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Metal?
Zayl
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I like to listen to heavy, violent music on occasion (examples will be linked below) and it instills a certain primal feeling in me. There is nothing quite like cutting loose and headbanging or going to a concert and moshing around with random people. I like the strength and power the songs generally glorify, and how brutal it can be.
So my question is this, which bands do you like? any particular songs? and does listening to any of it interfere with proper practice for you?
Here are some songs I like, feel free to check them out!
Sepultura - Ratamahatta
Lamb of God - Break You
Dethklok - The Gears
Amon Amarth - No Fear for the Setting Sun
The Black Dahlia Murder - Warborn
Enjoy!
So my question is this, which bands do you like? any particular songs? and does listening to any of it interfere with proper practice for you?
Here are some songs I like, feel free to check them out!
Sepultura - Ratamahatta
Lamb of God - Break You
Dethklok - The Gears
Amon Amarth - No Fear for the Setting Sun
The Black Dahlia Murder - Warborn
Enjoy!
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As for proper practice... you know it's about intention... what do you get out of it? You're in a much better position to examine why you listen to it than anyone else.
Personally I did get a lot of my identity from the music I listened to and I don't think that was right intent. Now I just like to observe the complexities of the songs, so the genres of music I listen to have expanded greatly.
Sarah Brightman
Within Temptation
I hear but I don't attach to them nowadays.
As far as the question, imo, it all depends on you... perception, actions, reactions. There isn't anything inherently wrong with loud, aggressive, brutal, face melting metal
Fear Factory - Mechanize
Behemoth - Daimonos
Gojira - Heaviest Matter in the Universe
Meshuggah - Rational Gaze
some of my favorites.
I don't think it interferes with my practice. I readily acknowledge that the feelings of power and release of my anger are impermanent. i don't obsess over the bands or anything.
http://www.thenoblesearch.com/menu.html
http://www.myspace.com/unclenchedfists
...at the end the mad guys are the good?
Wunderschöne Grafiken
WHAT COULD BUDDHISM HAVE TO DO WITH HEAVY METAL? ...
http://theworsthorse.com/nated/nated-1.html
Journey of a Dream is a heavy metal story of a Tibetan refugee.
It is a feature length documentary that will take audiences on an epic,
global journey into heavy metal music, exile, Buddhism and Tibetan roots.
http://www.journeyofadreammovie.com/
Mastodon
Lamb of God
And justice for all album from metallica
dream theater
Divine heresy
mudvayn
pantera
killswitch engage
Awesome stuff! Thanks!
Because: ...the memory remains!
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Even you walk on the "Crazy train" you will end up in this :-)
(the hand, not the banging head)
I also like progressive metal and folk metal.
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Well according to Dio the metal artist who used the hand sign for Metal. It was used by his Italian Aunt or grandmother who used it to stop the "Evil Eye"
Its a wrathful mudra.
And its very metal.
At the time though we lived out in the country so I had little exposure to music (no cable, so no MTV, for example). And nobody at my school listened to metal music. So pretty much my sister's Metallica tapes and my parent's Black Sabbath records were the only sources of heavy music I had.
A year later we moved into town. I quickly made friends with several metalheads in my new school, plus we finally had cable and thus MTV. I'd watch Headbanger's Ball religiously. Between that and my new friends I was discovering new metal bands left and right. From Metallica and Sabbath I got into bands like Iron Maiden and Megadeth. I graduated from that to Slayer and Testament and so on it to heavier stuff: Sepultura, Morbid Angel, Entombed and on and on. Then by around 1996 I had burnt out on metal music. I kinda felt that I had heard everything there was to hear and that there were few really good bands out there and millions of sub-par clones.
I began checking out differing genres of music, especially electronic and industrial. A couple of years later I started looking into heavy stuff again and discovered black metal (Emperor and Burzum, especially, are my favorites of that genre).
Today I listen to a fair amount of metal music, but there's a lot of stuff that I listened to as a kid that does nothing for me now. I also listen to a lot of other stuff. I'm glad I took a break from metal for those couple of years because I greatly expanded my musical horizons during that time. On the heavier side of things my favorite bands now are Neurosis (whom I hold in near reverence and take my username here from), Mastodon (Crack the Skye is the metal album of the decade as far as I'm concerned), and Nile.
