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Crion87
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26 Feb 2010, 1:45 am

While I've never been one to dress like one in the metalhead scene, I used to really like heavy metal. Rammstein, Iced Earth, Turmion Katilot, the list goes on and on.

However, recently I have fallen into an emotional trap whereby I find it hard to listen to the heavy metal I once enjoyed. Instead, I have been listening to J-Pop tunes a lot. Particularly Ayumi Hamasaki and her ilk.

What is going on?! :oops:

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26 Feb 2010, 2:10 am

puberty?

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26 Feb 2010, 3:11 am

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puberty?

Guess again, I'm 22 years old.

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26 Feb 2010, 4:25 am

I'm 32, and I have and always will love Heavy Metal. However, that is not the only music that I enjoy. I too enjoy J-pop and probably my 2nd favorite type of music behind Metal is classical orchestra. One type of music doesn't have to define you, instead it tends to be typical of a very closed imagination. My favorite Metal album in a long time came out last year, you may want to check it out, it is Progressive Metal though, so may not be for everyone. It is Mastodon "Crack the Skye", I've quite lost track of how many times I've listened to it.

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26 Feb 2010, 4:43 am

Crion87 wrote:

Instead, I have been listening to J-Pop tunes a lot. Particularly Ayumi Hamasaki and her ilk.

What is going on?! :oops:

You're turning Japanese?

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26 Feb 2010, 5:12 am

Aspie-B wrote:

Crion87 wrote:

Instead, I have been listening to J-Pop tunes a lot. Particularly Ayumi Hamasaki and her ilk.

What is going on?! :oops:

You're turning Japanese?

I really think so.

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26 Feb 2010, 8:08 am

Crion87 wrote:

While I've never been one to dress like one in the metalhead scene, I used to really like heavy metal. Rammstein, Iced Earth, Turmion Katilot, the list goes on and on.

However, recently I have fallen into an emotional trap whereby I find it hard to listen to the heavy metal I once enjoyed. Instead, I have been listening to J-Pop tunes a lot. Particularly Ayumi Hamasaki and her ilk.

What is going on?! :oops:

Marty Friedman, the erstwhile guitarist for Megadeth and one-half of the shred-schlock band Cacophony was bitten by the Japan bug in a most serious way. He's lived in Japan now for almost 15 years mostly working as a studio musician for many J-pop acts and sometimes tours with Ayumi Hamasaki. Take a tip from Marty you're not getting soft, you're just gaining some new and interesting perspective; life is richer. It would be pretty depressing I were still listening to the stuff I dug when I was 14...

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26 Feb 2010, 9:14 am

Llixgrjb wrote:

Crion87 wrote:

While I've never been one to dress like one in the metalhead scene, I used to really like heavy metal. Rammstein, Iced Earth, Turmion Katilot, the list goes on and on.

However, recently I have fallen into an emotional trap whereby I find it hard to listen to the heavy metal I once enjoyed. Instead, I have been listening to J-Pop tunes a lot. Particularly Ayumi Hamasaki and her ilk.

What is going on?! :oops:

Thanks for the words of encouragement Llixgrjb! Now, how am I going to feed my J-Pop habit considering I live in country Victoria in Australia? And more importantly, find a place to stow away all those metal CDs I've accumulated over the years?

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26 Feb 2010, 9:53 am

Metalhead is more about which metal you listen to than only listening to metal.

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26 Feb 2010, 10:13 am

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Metalhead is more about which metal you listen to than only listening to metal.

that is pretty much how it is sadly. People should just enjoy the genre as a whole instead of splitting it into millions of subgenres, choosing only one or two of them and saying the rest sucks.

@ the OP: congrats,. you are going through what ive gone through. Its not such a bad thing really, metalheadism is more of an attitude than just what you listen to. Plus some J-pop acts have some very respectable guitarists performing with them, I can name a few: The black Mages, Gackt, Orange Range, Dir en Grey (thats more like J-metal, but they cross genres ALOT), and L`arc~en~ciel

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26 Feb 2010, 11:55 am

Crion87 wrote:

However, recently I have fallen into an emotional trap whereby I find it hard to listen to the heavy metal I once enjoyed. Instead, I have been listening to J-Pop tunes a lot. Particularly Ayumi Hamasaki and her ilk.
What is going on?! :oops:

For me, there's a strong relation to the music I'm listening and the mood I'm in at a period of time; it shifts all the time.

Heavy metal (for the trash/death/black/hc-punk side) is a very energizing dominant mood; the music provides fast, brutal tunes which provides enough 'stimuli' to keep my mind away from having too much inner toughts. I need that state of mood to make a living, for getting a job; for getting a job done; for getting to know people.. etc. etc (ie. getting extroverted). However, is a very tens state of mind and drains energy, I need some relaxation now and then as well to keep up the balance, and that's where other music styles come in.

Ambient and New Age are a very relaxing mood; soft dream-away tunes which provides the serenity to get my mind at some peace, say, brain-cells shouldn't be overstimulated all the time, should they.. can they? But it's an extremely introverted, self-reflextive state of mind and I need solitude for that.

There are more styles I love for different reasons and moods:)

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26 Feb 2010, 11:59 am

DemonAbyss10 wrote:

TheOddGoat wrote:

Metalhead is more about which metal you listen to than only listening to metal.

that is pretty much how it is sadly. People should just enjoy the genre as a whole instead of splitting it into millions of subgenres, choosing only one or two of them and saying the rest sucks.

Yes, indeed.

.. but I need to catalogue my mp3's in separate folders

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26 Feb 2010, 3:29 pm

MoonRa wrote:

DemonAbyss10 wrote:

TheOddGoat wrote:

Metalhead is more about which metal you listen to than only listening to metal.

that is pretty much how it is sadly. People should just enjoy the genre as a whole instead of splitting it into millions of subgenres, choosing only one or two of them and saying the rest sucks.

Yes, indeed.

.. but I need to catalogue my mp3's in separate folders

the most I do is sort it by band, and thats about it.

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26 Feb 2010, 7:31 pm

Crion87 wrote:

Now, how am I going to feed my J-Pop habit considering I live in country Victoria in Australia?

There are lots of options without even leaving your home. You can watch J-pop videos on YouTube. Or if you want to buy some CDs, you can use Amazon.co.jp. They have an an English interface option, and they will ship internationally. I've bought a few J-pop CDs from there myself.

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17 Apr 2010, 12:31 pm

My boyfriend listens to some J-Pop (not alot, but he has some random songs strewn about his music collection) and never once do I doubt that he is a metalhead.

To me, if the bands that you listen to most often are metal, then you are definately a metalhead. We all have our guilty pleasures (mine is old Japanese visual kei from the late 90's early '00s).

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Gackt <3 (yes, im straight, but I can still have a man-crush XD)

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