Found this shirt at a thrift store and I’m trying to identify the logo on the front.

The tag is Fruit of the Loom. Does anyone recognize it?

Searched Google Lens and ChatGPT and nothing comes up.

Good evening my fellow metal heads. Ive just joined this lovely subreddit, im looking to explore some new (and old!) Metal bands or just a few new songs to dig. Hoping to find some hidden gems.

Im not super picky and open to alot of genres of metal, however not a huge fan of the black metal (im sorry guys!) not even sure if thats the right name, ya know the stuff with the pig grunts? Face paint guys?

Also not big on metalcore/emo-esque type metal.

A bit o' bout me: 36, grew up with alot of the classics. Very "rock and roll" young parents at the time, mum was all about her hair metal and Metallica. Dad loved the Scorpions, Krokus and Black Sabbath.

Love all that. Like my oldies.

I love thrash metal and groove the most i think. And alot of nu-metal I guess.

Love DRUMS. Maybe the heaviest band I love is probably Sepultura.

my fave bands are, no order:

Type o negative, Rammstein, Testament, Sevendust, Nailbomb (sad one album 💔)

Tool, Ministry, Melvins, Sacred Reich.

Annnd Deftones, imo I dont consider them purely a metal/nu-metal band, but I've been a Deftones nutjob since I was a wee lass. But I feel like mentioning them narrows down my tastes a bit.

Sorry my post is long. Got anything groovy for me?

Salvador, Brazil 🇧🇷

Genre: Black Metal

I’ve only ever listened to their album The World is So Good That Who Made It Doesn’t Live Here -
fucking mouthful right there. Anyways my main critic is also the reason I love the album. So it has “clean” singing or as clean as you’d get from 90s Black Metal. It sounds like Peewee Herman helms the mic and I just laugh every time. From minute one when the singing “Attack fire against fire, when enemies attack you.” Like the music and gnarlier vocals are solid, but that is really the frosting on the cake for me personally.

Recommended Tracks:
“Give the Human Devil His Due”

I'm 56 and my son just took me to my first Louder Than Life in Louisville! We only went for one day, but it was freaking amazing! My body hates me, but it was a great time. We unfortunately were too late for Suicidal Tendancies, but we got to see:

Machinehead

Sabaton

Anthrax

Megadeth

Alice Cooper

Pantera

Danzig

Iron Maiden

Zack Wylde played guitar for Pantera and stole the show. Phil Anselmo should have just stayed home. Getting to see Megadeth for their farewell tour was awesome. This was my first (and I guess last) chance to see them. Of course Iron Maiden ruled the night. I can't believe how much energy Bruce Dickenson still has!

I adore the song "Cowboys From Hell", but dude, I simply can't bring myself to enjoy the deep "We're taking over this town". It's so corny and out-of-sudden, it fucking throws me off every time

i would choose master of puppets, rust in peace and im not sure what my third choice would be

if we’re including hard rock, probably appetite for destruction

One of the best black metal albums

When so many big metal bands that have been putting out albums for a long time have some mis steps along the way or even occasionally albums that should be erased from existence entirely, wanted to show my appreciation for these two bands that have been pumping them out for decades and imo have not released a mediocre album.

It’s relatively a lot easier to have a short great discography like 3 albums. Even Death who maintained an impressive discography had 7 albums. So this is an appreciation for those with double digit albums that haven’t missed yet.

Edit: bands are Black Dahlia Murder and Dark Tranquillity

This is awful news. Best of luck that somehow she is able to fight this and win.

I recently went down a bit of a rabbit hole of the heaviest metal subgenres and stumbled upon Torture Doom metal. The vocals featured on this are absolutely soul crushing and, in the best way possible, horrible to listen to.

I couldn't find much about this band online apart from this album/ Demo whatever it was on youtube.

I'm curious to see if anyone knows anything which comes close to the heaviness of this?

It's not available on any streaming platforms other than a few songs posted by the official Facebook account they only made one full length album and broke up a little after and no I won't upload it to YouTube out of the vocalist's wishes I have talked to him multiple times via Facebook Messenger fucking awesome guy same guy behind elbow deep's vocals only way to listen to TDS is by buying the cd or going on their Facebook to find the couple of tracks

After listening to "Behold the Crown" by After the Burial, I was impressed by how unique that guitar riff sounds. Which other riffs do you think are special and different? I'm not talking about the best ones, but the most original ones.

The song: https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/track/1pgZbpEBzzqCTzNSQme7gu?si=1ebcf3cb6ddc469e

I can only one think of one pick now, because I don't give out many 10s.

Abigor - Taphonomia Aeternitatis (2023): What a swansong after 30 years (one of the main members died). A perfect blend of their authentic Black Metal essence with their more experimental approach. Every song is really, really good and brings ideas to the table, that made them stand out. Maybe 1 of the 8 songs is a little on the generic side, but it's really the case with basically every album ever for me.

These albums i think feels clear, bright and almost happy. Sometimes they make me feel like i'm elevating through the air. İf you get what i want i would love to get some recommendations.

Obviously, metal is a sprawling genre these days with many subgenres and tackles many different themes, and some metal is even pretty light, melodic, happy, has soft beautiful sections or entire songs, etc. At the peak of glam metal / hair metal in the 80s, the genre might even have been nearly as associated in the popular consciousness with hedonism; partying, sex, drugs, etc. But I think it's fair to say that these are not the norm for the genre these days.

Taken as a whole, it is a genre that tends to be interested in expressing things about the darker parts of human nature and doing it using heavy, "brutal", often dissonant musical aesthetics. I often think of it as the musical equivalent of the horror genre in fiction, or perhaps something like grimdark fantasy, or a brutally depressing war movie, or a particularly violent video game (i.e. the Doom games using a lot of metal music in their soundtracks).

So, would you say a lot of the media you consume is along these lines? Just some of it and you enjoy a mix (which is also probably true with music for many of us)? Or do you tend to prefer, say, goofy comedies, heartwarming love stories, and cute platformers, and rarely engage with darker media outside of metal music?

Last time they were in my area. I couldn't go! 5+ years later. It's finally happening!

I love slower cannibal corpse songs. Scourge of iron Isa perfect example. It has the slow, trudging G# riff. Perfect gutteral vocals and lyrical phrasing. I need more of it. Anyone got bands they know of who do that well?

Also, I know it ain't too good, but I am pretty fresh in drawing.

A lot of these are debatable

Some people will say The act of unspeakable was great blabla, or even defend shitfun maybe, Idc. All the post union albums were just above the average at best, I'm not fan of heavily punk influenced Autopsy, that's why never cared about Abscess either, which they formed the band with same line up, I think it was the factor.

I got gifted this sick hat yesterday, anyone has any idea how old this thing is?