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Who Says Metal is Anti-Social?: Metal Underground Gets Social
Metalheads are often seens as the black sheep. Often misunderstood and seen as unapproachable, or both, many metalheads are perceived as anti social and are attributed anti-social behavior.
In the new millenium, there are a lot more social aspects of the internet. Social networking sites are the latest craze - from social networking to social bookmarks, calendars and photo sharing. Sites like MySpace (despite its flaws) and Last.fm have gone the extra mile to make social networking work for musicians and music fans alike.
While possibly not truely "social" in the context used above these sites make it much easier than ever before to discover new metal music. Sharing experiences and tastes in music help us [at metalunderground.com] achieve our goals of helping readers discover new and underground metal as well.
Metalunderground.com has opened up accounts on both MySpace and Last.fm and are now formally inviting you to "be our friends."
You can check out Metalunderground.com's MySpace profile at myspace.com/metalunderground. There we have posted some general info about the site and my very own "top played" (on the computer) list from Last.fm as well as the usual MySpace features of comments (moderated) and blog. We've been pretty inactive on the MySpace profile in the past, but plan to change that. Many of our contributors are on MySpace as well and Rocket has made quite a name for himself with The Metal Den on MySpace before joining the Metalunderground.com team. So go and add us to your friends list here.
Last.fm has more collaborative social features such as groups (with collaborative journals and top play lists, recommended radio and bands. Everyone knows Myspace, but what is Last.fm you ask?
Once you've signed up and downloaded Last.fm, just listen to music through your computer's music player – as you do every day. The name of each song you play will be automatically sent to our servers and saved in your musical profile. We call this "scrobbling," and it's the basis of everything we do at Last.fm, from personalised recommendations to radio, music charts to musical neighbours, and much more.
I have a personal account on Last.fm but have also started a Metal Underground group. If you have a Last.fm account, you can join this group and we will be able to make our own charts (after reaching 15 members) to see what Metalunderground.com readers and contributors are listening to.
Furthermore, if you use one or more of the dozens of social bookmarking sites such as digg.com, del.icio.us or others, we'll be integrating features related to them a little more in the future as well.
In today's internet age - as opposed to 1995 when I was scouring the newsgroups (aka USENET) for any word of interesting bands I'd never heard of - discovering new metal music could not be any easier.
PS - It also makes me feel better having many "friends" as I sit at my computer working on Metalunderground.com into the wee hours of the night
PPS - We're not going to sign up for every social network out there, but it you have recommendations in the area of metal/music-oriented social networking sites, please feel free to let us know in the comments.
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I've been using Audioscrobbler (the plugin that tracks your listening habbits and drives Last.fm) for a long time before I even heard of Last.fm. But I like the features they've implemented in the site and am very interested in the collaborative listening habbits and charts. If we get enough people to join the Metal Underground group, I'll be sure to post the charts on Metalunderground.com somewhere.
the fact that everyone has MySpace TELLS YOU SOMETHING! it's actually an awesome way of learing about different cultures and and meeting people from the other side of the world.
personally, I appreciate MySpace's efforts to get the world's people in touch with one another.
wahahhahahahhahahhahahhahahahaha.........oh sh**........
yo, korndogg if you happen to come by this thread come and laugh with me this sh** is hilarious.......wahahahhahhahahahhahaahahahaha.....dat cuz you and me hate dat myspace crap......man it sucks......
dat for ppl who does not know how to get along in real life, and are a bunch of shy lil nerds with those big a$$ bow ties and silk jackets like bookworms...............
myspace is for faggy weirdos......yo there's a funny video dat has anti-myspace content im gonna show it to you........but i gotta i find it........it in killsometime.com........
KORN RULEZ..............
Lol coco. People like you is why I don't call myself a Korn fan. sh** I use myspace to comunicate with the friends that I know very well. There's hardly anyone on my friends list that I don't know. Granted there's alot of sad twats that use it to chat up younger girls in different parts of the country but not everyone nob head.
Well im sorry to have to announce my depature from metalunderground.com!
I am losing my internet for the moment, but i will return whenever possible. Although i will not be using the name KORNDOGG, im going to retire his presence here and now.
It has been a blast over the last 5 months when i first found this site, everyone hated me. But as time went on some people found i had a very strong opinion (or bad temper).
Others still hate me, but to the ones that i have respected and enjoyed talking, debating or arguing with- coco, Vicster, lorlor, godlike, slayerdisciple, terminator, diamond oz, rulin kmadd, spirit of the elder gods, bradisp***ed, red devil, BLACKDOG, and any one i missed. Oh and rulin, i still hate you! LOL!
