Hey, Burnt Steak (if you’re still around), I like metal.

Samocles beat me to the David Lazzar mention. I haven’t heard his stuff.

Metalish is pretty much what would happen if you hired a 70s metal band to play your bar mitzvah, equipping them with sheet music (it’s all instrumental).

Gevolt are not frum Jews or anything close to it.

You can check out the “Yiddish-speaking Vikings” article linked to on the Wikipedia page for their album “AlefBase” to find a number of similar acts, as well as a blog dedicated to Jews and metal.

Black Shabbis (an album) by Jamie Saft is in the same category.

I’d go into some kind of discourse here about metal for the sake of those who aren’t familiar with it but I doubt anyone actually cares. Let ’em think we love “noise and screaming”.

In my opinion, what heavy metal (and its various subgenres) has become is simply awful noise.

Yes, extreme forms of metal may have become dominant in the general metalhead culture, but metal’s 40+year history is still available for the listening. And now the new thing seems to be progressive metal, and there’s a long-standing occult+/retro-metal

thing going…

I’m surprised a mod would have given the OP (wallflower) a subtitle that references a non-Jewish work which even non-Jews have tried to ban from schools many times – 6 out of the last ten years, it made the American Library Association list of the 10 most frequently challenged books.

I wonder if it was that mod whose own subtitle references another non-Jewish work…

On that subject, what are your thoughts on the use of common

“pop culture” phrases and derivatives thereof in Jewish media?

(This is actually common in article/paragraph headings, etc.)

being attacked by turtles

Everything Trying to Kill You

“There’s a slight advantage over writing, where one has time to properly compose thoughts, emotions, feelings properly into coherent sentences. When talking one cannot edit, delete or rearrange.”

That doesn’t sound like speaking has an “advantage over writing” to me.

Regarding shidduchim, there was an interesting article in “The Kuntris” about dating (Daas Torah something-or-other feature.)