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  1. Some cool answers, folks. Thank you to everyone who participated. Honestly for myself, as much as I love so many other genres, if I had to only listen to one, on pain of death, it would be metal. And I could do it. If I'm in a bad mood, metal makes it better. If I'm in a good mood, metal makes it great. And it makes me a better person. I'm a fairly angry guy and this music just helps me release the negative emotions.
  2. That Sedin stick between the legs was an absolute beauty. But I'm going with Burr slaying the dragon. So iconic. And one of the few I still remember watching. Luongo's glove save on Kane moments earlier was stellar. Kane had so much time with an open net I jumped up and shouted "It's over!" and then Luo flashed the leather. Good times. Mostly.
  3. I'm very familiar with 3 Inches. Their vocalist is awesome and the music generally great. But those lyrics are awful. My buddy, the same one who got me into black metal, was supposed to do an album cover for them. I think the album was to be titled Thy Doom Awaits. He had a picture of a beach with a set of footprints and a skull in the clouds. Looked pretty good. But they wanted a picture of a guy in a cloak holding a sword in the forest with a severed head on a tree stump. It was 3 inches of cheese. Just terrible. But then I'm really not a fan of power metal in general. I did meet their drummer Ash once and he was a pretty cool dude. Real friendly. As far as Canada's best metal band? That's debatable. I think Voivod probably deserves that title. With honorable mentions (in no particular order) to Annihilator, Blasphemy, Woods of Ypres, Strapping Young Lad, and Anvil. We've produced some really great BM bands in recent years. The Metal Archives has a pretty comprehensive list of Canadian metal bands, https://www.metal-archives.com/lists/CA
  4. I will say this, I do enjoy most other genres of music. Gospel and EDM/electronica are two styles I hate. But whatever non-metal music I'm listening to, whenever I return to metal, it just sounds that much better to my ears. I'm not disparaging the other genres. I can't explain it, but it's like falling in love with your girlfriend over and over again.
  5. If you're talking country pop then yes I agree. But there is some great country music out there that's so emotive and authentic. I really favour the stuff where it's just a guitar and the singer. You should check out Steve Von Till. He sings in the metal band Neurosis, but his solo stuff is acoustic, dark, and haunting. But as they say, different strokes for different folks.
  6. When my gf said she wanted to see Amon Amarth I had my reservations. 1) I'm not a huge death metal fan (though I've been getting more into it in recent years), and 2) they seemed kind of cheesy. But holy crap they put on an amazing live show! And other than Johan Hegg continually hoisting an empty drinking horn to salute the fans, it wasn't cheesy at all. Those guys write some really great songs. Vikings! Raise the shield wall! Hold the front line! Fight to death! F#CK YEA we will!
  7. I'm not a music connoisseur. In fact I can't even tell if a musician or singer hits a bum note. I can only rarely tell if someone is a really good musician. Take Prince as an example. Is he a talented artist? Everyone says he is. But me, I don't know. I just hear a jumble of noise. Pleasing noise, maybe. And it's like that for all music. I'm sure someone will make a snarky comment about that's why I love metal so much, but it is what it is. I feel music more than I think it I guess.
  8. That's something I almost invariably hate, no matter the genre- an instrumental. Back in the day, albums typically only had 8 songs. And I'd feel cheated if one of them had no lyrics. A perfect example is Black Sabbath's Master of reality. That album had not one, but 2, instrumentals! One was :30 and the other 1:30. Out of 8 songs! Feeling a little lazy there Ozzy? I guess they couldn't drag him out of the pub. Oh well. To each there own.
  9. Lol. When I go mountain biking or hiking I love listening to windsong, riversong, and the birdsong. But on the drive to those wonderful places, it's metalsong. Which, if it's the sound of metal on metal coming from the direction of the brakes and not the speakers, isn't a good thing.
