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Metal Memes

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Memes. For metal music.

Don't be an ass and try to keep the gatekeeping and whatnot to a minimum. Memes from all sorts of metal genres and bands are welcome here.

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[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 52 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I love Megadeth, hate that Dave became a Trump supporting, anti vax, conspiracy nutjob.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I could have gone without knowing this =(

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

He became super religious, evangelical, and of course that led him on the road to right wing stupidity.

[–] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Will never understand why becoming religious often means flushing ones brain down the toilet...

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

Because flushing your brain down the toilet is a prerequisite

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

and one of them was outed as a nonce recently

[–] pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 2 years ago

A nonce like the mathematical extra used in cryptography?

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

There is no god 😑

[–] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Its too bad both James and Dave are both first class d-bags. At least James tries to hide it

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's insane how hard of a 180 Dave pulled. Dude went from being an anarchist icon to hanging out with Alex Jones.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Money does awful things to people...

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Metallica is the reason that P2P file sharing is almost impossible post-Web 2.0. There's an argument to be made that someone else would've taken Napster to court if Metallica didn't, but they did, and the internet has been shit ever since. Fuck them and their friends who think their garbage variety of radio-friendly variety of Beer Metal is anything worth listening to

[–] Norgur@fedia.io 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

P2p is impossible? Wonder where all the music got into BitTorrent then.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Right? The person you replied to seems maybe unaware that P2P filesharing is doing better than ever

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It was bad for like, a few months when Napster shut down. Then BOOM! Morpheus, Kazaa, Limewire, BearShare, Soulseek, Usenet, then the magical world of torrents! (RIP what.cd)

[–] Norgur@fedia.io 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 years ago

The high seas have never been more welcoming, me hearty!

Ye just need to navigate by the starrs!

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

we've been secretly paying for it the whole time!

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is the weirdest reasoning I've heard for the internet being sterile

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

The internet entered its sandman era post Metallica lawsuit

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 16 points 2 years ago

laughs in still using soulseek in 2024

[–] MenschlicherFehler@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago

I mean... Soulseek is still going strong.

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[–] chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

James Hetfield made a statement that he was happy for Metallica music to be used for torture in Guantanamo bay.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-40090809

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-pain-of-listening-using-music-as-a-weapon-at-guantanamo-a-672177.html

Metallica singer James Hetfield has said he is proud that his music is used against enemies of the US

Metallica's Enter Sandman had became a particular favourite at the height of the War on Terror, when US interrogators admitted using music to break the resistance of captives in Iraq. The goal was to deprive them of sleep and offend their cultural sensibilities.

Unco-operative prisoners were exposed to children's TV music from Sesame Street, and the purple singing dinosaur Barney.

Sergeant Mark Hadsell of the Psychological Operations Company (Psy Ops) told Newsweek magazine: "These people haven't heard heavy metal. They can't take it.

"If you play it for 24 hours, your brain and body functions start to slide, your train of thought slows down and your will is broken. That's when we come in and talk to them."

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] 4am@lemm.ee 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Oh, are you just now learning that America has been the bad guys pretty much since the beginning?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago

that's not the surprising part, the surprising part is hetfield actively condoning torture

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

Ever since they ruined a perfectly good shipment of loose leaf tea

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[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My metal head friend said that Metallica became a pop band when they released the black album.

[–] Skkorm@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Your metalhead friend was correct. I personally think that that "Metallica" died with Cliff Burton. No hate to Jason Newstead, but Cliff was the one in the band with musical integrity.

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Justice was really important to me. It was the first album I ever loved at the age of eight. It introduced me to the rest of their catalogue and, of course, fell in love with Burton and bass guitar. Too bad they did Newstead dirty on that album. But Justice sparked some political consciousness in me. And musically, I think they stretched as far as they could. With Burton, it would have been farther, but still farther than those three had stretched before. The same is not true for the black album.

[–] Skkorm@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I agree completely. There are versions of Justice that can be found online where the bass is mixed back in, and I highly recommend them. Newstead put in work on that album.

[–] qpla@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yeha I think they're called "And justice for Bass" or "And Justice for Jason"

[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

When the black album came out, Metallic instantly went from legit thrash band to top 40 hard rock and was on the radio all day everyday... and somehow they still are and it's baffling.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The meme was too young to remember ...And Justice for All?

[–] 1371113@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’ve met people, REAL people, who think the black album is their first.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fair assumption to make that a early self-titled album would be the first one. I wouldn't know the order of their albums because I don't care enough

[–] 1371113@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That’s true. I was implying they haven’t heard of the first four - don’t even know they exist. Not so much that they had them out of order.

A band I like called colour haze has its first self titled album as the 6th or 8th. I forget.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

dream theater did the samething, but it was a huge dick move to mike portnoy (original drummer).

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 2 years ago

Engaged in crime I grasp my throat,

Enraged my mind starts to smoke,

Enforce a mental overload,

Angry again, angry again, angry YEOW!