Thanks for the clarifications. I don't mind humour generally, I'd go so far as to say that my emotion chip is learning to generate it also sometimes... It's when frivolity becomes an easy excuse for presumption and insult that I have more trouble stomaching it. An ass, be it smart or otherwise, alwa...

Okay, so you've finally come upfront and just plain said "I do not think Metal is spiritual" without rambling on for four pages with no clear outcome. That's pretty much all that was needed. I don’t view Metal message boards for the sake of reading about how Heavy Metal has deeply and emo...

My sense of humour doesn't feed on human flesh.

The problem with your post and general attitude is not that you're disagreeing, it's that you seem incapable or perhaps not making an effort to understand what the other person is trying to say. I told you I don't think HM is spiritual, yet you say but just because you may find Metal spiritual Furth...

Black Axe: I like both.
Avenger: I'm not interested in amusing you. When you're prepared to have a real conversation with real people you can attempt again.

Everyone in this forum was exposed to HM in their teenage years (some younger). The feelings the music attempts to communicate resonate with that, mostly pure, perhaps naive, but open to interpretation and exploratory mindspace, and musicians in this field of all ages usually get into that same fram...

Secrecy are slowly climbing towards the top of my favourite bands lists for the two albums and this demo. It's criminal how underrated they are (perhaps the overt christian tone in Art in Motion didn't help)! Now that they're active for live shows a record will come of it. hopefully, I think they we...

Oh man this sounds pretty amazing! Will order soon!

Poll and initial post are is not only wide from the mark, they're also annoyingly biased. Did not vote. Heavy Metal isn't spiritual for me, I do not believe in any god, demon, or spirit and I don't need Dio to be my god either. As mass of kthulhu says, perhaps 'a way of life' or 'intellectually char...

Mayhem - Buried by Time and Dust

is the Zebub piece just two parts? Can't find more on youtube.

Metal from Hellas, I don't begrudge it the lack of some -admittedly legendary- extreme metal acts like Varathron or Rotting Christ or Necromantia because it seems it's made by a student that was under a deadline. What I begrudge it for is that there's a lot of talk about 'professionalism' and lack o...

I think a lot of them looked up to Helstar a lot and then Watchtower? That's how I explain the particular Texas sound.

Sacrosanct - At Least Pain Lasts

Agatus - Dawn of Martyrdom