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#476
#476
I went to many metal concerts in my youth(mid 90s to early 2000s). A bunch of them out of state. No band could top Pantera in their prime. Bar none the most aggressive shows I have ever witnessed.
 
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#477
#477
FLVOL_79 said:
I started off learning classical guitar. Then I heard Ever Dying and Opeth's first album and was like, "time to learn metal". I had Van Halen and some Satriani down. Then it became In Flames, At The Gates, dark Tranquillity. Opeth, etc. At one point in time I knew how to play every song from At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul, In Flames - Subterranean, Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery.
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In Flames (along with some other bands like Iced Earth, Jag Panzer, Dream Theater, Angel Dust, Opeth, and Blind Guardian) were the soundtrack of my 20's! I loved their album Whoracle! I played that album over and over! Food For The Gods was my personal favorite!
 
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#479
trevols81 said:
I went to many metal concerts in my youth(mid 90s to early 2000s). A bunch of them out of state. No band could top Pantera in their prime. Bar none the most aggressive shows I have ever witnessed.
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I saw Pantera open for Sabbath in 99..it was awesome! Pantera was bad ass.
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
In Flames (along with some other bands like Iced Earth, Jag Panzer, Dream Theater, Angel Dust, Opeth, and Blind Guardian) were the soundtrack of my 20's! I loved their album Whoracle! I played that album over and over! Food For The Gods was my personal favorite!
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Those were my high school days! I loved Whoracle. Heard Episode 666 on Sat radio the other day.
 
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#483
FLVOL_79 said:
Gojira is bad ass.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAZLmfLk3l0[/youtube]
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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efofJjBGyNA[/youtube] My personal favorite of Gojira. Mario's leg control is simply amazing. The chugging rhythm in this track that locks in with the drums is unreal!
 
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dduncan4163 said:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efofJjBGyNA[/youtube] My personal favorite of Gojira. Mario's leg control is simply amazing. The chugging rhythm in this track that locks in with the drums is unreal!
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Good song to listen to before a fight.
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
I saw Pantera open for Sabbath in 99..it was awesome! Pantera was bad ass.
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I actually have a cool story about Pantera(LONG).

Eight of us piled in a van and went to Oak Mountain in Birmingham for a show. It was the tour they co-headlined with White Zombie after they released The Great Southern Trendkill. We had seats under the covered part of the amphitheatre. The opening act was a terrible bad called EyeHateGod. They were practically booed off the stage midway through their set.

Once White Zombie started their set our entire group rushed to the front of the stage with just about everyone else in the seated area. Zombie put on a real good show. This was the second time I had caught one of their concerts and it was much more theatrical than the first show.

Pantera opened with a cloth covering the entire stage to the song Suicide Note Pt. 1. As soon as the first song ended the curtain dropped and the broke into Suicide Note Pt. 2. Bad ass! They had a wall of amps as their backdrop and it was night and day compared to the Zombie show. No gimmicks just ass kicking metal music.

Anyways, we were so close to the stage I caught guitar pics someone real close to me got a drumstick and we were slapping hands with Rob Zombie and Phil when Pantera was on stage. They had roadies to either sides of the stage who were handing out something made of cloth to mostly just hot girls. Well we just so happened to have 4 smoking chicks with us this evening and two of them got these pieces of cloth which turned out to be backstage passes for after the show.

So after the show those two went backstage and the rest of us waited around the area where they entered. I was just walking around the tour buses when a random guy approached me and he had a backstage pass. He said "hey man, see if this thing works to get you in and if it does come back and get me." I said sure, I will man. Never saw the guy again.

I went back stage and meet up with my friends who just so happened to be talking with Vinnie and Dimebag(Rex and Phil weren't backstage and I never saw anybody from Zombie). Those two were the nicest guys. They talked with anyone who approached them and signed autographs for everyone. They were taking shots of Jack and drinking beer in between shots. We left shortly there after and this was the coolest experience I have ever had at a concert.

Just a few short years later some crazy guy killed Dimebag while he was playing in Ohio and robbed this world of one of the best guitar players in heavy metal.

Here are some pics of my concert ticket that they signed:

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#493
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trevols81 said:
I actually have a cool story about Pantera(LONG).

Eight of us piled in a van and went to Oak Mountain in Birmingham for a show. It was the tour they co-headlined with White Zombie after they released The Great Southern Trendkill. We had seats under the covered part of the amphitheatre. The opening act was a terrible bad called EyeHateGod. They were practically booed off the stage midway through their set.

Once White Zombie started their set our entire group rushed to the front of the stage with just about everyone else in the seated area. Zombie put on a real good show. This was the second time I had caught one of their concerts and it was much more theatrical than the first show.

Pantera opened with a cloth covering the entire stage to the song Suicide Note Pt. 1. As soon as the first song ended the curtain dropped and the broke into Suicide Note Pt. 2. Bad ass! They had a wall of amps as their backdrop and it was night and day compared to the Zombie show. No gimmicks just ass kicking metal music.