I can certainly tell you that after being an avid metal fan and musician who's dedicated ridiculous amounts of time to meticulously learning BTBAM songs and such for hours and hours of immersion a day then listening to nearly only soft music that heavy music causes a lot of anxiousness and even anguish with grindcore and such. You don't realise it because metal typically consumes the artistic tastes of a metalhead.
I know if I listen to BTBAM I do it more for musical prowess like the feelings I get when I listen to Shostakovich or Stravinsky, however, when I listen to As Blood Runs Black breakdowns I want to fucking break faces.
I likes me some drone. :uphand:
I will say growling bores me to tears after a while, so I tend to stay away from such bands.
Are you kidding? Those are some of the biggest names in metal...
Marylin Manson, Rammstein, Slipknot, and system are great bands, but their not metal.
If a band is not listed at the Metal Archives it's not metal sorry.
http://www.metal-archives.com/
Industrial, alt-metal, nu-metal are not considered metal.
Marylin is rock.
Edit: Slipknot is actually on that website... not that it matters.
I didn't realize the Metal Archives was the arbitrator of all things metal. You learn something new everyday.
I realize that some of the bands I've listed aren't technically metal (e.g., Psyclon Nine), but I figured they were close enough that people would get all anal about it. Guess I was wrong about that too.
As for things like alt-metal, nu-metal, etc., they're sub-genres of metal. I mean, when the word 'metal' appears in the category...
Well, I guess that settles it then. :rolleyes:
By lesser-known I simply meant bands the average person doesn't really know. I think a lot of people know who Metallica and Iron Maiden are, but outside of the internet a lot of people don't know about Gojira or Behemoth. Maybe it's just where I live.
Cool. I listened to a couple of the songs you linked to. Music is a weird thing isn't it? What we enjoy speaks volumes, but at the same time we speak nothing. The lyrics in the songs you linked to are unintelligible. Sure I could google them up, but I can't understand much of anything just from listening to the song itself.
Violence and angst and rage and fury are not inherently bad things. These are the kind of things the archetype of the warrior is naturally given to. According to Carl Jung this archetype is within all of us and it's really up to use to direct this energy to healthy pursuits rather than destructive ones.
So, I dunno, the links you gave really don't do anything for me personally, but I can recall a time when it would have.
If listening to this type of sound gets your blood pumping and emboldens you to take real risks for worthy causes then good for you. If it inspires you to abuse dead dogs then shame on you
If this sort of 'warrior' music gets your blood pumping in a direction that is good, beneficial and healthy then please keep on banging your head.
Nice. :cool:
I can tell you are a Stiff Little Fingers fan too by your avatar.
Actually it's a Massive Attack logo too
SLF aren't bad though.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Heavy-Metal-Buddhists/123804931016248
Mettal.
I am equally drawn to them because of the strong feelings the music and lyrics evoke in me. It is for this reason that I find it actually conducive to Buddhist practice. Because it brings me to a greater awareness of myself and my dark side.
Everything in moderation is best, however. Too much emphasis on the heavy stuff, and I find that I become depressed and angry. I also enjoy classical music while working, music for meditation (or which is meditative) for its spiritual or inspirational qualities, and anything really that requires awe-inspiring skills to pull off regardless of genre... I'd like to see Josh Grobin do vocals along with someone like Simone Simmons from Epica in a symphonic metal album, lol.
Mountain, Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Montrose, Deep Purple, etc.
I know some would say these are hard rock classics, but they are also the guys that invented heavy metal music.
Metal music will not interfere with your practice unless you buy into some of the negative shit that gets put into the music.
Growing up I listened to rock music and it's progressed into just about every genre for me.
If it sounds good then I'll listen to it. (music that is)
http://www.videosnice.com/video/NvgpTNSxKwM/ANDAIN-You-Once-Told-Me-+-lyrics-in-HQ.html
For example:
"Close your eyes
You can find all that you need in your mind
I close my eyes
And feel the water rise around me
Drown the beat of time
Let my senses fall away
I can see much clearer now I'm blind"
Cradle of Filth
Dimmu Borgir
Dry Kill Logic
HIM
Arch Enemy
In Flames (I really love In Flames!)
Deftones
Blind leads blind
stumblin' on through
pain and misery
Not aware of what we do
We fear the unknown
even our own shadow
It's hard to be here
but we don't dare to go
Too deaf to hear
Too blind to read
It's safer to grin and bare it
An open book
But we will not learn
Don't dare to leap
But good we yearn
An open chapter
with no real end
The world can't be owned
It's something that we borrow
Not aware of what we do