now you have a new concert buddy. I’m just thankful for metal. I would probably loose my mind and kill someone without it. plus metal chicks are fucking HOT
I am thankful for Metal because of all the great times I’ve had going to show’s with friend’s. I am thankful for Metal for taking me away from the World’s problems. I am thankful for Metal for not making me feel like an outcast. I am thankful for Metal for always being there. I am thankful for Metal because of the people that gave their lives for music. I am thankful for Metal.
I am thankful for metal because it allows me to time travel from a mild mannered 39 year old dad and sole provider into an 18 year old kid who loves his metal LOUD – head banging and fists pumping. I am preparing my two young ones to appreciate metal. If I should be so lucky to win this guitar, it will be passed on to them. Saw you guys with Metallica on 11/18/2008 in Tulsa and instantly became hooked. Love your Laney-laden sound! I am telling all my metal loving friends about you guys. I will be buried with my “sword across my chest”. ROCK ON!
The better question is why wouldn’t I be thankful for metal? The diversity, the raw power, the pure ass kickery. It combines the best of a variey of genres. The intricacy of classical and jazz music, the emotional feel of the blues, and the power of rock. No other form of music can express what metal can. It can make you feel sadness and grief, or it can make you want to chop someones head off. If you think about it, the best bands of the 20th century were all metal in some way. Sabbath, Zeppelin, Metallica, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden etc. Metal sets the golden standard for music. It helps me remember how shitty rap and all that other crap is. But the number one reason I am thankful for metal:
It doesn’t matter if I’m shredding on a guitar, or listening to the shredding of metal gods like Randy Rhoads, METAL GETS ME HARD!
Im thankful for metal for not having music videos with cars with spinners
Metal is the backbone of our society, and I just had the pleasure of seeing The Sword play with Metallica. Rock on!
I am thankful for metal, because without it, I would have to sit around with lame relatives on Thanksgiving. They all think I am strange, so I can dissapear after dinner and nobody cares! That is definitely something to be thankful for!
I`m am thank full for metal, becuase it gives me a inner peac and all the gitar riff`s and drum solo`s, it just makes me happy. If I`m sad, I wil go to my room and listen to The Sword and it almost makes me cry because it is so beatifull and I just love it.
I sat on the school yeastarday and saw How heavy this axe by The Sword, and all the headbanging and Brian Richie on his bass just maked me smile:) So whitout metal, I would not live.
Keep it up metal gods \m/
I am thankful to be metal, because it looks awesome to piss mercury.
without metal i’d be dead. i was in a coma and my friends and family played metal until i came out of it. 6 months 24/7 .motorhead,slayer,hellhammer,venom etc. it also showed them the real power of heavy fuckin’ metal !!!!! arghhhhh
I won one of these, and am considering selling it. Anyone interested?
im thankful for metal because i can piss black people and christians off with its dark, demonic sound and get a big grin off of it and it keeps me far away from (c)rap music.
I am thankful for metal because it is a huge part of me. It has always been there for me good and bad times. Without metal, life wouldn’t have any meaning for me because i play the drums and i love it and I just love everything about it. The aggressive sound really helps me take out my rage and anger on life, and it’s just more than the music, it’s the artits and metal heads. Watching interviews from some of my favorite bands like Slipknot and listening to their struggles in life and views shows me i’m not alone and it makes feel good because i’m an outsider in school, i have very few friends that understand me. The metal heads are great because i can realte to them about music and that’s a big reason i go to caoncerts, the environment and people. I just feel so accepted and….. I feel, home. I LOVE metal with a passion it’s my best friend.
I am thankful for metal if it gets me a free guitar…
I’m thankful for metal because it helped me save friends from false genres. Whenever a friend claims they like some new band I strap them down and force upon them the greatness of metal. Shortly after their ears explode they become huge metal fans. It’s the best music with no comparison. The only one that is as fast, heavy, and extreme as music should be. Let it be known, metal is God.
Not to mention without it I’d be a boring person who’d probably spend his time in the rat-race. Now? I only get jobs to pay for tickets to shows like the Lamb of God/Sword/Faceless show coming up. If metal were to die, so would the interesting in my life.
My hat goes off to you, Metal. Metal is a religion all its own. It’s a sign of idividuality but at the same time it unites us among brothers. Growing up without metal is far beyond imaginable. There is a whole other dimension in metal waiting to be uncovered. Metal is deep and the deeper you understand the bands, the varies subgenres, the lyrics, and the meanings, the closer Metal digs in your soal until it is apart of you, but then you realize something! It’s been there all along. Metal isn’t only just a genre or a music, it’s a lifestyle. I know, I know we hear that over and over again but it takes a metalhead to understand that. Metal is a key to unlocking all happiness in your life. Now, there are people skeptic about it but hey it’s there loss, right. Live for Metal! Die for Metal!!
