1001 reasons why Heavy Metal rules:

tomas · Post by **tomas** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 11:50 pm

84. The Slaughter (CAN) vocalist yelling 'ONE TWO FUCK YOU' at the beginning of a song.

Post by **DaN** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 12:04 am

85. The Heavy Metal meme.

Wikipedia wrote:A meme (pronounced /miːm/)[1] consists of any idea or behavior that can pass from one person to another by learning or imitation. Examples include thoughts, ideas, theories, gestures, practices, fashions, habits, songs, and dances. Memes propagate themselves and can move through the cultural sociosphere in a manner similar to the contagious behavior of a virus.

Richard Dawkins coined the word "meme" as a neologism in his book The Selfish Gene (1976) to describe how one might extend evolutionary principles to explain the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena. He gave as examples melodies, catch-phrases, beliefs (notably religious belief, clothing/fashion, and the technology of building arches).[2]

Meme-theorists contend that memes evolve by natural selection (similar to Darwinian biological evolution) through the processes of variation, mutation, competition, and inheritance influencing an individual entity's reproductive success. Thus one can expect that some memes will propagate less successfully and become extinct, while others will survive, spread, and (for better or for worse) mutate. "Memeticists argue that the memes most beneficial to their hosts will not necessarily survive; rather, those memes that replicate the most effectively spread best, which allows for the possibility that successful memes may prove detrimental to their hosts."

86. Wendy O' William's tittytape.

The Erlking · Post by **The Erlking** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:15 am

87.

Inside the power cage
I can feel the music of my age
It's paranoid...first degree
Tellin' me that I'm not free

I've got Heavy Metal music in my blood
And I'd like to give it to you if I could

As I lie in the shroud of darkness
The wings of light remove the veil
It's Heavy, Heavy, Heavy
Heavy Metal Mania all the way
Rock 'n roll...far too slow
So the adrenaline just doesn't flow
Where is the power, where is the glory?
Heavy Metal is my story

88. RIOT - Thundersteel

89. HM + Drinking = HELL YEAH!

90. MANILLA ROAD

Brainbiter · Post by **Brainbiter** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:41 am

91. I was born on the cemetary, under the sign of the MOOOOOON! King Diamond still scaring parents in 2008.

92. The sound of rain and bells in the distance... Black Sabbath.

93. Starlight feeds my power.... OF FLASHING METAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL and the way you can't help but raising your (ghost) sword whenever you hear that, wherever you are.

94. The scream at the beginning of Razor's The Marshall Arts....

95. The look on your parents face when they first saw the cover of an Iron Maiden record...

96. The look on your parents face when they first read the lyrics to The Number of the Beast.

97. Confessor defiantly thrashing their shorts infront of middle-aged women in a waterpark back in 1988. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvUwx11d__k at 1:26. That's heavy metal, right there.

98. We shall slay evil with Logic... Crystal Logic!

99. Patches and pins on your jacket. Band t-shirts. Wearing your colours at school.

100. Listening to Venom for the first time at a tender age and feeling that Hell is real and awaits for you.

101. Lending your Black Metal tape to a friend in school and not getting it back because he was so afraid of it that he tossed it over an old bookcase.

102. Listening to an album you bought in high school and feeling that you haven't aged a day.

103. Candlemass being too shy to look at the girl recording vocals for Sorcerer's Pledge because she was "so beautiful".

104. Oliva's short screams in the Hall of the Mountain King.

105. Being confident that Brasil is a dry dessert limbo because of Whelan's art for Sepultura's Arise.

106. Whelan's art.

107. Sanctuary "choosing optimism, scream its name. Look to the future, a burning flame.

108. Cirith Ungol's I'm Alive.

109. Covering every inch of your school books with band logos and metal art.

Post by **DaN** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:50 am

110. SARCOFAGUS' face-paint.

111. THE LORD WEIRD SLOUGH FEG shining a light in our darkest hour.

The Erlking · Post by **The Erlking** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:50 am

Brainbiter wrote: 94. The scream at the beginning of Razor's The Marshall Arts....

Haha I have it as my cellphone tune!

Brainbiter · Post by **Brainbiter** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:51 am

112. Refusing to erase that huge Slayer logo you drew on your school desk. Feeling proud that it survived 3 years of high school and you are still into thrash while the rest of your schoolmates were occupied trying to find out which way the wind blows.

113. FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU JESUS CHRIST!!!!

The Erlking · Post by **The Erlking** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:58 am

Brainbiter wrote:113. FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU JESUS CHRIST!!!!

AAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!

114. "Wasting" hours in making HM mixtapes that no one (except you) cares about!

Post by **DaN** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:59 am

Brainbiter wrote:113. FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU JESUS CHRIST!!!!

You forgot one (1) "FUCK YOU!".

n000b

Brainbiter · Post by **Brainbiter** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:04 am

DaN wrote:
Brainbiter wrote:113. FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU JESUS CHRIST!!!!
You forgot one (1) "FUCK YOU!".

n000b

Ha ha, blame the alcohol...

The Erlking wrote:114. "Wasting" hours in making HM mixtapes that no one (except you) cares about!

That's an essential part of heavy metal life. I feel you.

bigfootkit · Post by **bigfootkit** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:34 am

115. Forming your first terrible band hoping to follow in the footsteps of your heroes and failing dismally.

116. Finding that despite being nearly 40, 20 years later you're still trying to make music in bands, and it still makes you feel like you're 20.

Ernest Thesiger · Post by **Ernest Thesiger** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 3:30 am

117. The Metal Church neckbrace.

118. Chainsaws.

119. Broadswords.

120. Katon W. Depena's pose & mad face on the Hate, Fear and Power lyric sheet.

121. The W. in Katon W. Depena.

122. If this is scratched, warped or defaced in any way please throw it away and buy a new one!

123. Blacktask's lead breaks kicking off with "Fuck off!"

124. Steve Harris in his zebra-crossing spandex, one foot on the monitors, mouthing the choruses.

125. Riot's harp seal mascot.

126. Not being able to finish your evening meal after receiving Carcass' Reek of Putrefaction in the post.

127. Drumming along to albums on your mattress & textbooks with biros for drumsticks.

128. Pandemonium-era Tom G. Warrior's loud shirts.

129. Martin Eric Ain's cummerbund.

130. Reed St. Mark's giant sticks.

Cochino · Post by **Cochino** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:20 am

Well, I think I haven't read any of the following:

131. Land Of Mystery.

132. Tom G. Warrior's Ugh!s.

133. The fact that Deep Purple, Paul Chain, Cryptic Slaughter and Autopsy can live under the same roof.

134- Black t-shirts with black and/or red logos.

bigfootkit · Post by **bigfootkit** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:46 am

135. The roto-toms on Kreator's "Pleasure To Kill".

136. "Creative" facial hair.

137. The cover of "British Steel".

138. Feeling 50 feet tall & bulletproof when the chorus of "Iron Will" kicks in.

Helm · Post by **Helm** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:25 am

139. Having listened to just Metallica and Helloween for a year, your older friend doubling as your Heavy Metal guru plays you choice tracks from Cloven Hoof - A Sultan's Ransom, Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead, Psychotic Waltz - A Social Grace and Watchtower - Control and Resistance on the turntable, half to inspire you to widen your scope, half to test your limits and see if you're really cut out to be a metalhead. DER NATURAL SELEKTION at work.

140. Walk hand in hand with the fear striken child, strengthen the weak and the lame. Perpetual journey into the realm of the Sovereign Servitor

141. Sabbat's Dreamweaver. A record at the right place at the right time in my life. Now a lifelong friend.

142. How Voivod make an atypically empty, ricocheting mix with nary a powerchord to be found and a mostly tonedeaf singer sound so fucking full so transgressive and perfect Heavy Metal.

143. The promise and inspiration inside every great Heavy Metal band, of a meaningful life.

144. Coroner playing live in support of Kreator back in the day: how a trio of musicians can be as substantial as 6 people on stage.

145. ...and technothrash as a compact and sadly now dead genre on the whole for marrying the primal atavism, the savagery of thrash with the higher concept and humanism of the thinking but dispondent individual during one of history's more troubled times. That contradiction - like all Heavy Metal contradictions, was life-giving.

146. Killen for playing epic metal without the chops for it and therefore showing that if one has passion, honesty and vision, they can pull off this music.