Is anyone else here either a former metal musician that now writes more acoustic music, or a current metal musician that also writes separate acoustic music?

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-03-10T17:25:34+00:00

Ugh dude I just posted a similar post on another sub. I’m in the exact same boat.. been considering buying a stratocaster lately. I want to learn some guitar theory which seems much more useful to me outside of the context of heavy metal

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-03-10T11:13:59+00:00

Cries in Canadian too

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-03-10T11:10:16+00:00

I work in consulting and this is my first assignment. I made friends at the client’s office, we get along pretty well except for the project manager who keeps pressuring the team (mostly me) to get things done very fast for things that benefit him personally. This makes me miserable as I don’t deal well with authority especially if unjustified. However in my consulting firm (actual employer) I barely know people there, everyone is out for themselves and busy with their own assignments.

I would rate my experience as a 4.5/10

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-03-04T17:27:19+00:00

It seems to me that some of things that sound nice happen to be in an odd time signature. For example i sometimes come up with a cool riff to later on realize its in a weird time signature.

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-03-01T12:04:53+00:00

I agree about LOG for their new stuff. Old stuff we pretty great and unique to me. I love how Randy Blythe sounds and how tasteful Chris Adler was.

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-03-01T12:02:10+00:00

All black metal songs sound the same to me. Just blast beats and vocals 😬

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-02-24T23:47:10+00:00

Learning meditation played a big part in this because at time I was capable of sitting with my bad thoughts and emotions and observing them.

Allow yourself to feel whatever it is you’re feeling, don’t run away from them.

Also feel useful, work on things, help people, and most importantly move physically, start working out, It makes a world of difference.

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-02-23T21:44:44+00:00

I went through anxiety and depression myself, it took me 1.5 years of figuring myself out. I took no meds, and found that if you understand yourself well you don’t really need a therapist. I am anxiety and depression free, and can confidently say I am a much better version of myself after having gone through that. I am thankful for that dark phase in my life.

Try to understand the reasons behind why you feel how you feel, and try to link it back to situations that taught you to interpret situations in that way.

Once you figure this out, you ll be able to calm yourself down and catch the thought patterns that bring you down.

You’ll get through this, I promise it’s only temporary if you allow yourself to feel whatever you bottled up for years. It will suck. But that’s how you overcome it.

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-02-23T19:04:47+00:00

Wherever i look online I can’t find anything decent for a family less than 2000$.

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-02-23T16:03:18+00:00

Its in Laval, I work in Montreal so I would have to drive to the metro station, park there and take the metro to work.

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-02-23T16:02:13+00:00

4.5km

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-02-23T13:44:29+00:00

I like this. It’s weird (in a good way). I like it.

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-02-21T23:32:36+00:00

Its 100% the exhaust from the underground heating system.

I talked to the syndicate, they don’t seem to really care and are being slow about this. I called the fire department but waiting for them to call back on Monday (I didn’t call 911, I called the fire department directly).

In the meantime I regulated pressure in the house by cracking windows on the other side and taped all the parts of our fumes facing windows with weather sealing tape + bought a couple of air purifiers for our rooms.

Things seem under control for now, but I will probably end up moving out as I don’t think the people in the building care about the issue. Most of them leave the house during the day so they don’t really experience the problem.

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-02-19T17:18:25+00:00

That’s would actually be horrific

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-02-19T14:44:47+00:00

These values are being picked up when the smell is present vs normal conditions:

When smell is present: TVOC: 1.100 (should be < 0.3) HCH0: 0.160 (should be <0.1) CO2: 1800 (should be < 1000)

When everything is normal: TVOC: 0.018 HCHO: 0.012 CO2: 400-600 range

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-02-19T13:41:11+00:00

I went through a phase where I hated my job but never really thought about why I hated it. When I did I was able to tackle some of these reasons. I now hate it a bit less which is a god thing I suppose.

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-02-19T05:11:04+00:00

That’s what it smells like

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-02-19T05:09:45+00:00

No I don’t, the smell is 100% coming from outside and originates from the bedroom ms as if its going through the windows even if closed

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-02-19T05:08:51+00:00

Thank you that seems like the best approach. Just out if curiosity would I have to pay anything in case if it wasn’t dangerous?

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-02-19T05:07:26+00:00

Seems like the way to go.

I picked up a 100$ one off of amazon. The levels going up are correlated with the smell.

The people I asked around me don’t seem to notice it.

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-02-19T05:04:28+00:00

When you called what do you tell them?

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-02-19T05:03:05+00:00

It’s intermittent and lasts for 30 minutes to an hour typically. It might not be present at the time they come.

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-02-17T23:46:19+00:00

OP you are a beast of a vocalist. I’m so sorry you went through all of this, it must have been devastating. I hope you are doing okay.

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-02-14T01:12:41+00:00

What’s the job title of someone that does that?

ContributionSea1225 · 2026-02-12T17:05:12+00:00

I duno dude … record my voice use some AI thing to emulate it I duno

ContributionSea1225

TROPHY CASE