Seems enough of the old regulars (old as far as I'm concerned..not sure about those that left before me) still stop in from time to time. So what has changed? People busy with work? Not listening to metal? I myself have started listening to a lot of different shit I didn't listen to before. There is still a Cephalic Carnage CD in my car stereo though. (no mp3 player hook up unfortunately)

Admittedly, I also stopped coming here for a little bit but once everything in my life settled down, I checked in to find only a handful of new posts in a long time. Lately I've posted here and there then come back every other day or so to see if anyone else is here but a lot of times it's still the same as when I left.

I guess I have no good ideas about the subject, but figured I'd post so others would see it and maybe see it and come back or at least have some idea.

Hah was drinking last night when I posted this. It is strange that this place is dead now.

'Tis the way it goes. Anyway, just wanted to give kudos for what may well be the most coherent and relevant drunk post I have ever seen.

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I have to agree with Amadeus. Your post looked sober.

The blue screen I hung out at in addition to this is about the same, but I think there's more frequent posts here. I'm glad they're both around since people do check in now and then. Old friends are the best ones. I do miss the crazy days on here though.

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hah Thanks. I posted that at 5 am after drinking a bunch of beer and vodka.

And you survived to tell about it? Far out.

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I guess repeating see it is the only hint.

ive been lurking on this site for a long time until i had to make an account to ask about what was going on with the 502 errors.. i dont know why its so desolate now.

im not sure where or how people can start to bring it back, probably a good idea to start posting more tabs and trying to get it to the first pages of google search i guess?

A lot of the old forums I use to visit are dead now. One hasn't had a new post since 2011.

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It's probably because of imageboards like 4chan or reddit where it is a lot easier to discuss topics on almost everything. I can't elaborate too much more because my brain feels fried from pt.

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Hey Drawn&1/4'd: Have you ever been to Trailside Saloon on 104th/Colorado Blvd, in Thornton?

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Honestly, if this place would let this place thrive in political arguments and multiple threads on the same topic, maybe then we could try to save the world, but I don't know if there's much we can do about this forum shit.

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Nope, haven't really hung around Thornton much.

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I still check in every now and then; but yeah, life just seems to get in the way.

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Facebook has a lot of MT regulars..PM me if you want to add me!

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Honestly dont think the death of this site was the copywrite issue but rather the mods scaring members off both new and veterans.

I still chime in from time to time. Seems Paddy's departure was sort of the last leg.

What happened to him? I missed the whole thing.

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Not certain. Just know him and dyldo seemed to dissapear almost coexistantly.

I used to have everyone on my MSN, havent logged on there in close to 4 years I think. fuggn Facebook

Looking back, this place was kinda hilariously overmodded. That said, it seems like it became a ghost town after some of the more overzealous mods (myself included) started to drift off and leave the place untended, probably for the same reason we did. It just didn't seem important anymore.

Don't think there's any coming back.

I don't know. The die-off was very gradual and did seem to start happening around the time of whole copyright nonsense.

The straw that broke the camel's back did seem to be Paddy fucking off, however. You should never lament the departure of an Irishman, but I do nonetheless.

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The Irishman was indeed a breath of, not fresh air, but some type of very noticeable gas. Kept everyone on their toes.

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The copyright thing I think definitely had something to do with it. We only scared off the annoying people who had flame similes after every post. Fuck them.

Paddy was locked up for impregnating some Duchess 9 or 10 months ago.

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Paddy's running for Minister of Silly Walks. He's still doing a few tabs and occasionally commenting on the craziness in his country, but I haven't talked to him in awhile. I think the last time I had a computer problem he tilted and had mental overload. I do that to people sometimes.

I think the copyright thing may have had a little to do with the slow down, but a lot are just getting older and moving on to other real life stuff so they aren't on here as much. I talk to several mt-ers and tc-ers on FB, but I sometimes I really miss the forums.

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Yep. Pretty much this.

Have a nice life, assholes.

