Hi! Where to start.... I'm a college student majoring in English and Psychology. I'm an enormous music fan, and my genres of choice are progressive rock, folk, and melodic metal (ex. power, prog, doom) but I like a whole slew of styles, plus I play drums! I really dig philosophy and annoying people by playing devil's advocate in philosophical discussions I love writing and reading, and want to be a fantasy author someday! I occasionally smoke pot and I'm interested in experimenting with some other hallucinogens, but not sure... I'm also really interested in politics, and I'm somewhere between libertarian and socialist. I'm also a vegetarian and really concerned about animal rights. And I'm with my first girlfriend who I love more than life itself :love: That's me in a nutshell, if anyone was interested. Looking forward to getting to know some of you guys better!
I'm doing ok! Struggling with my writing...I want to put off a certain revelation in my story until later so that there's a sense of mystery, but I don't know how to go about it...Besides for that all is well! Thanks for the welcome!
Are you gonna share some spiritual tunes in your music thread as well, powerquest? You mentioned power metal as one of the most spiritual kind of music for you, I am curious which tunes you were thinking of! I can fully understand black metal appealing to you in this sense by the way (it is the same here, but once I was really into power metal as well :biggrin
I love Angra's "No Pain for the Dead", Helloween's "March of Time", Keldian's "Memento Mori", Power Quest's "Neverworld" and "For Evermore", Iron Savior's "Mind Over Matter", "Forever" by Stratovarius...That's just to name a few with more explicitly transcendental themes. There are plenty of others that really get to my soul with other less directly spiritual lyrics. Also check out "Veils of Negative Existence" by Manilla Road! One of my favorites. I'll post if I think of more! And I totally get what you mean about black metal. It's not spiritual as most people would think of it, but once you get to really understand it (at least some of it...I can dig the nature and philosophical-themed stuff) it definitely can be very spiritual. I've been meaning to get into it for a while now (got a big list of bands I wanna check out) but haven't gotten around to it yet.
