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My apologies for not introducing myself sooner. I'm Ollie from the wilds of Devon. Not much interesting to tell you about me I'm afraid. My tastes run mostly to 70's heavy stuff...Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, AC/DC, Motorhead...et and some stuff like Clutch, Scissorfight...etc. I play in a heavy rock band called Grifter...there's a thread in the "promote your band" bit...or have a look at http://www.facebook.com/grifterrock. I look forward to chatting with you all.

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I was hoping you'd say that, Priest are one of my all time favourite bands along with Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Angel Witch, always come back to those bands, Ollie I think your taste would be well suited to traditional power and doom metal as well, if you're interested I could PM you a short list of bands you might like

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Haha..have to admit I'm not a big metalcore fan. I saw Priest with the Scorpions a few years back, awesome gig. Angel Witch, yep, love 'em. I love a lot of NWOBHM stuff and quite a lot of doom stuff...not so much the real crawling slow stuff but stuff like Pentagram, Trouble, St Vitus, Cathedral, Candlemass...etc as well as some stoner stuff. I also have a soft spot for 80's thrash like Anthrax, Death Angel, Violence...etc.

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you are gonna fit in here for sure Ollie, I like almost everything with the exception of metalcore, nu-metal and industrial, I have a pretty large collection of power and doom metal, quite a bit of black and death metal, plus plenty of old school metal bands like Saxon, Angel Witch, Mercyful Fate and thrash i.e. Artillery, Megadeth, Annihilator etc

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oh yes please, I'm looking forward to that list, which reminds me I really should get back to my list of Australian bands, they aren't all obscure but most are complete unknown bands, mostly black and death metal though, until I started digging I had no idea how massive the extreme metal scene in my country is

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oh yes please' date=' I'm looking forward to that list, which reminds me I really should get back to my list of Australian bands, they aren't all obscure but most are complete unknown bands, mostly black and death metal though, until I started digging I had no idea how massive the extreme metal scene in my country is[/quote'] I was always confused when you would talk about thinking Australia's metal scene was small, but I have a bunch of Australian metal bands in my collection and haven't even begun to scratch the surface.
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I found a very Darkthrone-esque black metal band from Canberra (Australia's capital city) called Myrddraal' date=' absolutely worth checking out, a bunch more as well but that one stuck with me[/quote'] I've heard of them, but never actually listened to their material. My favorite Australian black metal band is probably Nazxul, whom Steve Hughes once drummed for. Awesome early-Emperor styled black metal, still savage, but with a great sense of melody. They played here a few years ago and they were really cool guys, but I guess I have yet to meet an Australian that wasn't cool.
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don't feel too bad, in addition to those bands my knowledge only extends to Steve Hughes other band Slaughter Lord, plus Mournful Congregation (Funeral Doom band) disEMBOWELMENT (proto Funeral Doom band) Voyager (progressive metal band) Vanishing Point (another progressive metal band) and Battalion (a Thrash band not overly talented)

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