  10. This is a question I've often contemplated. Actually contemplated is the wrong word because there is only one answer for me- heavy metal. I've been a fan of this music since '83-84 when I first heard Ozzy Osbourne's Bark At The Moon. Up until that point I had only ever listened to pop music and Top 40. Soon after hearing Ozzy, thanks to Good Rockin' Tonight with Terry David Mulligan's heavy metal special I got to bang my head to videos like AC/DC's Nervous Shakedown and more importantly, Judas Priest's Love Bites, for the first time. I found out heavy metal was often as much about the spectacle as the music. I reveled in this stuff. Now days I enjoy rock, pop, country, folk, classical, medieval, punk, reggae, jazz, disco, and hip hop as well , but back then for me it was metal or nothing. Heavy metal provided a form of escapism, different from books, in that I could escape while doing other things (or avoid doing things, like homework). Heavy metal could transport me to a world of sword and sorcery a la Ronnie James Dio, provide a history lesson more exciting than any stuffy textbook courtesy of Iron Maiden, scare me with serial killers and Satan the way only Slayer could do, or just open my eyes to pressing social and environmental issues as almost every thrash band of the day did. Heavy metal woke something inside of me. More importantly, it gave me something I had been missing in my life up until that point- an identity. I belonged to a tribe. We were called rockers! And boy did our music rock. My high school years (1985-1990) were a golden age for heavy metal. Iron Maiden, Alice Cooper, Ozzy, Metallica, Anthrax, and Guns 'N' Roses, to name but a few, all released monster albums during those years. Metal bands routinely sold out stadiums. I would be glued to MuchMusic (Canada's version of MTV for you Americans) from 5-6 PM for the awesome Power Hour! Of course I had to sit through more Poison and Motley Crue than I would have liked, but when Danzig's Under Her Black Wings or Sacred Reich's American Way or Overkill's Hello From the Gutter came on, it was more than worth it. Thrash metal eventually took over from the Accepts and Judas Priests of the world by playing faster, harder and with far less cheesy lyrics. I'll admit I was late to the black metal party, but when I heard it, I fell HARD for it. Where had this music been my whole life? Raw, aggressive, emotive, and fierce, this wasn't your dad's heavy metal. I say I fell hard, but that's not quite how it happened. When I returned to my job after a 3 month practicum they had hired on another metalhead. But he wasn't just "another" metalhead. When he discovered I was a fan as well, he immediately played me Dimmu Borgir's Progenies of the Great Apocalypse on YouTube. HOLY SH!T! That was the most epic 3:36 of my life! Funnily enough I couldn't get into the vocals at first. Maybe not so funny, as the shrieks and gurgles can be an acquired taste. But the music was awesome! The blast beats, the guitar playing (which I now know is called tremolo picking), and the vocals I had never heard done like that before. And to top it off the whole black metal aesthetic was so, well, EVIL. After a few more listens, I decided I really did love the shrieking. It suited the lyrics and music to a T. I can't say I'm a black metal purist (it's called TRVE KVLT) or an elitist, like many of this niche sub-genre's fans. In fact, I don't care if it's blackened thrash, blackened death, black 'n' roll, symphonic, folk, medieval or "castle", psychedelic, melodic, atmospheric, avant garde, industrial, or the tried and true orthodox Norwegian black metal. As long as it's got those piercing, shrieked screams of a soul in apparent torment, it's probably going to stir my blood and put a smile of ferocious joy on my face. And that's where I'm at today. As far as the traditional heavy metal and thrash goes, I prefer the bands of my youth. But thanks in part to the hard work of the people behind such sites as No Clean Singing I'm always on the lookout (or is that listenout?) for new black metal sounds. I'm fascinated how this small sub-genre , which nonetheless has legions of fans across the globe and so many talented musicians among its ranks, has grown and taken their music into so many unpredictable directions. And unlike other genres (I won't name them here) I don't think black metal will grow stale any time soon, with all the genre-pushing. Yea, I'm a heavy metal lifer. And I wouldn't have it any other way. Some people look down on my music as fit for only dumb kids. Others call it noise. And yea, it's noisy and when I listen to it I feel like I'm a teenager again, full of energy, anger, and excitement. So in that respect I suppose they're right. It's funny, what started out as a simple question, to myself as much as to others, has morphed into a multi-paragraph love letter to heavy metal music. What's even funnier, I've barely even scratched the surface. But beneath that surface beats a metal heart.
  11. So then basically a person could be in prison for literally the rest of their life, no matter the circumstances surrounding the murder? According to that concept Dakota Pratt, who was sentenced to 5 years for killing a home intruder who was stabbing him in the head in the middle of the night, could potentially spend the rest of his life behind bars, if Vincent Bunn's family is sufficiently tearful. Makes no sense.
  12. I have a bit of a short fuse and have occasionally lashed out online but never said anything like that. I'd never say something like that because a person had a different opinion to mine. Usually it's in response to something offensive they had said.
  13. Officially 7 years and 8 months of insomnia. If it wasn't for the fact there is so much metal I still want to listen to I'd say death would be preferable.

