Your Hilarious Metal Stories?
So I'm on the power metal Reddit, browsing through my various subreddits for something to do. There's a discussion on Gloryhammer called, "Am I the only one who thinks Gloryhammer doesn’t actually embrace the 'cheese?'" Part of the conversation pertains to Gloryhammer's later album. My response to one guy criticizing the overall post, saying that it looks like the OP's trying to say that the older albums are better. I reply to him saying:
"I do agree that the new album doesn't hold a candle to the first three (of course I've heard asstons of power metal so by this point it should come across as fairly unoriginal), but they know what they want to be. Bowes has always been a joker. Ever hear his original experimental stuff? Yikes. On top of that, they originally stole the logo font for the Dark Crystal for their own logo, and jagged it up (probably to avoid a lawsuit IMO). They know what they are, and they know who they want to be."
Apparently, the guy I replied to was Christopher Bowes. And instead of letting this embarrass me, I'm gonna own this bit like a good bar story, because that's actually a hilarious and very cool thing that happened in my boring-ass life.