And to the guys that make it happen- Deathbringer, Remembermetal, Psythe, and even you VayneTheories! You guys keep up the good work. I love this f***en site!
Most respect to the person who calls me out on my next alias when i return(we will see who is really smart)! ...............KORN FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PEACE METALUNDERGROUND (for now)!
KORNDOGG -thanks for the tribute metal underground will be a lesser place for a while.will your new persona be "the artist formely known as korndogg" or lets face it are u finally gonna take up that slayer name u wished u had taken right from the start before you got famous ie SLAYERDOGG or ANGEL OF DOGG lol later......................
i think myspace is pretty cool. ...i wouldnt post out my info on metaluderground or anyhing... but if ppl want the link they can im me....i only use it to talk to my friends... and cocos just a dumbass that thinks he knows everything.... thats how alot of bands get noticed too though. by advertising their sh** on myspace. i for one think its an awesome idea.
korndogg, so ye will be back you say.......well whatever is that happened i'm pretty sure you got a home here.........but i just give you thanks for the support against all these idiotic emof***s.........
and hey it was fun.......i may not be here by the time you return, for coco has decided to soon resign from my job, my quest against SLAYER=S-HIT.......this is just my last week......friday my last day.......so i'm hoping to write a message to anti-slayer.....MY SUCCESOR......who will carry the torch for me against S-HIT........in ways to destroy this sh**ten band.......
hopefully you guys will get along................and be part of what i left.......my legacy..........
hope you get internent back by then..............otherwise farewell, my friend...........................
BUT METALUNDERGROUND...........I'M STILL NOT DONE WITH YOU...AND NEITHER AGAINST SLAYER=S-HIT AND THEIR IDIOTIC FANS (slayerdisciple, spirit)............
SO ON THIS BEAUTIFUL PEACEFUL MONDAY, LET COCO BEGIN HIS FINAL GLORIOUS WEEK WREAKING HAVOC...........WAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHA.......
Well coco it seems we are enemies lol thanks for the mention.coco i was wondering what will u do if your quest to destroy SLAYER is successful do u have any other bands u hate with equal disdain and contempt.How many people have joined u on your crusade against the evil that is Slayer do you think its possible to achieve this goal anyhows lol and to AUNTIE-SLAYER (lol omg so scary) are u going to fight the good fight now that coco has unplugged his keyboard for now.COCO dude seriously they say the star that burns twice as bright burns for half as long and although we don't agree on a lot of topics u do brighten this site up.................so revel in your final week of chaos and destruction.......later
First of all spirit of the elder gods(stupid a$$ name by the way), my name is not aUNTie-SLayEr, it Anti-Slayer. You know got two flaws. Want me to reveal them to you?
One, you're an insignificant piece of sh**.
Two......you're BRITISH, haha.
And you rulin, i have seen your confrontations against coco, and you always come up short. But now, rulin, you have got someone else to watch out for. I once got a dude banned from metalsludge.com(shortly before i was) simply by using his username, and the idiotic owner thought it was actually him, hahahahahhahahahahahahaha, rulin, when coco is gone from metalunderground.com you're gonna see that i'm a totally different game that him, hahahahaha.
later korndogg
ok antislayer with a name like that and ur "partner" coco has a name like coco u cant talk sh** bout spirits name (especially since it is after one of the greatest bands ever in deicide) i mean ur name requires no thought at all and cocos is just the definition of homosexual
u think u can kill slayer? Lord Agony tried to kill Korn what makes u think u can kill Slayer?
TO-AUNTIE-SLAYER lmfao get it right f***wit i am ENGLISH !! my name is f***ing awesome period LOL at least it took some thought.Insignificant u say well i got u mad enuff to diss me with my use of your name i think everyone should refer to you as auntie slayer coz your a f***ing joke but u are making me laugh at least.TO-slayer disciple cheers dude glad to see someone recognises quality music and it is from DEAD BUT DREAMING my fave Deicide song.........later (auntie slayer i doubt u cud kill yourself let alone a band u will never meet coz u are a microbe in comparison to everyone here u are just the punchline of everyones jokes)
here's a message for the beneficial future of heavy metal............you can consider this a gospel.....and i.....COCO........will be the prophet of heavy metal.......i'm the one who deliver all cursed metalheads(fans dat like slayer)from salvation........and i'm gonna start writing it in paper today...and post it here hopefully tomorrow........but i must.......