Well now it seems there is very little mod interference, mainly because there is not much to moderate, so I would think you could start posting whatever really.


2013 Tabbies
Where are they now? Everyone

Watching Faces of Death, first one. I used to just try to watch snippets, for the gore, but now I'm viewing the film to gain perspective like the guy says in the beginning... as well as see pictures of gore.

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I remember looking forward to the next tab that was going to be posted. There just seemed to be a lot of excellent tabbers back in the day and it was great seeing which song would be figured out next. Not so much of that any more, particularly as those tabbers - myself included - enter real life and no longer have the time or inclination to sit there for a week figuring out Nile or Cryptopsy.

Great days

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Heh, yeah, I actually learned playing the guitar using tabs from this here site.

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Some of the mods made me more hard nosed about criticism even though I knew they weren't as bad as they let on. Sort of like Gordon Ramsey or Simon Cowell. lol I'll give them a little credit for me singing in public. I wish I'd started years ago.

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ahh.. your Nile tabs were ridiculous.

I wish I had the time to properly correct them!

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I wasn't tabbing anything quite that fast, more along the lines of Impaled; but it's been a few years since I've sat down to tab anything out.

I still can't figure out those damn things. I learned to read those eggs with flags on some of them.

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Eggs with flags on them?

Musical notation.

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I'm up to my nuts in repairs. Between that and being lazy I got no time. I still lurk around awaiting the perfect moment for my hostile takeover.

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Cheers?

*ahem*

haha, seems like most of us still lurk back here..but yes, I think it was less the mods(bunch of gheys anyways) and more the legal tabbing BS issue. Also, we grew up and have jobs/careers! I started at this site as a drug-induced high school drop out, now I'm a drug-free(well..rec drugs lol!), gym-obsessed plumber.

I added you on FB graf, anyone else PM me, lots of us have FB!

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If some one is willing to cough up a few million then I'm sure there are things that could be done.

Funny how this thread drew out a whole bunch of old regs. Sort of like the opening to a zombie flick.

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I've been lurking for years. I only hit the post button when I want to see the 15-year-old smilies.

Fuck you!


Haha yeah same here.

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I would never have thought it possible to create creepy innuendos about emoticons.

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I stomp back to the green once and a blue moon for shits.

I work in northen alberta and live in HFX still (aka i fly across canada and work for 14 strait days), and when im home for my 7 days off im busy as fuck running around.

looking back i have level'd up my guitar skills from this place, made some good friends, and most likely a few enemies haha

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A Murderface smiley would be appropriate for this place, and it wouldn't look like a smile.

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That's kinda murdery.

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Not enough lisp. Or piss.

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spewin. cos i just wrote my first ever tab a coupla months ago, and was all excited to put it up in the pending forum [until it got reformatted and fucked it up] but there doesn't seem to be anyone here to even say "hey idiot you can put slidedowns in like this..." makes sense that ppl get older and busier but there should be some new blood comin in yeah?

hahaha! whoops...

I kinda dwindled down on posting when the big ban on a bunch of tabs happened years ago. I come back and read things every once in awhile, but rarely ever post.

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Hah. Those were the days. That messenger doesn't even exist anymore, right? Shame, it was the best. Just about every contact I frequently chatted with on there were people I met on here. Hmm, kinda sad. I owe a lot to this site as almost a "social network" of sorts. For what I got out of it anyway. A few of you know but for those who don't, I was actually engaged to a member of this forum for years. Met here. All things considered, It's almost certain that if not for metaltabs I would have never traveled to Italy. (...5 times, )

Yes. This.

Real life caught us. 40 hour work weeks, girls/females/gilfs, this and that.

That drew a lot of contributors away. Plus metal is mostly dead. In about 20-40 years we'll be the old fucks grabbing a vinyl copy of 'cowboys from hell' and telling our grandkids that 'this was the time they still made real music'.

Ofcourse they'll be shocked, running away with their ears bleeding. Leaving us with a grin. I salute you, metalheads!

