The geriatric thread! haha. Just kidding.

I just have to say that I find it really cool that there's many people who've never lost interest in their music as all these years went by, and on the contrary, it still is a great part of their lives.

Poor Elio, he messed with the wrong crowd. By the way, you guys should turn this thread into like a metal bible teaching the youth and future generations the path to true metal grandeur.

Written by hanna of steel on 14.10.2009 at 12:49

What a wonderful thread

I guess I qualify - I'm certainly old enough ...

But , in other ways I am still young - I haven't been listening to metal for all that long - 3 years or so.
I'm still learning and totally useless at deciding genres

Welcome to the club. I'm curious too as to how your interest in metal came about. As you can tell, most of us here grew up with it. Don't worry about genres; enjoy what you enjoy. Genres are only really useful as a sort of shorthand for describing the type of stuff you tend to like or dislike to other metalheads.

Written by hanna of steel on 14.10.2009 at 12:49

On the subject of children - yes I have three , although they don't really qualify as children any more as the youngest just turned 20 :p
Due to bad parenting none of them like metal

My oldest is my 15 year old daughter. I also have three sons 11, 9 and 7. All of them are metalheads, as is my wife. Took my oldest son to his first gig recently.

Written by Haddonfield on 16.10.2009 at 02:14

Poor Elio, he messed with the wrong crowd. By the way, you guys should turn this thread into like a metal bible teaching the youth and future generations the path to true metal grandeur.

Yes he did. Never forget, we invented the mosh pit.

Written by Derwood on 16.10.2009 at 16:55

Written by Haddonfield on 16.10.2009 at 02:14

Poor Elio, he messed with the wrong crowd. By the way, you guys should turn this thread into like a metal bible teaching the youth and future generations the path to true metal grandeur.

Yes he did. Never forget, we invented the mosh pit.

Didn't Sid Vicious and some punks invent the mosh pit?

Written by Haddonfield on 16.10.2009 at 17:12

Didn't Sid Vicious and some punks invent the mosh pit?

That was slam dancing, not moshing. Technical difference

I was meaning in a generational sense, anyways.

Written by Derwood on 16.10.2009 at 05:49


Welcome to the club. I'm curious too as to how your interest in metal came about. As you can tell, most of us here grew up with it. Don't worry about genres; enjoy what you enjoy. Genres are only really useful as a sort of shorthand for describing the type of stuff you tend to like or dislike to other metalheads.

Written by hanna of steel on 14.10.2009 at 12:49

On the subject of children - yes I have three , although they don't really qualify as children any more as the youngest just turned 20 :p
Due to bad parenting none of them like metal

My oldest is my 15 year old daughter. I also have three sons 11, 9 and 7. All of them are metalheads, as is my wife. Took my oldest son to his first gig recently.

I don't really know why metal suddenly seemed to appeal to me .
I suppose I heard a few tracks which roused my curiosity and it grew from there ..

Either that or I am having a second go at my teenage "rebellious" years
It seems to be the music which means most to me these days.

As I said I had a guy who showed me the way to the good bands , or the ones he thought were good anyway.
And , of course , this site has helped a lot .

I do like quite a selection of different styles , and I'm always open to listening to any band - however weird.


Well done with your children , hopefully they will stay metalheads .

This thread is funny.

Written by BloodTears on 18.10.2009 at 17:01

This thread is funny.

why? we shood live 12 yearsmore and we belong here to

Written by Bad English on 18.10.2009 at 17:41

Written by BloodTears on 18.10.2009 at 17:01

This thread is funny.

why? we shood live 12 yearsmore and we belong here to

14 years for me, its such a short time, .

Nice to see that an 'old farts' thread like this exists. Damn, only less than four years and I'll belong to the club (bringing a whole new generation of metalheads, as I started listening to metal when I was 16, in 1994...).

But, while waiting for admittance in this oh-so-select club I'll sit next to fire fire to listen to your stories of ages gone by, oh great old ones

Edit: come to think of it, I don't know if I'll belong one day as I still have long hairs and my hairline has only receded a bit, and it seems to be fine right now

Written by BloodTears on 18.10.2009 at 17:01

This thread is funny.

Run away, they hate kids.







Or they hate me, I dunno

Written by Elio on 18.10.2009 at 20:06

Written by BloodTears on 18.10.2009 at 17:01

This thread is funny.

Run away, they hate kids.







Or they hate me, I dunno

no they love process how you make kids

Seriously now, who doesn't.

Kids?! Who are you calling a kid? I'm 23! I'm old ok? lol

Written by BloodTears on 18.10.2009 at 21:24

Kids?! Who are you calling a kid? I'm 23! I'm old ok? lol

Well you can call Elio to kid he's 19 and younger LoL

Written by Bad English on 18.10.2009 at 21:42

Written by BloodTears on 18.10.2009 at 21:24

Kids?! Who are you calling a kid? I'm 23! I'm old ok? lol

Well you can call Elio to kid he's 19 and younger LoL

We three are all kids compared to them. We should GTFO before they call the security.

Written by Elio on 18.10.2009 at 21:54

Written by Bad English on 18.10.2009 at 21:42

Written by BloodTears on 18.10.2009 at 21:24

Kids?! Who are you calling a kid? I'm 23! I'm old ok? lol

Well you can call Elio to kid he's 19 and younger LoL

We three are all kids compared to them. We should GTFO before they call the security.