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    2. buddhahoodlum

      buddhahoodlum

      AJ- I empathize with you brother. Physically I'm just beat down. Even though I'm often awake all morning I can't get out of bed before 930. I've lost 60-70% of my brain power. I have very little short and long term memory and have a hard time conversing and thinking. Oddly enough however, these past 4 months I've been writing more poetry than at any other time in the past 20 years. I had to quit my job in April this year because I was physically and mentally a wreck. And it sucks. I feel like a loser, a failure. I don't look like someone who has a disability. In fact, I look like someone who's maybe had a rough night or two is all. Not almost 8 years. And since I quit work all I do is sit in front of my computer all day, almost every day. And I'm constantly in pain because of it. It's hopeless. And yet I still try to fashion some sort of a life for myself, Even if it's just a shell of my old one. It is what it is. 

    3. Alflives

      Alflives

      @buddhahoodlum

      Thanks for the update.  

      I read somewhere (can’t remember) that insomnia is far more prevalent in really smart, creative people.  It’s like their minds just don’t shut off.  

       

    4. buddhahoodlum

      buddhahoodlum

      Lol I'm definitely not smart at all. But I'm pretty good with words. And funnily enough, pre-insomnia it would take me at least an hour to fall asleep because of the reason you mentioned- hyperactive mind. But once insomnia struck I found I was often falling asleep within 20 minutes, when I slept at all that is. 

  14. Sorry DLC don't know how you got quoted there.
  15. Ok pal, take a chill pill pal. Why do I have to list sources I do trust, pal? Because I don't trust any of them, pal. I've listed plenty of reasons why we shouldn't blindly trust government or scientists, and I want to have the choice of whether and what Big Pharma's drugs go into my body. Yes I can choose not to eat out or go to hockey games, but I have to now be vaccinated to work it seems. So is the government going to pay people to sit at home who don't want a vaccine? Doubt it. So that is effectively making the vaccine mandatory. Also, the bolded is the absolute weakest argument I've ever seen from the pro-vaccine crowd (hate using that word and antivaxxer as they simplify a complex issue and pit people against each other but so be it). Your answer to me saying don't blindly trust the data is to tell me to blindly trust the data. What a refutation! I'm sick of the weak "reasoning" from you pro-do-whatever-the-government-tells-you-to-do crowd.
  16. If this meant ticket prices would drop I'd be all for it, but they won't so I'm not.
  17. I posted this in my status but I think it should really be here as I am interested in hearing the pro-vaccine crowd's rebuttal, if there is one. It's kind of funny that the best response that the pro-vaccine crowd seems able to come up with is trust the experts (FTR I'm not anti-vaccine, just pro-choice) , yet it's a bunch of experts who allowed the virus to escape their lab in the first place. In fact, it's due to the negligence and/or criminal actions of the so-called experts that have caused many of the problems of the 20th and 21st centuries. Nuclear waste, the literal 1000's of toxic chemicals that are poisoning the planet, forced sterilization, experiments on Jews in Germany (we don't dare call them doctors, we have to use the term Nazis instead, but they were totally doctors), infecting people with diseases and chemicals without their knowledge to gauge their body's reaction. I mean the list is damn near endless. Then there is the malfeasance, bribery, and lack of accountability and transparency that plague our Knights In Shining Armour AKA Big Pharma that everyone seems to forget about. Here's a few for your reading pleasure: https://corporatewatch.org/pfizer-six-scandals-to-remember/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_pharmaceutical_settlements So tell me again why I should trust my health to the very companies that have proven time and time again that they put profits before people? #mybodymychoice
  18. You'd think it would be illegal to deny someone access to a business based on your medical or health status. I believe it's called discrimination. 

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    2. Drakrami

      Drakrami

      You are joking right? It's a contagious virus, it means your status actually puts other people at risk - at risk of catching the diseases and dying. If a business or government wants to create an environment with a certain degree of safety, that's called being responsible. You can take your freedom and discrimination free to use card elsewhere - once the world returns to some normalcy - when people aren't entering ICUs daily. 

