From: labrie@bnrmtl.bnr.ca (Dany Labrie)
Subject: Re: Please READ this! Future of this group
Reply-To: bnrmtl!labrie@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Montreal, Canada.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 22:14:28 GMT

>I've got an idea.  The .metal and .metal.heavy newsgroups are pretty informal. 
>We really don't DO anything productive.  It'd be kind of nice if, first, we
>made out a list with each others names, id's, and info (like three favorite
>groups, five favorite albums, you know shit like that).  We could post it once
>and a while when we have new people added.  That way, we would have user names
>all listed out with info on other people who listen to the same stuff as us.
>
>Second, I was thinking mabey we could do something like make a big list of all
>the albums we listen to and give 'em a rank (5 stars to 0 stars).  Each person
>in the METAL USERS LIST (see above; NOT the official list name!) would rank the
>albums we pick and the AVERAGE would be taken.  We could post this periodically
>and we could see if mabey there are albums we should get that we don't have,
>cause everyone else thinks its great!
> 
>I don't know.  What do you all think?  We'd also need people to be in charge. 
>Mabey elect them or something.

GREAT IDEA!!!! 
But now we need a leader (I vote for you). This person would then gather
information about the subscribers to this group and post compilation.
Sounds amazing. Who wants the job??? If you want it, post your name and
email adress and let's get it going. 

No, I don't want Maple or Suaron as the moderator. These little bastards 
know nothing about metal. I was laughing like hell when I saw Maple's 
post about the CDs he bought recently.  All big-huge-megabands (Megadeth, 
Pantera, etc..) mostly posers. 

We need somebody with an open mind who knows various kinds of metal (power, 
thrash, death, commercial, and more) and not only the main bands. This 
person could then classify the information that would get to him into the 
appropriate categories and keep an accessible librairy of the gathered info.

I propose a format. First, when you send information to the libairy,
identify yourself and your music taste so that people can relate your
info to their own taste. Then give the info about the album. 

As an example, a will post info about some of my favorite CDs. If this 
thing really starts (I hope so) I will provide our librairy with tons
of information (because unlike Maple I know more about metal than just
the mainstream bands).


Name: Dany Labrie (As you can see above, I'm not english speaking)
Age: 26 (optionnal field, but I feel it helps to relate the taste)
Musical taste: Mostly very heavy and industrial as well as progressive
               and very different bands.
Bands I like: Malhavoc, Slayer, Ministry, Suicidal Tendencies, Faith No More,
              Godflesh, Sepultura... 
Bands I don't like: Commercial metal in general, straith forward heavy-metal    
                    bands that do not bring anything new to this music:
                    recent Testament, recent Exodus, Xentrix, etc...

REVIEW
Band: Neurosis.
Album: Souls at Zero.
Rate: 5+ (0-5 scale)
Style: Progressive thrash metal. Crossover between Pink Floyd and Slayer.
Description: Very long and very progressive songs. No verse-chorus-verse...
             Still very very heavy (almost thrash). Use of samples, trompett,
             keyboards, etc... More than one vocal. Most of the songs are
             very slow.
Production: So-so.
Musicianship: Impressive.
Related bands: (If you like these, you should like this) Obliveon, middle
               age VoiVoid (like Killing Technologies).


Band: Malhavoc.
Album: Realse\The Punishment (now released under one CD)
Rate: 5+ (0-5 scale)
Style: Industrial metal.
Description: Heavy-metal kind of riffs surronded by loud drum machine,
             distorted vocal, samples and keyboards. Slayer are brutal,
             Ministry is violent, but this IS SICK. A must.
Production: So-so.
Musicianship: N/A :)
Related bands: Recent Ministry, Godflesh.


Band: White Zombie.
Album: La Sexorcisto....
Rate: 4
Style: Power metal.
Description: Power metal with a very unique edge. One of the most powerful
             and amazing vocal ever seen. Very long album (many songs) 
             but 95% of them are very good to excellent. Not deja-vu.
Production: Very good.
Musicianship: Average (exept for the vocal).
Related bands: Middle age Testament, Melliah Rage, Defiance. 

-- 

       Don't blame me for the wording and spelling:
       C'est la faute a mes parents, pas la mienne.

       Danny Labrie
       Bell-Northern Research, Montreal, Canada
       bnrmtl!labrie@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu

       "Life sucks... but so does my girlfirend :-)"

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