• @Caesium
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    276 months ago

    Ah yes, hearing loss. So cool.

    • @[email protected]
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      176 months ago

      Just wear earplugs at gigs mate. You can get fancy ones that only filter out the painful high frequencies.

      • @BreadOven
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        15 months ago

        I disagree. Hearing loss is not something to take lightly. Stay safe. Hearing protection is cool.

    • @saltesc
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      16 months ago

      How did Mary lose an entire pool?

  • @BreadOven
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    276 months ago

    Hearing damage is permanent, stay safe and use earplugs. You will regret it later in life if you don’t.

    • @ThatWeirdGuy1001
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      146 months ago

      It’s even worse than people act like it is.

      Hearing loss is progressive. You won’t even notice it at first. You’ll just be sitting around one day and suddenly you’re half deaf in one ear and have roaring tinnitus in the other.

      And it doesn’t even take overly loud sounds to cause irreparable damage. A typical motorcycle engine is loud enough. Music turned up slightly too loud. Hell simply clapping your hands can do it.

      Our ears are just as shittily built as our knees.

      • @BreadOven
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        15 months ago

        Yep. Agreed on all aspects of your post.

        I started too late (undergrad) wearing earplugs all the time at shows/other loud things. I don’t think I have much hearing loss (thankfully) but I do get the buzzing every so often (I know it could be worse, and am grateful it isn’t).

        Hearing protection is not something to take lightly (I know you know, but just to reiterate for others reading).

        Ffs, don’t get me started on knees haha.

  • @Opisek
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    236 months ago

    Wear hearing protection to concerts, kids.

  • @jeffw
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    46 months ago

    Chad metalhead

    Black Album

    Pick one

    • @Holyhandgrenade
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      36 months ago

      It’s a good album. I prefer the first four Metallica albums but the Black Album is their biggest album (by a long shot) for a reason.

      • @jeffw
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        16 months ago

        It’s an okay album. But the songs are pretty repetitive. Contrast that to anything on the first four albums and it’s totally different. Sure, Enter Sandman has an amazing riff but it’s also like 60% of the song. That doesn’t happen with earlier thrash

        • @Skullgrid
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          16 months ago

          Most Metallica songs would be improved by cutting them in half.

          Or just being the intro.

    • Rhynoplaz
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      26 months ago

      That’s why he’s the Chad.

      He doesn’t care how you rock, as long as you ROCK!

    • JackFrostNCola
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      106 months ago

      Pretty much what it sounds like, where people who listen to a certain type/sound of music tend to enjoy it at live events by just low key looking down and slowly shuffling or bobbing their head to show their appreciation (rather than headbanging, moshing, etc.) there is a genre called ‘shoegaze’ which pretty much encompasses this kinda scene.

      • @Broken_Monitor
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        36 months ago

        Wow that’s a new one to me, never really noticed people doing that at a show. I guess I’m not really paying much attention to the crowd anyway though. Thanks for the explanation!

      • Mbourgon everywhere
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        26 months ago

        Shoegaze is actually called that because the bands all have a ton of effects pedals, and they’re constantly changing settings and moving from pedal to pedal. So it looks like they’re staring at their shoes. I’ve never heard of it referring to spectators, though in hindsight I’ve done that a couple of times at shows, so…maybe?

        Remember kids: you can buy musicians ear-plugs that mean you can keep listening to it your whole life without crippling phantom noise all the time.

        • JackFrostNCola
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          26 months ago

          Well TIL, thanks. I always associated it with the kids who would listen to like deftones and dance like that

    • @jeffw
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      36 months ago

      Listen to My Bloody Valentine’s second album, Loveless, if you want a good intro to the genre. Named for guitarists who would stare at their shoes while playing iirc

  • Pleb
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    26 months ago

    Good old Bolt Thrower.

    I should give them a listen again.

      • Pleb
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        15 months ago

        Solid.
        Although I’m more of a Cenotaph or World Eater kind of guy.

  • @TheHottub
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    26 months ago

    Is this like new poor? But new old?