I’m thankful for metal because it has expanded my vision of this society. It brings friends and family together. Metal takes all genres of music and uses them express emotion and passion. Metal doesn’t judge, it just wants to be listened to. We should all be thankful for the friend we can find in metal.
im thankful for metal because it gives me a high that no drug in the world could compete with
METAL=LIFE. I’m probably gonna have the longest thanks on this site but please hear me out. This is a rough biography of my life. Sense i was about 4 i realized i wanted to play guitar mainly because of the kin to my metal-head cousin Michael and the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers theme song. When i was 5, Michael and my aunt Susie were visiting and they were always my favorite company to have. Michael and I were in my room drawing and he asked me if I had ever heard of a band named Metallica. Me, being a child only revealed to country, answered no. We listened to the entire 2 albums Ride the Lighning and Master of Puppets. I was immediatly hooked on this genre known as Metal. I told my mom of this and she, being a FUCKING PENACOSTAL, implied that it was an evil genre and that I was not to listen to such “garbage”. Me, being a good little boy listened to my mother without arguement. The rest goes blank until I was 11. At this time I was big into hip-hop and electronica and still had’nt been reminded of the greatness of metal or gifted a guitar. Mainly because I lived in a hick-town(Poplarville, Mississippi). By then my parents had shed there Penacostal ways and become neutral but still controlling. With the upcoming hurricane Katrina we fled to Alabama where my grandmother had lived(Alabaster, Alabama). Luckily in this new school I found friends. Unlike Mississippi, there was a large pecentage of African-Americans. I made friends with some, enemies with others, but either way it added to my phase of hip-hop. We had to settle with my grandmother for a few months until we could find a house. It was a town house among many culdisacks so there were many kids but my mother would’nt allow me to stray away. One kid who I had rarely noticed was named Skyler. I did’nt know anything about him except he had a cleft palate so I avoided him. Eventually he came and talked to me and told me he played guitar. He told me of metal and guitar superfluously and we became great friends. I dropped hip-hop and became a full-fledged metal-Head. Skyler was really good at guitar and let me play his old guitar even though he’s a lefty. He let me borrow cd’s of Black Label Society, Nirvana, Lamb of God, and Motorhead! That Christmas I was clear to state my need for a guitar so my parents bought me one. An Epiphone goth special 2! At first i didn’t know where to start so i didn’t practice much for the first year. I wanted lessons but my parents never got around to it( just like karate[that really would've helped during a few times]). We had been living in and apartment the whole time and my mom didn’t like it. I loved it because usually my friends would be the ones waking me up in the mornings by knocking on the door wanting me to come outside. I was never bored when I lived there. It’s the exact opposite where I live now, 3 years later. It does give me alot of free time to play guitar though. In fact, its what I revolve around, nothing else. FUCK SCHOOL! FUCK FAMILY! AND FUCK FRIENDS(because all of my friends here are egotistic, suck at music, and impossible on all levels)! STRAIGHT METAL ALL THE TIME!!!!!!!!!! I’ve just recently gotten into the Sword. I got there cd Gods of the Earth and listended to it a bajillion times! I can’t explain how much I love metal. I guess the best way I can put it is without metal i wouldn’t be alive. FUCKIN’ METAL!!! If anyone who reads this all the way through wants to talk to the man behind this message go to Yahoo.com and search Brad Campbell: hellstorm96@yahoo.com
Please pick me for the guitar. !!!METAL \,,/ \,,/ METAL!!!
This is just a follow up on my last message. If you didn’t read it you should. METALLL!!!\,,/
Metal inspires me to take my anger out at the world.
i am thankful for metal because without it i’d still be listening to milli vanilli (fourth grade in 1988 mind you)
I’m thankful for metal because it gives me a reason to breathe.I’ve been rockin metal since back in the day(circa 1983).I have always been faithful to metal and it has never let me down.Just when you think everything metal is going all cookie cutter on you a band like THE SWORD comes along and blows your fuckin’ mind!!! and im in love with metal more than ever.Thanks to all the kats that made me fall in love with metal and thanks to the boys in THE SWORD for making my love deeper and truer than ever!!
I am too metal to be thankful for anything. Metal is awesome because it’s totally Metal.