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Re: Best band from your home town/city

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 9:25 pm
by DaN
@Prowler: Maaaaaybe.... Hans Gerber sounds familiar, and I know I've had an old copy of the Torture mini which I traded. Not familiar with Hateful Rage tho'
...and the Acis 7" was pretty great now that you mention it.

@Peter: Poor man.. your local scene must have been awful if High Tension topped the list :(

Re: Best band from your home town/city

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 10:31 pm
by Pavlos
HUNTER

(Sign of the hunter)

Re: Best band from your home town/city

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 7:55 am
by Khnud
DaN wrote:@Peter: Poor man.. your local scene must have been awful if High Tension topped the list :(
High Tension is quite ok as far as I remember. Need to listen to them again I guess.

Re: Best band from your home town/city

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 8:23 am
by Draggsoda
Entombed (Boring but true)

If I had to choose from only the part (suburb) of Sthlm where I live, then...

Celestial Pain or Incursion

Re: Best band from your home town/city

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 7:40 pm
by Prowler
First 2 High Tensions are listenable. Unfortunately they got softer with each album but shot the bird with the last one. The cover speaks for itself.

Re: Best band from your home town/city

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 7:45 pm
by Le fjump
Arrow
Metal mercy
Layout

Probably the three most famous.

Re: Best band from your home town/city

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 8:28 pm
by Noisenik
Prowler wrote:First 2 High Tensions are listenable. Unfortunately they got softer with each album but shot the bird with the last one. The cover speaks for itself.
Never heard this phrase before. Is it German and traduced? To shoot the bird ... What does it mean?

Re: Best band from your home town/city

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 9:35 pm
by Warepire
My old home town was so small it didn't have a single rock or metal band.

From my current home town: Most will probably claim Ghost, but I will say Axe Witch.

Re: Best band from your home town/city

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 9:43 pm
by Draggsoda
Warepire wrote:My old home town was so small it didn't have a single rock or metal band.

From my current home town: Most will probably claim Ghost, but I will say Axe Witch.
Yes, Axe Witch is better :)

Re: Best band from your home town/city

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 11:29 pm
by bigfootkit
Noisenik wrote:
Prowler wrote:First 2 High Tensions are listenable. Unfortunately they got softer with each album but shot the bird with the last one. The cover speaks for itself.
Never heard this phrase before. Is it German and traduced? To shoot the bird ... What does it mean?
Just from the context i'm guessing he meant they went too far, like 'jumping the shark'.
Here in Scotland we have a similar saying 'shoot the crow', but here it means you're leaving or going home.
'It's 3am & i'm so drunk i can't see straight, i think it's time i shot the crow'.
There's also a similar sounding Scots phrase, 'taking the crow road', but that means someone is dying.
'You shouldn't have let him leave at 3am when he was so drunk. He was found lying in the snow this morning. He's taken the crow road'.
Don't know where either phrase originates from, but although 'old school' they're still used often.

Re: Best band from your home town/city

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 7:51 am
by Prowler
Noisenik wrote:
Prowler wrote:First 2 High Tensions are listenable. Unfortunately they got softer with each album but shot the bird with the last one. The cover speaks for itself.
Never heard this phrase before. Is it German and traduced? To shoot the bird ... What does it mean?
I thought it's a common phrase everywhere. :D
"to shoot the bird" means you've done something really stupid, like dressing in women's clothes or anything that makes others doing that facepalm thing, because it's unbelievable (stupid).

And I/we (Germans) don't know that "jumping the shark" or "shoot the crow" stuff either. :P

Re: Best band from your home town/city

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 1:30 pm
by Northwinds
LOL, shooting the bird to me is flipping someone the middle finger

Re: Best band from your home town/city

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 2:05 pm
by Ernest Thesiger
Prowler wrote:"to shoot the bird" means you've done something really stupid, like dressing in women's clothes
Nothing wrong with that.

Re: Best band from your home town/city

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 2:28 pm
by Northwinds
John lives a few streets over from me so I guess Arch/Matheos qualifies for Coventry, CT

Re: Best band from your home town/city

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 4:17 pm
by Zombie Dance
Wind of Mayhem!