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Best YouTube Comments:

“Besides great metal, great workout gym music!”

“Love Killswitch when Howard Jones was the lead singer.. This is the song that made me really start to like metal..”

“so powerful, the singer is incredible”

“Bruh my mom listens to cannibal corpse and shit like ingested.”

“the hell you people talkin about ? metalcore ? dude this has some killer riffs .....I call it music....”

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1988 would be the last year we lived in New York. The next year we would move back to Michigan. On my WordPress site I’ve written about my Dad taking me to see the ball drop on New Year’s Eve. Too bad he didn’t take me to this.

Best YouTube Comments:

“Kerry shaved his head in 1994.”

“Back in the day when security used to beat the shit out of you.”

“I was fuckin there.”

(Seriously, I wasn’t even aware of Slayer for a few more years. However they would become one of my favorite bands of all time. And I have seen them live. Check out the wall of Marshall's. )

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Best YouTube Comments:

“Till this day i can hear this song and feel the same as the first time i heard it: SO FUCKING POWERFUL... both lyrically and as composition. And the most important thing of all: Layne's voice was SO FUCKING AMAZING! The world of Rock lost a brilliant singer back in 2002.”

“I'm the man in the box, buried in my shit.”

“They share many more characteristics with metal than they do grunge. Plus, they almost always toured with metal bands.”

“Oh god have mercy, this song is dammmm awsome (sic).”

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“Violence” was released on September 5, 2000. Not as well known as Linkin Park, Korn, Limp Bizkit, or Staind, Nothingface was perhaps the best and heaviest of the “nu-metal” genre that was popular in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. I heard this song late at night on a local “alternative” station and went out and bought it the next day. The entire album is brutal and never lets up. Great to workout to. “Bleeder” peaked at #32 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock charts in 2001.

RIP Matt Holt 1977-2017.

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Best YouTube Comments:

“121 Motherfuckers.”

“Back when MTV was okay.”

“I hope this line up reunites one day, I would kill to see them play live. This the real Sepultura!”

“Loved how he switched the lyrics in that part to "racist piece of shit." LOL

“Born in '93, and it boggles my mind that MTV was playing music like this in my lifetime. The earliest era of MTV I remember was when they played pop videos early in the morning, and Real World type shit during the day.” (Me: So there ARE good things about being born "before 1985." )

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Amy needs to be included in the “Divas” thread. Will have to do something about that. Haven’t listened to this one in a long time. Used to have “Fallen” and this album “The Open Door.” My “ex” was always suspicious of why I liked Evanescence so much.

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Hayley maybe more than any other artist represents my gentle “better” side. So do many of my other favorite artists. Quite a few of them are posted in the “Divas” thread. This song however represents my “other” darker side...

Used to listen to this a lot before football games in college. Each player had his own way of preparing. Rap and Metal were very popular and still are. Many of my students who play for our universities’ team do the same thing! We talk about this stuff all the time. Sometimes I workout and lift with them. Would love to get out there again but I don’t know if a “thirtysomething” linebacker would help much. Besides I’ve used up all my eligibility and been to training camps so there would probably be some kind of NCAA violation if I did actually play. Anyway, back in the day, I would sit quietly in front of my locker listening to this album through headphones until it was time to take the field. Almost better than ‘roids.

True fact: “God Hates Us All” was released on September 11, 2001.

Best YouTube Comments:

“So much hate in this record...I love it!”

“Darkest Slayer song.”

“It blows my mind that Tom is a Catholic Christian and yet he's willing to sing about god like that.” (Me: So am I. This is one perspective. You don’t have to agree with it. I don’t necessarily agree with it. It’s just a fucking awesome song. Still wouldn’t play it for the nuns in my old Catholic grade school in Detroit. )

“Brutal as fuck!!!”