You're fearless, they got you once but you keep coming back for more. I must give you credit for determination.

Ah shit...who left the door open and let all the riff raff in?

If you young uns aren't careful we'll start in on the "When I was your age..." stories.

Written by Derwood on 19.10.2009 at 04:06

If you young uns aren't careful we'll start in on the "When I was your age..." stories.

I'm just waiting for it

Written by Derwood on 13.10.2009 at 03:42

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 13.10.2009 at 03:23

That is my biggest gripe about metal. The people at those fests are bleeding braindead morons that do give metal a bad name imo,

Wow, do you ever sound like a bitter old guy sitting on his porch bitching about "kids these days..."

I knew it was only a matter of time before this thread went down that road, but I didn't expect it to be quite this quickly!

This is certainly why Marcel title has been 'Grumpy Old Man' for quite a long time ....

All you young uns fucking leave this thread. You come in and see what happens? All spam posts once again.

WARNING any youngester (under 35 that is) who comes in here and posts a useless post (like loads of the ones posted by you kids here just now) will get ban... Mwahahahahaha

Written by Irritable Ted on 19.10.2009 at 15:51

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 19.10.2009 at 15:27

All you young uns fucking leave this thread. You come in and see what happens? All spam posts once again.

WARNING any youngester (under 35 that is) who comes in here and posts a useless post (like loads of the ones posted by you kids here just now) will get ban... Mwahahahahaha

If I show photo ID can I come in? The youth of today etc etc, TV is not what it used to be, in my day children had respect, I'm sure BigMacs used to be bigger and so on.

Lemme guess... you're from 1973, so then you're welcome to come and join us

Lots of the young crowd running amok in here. there goes the neighborhood...

Written by Irritable Ted on 19.10.2009 at 15:57


Hangovers don't seem to last longer, but the time it takes my ears to recover from a concert is taking longer, are earplugs worth it?

Marcel is a huge advocate of earplugs at gigs.

I'm usually ok, but you can bet your ass i'll have some next time i catch High on Fire... my right ear was ringing and useless for about two days after that gig.

Written by Irritable Ted on 19.10.2009 at 15:57

but the time it takes my ears to recover from a concert is taking longer, are earplugs worth it?

Liek the Bitter Old Man posting before me said... I am a huge advocate of earplugs. They are certainly worth it imo.

I worked in a saw mill for thirteen years and played in a band for a couple...yeah earplugs are definitely worthwhile. They can actually make the music clearer by cutting down the extraneous noise.

To quote a favourite song:

"Sometimes my head hurts and sometimes my stomach hurts
And I guess that it won't be long before I'm sitting in a room
With a bunch of people whose necks and backs are aching
Whose sight and hearing's fading, who just can't seem to get it up...

I'm an adult now..."
-"I'm an Adult Now" - The Pursuit of Happiness

On the other hand, there's fellow Canadians Kick Axe's take:

"If it's too loud, you're too old"

All right, I'm off to listen to some cheesy Canadian hair metal...

Written by Derwood on 20.10.2009 at 04:12

I worked in a saw mill for thirteen years and played in a band for a couple...yeah earplugs are definitely worthwhile. They can actually make the music clearer by cutting down the extraneous noise.

To quote a favourite song:

"Sometimes my head hurts and sometimes my stomach hurts
And I guess that it won't be long before I'm sitting in a room
With a bunch of people whose necks and backs are aching
Whose sight and hearing's fading, who just can't seem to get it up...

I'm an adult now..."
-"I'm an Adult Now" - The Pursuit of Happiness

On the other hand, there's fellow Canadians Kick Axe's take:

"If it's too loud, you're too old"

All right, I'm off to listen to some cheesy Canadian hair metal...

i used to have that tape. saw the video for "An Adult Now" on MTV's Post Modern. liked that song a lot.

Written by Derwood on 21.10.2009 at 20:33

Written by Darkside Momo on 21.10.2009 at 20:21

Well, before this melodeath/Gothenburg debate blows out of proportions...

Old-timers ( ) and death metal purists ( re ) consider melodath to be, as the name implies, death metal with melodies. Check, say, Edge Of Sanity or older Amorphis.
The Gothenburg scene started playing melodeath according to this definition, best examples are At The Gates and old Dark Tranquillity (Skydancer, The Gallery). The scene gradually evolved, losing more and more of its death elements and growing somewhat closer to their heavy/thrash metal roots - but certainly not to the extend of extrem power like Children Of Bodom;
BUT, they were still labelled as melodeath, which infuriates said old timers and death purists, while the young kiddies ( again) are sure the actual Gothenburg scene are playing melodeath.

That's about it.

After a post like that Darkside Momo, I'm granting you honorary "Old Fart Metalstormer" status and giving you a pass to the clubhouse.

Ah ah thanks a lot!
I promise to come here with a walking stick and complain about how my body fails me (it does), and how the world is not what it used to be (it really isn't)

How are you all paronoiamaniac fake old cute children. Ugh, youre old but cute as children to make one member ignored,

Welcome to our new honorary member then