I remember hearing for the first time Dillinger Escape Plan's Calculating Infinity over 20 years ago, life changing record indeed.
platevoltage 2 hours ago [-]
I had the absolute privilege of seeing them live during that era.
lawgimenez 1 hours ago [-]
Man I envy you, I live in Southeast Asia and there were only like 50 of us who's into hardcore in my whole country. This was late 90s I think.
megamix 1 hours ago [-]
Why no one talks about the real issue (root cause) of why they feel this way? And where’s Sitting Bull
eucyclos 40 minutes ago [-]
Talking about why one feels a particular way requires trust in the interlocutor, so I'm not surprised outsiders don't hear anyone taking about it. As for insiders, is it a given they aren't?
PunchyHamster 1 hours ago [-]
plenty of talking about that. Not all that much doing.
belZaah 1 hours ago [-]
A moshpit is the only consensual form of non-sexual violence outside of sports.
platevoltage 2 hours ago [-]
> “Your homework tonight, and I’ll remind you of this later, go listen to the song ‘43% Burnt.’”
Why weren't my teachers this cool? I would have assigned the entire album though.
foxglacier 1 minutes ago [-]
Because it's not regular class. It's an extra-curricular club. If you joined the heavy metal club, you might have had similar activities.
jaggederest 1 hours ago [-]
When I was in school, before the turn of the century, we were reading Johnny Got His Gun in English class and discovered that Metallica's One is about a very similar situation (though not apparently originally inspired by Johnny Got His Gun), so we got to play it in class and do a report on the two. Received some minor kudos from the class and a reasonable grade from the teacher.
It got slightly awkward as I believe that was just before the Columbine shooting, and after that metal had a more negative reputation for a while.
rsingel 40 minutes ago [-]
The video for that song uses excerpts from the movie version of Johnny Got His Gun. I don't know if the songwriting was inspired by it but the video certainly was. Because the video relied so much on the excerpts the band ended up buying the rights to the movie just to not pay royalties.
Hilariously, I won a writing prize about this connection as a teenager in 1989. Fun to see you had a similar experience
PunchyHamster 1 hours ago [-]
I'd imagine it could backfire as anything school or parents recommend is automatically less cool
platevoltage 46 minutes ago [-]
If all you knew was Slipknot and a teacher hands you a Dillinger Escape Plan song, you would have the opposite reaction.
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Why weren't my teachers this cool? I would have assigned the entire album though.
It got slightly awkward as I believe that was just before the Columbine shooting, and after that metal had a more negative reputation for a while.
Hilariously, I won a writing prize about this connection as a teenager in 1989. Fun to see you had a similar experience