Metal - music for the aged, or music for the ages? Funny thing is, I dunno how it looks where you are, but where I live metal has kind of taken the same position as classical music. That is, it's a rather small and select group, but there's a constant influx of young uns' who actually get into the whole history from Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and onwards. Hell, just at my university we have a group dedicated to arranging a few metal parties each semester, and while it's not a huge gang we've never had trouble getting enough new members to keep the ball rolling.

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Does anyone actually own a copy of Transient's band's demo?

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Anybody need Magic the Gathering cards?

I think every genre since caveman days has been told that musical styles will fade eventually, but now there's even a rebirth of cajons, you know? Metal will probably be like prog, and only the most intellectual old-timers will listen to it as a majority, but they'll be the ones that pass it on to the younger members of society so it hangs around for a very long time.

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No but Dyldo's band, Deadhead Roses, are on Spotify. I'm actually listening to their debut now.

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Crowned : Live at Budokan in my walkman..

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I have Crowned songs on my computer. Can't remember how I downloaded them though.

my idea: Bia noodz (that isn't her nipple piercing)

I'm gunna release and electronic album this year. Here's a music video for one of the songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpmJ7dbaKLo. I know you want to see me half naked rolling around in mud eating crickets.

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Yeah? Well, I have the Die Hard edition Gatefold LP on Gold Wax with a pair of die-hard official Transient's glasses only limited to 10. I bought it at Hell's Headbangers.

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I actually test my kids friends with metal, Mwahahaha. I have guitars and amps all around as I now fix and modify them for a living. I ask my kids friends, "what is your favorate metal song"? Regardless of what they say I play something way way way more heavy shortly into to proformance. Some of the children are mind blown and I can see that moment in their eyes when they hear that first magic note of live metal music.

Its a wonderful feeling awakening a young metalhead.

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Totally awesome, man.

From this collision of artistic passion, invention and sonic overload a new kind of music was born. It was as hard and heavy as the fire beast's metallic flesh. It had the power of his blood, the heat of his fire, the speed of his flight... and the might roar of his death cry. But it also had the angelic beauty if Aetulia's song and a touch of her mournful wail. It was an anthem of the people, and they called it Heavy Metal.

Sorry, couldn't help myself. Pretty fun game, actually.

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"Ending the final stage of their evolution they ascended to become metal gods!
Before they left they took time to weave instruction for all they had invented into the natural world. They taught spiders how to spin guitar strings from web, and the trees how to grow exhaust pipes for branches, they etched hieroglyphics of how to put these things together.

We give our secrets to the future, they inscribed in glowing letters, so they may know the glory of metal!"

THIS is about the most metal thing I have ever heard.

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Haha, yeah, like I said it's a pretty fun game. Main character is voiced by Jack Black and they have people like Ozzy, Lemmy and a whole bunch other like that in the cast. Some of the bad guys are glam rockers and the teardrinker's of the Black Sea. Gameplay is too simplistic for my taste, but writing and overall execution of the story telling borders on the brilliant at times. Made by metalheads for metalheads.

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Who?

Me.

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Keeping someone tied up by their testicles in your basement generally doesn't count as being engaged to them.

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We are kinda making it up as we go it seems.

Edit* spelling

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I also check back here now and then.. Maybe once every 5-6 months .. Although the bass forum seems to be very quiet as usual.. So not much kicking off to deal with! But yeah good times in the old days.. I'm a full time session bassist and teacher now.. Not listening to much metal these days though.. But I do owe a lot to this site and it's tabs and forum for advice and general comedy! Hope everyone is keeping well!

Cheers!

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It's great to hear you're teaching bass now.

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Guys, I have an idea to bring this place back. How about an official "Politics and religion" thread?

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No. The last time I started talking about religion to someone on here I talked to him for years and years and right now. We can't have that happening again.

He just woofed at me. Yup, Paddy's still weird as ever. lol

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You might be the Anti-Christ.

