Bigfooty General Metal Thread Mk.VI

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dwwaino said:
Mate I was just having this issue! Was looking a few shirts on eBay and sizing is all over the shop. For cheapo Asian made tees in Aus I go somewhere between XL and XXL (6'4" and 100kegs), but when I was in the USA recently I noticed I was only L-XL there. So I looked up some sizing comparisons online and XL here can be XXL-XXXL in the States and then of course it doesn't say where these shirts were made, only they are located in the USA. At one stage I took my current shirt off tonight and measured it. In the end I said stuff it because last time I bought anything it was Dissection and Behemoth shirts, both XL and they are actually different.

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Haha! Yeah i'm 6'2" but a bit of a bean-pole, just under 90kg. If i buy a medium on Indie Merch Store it's usually a bit small, the long-sleeve's are about 5 inches short on my arm! Buy a Large and it's pretty baggy, but still short on my arms!. Shirt Killer i'm a comfortable medium with their stock, no problems with arm length for L/S usually. Random Ebay buys like my last one are just pot luck, sometimes big, sometimes small.
I've got a Kylesa medium shirt that looks like a bloody pre teens crop top!
 
Long sleeves are the bane of my existence. They don't make them for tall people. So often do we go a size bigger for length only to find out it is only a fraction longer but about 3 feet wider. I've turned so many long sleeves into sleeveless just because I think they were made for T-Rex's. Best fitting shirts I've ever found is US sports gear... If only Reebok started printing metal tees :D
 

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Spent all week pounding Primal Fears new one - Rulebreaker. Damn fine Priest worship that one. Ralf Scheepers In top form. Can't believe they (Priest) passed his audition in favour of Ripper Owens.
 
Dee Snider said:
Spent all week pounding Primal Fears new one - Rulebreaker. Damn fine Priest worship that one. Ralf Scheepers In top form. Can't believe they (Priest) passed his audition in favour of Ripper Owens.
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Ah, didn't know. Is it at JB? When's the show again?
 

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alchemy333 said:
It's 2016 and we still don't have a universal measurement for tee shirt sizes!
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I have bandshirts from L to XXXXL in my wardrope that I can wear.

So I have to agree. But the same with most other clothes as well. Can't be that difficult to introduce a maximum deviation from norm like 10μm or even 100μm. Really annoying the wa it is.
 
jaaack said:
6' + master race checking in
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I glossed over your question re PUNK a page or so back - outside of the first two Exploited albums (Punks Not Dead and Troops of Tomorrow) that's enough punk for me. I had them on tape but don't any longer. Really liked the debut. Understand they've morphed into more of a thrash or crossover band nowadays??
 
Dee Snider said:
I glossed over your question re PUNK a page or so back - outside of the first two Exploited albums (Punks Not Dead and Troops of Tomorrow) that's enough punk for me. I had them on tape but don't any longer. Really liked the debut. Understand they've morphed into more of a thrash or crossover band nowadays??
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Exploited was one of my favourite bands in high school, all of their 80s albums are quality and the thrashier stuff (90s) is decent but not great, not really what I would put on if I wanted to listen to crossover.

I have a lot of fun with the 80s Japanese stuff personally, they're mostly free of the try-hard/full serious attitude that a lot of other hardcore bands have, and can be very metallic in parts. Aside from the obvious GISM whose guitarist sounds like he came from a NWOBHM band, some of the others I mentioned are very riff driven (Death Side) and in parts even sound like early death/thrash (Rose Rose). Then you've got a lot of crust which blurs genre lines (Amebix), stuff that's basically stripped back thrash (Hellkrusher). And of course one can't really imagine the Swedish death metal scene without the Swedish crust/d-beat scene. What with a lot of the early stuff being recorded in the same studios (major negative for a lot of those DM albums IMO) and heavily influenced by crust/d-beat (most obvious with Nihilist).

Definitely something worth exploring if you want to approach metal from a different direction.
 
saw a show no mercy vs rib discussion on reddit so naturally im compelled to listen to show no mercy now

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on to

energy levels through the roof this morning
 
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