18th birthday suggestions?

lealdragon
Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:36:49 +0000

Hey thanks, Nevermore. You and my son would get along great. He’s always getting on my case for getting genres wrong. I mean, ALL the time! He explains to me the distinction between black-metal, death-metal, melodic death metal, Gothenburg metal, etc. I’m not sure how exactly he would catagorize the older bands like JP and Metallica, but to me they are most definitely metal.

I’m old-school (grew up with JP and BS and Zep, etc). I can’t remember all the genres so I just go by what kind of mood it evokes in me. For example, purists insist that Cradle is not really black metal since they ‘sold out’ but personally I love their lush, melodic stuff more than their early stuff. So I don’t really care what genre it would be now, but wow, my son is really into quite precisely identifying the exact genre.

He’s did Ozzfest last year and didn’t like it. He went for bands like Archenemy (whom I can’t stand because of the vocals) and In Flames (whom I do like and have seen) but they were on the 2nd stage and it was just awful how they started the show before the people even had a chance to get from the other stage. Too many bands crammed in. It’s usually a better show when it’s the band you want to see and all the fans are there to see them, not just go to a festival to party.

We did Van’s just to see AFI but they only played 30 min (as is the norm for Van’s). Van’s, as I’m sure you know, is mostly all punk bands.

Anyway thanks for the clarification. I am curious how YOU define metal, btw!