I MUST SAVE YOU ALL FROM THE WRETCHED CLUTCHES OF SLAYER=S-HIT............
but for now...............(damn, me and my periods)..........
i'll have some fun......with all you twats......
so it seems that either.......psythe, remebermetal?, vayne queeries or theories, or the silent deathbringer deleted one of my posts where i was refering to rulin kmadd as.......
the indianapolis wigger..........
so maybe i'll tone it down and simply say somethin i wanted him to read.......
i gotten to a point where i want to meet you face to face...............................
oh yeah, aunti-slayer......nah i'm just playing pfffft hahahahaha.....nah seriously hahaha.......HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA............
ok ok ok.....let get serious, anti-sl....WAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA............
spirit you make me laugh......ass buddy...........but anti-slayer don't listen to this pile of flamingo poop.......he's just a english preppy with dat plaid bow-tie.......hahahahahahaha oh sh**......
hold on, i gotta piss right now........(me and my periods)
i didn't have time to come back yesterday.........but i know all of ye loves me and dat why i come back........hahahahahaha
i come up with this, cuz of certain events today.........i retreated from alot of events, and despite da fact that i has been an a$$hole here in new york with alot, i'm usually hated everywhere i go, but it more like a hate/love relationship with everyone.....dat why i'm not surprised of colliding with roughly half of the site all against me, but anyways, i it was great, my favorite ficking site,......metalunderground.....but anyways tomorrow is my last day, maybe today or who knows...........cuz i left almost everything i have been into lately, so therefore i just wanna say farewell to all my homes.................
my friends/rivals:korndogg, spirit, psythe, lorlor, red devil, buttkisser, azazel, slayerdisciple, vicster, ............
and anti-slayer......i hated da fact that you came at this time when i'm retiring from my quest to destroy slayer, we could have been a truly awesome faction, and no one could of handle us............
but good luck.....i pass the torch to you from now on..........i bid farewell now.............yes now...i just feel like retiring now..................so good luck.........until then.......
(laughter fades in the distant.......)
I'M GOING TO CARRY YOUR TORCH AS WELL LLOYD/COCO HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. MY NAME IS MARK AND I HAVE HOTMAIL. CUZ HOTMAIL IS BETTER MYsh**SPACE. AND DON'T GO ON AHEAD THINKING THE WRONG IDEA JUST CUZ ME AND LLOYD KNOW EACH OTHER, HE SHOWED ME THIS SITE BEFORE BLABBERMOUTH AND I'M GOING TO AID MY GOOD LIL FIREND ANTI-SLAYER.
If I only could I'd set the world on fire
Say f*** the world
f*** THE WORLD!
f*** 'em all
f*** 'EM ALL
f*** you, f*** me, f*** us
f*** Tom f*** Mary f*** Gus
f*** dairies, f*** the west coast and f*** everybody on the east
EAT sh** AND DIE, or f*** off atleast
f*** pre-schoolers, f*** rulers, kings and queens f*** gold jewlers
f*** wine coolers
f*** chickens, f*** ducks
Everybody in your crew sucks punk motha f***s
f*** cridicts, f*** your review
Even if you like me, f*** YOU!
f*** your mom, f*** your moms mamma
f*** the KORN and the dalli llama
f*** the rain forest, f*** a forest poop
You probably like it in the RUMP, f*** a shoe pump
f*** the real deal, and f*** all the fakes
f*** all 52 states, oooh
And f*** you
If I only could I'd set the world on fire
Say f*** the world
f*** THE WORLD!
f*** 'em all
f*** 'EM ALL
f*** opera f*** operah f*** a soap operah
f*** a pop locker and a c*** blocker
f*** your girlfriend I probably did her already
f*** Kile and his brother Tom Petty, jump steady
My homie f*** 'em what are ya gonna do
f*** that b**** man f*** you
Yeah well f*** you to
Don't bother to analyze these rhymes
In this I say f*** 93 times
f*** the president, f*** your welfare
f*** your government and f*** Fred Bear
f*** Newgent, like anybody gives a f***
You like to hunt a lot, SO f***IN WHAT!
f*** disco, count a monty crisco
f*** cisco, and Jack and Jerry Brisco
And f*** everyone that went down with the titanic, in a panick
I'm like, f*** YOU ALL!!!!
