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Favourit Music Genre.

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As I can recall, it was about three years ago, when I was at my friend's house, listening to my iPod, I was influenced by hip hop, rap and rnb, he was quite different, he was influenced by heavy metal, or you can call him a metal head. Anyhow, as I was switching between the songs on my iPod I heard this burst of music pounding from his speakers, so I pressed the pause button on my iPod and started listening to what he was listening to.

After the song was over, I felt this new inspiration that's rushed thro my veins, that was the day when I got this gut feeling that changed my life and my way of thinking.

I always used to think like any random ignorant illiterate person that heavy metal music was all about screaming and disturbing people, but when I got into it and knew what it is talking about, I was proved to be totally wrong, heavy metal is not a thrash music you listen to when you are only incensed or boiling, no, heavy metal is a sensation, you feel it before you hear it.

And when you talk about heavy metal you are not talking about one genre only, heavy metal has many sub genres and every sub genre has its specific topic or issue that's being discussed in the songs. For instance You'll find death metal, talking about wars and how people suffer during it, you'll get to feel the song while listening to the brutal vocals with the distortion guitars, it makes you feel what is the song talking about, then comes power metal, which talks about the legends and old ages heroes and their achievements while you can hear the clean guitars playing extremely fast solos mixed with the harp sounds streaming from the keyboard and the rapid double bass beat which gets you in the mode of head banging. All that and more.

Some other pathetic people who doesn’t know what the word Goth means relate gothic metal to devil worshiping and satanic spells, and that’s totally wrong, gothic metal is one of the most widely known sub genres of heavy metal, it’s a kind of soft and dark music mixed together that talks about doleful stories with elegiac endings.

What really got me into the metal scene was not only that the music is extremely confounding.

I have been playing keyboards for almost eleven years, and I didn’t find and kind of music that has better chords and solos than heavy metal, which made me like

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