I used to work at a Wendys so this comic strip is like from 2002
Tag: metal
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Farewell Lemmy Helmister, Goodbye Motorhead
Many are wondering who is Lemmy? What is Motorhead? Well.. I am not going to embark on an expository background. With that said, they are a heavy influence in what we know today as punk, thrash and everything metal. These guys came out a year before punk was around, before The Ramones. But they are NOT metal or heavy metal by any means. Like Black Sabbath, they influence with their music and made possible to lay the groundwork for metal to even exist.
It is sad to see someone as great as Lemmy pass away but in hindsight I wish a lot of people would have survived to be as old as Lemmy, age 70. I would love to have seen Chuck Schuldiner (Death) or Dimebag Darrell (Pantera), or even Cliff Burton (Metallica) reach that old in their careers. But as the aforementioned members, Lemmy will always live in our memories as the best Rock n Roll band ever.
As you can hear, it sounds like they picked up where Hendrix left off. Play this shit loooudd!
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King Diamond Abigail Concert NYC 2015
This show was amazing. The production and sound really came well together. There were parents with their kids on their shoulders and girls crowd surfing. Really sets the mood. King Diamond said something like, “Want to listen to some Merciful Fate? We’re playing this because I say so!”. Oh man, the crowd went nuts.
It was a pity to see soon after this show he got Laryngitis and had to stop the tour for a couple of shows. Hopefully he’s back to his ol’ screetchy evil self again!
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Metal Man’s Misconception
This was the last band I discovered while I was attending Bryant HS, 13 years ago. I think. I was searching for Viking Metal and Waitain came up. I thought they were bad ass but never got around to it. Kinda what happened with Gamma Ray (man that’s gonna have to be a whole other comic). Anyway many years go by and like a year ago they were on TMZ, showering people with blood. I see upside down crosses, candles, goats and bones. A change of faith? Then it hit me, I am an idiot. When the Christians were spreading the faith to the Pagans north of European tribes, the deities themselves were demonized by the Christians (maybe Catholics? What do I know). So these tribes used to dress up like demons, make sacrifices , cover themselves in blood; just to scare the Christians away from Crom.
This is all speculation, obviously I am not a bad ass archaeologist.
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The Ends
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