    3. VforVasili

      VforVasili

      So what you are saying @buddhahoodlum, is that we should take the other option of locking everyone down? Because that is the other option. How would it be fair to lock down all the small businesses and all the people who are doublevaxxed for the sake of a handful of numbskulls who decide that far right websites and Fox news are a better source of information than the actual health authorities?

       

      If you and other succeed in convincing the government that vaccine passports are immoral, the only other option is to lock everyone down. They are not going to just pretend it doesn't exist.

    4. Curmudgeon

      Curmudgeon

      My wife has a friend who, along with her husband, refuses to wear a mask or to be vaccinated. She said that she didn't need either of those things because Jesus would protect her. And she actually believed that. The same woman is now all hurt because all the other ladies in their social/service group, many of them with long term health issues, want nothing to do with her. 

       

      Getting vaccinated is not some unpleasant duty that an evil government is making you perform; getting vaccinated is the intelligent action taken to safeguard not only your own health, but the health of others. It is part of the price we must pay towards a healthy, functioning society. It is your duty as a citizen to respect not only the rights of the individual, but the rights of the group as well. 

       

      Sorry but  your right to choose does not overrule my right to exist in as healthy a population as possible. Get vaccinated and shut up about it.

  19. F You can read which is good. But I think you lack reading comprehension. I am NOT comparing vaccines to the Nazis in the slightest. I thought that was clear. I was using what happened in Germany as an example of how liberties are eroded over time, and how it is always done in the name of what's best for society. I also don't like the fact that we are having vaccines forced on us when, as I stated earlier, governments, scientists, and doctors can't always be trusted to act in the public's best interest. I don't know why so many people think that government is suddenly our friend. Oh wait I do know. It's because so many of us got those nice fat CERB checks for sitting on our collective @sses. As a final argument, I just want to remind everyone, that in the 20th century something in the number of 260 million people died by democide. That is, killed by government.
  20. Oh wow FDA approval! Yea because that mean's something, right? Please tell me again why we should blindly trust any government agency, scientist, or doctor? https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/05/09/527575055/one-third-of-new-drugs-had-safety-problems-after-fda-approval https://www.mdlinx.com/article/10-dangerous-drugs-recalled-by-the-fda/lfc-4008 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/hidden-conflicts-pharma-payments-fda-advisers-after-drug-approvals-spark-ethical
  21. While I respect your opinion Alf and of other in the pro-vaccine crowd (I'm not an antivaxxer at all and have had my first shot) I am vehemently against making vaccines mandatory. It smacks of authoritarianism. I guess this proves once and for all it's the government that owns my body not me. My body, my choice doesn't apply to what goes in my body in this case. I'm being asked, nay, told, to put a vaccine in my body that was rushed to production and quite frankly it's scary how quickly the media and the pro-vaccine crowd dismiss our concerns about it's safety, both long term and short term. It's like we're children and Big Brother is telling us they know better. I'd also like to point out that curtailing liberties while saying it is for the safety of society is something dictators do. The Nazis took away the rights of Jews, incrementally I might add, by claiming it was best for German society. And liberties once taken are rarely given back. So, we don't have the right to choose what goes into our bodies. And the claim, likely true, but given the media are mostly lying toadies in bed with big business, it is still up for debate, that the unvaccinated are taking up ICU units is all well and good. But then, why not ban alcohol, tobacco, sugar, and excessive salt? These all put people into the hospital needlessly and take up tax dollars. We should expect to have all our lives micromanaged by government because they know best apparently. Also, the pro-vaccine crowd may blindly believe what they're told by those in authority, be they doctors, scientists, and politicians, but we have seen far, far too many times where the public were deceived. Sometimes unintentionally, often otherwise. These 2 links to articles (yes it's Wiki but that doesn't make them false) are but a small sample of the crimes and mistakes of the medical and scientific community. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientific_misconduct_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation
  22. RIP Eric Wagner of Trouble. https://www.metalsucks.net/2021/08/23/ex-trouble-the-skull-singer-eric-wagner-dies-of-covid-19/
  23. RIP Eric Wagner of Trouble.

  24. That was beautifully written. What a career. Wish he could have won a Cup.
  25. I don't think he has to be Top 4 for the duration of his contract for the trade to be considered good. If he gives us 4 productive years with at least 1 conference final I'd consider that a win for the good guys (by good guys I mean the Canucks, as there are many who post on CDC who are clearly not fans of this team. Figured I needed to spell that out).
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