I'm glad metal has been that one constant throughout my life. 16 years and on going. I pretty much gave up on discovering new bands and I'm okay with listening to the same albums over and over again. I just put O God, The Aftermath on my record player. The absence of structure throughout the album energizes now as much as it did 7 years ago when I first heard "Charactarantula: Talking to You and the Intake of Glass."
Kinda strange how metal has created bonds between myself and some of my closest friends. John, Jeremy, Joshua and I have been talking about heavy metal for the past ten years or so. One of the first conversations Gio and I had was about metal. And the list continues from there. In high school, all my closest friends listened to metal: Gio, Kevin, Ulises, Alex, Jason and Griff. From there came concerts: Dream Theater, Opeth, Between the Buried and Me; DevilDriver; Cannibal Corpse; Slipknot; Mago de Oz; Rammstein; Amon Amarth; Arch Enemy; Cradle of Filth; In Flames; Turisas; Iron Maiden... Now here I am, mid-October waiting for Halloween to come around because I'm going to go see Lamb of God and In Flames and not even a week later, Gwar and DevilDriver. I'm lucky to have always had someone to share the experience with. Looks like I'm more thankful that I even thought that no car has killed me yet. My hair still has a good way to go too until I'm happy with its length. I also think I don't have enough gruesome "that's creepy get away from me" shirts. Haha which reminds me that my mom saw my pentagram shirt and didn't say anything. I want to put pentagrams on everything I own. That's normal right?
Kinda strange how metal has created bonds between myself and some of my closest friends. John, Jeremy, Joshua and I have been talking about heavy metal for the past ten years or so. One of the first conversations Gio and I had was about metal. And the list continues from there. In high school, all my closest friends listened to metal: Gio, Kevin, Ulises, Alex, Jason and Griff. From there came concerts: Dream Theater, Opeth, Between the Buried and Me; DevilDriver; Cannibal Corpse; Slipknot; Mago de Oz; Rammstein; Amon Amarth; Arch Enemy; Cradle of Filth; In Flames; Turisas; Iron Maiden... Now here I am, mid-October waiting for Halloween to come around because I'm going to go see Lamb of God and In Flames and not even a week later, Gwar and DevilDriver. I'm lucky to have always had someone to share the experience with. Looks like I'm more thankful that I even thought that no car has killed me yet. My hair still has a good way to go too until I'm happy with its length. I also think I don't have enough gruesome "that's creepy get away from me" shirts. Haha which reminds me that my mom saw my pentagram shirt and didn't say anything. I want to put pentagrams on everything I own. That's normal right?
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