If I only could I'd set the world on fire (keep repeating)
Say f*** the world
f*** THE WORLD!
f*** 'em all
f*** 'EM ALL
f*** Celine Deon and f*** Deon Walrick
You both make me sick, suck my d***
f*** the Berlin wall, both sides of it
And f*** Lial Luvit, whoever the f*** that is
f*** everybody in the hemisphere
f*** them across the world and f*** them right here
You know the guy who operates the Rouge river draw bridge in delray on jefferson?
f*** HIM!
f*** your idea, f*** your gonarea, f*** your diareah, Rocky Miavia
f*** your wife your homie did he's f***in you
f*** the police and the 50 to
f*** Spin, Rolling Stone, and f*** Vibe
f*** everybody inside
Whoevers on the cover, f*** his mother
f*** your homies little brother from along the way
And f*** Violent J
f*** you
So you have the audacity to post a song that belongs to the genre i most hate. HIP HOP. sh**. But guess what by nature you cannot change the way metalheads are. They are anti-social, anti-ghetto, anti-wiggers, and so on and so forth. Ogre welcome, ogre is a friend of mine. He post from my house cuz we decided to form an alliance in many sites to preach the good word. Against all twats who likes slayer. I press ip logged and zyklon man stop posting as coco.
slayerdisciple - you read my mind. this used to be a site in which what mattered was the metal, and people's opinions could be expressed without the sh** being ripped out of them just because controversy is big for them.
metalunderground i thought was better than myspace (where people sometimes people leave bullsh** comments) but with people like anti-slayer, it's no better than f***ing bebo!
First of all i've respect for martyrs like Coco and Red Devil, I never heard of Lord Agony. I'm a an activist who is trying to destroy the confidence of this idiotic slayer fans.
It is people like me that, eveyoen think is an internet villain, because i'm trying with all i can to turn people away from a band they think it the greatest.
It like people thinking George W. Bush AKA Gay W. b**** is the greatest president of all time.
My ass, f*** the president, and sure as hell f*** the puddle of worm piss that is slayer.
Anti-Slayer -
We've heard everything you have to say against Slayer before. From Coco, from Red Devil, and probably more intelligent arguments from other people, too. You have nothing new to say to us. Don't you think that if we didn't care about Coco or Red Devil's opinions about Slayer then we're far from likely to care about yours?
This whole "trying to destroy the confidence of this idiotic slayer fans" thing is a waste of your efforts, your time, and our brain cells. It is a completely fruitless quest. Why not go kick a ball around outside, or go make some friends in the real world? Hell, why not get a girlfriend? And if you've already got one, then why are you spending your time here, and not with her?
Here's a tip for when you eventually try to do something worthwhile, like make friends with people: nobody likes being told what to think or believe.
Sorry but some one is impersonating me I wonder why that is...
First I'm a Gay of all i've respect for martyrs like Coco and Red Devil, I in love with Lord Agony. I'm a an activist who is trying to destroy the confidence of this idiotic korn fans.
It is people like me that, 'eveyoen' (Hello) think is an internet villain, because i'm trying with all i can to turn people away from a band they think it the Gayest.
It like people thinking George W. Bush AKA Gay W. my b!tch AKA osama is the greatest a$$ fuker of all time.
Becuase of Asama Bin Larden is my favourite out of my gay b****'s
Fuc My ass, f*** the president, and sure as hell f*** the puddle of worm piss that is my face.
thats the subliminal message within my ass...
Have i seen you somewhere else before hahahaha, thanks Gamma(Cool name by the way). Legion of the Damned...nice try idiot
EVERYONE PRESS IP LOGGED YOU WILL SEE THAT NOT ME!!!!! It was the pus that came out of the zit that just pop from my ass...Legion of the Damned. LOL
Idiotic insignificant turdhead, you're never going to eradicate the awesome power of the one who's currently the GREATEST MEMBER OF THIS SITE......Anti-Slayer. I hear cheers, thank you, thank you.
Gamma Cephei, you're the only cool guy in this site besides me and Red Devil.
Legion, Kiss my ass, you're only amusing me, which i admit was a great parody. Keep it up, haha.
Auntie-slayer talk about delusions of grandeur ^^^ lol your a f***ing ameoba your not even road kill got to admit tho impersonating anyone is the act of a f***ing p***y and seriously who the f*** would want to impersonate a sad motherf***er like u who actually believes his delusions keep it up and you'll be wearing a jacket that fastens at the back chewing on rubbing wallpaper and jacking off into your own faeces and smearing it onto your muppet head lmfao your a f***ing loser !!!!!!!!!!
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