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Erik · by Erik 07-23-2009, 11:39 PM

A little piece that I started a while ago (over a year to be exact) and finally finished today. The job in question is not my current one but, my one at a resort. I feel I have improved as a writer compared to when I first wrote it and the piece is finally complete. Enjoy!

It's another day to go through like any other, with a general feeling of drudgery and only a glimmer of hope that something good might come out of it. I go to cook my breakfast and flip on my $25 boom box that has whatever CD I listened to last. It just so happens to be Amon Amarth's "Twilight of the Thundergod." I begin to bob my head to the ensuing guitar riff as I go about my morning routine.

On my way to work I wait for the coffee to kick in while I put on one of my favorite albums; "The Triumph of Steel" by Manowar. I know I need something to get me in the mood to conquer the day. I cycle through the tracks to track 5; Burning, and let the opening sounds get me in the mood. Then the vocals kick in and Eric Adams finishes the first verse," ...and your blood is my wine..." Ah shit that feels good. This must be how drug addicts feel after they shoot up. The aggression, the domination, the pure fucking power. Now I am ready to not survive a day but, to take what comes and conquer it. I will become better today; I will surpass what I was the day before.

Lunch break, I eat my lunch in my car as I don't like my coworkers. They are superficial bitches that prattle on and on about nothing. I know what I need to fix this, something loud, angry and vulgar; Suffocation with a mix of Slayer. I switch between the CD's for the duration of my lunch as I enjoy my tasty roast beef sandwich. My tension is relieved and I go back to work with clients that would rather be pretty as opposed to strong and healthy. Fuck these idiots.

Home and I am beat from work. I need something to perk me up and I don't want more coffee. Origin does its job with "Echoes of Decimation." Fast, brutal and like lightning to my nervous system. I begin to imagine I am at a concert with them. I headbang, I air guitar, I act like that crazy maniac that always gets the funny looks at shows. I live the music. Then I go into my garage to pull some weight off the ground and let the aggression out.

The smell of sweat and rust fills my nostrils as I grip the bar. There are no thoughts in my mind of what I need to accomplish, there is only unbridled rage. I breathe deep and start the pull; all the while the thunder of metal perforates the air around me.

This is my world. I live it, I breathe it and I need it to exist.

N00bs

Indeed, metal for life brother. Metal for life. \m/

Marsallah

Yup. I need that fix a few times a day, too and I listen to music (mostly metal) almost all the time I spend at work - which is ca. 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Weekends are less metal, because I spend them with my family and I can't blast death metal on them, no way

Both my wife and kids AND metal are my love, and in life like this you gotta make compromises, both ways - I leave them all at home when I go to a concert.

The thing is that I didn't really feel the need to "live and breathe metal" until recently, when I became a parent. I assume it's part of the process of 'rediscovering the glory times of early youth' which happens often to 30+ year olds and/or young parents, but I like it.

I hadn't thought of metal like this when I was a teenager or in my twenties. Actually, when I was 15-17 I was wondering whether I'd stick to metal in a long run so that I'll keep playing Death and Slayer records when I'm 40-50. Now I know I will.

About2Crash

i love it

as for me, I refuse to become stagnant. too many people i know only listen to the music that they listened to when they were teenagers. then they just stop. this is why i am always finding new bands and finding new ways to make my ears tingle.

stach

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Originally Posted by About2Crash

i love it

as for me, I refuse to become stagnant. too many people i know only listen to the music that they listened to when they were teenagers. then they just stop. this is why i am always finding new bands and finding new ways to make my ears tingle.

Crash you are more correct than you might guess. I am 54 and most of the people I know listen to the same music they listened to when they were in their teens and early 20's. Plus they stop buying music for the most part.
I buy 10-20 new cds a year.

Amok

I still listen to the stuff I had as a teenager.

herrieman

Exactly my point Stach, every once in a while people seem to need to claim I will grow out of it. "Pick a screwdriver and do your thing, but leave me be" is what I usually think then. For 30 years it's been like that.
I play tons of music every week, keep my eyes and ears open (especially at the job, never too loud on my headphones), keep it as much varieted as my whole collection is: metal, blues, hardcore, punk, pop, classical stuff, radio. I need music to keep me focused driving. I need metal after a long day at work. I need blues or doom metal when I'm down. I need thrash for energy. I need death to flip out all kinds of stress. I need pop to think 'metal is great, isn't it?'. I need classical stuff for the pure genius Mozart or Orff were.

Cris25041

That's awesome. I'm worried that one day I'll realize I've fallen out of my love and passion for finding new, great music. Sure, I've stopped listening to the radio, but I get lots of good advice from you guys on music, and it keeps me afloat, so to speak. When my ex-girlfriend killed herself, my first thought was "What about the music?? How could you bear to leave when there's still so much good music to discover?" I feel that I'll never be satiated.

herrieman

Cris, I recognise that. I have been so down for a while I considered death myself. I even wrote to myself: "Isn't there another reason for buying concert tickets other than prevent myself from hurting myself?". Thinking of shows past and to come, that gave me an enormous boost for my self-confidence. All for the metal, I thought. And it's still up to date.

N00bs

Metal music is the very reason why i am still here today. Whenever im down, angry, happy, or whatever my music is always there for me.

herrieman

I have enough music to fit ANY mood. But never enough music...

Erik

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Originally Posted by N00bs

Metal music is the very reason why i am still here today. Whenever im down, angry, happy, or whatever my music is always there for me.

For me, metal is like shaking the bottle and lifting is pouring it out. I need both. They balance me physically and mentally.

stach

I play metal music and lift........beer bottles.

Marsallah Motörized MRU Battlemaster MRU Donor Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Warsaw, Poland Posts: 4,216 Images: 19 Horns up: 281 Horns up 296 times in 217 posts	Yup. I need that fix a few times a day, too and I listen to music (mostly metal) almost all the time I spend at work - which is ca. 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Weekends are less metal, because I spend them with my family and I can't blast death metal on them, no way Both my wife and kids AND metal are my love, and in life like this you gotta make compromises, both ways - I leave them all at home when I go to a concert. The thing is that I didn't really feel the need to "live and breathe metal" until recently, when I became a parent. I assume it's part of the process of 'rediscovering the glory times of early youth' which happens often to 30+ year olds and/or young parents, but I like it. I hadn't thought of metal like this when I was a teenager or in my twenties. Actually, when I was 15-17 I was wondering whether I'd stick to metal in a long run so that I'll keep playing Death and Slayer records when I'm 40-50. Now I know I will.

Amok They All Look At Me Funny Moderator MRU Donor Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Olympia, WA. Posts: 9,989 Images: 4 Horns up: 282 Horns up 590 times in 448 posts	I still listen to the stuff I had as a teenager.
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herrieman Highway to Hell MRU Donor Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westwoud, Holland Posts: 8,611 Images: 57 Horns up: 424 Horns up 304 times in 249 posts	Exactly my point Stach, every once in a while people seem to need to claim I will grow out of it. "Pick a screwdriver and do your thing, but leave me be" is what I usually think then. For 30 years it's been like that. I play tons of music every week, keep my eyes and ears open (especially at the job, never too loud on my headphones), keep it as much varieted as my whole collection is: metal, blues, hardcore, punk, pop, classical stuff, radio. I need music to keep me focused driving. I need metal after a long day at work. I need blues or doom metal when I'm down. I need thrash for energy. I need death to flip out all kinds of stress. I need pop to think 'metal is great, isn't it?'. I need classical stuff for the pure genius Mozart or Orff were.
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