I am writing this listening to decibel’s naagin, I know I know it’s and old song but i just discovered it and i am hooked. I mean worse than a junkie on coke hooked !!! The point of this post however is more than this, so don’t worry you are not wasting your time . I write this not knowing a hell lot about several bands but i am as passionate about my music as any of you.
These days everywhere you look everybody is listening to Sabbath and every other guy is a Maiden Fan complete with the customary Maiden T shirt with some morphed form of Eddie on it. I am around many guys who have been listening to metal for quite sometime now (Sadly i was introduced fully to the genre only after coming to this college ) and they are all raves about these ancient relic of bands all the time. Ask anyone who is their favorite band and the answer is sure to be one out of Metallica, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath or The Doors, Nirvana or Pink Floyd for people of a more refined taste.
Frankly speaking i just don’t get it. I mean yeah they are all good bands, no wait Great Bands but my emphasis is on that fact that the “are” has become “were” now.I am a big fan of Metallica myself (Not a “I remember every fucking word they ever wrote” fan but those are not just fans i tell you they are fanatics, metal world’s answer to those Mujahideen’s ) but they are sooo OLD now. Listen to Maiden still playing troopers as 20 years ago and you realize how fucked up it really is. An over Fifty year old Dickinson and a Forty ‘fuckin’ Six year old Lars Ulrich is still what comes to mind when you think of metal.(Now don’t go “Its just you man and not us” or “you are not in with the time then” it’s you too and you know it) Don’t they even look tired to you? They do probably waiting for someone to pass on the baton to. And it’s about fucking time someone got up and grabbed that stick.
Your Daily Cynic 