Anyways, we were so close to the stage I caught guitar pics someone real close to me got a drumstick and we were slapping hands with Rob Zombie and Phil when Pantera was on stage. They had roadies to either sides of the stage who were handing out something made of cloth to mostly just hot girls. Well we just so happened to have 4 smoking chicks with us this evening and two of them got these pieces of cloth which turned out to be backstage passes for after the show.

So after the show those two went backstage and the rest of us waited around the area where they entered. I was just walking around the tour buses when a random guy approached me and he had a backstage pass. He said "hey man, see if this thing works to get you in and if it does come back and get me." I said sure, I will man. Never saw the guy again.

I went back stage and meet up with my friends who just so happened to be talking with Vinnie and Dimebag(Rex and Phil weren't backstage and I never saw anybody from Zombie). Those two were the nicest guys. They talked with anyone who approached them and signed autographs for everyone. They were taking shots of Jack and drinking beer in between shots. We left shortly there after and this was the coolest experience I have ever had at a concert.

Just a few short years later some crazy guy killed Dimebag while he was playing in Ohio and robbed this world of one of the best guitar players in heavy metal.

Here are some pics of my concert ticket that they signed:

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Very Cool Story Hoss
 
#494
#494
trevols81 said:
I actually have a cool story about Pantera(LONG).

Eight of us piled in a van and went to Oak Mountain in Birmingham for a show. It was the tour they co-headlined with White Zombie after they released The Great Southern Trendkill. We had seats under the covered part of the amphitheatre. The opening act was a terrible bad called EyeHateGod. They were practically booed off the stage midway through their set.

Once White Zombie started their set our entire group rushed to the front of the stage with just about everyone else in the seated area. Zombie put on a real good show. This was the second time I had caught one of their concerts and it was much more theatrical than the first show.

Pantera opened with a cloth covering the entire stage to the song Suicide Note Pt. 1. As soon as the first song ended the curtain dropped and the broke into Suicide Note Pt. 2. Bad ass! They had a wall of amps as their backdrop and it was night and day compared to the Zombie show. No gimmicks just ass kicking metal music.

Anyways, we were so close to the stage I caught guitar pics someone real close to me got a drumstick and we were slapping hands with Rob Zombie and Phil when Pantera was on stage. They had roadies to either sides of the stage who were handing out something made of cloth to mostly just hot girls. Well we just so happened to have 4 smoking chicks with us this evening and two of them got these pieces of cloth which turned out to be backstage passes for after the show.

So after the show those two went backstage and the rest of us waited around the area where they entered. I was just walking around the tour buses when a random guy approached me and he had a backstage pass. He said "hey man, see if this thing works to get you in and if it does come back and get me." I said sure, I will man. Never saw the guy again.

I went back stage and meet up with my friends who just so happened to be talking with Vinnie and Dimebag(Rex and Phil weren't backstage and I never saw anybody from Zombie). Those two were the nicest guys. They talked with anyone who approached them and signed autographs for everyone. They were taking shots of Jack and drinking beer in between shots. We left shortly there after and this was the coolest experience I have ever had at a concert.

Just a few short years later some crazy guy killed Dimebag while he was playing in Ohio and robbed this world of one of the best guitar players in heavy metal.

Here are some pics of my concert ticket that they signed:

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Awesome man!

The only cool story is that I bought some PBR's for Enslaved a few years ago in Orlando :eek:lol:
 
#495
#495
dduncan4163 said:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3Td8FXlOIo[/youtube]
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The last Dying Fetus album was bad ass from the first track to the last.

I still love this song from one of their McD's.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3rDRsEMay0[/youtube]
 
#496
#496
Anyone who hasn't listened to Volbeat should. Metal meets Rock meets Rockabilly meets Country from Denmark.

I bought their first album when I was over in Europe solely because it had VOL in the name..

From their fist album:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlW0uyL5zuI[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQlm_NXsy8o[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjJyN-1UvnM[/youtube]
 
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#497
#497
Gonna veer from metal for a bit (sadly)
Digging through my 2000's rock collection:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ewuKGRVEQM[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enJiLuH9YUA[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=junDtN-wnPo[/youtube]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D97O9PU2GnM[/youtube]

And I always have this 311 song on rotation when I crank the pool music (everyone likes it!)
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWo-02Hsab4[/youtube]
 
#499
#499
FLVOL_79 said:
Awesome man!

The only cool story is that I bought some PBR's for Enslaved a few years ago in Orlando :eek:lol:
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Yeah, that's the only truly cool story I have besides seeing many other great hard rock/metal shows.

I pulled that ticket out of storage to take those two pictures and I did not realize it was in 96. That means I was 15 at the time. Everyone else in the group was 17 to in their early twenties. I was the runt:)
 
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#500
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trevols81 said:
Yeah, that's the only truly cool story I have besides seeing many other great hard rock/metal shows.

I pulled that ticket out of storage to take those two pictures and I did not realize it was in 96. That means I was 15 at the time. Everyone else in the group was 17 to in their early twenties. I was the runt:)
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An awesome story. Its a damn shame some lunatic had to shoot Dimebag. Damn shame.
 
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