Aging Metalhead Thread

Jobe_Wan_Kenobi

A place for aging metalheads issues. 

Favorite bands don't tour anymore, broke up or went to shit. All your shirts are faded T shirts from defunct bands and dead tours. Favorite forums lack new threads. Finding new bands is harder and harder. Getting hyped for shows is damn near impossible.

Let's see if this thread goes anywhere.

MenAreTrash

Bro you're on the internet it's easy to find new bands and then you can buy their merch when you see them on tour

Jobe_Wan_Kenobi

Sifting through bands on the internet requires time and effort I can't seem to muster anymore. I still try, I just keep being consistently underwhelmed. 

Tours are all mostly 6+ hours away and don't grab my attention like they used to.

Necrothulhu

A good chunk of tours are either 50 minutes or 3-5 hours away from me. And lately no one has been able to make me want to drive there and back. I can't remember the last time I got into a new band. A chunk of the bands I'd like to see will never happen because someone died. Last show I was really pumped to see was either Rammstein or Gojira/Devin Townsend and that was years ago. And when it comes to shows staying in and eating food, watching whatever on tv/netflix, is more appealing than going anywhere

Jobe_Wan_Kenobi

I would get Todd Level Hyped for Ozzfests back in the day. Mayhem started mediocre and just got more meh as time went on and it probably just went out with a whimper. 

Necrothulhu

I used to look forward to Ozzfest every year and would get sad once the day was over. Never had that kind of excitement with Mayhem nor did I enjoy it in the same way. Since the death of Mayhem I do wonder what else may or may not spring up for a summer touring fest..but whatever it is it'll probably blow

SATAN

I find new music from recommendations by people that have time to care. Between Slap, Alex and about 3 of my friends irl, I get enough to keep me from getting bored

FLAT

:!!

NolaFree810

I go through phases and I'm just tired of metal at the moment. I hit the same ruts with a lot if other genres before too. All the shit comi bout now just seems rehashed.. I'd rather dive into things completely different that excite me. Now it's Americana/blue grassy/outlaw country but that'll prob last a little longer. I kinda wanna get back into punk because that's the genre I like the most where I know prob the least.  If metal does something flashy I'll prob get back into it more. If I go to Europe I'll prob have to up my European metal cred lol

SATAN

I'm done with punk. It's a wasteland now. All the decent bands that even get considered punk now are really just metal influenced hardcore

NolaFree810

Yea I don't mean modern punk lol I wanna dive more into the 80s NYC punk scene and kind of also the late 80s early 90s art rock NYC scene. Spotify has some real good shit

Gazorpazorpfield

When you're a kid, the absolute worst music in the world is whatever your parents are listening to. Your dad is out in the garage listening to goddamned Foghat, and you wonder why he doesn't want to cram that power drill right into his ear.

Then when you grow up, the absolute worst music in the world is whatever the teenagers are listening to. You're still listening to real rock or rap, the hardcore stuff from back when music was genuine, while they're listening to some derivative manufactured Justin Bieber bullshit. Dammit, why won't they listen when you try to show then what real music sounds like?

If you're reading this and are somewhere in between the "kid" and "grownup" stages, you're probably thinking that you'd never just let your musical tastes freeze in time. You'll keep finding new bands as they emerge, staying on the cutting edge until the day you die.

But Over Time ...

As you get older, your brain becomes more and more unable to handle dopamine, which, as we've pointed out before, is a big factor in making us feel "the chills" when a new exciting piece of music comes on.

Because nothing you hear will have that same effect on you as the fresh exciting sounds of your youth, it will become harder and harder to get fired up about new music. Your musical taste will therefore stagnate, regardless of how on top of the trends you were at 17. If you want to know what new music will sound like when you're 50, go spend an hour watching TV shows intended for toddlers. See how long you can tolerate it.

So, you'll get older and settle down and, inevitably, the ubiquitous Rumours album by Fleetwood Mac will mysteriously appear in your collection, like a Gideon Bible in a hotel. Just accept it.

SATAN

My faves were early 80's west coast stuff like DK, Black Flag, TSOL, etc and 70s pseudo-glam proto-punk like Richard Hell and Suicide. I'm not a huge fan of most northeastern hardcore. Too much of it is stupid bro music. Cro-Mags and Sick of it All are kinda exceptions

NolaFree810

I liked what my parents liked lol my dad's taste in music is awesome. They've liked the same artists for 30 years tho so it becomes a little stale lol my dad wasn't listening to foghat he was listening to the dead boys Lou reed tom waits and the circle jerks

MenAreTrash

I still need to get into 80's hardcore stuff from dc, I feel like I'd like that stuff. My friend showed me that faith/void split and it slaps. To this day the only older punk/hardcore bands I ever got into were dead kennedys and misfits

SATAN

Minor Threat kills

NolaFree810

I like more punk than hardcore. Give me dead kennedies over minor threat any fucking day. Yeah the glammy type shit I gotta get into too

SATAN

I'm one of those odd ones that prefers the Pistols over The Ramones and The Clash. I'm not under the NY press myth that The Ramones "invented" punk. All my friends think I'm nuts cuz of it, but The Pistols had licks and fury and scared the shit outta everybody. It barely phases me that they were used to promote a fashion. Hell, I even prefer The Damned and The Anti-Nowhere League over The Clash. The Clash always bored me and still do

FIRENATHANIELHACKETT

Paging @UPfreebird and @Jacob_LoLhmeier

Rex_Capone420

still over 2 years away from 30 [-(

FIRENATHANIELHACKETT

You old as fuck bruh