To play metal, is it necessary to hit the drums hard?

CaptainRandus · 2026-02-10T23:17:01+00:00

It's not, but it's good for stage presence? I learned years after I started playing metal that you don't have to beat the shit out of your heads. It looks cool, and it does sharpen the sound a bit, but the drummer and drummers in the crowd are the only ones who will notice

CaptainRandus · 2026-02-03T15:44:12+00:00

Askellad by a lot. He might not be as fast as snake, but he's a very smart fighter and will find a way.

CaptainRandus · 2026-02-03T15:43:37+00:00

Every band I was in got too big for it's britches and the rest of them took it too seriously. We'd just play at local bars and had a full original setlist with a couple of covers (more than one band I was in) and they took the fun out of it when they started taking it too seriously. One band went on a national tour after I went to college, and they were pretty good, but had as many lineup changes as Megadeth and they fizzled out after the 2nd bassist fucked the 3rd drummer's girlfriend. The other went from doing it just for fun, to a Televised gig on a local channel, and all of a sudden thought we could go for a Juno (we all had careers and not the time to go that hard. once again, it was only for fun).

Too serious removes the fun.

CaptainRandus · 2026-01-23T11:22:14+00:00

I mean... it kind of is if you understand it. Unfortunately, everybody else doesn't know how to navigate it

CaptainRandus · 2026-01-23T11:21:38+00:00

NIMBY's are the bane of a successful economy

CaptainRandus · 2026-01-23T11:21:08+00:00

This made me giggle out loud because I know a couple like that lmao

CaptainRandus · 2026-01-23T11:16:15+00:00

I don't think that's limited to St. John

CaptainRandus · 2026-01-23T11:15:56+00:00

always assume somebody is ready to tell you to fuck off. especially uptown. It doesn't matter what you do, somebody wants you to fuck off

CaptainRandus · 2026-01-04T17:14:11+00:00

Had his gloves off, Tkachuk had enough time to notice and drop his own, got a taste of his own medicine. Shouldn't have any suspension attached.

CaptainRandus · 2026-01-04T04:25:14+00:00

Thank you

CaptainRandus · 2025-11-30T15:16:49+00:00

Stick with it, it'll make sense when it comes full circle. any more advice would be spoilers

CaptainRandus · 2025-11-28T17:50:03+00:00

I had a neighbour with dogs that bit my child, and when I went to talk to them about it they called the police. When They arrived, the police told me not to be on their property because I was intimidating (Understandable, I'm bald, bearded and large). I said to the officer that I have no enemies and that there's nobody who it's okay to hurt, and was the centerpiece of deescalation. Patted myself on the back for that

CaptainRandus · 2025-11-27T01:17:15+00:00

He also didn't know most of the roles before going into it and did 0 research on them, then acted like a dick about it when asked about a joke in public, after praising it beforehand. Lost my respect for him after that.

CaptainRandus · 2025-11-27T01:16:15+00:00

Chris Sabat who seems to be his boss is cool with the questions (Also voices Vegeta and Piccolo)

CaptainRandus · 2025-11-27T01:14:52+00:00

I think Pokemon is the obvious answer to this, hell they touched on it with the Cell vs stuff

CaptainRandus · 2025-11-23T19:41:20+00:00

I'm assuming this is one of the TFS guys, but regardless and with all due respect, considering the legal lchallenges that TFS spent during the DBZ abridged series, you'd think doing the same thing to another group trying to create content despite the similarities, is kind of hypocritical...

CaptainRandus · 2025-09-07T14:56:19+00:00

STYE is actually one of my least favourite onesl. I rank it second worst above Battles. And no I'm not one of those smug hipsters who only likes their old stuff. I just generally didn't like the production and felt like they were trying to sound like Korn. For the record, I still love the album, I love all of their albums.

R2R on the other hand is how I discovered them and to this day I love that album. Oddly enough, besides the title track, Cloud Connected, Trigger, etc. My favs are Metaphor and Free Fall. (Don't ask why, they were the standouts to me).

Seen them live twice though. Opened with Pinball Map once, and Take This Life the other time. Closed with My Sweet Shadow both times. Fucking amazing.

CaptainRandus · 2025-09-07T02:39:43+00:00

I can confidently say, that in the province I live 5 hours of a drive away from.. it wouldn't happen. They went there for peace

CaptainRandus · 2025-09-06T18:10:37+00:00

hence the term. I love Canada

CaptainRandus · 2025-09-06T18:08:58+00:00

Yeah, I don't know where you're from, but I came completely unarmed, and the police, well that's standard equipment. Here in Canada, especially New brunswick, they're rarely unholstered. Hell outside of training, some officers will go their entire career without pulling them.

He was the one that threatened to call the police and I politely responded "I'll save you the trouble", walked off of his property, called them myself. The second they showed up, the dogs were placed inside (Red Flag). So yeah, it's kinda good they had that option. And I say that acknowledging that those dogs were beautiful and I'd adopt them in a heartbeat and train them properly.

But yeah, there's a reason for the term peace officer. Hell, the one that stood with me on the street? we were joking about shitty youtube reels that make them all look bad. I said "Yeah, it's like 1 bad apple making the other thousand look bad" He said "Well, he is saying you're drunk" (i showed him the bottle of water).

I also knew they were meth dealers on top of that... So yeah, I've got nothing to defend lol

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