I’d like to start this entry with telling you all why i love metal music:
metal music to me, is like taking a xanax too most people. It sucks out all my aggression and hatred of society, and helps me see things from a better perspective. My friends like to tease me about my “thrasher tunes” & how i should play mellower stuff…they seem to believe it is the music that makes me angry, but it ‘s not!! It’s the world i live in! Metal music inspires me,motivates me and keeps me from beating up every person who looks at me wrong sometimes. j/k, but seriously..for example;in 2001-2002 i was going thru a bitter divorce and custody battle, there were 2 albums that got me thru that year, that i listened to everyday as soon as i got home from work:
SLIPKNOT “IOWA”
& MUDVAYNE’S”L.D.50”!
That music helped me get thru that difficult time. that is one example of 20 years worth of examples. i can tell you what music/band ,thru every era of my life, helped me cope and maintain sanity! so now that said, here are my fav bands and why!
-KIMMY MCVEY
“ THE METAL MAGGOT”
LETS START AT MY HEAVY METAL BEGINING. 1987 AND IN 7TH GRADE , THIS CHIC IN MY P.E. CLASS HAD A CASSET TAPE BY THIS BAND HER SKATER-BOYFRIEND LISTENED TO. THEIR NAME WAS SUICIDAL TENDENCIES!!
THESE 3 ALBUMS-WERE THE THEME MUSIC OF MY TEENAGE YAERS, AND REMAIN MY LIFETIME-FAV.’S, I HAVE TO CHOSE 3 ALBUMS INSTED OF PARTICULAR SONGS BECAUSE I LOVE EVERYSONG AND KNOW EVERY WORD ON EVERY ALBUM, THE LIST WOULD JUST BE TOO LONG.AND IM LAZY
I WANT TO GET “SUICIDAL 4 LIFE” TATOO’D(LIKE A TAGGER WOULD WRITE ) ACROSS MY BACK FROM SHOULDER TO SHOULDER. BUT YET HAVE I TO FIND SOMEONE WHO CAN DRAW UP THE GRAFFITE LETTERS LIKE ON THE ALBUM COVER “FEEL LIKE SHIT –DJA-VU”.MY DREAM WOULD BE TO HAVE MIKE MUIER PERSONALLY DO THE WORK IN HIS STUDIO IN L.A.,BUT THATS JUST A FANTASY.
ANOTHER BAND I STARTED JAM’N TOO THAT SAME YEAR WAS
SLAYER “SEASONS IN THE ABYSS”
THRU HIGH SCHOOL AND MY EARLY TWENTIES, THEIR WER MANEY OTHER BAD ASS BANDS THAT INFLUENCE AND MOVED ME, MORE THAN I CAN NAME, CUZ AGAIN THE LIST WOULD BE TOO LONG.
SO IM GONNA FAST FWD TO THE YEAR 2000 WHEN I WENT TO MY FIRST “OZZFEST”- ALPINE VALLEY WISCONSIN(9TH ROW SEATS AT MAIN STAGE).
THERE I GOT TOO SEE SLIPKNOT PERFORM “HERITIC ANTHEM” BEFORE “IOWA” EVEN CAME OUT! I GOT DRENCHED WITH A HOSE. AND WATCHED ALL THE LITTLE TEEN MAGGOTS RUNNING THRU THE ASILES SCREAMING WHEN THEY GOT SPRAYED. LOL
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I ALSO GOT TO SEE B.L.S. FOR THE FIRST TIME-THEY WERE FUCKING AMAZING!! I AM SUCH A BIG FAN OF ZACH WYLED EVER SINCE THIS SHOW!
I ALSO MARYLIN MANSON (FOR THE 2ND-OR 3RD TIME??)- HIS SHOW WAS LIKE A PYCHADILLIC METAL-ACID-TRIP! LINKIN PARK WAS PRETTY GOOD AS WELL, ALONG WITH DISTURBED.
WENT TOO ONE MORE OZZFEST SINCE THEN-2006,VERIZON WIRELESS- NOBLESVILLE IN.(SINCE THEN I HAVENT HAD THE FUNDS TO GO BACK ,THATS WHAT HAPPENES WHEN U GOT KIDS TOO RAISE!)
THE 2 BANDS I WENT TOO SEE WAS AV7 & HATEBREED.
AVENGED SEVENFOLD HAD PHIL FROM PANTERA,COME OUT AND SING “WALK” WITH THEM DEDICATEING IT TO DIME BAG! THAT WAS SOO AMAZING TO SEE. I REMEMBER IT SO WELL IM GETTING CHILLS WRITING ABOUT IT.
THEN HATEBREED CAME OUT, AND I ALMOST CRAWLED OUT OF MY SKIN, I WAS SO ESTAIC. JAMEY JASTA IS SIMPLEY THE SEXIEST, MOST THOUGHT PROVOKING, INPIREING SINGER I HAVE SEE SINCE I FIRST KNEW WHO COREY TAYLOR WAS!!
NOW THE LAST YEAR, FOR ME HAS BEEN THE ENDING OF ONE ERA & THE BEGINING OF ANOTHER, FOR MY LIFE. OF COURSE THERE IS THOSE FEW BANDS WHO HAVE MADE THEIR MARK ON MY SOUL…….
THIS BAND ANDF THE SONG “THE AIR I BREATH” DID FOR ME; WHAT “PERSERVERENCE” DID THE FIRT TIME I HEARD IT-= IT GAVE ME A NEW BELIFE IN LIFE,HELPED ME REMAIN STRONG AGAINST ALL THE ADVERSITY IVE HAD TO FACE, REMINDED ME OF WHO I AM , A FIGHTER FOR MY DREAMS! I JUST GOT THE NEW CD(I CAN ONLY AFFORD TO BUY ONE A YEAR) AND IT IS FUCKING AWESOME!
THE OTHER BAND WHO HAS INSPIRED ME, AND MOVED MY FUCKING SOUL IS : IN THIS MOMENT & THE SONG “DADDY’S FALLEN ANGEL”-THAT WHOLE ALBUM “BEAUTIFUL TRADGETY” IS SO DAMN INPRESSIVE. MARIA IS EVERY BIT THE SINGER I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE + HER VOICE IS AMAZING!
WELL TO END THIS MUSICCAL TRIBUTE, I WANTS TO GIVE PROPS TO THE THREE ARTISTS WHOSE MUSIC MADE THEM LEGENDS IN MY BOOK:
METAL MUSIC WILL LIVE ON AS LONG AS THE FANS APPRECIATE THE ART/TALENT IT TAKES THESE MUSICAINS TO MAKE THE TUNES WE LOVE!
THANX-4-THE MUSIC
KIMMY MCVEY