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I'm a 22 year old male who has always been heavily into music. My first memories of being exposed to music are from a very young age, around 3 or 4 when I began to take notice. I was exposed to a lot of classic heavy metal from the seventies and eighties thanks to my uncle who has also always been a metalhead. Music he would give to me varied from Black Sabbath to Iron Maiden to Twisted Sister. Now that I think about it, it was him who introduced me to EyeHateGod as well... My mom also had a decent taste in music but it wasn't as heavy, it was more based on rock and post-punk, genres which I still appreciate to this day, but aren't as relevant in this introduction. So over the years I've developed a taste for many different genres of metal such as Doom, Thrash, Black, Power, etc. Although I'm aware of a lot of metal bands I'm not really as into the metal scene as I once was... I've seen a few metal bands live which I enjoyed such as Metallica and System Of A Down (please don't make fun of me) ;_; And I also kind of wanted to get back into a forum community where I could discuss music since the forum I used to go to has been dead for a long time. I used to post on All Metal Forums under the same username from 2009 - 2013. I have a last.fm but I haven't logged in in a while but all the music I listen to is still scrobbled to there so if you want to see that here's a link - andukaru?s Music Profile ? Users at Last.fm I play the bass guitar and the drums. I've played both on and off for many years and I like to think I'm okay at them. Um well if there's anything else you want to know just ask. Cheers.

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Thank you! I saw SOAD last year in Amsterdam and they put on a live show in the Ziggo Dome and the venue was packed! Everyone was really into it. I didn't know any of the support bands as I think a lot of them were Dutch but they were good nonetheless. I would really like to see Fear Factory live as I've always thought they were a really good Industrial Metal band or whatever they are classed as. SOAD played a lot of their old stuff and some of their mid 2000s stuff so everyone was happy. Also kind of a noob question but when I reply the box goes white and I can't actually see what I'm typing unless I highlight it so how can I change that?

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Oh, that white box thing is an annoying glitch. There's nothing we can do about it at the moment, although it seems to have been less frequent over the past couple of weeks. Hopefully it won't happen every time you try to post, but if it does, all you can do is be patient... If you're using a phone, the Tapatalk app isn't affected, thankfully.

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It doesn't seem to be happening now in the quick reply so that's a relief. I don't really mind touch typing but it helps me think if I can see what I've written. And thank you ~Mere~ for the welcome :) I hope to stick around. Also if anyone has any music recommendations feel free to throw them at me and I'll try and get around to giving it a listen when I have some free time.

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I've got a dark field that I'm typing light words into just now, So nice. I'm new also, and imagine that Scotland is hella-Metal. If it is not, please don't tell me 'cus I don't wanna know, but I picture deep dark stone cellars filled with scads of heavy doom bands all dour and shit. "Funking Mental" is that not what you say?

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Scotland certainly has it's hella metal aspects. I won't disappoint you by talking about the non-metal aspects but there are loads of forests to listen to Black Metal in! Our history is pretty metal too, being a bunch of crazy warriors and such. But honestly where I'm from in the North of Scotland it's kinda dead and there isn't really much of a music scene but there were a few local metal guitarists I've jammed with in the past.

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BlutAusNerd I certainly remember seeing your username around All Metal Forums! I was wondering whether you were the same dude or whether it was just a common play on words about the Black Metal band lol.
I haven't seen anyone else with the SN, and I don't use it for every forum I have been on, but it is also my SN for rateyourmusic.com. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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