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Name: Brian
Birthday: 1983
Location: New Jersey
Preferred Metal/Heavy Music Style (no order): Melodic Death, Thrash, Death, Metalcore (old style), straight up Metal (with a capital ‘M’)
Disliked Metal/Heavy Music Style: Straight up Slam, intentionally under-produced ‘raw’ Black Metal, whatever you call bands like Portal or Mitochondrion, a lot of stuff currently coming out of Victory records
Non-Metal Music Likes: some Electronic (i.e. The Prodigy, Perturbator and other synthwave), 90’s Rock/Grunge, other music from high school
Some Other Interests: Horror, vinyl, audiophilia, technology, nerdy things (sci-fi, comics, things from my childhood), tattoos
Name: Nick
Birthday: 1984
Location: Western MA
Preferred Metal/Heavy Music Style (no order): Southern Rock/Metal, Progressive/Djent, Post-Hardcore, Melodic Death, Swamp, Groove Metal, straight up Metal (with a capital ‘M’)
Disliked Metal/Heavy Music Style: Straight up old-school death metal, incoherent grunting, power metal, symphonic metal, and non-”metal” or “post” types of Core.
Non-Metal Music Likes: Grunge, Rock, and (a very select bit of ) Rap.
Some Other Interests: Playing bass, collecting gadgets
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