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Well if I would've suggested putting them both in the same threat you would be correct, what I said was, "Make TWO threads, and have one where people can talk all the shit they want about politics, or if they wanna be more sympathetic to those taking their tax-dollars, maybe they could rant about their most passionate issues, and in the other thread they could simply state their religious beliefs or atheism, and talk all the shit they want, or whatever." Those are the exact words that I said.

C'mon, it's the least we can do to give this place a little *uhmf*

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It would certainly brew a shit storm, but only if most here wasn't so jaded and knew better.

Best people just keep posting. Sooner or later poop will contact some ones blades and the place is alive again.

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Ah, the old fertilizer on the forum growth hormone.

umph-umph-umph baba umph ba-ding bah.....

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...yummy growth hormones!

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BB-You've had enough, Brutus!

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IS THIS YOU??? when you're actually naked, holla. don't give a shit about this softcore junk.

So this has kinda turned into a sideline RTT. Keeping it alive

Also, I just noticed I've been a member 10 years.

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So... what do you guys think about politics and religion?

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Murcie.

http://metaltabs.com/forum/member.php?u=13021

Sent her a private message one day back in 2007. Started a friendship which thrived via MSN messenger. A year later she traveled from Italy to visit me in the US (TX). Thus officially began our relationship that would last almost 6 years. I visited her in Italy 5 times, sometimes for 2-3 months at a time, and she spent many weeks here each visit, limited by time allotted off from work. I was a student so I'd just take semesters off. We planned to marry and much more. But in the end, most likely due to my own flaws as a partner in my early 20s, she came to the conclusion that she could not spend a lifetime with me. Indeed, she has made it abundantly clear that she never plans to enter another relationship for the rest of her life, and prefers solitude as a person. I hope she wouldn't take offense to my sharing that information here, but it's doubtful and I even imagine she has an unspoken sense of pride in the fact that she is content to be alone. We still speak and she still sends me random melodic/symphonic black albums every other month.

I realize that is WAY more info than you asked for, but as I sit here sipping on my drink, I just let it flow that way. And hey, this thread is about us all as a (past) community, heh?

On a lighter note... I'm actually married now to an incredibly sweet Mexican girl. A funny thing to mention for the board is that when I met her she told me about her interest in a certain Mago de Oz band, which is essentially a power metal band from Spain, and we just went from there.

Cheers, Bros.

That's pretty cool, td. I've seen other relationships that began on the net last for a long time, but I've seen others break up romantically and still continue friendships. Everybody's situation is different.

I've got a question for you all. I'd mentioned before that I'd been singing at church and I've gotten an annoying tremor in my voice in the lower range. Well, I went to the doc and it's something called vocal dysphonia. I'd like to elaborate on it here, but should I just do it here or do you thing it would be more helpful in the vocal forum? I have doc's orders to train with a coach which I start in a couple days. Thoughts?

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NOT NAKED ENOUGH. 4/10, would not fap again. Would have been 1/10, but you get a point for the cricket bukkake and two points because I got a half chub when you started getting doused with water.


That's may as may be, but a truer expression of love I've yet to see.

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Awesome man. Thanks for sharing. It's been awhile since this was an active community... so hearing what everyone has been up to, when I occasionally check back in, is really cool.

Right, now you've piqued my curiosity. What, to your mind, would qualify as an untrue expression of love? I just feel like I need to know if I'm gonna keep my chances alive.

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I made partner in the practice I work at.

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you in law? nice to see your name on here. i thought you worked in accounting at one point too

everythings going well in my life. loved this community, met some great people and grew up here haha. will miss it, hope youre all doing well. hopefully this stuff gets archived and we can view it in 50 years....

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Transient, that may well have been one of the most horrifying dystopian views of the future I've ever seen. Much obliged.

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I think he's right. I've perused some hard copy stuff as well as read on here, and had myself in stitches laughing, Lot of memories here, for sure.

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I'm a Chartered Accountant, Trans.

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